The Reel Rejects - ARCANE League of Legends 2x04 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:02:03 Paint the Town Blue. What a great title. Yeah, that's a great title. And it's so interesting for Blue, which is often used as a color and messaging as a, like a sense of comfort and warmth and protection. Soothing Blue. And to be a symbolic sign of rebellious. So I actually really love how tender and warm that moment was when she does come face to face with her father like in any other property. You would expect like a yeah, yeah, we storm we win and lift her on our shoulders so surprisingly soft like the color blue is striking yeah that was a beautiful moment and this whole episode dealt with what does it mean to be a symbol like Batman.

Starting point is 00:02:55 time I think about symbol. I think about Batman. That's what the man does. What does symbolism mean and what is symbolism without action being implemented? And do you really need a leader or can you uphold symbol? You know, that's the thing about symbolism or symbolic things or, you know, you can think of something symbolic like a crucifix, for example. It's like we don't, we feel like Christians will feel like we have Jesus in our life and you hold Jesus, carry Jesus with you. We don't see Jesus physically in front of you in order to do things,

Starting point is 00:03:27 but the idea that they need to take action and have their symbolic leader in front of them. That's the thing about being a Messiah, is you've got to pick and choose when you appear. It's not easy for us, John. It's not easy. That's why we only show up every couple thousand years to see you and to bless you and remind you to stay the best to balance.

Starting point is 00:03:44 But being a YouTuber and a Messiah, it would be a little bit tough. It's hard to balance the two things, honestly. Anything balanced with being a Messiah is a little bit of a tall order. Yeah. While still backing it with it with. fascinating visuals and if that is Vander

Starting point is 00:03:58 holy shit that's awful I don't know why would why would it be Vander Vander's been dead forever did he like take Vander's body from all that time ago and then has been experimenting on it ever since that would be the only explanation

Starting point is 00:04:11 that's been dead for a very long time yeah I don't know why we don't know how long it took him to make these I don't know it's it's that thing of like it's got to do with the shape of his fate like the recognition of her I 100% could just be reading way too far Yeah, it's like the shape of his nose and his face.

Starting point is 00:04:27 And, yeah, like the moral dilemma makes the most obvious sense in that way. There could be some other reason why it would have to bug out in front of her specifically because it doesn't seem really concerned with anybody else. Yeah. But, yeah, either way, it's fascinating. But yeah, I love how Jinks has become this surrogate mother-slash-older sister to what's the child's name? Isha? Isha.

Starting point is 00:04:52 to Isha I love the dynamic that's formed with her and stevika Yes So good Lefty Lefty that's funny Yeah there's so much I love about this one

Starting point is 00:05:05 It was beautiful And dark Yeah And I love the animation flourishes That they kept Mixing in Starting off on Titans ending with Monster That was cool

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Starting point is 00:07:32 and it does speak I think this show nicely speaks to the chaotic mess of like conflicts between either nations or just halves of society or anything like that in you know the way that it gives you like you you obviously get the sense that the people of Zahn are probably somewhat more in the right in terms of like who is being

Starting point is 00:07:55 stepped on more and who has been stepped on for longer. But, you know, it is one of those things that is very human where like the conflict has raged for so long and has gone back and forth so many times that like the core of it is almost lost and now there's just these like back and forth retaliations of wanton violence. And like that's that's something that you could apply certainly to real life and they managed to thematically flavor both of those ideas it's like you have when you're in piltover and you're you know theorizing what to do about zon you know all that feels very sort of dread inducing in a way you're watching as especially um katelyn's soul kind of is being battered around in the balance and you're watching her harden and and she was somebody

Starting point is 00:08:45 who up until this point has been so kind of compassionate and prone to wanting to see the full picture of everything and has now been thrust into this leadership position, which was a good question early on, because that is one small detail of all of this that, just from a narrative standpoint, it's like, oh, yeah, like, the people really seem to have, like, fully backed her when they were so kind of hesitant to even validate her in the first season for so long. But I guess that's partly due to the fact that she, you know, followed her gut in terms of all the silco stuff and was instrumental in, you know, those turns, you know, in at least...

Starting point is 00:09:22 Well, Ambess? Yes, there you go. She greatly edified her. That's true. Yeah, she also gave her the cosine. Yeah, that's true. I guess we do that. You hide people up. Both sides need someone to believe in.

Starting point is 00:09:39 Yeah. But the thing is, is that the people need to believe in themselves. Well, that's the great thing about the jinks storyline is it makes sense why people will be like, look, we want to see jinks. We want the validation of knowing that this, you know, figure we've heaped our cause on top of is real and, you know, actually cares for the values we've ascribed to her. Absolutely. And, yeah, the way that they handled all that and the way that it, you know, it is Isha at first, you know, with the smoke bomb going off. And I almost feel like, A, I'm worried that you're correct and that Isha. will die but i also feel like isha could be this sort of key to distilling like what the cause is

Starting point is 00:10:19 into something that isn't as as uh something that isn't going to be so cavalier about just like kill anybody and everything destroy it's less anarchic a bit more sort of structured i guess or at least a little bit more for like the the collective cause rather than individual chaos or something like that and I like that with Jinks you are watching the continued grappling of you know is powder dead am I somebody else entirely now is jinks you know like where do all these persona I fit in all these people who have had their versions of who I should be and what I should do and now all those people are gone is just me and now I also have a surrogate little sister so I can kind of look from Violet's perspective now and I have all these people who are following me so I can

Starting point is 00:11:06 kind of look from Vander's perspective now and like all that stuff is I think really beautiful and then yeah like you said just all the different animations from the opening montage of like the kind of it's like a punk newsreel catching you up on what the you know progress has been since chapter one and then like the vision like the you know horror movie werewolf vision they go for when the creature is on the move and then even these like that split diopter simulation they did uh when uh what is her name which one uh nessa ambeses There you go, like ambassador. You have paid attention to this show. I know. Hey, we got Sevica's name down. So Ambessa is the next one. That's, that's clinched. That when she's talking with Caitlin over her shoulder.

Starting point is 00:11:54 And it's like it's a well-chosen shot. It makes sense. But also it's a great flourish. And even the little body language when Kate's in bed with her, you know, a little deputy character. And that theme of like everyone's second in command is sort of looking to them. And all the leaders are struggling to guide. and this is such a well-crafted show

Starting point is 00:12:12 and I am going to cherish these next episodes as much as possible because this is like a really special thing like there's rare this is a unique and rare show where it's like it's so gripping and so exciting and it's so beautiful and you're like man in a time and place where like things are always chaotic and a bit bleak I'm glad I got to exist

Starting point is 00:12:34 on the timeline where we got to watch our game you know hopefully it sticks to landing and I have no, you know, reason to believe it won't, but, uh, but yeah, this is good shit. It's good stuff. It's good stuff. I think to your point, Isha is serving as

Starting point is 00:12:49 the catalyst for Jinks looking at herself as potentially actually being a hero for zone. That is why. That's higher. Anyway, guys, what did you think about Arcane? Did you like it? Did you pay attention to this review?

Starting point is 00:13:05 Did you leave? I'm watching the next one. Are you going to paint the town blue. Leave your thoughts down below. Subscribe. Say hi to God. We'll see you soon. Bye.

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The Reel Rejects - ARCANE League of Legends 2x04 Breakdown & Review

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