The Reel Rejects - ARCANE League of Legends 2x05 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:00:57 This week's videos are sponsored by price picks. to use fantasy sports betting app more on them in just a bit anyway john should we watch it john we should watch the show let's watch let's watch all right guys we just watch arcane season two episode five blisters and bedrock john what do you think it's another terrible episode of the worst show on television i can't stand the time that we've spent here uh no i mean this is amazing this is some of the best tv i've seen in a long time it's really fun to have this i'm just grateful for something that is so rich on all of its different faculties and capacities um and i mean obviously the reunion at the end of this

Starting point is 00:01:51 episode was hugely cathartic and harrowing in a lot of ways and just the again way that they managed to continue balancing it you know that the question that you've begged a couple times in this second chunk of the season especially is sort of like yeah how are they going to wrap all this up in four more episodes um but yeah just the balancing of the macro stakes the you know political machinations and the civil unrest and all that stuff with the super personal and just all the history that we've felt over time and the way that certain characters like even like even vander like Vander's a character who we haven't spent legitimate time with since he left in season one since he died. And in a show that's really working, I feel like it doesn't matter how much time you spent

Starting point is 00:02:39 away. Their presence is still always there in some form. And this had that quality of like, man, seeing somebody that you haven't seen in so long, even despite the fact that he's, you know, been warped into a science monstrosity, werewolf thing, machine. I don't know, yeah, this continues to be supremely gripping. I'm enjoying the mysteries as well. We've got some mysteries to dive into in terms of Mel, especially, what's been developing with Victor and Jace, while Jace has been off screen for a good while.

Starting point is 00:03:12 But yeah, I mean, so far, this is, you know, high watermark telly. What do you think, gee? I thought it was a beautiful episode. It was gorgeous. I thought it was a beautiful, beautiful episode about siblings, found family. that was touching it was one of those things you bring back a character like vander and some ways if you were to tell me you're going to do if you told me that before and it feels like something got spoiled for me i'd be like why yeah oh i was ruining it come on let him be dead but the handling of it um in the world was so well executed and to thematically allow for a true sense of resolve now we're going to find all the friends are back yes yeah a little vegeta and goggles kid yeah everyone's back no they they have them having that moment and then even like sort of a continuation of the family

Starting point is 00:04:14 with the isha character assuming isha lives isha lives then i think that makes for a very profound moment in time or like this one seems to deal with the with the legacy and how we landed here like we got a very specific flashback that surprised me you get to see the mom did they say where the dad was it said his name at one point

Starting point is 00:04:38 yeah it said his name but I didn't realize how close the mom like the way how it played out to me in the first maybe there's like a line or something I'm forgetting from the first season but the way the prolog played out to me in the first

Starting point is 00:04:53 episode of this show suggested to me that they were strangers like the kids were strangers to Vander and he found them in that moment and saved them that's how I read it I didn't realize just how

Starting point is 00:05:10 close he was like he was like best friends with her it's like him and Silco scheming away away to save Zon and then they're just hanging out with her yeah just like three important figures at the heart of this revolution but also who are just

Starting point is 00:05:26 yeah three people living down here together who yeah yeah all get along that's beautiful and she says i that wasn't even that was just her first child too wasn't even the following child yeah that's crazy but yeah i thought it was a really strong moment and very beautiful to watch how they come around like to watch how they handled the psychological trauma of jinks so well because that moment is her defining time in which the in which jinx began to form from powder so So you finally get an episode where a little bit of time has passed. She's touched by the movement she's had with the people as on.

Starting point is 00:06:06 It makes sense that she'd be a little bit softer on her sister as they go through this journey. They start to actually feel like sisters. I'm like, what do you go from here now? You know, it's such an unexpected turn for the season. Yeah. And I thought it was so beautiful, though. And, yeah, I love the flashback. The mysteries of, I'm a little worried.

Starting point is 00:06:25 I'm not going to, I'm not going to successfully keep up with. the mysteries of what's happening with the hex tech and where jace is at silo and victor because all that seems like it's going to be very ethereal and heady and complicated sci-fi and mind bending and trip like just keep up to keep up there into the collars so far nothing's really clear not even jace knows what's happening but like so much is kind of happening that i sort of forget about their blood because not that it's bad like I'm always interested when we check in with them I just forget about it because there's so many different ones that I'm not really seeing how they're all strongly tethered together right now reject nation I never really consider myself a sports guy

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Starting point is 00:09:06 in terms of prominence to the story because yeah right now you're sort of like okay well Victor is off becoming some kind of god prophet healer man and you know jace is stuck in the void and and I mean I think the thematics of of you know Jace almost coming out the other side becoming this very sort of i mean you know he's at least very much in opposition to hex tech now where he pioneered it before so it's like he's going back to like natural humanism versus victor who's like transcending into the next plane of arcane magical existence like that stuff's fascinating but they

Starting point is 00:09:40 are like such big themes and like encompassing just ideas about how like the actual you know uh physics and like how this world works like on a molecular level on a you know an energetic level well they're thematically brothers and while one gets well one set of siblings gets a reunion this other set of siblings i mean mel doesn't really count i mean she gets the like torture fake out yeah she's a search fake out but when it comes to victor and jace their directions go down to split in a divide in the philosophical beliefs and I really like that with that they

Starting point is 00:10:22 I think they have a good question mark on that because with Jace on the one hand from all he's been through and through his various judgment turns you're like okay I could see why you would feel this way and I could see how we might be on deck to get on board with you

Starting point is 00:10:37 but also I like that they played that moment in such a way where you can't tell if it's sinister or not because like I think it's speaking through Salo is a great touch because that's a character who throughout the show has been very much in opposition to adjacent, has been a character portrayed as a conniver. And certainly someone slimy,

Starting point is 00:10:53 not somebody of great moral esteem as far as like the council goes. And then to have him arrive in this like fully healed, very beautiful ornate form. And he's just like, yeah, I'm in here. Victor can take over, whatever. Like is fascinating because like at least it makes it seem like it could be a benevolent thing

Starting point is 00:11:11 that Victor is reaching. But Jace's, you know, opposition to it at least creates that doubt. out of sinister you know intent without it having it allows you to project in a way that i think it's fun yeah it's the horror of it's interesting what they've done with them because at first it started off when the season ended it was like oh jace is one of the people who's the head of the council and everything with zon and it seems like the story is going to be about the war between you know piltover and the undercity and uh that's not what happens in the season at all

Starting point is 00:11:47 it's like you got like you got like Caitlin leading that and you got like some people dealing with it but it's not really like there's a war between them to that extent and jace has just got like suckered his holder thing was like I'm just trying to get rid of the magic now I'm just trying to hear it of all this yeah it's like hemerdinger was right completely different mission than what we last what we set him up with um at the end of last season so it's it's because I I feel like the The undercity doesn't feel like it's ruled so much by magic anymore. But if you get rid of Hextech, that eliminates a lot of the weaponry that Piltover has, which they use to, for a lot of dominion right now. Certainly diminishes the heights of their ability. I mean, you get rid of the Hextech, and then the Undercity could totally prevail. They've got like, yeah, because they got all the shimmer stuff. You know, they have the equal opposite in shimmer tech or whatever you want to call that.

Starting point is 00:12:46 yeah um but and the stuff with mel was uh that was that was straight out like supernatural that was hellish as fuck yeah that was really demonic and twisted and cruel and a another thing that kind that one i'll be honest that one is it feels a little bit like where's this come from a little bit with mel of like oh you're a special child now with some special abilities that came that kind of just came out of nowhere to be i'm curious to see what that the payoff to that is that is going to be because yeah i mean it certainly suggested to me that we're going to witness some kind of blending of i don't know just her status as a you know knoxnian royalty but also it seems like she has some kind of if i read that right some kind of is she the bridge between them

Starting point is 00:13:35 and the black rose cult or something does she have like mystical abilities that are about to be unlocked like that's what it looked like certainly was able to break free from those crazy amount of cages. Yeah, which is again, another interesting thing, and you're like, well, you know, you have Victor transcending into this version of Hextech, which also has like a very color color. It's blue. Again, it's more blue and red. It's so you've got the

Starting point is 00:13:55 black rose that has black in the name, but you know, red, a lot of red imagery. I love the combination of chains and rose thorns. I think that's a great image. But yeah, I wonder if, like, that's a plot line that makes me wonder, like, this feels like it's

Starting point is 00:14:12 just getting going, and we are literally halfway through this now so like so how much of this is going to be hastily wrapped up and I and again I have all the faith in the world that they'll you know show me what the design was all along but that is one where at the outset I'm like damn we just got this fake out with the brother it seems like there's going to be way more to unpack there whatever Mel is turning into and part of me doesn't fully expect her to completely like take the front seat of the next episode even though it seems like we are priming for the return to perhaps that story and the story of Jason Victor because we have been so heavily on, you know, Vi Jinks

Starting point is 00:14:50 and, you know, Caitlin up till now, basically. But it's all intriguing. I mean, I'm here for all of it. Like, there's beauty and all of it. And I like the way the scene, the conversation with the brother evolved over those three or four scenes where at first it's like, oh, you know, you, the audience get to be like, oh, shit, it's him. And then they have that reunion.

Starting point is 00:15:09 And then there's the middle portion where we get some exposition, but also they're starting to sprinkle in these little hints that he's not actually there and then finally the culmination of that i thought was pretty cool pretty well handled pretty cool stuff pretty cool stuff well guys what did you think about this episode we got to watch the next one now i know thank you for being here subscribe to like we'll talk with you soon bye

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The Reel Rejects - ARCANE League of Legends 2x05 Breakdown & Review

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