The Genius of Arcane's Action

Okay, I'll rewatch Arcane again

After Vi gets her arm fucked up in Ep 3, she begins every fight for the rest of the show by rolling that shoulder. Another neat detail that reminds you she’s tough as shit but not invincible.

Echo's use of the stopwatch is also a really creative allusion to his time travel abilities in the games.

I love how the show took the game Ekko that was just a scrappy determined wizkid &turned him into one of the fastest most skilled/dangerous combatants in piltover because it actually made perfect sense that the kid who is Jynxes polar opposite &who literally raised himself &look after others HAD to be an absolute badass all rounder in order to survive

If somebody says: Jinx killed Silco, i like to respont with: No, Powder killed Silco, so Jinx killed Powder. Thats what i like to think about the scene, the last remaining of powder saving Vi, but than Jinx is completed by Silcos last words, so Jinx takes her seat and shows us, there is no powder left

I remember watching Jinx vs Echo for the first time. I thought it sucked that we had so little to go off for Echo. And the fight scene filled in all the gaps. Without a single line of dialogue spoken.

Two things I disagree with One, Jinx didn't blow herself up on the bridge because she is destructive and knew she would live. It was a suicidal resignation, she also remembered echo during the fight. She lost the fight and also lost the delusion that powder was gone, as she looked afraid and weak when echo beat her. That grenade could be viewed as Powder's last act before she was revived as Jinx. Two, Jayce has been shown throughout the show to be incredibly intelligent, absorbs info incredibly fast, and doesn't repeat mistakes. This is shown in the fight scene as to why he is able to fight. At 23:57 you see him get scratched and quickly finds the best solution from his position. At 23:00 he was attacked the same way as when he was scratched but he already thought of a way to dodge it and counterattack. It might not be much but it shows his intellect in a short fight scene and the rest of the fight shows his mastery of Hextech.

Saw this and realized, (at 7:30 in the vid) Vi screaming after defeating Sevika makes more sense when you see that no matter how many opponents Vi mows through, in every battle, both literal and metaphorical, she is always fighting an uphill battle, and then taken down by a bigger opponent just when she’s about to win. A lot of feelings in that scream. Plus! Someone else pointed out that after Vi injured her shoulder in episode 3, Vi always starts her fights by rolling her shoulder. Didn’t noticed that before! Such a cool detail!

I love arcane breakdowns. There's so much in this show, every scene is so incredibly deep. I love that the turning point in Vi's last fight was when she activated that shield finally using defensive measures.

Arcane is an absolute masterpiece from every angle of production.

In the first episode back alley fight, Milo punches his opponent in the gut a few times. I just noticed it is the same character, but with some kind of nose prosthetic, who is similarly gut punching someone else in a back alley when Heimerdinger is first shown visiting the under city. Yet another cool callback in this series.

The power fantasy wasn’t ignoring Jace’s inexperience. I highlights his foolish confidence and also shows the power of hextech weaponry even one low trained man will an Assault rifle can beat a dozen men with knives, later in the show Jace says to Silco how he was shocked at how they wouldn’t stand a chance against hextech it was a parallel of when the enforcer were slaughtered by an untrained person with shimmer and now the scientific advantage had reversed

17:08 This is also seen in the fight with Sevika in episode 5. Vi has Sev pinned down with a hand on her throat, but what makes her loosen her grip and drop her guard is being told that "Jinx" works for Silco.

I would say you nailed almost all of this except for saying that Vi was a bystander/had no role in the final conflict at the table. Her desperate pleading for Powder to win over Jinx served as an emotionally antagonistic destabilizing assault on Jinx's psyche. If Vi was truly just there as a witness then she wouldn't have been able to speak. Her direct actions, pleading with her sister, is what drove the conflict to its crescendo. Another layer of depth and weight, you might say. Psychological depth and complexity. We as an audience cheer for her because we see Powder still and are hoping for that heroic end where Vi manages to talk her sister into becoming Powder once more but by that point we've been shown plenty (more than the rule of 3s) that Powder's dead and has been for a long time, but objectively in that scenario Vi was only driving Jinx further to the brink and all it took was the click of a hammer for her to break, and Silco pulled the trigger.

Caught something important. You mentioned at 22:00 "she didn't die, and maybe she knew it wouldn't kill her" but that was really the final act of "powder" before she fully became jinx. That was her "drowning" moment that silco told her about. The only reason she lived is because ekko hit the grenade away with the bat. (You hear it right before the explosion in the wide shot) And after this moment, she never has another powder "relapse" again. Even in the final tea party scene, she was testing Vi. She knew powder was long dead, she wanted to know if Vi would accept her as her sister, jinx. Not her sister, powder. VI, failed that test.

I think it’s also important to note in Jinx vs Echo him adapting to when they did this in the past and jinx not symbolises that he can move past and change his past trauma where she can’t, it controls her

can we pls not understate how amazing the Choreographie is?

24:27 This isn't a mistake. Deckard is shown to be animalistic in his style - he's not a fighter , he's a predatory creature . The stalking showcases this. Much like a great cat, he instinctively knows his strength is up close against a frantic, panicking opponent - he can't do any damage if his prey becomes startled too early, & runs. So much to say, but I have written enough essays about the absolute masterpiece that is Arcane . ( I mean, even the greats miss here & there, but this show is truly a masterclass from the gods showing everyone our true potential in collaborative storytelling. From the art, the world building, the detail, the script, the handling of character growth & inner dialogue being shown instead of told, the fleshed out characters & the 'grayness' of their psychology, & the sincerity of their motivations, and how not a drop of paint, nor a word or sound, nor a movement is superfluous . Arcane is a rarity that aces every category in a truly remarkable way ).

This advise likewise applies to all of the songs in musicals: they should not be breaks from the other elements of the work, but propel them forward.

The fights in Arcane are amazing, better than movies that shake the camera every second of the fight. Also loved seeing boxing as the fighting style of the main character.