Arcane after the hype is WAY Worse Than You Think

people say it's a pacing problem. but it's not. it is a writing direction problem. they chose to focus on every other wrong things and create new unrelated problems, and ignore things that have been established in season 1 which now needs some resolutions. they are heading to a completely different goal from the 1st season, and no amount of editing can fix that.

If anyone actually payed attention, the issues where already there in season one. Why did Jinx suddenly become evil? She literally hugged the guy that is responsible for her family being in the situation that she accidentally killed them in the first place. She became bad over a single slap???? If anything she should be extremely guilty for what she did. Even if she becomes evil why would she join Silco of all people. And then the show gaslit y'all into thinking Vi is on this redemption arc because she uh, slapped her sister??? Vi did nothing wrong. Her sister disobeyed her and ended up killing everyone. Why did the show pretend and make it seem like Vi needed to redeem herself or something? The music video "Enemy" did a better job at story telling than the actual show. Showing Vi being abusive to her sister. This would have been much better if the show had gone this route. It would have strengthened the plot and would have made Vi's redemption and Powder's descent in villainhood and the need for Vi to save her more impactful. But Vi was actually a very supportive sister to Powder throughout the beginning of the show.
Then we have Caitlins cool plot of uncovering the conspiracy in piltover and theeen she becomes a love interest to Vi and her story became a subplot to Vi's needing to reconcile with her bratty sister story urghhh🙄

3:26 she is being idolised because people "idolise" her in real life. Sacrificing the plot for fan service. I honestly DO NOT like Jinx AT ALL

So much of the characterization of characters is completely ripped off from marvel and dc comics

i agree. s2 was so goddamn horrible.



it genuinely felt like infinite stacking of unresolved plots. completely disregarding what s1 spent the entire season and finale setting up for season 2. introducing new characters just to make them basically irrelevant, but forcing them in anyways, then giving them plot armor instead of a cool scene where they die and actually fuel the main characters or plot in some meaningful way. like genuinely, just do something with them. there were so many side-plots that either got cut off prematurely, rushed through, or left unresolved. contradictions, illogical decisions, stupid levels of plot armor, characters getting dumber, and a forced plot/narrative with 0 regard for actual base human intellect and common sense.



i hate how they handled the underground council / chem-baron side of zaun. they were very present as entities in s1, not really characters yet, which was fine because season 1 was setting the board. then in season 2, instead of giving them actual depth and exploring these people who have been around for a long time, they just get executed one by one. no meaningful politics, no actual power struggle with depth, no payoff. just “look, these figures exist” then “okay, now they’re dead.”



season 1 was more grounded because everything was working towards the same plot goal. even when characters were on different paths, those paths were inevitably going to cross. everything had pressure, direction, consequence. in season 2, all the characters are scattered, the story is in shambles, and the new characters take screen-time just to end up being irrelevant. the main characters that were actually important in season 1 get sidelined or practically replaced by new meaningless characters who barely earn their place in the story.



like wtf was season 2 even about really? season 1 ends with the stalemate breaking, the council attack, piltover and zaun being pushed into an unavoidable conflict, and mel’s mother being introduced as a major new threat. caitlyn was clearly meant to have her role elevated after everything that happened, but then she still spends so much of the season just walking around solo or being used weirdly by the plot. realistically speaking, if any kind of leader figure is roaming contested areas like that, they’re getting immediately taken out, kidnapped, used as leverage, or surrounded by security. the show just bends around her because the plot needs her there.



viktor and jayce were also handled so badly. viktor evolves and tries to create a utopia, but we’re shown that it becomes poison in the future / alternate reality. jayce also pursued quality of life for human beings through tech, so they’re both chasing the same core goal, just through different paths. one of them has proof that the “solution” becomes poison, but the reasoning ends up feeling like “you’re bad, you die” “no i’m good, we fight now” and then they both just disappear/die together. like what? viktor should definitely have survived in some form, and jayce should have survived too. they’re the exact kind of characters who should reappear later or at least have their names mentioned during other league of legends shows. that would actually show continuity and make the world feel like every story affects the others. instead, every major figure either dies, disappears, or gets removed from relevance despite being massive names in their own country/kingdom, with huge achievements and reputations.



that’s one of the biggest problems. season 1 made the world feel connected and alive. season 2 makes it feel like pieces are being thrown away so the writers can move on to the next thing.



it genuinely felt like s1’s team got thanos snapped and replaced with people who skimmed through season 1 and just did whatever they wanted. such a disappointment. why does everything good have to get destroyed? this is why nothing good ever lasts. whether it was investors, executives, rushed planning, writers overestimating themselves, or just terrible structural decisions, the result is the same: the audience gets treated like a wallet, not like people who invested in a story. let the people who actually know how to build the thing they’re making, build it properly. season 1 took years to craft into what it was, and season 2 feels like they forgot the entire structure, patience, and discipline that made season 1 work.



and honestly, how do you spend that many years making something as good as season 1, then let the ending get rushed like this? how do the artists, writers, directors, or whoever was involved not fight harder for the story they spent so long building? maybe they did and got overruled, who knows. but from the outside, it feels pathetic to watch something with that much potential get compressed, scattered, and thrown away.



i’m dead set on the idea that some corporate-level decision-making had a massive impact here. whether it was investors, executives, producers, or whoever, it feels like someone looked at arcane’s success and went “okay, now turn this into a larger league universe as fast as possible” instead of letting this specific story breathe and finish properly. they saw profit, saw that people loved it, assumed it could be mass-produced across multiple different stories, and probably pushed for “just end it with season 2 and move on.”


either way, i completely agree with everything said in this video. can’t wait for the next project to pop off, then have its ending rushed too for no actual valid reason.

the gang warfare point doesn't make sense at all, they were infighting because they no longer had a leader. Silco died as well in that capitol attack, and they were struggling for control over the lanes until savika brought everything into perspective.

season two destroyed much of the promise and greatness of season one. It is a shame.

1:00 you had my disrespect, you now have my attention

Idolizing Jinx is not weird to me.
It's a mater of Princip.

Thank you. You literally summed up everything I felt while watching the second season. I felt crazy when I saw so much positive feedback online.

season 2 was shit

Woke slop with good animation

me when everything isnt told to me directly and the fiction has people acting erratically like humans.

s1 was cool s2 is eh i dont like that ww or plot with victor

It's so hard cause the second season looks gorgeous and everyone was so excited about it.... but I agree that it's kinda meh

It's not as bad as you described it. Certainly is worse than season one and it's because story narrative changed in season 2. Writers gone completely to another story. It's like season 1 happens then we fast forward to paralog so yeah it wasn't good and it wasn't in the right direction but bruh it's not DISGUSTING, they just lost the main plot and I think it's because they didn't have enough time and budget to make a season 3 so writers couldn't add all of their ideas in the show but instead of removing unnecessary ideas and stick to the main story they decided to tuck their ideas in anyway.

I'm sure this guy would have an aneurysm trying to dissect The Boys season 5 if he watched said show, LMAO. Arcane S2 was an absolute timeless masterpiece by comparison.😆

My biggest problem is the "inventor" trope being so dumb. It's like hackers in Hollywood movies. Somehow Jayce the inventor of Hextech is just a superhero? Heimerdinger is a musician?

Viktor is literally the person who manages to stabilize Hextech through metal runes yet he can't make himself a metal armor with the runes you know... like his original lore? Piltover and Zaun as regions seem massively disrespected by the second season. Went from the two cities we know to scenarios were weird shit happens no thought behind it