Of note, Rictus tosses Isha but didn't do anything else to her. Noxians respect strength and courage. Rictus demonstrated his strength to her as a sign of respect. He didn't do anything else because he respected that she attacked him despite their size difference. Any Noxian would have found what she did to be admirable.
He held Isha above his head to get a full look at her. The only person he has accepted above himself is Ambessa. Isha was considered, but thrown to the protection of Vander as she is still a child under the protection of Zaun. Was that the artist saying Rictus might have accepted "Apex" Isha as worthy of serving? Or something else...
And we thought Vander‘s character couldn’t get more tragic…I also love how they showed the aftermath of Warwick‘s arrival after we really see him for the first time.
i went back to the wiki of LoL and wow, they changed Warwick's Background story..before it was only written as a Zauinite Gangster, but now, it was edited as "Zaunite Gangster named Vander"...
good thing the show never bother to tell us. season 2 feels like 1 day. its so stupid. i have the feeling im just watching a really flashy and cool firework now
@@nilexinator5901One thing about the show is they never tell, they show. From cait moving on, to vi's appearance and isha and jinx's relationship you can tell a couple of months have passed.
@@nilexinator5901Except they do tell us. Caitlyn says "months of peacekeeping occupation" in episode 5. Arcane also is not the kind of show to just dump unnecessary exposition on you. They do most of it through actions of characters and visual storytelling.
Yeah, sadly the only one who didn't get the chance to really change was Vi Edit: I'm talking about Vi in prison. Her life stopped when she got arrested and only really resumed when Caitlyn got her out and she saw how much everything changed
The way I interpreted the line of "Jinx is dead" is that she doesn't want to be anyone anymore. She's just done and wants to live her life without interference.
Warwick is a character from the game...and before this reveal... Warwick is only mentioned as a "Zaunite gangster" (no name reveal in the lore) and is retiring from that life...but when he was captured by Singed, he was experimented on so many levels... and now that Vander is revealed to be Warwick, it is already considered and officially a canon to the story... EDIT: i remember when i watched Arcane Season 1 years ago, i was interested in some characters of LoL so i did some reading on characters such as Vi, jinx, Jace, ekko, warwick, etc...and when i checked on Warwick, his Background story was Edited...so from "Zaunite Gangster" edited to "Zaunite Gangster named Vander"...
if you played league when season 1 was airing and you hear the characters call Vander "the hound of the underground" you already knew what was gonna happen. They also played his champion theme in episode 3 and Vander was already making wolf-like grunts
@@Creepy___ oh sry, i dont play the game...and i never knew the title of Vander's hound of the undergound until i found out reading from the comments years ago...i just read background stories from LoL's wiki pages...i did watch all cinematics too... i may not be knowledgable about all the characters, story lores which is vast as most if not all league fans and gamers says...thankfully enough, just reading from some comments from other reactor channels, i can at least learn a bit of some characters backstories...
@@thorneyquins8780 yeah dont worry about it. I personally dont play league anymore but have been for 10 years and I still keep up with lore because I am invested in it. The Warwick=Vander theory was more like an open secret for the people who know the game or the lore already. Thats probably also why they just hard confirmed it next episode, cuz you know in any other show they would have the characters trying to figure it for the rest of the season. Arcane is a great for everyone to enjoy it but things like Warwicks reveal or the Order of the Black Rose are just more rewarding to long term lore fans
The wolf got on the train because Singed had also dropped his blood there when he told Isha that we wouldn't be staying here for long. The wolf's sole purpose now is to find its maker, but it is short-circuited when it encounters Jinx(powder).
Yeah, that was a weird thing to get fixated on. As you said, Singed put blood in there specifically so Warwick would enter it. And the cable car was sparking where it was attached, and it was moving faster than it normally does. Since the cable is on a downward slant, I think it might have just broken from Warwick's forceful entry and was sliding down rather than having been activated. And then obviously the elevator was it dropping down the shaft and the smashing through the top. If the cable car had come down normally and undamaged and Warwick had waited politely for the doors to open before jumping out that would have been goofy. But a damaged and improperly functioning cable car screamed 'something ain't right' in an intimidating way.
@@kenjutsukata1o1 Or the dead people in the cable car were in it when it was docked and tried to get away with it, people/guard tried to hide in the cart and hit the lever after it got on, but before everyone was dead. The inside would have a pool of blood from Singed standing there longer. He is probably good at controlling drip rate, but who knows... But it was also specifically his blood, not all the other people bleeding at the statue. Because it was his blood in the beast in episode S2E3. And on second watch you can catch that Ambessa's eyes flinched... I guess it's more subtle that most horror but it was there from the beginning. Singed made shimmer monsters that constantly got stronger from it's introduction as a rat that ate the cat...
Vander puts his and Silco's dreams of a united Zaun on the backburner to protect the people he cares about. Silco betrays Vander to continue his dreams but find that he cares for Jinx which makes him put Xaun in the backburner to clean up her messes. Jinx is now also putting Zaun on the backburner to care for Isha. I like this parallel a lot. It shows how even someone obsessed with a vision of the future can put it aside for those they care about.
If you look at the final shot of Singed in the first season, it was him ssiting in a chair with Vander's body hanging (it was almost blended in the background, hard to see), but it did tease that he was doing something to his body, and here it is.
Jinx and Isha's relationship is so heartwarming, it cures my soul. Also you could guess the time jump was relatively big since Isha has braids, and she didn't have them in act I.
The blood from Singed was specifically and purposefully dripped into the cable car when he told Isha, "Chin up, little one. I'll tell you a secret. We won't be staying long." Warwick literally followed the blood trail Singed left like bread crumbs. The blood trail led to the cable car dock, was in the cable car itself, and continued on the other side of the dock at the prison, up the prison stairs, into the building, down the elevator, into the cells. It was a linear path. There's nothing strange about Warwick being in the cable car when it arrived at the station. It makes perfect sense with the way they laid out the variables. It would have made LESS sense for Warwick to run along the cables to reach the prison ...because the blood wasn't on the cables, it was in the car and on the ground. He didn't push the elevator button. He ripped the doors off the top, jumped down the shaft, ripped the doors off the bottom. I don't understand why so many viewers/reactors want to joke about the beast pushing elevator buttons or having a cable car ticket .... exactly zero of that was suggested or implied but a feral beast traveling from point A to point B along a linear path makes absolute perfect sense by itself. It even perfectly explains why the only people that got hurt were those that stood in that linear path. This will be even more apparent in episode 5
I reaaallly really struggle to see the issue with the cable cart scene o.O like, seriously. And normally I'm very critical of illogical stuff or inserted shock value that doesn't make sense. In this case just as Diamond Dave said, it seems perfectly logical that people in the cart already started the cart, saw Warwick coming, closed the door in panic, and Warwick leaped into it while ripping that door apart. And then of course he stayed in there because the only scent marks were inside the cart basically and there was nowhere to go for a while... but I even feel weird trying to justify this hahha
Its easy to imagine cause thats exactly how Warwick got that one dude in his cinematic, guy tried to escape in a cable car and scratched his hand on split metal and sealed his fate. It doesnt take much for Warwick to pick up a scent.
Singed was transported on that cable car, his blood was left on the car, too difficult to understand? He's Warwick , not DumbassWick 🙄 His human side is still there, not completely transformed into a stupid dog
@@TriXJester I actually did not see that, didn't even know he had a cinematic. I'll watch it now tho o.O only played league when it came out for a year or two.
Yeah dude on the right is right. For sure people saw Warwick coming and hit the lever to get away on the train and he leaps on because Singed's blood was in it.
Warwick didn’t operate the lever, and he didn’t take the elevator. He rode the trolley car because the people on the car had already triggered it to go away/to escape him. You can see the claw marks on the door from when he tore the doors open, jumped into the trolley as it was moving away, and massacred everyone in the trolley on the way over. As for the elevator, he didn’t ride the elevator. He jumped down the elevator shaft - thus the enormous boom you hear before he rips the doors off. Finally - Warwick is a human/animal/machine hybrid.
To answer mason's question, Ambessa was about to go outside and ride the cable car, it was not shown that she or the guard pulled any lever, it's just that she is only waiting for it to arrive, and while waiting, she had that flashback about jinx's disguise, so she was about to go back inside again but she was interrupted when something is wrong with the cable car arriving with scratches on the front door...
3:53 Compare the place to what it looked like in season 1, now has more light and no Claggor or Mylo toys, you can see the impact of Isha's presence in Jinx
22:40 Well, if you watch Warwick's League of Legends champion trailer, you might get a clue about how he got onto the train. Maybe the enforcers were running for their lives on the other side, and he managed to slip in just before the wagon started moving-just saying! As for the elevator, he probably just smashed the doors and clawed his way through to the bottom.
Jinx is my big fat favorite. Jinx unable to pursuade an enforcer about who she is and going into crisis mode when her pants are insulted is indescribably funny to me. I'm telling you, this was genius writing. As crazy as Jinx is, I'd marry her because I can't get enough of her.
There are 2 elevators to the cells, left and right. Jinx and Sevika came with the right one. Before that, 2 enforcers took the left one up. The prisoners Jinx released took the right one up the same time the group of enforcers came down with the left. WW Must have torn the left one's door open and jumped down the shaft, cuz he came from the left one. That also explains why there are no dead Jinxers outside. They dodged a bullet.
THE TRAIN WAS ALREADY GOING. A person got on the train and started it and shortly after Warwick jumps in and kills the guys who started the train. League of Legends released a short trailer about warwick which showed that scene of him getting on that train. Dave was right, he wasn't pulling no levers. Warwick followed the blood to the train because earlier singed was on the train with everyone else when they arrived to the jail. He obviously dropped some blood on the train. Wasn't goofy at all, weird take.
Now I'm imagining Warwick getting in the elevator and pressing the button with his oversized claw then standing patiently with crappy elevator music playing. Then it stopping halfway and an enforcer running up calling to 'hold the elevator,' only to find Warwick politely holding the door open for him. Then of course the enforcer would nervously say he'd catch the next elevator, and Warwick would shrug and continue on his way. I'm happy with that, a perfect MCU-style breaking of tension and ruining the intensity of a scene with poorly placed 'quirky' humor.
LOL Diamond Dave accidentally acting out exactly what happened in Warwick's League trailer with the lever is great 🤣 man didn't even watch it but knows what his reaction would be seeing that thing 😂
23:15 about the cable.. it was 7 years ago when Warwick has his Rework.. you can watch it "Warwick : The Wrath of Zaun" the scene ends in a cable, how clever Warwick debut in Arcane in the same cable 😅✌
The cable cart most likely works like an elevator so ambessa was the one pushing the lever from the other side , warwick was inside because of the blood trail left by singed
It's more likely he jumped on the train killed everyone and then ripped doors open to escape and had no where to go so stayed on the train munching until it got to ground again, that's how I see it, I don't think anyone sees Warwick operating leavers or waiting for train lol 😂
The train thing is an homage to Warwick's rework trainer, he leaped like 50 feet to claw into a train to kill a dude that almost got away but accidentally cut his hand on a metal shard when checking if Warwick was still out there
the problem with missing 'important' small details is that you may lose their meaning later on down the line. At 14:42 in the actual episode (not your reaction), you can see how prisoners are being loaded into the back of the cable car. We are clearly given this view through Jinx's scope on purpose to show how easy it is for Warwick to load into the cable car. and Dave is correct, he is following the blood's scent, which was either inside the car he mounted, or at least following the trail. Mason just failed to catch the planted details and put together 2 & 2 together.
Finally my favorite fellas are seeing the Warwick wolf and his connection to Vander!! Jinx is becoming way more Stronger and she is finally embracing hef role as a leader. I can't wait to see your reaction to the next episode!! LET'S GOOO
15:19 Ambessa caught onto Jinx, but a bit late. Ambessa was focused onto WARwick from the first moment. Maybe Mel who focuses a little more on diplomacy could of caught Jinx at the Prison. Still not bad for the first Jinx-Ambessa meeting. One you get to S2E5/S2E6 Warwick Pacing is Perfect for me. If you played league... Warwick being V was strongly implied in season 1. The S2 trailer all but confirmed it for most players who know the champion. Before the end of S1E9 A friends copium scream of Warwick convinced me before Vi hit powder. Vander shimmered up form jumping up looked like Warwick and we knew who Singed created...
Warwick, the wolf, is a playable character. One of his abilities is following the scent of low hp enemies just like on the show. I was so excited and so hyped to see him.
Mason Quinn, you should watch Warwick's cinematic, you will see how Warwick could get into such a cable car, then say again "it is goofy" it is scary, not goofy, such a brutal force...
I think the scene with Warwick in the train cart is a reference to his champion reveal trailer from the game, where a guy gets away in a cable cart thing but cuts his hand and Warwick Leaps reeeeaaaaallllyyy far at the cart. To answer Mason, he can jump really far!
No, the guy on the right (Dave?) who was opposing the idea of it being goofy pointed out that he talked so him having the ability to operate equipment wasn't a stretch.
@kenjutsukata1o1 I play warwick a lot, watch his champion reveal trailer from League of Legends, it was 1000% a callback to the end of the trailer where he leaps at a cart. His big ability in game is a leap too :D
To answer what Mason Quinn was asking about how Warwick came to be without giving any spoilers or extra hints: Remember how at the end of every episode of act one of this season they gave us snippets of the scientist? First we saw him going to 2 wolves hiding in cave, and the next two being him working with those wolves he captured and using their parts to build “the monster” aka Warwick. What all of that built up to until this episode was to show that after the events of episode 3 in season 1, Singed (the mad scientist) picked up Vander’s body that was left for dead after the explosion (he was still alive even if barley) and used him to create what is now known as Warwick. Hope this helps clarify some things! ✌️
In Warwick's intro in the LoL game, he attacks a dude who was trying to escape in a cable car! So I like what they did there! It's almost like we picked up from where that teaser ended!
The blood trail had ended in the train where Singed stood. I think the beast stood over it and went dormant because the trail ended there. Ambessa called the train from her end because she was leaving and then the blood trail was re-established.
I mean, Warwick isn't dumb. They didn't show us, but he probably got on a cable car that was already at the base and outed everybody in there. I don't think it's goofy, specially since Singed's blood was in there
This is why subtitles ruin things. You read the punchlines of jokes early, cool phrases are spoiled seconds before they're actually said, emotional scenes get disrupted, and (in this case) you can be confused or misled. Instead of the reveal that this giant beast is Vander, you end up going "Warwick? Who's Warwick? Do we know that name? Is it that other guy? how does Warwick now Powder?" and it ruins the moment. That name hasn't been mentioned at all by anyone in the show up to this point and it's only included on the subtitles to show who is speaking and technically the characters name is Warwick.
I mean, an easy fix would have been to label him as 'beast' or 'monster'. They didn't need to put his name at all. It was relevant to put a title to who was speaking since you couldn't see his mouth and people watching without volume/deaf people would need that information.
The fact that Vi begged Caitlyn not to change when everyone else in her life did. And right after that Cait nearly killed Jinx while a child (who loves Jinx) was holding her and socked Vi in the gut with her gun. The betrayal there, and the fact that it was the last (and most important) person she had left... oof, that's heavy.
Okay roll with me here. That hanger down to the jail cells is huge and stays open for awhile while it’s being operated. Warwick being on the run and not really stopping probably means we can assume the timing happened to be just right that Warwick ran up to the hanger while it was about to be closed, then he was closed in and kept charging the other side which moved it forward, assuming he might have killed the operator because it’s moving at a different speed than normal operating and speaking on the line, as we can see the door forward looks busted. That’s how I imagine it happening that Warwick managed to get in the hanger and ride it down in the state he was in.
how is it goofy? iif any, its a cliche. how many times have we seen an individual is being chased inside an elevator? how unlikely will it be that warwick doesn't chased them on time and the elevator goes on.
Jinx isn't surprising it, the situation triggered her PTSD. Every psychotic response is all die to the childhood trauma. (The fear of) Loosing the people she loves
Warwick is one of the champ in league, i played warwick and well... the rumors from season one is killing me. i screamed when the trailer show him. anyway, the scene where warwick used the cable train is PROBABLY the continuity from their teaser animation, Called Warwick : Wrath of zaun. it's just a fan theory
It’s been about a year since episode 3 my dudes. At least I’m pretty sure Edit: Warwicks first cinematic years ago It ends with him jumping into a cable car to kill a man so it just a little call back.😂
Acculy the question with the cablecar is quite intresting its acculy seems to be a reference to a cinematic viedeo that was introducing warwick as a league of legends Champion. In the Cinematic is Shown How Warwick jumps after someone who drives away with a cable car. So thats how he got inside:P
One thing to keep in mind: They never showed what happened to Vander's mutated corpse, and Singed was part of the group that found Powder crying over his body.
in the original lore before it was changed it mentions Warwicks first memory was a girl crying which meant it was similar to Vi crying in Season 1 Episode 3
Jinx isn't exactly trying to "half-ass" being a hero, the thing is, she never wanted to be one, and wasn't ever intending on being one. What she meant by "Jinx is dead" is that her master-criminal, unhinged murderer era is over, because she wanted to better herself and "settle down" for this new child LIFE that she is responsible for now, and her going back to being this "Jinx" that everyone pictures her as, she would be compromising isha's life and safety, and as she was talking about to silco's chair, "mess it all up." She never originally wanted to lead zaun in the first place, even when silco died and leaders were fighting for his chair, jinx had no resolve at all to try to inherit his throne as leader, or even keep going with life. She was more depressed and done with life than ever before and she tells sevika that all they could do was "watch it all burn." Her actions of retaliation against the council, enforcers, and piltover in general indirectly lead her to being the revolutionary symbol for zaun, and what really hit the nail in the head was her she rerouting all the gray to piltover, she never meant to be a leader or a symbol. It's only until the end of the episode she starts gaining resolve to actually be a "hero" after she realizes all the people that she's fighting for, the people who look up to her and are counting on her, her supporters, and most of all isha.
I think using the elevator was intentional by the writers as when he was fighting jinx he stopped her from using the bomb and that shows its not a mindless beast
Warwick is a champion in the game. Vander was always written to become Warwick, but just sucks that this happened to someone we care about in the show 😅 they've been hinting at it since season 1. I spoiled myself on it by accident when I saw a glimpse of Vander's body hanging in the doc's shop at the end of episode 9. I Googled it to see if I was correct and then saw all the shit about Warwick 😅😅 I've been prepared for this for 3 years!
Maddie`s the youngest of the Enforcers so she`s not a bad person but much like Powder and Isha she`s impressionable to those with darker,more tainted motives like Caitlyn and Ambessa due to her youth and need to prove herself to the others on the force.
I'm a CaitVi stan, but at this point I just want the girls to be happy...and if that means Cait ends up staying with Maddie, so be it. (Even though I for the time being think Maddie's kinda a rebound girl for Cait.) I still kind of think Maddie might be up to something...I just don't know what.
Maddie is definitely a rebound for Caitlyn. She doesn't even look at her and even shows some disgust in her face as Maddie is touching her. She doesn't reciprocate the feelings towards Maddie the same way as she does to Vi (where she often pushes herself into Vi to get as close as possible) Vi and Caitlyn are both hurt. Vi's rebound is booze. Caitlyn's is sex.
Of note, Rictus tosses Isha but didn't do anything else to her. Noxians respect strength and courage. Rictus demonstrated his strength to her as a sign of respect. He didn't do anything else because he respected that she attacked him despite their size difference. Any Noxian would have found what she did to be admirable.
This is something I actually really like about those people
I love how she comes with 200% attack speed and 0 damage
He held Isha above his head to get a full look at her. The only person he has accepted above himself is Ambessa.
Isha was considered, but thrown to the protection of Vander as she is still a child under the protection of Zaun. Was that the artist saying Rictus might have accepted "Apex" Isha as worthy of serving? Or something else...
Yeah thought the same, honestly, i think they should have let him say something like, brave little one to drive that point home.
Maddie appearing out of nowhere was a whole jumpscare
So random lol
I saw a vid where someone called Maddie the 'Ginger Jumpscare' i cried laughing 😂
Social media is dunking on her so hard haha
I think Cait was using her as a rebound for Vi...I don't think she understands that's what their relationship is... so I kind of feel bad for her
@@pavithram1707 Same, it's so obvious yet people still throw shit at her.
And we thought Vander‘s character couldn’t get more tragic…I also love how they showed the aftermath of Warwick‘s arrival after we really see him for the first time.
i went back to the wiki of LoL and wow, they changed Warwick's Background story..before it was only written as a Zauinite Gangster, but now, it was edited as "Zaunite Gangster named Vander"...
How many transformations is Vander gonna suffer! 😅😂
@@TheRandomBits431oh that's cool
@@piusdoe8984maybe the real glorious evolution is the transformations we Vander’d along the way.
1:56 Amanda, one of the writers, confirmed the time jump is 3 to 6 months so it's not necessary quick but definitely jarring to see
Only fault I found so far with the show. They didn't really make the time jump very clear.
@@Arjay404 same. The passage of time is so far my one real gripe with the show. And depending on act 3, it could be my only one, but we shall see
good thing the show never bother to tell us. season 2 feels like 1 day. its so stupid. i have the feeling im just watching a really flashy and cool firework now
@@nilexinator5901One thing about the show is they never tell, they show.
From cait moving on, to vi's appearance and isha and jinx's relationship you can tell a couple of months have passed.
@@nilexinator5901Except they do tell us. Caitlyn says "months of peacekeeping occupation" in episode 5. Arcane also is not the kind of show to just dump unnecessary exposition on you. They do most of it through actions of characters and visual storytelling.
Vi was right...everyone in her life has indeed changed...
Yeah, sadly the only one who didn't get the chance to really change was Vi
Edit: I'm talking about Vi in prison. Her life stopped when she got arrested and only really resumed when Caitlyn got her out and she saw how much everything changed
@@J1ntushe changed too wdym
@J1ntu She hit Powder, and then she works with the Enforcer(even though reluctant)
@@skywalkerjohn8965 Powder also tried to murder Vi in cold blood last season. In service of the man that murdered their found family.
Keep excusing violet... That shits sad... Ngl she's a major fuck up... She has been all season.
The way I interpreted the line of "Jinx is dead" is that she doesn't want to be anyone anymore. She's just done and wants to live her life without interference.
Warwick is a character from the game...and before this reveal... Warwick is only mentioned as a "Zaunite gangster" (no name reveal in the lore) and is retiring from that life...but when he was captured by Singed, he was experimented on so many levels... and now that Vander is revealed to be Warwick, it is already considered and officially a canon to the story...
EDIT: i remember when i watched Arcane Season 1 years ago, i was interested in some characters of LoL so i did some reading on characters such as Vi, jinx, Jace, ekko, warwick, etc...and when i checked on Warwick, his Background story was Edited...so from "Zaunite Gangster" edited to "Zaunite Gangster named Vander"...
if you played league when season 1 was airing and you hear the characters call Vander "the hound of the underground" you already knew what was gonna happen. They also played his champion theme in episode 3 and Vander was already making wolf-like grunts
@@Creepy___ oh sry, i dont play the game...and i never knew the title of Vander's hound of the undergound until i found out reading from the comments years ago...i just read background stories from LoL's wiki pages...i did watch all cinematics too... i may not be knowledgable about all the characters, story lores which is vast as most if not all league fans and gamers says...thankfully enough, just reading from some comments from other reactor channels, i can at least learn a bit of some characters backstories...
@@thorneyquins8780 yeah dont worry about it. I personally dont play league anymore but have been for 10 years and I still keep up with lore because I am invested in it. The Warwick=Vander theory was more like an open secret for the people who know the game or the lore already. Thats probably also why they just hard confirmed it next episode, cuz you know in any other show they would have the characters trying to figure it for the rest of the season. Arcane is a great for everyone to enjoy it but things like Warwicks reveal or the Order of the Black Rose are just more rewarding to long term lore fans
The wolf got on the train because Singed had also dropped his blood there when he told Isha that we wouldn't be staying here for long. The wolf's sole purpose now is to find its maker, but it is short-circuited when it encounters Jinx(powder).
Yeah, that was a weird thing to get fixated on. As you said, Singed put blood in there specifically so Warwick would enter it. And the cable car was sparking where it was attached, and it was moving faster than it normally does. Since the cable is on a downward slant, I think it might have just broken from Warwick's forceful entry and was sliding down rather than having been activated.
And then obviously the elevator was it dropping down the shaft and the smashing through the top.
If the cable car had come down normally and undamaged and Warwick had waited politely for the doors to open before jumping out that would have been goofy. But a damaged and improperly functioning cable car screamed 'something ain't right' in an intimidating way.
@@kenjutsukata1o1 Or the dead people in the cable car were in it when it was docked and tried to get away with it, people/guard tried to hide in the cart and hit the lever after it got on, but before everyone was dead. The inside would have a pool of blood from Singed standing there longer. He is probably good at controlling drip rate, but who knows... But it was also specifically his blood, not all the other people bleeding at the statue. Because it was his blood in the beast in episode S2E3.
And on second watch you can catch that Ambessa's eyes flinched... I guess it's more subtle that most horror but it was there from the beginning. Singed made shimmer monsters that constantly got stronger from it's introduction as a rat that ate the cat...
Vander puts his and Silco's dreams of a united Zaun on the backburner to protect the people he cares about.
Silco betrays Vander to continue his dreams but find that he cares for Jinx which makes him put Xaun in the backburner to clean up her messes.
Jinx is now also putting Zaun on the backburner to care for Isha.
I like this parallel a lot. It shows how even someone obsessed with a vision of the future can put it aside for those they care about.
I was waiting for you guys to watch this episode because i remember everyone being a big Vander fan, lol.
If you look at the final shot of Singed in the first season, it was him ssiting in a chair with Vander's body hanging (it was almost blended in the background, hard to see), but it did tease that he was doing something to his body, and here it is.
Jinx and Isha's relationship is so heartwarming, it cures my soul. Also you could guess the time jump was relatively big since Isha has braids, and she didn't have them in act I.
The blood from Singed was specifically and purposefully dripped into the cable car when he told Isha, "Chin up, little one. I'll tell you a secret. We won't be staying long."
Warwick literally followed the blood trail Singed left like bread crumbs. The blood trail led to the cable car dock, was in the cable car itself, and continued on the other side of the dock at the prison, up the prison stairs, into the building, down the elevator, into the cells. It was a linear path. There's nothing strange about Warwick being in the cable car when it arrived at the station. It makes perfect sense with the way they laid out the variables. It would have made LESS sense for Warwick to run along the cables to reach the prison ...because the blood wasn't on the cables, it was in the car and on the ground. He didn't push the elevator button. He ripped the doors off the top, jumped down the shaft, ripped the doors off the bottom. I don't understand why so many viewers/reactors want to joke about the beast pushing elevator buttons or having a cable car ticket .... exactly zero of that was suggested or implied but a feral beast traveling from point A to point B along a linear path makes absolute perfect sense by itself. It even perfectly explains why the only people that got hurt were those that stood in that linear path. This will be even more apparent in episode 5
Wow! I didn't even think of that. Damn, these writers are meticulous. And Singed is deranged, but he's frigging genius.
You guys are my favourite reactors for this show!
Same
I reaaallly really struggle to see the issue with the cable cart scene o.O like, seriously. And normally I'm very critical of illogical stuff or inserted shock value that doesn't make sense. In this case just as Diamond Dave said, it seems perfectly logical that people in the cart already started the cart, saw Warwick coming, closed the door in panic, and Warwick leaped into it while ripping that door apart. And then of course he stayed in there because the only scent marks were inside the cart basically and there was nowhere to go for a while... but I even feel weird trying to justify this hahha
Its easy to imagine cause thats exactly how Warwick got that one dude in his cinematic, guy tried to escape in a cable car and scratched his hand on split metal and sealed his fate. It doesnt take much for Warwick to pick up a scent.
Singed was transported on that cable car, his blood was left on the car, too difficult to understand? He's Warwick , not DumbassWick 🙄 His human side is still there, not completely transformed into a stupid dog
Also, Warwick is NOT stupid. You can see how he runs and fights. His spatial awareness is pretty scary.
@@phongphan7917 DUMBASSWICK LMAO
@@TriXJester I actually did not see that, didn't even know he had a cinematic. I'll watch it now tho o.O only played league when it came out for a year or two.
Yeah dude on the right is right. For sure people saw Warwick coming and hit the lever to get away on the train and he leaps on because Singed's blood was in it.
Warwick didn’t operate the lever, and he didn’t take the elevator. He rode the trolley car because the people on the car had already triggered it to go away/to escape him. You can see the claw marks on the door from when he tore the doors open, jumped into the trolley as it was moving away, and massacred everyone in the trolley on the way over. As for the elevator, he didn’t ride the elevator. He jumped down the elevator shaft - thus the enormous boom you hear before he rips the doors off. Finally - Warwick is a human/animal/machine hybrid.
You know how many times I've played Jinx and had to solo against Warwick at one time or another. what a joy to see it animated ugh such good times.
To answer mason's question, Ambessa was about to go outside and ride the cable car, it was not shown that she or the guard pulled any lever, it's just that she is only waiting for it to arrive, and while waiting, she had that flashback about jinx's disguise, so she was about to go back inside again but she was interrupted when something is wrong with the cable car arriving with scratches on the front door...
3:53 Compare the place to what it looked like in season 1, now has more light and no Claggor or Mylo toys, you can see the impact of Isha's presence in Jinx
In his reveal cinematic Warwick ends up on a Tram.
22:40 Well, if you watch Warwick's League of Legends champion trailer, you might get a clue about how he got onto the train. Maybe the enforcers were running for their lives on the other side, and he managed to slip in just before the wagon started moving-just saying! As for the elevator, he probably just smashed the doors and clawed his way through to the bottom.
Probably? We literally see him doing it 😂
I love how Ambessa is literally fanning the flame while fanning the flame. 🤣🤣
Jinx is my big fat favorite.
Jinx unable to pursuade an enforcer about who she is and going into crisis mode when her pants are insulted is indescribably funny to me. I'm telling you, this was genius writing. As crazy as Jinx is, I'd marry her because I can't get enough of her.
I think the Warwick cable car thing is a callback to his champion debut video
Cait didn't move on with Maddie, though. You can see in in her body language and aversion that she is just using Maddie as a distraction.
I do think its funny ambessa can't crack hextech with piltover scientists but jinx weaponized it in like 3 weeks
For Oak Ya’ll need to check out Bridging the Rift series it goes over all the aspects of the making of Arcane.
warwick is a sophisticated beast, he does know how to operate these things
How does Warwick get on a moving tram? There is oddly enough a cinematic for this. Check out the Warwick champion teaser for how he 'rides a tram'
There are 2 elevators to the cells, left and right. Jinx and Sevika came with the right one. Before that, 2 enforcers took the left one up. The prisoners Jinx released took the right one up the same time the group of enforcers came down with the left. WW Must have torn the left one's door open and jumped down the shaft, cuz he came from the left one. That also explains why there are no dead Jinxers outside. They dodged a bullet.
THE TRAIN WAS ALREADY GOING. A person got on the train and started it and shortly after Warwick jumps in and kills the guys who started the train. League of Legends released a short trailer about warwick which showed that scene of him getting on that train. Dave was right, he wasn't pulling no levers. Warwick followed the blood to the train because earlier singed was on the train with everyone else when they arrived to the jail. He obviously dropped some blood on the train. Wasn't goofy at all, weird take.
Now I'm imagining Warwick getting in the elevator and pressing the button with his oversized claw then standing patiently with crappy elevator music playing.
Then it stopping halfway and an enforcer running up calling to 'hold the elevator,' only to find Warwick politely holding the door open for him. Then of course the enforcer would nervously say he'd catch the next elevator, and Warwick would shrug and continue on his way.
I'm happy with that, a perfect MCU-style breaking of tension and ruining the intensity of a scene with poorly placed 'quirky' humor.
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LOL Diamond Dave accidentally acting out exactly what happened in Warwick's League trailer with the lever is great 🤣 man didn't even watch it but knows what his reaction would be seeing that thing 😂
I love when you guys discuss little things, I need friends that take my favorite shows this serious.
23:15 about the cable.. it was 7 years ago when Warwick has his Rework.. you can watch it "Warwick : The Wrath of Zaun" the scene ends in a cable, how clever Warwick debut in Arcane in the same cable 😅✌
The cable cart most likely works like an elevator so ambessa was the one pushing the lever from the other side , warwick was inside because of the blood trail left by singed
That's also a good point. Though now I'm imagining a confused Warwick looking around as the 'room' he's in starts moving.
This season is so good it makes me sad there wont be a season 3
Let's hope that they make another series in the same universe. Same writers, producers, and artists/animators. They're such an amazing team.
@@lilunette9319I know they said they can see them telling more stories like this for the next 30 years.
Look on the bright side: we won't be left with another cliffhanger we have to wait three years to see the results of.
...I hope O_O;
It's more likely he jumped on the train killed everyone and then ripped doors open to escape and had no where to go so stayed on the train munching until it got to ground again, that's how I see it, I don't think anyone sees Warwick operating leavers or waiting for train lol 😂
The train thing is an homage to Warwick's rework trainer, he leaped like 50 feet to claw into a train to kill a dude that almost got away but accidentally cut his hand on a metal shard when checking if Warwick was still out there
the problem with missing 'important' small details is that you may lose their meaning later on down the line. At 14:42 in the actual episode (not your reaction), you can see how prisoners are being loaded into the back of the cable car. We are clearly given this view through Jinx's scope on purpose to show how easy it is for Warwick to load into the cable car. and Dave is correct, he is following the blood's scent, which was either inside the car he mounted, or at least following the trail. Mason just failed to catch the planted details and put together 2 & 2 together.
Can’t wait for the rest of your reactions on this act! The next two episodes are phenomenal!
Finally my favorite fellas are seeing the Warwick wolf and his connection to Vander!! Jinx is becoming way more Stronger and she is finally embracing hef role as a leader. I can't wait to see your reaction to the next episode!! LET'S GOOO
15:19 Ambessa caught onto Jinx, but a bit late. Ambessa was focused onto WARwick from the first moment. Maybe Mel who focuses a little more on diplomacy could of caught Jinx at the Prison. Still not bad for the first Jinx-Ambessa meeting.
One you get to S2E5/S2E6 Warwick Pacing is Perfect for me.
If you played league... Warwick being V was strongly implied in season 1. The S2 trailer all but confirmed it for most players who know the champion. Before the end of S1E9 A friends copium scream of Warwick convinced me before Vi hit powder. Vander shimmered up form jumping up looked like Warwick and we knew who Singed created...
The reason this show is so great is because everyone is a hero in their own story there ain't a villain for the reason to have a villain
Warwick, the wolf, is a playable character. One of his abilities is following the scent of low hp enemies just like on the show. I was so excited and so hyped to see him.
Mason Quinn, you should watch Warwick's cinematic, you will see how Warwick could get into such a cable car, then say again "it is goofy" it is scary, not goofy, such a brutal force...
I think the scene with Warwick in the train cart is a reference to his champion reveal trailer from the game, where a guy gets away in a cable cart thing but cuts his hand and Warwick Leaps reeeeaaaaallllyyy far at the cart. To answer Mason, he can jump really far!
No, the guy on the right (Dave?) who was opposing the idea of it being goofy pointed out that he talked so him having the ability to operate equipment wasn't a stretch.
@kenjutsukata1o1 I play warwick a lot, watch his champion reveal trailer from League of Legends, it was 1000% a callback to the end of the trailer where he leaps at a cart. His big ability in game is a leap too :D
"You can see the scent"
Now THAT is something from the game
This is definitely the best episode so far. so many great scenes in one episode
To answer what Mason Quinn was asking about how Warwick came to be without giving any spoilers or extra hints:
Remember how at the end of every episode of act one of this season they gave us snippets of the scientist? First we saw him going to 2 wolves hiding in cave, and the next two being him working with those wolves he captured and using their parts to build “the monster” aka Warwick.
What all of that built up to until this episode was to show that after the events of episode 3 in season 1, Singed (the mad scientist) picked up Vander’s body that was left for dead after the explosion (he was still alive even if barley) and used him to create what is now known as Warwick.
Hope this helps clarify some things! ✌️
In Warwick's intro in the LoL game, he attacks a dude who was trying to escape in a cable car! So I like what they did there! It's almost like we picked up from where that teaser ended!
The blood trail had ended in the train where Singed stood. I think the beast stood over it and went dormant because the trail ended there. Ambessa called the train from her end because she was leaving and then the blood trail was re-established.
I mean, Warwick isn't dumb. They didn't show us, but he probably got on a cable car that was already at the base and outed
everybody in there. I don't think it's goofy, specially since Singed's blood was in there
This is why subtitles ruin things. You read the punchlines of jokes early, cool phrases are spoiled seconds before they're actually said, emotional scenes get disrupted, and (in this case) you can be confused or misled. Instead of the reveal that this giant beast is Vander, you end up going "Warwick? Who's Warwick? Do we know that name? Is it that other guy? how does Warwick now Powder?" and it ruins the moment. That name hasn't been mentioned at all by anyone in the show up to this point and it's only included on the subtitles to show who is speaking and technically the characters name is Warwick.
I mean, an easy fix would have been to label him as 'beast' or 'monster'. They didn't need to put his name at all. It was relevant to put a title to who was speaking since you couldn't see his mouth and people watching without volume/deaf people would need that information.
fr!! subtitles do that with so many shows/movies, it’s so annoying
23:00, you guys need to watch Warwick's cinematic trailer to understand how he got there
warwick is the name of the champion in-game
1:59 me too Dave me too
The fact that Vi begged Caitlyn not to change when everyone else in her life did. And right after that Cait nearly killed Jinx while a child (who loves Jinx) was holding her and socked Vi in the gut with her gun. The betrayal there, and the fact that it was the last (and most important) person she had left... oof, that's heavy.
The name Heimerdinger came from the names - Oppenheimer and Schrodinger
Okay roll with me here. That hanger down to the jail cells is huge and stays open for awhile while it’s being operated. Warwick being on the run and not really stopping probably means we can assume the timing happened to be just right that Warwick ran up to the hanger while it was about to be closed, then he was closed in and kept charging the other side which moved it forward, assuming he might have killed the operator because it’s moving at a different speed than normal operating and speaking on the line, as we can see the door forward looks busted. That’s how I imagine it happening that Warwick managed to get in the hanger and ride it down in the state he was in.
Singed has no control over Warwick, Warwick is driven off of blood lust. Once he smells blood he goes crazy
26:19 what a prediction
how is it goofy? iif any, its a cliche. how many times have we seen an individual is being chased inside an elevator? how unlikely will it be that warwick doesn't chased them on time and the elevator goes on.
The thing is a shown to be a sentient being at the end so not goofy or weak that it rode the train.
Jinx isn't surprising it, the situation triggered her PTSD.
Every psychotic response is all die to the childhood trauma. (The fear of) Loosing the people she loves
Warwick is one of the champ in league, i played warwick and well... the rumors from season one is killing me. i screamed when the trailer show him.
anyway, the scene where warwick used the cable train is PROBABLY the continuity from their teaser animation, Called Warwick : Wrath of zaun.
it's just a fan theory
It’s been about a year since episode 3 my dudes. At least I’m pretty sure
Edit: Warwicks first cinematic years ago It ends with him jumping into a cable car to kill a man so it just a little call back.😂
Acculy the question with the cablecar is quite intresting its acculy seems to be a reference to a cinematic viedeo that was introducing warwick as a league of legends Champion. In the Cinematic is Shown How Warwick jumps after someone who drives away with a cable car. So thats how he got inside:P
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Can't wait for you to react to Vi after the timejump!!!! ❤❤
One thing to keep in mind: They never showed what happened to Vander's mutated corpse, and Singed was part of the group that found Powder crying over his body.
in the original lore before it was changed it mentions Warwicks first memory was a girl crying which meant it was similar to Vi crying in Season 1 Episode 3
Jinx isn't exactly trying to "half-ass" being a hero, the thing is, she never wanted to be one, and wasn't ever intending on being one. What she meant by "Jinx is dead" is that her master-criminal, unhinged murderer era is over, because she wanted to better herself and "settle down" for this new child LIFE that she is responsible for now, and her going back to being this "Jinx" that everyone pictures her as, she would be compromising isha's life and safety, and as she was talking about to silco's chair, "mess it all up." She never originally wanted to lead zaun in the first place, even when silco died and leaders were fighting for his chair, jinx had no resolve at all to try to inherit his throne as leader, or even keep going with life. She was more depressed and done with life than ever before and she tells sevika that all they could do was "watch it all burn."
Her actions of retaliation against the council, enforcers, and piltover in general indirectly lead her to being the revolutionary symbol for zaun, and what really hit the nail in the head was her she rerouting all the gray to piltover, she never meant to be a leader or a symbol. It's only until the end of the episode she starts gaining resolve to actually be a "hero" after she realizes all the people that she's fighting for, the people who look up to her and are counting on her, her supporters, and most of all isha.
Warwick went in the gondola because he followed the blood trails from Singed
23:45 lmaooooo
Yes it was Vander. That monster scientist just couldn't leave him alone after he was gone🥲
18:07 isha called jinx mama 😭
All songs used in lol cinematics or here in arcane are made specially for it
SINCE season 1 everyone knew Vander was Warwick since they called him in season 1 episode 1 the Hound of the Underground, thats him. Warwick is Vander
If baby Warwick is here I want to see him I want to play now lol hahaha
I think using the elevator was intentional by the writers as when he was fighting jinx he stopped her from using the bomb and that shows its not a mindless beast
if you watch it at 1:54 and put the video speed at 0.25 its hilarious 🤣😂
If you weren't talking over Warwick's line at the end you would have heard it was Vander's voice
Vander Vi and Sevika are the only people who knew Jinx as Powder
If you guys were skeptical about vander/warwick entering the cable car, watch warwick’s cinematic for the league…
Free tip guys - don't have subtitles up if yuo don't really need them = spoilers
Ah yes....these episodes😭😭😔
Yes, it is Vander.
Warwick is a champion in the game. Vander was always written to become Warwick, but just sucks that this happened to someone we care about in the show 😅 they've been hinting at it since season 1. I spoiled myself on it by accident when I saw a glimpse of Vander's body hanging in the doc's shop at the end of episode 9. I Googled it to see if I was correct and then saw all the shit about Warwick 😅😅 I've been prepared for this for 3 years!
Maddie`s the youngest of the Enforcers so she`s not a bad person but much like Powder and Isha she`s impressionable to those with darker,more tainted motives like Caitlyn and Ambessa due to her youth and need to prove herself to the others on the force.
At one point Powder said
So glad they were not spoiled by the league lore.
Man what the heck? Vander is Warwick?? :o
Yes, finally❤
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We need to watch the first film 🤙
@BaddMedicine bro pushapa2 seckind talire is out 6day ago 😅
You guys have to react to the how to train your dragon teaser trailer!!
I'm a CaitVi stan, but at this point I just want the girls to be happy...and if that means Cait ends up staying with Maddie, so be it. (Even though I for the time being think Maddie's kinda a rebound girl for Cait.) I still kind of think Maddie might be up to something...I just don't know what.
Maddie is definitely a rebound for Caitlyn. She doesn't even look at her and even shows some disgust in her face as Maddie is touching her. She doesn't reciprocate the feelings towards Maddie the same way as she does to Vi (where she often pushes herself into Vi to get as close as possible)
Vi and Caitlyn are both hurt. Vi's rebound is booze. Caitlyn's is sex.
lumity pfp, caitvi stan... i know what you are! lol
Caitvi will be endgame 100% don't worry. I play League and they're together in that.
@a.a677 I know they're together in League...but this is a completely separate entity. They could do whatever they wanted.
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3:15 the big wolf what? Lmao
TBH for this show in particular I feel like the subtitle most of the times just spoil the moment and/or make things more confusing
I'm very sad and very angry with Cait. Her betrayal of her so called pricipals changed from top tier to F grade,