@@ThePoroIsCanon If you are talking about "The explosion" from Episode 3, I think that was a different place. In that building powders bomb blew up several stories high. (Powder had to climb up there, and Vander fell a long distance when he saved Vi). I think that the underwater lair is down in the undercity and somewhere near the sump.
All of this music is eerie, dark, slow...it really suits his characterization well since he wasnt an aggressive Villain, but always stayed in the shadows, 'emerged' from them and overall he carried his backstory of being drowned, and being 'in love with the monsters underneath' as to say - beautiful, aren't they?
There`s also a sadness and loneliness to the music which hints at Silco`s deep emotional connection to and reasons for adopting Powder/Jinx at the end of Episode 3.
Except when it comes to Jinx. Then he absolutely is blinded by emotion. He isn't a perfect villain. But that's what makes him a perfect character. His flaws.
@@ThePoroIsCanon And arguably the Hero Zaun deserves, but not needs. I honestly found most members of the Piltover Council to be more villainous, then Silco. Silco atleast was fully aware of the things he did to achieve his cause. The council just... squabbeled.
@@hansgerman3437 Also, when Jayce offers him everything with conditions, like stopping the production of shimmer etc... He accepts and even states he has already began. He really didn't do these malicious things for anything else than achieving his goal for Zaun. It's beautiful honestly.
Silco is personally one of the best written villains, he was mysterious, evil, and over all very cool, I like how he is the kind of villain you can understand his goals and you want to see him win
It is kinda crazy how you start by hating Silco and, as the storie and season 1 progresses, you begin to understand where his point of vue is coming from and why he does what he does. Silco is a villain like none i think i've seen in past media. He does not shy from doing ugly things but at the same time it's not like he enjoys doing them (it seems to me). He does them because in his point of vue, he understands that nothing will ever get to change how topside sees the undercity unless he does what none have done before him. That is to say, to go into and all out war against topside. He truly does want what is best for the undercity and he will go to any lenghts to achieve that. In the end, has he is finally presented with the opportunity to create the nation of Zaun, he is unable to do what he reproached Vander not being able to do. That is to give up the one thing he genuinely love to create what he has been wanting all of his life. To give up Jinx. You even see him glance down and right while talking to Jace as if denying the choice that was given to him. It is increadible how the series get us to finally be able to empathise with Silco. The one caracter we have been trained to hate. How, by the end, you realise that him loving jinx, was not a ploy. He actually did love her as a dauther. As someone, like him, who has been rejected, betrayed by the ones they once loved. He saw himself in her and wanted to give her somewhere she woulde be safe. Something he was not offered when he himself was rejected by the one he called his brother. There is a hint of tragedy in all the soundtracks that relates to him and his relation to the city of Zaun. There is this grandios theme to the music he is a part of but there is also always this sadness and loneliness you can read in between the lines.
A good villain doesn't have to be evil or malicious. It could be someone in power who has the respect of the people but works behind the scenes to benefit his own interests like how the president will start wars with 3rd world countries steal their resources and call them terrorists to make it seem like they deserved it.
That day i let a weak man die.. and another was reborn.. Betrayal, that pain that feels like it'll eat you from the inside out,... can either break you or forge you into something greater ...You need to let powder die... So the fear of pain will no longer control you.
The music from this show really knew how to echo those halls or make you feel the cool whisper on your neck of death, the high rise of the strings to the dull bass. Silco really was/is an Eerie Villain/Antagonist & you can totally wear his emotions with this sound sheet on your back.
He was incredible...but limiting yourself in such a way? Let them explore. Perhaps there will be no need for a villain. Perhaps there will be something much, much worse.
Arcane plays on the subversion of expectations, but with Silco he could only ever be a villain. I mean look at him. What's funny is that since his design has such obvious implications another character (Finn) actually mentions it. 🤣
What a great nuanced and very humanised male villain. In the era of hollywoke this is even more of a standout. This show set an entirely new benchmark and will revolutionise creative media and be a high water mark of greatness.
He`s actually not as manipulative as most people think. If you notice, he mainly manipulates people he doesn`t respect such as Deckard and his gang ,Margot, Marcus and his daughter Ren, Reni and her son and Finn, those he does respect such as Jinx, Vi, Sevika, Vander, Benzo, Jayce and Singed he is brutally honest with even if they don`t see it that way.
"Calling Silco a villain is Topside propaganda!He was our liberator and the last competent Chem-Baron who wasn`t a greedy or war-mongering traitor!"-Zaun
Wait! Is it just me or towards the end of everyone else betrays us, does it sound lime a mix between The Bridge from Vanders suite and A Story Of Opposites?
How did you get these? I wanted to search for them myself because I really love the music, but i really didn't find them. I will probably use one of this one for an edit. Thanks for the other videos too :)
Arcane has its own channel for the soundtrack called Arcane - Topic, UA-cam auto uploads audio videos for their youtube music app. I didn't make these tracks of course, I just arranged them into a story I liked with a few edits here and there.
I chose an order that I felt reflected the character while still having a flow that sounded nice. But I also made sure to highlight certain story beats in a way that a listener would care for. The beginning, end, and certain breaking points between tracks needed to be more substantial to me. Hence why we start with ‘A story of opposites’ and close with ‘Someone just volunteered.’ If someone were to only hear the beginning and end you’d get a melancholic melody that becomes a sinister one. Which would accurately describe Silco if you didn’t watch the show. But when you hear the tracks in between you get a better sense of the complexity of Silcos character, but still end in a way that shows he is a bad person, despite his many layers. Essentially that was my thought process. Thanks for coming to my TEd Talk.
I love the way Silco finds his strength from being underwater. It's where he was reborn and where his home/lair is located at the beginning.
I really liked his underground lair with the underwater view... it's too bad we never saw it again after the first chapter.
It unfortunately got sploded
@@ariochiv Perhaps Jinx will go back there for Season 2. I doubt she'd want to hang out with Sevika at "The Last Drop" very much.
@@ThePoroIsCanon If you are talking about "The explosion" from Episode 3, I think that was a different place. In that building powders bomb blew up several stories high. (Powder had to climb up there, and Vander fell a long distance when he saved Vi). I think that the underwater lair is down in the undercity and somewhere near the sump.
True, but the scene where the explosion reaches singed has the same window and workstation. I think it’s all connected.
"..Have you had enough?.."
i just noticed
"everyone betrays us"
is a variations of the opening scene
Silco. The Industrialist. Smooth dude.
All of this music is eerie, dark, slow...it really suits his characterization well since he wasnt an aggressive Villain, but always stayed in the shadows, 'emerged' from them and overall he carried his backstory of being drowned, and being 'in love with the monsters underneath' as to say - beautiful, aren't they?
There`s also a sadness and loneliness to the music which hints at Silco`s deep emotional connection to and reasons for adopting Powder/Jinx at the end of Episode 3.
Perfectly fitting.
Patient, menacing, a little sorrowful, a touch of grandeur, the echoes of tragedy.
The music is slow, eerie and seductive, just like Silco. It's beautiful and sad. One of my favorite "villains" of all time.
Silco really showed what true ambition was about.
Power, real power, doesn't come to those who were born strongest, or fastest, or smartest. No. It comes to those who will do anything to achieve it.
@@R4Y2k right on
@@R4Y2k even those who are willing to get down and pick it up
Silco is a perfect villain
He isn't petty or blinded by his emotions
Instead he calculates and only strikes when the time is right
Except when it comes to Jinx. Then he absolutely is blinded by emotion.
He isn't a perfect villain. But that's what makes him a perfect character. His flaws.
Such a great antagonist for such a great series.
The hero of his own story and a flawed revolutionary. Such a well-made character!
@@ThePoroIsCanon And arguably the Hero Zaun deserves, but not needs. I honestly found most members of the Piltover Council to be more villainous, then Silco. Silco atleast was fully aware of the things he did to achieve his cause. The council just... squabbeled.
@@hansgerman3437 Agreed! Topside scum, they shall not be missed!
@@hansgerman3437 Also, when Jayce offers him everything with conditions, like stopping the production of shimmer etc... He accepts and even states he has already began. He really didn't do these malicious things for anything else than achieving his goal for Zaun. It's beautiful honestly.
I love how his leitmotif (or really zaun’s leitmotif) is played with such a graceful and eerie female vocalization. Such good contrast
Silco is zaun. And yes the vocalization is amazingly beautiful.
You just wanted an excuse to say leitmotif didn't you? 🤣 But yes it's stunning
@@vincentrees4970 Its a fun word for sure
And there are subtle variations each time, particularly with Jinx.
Question: are the titles in the tracklist the official ones??
Silco is personally one of the best written villains, he was mysterious, evil, and over all very cool, I like how he is the kind of villain you can understand his goals and you want to see him win
It is kinda crazy how you start by hating Silco and, as the storie and season 1 progresses, you begin to understand where his point of vue is coming from and why he does what he does. Silco is a villain like none i think i've seen in past media. He does not shy from doing ugly things but at the same time it's not like he enjoys doing them (it seems to me). He does them because in his point of vue, he understands that nothing will ever get to change how topside sees the undercity unless he does what none have done before him. That is to say, to go into and all out war against topside. He truly does want what is best for the undercity and he will go to any lenghts to achieve that.
In the end, has he is finally presented with the opportunity to create the nation of Zaun, he is unable to do what he reproached Vander not being able to do. That is to give up the one thing he genuinely love to create what he has been wanting all of his life. To give up Jinx. You even see him glance down and right while talking to Jace as if denying the choice that was given to him.
It is increadible how the series get us to finally be able to empathise with Silco. The one caracter we have been trained to hate. How, by the end, you realise that him loving jinx, was not a ploy. He actually did love her as a dauther. As someone, like him, who has been rejected, betrayed by the ones they once loved. He saw himself in her and wanted to give her somewhere she woulde be safe. Something he was not offered when he himself was rejected by the one he called his brother.
There is a hint of tragedy in all the soundtracks that relates to him and his relation to the city of Zaun. There is this grandios theme to the music he is a part of but there is also always this sadness and loneliness you can read in between the lines.
A beautiful suite for an amazing character
Silco will definitely be remembered
Specially by me. I loved him eyes closed, no matter what.
It will be hard to replace him as the top villain in the next season.
A good villain doesn't have to be evil or malicious. It could be someone in power who has the respect of the people but works behind the scenes to benefit his own interests like how the president will start wars with 3rd world countries steal their resources and call them terrorists to make it seem like they deserved it.
@@BaronRodney Welcome to capitalism. That's his law. It works for all parties.
Renata Glasc is probably on her way. Or at least, lore wise it only makes sense for her to be the next big bad.
That day i let a weak man die.. and another was reborn.. Betrayal, that pain that feels like it'll eat you from the inside out,... can either break you or forge you into something greater ...You need to let powder die... So the fear of pain will no longer control you.
The music from this show really knew how to echo those halls or make you feel the cool whisper on your neck of death, the high rise of the strings to the dull bass. Silco really was/is an Eerie Villain/Antagonist & you can totally wear his emotions with this sound sheet on your back.
If Silco ain't coming back at even in flashbacks imma have a hard time giving a shit about season 2.
Facts
real
He was incredible...but limiting yourself in such a way? Let them explore.
Perhaps there will be no need for a villain. Perhaps there will be something much, much worse.
It’s me :)
I’m much worse.
The writers have confirmed that Silco will appear in season 2, but in the form of a flashback.
I mean... Yes. You're doing exactly the kind of playing I was aiming for
This. was. so. good.
I've rewatched the show so many times I could def hear the similarities from the scenes
Arcane plays on the subversion of expectations, but with Silco he could only ever be a villain. I mean look at him.
What's funny is that since his design has such obvious implications another character (Finn) actually mentions it. 🤣
A few characters mention eyes when they talk to him and I kind of crack up every time, especially since he just ignores it.
What a great nuanced and very humanised male villain. In the era of hollywoke this is even more of a standout. This show set an entirely new benchmark and will revolutionise creative media and be a high water mark of greatness.
finally someone is posting the actual themes instead of just the music they played
Silco has grew to me so much as a villan. He is so bad! He has no physical power but manipulates others and is so........ Good at it!
He`s actually not as manipulative as most people think. If you notice, he mainly manipulates people he doesn`t respect such as Deckard and his gang ,Margot, Marcus and his daughter Ren, Reni and her son and Finn, those he does respect such as Jinx, Vi, Sevika, Vander, Benzo, Jayce and Singed he is brutally honest with even if they don`t see it that way.
"Calling Silco a villain is Topside propaganda!He was our liberator and the last competent Chem-Baron who wasn`t a greedy or war-mongering traitor!"-Zaun
Wait! Is it just me or towards the end of everyone else betrays us, does it sound lime a mix between The Bridge from Vanders suite and A Story Of Opposites?
How did you get these? I wanted to search for them myself because I really love the music, but i really didn't find them. I will probably use one of this one for an edit.
Thanks for the other videos too :)
Arcane has its own channel for the soundtrack called Arcane - Topic, UA-cam auto uploads audio videos for their youtube music app. I didn't make these tracks of course, I just arranged them into a story I liked with a few edits here and there.
@@ThePoroIsCanon I didn't notice they uploaded them o.o Thanks for putting them togethe by character :)
@@Yumigood heh yah, most albums have auto uploads you just gotta know where to look
The non lyric soundtracks are also on Spotify if that helps 👍
New favorite playlist
Silcos a really good villain.... the best villains do there work without trouble and mostly enjoy it
A story of opposites is so damn good
4:50 nearly gave me a heart attack when i first saw that scene
Silos underrated
Lol silco My bad
5:29 Jaws theme song vibes. 😬
There is a poro cannon? Where can I buy one?
I'd like to know, why did you choose this specific order? It's not chronological
I chose an order that I felt reflected the character while still having a flow that sounded nice. But I also made sure to highlight certain story beats in a way that a listener would care for. The beginning, end, and certain breaking points between tracks needed to be more substantial to me. Hence why we start with ‘A story of opposites’ and close with ‘Someone just volunteered.’ If someone were to only hear the beginning and end you’d get a melancholic melody that becomes a sinister one. Which would accurately describe Silco if you didn’t watch the show. But when you hear the tracks in between you get a better sense of the complexity of Silcos character, but still end in a way that shows he is a bad person, despite his many layers.
Essentially that was my thought process. Thanks for coming to my TEd Talk.
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