Jinx is my absolute favorite character in the series. And it honestly sucks people compare her too often to Harley quinn. Also if anyone wants to be more depressed, in the final episode on the mug jinx made for silco, you can barely make out the word "dad".
it’s so sucky that people compare her to Harley because they are completely different types of people and ideas all together although I understand why, ALSO I DIDNT NEED TO KNOW THAT TWT
@@CertainlyCynical Supposedly people saw some random scribbles on the ashtray in the scene where Fin and the other Chem Baron come into Silco's office to betray him. It's hard to make out and can't really tell if it reads Dad or not.
"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth." I think this proverb applies to Jinx, both in the context of her feeling abandoned by everyone, and her being (shaped by Silco into) the embodiment of Zaun itself, abandoned and shunned by Piltover.
Jinx’s intelligence needs more recognition. She figured out tech that Jace and Viktor (trained scientists and geniuses) were working on with NO formal education.
@@ProjectEchoshadow To be fair, she also stole their notes and gemstone to use as a starting point. What she did was very impressive. But it can't be compared to what Jayce and Viktor took years to accomplish. She didn't start from scratch. She stole an existing gemstone (did not make any more) and using the existing research notes that she also stole, developed a devastating weapon combining her already existing knowledge of how to make things explode with hextech and chemtech. Genius for sure, especially without any formal education. But she didn't do everything Jayce and Viktor did in a much shorter time frame. Also Jayce made a pretty bad-ass hammer/ranged weapon just overnight. And Viktor combined shimmer with hextech (and human blood/essence) to inadvertently probably create a sentient magical entity similar to that which has destroyed nations.
@@demise0 Idk man, if I were to use a rocket scientists notes even for reference I don't think I would be able to replicate what they did let alone do it in a few days. It's still really impressive she was able to figure his notes out and actually do something with them
@@honinakecheta601 Yes, that's why I still said; "What she did was very impressive." and "Genius for sure, especially without any formal education.". My point was only that it is not accurate to say that what she did in a week was equivalent to what Jayce and Viktor (also geniuses) took 7+ years to do.
@@Karasuno86 Because the Piltover leaders try to split them away with that deal, buying Silco in a way and kicstarting the events that let to his dead, by the end Jinx is back where she started: without a father figure, without her siter(because she show kindess to a enforcer) and alone. There is a reason we hear Silco words when she fire the rocket "We will show them, we will show them all".
Another great detail: Jinx makes her own hallucinations reality. She hallucinates Vi shooting her and replacing her with Caitlyn (1:16), so what does she do at the dinner? She doesn't just ask Vi to choose, she hands her a gun and asks her to shoot Caitlyn and replace her with Powder, the opposite of the hallucination. If you look closely it's even the exact same gun (13:25).
One of the things that I noticed from the start, but nobody's talked about, is how when Vi calls out people for Jinx to remember, and goes to "remember dad? Mom?" nobody shows up. With every other name, the picture of the person shows up, but nobody shows up when her parents are mentioned, and I think that's because Jinx was so young when their parents died, she doesn't remember who they were.
++ Instead of looking at her dead mother's body, as in the opening scene of episode 1, she just looks at Violet's face. She doesn't know how to react. When he sees his sister crying, he only reacts to her. It seems that he is very young and has not yet figured out what to feel there. Of course, we can also see the drawings similar to the monster motif on the faces of the practitioners walking around the dead bodies, as seen in the present time.
that's such an amazing scene too because that happens all the time. people will say the most cliche things to cheer someone up and not even realize that those things are actually very harmful and hold the worst memories. we never see that side of the "think of things you love that give you strength!!!"
I know that all of these comments are a year old, but there's something I wanted to mention: The braided hair that Jinx has is just like her mom's hair. Make of that what you will.
There's a blink and you'll miss it moment right after Jinx drops the platter on the dinner table. Vi goes "W-What did you do?" and for a split second, Jinx looks hurt, but she quickly masks that with glee. She's hurt that Vi would think she'd do such a thing; that she's *that* crazy.
I think that Jinx was actually testing Vi to see how she'd react with the cupcake on a platter thing. She wanted to see if her sister still trusted her. Vi unfortunately failed that test. I also agree that it was more than a little bit of playing with Vi because she's upset with her as well.
Yeah u can see disappointment in her face for spilt second, and the she goes "sheees am not that crazy" She was testing vi to see what she thinks of her, and how much she cares about cait In reality jinx just said "paid ur girlfriend a visit" to vi "what did u doo ? " Jinx answered TRUTHFULLY "i made her a snack" to vi screaming "no" it really hurt her , proved that vi doesn't trust her and and thinks she is crazy. And can i say gemstone being the cherry on top is kinda poetic cait went to find it and now it's being served to her well maybe it was supposed but vi kinda fuc that up with her reaction , proving that she still don't trust her she still thinks jinx will fuck it up somehow
@@Paladiea I think Jinx is also pretending here, just like Vi belive she is powder deep inside, Jinx belive she can just be with her sister the same way as before. Both are wrong.
I like the sound design, after Silco dies and before Jinx sits in her chair. Goes from loud noises to quiet - almost as the voices finally stop and she can accept who she is. It is a relief for her. I think, starting the nuke is one of the few choices, she takes with a clear mind and with a full understanding of what consequences will follow. Like war, losing her sister, losing her child self, losing any redemption path for herself.
12:47 there is a lot more to this question. She's not just offering her sister to (impossibly) bring forth her nine-year-old self. Remember in episode 8 when Vi speaks to Caitlyn about the game she played with Powder when they were children - about conjuring scarier and scarier monsters, then having to chase them away when they get too scary? That's what Jinx sees Caitlyn as. She is Vi's most scary monster, the one that can tear her whole world apart, and she's asking her to make the scary monster go away. Not "kill her for me"... she asks her to "make her go away. Please?". The monster Vi created. Heartbreaking enough yet?
And it get worst as to way: she see Cat as pretty much Vi replace her with another person, one that just sort of happen it have blue hair and look kinda like her, what is telling Vi is "Make her go away, dont leave alone like you did".
In my opinion the council were the biggest villains in this show, there is a straight line from every decision they've made to that rocket going into the window. Sure, at the 11th hour they decide to give peace a chance but it's clearly far too late for that. They had literal centuries to acknowledge the divisions in their society but fell back on authoritarian control every time and it's only when the possibility of Zaun becoming a legitimate threat appears that they consider giving some concessions not for the benefit of the people they've been exploiting for two hundred years but just to ensure their continued security.
Calling them villains is a little wrong, because villainy would require a malicious intent. They don't actively take steps to opress the Zaunites and keep them low. They are simply ignorant and blind to what their society has become. The Council wants to keep the peace, but they are unable to understand the perspective of those they see as enemies.
@@Dream146 I don't want to excuse them or portray them as innocent, but at the very least they were not evil. They cared for their people (Well most of them), but they only saw Piltover as their people.
One thing that never crossed my mind until now: Shimmer is this strong super serum that can mutate you and give you almost super powers, yes, but it's also a very powerful drug. Jinx was tripping balls during that tea party exchange
She wasn't exactly "tripping balls", she was for the most part completely sane and had the most clarity throughout the show at that point. When you go back and look at it, on the surface level she has this front that she's gone totally insane and unhinged, but it was more of a test for vi and so that she can bring all these pieces together and finally start getting some answers. It was very thought out and methodical of her She definitely plays her jinx persona off as an act sometimes to intimidate others or as a defense mechanism/ mask to hide her pain. Then after silco dies she is totally conscious of her actions and makes her final choice to fully embrace being jinx.
@@moonlight2870 NO she wasn't. I understand what you're saying but to say that she wasn't thinking and unaware of her actions goes against the entire scene and the purpose of it all. Yes her eye color represents that she's gone through a change but you're denying the fact that she planned out everything and at the end has total control over her actions and decisions.
When Singed gives Viktor a probe he speaks of a variant. There are some variants of shimmer. For healing, improving, mutating, good feeling or other. Sometimes with side effects like addiction or other mental issues.
My problem with Vi and Jinx's relationship is that it is not an older sister younger sister relationship, it is a forced mother/ child relationship (Vander, I am blaming you for this one). They both have the expectation of a mother and child relationship but Vi was just not ready for the task due to her age and her personality. Jinx expect too much from Vi and Vi is doomed to failure. I found some scenes to be interesting as well, when Silco calls Jinx "Child" she doesn't take it personally, because she knows that she is his child. But when Vi talks to her, Jinx responded with "stop talking to me like I'm a child". It's like she has sibling-like completion with Vi but expectation of a child (acceptance and unconditional love and fulltime support). Their whole dynamic is really off.
Another thing about the tea party I noticed on one of my rewatches, Jinx takes a step back to put the gun right infront of Silco. I think this shows that Jinx still trusted Silco to have her back if it came down to it. Unfortunetly, Silco went for the gun in the middle of her panic attack leading to another instance of friendly fire.
@@GeorgiaDow Also notice that when Jinx disarms Caitlyn she moves to her left completely shielding Silco from the line of fire. The animation even pauses for a split second showing the animators did this on purpose.
Jinx is a physical manifestation of the fear Silco wanted to create. Just her presence is enough to terrify most people ("Oh, no. She's here"). She even moves like a horror villain, impossibly quick and quiet.
I love that someone finally brought up that Vi, unintentionally, was traumatizing Jinx by bringing up their old group whereas Silco is trying to get her out if it. I've watched numerous reactions & haven't seen anyone bring it up.
Haha now I see what you meant by "wait till you see the shirt I made" when I asked about the nails. The production values of these videos are just getting higher and higher. I dropped my work (I was writing a lesson plan for tomorrow) when the notification came lol. A lil' break won't hurt anyone. Great as always!
There is a state of mind where you see yourself as a monster, and I think for Jinx that happens after killing Silco. The other deaths she has caused of loved ones, she has tried to explain away and to redeem herself in some ways. But after killing the last person that actually trusted her she has given up. And the song plays and the lyric states "I'm the monster you created". She has given up any chance of redemption, she ses herself as a monster. And the monster destroys. So she goes to burn the world down. Many years ago I had a psykosis, and I did bad things. During and after, my self-image was that of a monster. No hope, and the world might as well burn. I see that reflected very much in Jinx in the last scene. There is always a way back, always room for redemption. I know that now.. But it may take years to work that monster away.
@@DarkHarlequin Is also a liberating because it means you can self indulge as much as you want in your sins/flaws without caring for consequence anymore. It become just a pasive wait as you feel good in your own worst impulse.
My beautiful Jinx. It's very heartbreaking to watch her in the final scene. The world is screaming all around her and she ends a life to save another. I cry when Silco tells her that she's perfect: the last words of a loved one. Jinx's reaction after his death is so human: she feels immense sorrow and guilt and then feels absolutely nothing. You can see her face change from crying to completely stoic. That's the shield we put up when the pain is far too much to comprehend in the moment. And when a loved one passes unexpectedly, we carry on the will and dreams of that person to honor them. Jinx carried out the plan because it's the last thing she could possibly to do feel any sort of redemption. Thank you for all the videos, Georgia! Looking forward to the next ones.
Also hear a sound as she's turning her head and watching Silco die... And it feels to me that that sound is the voices in her head dying, leaving her just herself, Jinx... only Jinx, no Powder, no more trauma slapping her around, a far more cool and collected, maybe more frightening person rising up in Powder/Jinx's place... Just Jinx.
There's also a small detail about her gun "Fishbones" it's not only the fishes Silco had, its also silco himself, if u watch closely the gun has a "bad eye" too.
I always thought the minigun was a perfect choice for Jinx's character and the shooting Silco scene shows why. It's imprecise but unrelenting, so if there's a problem just point it in the problem's direction and keep firing till the problem goes away. Jinx was having such a breakdown she didn't even realize she was shooting one of them, she just realized one of them was in danger of being shot and her adrenaline/muscle memory took over on how to solve that problem. It's only after the problem is gone and she takes a breath that she realizes she just made the choice of Vi over Silco, ironically because Silco was willing to kill for her but Vi wasn't (Caitlyn).
Another side note filled with symbolism, the minigun's name is Pow-Pow, which is a nickname Vi gave Powder when they were children. This can also be seen as symbolic of Jinx's strong childhood connection to Vi being what is responsible for protecting Vi from Silco.
@@qawamity And Vi tells Powder "What makes you different makes you strong" and with Pow-Pow she finally is. On top of that, it might have been her first weapon to actually work AS EXPECTED without hurting someone she loves or unintended consequences for her.
I think it's also very telling how the dolls Jinx makes of Mylo and Claggor are sized according to the magnitude of their voices in her psyche, not to their relative sizes. I would also note that Jinx's morality system seems to value honesty, loyalty, and personal connections. If you don't have any of those for her than she doesn't even conceive of you as human. Remember how she laughed off the deaths of six enforcers? Not even human in her eyes. So, seeing her sister hanging out with an enforcer? As far as Jinx is concerned, Vi is cavorting with demons. You can even see this in how often Jinx's visual hallucinations put devil's horns on Caitlyn. Recall also how Vi told Caitlyn about the imaginary monster game she'd play with Powder as little kids? "I'd make the monsters go away." And what did Jinx say to Vi when she put the gun in her hands and asked her to kill Caitlyn? "Make her go away..." (This last one was a detail I didn't even notice myself, someone else pointed it out to me. There's so much detail in the characterization and visual design in this show that you could spend months picking at it and still miss things.)
Also one thing I noticed is Jinx response to calling her Powder is to double tap Jinx with her gun. She's basically responding to it non-verbally but it comes off a lot like she's saying "Jinx. My name is Jinx."
The voice actress who played Jinx really nailed that scene where she's being injected with the Shimmer. The screaming was just, torturous. The part where Silco has come full circle and realized he's in the same position as Vander when it comes to protecting his "kid" was an interesting development. I think he realizes that Vander wasn't as weak as he thought. Jinx toying with Vi with the head on a platter was disturbing but at the same time, I gotta admit, I laughed. That she even acknowledged her mental state by saying she's not "that" crazy was interesting. It makes me wonder if she has more or less embraced her mental state. Even at the end, though Jinx killed him, Silco still loved her in his own way. He's an evil man but he did have that one redeeming quality. There's been some speculation that Jinx jinxed the peace deal when she "nukes" the Council but that deal died with Silco who wasn't going to turn in Jinx anyways. That the Council was voting to give the Undercity its independence was sort of meaningless though they didn't know that. Also, your cosplay is well done. The shirt that has Jinx's tattoos was a nice touch.
@@mkmc94 In episode 1, a plush pillow can be seen in the powder bedroom staring wildly at it with its teeth and eyes. In Chapter 3 , when Powder has a panic attack and drops the bag with hex crystals on it , we can see some papers with the drawings of that plush pillow . He had this kind of design, but this design didn't come from a fish, it came from the little pillow he had on his bed. When he learned of Silco's love for fish, he updated it to the fish design and made a definite scratch on the fish's eye, just like his father silco's eye.
The most important effect of Silco's final words is how it finally freed Jinx from her constant need for affirmation from others. Even in the tea party, she was still giving the 'choice' of who she should be to someone else, namely Vi. And before that, all her actions, even seemingly independent actions, were always in the context of "this is what Vi/Silco wants". Her taking away that choice and sitting on the Jinx chair of her own volition is her first truly independent act and she has finally become her own person. I assume this also means Mylo and the other "bad voices" will no longer appear to her either.
++ I agree, I wonder how jinx will go on her own in the next season. I think they will bring the sound lines in the game in season 2. Those who played the game understood what I mean, but I think it's a spoiler for those who haven't. Although there are different universes, it seems to me that some things may be the same with the death of silco.
From the View point of someone who experiences Sensory overload a lot, it's likely that Jinx whirled around to respond to the noise of the gun firing, not realizing where it came from until too late.
@@GeorgiaDow I actually saw this from many reactors and analysis videos, while jinx was trapped in her mind at that moment, she fired up her instant audio response. Silco pointed the gun at Violet at the wrong time. It was unintentionally caught on Powder/Jinx's radar.
I think you underestimate Caitlyn a little here. She hesitated to shoot because she really does not want to kill in general and she doesn't want to kill Vi's sister. While Jinx played at giving up, you will notice that Caitlyn narrowed her eyes, she didn't buy Jinx's act for a moment. What catches Caitlyn off guard is the fact that Jinx is moving at super human speed. sm
I both love and hate the Tea Party scene for various reasons but im just gonna bring up one of them. It all starts with Jinx telling Vi that, if she shoots Caitlin, she'll get Powder back. The problem is, even if Vi did it AND got Powder back, that's not right. The decision of who Jinx/Powder is does not belong to Vi. Jinx is so focused on getting approval from those she loves that she is willing to give them the choice. She willingly give it to Vi. "You choose who and/or what you want me to be." Next, we move to Silco's unfortunate death. He tells Jinx "Dont cry, you're perfect" My issue with this is that, by saying it, he is unintentionally telling her that Jinx is perfect and she doesnt need to change. After his death, she fully commits to being Jinx. Long story short: Jinx gave the choice to Vi when she shouldn't have (Only Jinx should get to choose who she decides to be) and Silco unintentionally took that choice and chose for her. I might be overthinking it but that's something that's on my mind every time i see that scene. A million thanks if you actually read thru all that!!!
Okay, I feel bad that I actually didn't cry. But I was really hooked in the story. Maybe because I relate to Jinx's emotional pain..? Mainly the fear of abandonment.
The hospital scene with Jinx was the most uncomfortable and chilling I felt other than the final scene with everyone at the table. Just seeing her struggle and be in physical and equal emotional anguish is so hard after all the time we spent getting to know her character. I think it becomes even more sad when you realize that these hallucinations are Jinx's fears and insecurities in its rawest form. A lot of people including me think that shimmer functions to bring out the fears, insecurites, and perceptions that someone feels of themselves. Vander becoming wolfish and brutal is a symbol of his identity being tied to "Hound of the Underground" and not being able to move on from his misdeeds. He feels guilt, even saying it to Silco, that he regrets being violent and attempting to kill him. So it's very appropriate then that Vander's Shimmer form made him into the hound he used to be as gang member, doggish noises included . After seeing the hospital scene, I definitely believe the theory even more. Jinx feels like an unwanted person. She feels insecure about being replaced. Thus she hallucinates those fears becoming reality. It's so neat to see the thought put into the mechanics of shimmer and how it works in Arcane. How it heavily relies on the mind of a person.
In creative writing there's this general guideline that "ideas are cheap, execution is everything." Jinx began as just an idea, an unpredictable maverick of mayhem with no thoughts aside from violence. Not a good portrayal of trauma. This is where Arcane takes Jinx above and beyond the crazy-chicc aesthetic of Harley Quinn and other characters. They go beyond the idea and execute on it.
a small detail i noticed when i watched arcane was that there was a specific violin in the soundtrack that would only play in certain moments of jinx's scenes. riot did amazing with the entire soundtrack and music overall, so i knew it wasn't just a coincidence. from what i remember, the scenes in which it is played is when powder has her panic attack in the basement of the last drop in episode 3, when the monkey bomb explodes and she is pushed off the window at the end of episode 3, when jinx is revealed in the beginning of episode 4 and she sees the pink-haired firelight and loses control, in the beginning of episode 7 after jinx goes back to her workshop and staples her leg, at the end of episode 7 after jinx watches vi run back to caitlyn after marcus shoots ekko, and probably so many more scenes that i couldn't remember off of the top of my head. the specific way the violin is played is only played in certain moments of jinx's scenes, and i thought it really added to her character in a subtle but awesome way. as someone who loves music and relates music to feelings, the violin really captured my attention and was able to really show the sounds of her mind: chaotic but beautiful
Powder/Jinx ingenuity and talent for gadgets was something that Vi recognised and Silco exploited. She could see that Powder felt insecure and trapped in her sister's shadow, so she encouraged her to make her own way ('I've got these, you've got those') and not let anything stop her when she doubts herself ('we all've had bad days, but we learn...and we stick together). I think that it already worked to some extent (remember she was still just a kid), you could (briefly) see her and Ekko working on a new explosive, her aim was superb (in the arcade) and Vi herself stated in episode 8 (I thought Powder could get obsessed). She always had the potential and I simply can't stand people saying that it was Silco who gave her that strength. The only thing he did was traumatise her, isolate her and make her dependent on him and him alone, distrusting everybody else. She even admits this during the tea party to Vi ('your (Vi's) voice pushing me, picking me up, when all the colours were black'). But when it comes to Silco all she says is ('....all his rants, excise your doubts Jinx.... be what they fear Jinx'). It was a strength and potential she herself developed, Vi recognised and encouraged and Silco exploited (honestly believing that it was the best thing for her, and people say Jinx suffers from delusions). People say he never lied to Jinx because he believes his delusions, but I have a small issue with that. During the 'baptism' scene where he tells her she needs to let Powder (and her attachments and grief for the loss of anyone other than Silco die) he twists her memories of both Vi and Vander, stating that they were not the people you thought they were.... that their betrayal can shape her into something stronger. The next episode however he brags to Vi that the price of 'your second rate family' was Jinx all along, and she now belongs to him, that he freed her from her love and need for for Vi. When Silco gets confronted by Jinx for keeping Vi's return from her, he grasps for the first lie he can think off and says Vi only came back for the gemstone, stoking Jinx's mistrust. Yet neither he nor Vi mentions the gemstone, Vi simply says that she'll free Jinx from his fucked up delusions. Later during the tea party, he realises that Vi is more important to Jinx than him (notice how he is gagged, Vi isn't) and he grasps for a new lie when he realises that his old one didn't work (that's how I know he is grasping, he quickly shifts tactics when he realises the previous one isn't working, refusing to accept Jinx loves Vi more). Now he brings up her old trauma of Jinx and Vi's separation, something he both directly and indirectly caused. When you are an amoral sociopath who moulds his 'daughter' into the fighter and genius inventor he wishes he himself was (notice how he doesn't have any talent except his tongue, sadly a very dangerous weapon when it comes to Jinx), it comes easy to lie. What's your take on this? Some Silco fans might say I'm biased (partly true, I cheer for a Vi and Jinx reunion and denouneciation of Silco more than anything in Arcane) and those fans point out to his love for Jinx being a redeeming quality. However, even this he corrupts because of my earlier explanation. He never owns up to his role in her trauma and places it all on Vi, the one person who threatens his relationship with Jinx. By stoking her mistrust and feeding her lies he further crumbles her already fragile mind. Not my idea of a parent. Vander took Vi and Powder in recognising his role in their (first) trauma and wanting to own up to it. Silco took Jinx in refusing to recognise his role in her trauma, instead feeding it (not sadistically though) and turning her into the fighter he himself could never be. It makes me sad when you imagine the potential of Vi, Jinx and Ekko together against people like Silco, Sevika and the chem barons who destroyed their home. Instead, because of Silco and his lies, manipulations and exploitations of the girl he traumatised it seems they will forever be divided. That's why I was sad at the end. Not because Silco died (good riddance), but because the toxic worldview he installed in Powder fully made her conclude that she has done too much, Vi can never love her enough (and only bring her pain when she tries) and the only man who could love her is now dead by her own hands. I truly hope that Vi will be able to somehow work with Jinx to overcome their shared trauma (Vi's is overlooked by most of the fandom) and be able to meet in the middle: Jinx will be able to regain her sanity, still be a badass fighter but use her skills to help her family (Vi most of all) against people like Silco. Most of all, I want her to reconnect with Vi and fully trust and love Vi again, with Silco toxic lies (and Sevika's) about Vi forever gone from Jinx's mind.
Poor Jinx. She wanted to have Vi prove her love to her, but ended up driving her away. It’s so sad to see how she tries to shrug it off when Vi thinks she killed Caitlyn. She spent so much time trying to become someone who would prove to Vi that she wasn’t a jinx, only to realize how mortified Vi would be by who she is now. She feels like a monster. Then, Silco alleviates this pain by telling her she’s perfect even after she kills him. Still, she feels like a monster for killing him.
Caitlyn also has her feelings for Vi mixed up in everything. She does not want to kill Vi's sister. Vi even says no, no no...she's my sister. That hesitation gives Jinx another advantage. Caitlyn even turns her head slightly towards Vi and is begging her not to kill her sister.
Yeah, probably the thought crossed her mind that Vi's parents were killed by enforcers. She can't make Vi see her last remaining family member killed by an enforcer again
@@GeorgiaDow You are most welcome. Hey, since I got your attention, have you ever heard of a show called The Owl House? It's on Disney Channel, and there are a few characters you could really dig into.
The moment Jinx overhearing Silco is in contrast to the one early in the show when she overheard Vi and Milo, about being twice the person at half her age. They she took it without rally feeling betrayed by Vi, sure she was hurt, but she didn't escalated it there, while with Silco and her hurt state she interprets that in worst way possible.
Yes, she didn't quite hear the whole conversation, as in episode 1, and she misinterpreted it. I caught a lot of details but missed this one. a nice parallel
As someone with cptsd from childhood trauma and genetic predisposition to anxiety both powder and jinx feel so real! her breakdowns as a child and her psychosis as jinx are both so well written it feels like an absolute loss of control. you scare yourself but you can’t stop because your body is in its most primal state of fear and aggression, her facial expression changing after Silcos death is exactly what it feels like when that switch turns off and you’re faced with what youve done, numbness and defeat. Jinx will forever be one of my all time favorite characters
I like the idea that the platter was a test. A test of how much of a monster Vi fears Jinx had become... A test that Vi fails, reinforcing Silco's assertion that Vi will turn against Jinx for no longer being Powder.
But that's... backwards. By this logic, Vi believed Jinx was something she wasn't, and immediately got proven wrong. Thus Vi would then know her sister wasn't that far gone, or beyond hope (from Jinx's POV, she would *happy,* because knowing she wasn't that far gone meant Vi had LESS reason to doubt her, not more).
The table scene's just so sad and impactful but amazingly orchestrated at the same time that there are tons of things you'll miss in a first watch, loved the breakdown there. One of the details I've noticed after countless re-watchs, really hard to spot, is that Silco was not actually aiming at Vi herself, he didn't want to hurt her, he just wanted her to stop. In my opinion, Arcane shows this three ways: first when the camera closes up on Silco's gun, and it's shown that he actually shot, and Vi was still fine. Then, if you pay really close attention to the shoot scene (or watch it at 0.25x like I did lol) you'll literally see the shot landing right beside her head in her chair. Finally, if you look at Silco when he shots, you can see that it was a rational decision, he doesn't immediately shot, he thinks before he does it. You put this all together and consider Silco was less than 10 meter away from Vi and he is a battle hardened shooter, the conclusion is that Silco not only could, he would have killed her if he wanted to. And so, even though he wanted nothing more than for her to disappear, he still spared her, because he wouldn't be able to bear having Jinx hate him like that.
When you were speaking about the amount of shimmer put into Jinx - how it clouded her perception & mentally changes her - I like your take on the moments that followed. If I may - My take : was that the drug augmented everything about her Jinx personae - physically - her speed, her agility and to a point ; it SEEMED like Jinx was in complete control (I mean, think about it - how much effort & speed did she need to kidnap everybody & set up this whole tea party scenario ? - She recovered from an unethical medical procedure just hours before! ) Her demonic delusions seemed to have enhanced as well as soon as Vi addressed Powder - they came at her like a wave until the rage in her snapped her back & lashed out. Such a great scene, too - awesome show, with soo many layers to it! - Its been months since this show came out & I love how people are still finding interesting things going on within the story that were missed - SOO deep! ❤
That final confrontation All I could think was ‘Whatever happens… jinx is going to lose. Cause it NEVER ends well when two people you love are blinded by their hate for each-other.”
You also need to consider that when Jinx sees Caitlin with the needle, it's her manifested fear being overlaid on top of something that is actually happening to her at the same time.
I'm really interested to see what they do with Jinx and her auditory and visual hallucinations going forward. Specifically I'm interested to see whether Silco becomes another voice and manifestation in her mind. I'm really hoping he does, simply because I loved his character and really want there to be some way he could still be a presence in Season 2!
I definitely would love to see some flashbacks with her and Silco just so that we can see a bit more of their relationship. I really wonder what some of her earlier years being raised by him were like.
Jinx really follows Sun Tzu's advice: 1. Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. Sun Tzu 2. Let your plans be dark and IMPENETRABLE as night, and when you move, fall like a THUNDERBOLT.
I appreciate that you keep wishing that Vi had said more, and I know you have a video on using one's words, something that Vi clearly isn't great at. But I think it's crystal clear that part of the reason that Vi doesn't speak up more is because she actually fears what Jinx has become. Example: Jinx: "I always knew you'd come back." Vi (anxiously): "What's going on!?" She fears what Jinx will do, particularly when it comes to hurting Caitlin, or siding with Silco. She knows, to some degree, that the girl she once loved is gone. Someone new has taken her place, someone she doesn't fully understand. I think Jinx senses that fear, and it only fuels her anxiety, and finally, shows that they can't be reunited. At least, not as they once were.
I liked how the table and seats for Powder and Jinx were set up. Especially in that moment when Jinx asks Vi where she should sit. After saying that we see the chairs, which is Powder’s chair, close to the table and seeming closed off, and then we see Jinx’s chair, open and apart from the table… kind of like more welcoming towards Jinx. Mainly because that’s who she really is. It kind of shows that even if she wants to sit in the Powder chair, she won’t be able to do so. Basically representing that she can’t go back to being Powder and that she is a different person now.
Terrific analysis Georgia! As Vander said: “Those kids look up to you…whatever happens, it’s on you”. Caitlyn factored largely in this episode, physically and symbolically. Jinx abducted her when she was most vulnerable: naked with her back turned. Though Caitlyn’s head wasn’t under the cloche, it WAS a cupcake (Vi’s pet name for her) topped by the hextech gem of destruction. When bullets started flying, Jinx had her gun of choice, where as Caitlyn had a disadvantage, since she’s a rifleman which is sooooo different from a mini gun. When Vi cried out to stop them, BOTH immediately ceased because Vi has that much influence in both their lives. Jinx’s journey is so heart wrenching due to the complexity of her trauma, situation, the augmented information she’s teased out. She’s accidentally lead to the deaths of her family, including her adoptive father, so now she’s unmoored, in free fall with her choices and pain - embracing the woman that is Jinx. Thanks for such a deep dive! I’m looking forward to more insights!
What I personally loved about the ending of "The Monster You Created" is that after Silco's death, Jinx is no longer sad, or angry, or anxious. She's tired. Tired of the loss, of the pain, of this self fulfilling prophecy where she believes she destroys everything she loves, and so she wants to get rid of her attatchments. For a moment the voices that torment her are silent. The look on her eyes is weary. Right as she's about to shoot, she hears words of love from the man that saved her, and she lets out a single blue tear. The last bit of Powder that remained in her.
That's also when she was the most dangerous. For the first time, she's calm. She's focused. She fully accepts and embraces who she is. And, finally, she's PISSED. She just became the most dangerous person in the entire city at that point. With that shark bazooka, her Hextech knowledge, all of those guns and bombs...the amount of carnage she can cause single-handedly at this point is terrifying.
Another interesting point about her attack at the end: This wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. Jinx brought Fishbones with her to the tea party, long before she knew what the result would be.
@@TheLangenator Well technically Pow-Pow turns into Fishbones due to the stone being inserted into it (which definitely explains her in game ability because up until Arcane I had no idea how that worked like where are the bullets and rockets even stored?, but now the answer is literally magicked science lol). So, while the weapon was engineered to accept it, the scene could've perhaps gone differently if Vi would've accepted Powder as Jinx or didn't (unknowingly) overstimulate her by using the names of her inner voices and lead to Silco getting killed. Although tbf, the council's vote was moot because it hinged on Jinx being given up, something that was not going to go down, so I suppose this was indeed the only outcome.
After watching that last scene many times, I don't think Silco ever intended to actually shoot Vi. Shoot in her direction to shut her up, sure. Up to this point he's never really done any of the dirty work himself anyway (besides Vander). I think he might have just been trying to stop Vi from terrorizing his daughter right in front of him. He shot first, the smoking bullet hole is just right next to Vi so it's plausible. It wouldn't have made sense for him to shoot Vi just to get Jinx back to her senses. Despite his frustrations I don't think he underestimated the importance Vi still held in Jinx's life. It might just be my interpretation of the scene, but I think it just makes it even more sad.
I love this, I had never thought about Silco missing on purpose. I believe Silco's gut-reaction was "protect Jinx, get rid of the problem," I don't think he could stand to see her suffer, even though that might've meant losing her. He knew that if he killed Vi (on top of having lied to Jinx about her death for years), he'd most likely lose her. Vi would become a martyr in Jinx's soul-- the protective, loving, accepting sister that was stolen from her over and over whereas he would become the monster/liar destroying her family and the Lanes. Jinx might forgive him because he truly was the only family that didn't forsake her but that wasn't a sure thing. Silco's smart enough and wise/experienced enough to make a million decisions quickly but at the end of the day his instinct to protect his daughter won out. All this to say, I could see Silco missing to shut Vi up and take control of the situation. Or I could see him shooting her and trying to win Jinx over anyway.
I think you might be wrong about Jinx viewing Vi as an enemy when she says "here's to the new us". It seems to me more like a way for her to realize that there is no going back to being Powder. The foreshadowing when she puts the grenade on the bartender Thieram makes me think that she didn't try to just blow up the council. It makes him afraid to hear the ticking of it, but when it goes off it just releases smoke. Also, she only released the explosive Firelights after Vi was put in danger. It just all makes me think that she might be giving back the gemstone, because she believed so much that Silco was going to give her up to achieve his goal, and it would be a way to stick it to him had he lived.
Also, the monster thing, The whole game they played was making scarier and scarier monsters till Vi had to chase them away... Vi's the one who's bringing the scary monsters this time, and not the one scaring them away.
Yes! You came up with a different take than I've seen. To be fair, even I was confused about Silko's talk with Vander. "And what would I lose but problems?!" - to me it sounded like he was considering Jinx a problem that he could now turn over if he wanted. I'm still not sure what we as the audience were supposed to hear lol. I've also heard of the dinner table setup with the platter being a test for Vi that proves to Jinx that Vi really does see her as "that heartless" and tells her all she needs to know.
I do think we are supposed to exactly hear that. Silco is trying to be logical, he was always convinced that the cause was worth everything. Jinx is only causing him problems, he has to constantly look after her and deal with her problems. So it would be best to just hand her over to be thrown into prison, or worse, and have his little nation of Zaun. He would have demanded the same thing of everyone else just some time ago. He wasn't sad about the child dying by Jayces hand, as the child was dying for the cause. He was convinced that is a good death. But he has grown into loving her as a daughter and it's not possible for him to take that decision anymore, he would normally have seen as the better one. He was finally understanding why Vander had turned on him years back.
3:21 me when I was 7 and hated that I was getting a new little brother because I was the youngest and I knew once he came I will no longer have moms attention (which was true the attention went all to him) and I hated him for it, but now that I’m older I love him to death he’s the sweetest little thing and he’s been through so much so all I wanna do is protect him.
I was soooo looking forward to this video and omg, best cosplay, the attention to the details is amazing! As always I find it so full of empathy for the character and for the people living similar situations as her. Also, the way you noticed the weapon being a fish because of Silco's connection to them is awesome, I just knew she had that weapon because of the game but I bet in the animation team they did wanna make the connection between both things, so thanks for noticing it.
One detail about Powder and Jinx is her clothes. Look at Powder's clothes in Episodes 1-3. She is dressed in blue; however, look at the color of her undergarments (edit: let me rephrase that for the immature, look at her layer of clothes under her blue garments). Just another great example of the excellent work these storytellers and animators did for this series.
"I thought maybe you could love me like you used to...even though I'm... different." This line gets me every time I hear it. That fear of changing too much that your friends and family won't recognize you anymore, the realization that you HAVE changed so much and don't know if they'll ever accept you again. Not knowing what to do about it.
Whoo just dropped everything!!😂🔥 LOVE the hair!😱❤ 3:13 "That allows us to still love the person that we don't want to lose." Woah, that's an amazing way of putting it💭.
I never realized how many parralels there are about people being a threat to your relationship with someone you love. Jinx is Vi's threat to her relationship with Caitlyn. Silco is hers for Jinx. Vi is Silco's threat to his relationship with Jinx. Caitlyn is jinx's for Vi. Heimerdinger is Jayce's threat for his relationship with Viktor (through not preventing his death)
9:15 can we talk about the lighter/cigar symbolism that's been around for a while throughout arcane? I noticed that the lighter symbolizes loyalty (Finn turning on and off representing the underground's loyalty/respect towards Silco waning and his attempt to wane Sevika's too) and cigar representing authority (just rewatch Silco dealing with Marcus, cutting off the cigar's head and then smoking, clearly asserting superiority, the group enforcers teasing Caitlyn and her being the only one not smoking, showing that she's the only one without *social* power in this group, excluded, Vander and his pipe, it being dropped in a drink when he failed to stand up to the enforcers when everyone expected him to, symbolizing him failing to represent the underground as an authority figure) And here, we have Jinx using the lighter to shed *light* on her sister, to find the *truth* about Vi's loyalty towards her, a test to weigh it out against Silco's, perhaps the candles symbolizing the paths that truths about where loyalties lie would lead I don't think I'm reading too much into it, there are too many repetitions for it to be a coincidence, and it's been months and I'm still in awe of the depth and amount of thought given to each and every detail, at this point and I'm more than convinced that arcane is THE masterpiece animation
...The way the light in this scene turns blue at the base the second jinx says "knew" seems indeed like a throw back to the blue signal light I initially thought it was her viewing things from her own distorted lens but unless there's some inner monologue behind those words that back that, this doesn't seem to be relevant to the scene
11:32 here I was thinking that Jinx wanted to test how much trust Vi had in her, after she walked off I'm not sure if I just saw what I wanted to see but I felt like the way she walked back to actually bring Caitlyn was a bit wobbly? Distraught? After the fact 26:18 makes me think that she came to that conclusion partly from what happened in 11:32, it was a prelude to that
Do you think you could do a psychological analysis of both Vi and Jinx's tattoos on their body, i'm interested on what you think about that. I'm loving your channel ❤
It is easy. Both have symbols of their sister. Jinx - a blue cloud from flare that can help VI find her and VI wears gears - symbolising Powder talent. For both tatoos are a reminder and a tool to survive
I just wanted to point out that with the chairs, “powder” was close with Vi, since powder always wanted to be close to Vi, and be almost just like her, and with “jinx” it was close to Slico, since he was the one that took jinx in when Vi “left her”, and she always wanted to prove to him that she is strong enough to always be by his side. It’s probably not important but it’s something I thought about.
While watching your video that at the end Silco is now that positive voice in Jinx's head instead of Vi. She has now let go if the idea her sister could ever love her as Jinx and instead replaces that voice with Silco the person who (to jinx) was the only one who loved her as Jinx.
It's funny and just amazing to realise that we all started watching Arcane because it's an adaptation of one of the biggest yet games with a very notorious playerbase. But what we receive is one of the most mind-blowing and just hearthwrenching shows I've ever seen. Fact that there are so many characters within who deal with real problems people face in our real lives. It just makes me not be ashamed to have my own demons. The representation of people who have to go through all these traumatic experiences, people who aren't necessarily black&white bad, but just want what's best for their loved ones. Months after watching the series, and I'm still living and thinking about it everyday because of the emotional impact it has made on me. Definitely my favourite show of all times♥️
Could you please analyze Mel Medarda and Jayce's relationship? The way she manipulates him (as I believe she does with other characters) or if she really likes him, what you really think of their relationship
I think too at 7:31, I feel like when she says “nothing ever stays dead” was also about how instead of dying (on the bridge) like how she planned to, she was brought back. (At least that’s what I think) but 🤷🏻♀️
The Choice Jinx gives Vi, was for sure a test,whether Vi could love Powder how she is, as Jinx. No matter what Jinx was not going to sit in the Powder chair. Three interesting things to note, One Vi just does not get it, she keeps calling her sister Powder and unknowingly says every trigger word that sends Jinx's PTSD into overdrive. Jinx even says stop at one point,but Vi just kept on overloading Jinx's head. Two after Jinx insticturely protected Vi from Silco and has a devastating revelation, that she is Jinx and kills everyone close to her so she sits in the Jinx chair. She decides the only way for her to move on is to abandon her Sister. Jinx will never be Powder again, The Memories of her as Powder are heartbreaking and too much for her to bare anymore. Jinx decides she must let her sister go,she gets up says "Here's to the new Us" fire the Rocket and Vanishes also leaving Caitlyn Alive. Most likely as a last good gesture to Vi. Three, Jinx leaves behind all of the items that represented her pain, she even left her POW POW Gatling Gun behind,I think it is because she killed Silco with it. So from this point on Jinx killed Powder,plus leaving her sister tied up.In Season 2 Jinx may not view Vi as family anymore,the one person who gave her unconditional love she killed , While There are lines that Vi just can not cross because of Vander;s teachings. So Jinx chose Silco.
It's good that you point out that Jynx shot the missile because she wanted to continue Silco's cause. Before that, I only thought that she did it only for herself. She knows that a war between Piltover and Zaun is going to happen if she doesn't turn herself over to the council. But she's also not the type to commit suicide for the greater good not to mention that it's also hard for her to trust the council is not gonna lie to her.
So I'm going to counter the ending scene where she launches the missile at the council. When he says you're perfect, in that moment where he's dying because of her, she accidentally shoots him and she comes too, she doesn't choose Jinx because she can't deal with Vi not loving her because of what she's done, it's the fact that in that final moment he chose to love her regardless of her screw up, regardless of the fact that someone's dying, especially him, due to her mistake. He showed that no matter what, he loved who she is, even when she screwed up and then in her mind she plays back to the moment that the same thing happened with Vander, and Vi was angry, VI hurt her when she was at her lowest point and screwed up, so in her mind that was the final choice of who loved her more and why. Her brain has been so erratic that this sudden change of mentality of "He must be the one that truly loves me" isn't that hard to accept in my opinion because he's been accepting her all along and she knows that and she feels that, and so when she kills him and he says "You're perfect," he shows that final act of love. she decides that, that's where she's at because she knows Vi is never going to call her Jinx. VI is never going to love who she is or everything she's done but Silco does. She then does, in a final act of a like father daughter moment, she enacts the only thing that could potentially make their family or their lives whole which would have been to destroy Piltover, or at least the people representing, it because that is what the next step logically to her would have been had Silco and her been together and him not giving her up. So yeah that's my thought on that one.
Hey Georgia, what is your interpretation of Jinx saying "...but you changed too." to Vi?💭 She definitely chose her own identity, but what do you think she thinks of Vi based on those words?
When she says that the camera shows Caitlyn lying unconscious on the ground. I believe Jinx meant that Vi changed because she has found someone else she loves and she is not willing to sacrifice Caitlyn to have Powder back. When they were young Vi would do anything to protect her sister but now that she has found someone else that she loves she refuses to choose between the two of them. People with abandonment issues often feel threatened by the partners of their loved ones because they're afraid that their partners will steal them away. That is the case of Jinx here. She feels threatened, she is afraid that Vi will love Caitlyn more than she loves her sister and refusing to sacrifice her proves Jinx that she's right. Obviously she doesn't understand that Vi can love both Jinx and Caitlyn but each in a different way. She feels like Vi isn't the way she used to be. That they both drifted apart and things can't go back to how they used to be. (It's even more painful for her when she realises that she sacrificed her father for Vi but Vi wouldn't do the same for her.)
@@justacat869 Also she betrayed Zaun as a nation. They were brought up in a belief that they are worse, and they should fight tooth and nail to differentiate or free themselves from Piltover, just like Silco did. I belive that Sevika lost respect for Vander for the same reason. He was able to cooperate, choose a middle ground to prevent blood being spilled. And now Vi not only chose someone else to love, as Jinx sees it, but it's also a piltovian enforcer.
I mean imagine you and your sister grew up in concentration camps in ww2 and after so many hardships, you find out that your sister is dating an SS officer. Enforcers are literally SS officers in that universe.
Watched a few UA-camrs that claimed to be therapists and head doctors blah blah. You’re the best. You bring a unique evaluation of mental states and facial expressions (the hidden msgs lost on a lot of people.) credit to the writers and the animation team.
My God, a few weeks ago I refused to whatch the series, then a friend convinced me, so I started watching it the last thursday and finished it yesterday tuesday 22... MY GOD, definitively MY favorite series of all Time. I was able to analyze EVERY single aspect of the series meticulously and not just watch it, but live it so hard and so deep, Dear Lord, what an ending, WHAT AN ENDING, just magnificent, I recently finished The Mandalorian and thought that there was no other series that make me cry... no, no, no, no, no, Arcane, just with that beginning "Dear friend across the river" no no NOOOO, God, and then that ending "I am the monster you created", please stop, stop, stop. Beautiful, depressive, but beautiful.
I think it’s interesting that LoL Jinx’s tattoo isn’t just the blue clouds of the bomb that killed Vander and created ‘Jinx’ but also includes bullets. As in, the hail of bullets that killed Silco and cemented her as Jinx. I think her tattoo is something of a memorial to the events and people that shaped her. Speaking of LoL Jinx, I’d love to see a video of you giving game Jinx a look over and your thoughts on how the two might be connected. The cutscenes in the Legend of Runeterra card game in particular, as those show potential reunions with Vi. Great video as always.
Yeah, I also kinda think the bullet tattoos will be added next season. How the Jinx in the game and the one from Arcane connect is also interessting, as right now, they just seem so far from each other.
Awesome! I loved Encanto but glad we're wrapping up Arcane. Excited for the analysis of the best mad scientist, Singed! You make me see the characters from some new angles and I love that
As someone who has been diagnosed with BPD one of the most compelling parts is the ending of this first season along with the possibility that jinx (may not be certain) suffers from it aswell. Something I've talked about a lot during my DBT is always having trouble recognizing who we are as people, the lack of identity, and the overall struggle to find ourselves. The fact jinx made such a decision, in the end, is a powerful moment because she decides who she will be (even if she was never going to be her old self let's be honest), and as someone who is borderline its something that resonates deep inside of me because I know maybe one day I will be able to as well. That's the beauty of good storytelling because throughout the show I related so much to what she went through especially when she broke down at Vi "leaving" I had a major moment like that at such a young age that ultimately led me to where I am today with that strong neverending sense and fear of abandonment. If someone ever stumbles across this comment and is currently in need of help or someone to bring you up please don't bottle up your emotions. Your emotions are what make you human, talk to someone you trust. Find someone who can give you the help you need and if you are terrified of seeing someone or even trusting someone, understand people do love you. Don't be afraid to get the help you need so your tomorrow can be better and one step at a time you'll be able to grow to become the beautiful person you deserve to be. I believe in you :)
The writing for this series was so amazing, Jinx was one of the best written cases I've seen for mental stress and trauma. During the scene with the flare, I nearly came to tears, it must've been so much for her to bare to do that. You can tell how much of her was lost in those moments before Vi came up, she resigned herself to being Jinx in those moments. Vi still arriving rebroke what she had just steeled herself to become. If she had come before that moment, Jinx likely would have ignored Caitlyns presence or accepted her for it anyway. Before that scene, Jinx was at least self assured about what she had, and was fighting off what she lost. But from then onwards, you can see her struggling so much more with what was real or not.
That Shimmer scene was intense, and the voice actress should honestly win an award for her performance. You can also see, right after she killed Silco, the moment Powder basically disappears forever.
The power stone is key in a lot of this. (I don't think it's a coincidence that she places it in the center of the party.) It's the thing that took away everything from Powder. The one she took. As Jinx she's takes another one, and are trying to harness it. But again it ends up taking away everything from her. Her last act is to send it back...
I think that, on top of wanting to honor Silco, she realized that she couldn't get back the same relationship Vi and her had before even if they two stayed together. She's been stuck in the same event at the same age, as proved by the way she pranked others and how she behaved in front of Silco in their father-daughter relationship. Most of us thought at first that it could be a weird romantic one, but just only because Silco and herself were treating it like she was still 9 yo, which was the real thing making it look odd. Besides that, it is the acceptance of herself. Not a very healthy one, but one finally. Looks to me as 'well, if I can't be with anyone I love because I'm a jinx that corrupts everything, I'm gonna purposely jinx everything and everyone and be the best doom I can'. If you can't fight them, join them. She came to believe that she can't help being that way and getting the same results over and over, so she thinks she will just be happier if she embraces it. That wraps it up for me: Silc'os legacy, Vi's detachment and "self-acceptance" .
I honestly couldn't help but be happy for her that she chose to give up on Vi. It's like she was so dependent on her to make her feel like she's accepted and worth it, that it become so unstable. I personally relate to the need to hear from people I care about that I'm alright and didn't make a mistake. For me, I also had a person like Vi, which bond I felt mattered more than life itself. It never worked out for me, I always felt like I was disapproved of and there were a lot of times I felt abandoned by that person. It was when I let go of this bond and my dependency on that person that it felt like my life had started anew and I could finally live for myself. I really wish that Jinx finds happiness and can learn to love herself
One thing that I noticed was how, even when Silco sees that Jinx is having an episode or listening to the negative voices, he doesn't acknowledge them. Probably to make Jinx feel more open towards him, as well as maybe not giving them more influence over her thoughts. To not be freaked out by her episodes was probably a source of great comfort to Jinx, which is why I think he was like that
I kind of agree with this, but at the same time.. I think it was, at least partially, a manipulation thing, intentional or not. Silco wants Jinx to embrace this side of herself, because it makes her a living representation of Zaun, in a sense. The chaos, the destruction, the unpredictability, the fear it instills - that's his goal for Zaun. In episode 3 he says something to Vander along the lines of, "We don't need to win a war with Piltover, just make them so scared they never step foot in the underground again." Jinx represents that fear in so many ways, as does shimmer. Where shimmer is this powerful drug that can mutate users and make them physically powerful, allowing him to build an army of actual monsters, it's also used with precision. I forget which episode it's in, but the fight where Jayce and Vi are back to back fighting Silco's goons - those suits they wear are powered by shimmer, probably pumping it into the wearer at whatever specific dose or rate is needed while also making the suit itself stronger. Kinda rambled there, but all this is to lead back to Jinx. Jinx is already powerful: She's skilled, mentally unstable and chaotic, naturally putting that same fear into others. She is a living, breathing representation of Zaun, of Silco's dreams - while also being his daughter, the person he truly loves and cares for. He may not be specifically trying to draw it out in those moments, but I think it's something he naturally does with her to encourage her poor mental state, since it's so beneficial to his goals. He loves her, he doesn't want to lose her, but he's still Silco; he's still calculating and has big goals that she can help him reach. Plus.. Silco is responsible for shimmer (Singed made it, Silco dealt it and used it to create an army). He's probably very used to seeing people snap, have episodes similar to Jinx's. And there's also the aspect of time - he's grown used to these episodes from her, so naturally, even if he did have more of a reaction before, he's grown to accept them. I think there's just so many different ways of taking it, and there's so many different factors motivating everything Silco does, including in his relationship with Jinx.
I know you've probably noticed it, but I will say it anyway. That the animation *always* turned into 2D whenever we saw "elemental forces." If we saw flames dancing in the night or colored smoke twisting through the air or liquid rolling in a vial, all of that was rendered in 2D, when the people themselves were largely rendered in 3D.
Getting out of a very shitty day at work and seeing this pop up as a notification... A great end to a terrible day! Thank you, Georgia! (Even though I will have to wait with watching it)
I don’t know if anyone has already mentioned it in the comments. But Jinx overhearing Silco talking about her to Vander and misunderstanding it isn’t the first time it’s happened. When they were younger, she did the same thing with Milo and Vi. She only heard half the conversation and misunderstood everything.
Suuuuper late since I only just found your channel but I was curious if you had any thoughts on the lyrics of 'What could have been' because I think it's clearly sung in Jinx's point of view and I think they give us a little insight into Jinx's thought process during the moments after she takes the hexstone from the table.
Yes!! I’ve been waiting for this! I think you did a beautiful job wrapping up jinx. I have a weird affinity for jinx so I love these videos. Also I have yet to not cry at the end of the tea party scene. Her losing everything at the end just does it for me.
Even after watching these scenes for several times, seeing reactions to it, watching your analysis, etc... I still get teary and want to cry. I love Arcane so much for how it touches the feelings
I'm not sure why but it made me laugh a little whenever she does a little segue to gush a bit about a scene she enjoyed. I love I can hear how much she genuinely enjoyed the show. She doesn't do it to the point it derails the video and I think she deserves some kudos 👏 for that skill. Some content creators stay so on topic/script they seem stiff
@@GeorgiaDow For sure do if you think it'll fit! Just started binging your vids today actually. I've been enjoying the vids with and without the segues. This one happened to catch me during a break at work earlier and I ended up laughing on a burrito. Peace and happy day/night to you!
A great connection between arcane and league if legends is that during matches, jinx will actually give her gun "fishbones"(the one shown at the very end) a deep male voice and often times, it is one of reason asking her to calm down and make s life for herself aside from the destruction she causes. This is incredibly symbolic given the guns connection to silco
3:42 Georgia "we already know for jinx that the main thing that hurts her is the em..." my brain: " *EMOTIONAL DAMAGE !!!* " me: "why are you the way that you are... -_- "
I wonder about the crow she shot. The first time I saw it I thought it was completely random but after noticing she used the feathers as decorations on her Jynx chair, did she actually start planning that tea party much sooner than the episode it happened.
Jinx is my absolute favorite character in the series. And it honestly sucks people compare her too often to Harley quinn. Also if anyone wants to be more depressed, in the final episode on the mug jinx made for silco, you can barely make out the word "dad".
it’s so sucky that people compare her to Harley because they are completely different types of people and ideas all together although I understand why, ALSO I DIDNT NEED TO KNOW THAT TWT
Hardly Quinn, is a pail competition, it's funny both creates of jinx say she was inspired from joker and a few other thing's anyway 😉
It says dad on it? In what scene? Can't believe I never noticed it..
@@CertainlyCynical apparently. Some fans spotted it but it extremely hard to find myself
@@CertainlyCynical Supposedly people saw some random scribbles on the ashtray in the scene where Fin and the other Chem Baron come into Silco's office to betray him. It's hard to make out and can't really tell if it reads Dad or not.
"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."
I think this proverb applies to Jinx, both in the context of her feeling abandoned by everyone, and her being (shaped by Silco into) the embodiment of Zaun itself, abandoned and shunned by Piltover.
nice quote thank you for that
Wow that quote hits close to home. Love it
Also she accidentally burned the building down by the hextect thing
This proverb is so fitting but also very sad.
I love that quote but ngl that hit me too close to the heart like that hit deep😕🥺 I love it tho NGL
Jinx’s intelligence needs more recognition. She figured out tech that Jace and Viktor (trained scientists and geniuses) were working on with NO formal education.
very good point ! and did it as well if not better
@@GeorgiaDow took them years took her less than a week
@@ProjectEchoshadow To be fair, she also stole their notes and gemstone to use as a starting point. What she did was very impressive. But it can't be compared to what Jayce and Viktor took years to accomplish. She didn't start from scratch. She stole an existing gemstone (did not make any more) and using the existing research notes that she also stole, developed a devastating weapon combining her already existing knowledge of how to make things explode with hextech and chemtech. Genius for sure, especially without any formal education. But she didn't do everything Jayce and Viktor did in a much shorter time frame. Also Jayce made a pretty bad-ass hammer/ranged weapon just overnight. And Viktor combined shimmer with hextech (and human blood/essence) to inadvertently probably create a sentient magical entity similar to that which has destroyed nations.
@@demise0 Idk man, if I were to use a rocket scientists notes even for reference I don't think I would be able to replicate what they did let alone do it in a few days. It's still really impressive she was able to figure his notes out and actually do something with them
@@honinakecheta601 Yes, that's why I still said; "What she did was very impressive." and "Genius for sure, especially without any formal education.". My point was only that it is not accurate to say that what she did in a week was equivalent to what Jayce and Viktor (also geniuses) took 7+ years to do.
I remember a comment that sums up Jinx at the final of Act 3. "Powder's final act was to protect her sister. Jinx's first act was to avenge Silco."
oh nice
@@Karasuno86 Because the Piltover leaders try to split them away with that deal, buying Silco in a way and kicstarting the events that let to his dead, by the end Jinx is back where she started: without a father figure, without her siter(because she show kindess to a enforcer) and alone.
There is a reason we hear Silco words when she fire the rocket "We will show them, we will show them all".
@@JDale56 No ! the shot toward Vi comes from Silco, Jinx don't do a 369 she shot at Silco not at Vi.
For all his faults, Silco was the best father Powder/Jinx ever had. He loved her for who she was, not what she could or should be.
@@chuckhoyle1211 absolutely not
Another great detail: Jinx makes her own hallucinations reality. She hallucinates Vi shooting her and replacing her with Caitlyn (1:16), so what does she do at the dinner? She doesn't just ask Vi to choose, she hands her a gun and asks her to shoot Caitlyn and replace her with Powder, the opposite of the hallucination. If you look closely it's even the exact same gun (13:25).
Wow Now this is really impressive
very well said, thanks
Great! Another future video analysist 😏
That's a good catch, it does mirror that.
Yeah even though it is not her intent but that's how envy works
One of the things that I noticed from the start, but nobody's talked about, is how when Vi calls out people for Jinx to remember, and goes to "remember dad? Mom?" nobody shows up. With every other name, the picture of the person shows up, but nobody shows up when her parents are mentioned, and I think that's because Jinx was so young when their parents died, she doesn't remember who they were.
++ Instead of looking at her dead mother's body, as in the opening scene of episode 1, she just looks at Violet's face. She doesn't know how to react. When he sees his sister crying, he only reacts to her. It seems that he is very young and has not yet figured out what to feel there. Of course, we can also see the drawings similar to the monster motif on the faces of the practitioners walking around the dead bodies, as seen in the present time.
that's such an amazing scene too because that happens all the time. people will say the most cliche things to cheer someone up and not even realize that those things are actually very harmful and hold the worst memories. we never see that side of the "think of things you love that give you strength!!!"
I know that all of these comments are a year old, but there's something I wanted to mention: The braided hair that Jinx has is just like her mom's hair. Make of that what you will.
There's a blink and you'll miss it moment right after Jinx drops the platter on the dinner table. Vi goes "W-What did you do?" and for a split second, Jinx looks hurt, but she quickly masks that with glee. She's hurt that Vi would think she'd do such a thing; that she's *that* crazy.
I think that Jinx was actually testing Vi to see how she'd react with the cupcake on a platter thing. She wanted to see if her sister still trusted her. Vi unfortunately failed that test. I also agree that it was more than a little bit of playing with Vi because she's upset with her as well.
Great catch. I missed that !
Yeah u can see disappointment in her face for spilt second, and the she goes "sheees am not that crazy"
She was testing vi to see what she thinks of her, and how much she cares about cait
In reality jinx just said "paid ur girlfriend a visit" to vi "what did u doo ? " Jinx answered TRUTHFULLY "i made her a snack" to vi screaming "no" it really hurt her , proved that vi doesn't trust her and and thinks she is crazy.
And can i say gemstone being the cherry on top is kinda poetic cait went to find it and now it's being served to her well maybe it was supposed but vi kinda fuc that up with her reaction , proving that she still don't trust her she still thinks jinx will fuck it up somehow
@@Paladiea I think Jinx is also pretending here, just like Vi belive she is powder deep inside, Jinx belive she can just be with her sister the same way as before.
Both are wrong.
Those micro-expressions are something the animators of this show do so well. Not many other animators do that.
I like the sound design, after Silco dies and before Jinx sits in her chair. Goes from loud noises to quiet - almost as the voices finally stop and she can accept who she is. It is a relief for her. I think, starting the nuke is one of the few choices, she takes with a clear mind and with a full understanding of what consequences will follow. Like war, losing her sister, losing her child self, losing any redemption path for herself.
12:47 there is a lot more to this question. She's not just offering her sister to (impossibly) bring forth her nine-year-old self. Remember in episode 8 when Vi speaks to Caitlyn about the game she played with Powder when they were children - about conjuring scarier and scarier monsters, then having to chase them away when they get too scary? That's what Jinx sees Caitlyn as. She is Vi's most scary monster, the one that can tear her whole world apart, and she's asking her to make the scary monster go away. Not "kill her for me"... she asks her to "make her go away. Please?". The monster Vi created. Heartbreaking enough yet?
Pain...
That is heartbreaking :( espectually when you consider Jinx asked her to make the monster go away and instead Vi just brought more monsters
And it get worst as to way: she see Cat as pretty much Vi replace her with another person, one that just sort of happen it have blue hair and look kinda like her, what is telling Vi is "Make her go away, dont leave alone like you did".
And the first words to the next song are....? Nice foreshadow there, th3voice
I am so there. I want so bad to make them give Jinx and happy turnaround that doesn't involve immediate death afterwards.
In my opinion the council were the biggest villains in this show, there is a straight line from every decision they've made to that rocket going into the window. Sure, at the 11th hour they decide to give peace a chance but it's clearly far too late for that. They had literal centuries to acknowledge the divisions in their society but fell back on authoritarian control every time and it's only when the possibility of Zaun becoming a legitimate threat appears that they consider giving some concessions not for the benefit of the people they've been exploiting for two hundred years but just to ensure their continued security.
Calling them villains is a little wrong, because villainy would require a malicious intent. They don't actively take steps to opress the Zaunites and keep them low. They are simply ignorant and blind to what their society has become. The Council wants to keep the peace, but they are unable to understand the perspective of those they see as enemies.
@@Mediados The council had the ultimate responsibility for their enforcer's conduct. Ignorance isn't an excuse.
@@Dream146 I don't want to excuse them or portray them as innocent, but at the very least they were not evil. They cared for their people (Well most of them), but they only saw Piltover as their people.
Man kind is so in love with greed it has forgotten itself and found only appetites
@@Poke-ladd Using the word mankind is a bit weird in this context cause on this council are far more races than just humans.
One thing that never crossed my mind until now: Shimmer is this strong super serum that can mutate you and give you almost super powers, yes, but it's also a very powerful drug. Jinx was tripping balls during that tea party exchange
@@CertainlyCynical dude, she had half her blood replaced with Shimmer. She was a fucking kite. Look at her eyes.
She wasn't exactly "tripping balls", she was for the most part completely sane and had the most clarity throughout the show at that point. When you go back and look at it, on the surface level she has this front that she's gone totally insane and unhinged, but it was more of a test for vi and so that she can bring all these pieces together and finally start getting some answers. It was very thought out and methodical of her She definitely plays her jinx persona off as an act sometimes to intimidate others or as a defense mechanism/ mask to hide her pain. Then after silco dies she is totally conscious of her actions and makes her final choice to fully embrace being jinx.
@@moonlight2870 NO she wasn't. I understand what you're saying but to say that she wasn't thinking and unaware of her actions goes against the entire scene and the purpose of it all. Yes her eye color represents that she's gone through a change but you're denying the fact that she planned out everything and at the end has total control over her actions and decisions.
When Singed gives Viktor a probe he speaks of a variant. There are some variants of shimmer. For healing, improving, mutating, good feeling or other. Sometimes with side effects like addiction or other mental issues.
yes i agree
My problem with Vi and Jinx's relationship is that it is not an older sister younger sister relationship, it is a forced mother/ child relationship (Vander, I am blaming you for this one). They both have the expectation of a mother and child relationship but Vi was just not ready for the task due to her age and her personality. Jinx expect too much from Vi and Vi is doomed to failure. I found some scenes to be interesting as well, when Silco calls Jinx "Child" she doesn't take it personally, because she knows that she is his child. But when Vi talks to her, Jinx responded with "stop talking to me like I'm a child". It's like she has sibling-like completion with Vi but expectation of a child (acceptance and unconditional love and fulltime support). Their whole dynamic is really off.
As much as it isn't healthy, I would say it is realistic. Trauma usually messes up just about everything.
@@jacqslabz Agree
Another thing about the tea party I noticed on one of my rewatches, Jinx takes a step back to put the gun right infront of Silco. I think this shows that Jinx still trusted Silco to have her back if it came down to it. Unfortunetly, Silco went for the gun in the middle of her panic attack leading to another instance of friendly fire.
Yes that is a great point i saw that also and should have mentioned it. Thank you for bringing to the forefront
@@GeorgiaDow Also notice that when Jinx disarms Caitlyn she moves to her left completely shielding Silco from the line of fire. The animation even pauses for a split second showing the animators did this on purpose.
Jinx is a physical manifestation of the fear Silco wanted to create. Just her presence is enough to terrify most people ("Oh, no. She's here"). She even moves like a horror villain, impossibly quick and quiet.
@@DarkHarlequin indeed~
@@DarkHarlequin ++
I love that someone finally brought up that Vi, unintentionally, was traumatizing Jinx by bringing up their old group whereas Silco is trying to get her out if it. I've watched numerous reactions & haven't seen anyone bring it up.
Haha now I see what you meant by "wait till you see the shirt I made" when I asked about the nails. The production values of these videos are just getting higher and higher. I dropped my work (I was writing a lesson plan for tomorrow) when the notification came lol. A lil' break won't hurt anyone. Great as always!
Raven
But no real tattoos for the video, disappointing 🙃😁
Love this!!!!
There is a state of mind where you see yourself as a monster, and I think for Jinx that happens after killing Silco. The other deaths she has caused of loved ones, she has tried to explain away and to redeem herself in some ways. But after killing the last person that actually trusted her she has given up. And the song plays and the lyric states "I'm the monster you created". She has given up any chance of redemption, she ses herself as a monster. And the monster destroys. So she goes to burn the world down.
Many years ago I had a psykosis, and I did bad things. During and after, my self-image was that of a monster. No hope, and the world might as well burn. I see that reflected very much in Jinx in the last scene.
There is always a way back, always room for redemption. I know that now.. But it may take years to work that monster away.
Very well said we all have that in us and need to know that that doesn't make us one. Appreciate you sharing
@@GeorgiaDow Question: What *would* it take for you to classify someone as a monster?
@@DarkHarlequin Is also a liberating because it means you can self indulge as much as you want in your sins/flaws without caring for consequence anymore. It become just a pasive wait as you feel good in your own worst impulse.
@@Karasuno86 What? Silco matter a lot for Jinx, since he stod with her while Vi didnt.
My beautiful Jinx. It's very heartbreaking to watch her in the final scene. The world is screaming all around her and she ends a life to save another. I cry when Silco tells her that she's perfect: the last words of a loved one. Jinx's reaction after his death is so human: she feels immense sorrow and guilt and then feels absolutely nothing. You can see her face change from crying to completely stoic. That's the shield we put up when the pain is far too much to comprehend in the moment. And when a loved one passes unexpectedly, we carry on the will and dreams of that person to honor them. Jinx carried out the plan because it's the last thing she could possibly to do feel any sort of redemption.
Thank you for all the videos, Georgia! Looking forward to the next ones.
It is so true. You can feel what she feels and its heartbreaking
Also hear a sound as she's turning her head and watching Silco die... And it feels to me that that sound is the voices in her head dying, leaving her just herself, Jinx... only Jinx, no Powder, no more trauma slapping her around, a far more cool and collected, maybe more frightening person rising up in Powder/Jinx's place... Just Jinx.
There's also a small detail about her gun "Fishbones" it's not only the fishes Silco had, its also silco himself, if u watch closely the gun has a "bad eye" too.
I always thought the minigun was a perfect choice for Jinx's character and the shooting Silco scene shows why. It's imprecise but unrelenting, so if there's a problem just point it in the problem's direction and keep firing till the problem goes away. Jinx was having such a breakdown she didn't even realize she was shooting one of them, she just realized one of them was in danger of being shot and her adrenaline/muscle memory took over on how to solve that problem. It's only after the problem is gone and she takes a breath that she realizes she just made the choice of Vi over Silco, ironically because Silco was willing to kill for her but Vi wasn't (Caitlyn).
We actually was a phrase for how you described the mini-gun. we call it "accuracy by volume". With enough rounds down range you'll hit your target.
She didn't realize one of them was in danger Silco's fans need to get a grip, she saw Vi in danger and acted.
Another side note filled with symbolism, the minigun's name is Pow-Pow, which is a nickname Vi gave Powder when they were children. This can also be seen as symbolic of Jinx's strong childhood connection to Vi being what is responsible for protecting Vi from Silco.
@@qawamity Ah, so I wasn't the only one who caught that.
@@qawamity And Vi tells Powder "What makes you different makes you strong" and with Pow-Pow she finally is. On top of that, it might have been her first weapon to actually work AS EXPECTED without hurting someone she loves or unintended consequences for her.
I think it's also very telling how the dolls Jinx makes of Mylo and Claggor are sized according to the magnitude of their voices in her psyche, not to their relative sizes.
I would also note that Jinx's morality system seems to value honesty, loyalty, and personal connections. If you don't have any of those for her than she doesn't even conceive of you as human. Remember how she laughed off the deaths of six enforcers? Not even human in her eyes. So, seeing her sister hanging out with an enforcer? As far as Jinx is concerned, Vi is cavorting with demons. You can even see this in how often Jinx's visual hallucinations put devil's horns on Caitlyn. Recall also how Vi told Caitlyn about the imaginary monster game she'd play with Powder as little kids? "I'd make the monsters go away." And what did Jinx say to Vi when she put the gun in her hands and asked her to kill Caitlyn? "Make her go away..." (This last one was a detail I didn't even notice myself, someone else pointed it out to me. There's so much detail in the characterization and visual design in this show that you could spend months picking at it and still miss things.)
I think she spoke about the size thing in another jinx video which is amazing that she caught on
Also one thing I noticed is Jinx response to calling her Powder is to double tap Jinx with her gun. She's basically responding to it non-verbally but it comes off a lot like she's saying "Jinx. My name is Jinx."
The voice actress who played Jinx really nailed that scene where she's being injected with the Shimmer. The screaming was just, torturous.
The part where Silco has come full circle and realized he's in the same position as Vander when it comes to protecting his "kid" was an interesting development. I think he realizes that Vander wasn't as weak as he thought.
Jinx toying with Vi with the head on a platter was disturbing but at the same time, I gotta admit, I laughed. That she even acknowledged her mental state by saying she's not "that" crazy was interesting. It makes me wonder if she has more or less embraced her mental state.
Even at the end, though Jinx killed him, Silco still loved her in his own way. He's an evil man but he did have that one redeeming quality.
There's been some speculation that Jinx jinxed the peace deal when she "nukes" the Council but that deal died with Silco who wasn't going to turn in Jinx anyways. That the Council was voting to give the Undercity its independence was sort of meaningless though they didn't know that.
Also, your cosplay is well done. The shirt that has Jinx's tattoos was a nice touch.
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I never thought about the fact that she made her weapon (Fishbones) to resemble Silco's fish monsters... That just blew my mind
HA yay I blew someone's mind
Didn't she also have a similar plushie?
She didn't she already drew Fishbones design when she was a kid you can see in act 1
@@mkmc94 In episode 1, a plush pillow can be seen in the powder bedroom staring wildly at it with its teeth and eyes. In Chapter 3 , when Powder has a panic attack and drops the bag with hex crystals on it , we can see some papers with the drawings of that plush pillow . He had this kind of design, but this design didn't come from a fish, it came from the little pillow he had on his bed. When he learned of Silco's love for fish, he updated it to the fish design and made a definite scratch on the fish's eye, just like his father silco's eye.
The most important effect of Silco's final words is how it finally freed Jinx from her constant need for affirmation from others. Even in the tea party, she was still giving the 'choice' of who she should be to someone else, namely Vi. And before that, all her actions, even seemingly independent actions, were always in the context of "this is what Vi/Silco wants".
Her taking away that choice and sitting on the Jinx chair of her own volition is her first truly independent act and she has finally become her own person. I assume this also means Mylo and the other "bad voices" will no longer appear to her either.
I agree but in a twisted way him giving her the choice make her choose his.
++ I agree, I wonder how jinx will go on her own in the next season. I think they will bring the sound lines in the game in season 2. Those who played the game understood what I mean, but I think it's a spoiler for those who haven't. Although there are different universes, it seems to me that some things may be the same with the death of silco.
From the View point of someone who experiences Sensory overload a lot, it's likely that Jinx whirled around to respond to the noise of the gun firing, not realizing where it came from until too late.
that could be
@@GeorgiaDow I actually saw this from many reactors and analysis videos, while jinx was trapped in her mind at that moment, she fired up her instant audio response. Silco pointed the gun at Violet at the wrong time. It was unintentionally caught on Powder/Jinx's radar.
I think you underestimate Caitlyn a little here. She hesitated to shoot because she really does not want to kill in general and she doesn't want to kill Vi's sister. While Jinx played at giving up, you will notice that Caitlyn narrowed her eyes, she didn't buy Jinx's act for a moment. What catches Caitlyn off guard is the fact that Jinx is moving at super human speed. sm
that could be also but I think she is not as battle ready as jinx also
@@GeorgiaDow it was just that Caitlin had no intention of getting between Vi and Jinx. it was a surprise for her
I both love and hate the Tea Party scene for various reasons but im just gonna bring up one of them.
It all starts with Jinx telling Vi that, if she shoots Caitlin, she'll get Powder back. The problem is, even if Vi did it AND got Powder back, that's not right. The decision of who Jinx/Powder is does not belong to Vi. Jinx is so focused on getting approval from those she loves that she is willing to give them the choice. She willingly give it to Vi. "You choose who and/or what you want me to be."
Next, we move to Silco's unfortunate death. He tells Jinx "Dont cry, you're perfect" My issue with this is that, by saying it, he is unintentionally telling her that Jinx is perfect and she doesnt need to change. After his death, she fully commits to being Jinx.
Long story short:
Jinx gave the choice to Vi when she shouldn't have (Only Jinx should get to choose who she decides to be) and Silco unintentionally took that choice and chose for her. I might be overthinking it but that's something that's on my mind every time i see that scene.
A million thanks if you actually read thru all that!!!
Not just read through it. I feel they are great points. And i think that chair was one she shouldn't have as well
"Don't cry, you're perfect."
I am not crying... I am NOT crying!
*crying my heart out*
me too
Okay, I feel bad that I actually didn't cry. But I was really hooked in the story. Maybe because I relate to Jinx's emotional pain..? Mainly the fear of abandonment.
@@snowball03-boop No need to feel bad, I didn't literally cry (I very rarely cry) but it's very touching and I was hooked as well.
The hospital scene with Jinx was the most uncomfortable and chilling I felt other than the final scene with everyone at the table. Just seeing her struggle and be in physical and equal emotional anguish is so hard after all the time we spent getting to know her character. I think it becomes even more sad when you realize that these hallucinations are Jinx's fears and insecurities in its rawest form. A lot of people including me think that shimmer functions to bring out the fears, insecurites, and perceptions that someone feels of themselves. Vander becoming wolfish and brutal is a symbol of his identity being tied to "Hound of the Underground" and not being able to move on from his misdeeds. He feels guilt, even saying it to Silco, that he regrets being violent and attempting to kill him. So it's very appropriate then that Vander's Shimmer form made him into the hound he used to be as gang member, doggish noises included .
After seeing the hospital scene, I definitely believe the theory even more. Jinx feels like an unwanted person. She feels insecure about being replaced. Thus she hallucinates those fears becoming reality. It's so neat to see the thought put into the mechanics of shimmer and how it works in Arcane. How it heavily relies on the mind of a person.
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In creative writing there's this general guideline that "ideas are cheap, execution is everything." Jinx began as just an idea, an unpredictable maverick of mayhem with no thoughts aside from violence. Not a good portrayal of trauma.
This is where Arcane takes Jinx above and beyond the crazy-chicc aesthetic of Harley Quinn and other characters. They go beyond the idea and execute on it.
a small detail i noticed when i watched arcane was that there was a specific violin in the soundtrack that would only play in certain moments of jinx's scenes. riot did amazing with the entire soundtrack and music overall, so i knew it wasn't just a coincidence. from what i remember, the scenes in which it is played is when powder has her panic attack in the basement of the last drop in episode 3, when the monkey bomb explodes and she is pushed off the window at the end of episode 3, when jinx is revealed in the beginning of episode 4 and she sees the pink-haired firelight and loses control, in the beginning of episode 7 after jinx goes back to her workshop and staples her leg, at the end of episode 7 after jinx watches vi run back to caitlyn after marcus shoots ekko, and probably so many more scenes that i couldn't remember off of the top of my head. the specific way the violin is played is only played in certain moments of jinx's scenes, and i thought it really added to her character in a subtle but awesome way. as someone who loves music and relates music to feelings, the violin really captured my attention and was able to really show the sounds of her mind: chaotic but beautiful
nice =) yes that is really cool
Powder/Jinx ingenuity and talent for gadgets was something that Vi recognised and Silco exploited. She could see that Powder felt insecure and trapped in her sister's shadow, so she encouraged her to make her own way ('I've got these, you've got those') and not let anything stop her when she doubts herself ('we all've had bad days, but we learn...and we stick together). I think that it already worked to some extent (remember she was still just a kid), you could (briefly) see her and Ekko working on a new explosive, her aim was superb (in the arcade) and Vi herself stated in episode 8 (I thought Powder could get obsessed). She always had the potential and I simply can't stand people saying that it was Silco who gave her that strength. The only thing he did was traumatise her, isolate her and make her dependent on him and him alone, distrusting everybody else. She even admits this during the tea party to Vi ('your (Vi's) voice pushing me, picking me up, when all the colours were black'). But when it comes to Silco all she says is ('....all his rants, excise your doubts Jinx.... be what they fear Jinx'). It was a strength and potential she herself developed, Vi recognised and encouraged and Silco exploited (honestly believing that it was the best thing for her, and people say Jinx suffers from delusions).
People say he never lied to Jinx because he believes his delusions, but I have a small issue with that. During the 'baptism' scene where he tells her she needs to let Powder (and her attachments and grief for the loss of anyone other than Silco die) he twists her memories of both Vi and Vander, stating that they were not the people you thought they were.... that their betrayal can shape her into something stronger. The next episode however he brags to Vi that the price of 'your second rate family' was Jinx all along, and she now belongs to him, that he freed her from her love and need for for Vi. When Silco gets confronted by Jinx for keeping Vi's return from her, he grasps for the first lie he can think off and says Vi only came back for the gemstone, stoking Jinx's mistrust. Yet neither he nor Vi mentions the gemstone, Vi simply says that she'll free Jinx from his fucked up delusions. Later during the tea party, he realises that Vi is more important to Jinx than him (notice how he is gagged, Vi isn't) and he grasps for a new lie when he realises that his old one didn't work (that's how I know he is grasping, he quickly shifts tactics when he realises the previous one isn't working, refusing to accept Jinx loves Vi more). Now he brings up her old trauma of Jinx and Vi's separation, something he both directly and indirectly caused. When you are an amoral sociopath who moulds his 'daughter' into the fighter and genius inventor he wishes he himself was (notice how he doesn't have any talent except his tongue, sadly a very dangerous weapon when it comes to Jinx), it comes easy to lie.
What's your take on this? Some Silco fans might say I'm biased (partly true, I cheer for a Vi and Jinx reunion and denouneciation of Silco more than anything in Arcane) and those fans point out to his love for Jinx being a redeeming quality. However, even this he corrupts because of my earlier explanation. He never owns up to his role in her trauma and places it all on Vi, the one person who threatens his relationship with Jinx. By stoking her mistrust and feeding her lies he further crumbles her already fragile mind. Not my idea of a parent. Vander took Vi and Powder in recognising his role in their (first) trauma and wanting to own up to it. Silco took Jinx in refusing to recognise his role in her trauma, instead feeding it (not sadistically though) and turning her into the fighter he himself could never be.
It makes me sad when you imagine the potential of Vi, Jinx and Ekko together against people like Silco, Sevika and the chem barons who destroyed their home. Instead, because of Silco and his lies, manipulations and exploitations of the girl he traumatised it seems they will forever be divided. That's why I was sad at the end. Not because Silco died (good riddance), but because the toxic worldview he installed in Powder fully made her conclude that she has done too much, Vi can never love her enough (and only bring her pain when she tries) and the only man who could love her is now dead by her own hands. I truly hope that Vi will be able to somehow work with Jinx to overcome their shared trauma (Vi's is overlooked by most of the fandom) and be able to meet in the middle: Jinx will be able to regain her sanity, still be a badass fighter but use her skills to help her family (Vi most of all) against people like Silco. Most of all, I want her to reconnect with Vi and fully trust and love Vi again, with Silco toxic lies (and Sevika's) about Vi forever gone from Jinx's mind.
Poor Jinx. She wanted to have Vi prove her love to her, but ended up driving her away. It’s so sad to see how she tries to shrug it off when Vi thinks she killed Caitlyn. She spent so much time trying to become someone who would prove to Vi that she wasn’t a jinx, only to realize how mortified Vi would be by who she is now. She feels like a monster. Then, Silco alleviates this pain by telling her she’s perfect even after she kills him. Still, she feels like a monster for killing him.
Caitlyn also has her feelings for Vi mixed up in everything. She does not want to kill Vi's sister. Vi even says no, no no...she's my sister. That hesitation gives Jinx another advantage. Caitlyn even turns her head slightly towards Vi and is begging her not to kill her sister.
right well said
Yeah, probably the thought crossed her mind that Vi's parents were killed by enforcers. She can't make Vi see her last remaining family member killed by an enforcer again
Which will means trouble in season 2, I dont think Cat is going to give her any mercy.
I love, love, LOOOVE how you cosplay as the characters you analyze, and you do it SO WELL!
YAY thank you Hayden
@@GeorgiaDow
You are most welcome.
Hey, since I got your attention, have you ever heard of a show called The Owl House? It's on Disney Channel, and there are a few characters you could really dig into.
The moment Jinx overhearing Silco is in contrast to the one early in the show when she overheard Vi and Milo, about being twice the person at half her age. They she took it without rally feeling betrayed by Vi, sure she was hurt, but she didn't escalated it there, while with Silco and her hurt state she interprets that in worst way possible.
Yes, she didn't quite hear the whole conversation, as in episode 1, and she misinterpreted it. I caught a lot of details but missed this one. a nice parallel
As someone with cptsd from childhood trauma and genetic predisposition to anxiety both powder and jinx feel so real! her breakdowns as a child and her psychosis as jinx are both so well written it feels like an absolute loss of control. you scare yourself but you can’t stop because your body is in its most primal state of fear and aggression, her facial expression changing after Silcos death is exactly what it feels like when that switch turns off and you’re faced with what youve done, numbness and defeat. Jinx will forever be one of my all time favorite characters
I like the idea that the platter was a test. A test of how much of a monster Vi fears Jinx had become... A test that Vi fails, reinforcing Silco's assertion that Vi will turn against Jinx for no longer being Powder.
But that's... backwards. By this logic, Vi believed Jinx was something she wasn't, and immediately got proven wrong. Thus Vi would then know her sister wasn't that far gone, or beyond hope (from Jinx's POV, she would *happy,* because knowing she wasn't that far gone meant Vi had LESS reason to doubt her, not more).
The table scene's just so sad and impactful but amazingly orchestrated at the same time that there are tons of things you'll miss in a first watch, loved the breakdown there. One of the details I've noticed after countless re-watchs, really hard to spot, is that Silco was not actually aiming at Vi herself, he didn't want to hurt her, he just wanted her to stop. In my opinion, Arcane shows this three ways: first when the camera closes up on Silco's gun, and it's shown that he actually shot, and Vi was still fine. Then, if you pay really close attention to the shoot scene (or watch it at 0.25x like I did lol) you'll literally see the shot landing right beside her head in her chair. Finally, if you look at Silco when he shots, you can see that it was a rational decision, he doesn't immediately shot, he thinks before he does it. You put this all together and consider Silco was less than 10 meter away from Vi and he is a battle hardened shooter, the conclusion is that Silco not only could, he would have killed her if he wanted to. And so, even though he wanted nothing more than for her to disappear, he still spared her, because he wouldn't be able to bear having Jinx hate him like that.
When you were speaking about the amount of shimmer put into Jinx - how it clouded her perception & mentally changes her - I like your take on the moments that followed.
If I may -
My take : was that the drug augmented everything about her Jinx personae - physically - her speed, her agility and to a point ; it SEEMED like Jinx was in complete control (I mean, think about it - how much effort & speed did she need to kidnap everybody & set up this whole tea party scenario ?
- She recovered from an unethical medical procedure just hours before! )
Her demonic delusions seemed to have enhanced as well as soon as Vi addressed Powder - they came at her like a wave until the rage in her snapped her back & lashed out.
Such a great scene, too - awesome show, with soo many layers to it!
- Its been months since this show came out & I love how people are still finding interesting things going on within the story that were missed - SOO deep! ❤
=)) thanks so much !!
And she has a predatory GROWL
That final confrontation
All I could think was
‘Whatever happens… jinx is going to lose.
Cause it NEVER ends well when two people you love are blinded by their hate for each-other.”
I was thinking the same, although I think all the main characters lost in that scenario. Seriously, who won? It was just a mess and a tragedy.
@@ArasRud there probably a rat in the sewer somewhere thinking ‘great free lunch I win!’ ?
@@Urbanspacefox they should make that Spin off :)))
You also need to consider that when Jinx sees Caitlin with the needle, it's her manifested fear being overlaid on top of something that is actually happening to her at the same time.
I'm really interested to see what they do with Jinx and her auditory and visual hallucinations going forward. Specifically I'm interested to see whether Silco becomes another voice and manifestation in her mind.
I'm really hoping he does, simply because I loved his character and really want there to be some way he could still be a presence in Season 2!
I definitely would love to see some flashbacks with her and Silco just so that we can see a bit more of their relationship. I really wonder what some of her earlier years being raised by him were like.
@@w98 ++
Jinx really follows Sun Tzu's advice: 1. Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. Sun Tzu
2. Let your plans be dark and IMPENETRABLE as night, and when you move, fall like a THUNDERBOLT.
nice SunTzu quotes =)
Sounds like Mel too
I appreciate that you keep wishing that Vi had said more, and I know you have a video on using one's words, something that Vi clearly isn't great at.
But I think it's crystal clear that part of the reason that Vi doesn't speak up more is because she actually fears what Jinx has become. Example:
Jinx: "I always knew you'd come back."
Vi (anxiously): "What's going on!?"
She fears what Jinx will do, particularly when it comes to hurting Caitlin, or siding with Silco. She knows, to some degree, that the girl she once loved is gone. Someone new has taken her place, someone she doesn't fully understand. I think Jinx senses that fear, and it only fuels her anxiety, and finally, shows that they can't be reunited. At least, not as they once were.
I liked how the table and seats for Powder and Jinx were set up. Especially in that moment when Jinx asks Vi where she should sit. After saying that we see the chairs, which is Powder’s chair, close to the table and seeming closed off, and then we see Jinx’s chair, open and apart from the table… kind of like more welcoming towards Jinx. Mainly because that’s who she really is. It kind of shows that even if she wants to sit in the Powder chair, she won’t be able to do so. Basically representing that she can’t go back to being Powder and that she is a different person now.
Sting sings that final song. So powerful. Man.
such a beautiful song
Terrific analysis Georgia! As Vander said: “Those kids look up to you…whatever happens, it’s on you”. Caitlyn factored largely in this episode, physically and symbolically. Jinx abducted her when she was most vulnerable: naked with her back turned. Though Caitlyn’s head wasn’t under the cloche, it WAS a cupcake (Vi’s pet name for her) topped by the hextech gem of destruction. When bullets started flying, Jinx had her gun of choice, where as Caitlyn had a disadvantage, since she’s a rifleman which is sooooo different from a mini gun. When Vi cried out to stop them, BOTH immediately ceased because Vi has that much influence in both their lives. Jinx’s journey is so heart wrenching due to the complexity of her trauma, situation, the augmented information she’s teased out. She’s accidentally lead to the deaths of her family, including her adoptive father, so now she’s unmoored, in free fall with her choices and pain - embracing the woman that is Jinx. Thanks for such a deep dive! I’m looking forward to more insights!
thank you for your analysis
What I personally loved about the ending of "The Monster You Created" is that after Silco's death, Jinx is no longer sad, or angry, or anxious. She's tired. Tired of the loss, of the pain, of this self fulfilling prophecy where she believes she destroys everything she loves, and so she wants to get rid of her attatchments. For a moment the voices that torment her are silent. The look on her eyes is weary. Right as she's about to shoot, she hears words of love from the man that saved her, and she lets out a single blue tear. The last bit of Powder that remained in her.
That's also when she was the most dangerous. For the first time, she's calm. She's focused. She fully accepts and embraces who she is. And, finally, she's PISSED.
She just became the most dangerous person in the entire city at that point. With that shark bazooka, her Hextech knowledge, all of those guns and bombs...the amount of carnage she can cause single-handedly at this point is terrifying.
Another interesting point about her attack at the end: This wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. Jinx brought Fishbones with her to the tea party, long before she knew what the result would be.
@@TheLangenator Well technically Pow-Pow turns into Fishbones due to the stone being inserted into it (which definitely explains her in game ability because up until Arcane I had no idea how that worked like where are the bullets and rockets even stored?, but now the answer is literally magicked science lol).
So, while the weapon was engineered to accept it, the scene could've perhaps gone differently if Vi would've accepted Powder as Jinx or didn't (unknowingly) overstimulate her by using the names of her inner voices and lead to Silco getting killed.
Although tbf, the council's vote was moot because it hinged on Jinx being given up, something that was not going to go down, so I suppose this was indeed the only outcome.
After watching that last scene many times, I don't think Silco ever intended to actually shoot Vi. Shoot in her direction to shut her up, sure. Up to this point he's never really done any of the dirty work himself anyway (besides Vander). I think he might have just been trying to stop Vi from terrorizing his daughter right in front of him. He shot first, the smoking bullet hole is just right next to Vi so it's plausible. It wouldn't have made sense for him to shoot Vi just to get Jinx back to her senses. Despite his frustrations I don't think he underestimated the importance Vi still held in Jinx's life. It might just be my interpretation of the scene, but I think it just makes it even more sad.
I love this, I had never thought about Silco missing on purpose. I believe Silco's gut-reaction was "protect Jinx, get rid of the problem," I don't think he could stand to see her suffer, even though that might've meant losing her. He knew that if he killed Vi (on top of having lied to Jinx about her death for years), he'd most likely lose her. Vi would become a martyr in Jinx's soul-- the protective, loving, accepting sister that was stolen from her over and over whereas he would become the monster/liar destroying her family and the Lanes. Jinx might forgive him because he truly was the only family that didn't forsake her but that wasn't a sure thing. Silco's smart enough and wise/experienced enough to make a million decisions quickly but at the end of the day his instinct to protect his daughter won out.
All this to say, I could see Silco missing to shut Vi up and take control of the situation. Or I could see him shooting her and trying to win Jinx over anyway.
I think you might be wrong about Jinx viewing Vi as an enemy when she says "here's to the new us". It seems to me more like a way for her to realize that there is no going back to being Powder. The foreshadowing when she puts the grenade on the bartender Thieram makes me think that she didn't try to just blow up the council. It makes him afraid to hear the ticking of it, but when it goes off it just releases smoke. Also, she only released the explosive Firelights after Vi was put in danger. It just all makes me think that she might be giving back the gemstone, because she believed so much that Silco was going to give her up to achieve his goal, and it would be a way to stick it to him had he lived.
Yeah, it was her way to said "I diferent, you are, it is what it is".
Also, the monster thing, The whole game they played was making scarier and scarier monsters till Vi had to chase them away... Vi's the one who's bringing the scary monsters this time, and not the one scaring them away.
Fun fact the candle that burns out when jinx and vi talked is the valdiani powder found in jayces apartment
No way =) mind blown
Yes! You came up with a different take than I've seen. To be fair, even I was confused about Silko's talk with Vander. "And what would I lose but problems?!" - to me it sounded like he was considering Jinx a problem that he could now turn over if he wanted. I'm still not sure what we as the audience were supposed to hear lol. I've also heard of the dinner table setup with the platter being a test for Vi that proves to Jinx that Vi really does see her as "that heartless" and tells her all she needs to know.
interesting yes I took it as he was saying it as she is a problem but still loves her too much to choose turning her in.
I do think we are supposed to exactly hear that. Silco is trying to be logical, he was always convinced that the cause was worth everything. Jinx is only causing him problems, he has to constantly look after her and deal with her problems. So it would be best to just hand her over to be thrown into prison, or worse, and have his little nation of Zaun. He would have demanded the same thing of everyone else just some time ago. He wasn't sad about the child dying by Jayces hand, as the child was dying for the cause. He was convinced that is a good death. But he has grown into loving her as a daughter and it's not possible for him to take that decision anymore, he would normally have seen as the better one. He was finally understanding why Vander had turned on him years back.
3:21 me when I was 7 and hated that I was getting a new little brother because I was the youngest and I knew once he came I will no longer have moms attention (which was true the attention went all to him) and I hated him for it, but now that I’m older I love him to death he’s the sweetest little thing and he’s been through so much so all I wanna do is protect him.
I can relate
I was soooo looking forward to this video and omg, best cosplay, the attention to the details is amazing! As always I find it so full of empathy for the character and for the people living similar situations as her. Also, the way you noticed the weapon being a fish because of Silco's connection to them is awesome, I just knew she had that weapon because of the game but I bet in the animation team they did wanna make the connection between both things, so thanks for noticing it.
thanks i appreciate you
One detail about Powder and Jinx is her clothes. Look at Powder's clothes in Episodes 1-3. She is dressed in blue; however, look at the color of her undergarments (edit: let me rephrase that for the immature, look at her layer of clothes under her blue garments). Just another great example of the excellent work these storytellers and animators did for this series.
"I thought maybe you could love me like you used to...even though I'm... different." This line gets me every time I hear it. That fear of changing too much that your friends and family won't recognize you anymore, the realization that you HAVE changed so much and don't know if they'll ever accept you again. Not knowing what to do about it.
Whoo just dropped everything!!😂🔥 LOVE the hair!😱❤
3:13 "That allows us to still love the person that we don't want to lose."
Woah, that's an amazing way of putting it💭.
AWWWWIE thanks so much for the appreciation and taking the time to watch
I love this character and your spot on analysis of her and every other character in this show.
thanks Damian
@@GeorgiaDow your very welcome.
I never realized how many parralels there are about people being a threat to your relationship with someone you love. Jinx is Vi's threat to her relationship with Caitlyn. Silco is hers for Jinx. Vi is Silco's threat to his relationship with Jinx. Caitlyn is jinx's for Vi. Heimerdinger is Jayce's threat for his relationship with Viktor (through not preventing his death)
9:15 can we talk about the lighter/cigar symbolism that's been around for a while throughout arcane? I noticed that the lighter symbolizes loyalty (Finn turning on and off representing the underground's loyalty/respect towards Silco waning and his attempt to wane Sevika's too) and cigar representing authority (just rewatch Silco dealing with Marcus, cutting off the cigar's head and then smoking, clearly asserting superiority, the group enforcers teasing Caitlyn and her being the only one not smoking, showing that she's the only one without *social* power in this group, excluded, Vander and his pipe, it being dropped in a drink when he failed to stand up to the enforcers when everyone expected him to, symbolizing him failing to represent the underground as an authority figure)
And here, we have Jinx using the lighter to shed *light* on her sister, to find the *truth* about Vi's loyalty towards her, a test to weigh it out against Silco's, perhaps the candles symbolizing the paths that truths about where loyalties lie would lead
I don't think I'm reading too much into it, there are too many repetitions for it to be a coincidence, and it's been months and I'm still in awe of the depth and amount of thought given to each and every detail, at this point and I'm more than convinced that arcane is THE masterpiece animation
...The way the light in this scene turns blue at the base the second jinx says "knew" seems indeed like a throw back to the blue signal light
I initially thought it was her viewing things from her own distorted lens but unless there's some inner monologue behind those words that back that, this doesn't seem to be relevant to the scene
11:32 here I was thinking that Jinx wanted to test how much trust Vi had in her, after she walked off I'm not sure if I just saw what I wanted to see but I felt like the way she walked back to actually bring Caitlyn was a bit wobbly? Distraught? After the fact
26:18 makes me think that she came to that conclusion partly from what happened in 11:32, it was a prelude to that
wow nice did not think of that symbolism thank you
FINALLY!! a react for Act 3!
Do you think you could do a psychological analysis of both Vi and Jinx's tattoos on their body, i'm interested on what you think about that. I'm loving your channel ❤
It is easy. Both have symbols of their sister. Jinx - a blue cloud from flare that can help VI find her and VI wears gears - symbolising Powder talent. For both tatoos are a reminder and a tool to survive
I just wanted to point out that with the chairs, “powder” was close with Vi, since powder always wanted to be close to Vi, and be almost just like her, and with “jinx” it was close to Slico, since he was the one that took jinx in when Vi “left her”, and she always wanted to prove to him that she is strong enough to always be by his side. It’s probably not important but it’s something I thought about.
While watching your video that at the end Silco is now that positive voice in Jinx's head instead of Vi. She has now let go if the idea her sister could ever love her as Jinx and instead replaces that voice with Silco the person who (to jinx) was the only one who loved her as Jinx.
It's funny and just amazing to realise that we all started watching Arcane because it's an adaptation of one of the biggest yet games with a very notorious playerbase. But what we receive is one of the most mind-blowing and just hearthwrenching shows I've ever seen. Fact that there are so many characters within who deal with real problems people face in our real lives. It just makes me not be ashamed to have my own demons. The representation of people who have to go through all these traumatic experiences, people who aren't necessarily black&white bad, but just want what's best for their loved ones. Months after watching the series, and I'm still living and thinking about it everyday because of the emotional impact it has made on me.
Definitely my favourite show of all times♥️
Could you please analyze Mel Medarda and Jayce's relationship? The way she manipulates him (as I believe she does with other characters) or if she really likes him, what you really think of their relationship
its a good one yes
@@GeorgiaDow tysm i love your vids❤️
My take was it started as manipulation and evolved into genuine attachment
Damn it, why is every single time I watch that scene with Silco and Jinx a bunch of dust builds and causes my eyes to water.
me too... me too
I think too at 7:31, I feel like when she says “nothing ever stays dead” was also about how instead of dying (on the bridge) like how she planned to, she was brought back. (At least that’s what I think) but 🤷🏻♀️
The Choice Jinx gives Vi, was for sure a test,whether Vi could love Powder how she is, as Jinx. No matter what Jinx was not going to sit in the Powder chair. Three interesting things to note, One Vi just does not get it, she keeps calling her sister Powder and unknowingly says every trigger word that sends Jinx's PTSD into overdrive. Jinx even says stop at one point,but Vi just kept on overloading Jinx's head. Two after Jinx insticturely protected Vi from Silco and has a devastating revelation, that she is Jinx and kills everyone close to her so she sits in the Jinx chair. She decides the only way for her to move on is to abandon her Sister. Jinx will never be Powder again, The Memories of her as Powder are heartbreaking and too much for her to bare anymore. Jinx decides she must let her sister go,she gets up says "Here's to the new Us" fire the Rocket and Vanishes also leaving Caitlyn Alive. Most likely as a last good gesture to Vi. Three, Jinx leaves behind all of the items that represented her pain, she even left her POW POW Gatling Gun behind,I think it is because she killed Silco with it. So from this point on Jinx killed Powder,plus leaving her sister tied up.In Season 2 Jinx may not view Vi as family anymore,the one person who gave her unconditional love she killed , While There are lines that Vi just can not cross because of Vander;s teachings. So Jinx chose Silco.
When Jinx basically tells Vi to shoot Caitlyn to "have Powder back", it was pretty clear from that alone that Powder was long gone.
It's good that you point out that Jynx shot the missile because she wanted to continue Silco's cause. Before that, I only thought that she did it only for herself. She knows that a war between Piltover and Zaun is going to happen if she doesn't turn herself over to the council. But she's also not the type to commit suicide for the greater good not to mention that it's also hard for her to trust the council is not gonna lie to her.
So I'm going to counter the ending scene where she launches the missile at the council. When he says you're perfect, in that moment where he's dying because of her, she accidentally shoots him and she comes too, she doesn't choose Jinx because she can't deal with Vi not loving her because of what she's done, it's the fact that in that final moment he chose to love her regardless of her screw up, regardless of the fact that someone's dying, especially him, due to her mistake. He showed that no matter what, he loved who she is, even when she screwed up and then in her mind she plays back to the moment that the same thing happened with Vander, and Vi was angry, VI hurt her when she was at her lowest point and screwed up, so in her mind that was the final choice of who loved her more and why. Her brain has been so erratic that this sudden change of mentality of "He must be the one that truly loves me" isn't that hard to accept in my opinion because he's been accepting her all along and she knows that and she feels that, and so when she kills him and he says "You're perfect," he shows that final act of love. she decides that, that's where she's at because she knows Vi is never going to call her Jinx. VI is never going to love who she is or everything she's done but Silco does. She then does, in a final act of a like father daughter moment, she enacts the only thing that could potentially make their family or their lives whole which would have been to destroy Piltover, or at least the people representing, it because that is what the next step logically to her would have been had Silco and her been together and him not giving her up. So yeah that's my thought on that one.
yes i agree
@@GeorgiaDow this honestly made my night! My day wasn't great but your comment has turned my night around, thank you!
Silco's fans, man... So the speech she gave to Vi was for what ? what purpose do he serves ?
@@mkmc94 Silco's fans?? And the whole thing about Vi being able to choose where she sits if she just gets rid of Caitlyn? That speech?
That is an interesting take on it.. I have to agree with you.
Hey Georgia, what is your interpretation of Jinx saying "...but you changed too." to Vi?💭
She definitely chose her own identity, but what do you think she thinks of Vi based on those words?
When she says that the camera shows Caitlyn lying unconscious on the ground. I believe Jinx meant that Vi changed because she has found someone else she loves and she is not willing to sacrifice Caitlyn to have Powder back. When they were young Vi would do anything to protect her sister but now that she has found someone else that she loves she refuses to choose between the two of them. People with abandonment issues often feel threatened by the partners of their loved ones because they're afraid that their partners will steal them away. That is the case of Jinx here. She feels threatened, she is afraid that Vi will love Caitlyn more than she loves her sister and refusing to sacrifice her proves Jinx that she's right.
Obviously she doesn't understand that Vi can love both Jinx and Caitlyn but each in a different way. She feels like Vi isn't the way she used to be. That they both drifted apart and things can't go back to how they used to be.
(It's even more painful for her when she realises that she sacrificed her father for Vi but Vi wouldn't do the same for her.)
@@justacat869 Also she betrayed Zaun as a nation. They were brought up in a belief that they are worse, and they should fight tooth and nail to differentiate or free themselves from Piltover, just like Silco did. I belive that Sevika lost respect for Vander for the same reason. He was able to cooperate, choose a middle ground to prevent blood being spilled. And now Vi not only chose someone else to love, as Jinx sees it, but it's also a piltovian enforcer.
Vi used to be anti-topside like the other trenchers but then she decided to date one
@Simphiwe i think it means how she now has Caitlyn
I mean imagine you and your sister grew up in concentration camps in ww2 and after so many hardships, you find out that your sister is dating an SS officer. Enforcers are literally SS officers in that universe.
The tee party was a test for Vi.
Jinx has schowed too Vi all of what she had become. She wanted to tell her "that's me, will you akcept me?"
yes I think so also
Watched a few UA-camrs that claimed to be therapists and head doctors blah blah. You’re the best. You bring a unique evaluation of mental states and facial expressions (the hidden msgs lost on a lot of people.) credit to the writers and the animation team.
My God, a few weeks ago I refused to whatch the series, then a friend convinced me, so I started watching it the last thursday and finished it yesterday tuesday 22... MY GOD, definitively MY favorite series of all Time. I was able to analyze EVERY single aspect of the series meticulously and not just watch it, but live it so hard and so deep, Dear Lord, what an ending, WHAT AN ENDING, just magnificent, I recently finished The Mandalorian and thought that there was no other series that make me cry...
no, no, no, no, no, Arcane, just with that beginning "Dear friend across the river" no no NOOOO, God, and then that ending "I am the monster you created", please stop, stop, stop.
Beautiful, depressive, but beautiful.
it is just reading your experience with it gave me chills reliving it myself
I think it’s interesting that LoL Jinx’s tattoo isn’t just the blue clouds of the bomb that killed Vander and created ‘Jinx’ but also includes bullets. As in, the hail of bullets that killed Silco and cemented her as Jinx. I think her tattoo is something of a memorial to the events and people that shaped her.
Speaking of LoL Jinx, I’d love to see a video of you giving game Jinx a look over and your thoughts on how the two might be connected. The cutscenes in the Legend of Runeterra card game in particular, as those show potential reunions with Vi.
Great video as always.
Yeah, I also kinda think the bullet tattoos will be added next season. How the Jinx in the game and the one from Arcane connect is also interessting, as right now, they just seem so far from each other.
nice thanks =)
Awesome! I loved Encanto but glad we're wrapping up Arcane. Excited for the analysis of the best mad scientist, Singed! You make me see the characters from some new angles and I love that
Thank you =)
As someone who has been diagnosed with BPD one of the most compelling parts is the ending of this first season along with the possibility that jinx (may not be certain) suffers from it aswell. Something I've talked about a lot during my DBT is always having trouble recognizing who we are as people, the lack of identity, and the overall struggle to find ourselves. The fact jinx made such a decision, in the end, is a powerful moment because she decides who she will be (even if she was never going to be her old self let's be honest), and as someone who is borderline its something that resonates deep inside of me because I know maybe one day I will be able to as well. That's the beauty of good storytelling because throughout the show I related so much to what she went through especially when she broke down at Vi "leaving" I had a major moment like that at such a young age that ultimately led me to where I am today with that strong neverending sense and fear of abandonment. If someone ever stumbles across this comment and is currently in need of help or someone to bring you up please don't bottle up your emotions. Your emotions are what make you human, talk to someone you trust. Find someone who can give you the help you need and if you are terrified of seeing someone or even trusting someone, understand people do love you. Don't be afraid to get the help you need so your tomorrow can be better and one step at a time you'll be able to grow to become the beautiful person you deserve to be. I believe in you :)
thank you for your words. Other who read it will hopefully open up and share about themselves also.
The writing for this series was so amazing, Jinx was one of the best written cases I've seen for mental stress and trauma. During the scene with the flare, I nearly came to tears, it must've been so much for her to bare to do that. You can tell how much of her was lost in those moments before Vi came up, she resigned herself to being Jinx in those moments. Vi still arriving rebroke what she had just steeled herself to become. If she had come before that moment, Jinx likely would have ignored Caitlyns presence or accepted her for it anyway. Before that scene, Jinx was at least self assured about what she had, and was fighting off what she lost. But from then onwards, you can see her struggling so much more with what was real or not.
That Shimmer scene was intense, and the voice actress should honestly win an award for her performance.
You can also see, right after she killed Silco, the moment Powder basically disappears forever.
yes I agree. Poignant statement "the moment powder disappears"
The power stone is key in a lot of this. (I don't think it's a coincidence that she places it in the center of the party.)
It's the thing that took away everything from Powder. The one she took.
As Jinx she's takes another one, and are trying to harness it. But again it ends up taking away everything from her.
Her last act is to send it back...
I think that, on top of wanting to honor Silco, she realized that she couldn't get back the same relationship Vi and her had before even if they two stayed together. She's been stuck in the same event at the same age, as proved by the way she pranked others and how she behaved in front of Silco in their father-daughter relationship. Most of us thought at first that it could be a weird romantic one, but just only because Silco and herself were treating it like she was still 9 yo, which was the real thing making it look odd.
Besides that, it is the acceptance of herself. Not a very healthy one, but one finally. Looks to me as 'well, if I can't be with anyone I love because I'm a jinx that corrupts everything, I'm gonna purposely jinx everything and everyone and be the best doom I can'. If you can't fight them, join them. She came to believe that she can't help being that way and getting the same results over and over, so she thinks she will just be happier if she embraces it.
That wraps it up for me: Silc'os legacy, Vi's detachment and "self-acceptance" .
so she burned it all
I honestly couldn't help but be happy for her that she chose to give up on Vi. It's like she was so dependent on her to make her feel like she's accepted and worth it, that it become so unstable.
I personally relate to the need to hear from people I care about that I'm alright and didn't make a mistake. For me, I also had a person like Vi, which bond I felt mattered more than life itself. It never worked out for me, I always felt like I was disapproved of and there were a lot of times I felt abandoned by that person. It was when I let go of this bond and my dependency on that person that it felt like my life had started anew and I could finally live for myself.
I really wish that Jinx finds happiness and can learn to love herself
One thing that I noticed was how, even when Silco sees that Jinx is having an episode or listening to the negative voices, he doesn't acknowledge them. Probably to make Jinx feel more open towards him, as well as maybe not giving them more influence over her thoughts. To not be freaked out by her episodes was probably a source of great comfort to Jinx, which is why I think he was like that
i feel he did really accept her
I kind of agree with this, but at the same time..
I think it was, at least partially, a manipulation thing, intentional or not. Silco wants Jinx to embrace this side of herself, because it makes her a living representation of Zaun, in a sense. The chaos, the destruction, the unpredictability, the fear it instills - that's his goal for Zaun. In episode 3 he says something to Vander along the lines of, "We don't need to win a war with Piltover, just make them so scared they never step foot in the underground again." Jinx represents that fear in so many ways, as does shimmer.
Where shimmer is this powerful drug that can mutate users and make them physically powerful, allowing him to build an army of actual monsters, it's also used with precision. I forget which episode it's in, but the fight where Jayce and Vi are back to back fighting Silco's goons - those suits they wear are powered by shimmer, probably pumping it into the wearer at whatever specific dose or rate is needed while also making the suit itself stronger.
Kinda rambled there, but all this is to lead back to Jinx. Jinx is already powerful: She's skilled, mentally unstable and chaotic, naturally putting that same fear into others. She is a living, breathing representation of Zaun, of Silco's dreams - while also being his daughter, the person he truly loves and cares for.
He may not be specifically trying to draw it out in those moments, but I think it's something he naturally does with her to encourage her poor mental state, since it's so beneficial to his goals. He loves her, he doesn't want to lose her, but he's still Silco; he's still calculating and has big goals that she can help him reach. Plus.. Silco is responsible for shimmer (Singed made it, Silco dealt it and used it to create an army). He's probably very used to seeing people snap, have episodes similar to Jinx's. And there's also the aspect of time - he's grown used to these episodes from her, so naturally, even if he did have more of a reaction before, he's grown to accept them.
I think there's just so many different ways of taking it, and there's so many different factors motivating everything Silco does, including in his relationship with Jinx.
I know you've probably noticed it, but I will say it anyway. That the animation *always* turned into 2D whenever we saw "elemental forces." If we saw flames dancing in the night or colored smoke twisting through the air or liquid rolling in a vial, all of that was rendered in 2D, when the people themselves were largely rendered in 3D.
Getting out of a very shitty day at work and seeing this pop up as a notification... A great end to a terrible day! Thank you, Georgia! (Even though I will have to wait with watching it)
I hope it makes your day brighter Elisabeth
I don’t know if anyone has already mentioned it in the comments. But Jinx overhearing Silco talking about her to Vander and misunderstanding it isn’t the first time it’s happened. When they were younger, she did the same thing with Milo and Vi. She only heard half the conversation and misunderstood everything.
Not even gonna lie loving the hair 😭
YAY
Ive been waiting anxiously for this and you did not disappoint. Stellar analysis (and ofc amazing outfit) ❤️
thank you I really enjoyed this cosplay
Suuuuper late since I only just found your channel but I was curious if you had any thoughts on the lyrics of 'What could have been' because I think it's clearly sung in Jinx's point of view and I think they give us a little insight into Jinx's thought process during the moments after she takes the hexstone from the table.
Yes!! I’ve been waiting for this! I think you did a beautiful job wrapping up jinx. I have a weird affinity for jinx so I love these videos. Also I have yet to not cry at the end of the tea party scene. Her losing everything at the end just does it for me.
happy you enjoyed it!
Even after watching these scenes for several times, seeing reactions to it, watching your analysis, etc... I still get teary and want to cry. I love Arcane so much for how it touches the feelings
I'm not sure why but it made me laugh a little whenever she does a little segue to gush a bit about a scene she enjoyed. I love I can hear how much she genuinely enjoyed the show. She doesn't do it to the point it derails the video and I think she deserves some kudos 👏 for that skill.
Some content creators stay so on topic/script they seem stiff
Thanks =))))) made me happy you enjoy those parts never know if i should keep or remove them
@@GeorgiaDow For sure do if you think it'll fit!
Just started binging your vids today actually. I've been enjoying the vids with and without the segues. This one happened to catch me during a break at work earlier and I ended up laughing on a burrito.
Peace and happy day/night to you!
A great connection between arcane and league if legends is that during matches, jinx will actually give her gun "fishbones"(the one shown at the very end) a deep male voice and often times, it is one of reason asking her to calm down and make s life for herself aside from the destruction she causes. This is incredibly symbolic given the guns connection to silco
3:42
Georgia "we already know for jinx that the main thing that hurts her is the em..."
my brain: " *EMOTIONAL DAMAGE !!!* "
me: "why are you the way that you are... -_- "
=) we are in sync
i could practically hear the sandle hitting the floor XD
I wonder about the crow she shot. The first time I saw it I thought it was completely random but after noticing she used the feathers as decorations on her Jynx chair, did she actually start planning that tea party much sooner than the episode it happened.