When Arcane giveth, Arcane taketh away. They really had the kiss we've been waiting for right before their second break-up.😭 I get it, Caitlyn is starting to act like Jinx, and her nearly shooting a child was a traumatic betrayal for Vi, but it still hurts! I am scared for act 2.
I think the reason Jinx's rocket launcher (Fishbones, in the game) worked the first time is because she built most of the weapon by herself and it only calls on the Hextech when she fires the BIG rockets, like the one she launched at the Council and the one she was about to launch at Vi before it glitched out. Jayce's weapons rely much more heavily on the gemstones in order to function because he's working from a background of Hextech engineering, where Jinx has been building explosives and guns without Hextech for years now.
19:43 my theory is that it reminded Vi of her own childhood, seeing enforcers kill her parents. Now she is the one wearing enforcer clothes as she tries to kill people from Zaun fighting against Piltover. And she just cant stand having this child seeing Jinx die. Just my thoughts on it
And the way Isha (the kid) clung to Jinx was similar to how Powder clung to Silco back in S1E3 after the explosion. I wonder if her telling Isha to "scram" was an act she put up for Vi and Caitlyn so they wouldn't see through her "crazy terrorist" act, or if she genuinely didn't want Isha to do the same thing Powder did and get attached to a criminal and spiral into this life.
The worst part is that after Caitlyn butts Vi in the stomach with her gun, if you look closely you can see a small micro expression of regret. It doesn’t excuse her, but shows that she knows what she did is wrong but is too full of anger to admit it.😢 And I think Vi cried not because Cait hit her, but because of the fact she then leaves her. The first person that she trusted since she got out of prison, the first person she began to bond with again, and the first person she ever fell in love with, now she believes hates her.😭 It’s almost a parallel to what happened to her and Jinx/Powder (the red person leaving the blue person, now the blue person leaves the red person).
I was so excited for this video that I went "YEEESSSSSS" at the same time poor Mosko is just going "nooooooooo" at the beginning 😂 Edit: I do find it very interesting that you and another reactor have both mentioned just ripping the kid off of Jinx to give Cait the shot. I feel like that would literally just create another Jinx. Isha doesn't have any context as to why Vi and Jinx are fighting, all she sees is an enforcer brutalizing the person she sees as her protector. Like imagine how shattering that would have been, Isha clearly didn't want to pull the trigger. But being ripped off of Jinx when trying to defend her and seeing her still die anyway? She'd be taught that the only way to TRULY survive against enforcers is to take the shot before they do. The cycle of violence would continue.
I get the impression many think the Grey is being used non-discriminately throughout the Zaun population. From the comic-book intro, we see the Grey being used strategically at the chem baron locations as well as locations where Vi believes Jinx would be. The people being assaulted in the intro were from the two chem baron factions. While still a shady tactic, it would prevent unnecessary collateral damage to civilians should a skirmish breakout with the chem barons. Remember the alternative plan was to send an army of enforcers to wreak havoc on the Zaunites which would've been considerably messier.
Yeah, I've seen a few comments saying they flooded the lanes with the Grey, when instead, we've seen it be contained in certain areas, like in ep. 2, just within that chembaron building and where they thought Jinx would be. Still very bad, of course. And this is just to explain what they are doing, not excusing it.
Guard #1 was referring to Amara going missing which Ambessa uses the made up assassin to explain Amara's death/disappearance; while Ambessa was talking about treating Mel as an enemy so that the presumed Black Rose whatevers wouldn't think to use Mel against Ambessa.
Funnily enough, your comment about "Vi, don't you know what the Grey does to people?" made me consider for the first time that...she might not. She grew up after the vents were installed, and from what we see all the info about the long term effects of the grey was contained inside the archives that Cait read. Any info on the Grey she knew would've had to come from Cait, and Cait's so laser focused on Jinx she might not've even mentioned the Grey's effects.
So, to recap: - Viktor is now Twink Jesus - Caitlyn is now Piltover's new lesbian overlord - Vi just got her first kiss and her second breakup in one day - Jinx has learned the joys of adoption - The boys just discovered the Spider-Verse - Sevika is now Inspector Gadget - Mel is, well, still Mel - Ambessa is a rat
The mural is of Janna, she is an elemental wind spirit who protects the dispossessed in Zaun, she is seen as a god, you can see people in episode 2 praying to her when Viktor is walking through the streets!
For the record, the Goddess that's worshiped in Zaune is a Champion/Player Character for the game. And Black Rose are a faction in the game that have at least four Champions in its membership.
Mel being taken will definitely make Jayce produce on a huge scale hextech weapons for ambessa. Which will tie in his and Victor's old lore more with arcane.
The thing is, I don't think Ambessa has made up her mind about Caitlyn yet. As long as Caitlyn shows a willingness to cross the Rubicon, she's useful to Ambessa. The second she falters or questions if things are going too far, she's got a contingency to martyr her.
I'm sure other people have mentioned it already, but just to clarify Vi and Cait did not flood the entire undercity with mustard gas or something.They allowed this factory smog to briefly smoke out certain buildings they knew had Jinx or the crime bosses/shimmer facilities in them like the brothel and the arcade last episode, where we saw the smoke didn't travel more than a few feet from the door Still pretty awful behavior for sure, but specifically designed to avoid the civilian casualties there would have been if an army of enforcers came down instead, like Salo wanted
Ambessa wasn't saying Mel's disappearance wouldn't go unnoticed. She was saying that about Amara's disappearance, because she had just killed Amara. Oh, also, if you didn't notice: Caitlyn slammed the butt of her rifle right into the spot where Vi had been stabbed by Sevika in season 1. Cait gave up her rifle to heal that wound, and now she uses her rifle to hit Vi in the same spot.
19:46 Oh my God, it's not all fighting, Vi is a much more complex and sentimental character, did she see that Isha was trying to protect Jinx, so she was going to get the girl out of the way and kill Jinx in front of her? What kind of monster would Vi be? I hope Isha and Jinx stay together until the end, it's an interesting dynamic and she's cute 🥹🤏🏼
The woman on the wall in the back is the "wispy wind woman" Jinx mentioned, a goddess who has been worshipped on this continent for thousands of years, and who far far far far predates the Gray She is also a playable character in LoL, so she actually exists and is not just an urban legend like Jinx thinks. My theory is she won't be appearing in the show, but we will get more comparisons between her and Jinx. The pose you pointed out, the fact that Jinx used wind to blow bad air out of Zaun and up toward their enemies just like this goddess did, the fact that she is sometimes said to take the form of a bird that is blue like Jinx's hair. And we've seen her painted on the walls of Zaun, just like Jinx is in the trailer. Foreshadowing Jinx will soon be revered and called out to for aid by the Zaunites, like a modern incarnation of Janna the Storm's Fury
13:27 Janna is another game character. She's a wind goddess, which is very important to Zaunites. In episode 2, Viktor spots some people praying to a mural of Janna.
-Episode 3 To Ashes And Blood Lyrics (Vocals by Woodkid): [Verse 1] You walk along the edge of danger And it will change you Why would you let this voice set in your head? It is meant to destroy you You summon storms, you play with nature Now watch it hurt you Why would you want to shape the world in your hands? You will never make it through [Pre-Chorus] Shuriman Chants [Chorus] Catch the fire burning out your soul Just make it die or you will turn it all [Post-Chorus] To ashes and blood (Shuriman Chants) To ashes and blood (Shuriman Chants) [Verse 2] You waste your life to gain power You shift the game rules How does it feel to reach the line that no one ever got to cross? Does it make you a god now? Every sin will be forgiven If you lay down your weapons to the ground [Pre-Chorus] [Shuriman Chants] [Chorus] Catch the fire burning out your soul [Shuriman Chants] Just make it die or you will fall [Shuriman Chants] Catch the fire burning out your soul (Shuriman Chants] Just make it die or you will turn it all [Shuriman Chants] [Post-Chorus] To ashes and blood [Shuriman Chants] To ashes and blood [Shuriman Chants] To ashes and blood [Shuriman Chants] To ashes and blood [Shuriman Chants] To ashes and blood 💜
The Shuriman chants are actually translatable: "Beyond these walls, the storm's fury grows (But I have nothing to fear!) Over land and sea, the storm's fury grows (For the blue bird is with me)" It's a prayer to the Shuriman goddess of winds, Jan'ahrem. The entire temple where the final fight take place is a Shuriman temple of Jan'ahrem, from when Zaun was Osha Va'Zaun, a portual city, where sailors would pray to Jan'ahrem for good winds to carry them safely during their travels. The worship of Jan'ahrem would end when the Emperor of Shurima, Azir, banned many gods' cults, that is until Zaun became a mining city and collapsed underground as a result of Piltover's building of the Sun Gates to connect Valorant (the northen continent) to Shurima (the southern continent), flooding the streets of Zaun with the Gray, when Jan'ahrem, now Janna, would return and cast away the toxic cloud with her winds. Now Janna is the patron spirit of Zaun, where people pray and give offerings to her, such prayers often about a single thing: fresh air. You can actually see Zaunite pray to a mural of her in Episode 2, in the brief montage of Viktor walking in the undercity.
One of the things that struck me about the part where jinx tells isha "id you ever need to curse a family a sibling a society" was this wasn't just jinx being a villain intro...this was jinx beating herself up, these are her core beliefs. She believes that she's a Jinx, a curse, and every she cares about and gets close to her is bound ro be cursed and jinxed. This is what jinx believes herself to be and that's what she accepted at the end of season 1 when she sat down in that chair and told Vi "I thought you could love me like you used too, even though I'm different. But you've changed too so here's to the new us." Does Jinx want to desperately fix things? Yes, but everything she tries things get worse and this rienforcees her core beliefs that she is a jinx, she accepts this and is now numb to being "dead inside", ready to die "I'm ready" and passively suicide "no matter what I do, I just can't seem to die". But there's also something else of that acceptance and that is an ability to move on from from it, a steadiness she didn't have before she hadn't accepted herself wholly, after having clung so strongly to the past, by letting go of Powder and accepting that she is a Jinx she found herself.
My favorite detail in this episode is that the chanting in the song during the fight and the Wild Hexcore, as confirmed by Riot Games, is a conlang specifically made for League of Legends. It's the language of Shurima, and the chanting is meant to be a prayer to the goddess that Jinx references in the abandoned temple.
The "Wind Woman" portrayed in the mural is Janna. Another character from the game, a wind sorceress. So to the people of Vaun she is like a savior. Probably from a time before the venting system, who saved people from the grey.
Y'know what I realized...Jinx was shooting that rocket at Vi pretty freaking close...I know she's been suicidal before, but I genuinely think she was trying to take both Vi and herself here. I might be stating the obvious, but I didn't catch that the first 3 times I watched this. 💙 ❤️ 💜
Episode 3 in season 1 is the same as season 2 powder gets hit and left by someone she loved now vi got hit and left by someone she loved the crying scenes are very very similar as well maybe vi will understand the pain powder went through and jinx will understand the pain vi went through because of the kid isha 😳
Something I haven't seen any commentator address is the focus on Jinx realizing Vi saving her from Caitlyn's shot will be what bring Vi & Jinx back together in the next arc. Next Arc prediction; Vi, Jinx, Jayce, Heimerdinger & Echo uniting.
I'm actually thinking with the rise of the arcane, that Caitlyn is going to have to put her anger aside and work with Jinx against a common enemy. They won't be able to survive the rise of the arcane without all of them.
Ironically, while we have the (hopefully momentary along with Cait’s… stuff) break between Piltover’s finest… we still have a women-only family: Jinx, Sevika, and Isha. There might not be romance, but they certainly have loyalty.
The whole releasing grey thing is not quite as bad as you think they where using it to scare off civilians and keep there operations covert. Cause the only ones who will stick around are those with assets in the area namely the gangs
-Episode 3 Hellfire Lyrics (Vocals by Fever 333): [Intro] Whatchu know about that? [Verse 1] Can I do the right thing for the wrong reason? Is it bad that I'm making friends with my demons, and Living by a couple deadly sins Just to make sure I finish what you began And I ain't afraid to lose a life or ten If it means that I get to win in the end (Woo) So I'ma do this on my own, step into the danger zone Pull the pin and watch it blow [Pre-Chorus] I would rather die alone Oh, I would rather die alone Oh, I would rather die [Chorus] Come out and play Let it rain down hellfire Can't hide away, yeah It's judgement day And no one gets out alive Verse 2] Where you gonna hide when it's on sight When the dogs start feeding? You should pick a side, maybe you could die Go down with some all star heathens Everybody killing, ain't nobody really willing To think of all the chaos and the blood spilling But when you live for the thrill that death's giving I'd rather have some fun than to be forgiven Live by a couple deadly sins Just to make sure I finish what you began And I ain't afraid to lose a life or ten If it means that I get the win in the end, woo So I'ma do this on my own, step into the danger zone Pull the pin and watch it blow [Pre-Chorus] I would rather die alone Oh, I would rather die alone Oh, I would rather die Oh, I would rather die [Chorus] Come out and play Let it rain down hellfire Can't hide away, yeah It's judgement day And no one gets out alive 💜
Too much to say about the episode, so I'll just say how I love the fact that Ambessa embodies a character I really hoped would've been in the show (since Noxus' involvement was introduced): Swain. The manipulation, political games, betray and yet all in service to a noble cause... and the big ass jacket over the shoulders. The Grand General would be proud!!
At least it was known well in advance the breakup was coming. As far as I'm concerned that is better than it coming out of nowhere, but I know not everyone agrees because after this reaction I'm now I'm just imagining Elijah's reaction of a kiss and breakup in the same episode. Good thing for me is that I am a midnight watcher and we only have 6+ hours encounting. I didn't know that about the sex warning. It gives me hope for Vi and Caitlyn, although it might not be them the warning is for.
I wonder how much Jinx knew about the Grey beforehand. The series makes it seems like she only started reworking the pipes AFTER her encounter with it, but I wonder if Silco ever told her anything about it. She's know SOMETHING like it earlier, because of the Wind Woman tale. However, I'm PRETTY sure Silco uses it in Season 1 when he's reminding the other powers of the Undercity what they're fighting for. He releases a gas, put on a mask, and everyone else starts coughing until he gives them a mask as well. He called it the toxic air from the factories, which I THINK is the same way the Grey is described. Silco talked like the Grey was all over the place when he was younger. So it makes me wonder how much the older people in the Undercity know about the Grey. And if the Kiramanns have been guarding it for at least 3 generations, but Silco also has experiences with it in his youth, just how long ago was it actually shut off?
@@silver9wolf6 Fair, though I don't think Vi is thinking of that particular dead friend when she's wearing them, considering who owned/wore them ever since. :D
I'm not exaggerating here...I honestly don't think I've worried about characters well-being in a TV Series more than I have with this show. Even if noone dies at the end of the series (which I think someone, or some of them will) no matter what, the finale will break me, and it will break most of us ...💜
Potential Spoiler Warning Comment below for anyone who hasn't watched the full video... We spent 3 years, going through the 5 stages of grief, wondering if Mel was dead ... only then to get her back, feel relieved... and in 3 episodes, she gets kidnapped by witches.
So, I've seen a lot of great shows (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, Attack on Titian, She-ra, Casltevania) and Arcane just beats them all, except maybe ATLA! The characters, animation, conflict, it's just all so realistic!
When Sevika releases the Grey to Topside, I'm just curious about what Jinx meant by "This isn't how it's supposed to-" What was the rest of that sentence? What was the plan supposed to be?
I'm not entirely sure those plumes of colored smoke are an attack as such. In this episode we don't see them do more than deface the surrounding buildings with color. I think they might have been more of a THREAT. "THIS time I splashed paint all over town. Imagine what I could do NEXT time if you keep pissing me off."
I didn’t know where else to post this, Bosca, but have you ever considered reacting to the Disney show “Gargoyles”? Its story does have roots in Scottish culture, lore and a bit of its history. Just saying
"If that was me I would've ripped the child off of her" first said child was incredibly anxious and angry and had a gun which they almost shot at her??
@@maciekzelichowski1411 If they're interested, they'll look it up. The show is building this storyline up as a mystery. LoL players are just radomnly revealing this shit the same way book readers used to do during the earlier seasons of GOT....
“What are you planning?” “finishing what’s left of my family” she was talking about herself, I dont think she sees Vi as her sister anymore either. You can see she was ready to die and let Vi kill her 🙁 Also, Cait literally had the privilege of mourning her mother properly and having a beautiful burial/memorial, Zaun children watch their parents get shot dead and have to leave their bodies on the streets. I love her, but she's making me so upset... 😐
That kiss was bittersweet 😔. Jinx comment about Vi and Cait was a low 🤜. And that got me think, if they are the ones that they have sex, I think is going to be angry sex, unlike what Jayce and Mel did. And that got me thinking that omg 😔 I don’t think that Vi ever got a chance to be with someone in that way. Her entire young adulthood she spent it alone in a cell. Cait had a regular teen life and I don’t think that was the first time she had someone in her room. This was Vi’s first relationship, she is going to go through it 😢. And I don’t think that in this show, nobody is safe and I’m okay with it, but their story and death better be good. Like Bly Manor good and not Clexa stupid. Mel’s mom was talking about Amara disappearing. And I do think that Mel will die or her mom will die saving her, that motherfuc&er actually loves her daughter 😢
NGL I don't think there's a "go back together" once Kaitlin starts marching her armies into the Undercity. The fascist dictator undertones are too heavy, I think this is a point of no return.
Yo guys! My uncle from Riot Games leaked Act 2 for me, and it's wild! In Episode 4, Vi befriends this pirate queen, who she has a casual physical relationship with to forget Caitlyn (that's what earned Season 2 its sexual content tag BTW). This pirate queen offers a spot in her crew, and Vi's arc in this act is whether or not to run away from her pain. She almost leaves Zaun for good, but then Vi goes back when she hears that Mel's mom has imprisoned Caitlyn for defying her (she gets a surprisingly quick redemption arc in this) because Cait is ultimately her true love and crap.
The deity is a char in the games her name is Janna I think? Someone mentioned it somewhere. She's the protector of Zaun. I think. I don't know the game but sure you could google it and find out. :)
I love that both she and Elijah both thought about each other during the kiss 😂
The shot of Vi on her knees crying as Caitlyn leaves is so reminiscent of Powder on her knees crying as Vi leaves.
Thx for that @kirkistief, I’m crying now
Only difference: Vi tried to go back but was stopped; Caitlyn didn't.
The parallels in structure of the act has been both beautiful and heartbreaking.
Oh I hadn't noticed that. She has the same expression of despair on her face Powder had.
And Cait looking oh so similar to the enforcers that tormented Vi in childhood....😭
When Arcane giveth, Arcane taketh away. They really had the kiss we've been waiting for right before their second break-up.😭 I get it, Caitlyn is starting to act like Jinx, and her nearly shooting a child was a traumatic betrayal for Vi, but it still hurts! I am scared for act 2.
I think the reason Jinx's rocket launcher (Fishbones, in the game) worked the first time is because she built most of the weapon by herself and it only calls on the Hextech when she fires the BIG rockets, like the one she launched at the Council and the one she was about to launch at Vi before it glitched out. Jayce's weapons rely much more heavily on the gemstones in order to function because he's working from a background of Hextech engineering, where Jinx has been building explosives and guns without Hextech for years now.
Elijah’s reaction to this episode is in half an hour. Your timing is perfect.
Watching them back-to-back was great. Some reactions were word for word. 😊
@ definitely word for word. Those two are made for each other.
And then the next three episodes drop tomorrow
I saw once a comment "how long do you think Vi sat on the bottom of the well before she realize Cait wasn't coming back"😭💔
Ow!! 😢
Is really interesting see people that dont know the lore reacting and especulating about Janna and Black Rose
19:43 my theory is that it reminded Vi of her own childhood, seeing enforcers kill her parents. Now she is the one wearing enforcer clothes as she tries to kill people from Zaun fighting against Piltover. And she just cant stand having this child seeing Jinx die.
Just my thoughts on it
And the way Isha (the kid) clung to Jinx was similar to how Powder clung to Silco back in S1E3 after the explosion. I wonder if her telling Isha to "scram" was an act she put up for Vi and Caitlyn so they wouldn't see through her "crazy terrorist" act, or if she genuinely didn't want Isha to do the same thing Powder did and get attached to a criminal and spiral into this life.
Aww, you and Elijah are exactly the same with your rections and thoughts. So cute.
The worst part is that after Caitlyn butts Vi in the stomach with her gun, if you look closely you can see a small micro expression of regret. It doesn’t excuse her, but shows that she knows what she did is wrong but is too full of anger to admit it.😢
And I think Vi cried not because Cait hit her, but because of the fact she then leaves her. The first person that she trusted since she got out of prison, the first person she began to bond with again, and the first person she ever fell in love with, now she believes hates her.😭 It’s almost a parallel to what happened to her and Jinx/Powder (the red person leaving the blue person, now the blue person leaves the red person).
Caitlyn's ancestor: I think people should be able to breath in the undercity...
Cait: AND I TOOK EXCEPTION TO THAT! >:(
I was so excited for this video that I went "YEEESSSSSS" at the same time poor Mosko is just going "nooooooooo" at the beginning 😂
Edit: I do find it very interesting that you and another reactor have both mentioned just ripping the kid off of Jinx to give Cait the shot. I feel like that would literally just create another Jinx. Isha doesn't have any context as to why Vi and Jinx are fighting, all she sees is an enforcer brutalizing the person she sees as her protector. Like imagine how shattering that would have been, Isha clearly didn't want to pull the trigger. But being ripped off of Jinx when trying to defend her and seeing her still die anyway? She'd be taught that the only way to TRULY survive against enforcers is to take the shot before they do. The cycle of violence would continue.
I get the impression many think the Grey is being used non-discriminately throughout the Zaun population. From the comic-book intro, we see the Grey being used strategically at the chem baron locations as well as locations where Vi believes Jinx would be. The people being assaulted in the intro were from the two chem baron factions. While still a shady tactic, it would prevent unnecessary collateral damage to civilians should a skirmish breakout with the chem barons.
Remember the alternative plan was to send an army of enforcers to wreak havoc on the Zaunites which would've been considerably messier.
Yeah, I've seen a few comments saying they flooded the lanes with the Grey, when instead, we've seen it be contained in certain areas, like in ep. 2, just within that chembaron building and where they thought Jinx would be. Still very bad, of course. And this is just to explain what they are doing, not excusing it.
I mean, there isn't really a way to get them BACK in the pipes though. The Grey that is released WILL disperse around the city.
21:01 nah, is not a metaphor or something like that, is REALLY A GODESS, a wind godess that is a playable champion of lol
Guard #1 was referring to Amara going missing which Ambessa uses the made up assassin to explain Amara's death/disappearance; while Ambessa was talking about treating Mel as an enemy so that the presumed Black Rose whatevers wouldn't think to use Mel against Ambessa.
Funnily enough, your comment about "Vi, don't you know what the Grey does to people?" made me consider for the first time that...she might not. She grew up after the vents were installed, and from what we see all the info about the long term effects of the grey was contained inside the archives that Cait read. Any info on the Grey she knew would've had to come from Cait, and Cait's so laser focused on Jinx she might not've even mentioned the Grey's effects.
Before the kiss Caitlyn puts down her rifle. Then Vi drops her gauntlets. Both of them put down their defences for each other :)
So, to recap:
- Viktor is now Twink Jesus
- Caitlyn is now Piltover's new lesbian overlord
- Vi just got her first kiss and her second breakup in one day
- Jinx has learned the joys of adoption
- The boys just discovered the Spider-Verse
- Sevika is now Inspector Gadget
- Mel is, well, still Mel
- Ambessa is a rat
very well summarized
I'M DYING THIS IS SO FUNNY
I believe the correct term is... Twink Hex Jesus
Mel has been sent to the Shadow Realm.
Mel got to be her glorious self, but at the cost of a kidnapping.
If I had a nickel for every time Ella Purnell lost a finger in 2024, I’d have two nickels.
It’s not a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.
Mosco: I'm gonna watch that again.
Elijah: I'm gonna watch it several more times!
Now we know why they're dating.
The mural is of Janna, she is an elemental wind spirit who protects the dispossessed in Zaun, she is seen as a god, you can see people in episode 2 praying to her when Viktor is walking through the streets!
For the record, the Goddess that's worshiped in Zaune is a Champion/Player Character for the game.
And Black Rose are a faction in the game that have at least four Champions in its membership.
What faction? And which members? My friend and I were speculating but couldn't come up with anything.
@@ronin2827they operate mostly in Noxus but their span is global. Leblanc, Vladimir, Elise, and Cassiopeia.
Mel being taken will definitely make Jayce produce on a huge scale hextech weapons for ambessa. Which will tie in his and Victor's old lore more with arcane.
The thing is, I don't think Ambessa has made up her mind about Caitlyn yet. As long as Caitlyn shows a willingness to cross the Rubicon, she's useful to Ambessa. The second she falters or questions if things are going too far, she's got a contingency to martyr her.
First it giveth Caitvi. Then it taketh away.
I'm sure other people have mentioned it already, but just to clarify Vi and Cait did not flood the entire undercity with mustard gas or something.They allowed this factory smog to briefly smoke out certain buildings they knew had Jinx or the crime bosses/shimmer facilities in them like the brothel and the arcade last episode, where we saw the smoke didn't travel more than a few feet from the door
Still pretty awful behavior for sure, but specifically designed to avoid the civilian casualties there would have been if an army of enforcers came down instead, like Salo wanted
Ambessa wasn't saying Mel's disappearance wouldn't go unnoticed. She was saying that about Amara's disappearance, because she had just killed Amara.
Oh, also, if you didn't notice: Caitlyn slammed the butt of her rifle right into the spot where Vi had been stabbed by Sevika in season 1. Cait gave up her rifle to heal that wound, and now she uses her rifle to hit Vi in the same spot.
When they say they'll "notice her missing", that was in reference to Amara, who Ambessa had just murdered. It wasn't about Mel.
"You great big prune!" is the realest thing I've ever heard
Just laughing at Mosco both insulting and trying to have faith in Amanda, especially since she's going to be on Elijah's channel soon 😂
19:46 Oh my God, it's not all fighting, Vi is a much more complex and sentimental character, did she see that Isha was trying to protect Jinx, so she was going to get the girl out of the way and kill Jinx in front of her? What kind of monster would Vi be?
I hope Isha and Jinx stay together until the end, it's an interesting dynamic and she's cute 🥹🤏🏼
I’M SO SORRY! I WANTED TO WARN YOU ALL WEEK! 😭 😭 😭
The woman on the wall in the back is the "wispy wind woman" Jinx mentioned, a goddess who has been worshipped on this continent for thousands of years, and who far far far far predates the Gray
She is also a playable character in LoL, so she actually exists and is not just an urban legend like Jinx thinks. My theory is she won't be appearing in the show, but we will get more comparisons between her and Jinx. The pose you pointed out, the fact that Jinx used wind to blow bad air out of Zaun and up toward their enemies just like this goddess did, the fact that she is sometimes said to take the form of a bird that is blue like Jinx's hair. And we've seen her painted on the walls of Zaun, just like Jinx is in the trailer. Foreshadowing Jinx will soon be revered and called out to for aid by the Zaunites, like a modern incarnation of Janna the Storm's Fury
The image on the wall is a likeness of Janna who's wind magic pushed back the grey and sealed it in that wall
Cait basically said, "To hell with your feelings, Vi"
13:27 Janna is another game character. She's a wind goddess, which is very important to Zaunites. In episode 2, Viktor spots some people praying to a mural of Janna.
-Episode 3 To Ashes And Blood Lyrics (Vocals by Woodkid):
[Verse 1]
You walk along the edge of danger
And it will change you
Why would you let this voice set in your head?
It is meant to destroy you
You summon storms, you play with nature
Now watch it hurt you
Why would you want to shape the world in your hands?
You will never make it through
[Pre-Chorus]
Shuriman Chants
[Chorus]
Catch the fire burning out your soul
Just make it die or you will turn it all
[Post-Chorus]
To ashes and blood
(Shuriman Chants)
To ashes and blood
(Shuriman Chants)
[Verse 2]
You waste your life to gain power
You shift the game rules
How does it feel to reach the line that no one ever got to cross?
Does it make you a god now?
Every sin will be forgiven
If you lay down your weapons to the ground
[Pre-Chorus]
[Shuriman Chants]
[Chorus]
Catch the fire burning out your soul
[Shuriman Chants]
Just make it die or you will fall
[Shuriman Chants]
Catch the fire burning out your soul
(Shuriman Chants]
Just make it die or you will turn it all
[Shuriman Chants]
[Post-Chorus]
To ashes and blood
[Shuriman Chants]
To ashes and blood
[Shuriman Chants]
To ashes and blood
[Shuriman Chants]
To ashes and blood
[Shuriman Chants]
To ashes and blood
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The Shuriman chants are actually translatable:
"Beyond these walls, the storm's fury grows
(But I have nothing to fear!)
Over land and sea, the storm's fury grows
(For the blue bird is with me)"
It's a prayer to the Shuriman goddess of winds, Jan'ahrem.
The entire temple where the final fight take place is a Shuriman temple of Jan'ahrem, from when Zaun was Osha Va'Zaun, a portual city, where sailors would pray to Jan'ahrem for good winds to carry them safely during their travels.
The worship of Jan'ahrem would end when the Emperor of Shurima, Azir, banned many gods' cults, that is until Zaun became a mining city and collapsed underground as a result of Piltover's building of the Sun Gates to connect Valorant (the northen continent) to Shurima (the southern continent), flooding the streets of Zaun with the Gray, when Jan'ahrem, now Janna, would return and cast away the toxic cloud with her winds. Now Janna is the patron spirit of Zaun, where people pray and give offerings to her, such prayers often about a single thing: fresh air.
You can actually see Zaunite pray to a mural of her in Episode 2, in the brief montage of Viktor walking in the undercity.
@@endertuber8300Translated, but not transliterated. We don't have a script for how to pronounce the words.
Mel's mother meant that the disappearance of the merchant lady was going to be noticed, she was not referring to Mel herself with that line.
You ain’t slick Maddie we know this is you 🧐
Such a powerful episode; less bodies than the end of season 1 act one, but the emotions are just as powerful.
One of the things that struck me about the part where jinx tells isha "id you ever need to curse a family a sibling a society" was this wasn't just jinx being a villain intro...this was jinx beating herself up, these are her core beliefs. She believes that she's a Jinx, a curse, and every she cares about and gets close to her is bound ro be cursed and jinxed. This is what jinx believes herself to be and that's what she accepted at the end of season 1 when she sat down in that chair and told Vi "I thought you could love me like you used too, even though I'm different. But you've changed too so here's to the new us."
Does Jinx want to desperately fix things? Yes, but everything she tries things get worse and this rienforcees her core beliefs that she is a jinx, she accepts this and is now numb to being "dead inside", ready to die "I'm ready" and passively suicide "no matter what I do, I just can't seem to die".
But there's also something else of that acceptance and that is an ability to move on from from it, a steadiness she didn't have before she hadn't accepted herself wholly, after having clung so strongly to the past, by letting go of Powder and accepting that she is a Jinx she found herself.
My favorite detail in this episode is that the chanting in the song during the fight and the Wild Hexcore, as confirmed by Riot Games, is a conlang specifically made for League of Legends. It's the language of Shurima, and the chanting is meant to be a prayer to the goddess that Jinx references in the abandoned temple.
The "Wind Woman" portrayed in the mural is Janna. Another character from the game, a wind sorceress. So to the people of Vaun she is like a savior. Probably from a time before the venting system, who saved people from the grey.
Jinx was talking about a character that he have yet to see when she talks about Janna the wispy wind woman. The Grey's use was Cait's idea not Vi's.
Vi stopped Cait because Jinx isn't alone anymore. She can't let Cait create another orphan.
You and Elijah are the only two reactors I've seen make the Sun Tree connection. Bravo.
Y'know what I realized...Jinx was shooting that rocket at Vi pretty freaking close...I know she's been suicidal before, but I genuinely think she was trying to take both Vi and herself here. I might be stating the obvious, but I didn't catch that the first 3 times I watched this.
💙 ❤️ 💜
Elijah and Mosco sharing the same sapphic wave length.
Fun fact: Mel's assistant was voiced by Erica Lindbeck (Loona)
Vi didn't want to take the kid out because it would give Cait a reason not to shoot Jinx.
Leblanc is the “witch” that took over Amara and Mel’s friend, Leblanc is one of the leaders of a group called the Black Rose.
Dude, stop spoiling.
@ not really spoiling lol
@@LunaNyaVT The show is building this stuff up as a mystery to non-players, so yes, it is.
@Simon-A.-Tan Thanks! I've been spoiled on this so much and I wish I didn't know it 😂
Episode 3 in season 1 is the same as season 2 powder gets hit and left by someone she loved now vi got hit and left by someone she loved the crying scenes are very very similar as well maybe vi will understand the pain powder went through and jinx will understand the pain vi went through because of the kid isha 😳
Just the intro itself is such a mood lol
Something I haven't seen any commentator address is the focus on Jinx realizing Vi saving her from Caitlyn's shot will be what bring Vi & Jinx back together in the next arc.
Next Arc prediction; Vi, Jinx, Jayce, Heimerdinger & Echo uniting.
I'm actually thinking with the rise of the arcane, that Caitlyn is going to have to put her anger aside and work with Jinx against a common enemy. They won't be able to survive the rise of the arcane without all of them.
Love the Vox Machina call out ❤
So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous chest thumping.
Ironically, while we have the (hopefully momentary along with Cait’s… stuff) break between Piltover’s finest… we still have a women-only family: Jinx, Sevika, and Isha. There might not be romance, but they certainly have loyalty.
The whole releasing grey thing is not quite as bad as you think they where using it to scare off civilians and keep there operations covert. Cause the only ones who will stick around are those with assets in the area namely the gangs
To all the girls who like girls, I love y'all and I hope you're safe. Love, a raging bisexual man probably.
Stay loved too bro 🤗❤️
-Episode 3 Hellfire Lyrics (Vocals by Fever 333):
[Intro]
Whatchu know about that?
[Verse 1]
Can I do the right thing for the wrong reason?
Is it bad that I'm making friends with my demons, and
Living by a couple deadly sins
Just to make sure I finish what you began
And I ain't afraid to lose a life or ten
If it means that I get to win in the end (Woo)
So I'ma do this on my own, step into the danger zone
Pull the pin and watch it blow
[Pre-Chorus]
I would rather die alone
Oh, I would rather die alone
Oh, I would rather die
[Chorus]
Come out and play
Let it rain down hellfire
Can't hide away, yeah
It's judgement day
And no one gets out alive
Verse 2]
Where you gonna hide when it's on sight
When the dogs start feeding?
You should pick a side, maybe you could die
Go down with some all star heathens
Everybody killing, ain't nobody really willing
To think of all the chaos and the blood spilling
But when you live for the thrill that death's giving
I'd rather have some fun than to be forgiven
Live by a couple deadly sins
Just to make sure I finish what you began
And I ain't afraid to lose a life or ten
If it means that I get the win in the end, woo
So I'ma do this on my own, step into the danger zone
Pull the pin and watch it blow
[Pre-Chorus]
I would rather die alone
Oh, I would rather die alone
Oh, I would rather die
Oh, I would rather die
[Chorus]
Come out and play
Let it rain down hellfire
Can't hide away, yeah
It's judgement day
And no one gets out alive
💜
Anyone else hold their chest where their heart is during the Vi/Jinx fight? I wasn't worried about the sisters, I was deathly worried for Caitlyn. 💜
I'm seriously wondering what's happening with Jayce, Heimerdinger, and Ekko.
Too much to say about the episode, so I'll just say how I love the fact that Ambessa embodies a character I really hoped would've been in the show (since Noxus' involvement was introduced): Swain.
The manipulation, political games, betray and yet all in service to a noble cause... and the big ass jacket over the shoulders.
The Grand General would be proud!!
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CRIKEY!!!
0:01 - 0:08 Yep that sums up the ending of this episode perfectly……
At least it was known well in advance the breakup was coming. As far as I'm concerned that is better than it coming out of nowhere, but I know not everyone agrees because after this reaction I'm now I'm just imagining Elijah's reaction of a kiss and breakup in the same episode. Good thing for me is that I am a midnight watcher and we only have 6+ hours encounting.
I didn't know that about the sex warning. It gives me hope for Vi and Caitlyn, although it might not be them the warning is for.
I wonder how much Jinx knew about the Grey beforehand.
The series makes it seems like she only started reworking the pipes AFTER her encounter with it, but I wonder if Silco ever told her anything about it. She's know SOMETHING like it earlier, because of the Wind Woman tale.
However, I'm PRETTY sure Silco uses it in Season 1 when he's reminding the other powers of the Undercity what they're fighting for. He releases a gas, put on a mask, and everyone else starts coughing until he gives them a mask as well. He called it the toxic air from the factories, which I THINK is the same way the Grey is described.
Silco talked like the Grey was all over the place when he was younger. So it makes me wonder how much the older people in the Undercity know about the Grey. And if the Kiramanns have been guarding it for at least 3 generations, but Silco also has experiences with it in his youth, just how long ago was it actually shut off?
You know, I just realized Ambessa said Mel's brother was "Gone" not dead. Now I'm wondering if he might be part of what she's running from.
You're so good at catching details and references and answers, wtf 😂 i bet you're better than the og league peeps lol
Ambessa is both the fox and the wolf.
"My sister...is gone." Vi says, while wearing her sister's goggles on her head. :p
Haha, technically those are Claggor's :P
@@silver9wolf6 Fair, though I don't think Vi is thinking of that particular dead friend when she's wearing them, considering who owned/wore them ever since. :D
I'm not exaggerating here...I honestly don't think I've worried about characters well-being in a TV Series more than I have with this show. Even if noone dies at the end of the series (which I think someone, or some of them will) no matter what, the finale will break me, and it will break most of us
...💜
Potential Spoiler Warning Comment below for anyone who hasn't watched the full video...
We spent 3 years, going through the 5 stages of grief, wondering if Mel was dead ... only then to get her back, feel relieved... and in 3 episodes, she gets kidnapped by witches.
Mel's assistant Elora. That voice was too familiar for me to let go. It's Erica Lindbeck! Loona from Helluva boss!
So, I've seen a lot of great shows (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, Attack on Titian, She-ra, Casltevania) and Arcane just beats them all, except maybe ATLA! The characters, animation, conflict, it's just all so realistic!
Is Sky really dead? Or is she part of the Arcane now? I blame The Expanse for this theory.
I was tried telling Caitlyn. Revenge won't bring her mother back. I think she's different person. 😢
When Sevika releases the Grey to Topside, I'm just curious about what Jinx meant by "This isn't how it's supposed to-" What was the rest of that sentence? What was the plan supposed to be?
Amazing video!
Things have to get bad before they get better right?
i don't care what anyone say i'm rooting for jinx no matter what she does
Same
I'm not entirely sure those plumes of colored smoke are an attack as such. In this episode we don't see them do more than deface the surrounding buildings with color. I think they might have been more of a THREAT. "THIS time I splashed paint all over town. Imagine what I could do NEXT time if you keep pissing me off."
it only took 3 years to show that Vi and Caitlyn were not just really, really, really good friends
I didn’t know where else to post this, Bosca, but have you ever considered reacting to the Disney show “Gargoyles”? Its story does have roots in Scottish culture, lore and a bit of its history. Just saying
"If that was me I would've ripped the child off of her" first said child was incredibly anxious and angry and had a gun which they almost shot at her??
*Black Rose* is a secret organization in primarily stationed Noxus.
Stop theowing this shit around. Let her find out in the show instead of semi-spoiling everything....
@Simon-A.-Tan This is knowledge from LORE, or rather from e-learning, so that Mosco or Elijah would be interested in learning more about it.
@@maciekzelichowski1411 If they're interested, they'll look it up.
The show is building this storyline up as a mystery. LoL players are just radomnly revealing this shit the same way book readers used to do during the earlier seasons of GOT....
Look at me, Caitlyn: No! No! Caitlyn? _No!!_
“What are you planning?” “finishing what’s left of my family” she was talking about herself, I dont think she sees Vi as her sister anymore either. You can see she was ready to die and let Vi kill her 🙁
Also, Cait literally had the privilege of mourning her mother properly and having a beautiful burial/memorial, Zaun children watch their parents get shot dead and have to leave their bodies on the streets. I love her, but she's making me so upset... 😐
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Caitlyn! That is not a love language, madam. 😢
That kiss was bittersweet 😔. Jinx comment about Vi and Cait was a low 🤜. And that got me think, if they are the ones that they have sex, I think is going to be angry sex, unlike what Jayce and Mel did. And that got me thinking that omg 😔 I don’t think that Vi ever got a chance to be with someone in that way. Her entire young adulthood she spent it alone in a cell. Cait had a regular teen life and I don’t think that was the first time she had someone in her room. This was Vi’s first relationship, she is going to go through it 😢.
And I don’t think that in this show, nobody is safe and I’m okay with it, but their story and death better be good. Like Bly Manor good and not Clexa stupid.
Mel’s mom was talking about Amara disappearing. And I do think that Mel will die or her mom will die saving her, that motherfuc&er actually loves her daughter 😢
NGL I don't think there's a "go back together" once Kaitlin starts marching her armies into the Undercity. The fascist dictator undertones are too heavy, I think this is a point of no return.
Balls❤
Caitlyn…. NO!
You know for fzx if you not routine for jinx your in the wrong i prefer is traumatise sociopath then and traumatise dictator🤷🏽♂️
i love your videos, but i'd appreciate it if you didn't put major spoilers in the thumbnails from now on. thank you
Yo guys! My uncle from Riot Games leaked Act 2 for me, and it's wild! In Episode 4, Vi befriends this pirate queen, who she has a casual physical relationship with to forget Caitlyn (that's what earned Season 2 its sexual content tag BTW). This pirate queen offers a spot in her crew, and Vi's arc in this act is whether or not to run away from her pain. She almost leaves Zaun for good, but then Vi goes back when she hears that Mel's mom has imprisoned Caitlyn for defying her (she gets a surprisingly quick redemption arc in this) because Cait is ultimately her true love and crap.
The deity is a char in the games her name is Janna I think? Someone mentioned it somewhere. She's the protector of Zaun. I think. I don't know the game but sure you could google it and find out. :)