I think Vi in her last scene with Jinx didn’t get distacted because she can fight but because she was so brutal. Because you can also see her very shocked when she sees Jinx shooting and smiling at the firelights. Its more like a “what have you become” kind of shocked than a “wow you can fight” kind of shocked. (i think)
Yeah, I support your „theories“. Another reason, why I think that‘s true, is because at the end of the fight, Vi saw her, looking very shocked and trying to stop Jinx, even tho she protected herself. Jinx is fighting now and can take care of herself and as beatiful this message could be for Vi, she is shocked, how she does that. The fact THAT she DOES it isn‘t the disturbing thing, like Necrit said it, Ig (not sure what he exactly said tho). The thing that shockes Vi, is that Jinx does it in such a cruel way. That scene also compared with whom Vi and Jinx grew up with - Vander or Silco. Vi learned, that protecting yourself and the ones you love, is right. Jinx learned nothing in that way, what makes her act only with her overcoming feelings, while she‘s in a mentally weak state. It‘s the same aspect that separates Vander from Silco, when he fights and when Silco does. That‘s what I thought in that situation, even tho it‘s a few days ago that I watched the last act. Wow, this comment just grew and kept growing😅😂
I just loved the fact Heimerdinger was the only one enjoying the music itself during the concert, highlighting he's both not corrupted and totally unaware of what's brewing around him; Also that but literally, as there was a scene in the concert a literal storm was approaching but he was listening the music, enjoying it with his eyes closed.
Yeah, like it seriously broke me and my wife. Heimer's face when he realized what was happening when everybody knew he wasn't ill-intentioned is so powerful.
While it is sad Jayce did have a point. Heimer has allowed Piltover and Zaun to be this way. He has allowed for such inequality to take place. Depending on what happens it might show that yes he was stopping piltover from having the council always acting on shady deals but he was also preserving the system to continue that way. If it implodes it could lead to a better system but with how the lore is piltover and zaun will still be a bad system. It was sad to see heimer like that but it was deserved as he isn't innocent and I would wish this would get him to act to fix things to where isn't shitty but again lore wise it still is so don't think it will go that way.
In regards to Singed’s scars, here’s a quote from his story with Warwick, “the subject’s restraints gave way. An instant later, he was tearing into my face, reopening the old wounds and feeding the old rage". “Reopening old wounds” seems to suggest that his face was already messed up before Warwick got to it
Also, at the beginning of the series, when jayce is talking to heimerdeinger about the speech, he mentions that he could never take his place which is exactly what happened as jayce replaced heimer on the council.
@@Mediados I mean I don't necessarily hate him for his decision because think of it from his perspective. The only possible hope he has to save his friend (Viktor) is the Hex Core and Heimerdinger all but demanded that they should destroy it. From Jayce's perspective Heimerdinger is sacrificing Viktor's life because he fears something that may never happen. I can't say I blame him. If your friend, let's say best friend was dying and you had a potential chance to save their life, but then someone is telling you to destroy that means I feel like anybody would do what Jayce did, even if we (as the viewer) know it is the wrong decision. It's not like Jayce wanted Heimer removed to gain power or status. He knew with Heimer there was no way he'd be allowed to continue his research with the core, thus (to Jayce's knowledge) doom Viktor to death. Honestly Heimer is the one who annoys me here as he knows damn well that Jayce wouldn't destroy it. Surely he should've realized that because Viktor was dying Jayce would easily disobey his orders regardless. Instead, wouldn't it have been more logical for Heimer to get involved himself to help prevent any misuse or from something from going horribly wrong? Instead he just demanded it should be destroyed with basically the equivalence of saying "Trust me." Even though "trust me" isn't enough to justify me letting my friend die.
A cool thought I had was that jinx never directly gets injected with shimmer. She uses it as some form of gun powder which produces smoke which would then give her small amounts after shooting. It would also connect her love/addiction of shooting her guns because not only does she get a high from the guns but also from the shimmer.
Jinx didn’t write liar on zevika because she thought zevika was lying about having a partner. It’s because it was a message to silco calling him a liar. From her POV silco lied to jinx about vi being dead when in reality silco didn’t even know
But when Jinx finally saw Vi, she looked shocked that she really was alive tho. Meaning, she didn't believe Zevika, and that she was a liar. I think she even said something of the lines "so Zevika wasn't lying?". Unless I'm missing something.
@@DangoFloat Yeah, the ''so Sevika wasn't lying?'' line is true but Im with Veda on this. Jinx left Sevika up there for Silco to find, so Jinx is calling Silco a liar and what was he lying about? About Vi's death.
@@DangoFloat exactly... it wasn't anything related to vi having a partner like necrit said, that's way too specific and irrelevant since they always had help from someone (Vi's dead friends, Vander etc)
Vi wasn't shocked just cause Jinx can fight now. She was shocked how her sister maniacally shooting, trying to kill people with enjoyment in her eyes. She is shocked, cause she sees that her sister is insane now. Also, some of these aren't hidden details, but obvious plot moments.
Here is a detail you missed: Vander never appears as a ghost, even tho Jinx saw him "die", youd think if he were dead he would be part of her guilty conscience. Its also shown Singed can keep things alive for years. And by the end of Act 2, Viktor is obssessed with Transmutation, which is the recurring word in Warwick's lore, and goes to seek Singed about it.
Yeah, in act 3, in the finale you can see jinx scream out while spinning, showing the "ghosts" of her friends. But vander isn't in there, implying he's not dead, he's just somewhere maybe becoming a werewolf.
You do see Vander as a ghost. During the second fight of Vi and Sevika. When Vi gets knocked out is Vander's appearence who tells her to stand up and keep fighting
The message it sent to me was "Viktor is living in Jayce's shadow" People see the boy of progress taking all the credit, but Viktor is assisting him, invisible to the people of Piltover.
@@megaantonbj I think it's really cool but a little weird that she named one of her guns with a nickname she had as a kid. Almost like she tried to cast Powder off for dead, but is still holding onto her old self, barely.
During Vi and Jinx's reunion she tells Vi "I changed." and Vi replies "I know, you did what you had to to survive." showing she still thinks Jinx is Silco's prisoner. The last time Vi saw Powder she was a scared little girl clutching a stuffed rabbit, crying in the rain, so that's what she was expecting to find. The shock she feels at watching Jinx take on the firelights isn't that she can fight or that she's so brutal at it, it's the realization that her sister truly has changed. Her sweet Powder is now a gun-toting, PTSD stricken, psychopathic killer, and she arrived years to late to play savior to her.
actually it can still save vi powder. powder is still hidden inside jinx just waiting to be rescued. In the future, warwick vi and jinx's paths will cross somewhere and the story will continue from there. singed's goal now is to set up a new lab and then find warwick. Before vander died on the operating table, he said something and singed will search for the word he said.
that scene gut-wrenched me. As the audience, we knew what to expect from the interaction, but it was still so shocking and unexpected seeing how realistically the characters reacted to the situations, the animators truly did a pristine job. It was so sad to see the descent of their relationship as time went on and Vi couldn’t even except the fact that her innocent little sister wasn’t Powder anymore. If you don’t mind me adding, one thing I also picked up and loved was how Vi and Jinx seemed to be polar opposites: Vi uses the past as a way to cope with her trauma and stress as the nostalgia brings her solace and makes her feel more calm and eased with new situations whileas Jinx is literally JINX, a whole different persona, person even, and has become someone entirely new. She’s changed and adapted over time and her trauma eats her up so much on the inside that even the thought of the past (the monkey bomb explosion) wrecks her, like when Vi was saying their old family’s names trying to comfort her and lead her away from Silco and Jinx saw them as monsters getting bigger and bigger; Vi is buff and strong, usually using her fists firsts (she’s street smart, so you could say) while as Jinx is lean and intelligent (for being able to understand the Hextech blueprints); the list just goes on and on… Great analysis! This show really is spectacular and brings a lot of topics to be discussed about.
@@aliyalcn6724 that seems like an interesting idea. Can’t wait to see what season 2 has to offer, would love to see where Fortiche and Riot take the situation of Piltover and Zaun, including Mel’s mother and Noxus and the political situations. Hope they meddle a bit with Warwick, there seems to be so many teasers and I just know he’ll come up at some point. We all know what’s going to happen to Viktor though (the Singed and Viktor segment of the show was also very carefully crafted), the glorious evolution is coming.
Yeah, Necrits's take on this is that she was surprised and proud to see her finally standing by herself for the first time, and that is partially true, but you can see shock grow on her face as she gets worried her sweet little sister might be dealing with stuff but taking it way too far, resorting to (and desiring) violence just like a mirror of herself
Jayce: gotta get the sextech Viktor: Jayce i'm fucking dying cut the crap and get to work, i only have mere days to live and i'm not gonna waste them on simping for women, the grind is nonstop Jayce, we must reach the glorious evolution Jayce
"apparently the slow yordle is not so slow afterall" Yes he is. He is super slow. They were waiting for the lift which took too long, so they jumped down. Cait took so long to get down that the super slow Yordle was still faster using the lift and walking for a while.
No, they didnt jump down because the lift took too long, as Vi said: "It's too risky", she implied that the lift, one of the main ways to get down to Zaun, without Vander are now under Silco's control, and thing will be bad if Silco goons recognized Vi.
@@shurlkr3594 You're right, but Necrit still missed the joke that the reason we see the yorddle at the end is not because he is inexplicably fast, but because Cait got down super slowly
The voices in Jinx head are literally her characterizations of Mylo and Claggor, which influence her actions at time. Jinx wants to ride an airship while Mylo wants to shoot one, she does both.
@@HoaxNess I honestly thought about it, but we still have a couple of more episodes to come and they could in fact be based on character or events we haven't seen yet. Or it could be her attempt at making (crafting) friends, it seems jinx has been very lonely even though she is surrounded by people. The only person she trusts or trusted was Silco, it's the last sane attachment to this world that she has, at least in her head, because she saw him as family. It's also very probable that her guns are more a representation of herself as the minigun is pow pow and her name is powder and the game she was really good at when she was small since it was bilgewater themed inspired fishbones the rocket launcher. The logic behind it being that pow pow is small, fast and resourcefull like her and fish bones is what she kinda saw herself being or semi aspired to be. They were already thieves, and the only thing she lacked was strength and ruthlessness, thus the pirate thing might be something she would have wanted to incorporate into herself. But this is all conjecture and it's hard to pinpoint what could be what since there plenty of years worth of growth we missed out on because of the time skip and probably many more since when we are in jinx's story arc we can't really trust everything since the reality portrayed around her sometimes isn't what is actually going on or what she is actually feeling or saying. To be more specific we don't know if what we see is true or just one of the many voices in her head suggesting things to her. Because ultimately Jinx still has enough sanity to function and choose what she does, what we don't know is who has control when she has those heightened moments of emotion or how many splits we are dealing with. Is it murder revenge jinx or just childhood deprived this is fun jinx?
I think it has something more to it, like some scenes in act 2 she dodges attacks she couldn't see like someone told her to. The explosion in act 1 might have gave her some kind of arcane hearing.
One theory I have is that the guns are named after people: Fishbones is mylo because of how skinny he was, she also seems to argue with it the most. Chompers are similarly Clagger who we saw loved to eat. Finally Pow-Pow is Powder.
@@egekazkayas8968 ooh that's really good, fishbones does tend to run his mouth a lot just like Mylo. So it could hold true, but only time will tell, or maybe we will get no answer at all.
Also to be noted at the very last scene, the firelights use smoke bombs to completely vanish without a trace, taking Vi and Cait with them. Jinx has been having hallucinations for years now and she wasn't sure if Vi was real or not, and them disappearing like that quite possibly fucked with her mind, when she screams before the cut she probably believes it's all a hallucination and her sister never found her.
Silco, a character we didn't even hear about before the show and who isn't even a champion in the game earned more respect from the fanbase than Viego, a character who has been teased for years.
I think the production of arcane might have had an impact. Viegos event was so rushed and bad but honestly if it meant making arcane this good than I’ll take it. Morde will always be the true shadow isles daddy for me so I don’t care for viego anyways.
Because Silco is a more nuanced and sympathetic villain from the get go. He doesn't want to "destroy the World because of his girl", what he wants is what everyone in Zaun wants, but his methods are what set him apart
If Vander really is Warwick, then it's possible Singed still covered his face cause of Warwick. He could've been working on Vanders body for all these years. And it could've been post "throwing away" Warwick as a failure
Warwick is almost definitely Warwick, you can figure this out by just reading his lore once "Though many think of Warwick as no more than a beast, buried beneath the fury lies the mind of a man-a gangster who put down his blade and took up a new name to live a better life. But no matter how hard he tried to move on, he could never escape the sins of his past." "All he could see was blood. But then he heard a little girl screaming. Screaming something he couldn’t understand. It sounded like a name" That's surely Jinx screaming Violet's name
I kinda felt bad for Officer Grayson, she died very quickly like- When I first saw it, I was in literal shock on how they can shove something right in front of the viewer's face.... same as Jinx's childhood friends too.
@@Filaseth That is impossible in every way imaginable. First of all, Camille is still alive, obviously, she's from a well-known house, Grayson is not and Camille was never an enforcer
I also noticed that in the scene where Heimerdinger was kicked out of the Council at the beginning he is in the middle of everyone on the desk but when Jayce starts arguing with him the camera starts slowly moving to the left (to Jayce) and when they finally kick Heimer out Jayce is in the middle as shown in the overview shots reflecting that he “replaces” Heimer.
I already knew that Caitlyn was looking at/for the shimer in Vi's eyes, but only a few moments later she looks at her lips, only to release what she is doing, become flustered, and move away.
Yeah it's obvious that Vi likes Cait by her calling Cait "cupcake" but I do think Cait really likes Vi back. They really portray a good chemistry between them.
I almost don’t want to, cause eldritch cosmic horror is gonna be hard to do, champions are easier, but if we’re talking about those giant void creature back in the old war? I can’t imagine how they can pull it off
Something I noticed: Silco's pupil, while still perfectly round in act 1, has now become warped and wierdly shaped, indicating that his shimmer treatment only slows the degradation of his eye.
or that some of the injections of the needle werent perfeclty aimed, possibly why he now lets jinx do it, because since he was getting older his hand wasnt as steady, and jinx is a great markswoman
There are actually several layers in the Tarot cards at 17:46 (based on what I've learned from my friend who does Tarot readings): First, note that cards in Tarot readings are called Arcanas (i.e. we're seeing the Death Arcana and the Magician Arcana); A clear parallel in name to the Arcane. Second, the Death Arcana is below the Magician, meaning that Death was read first and the Magician was then added to provide further detail on the primary card. This supports the parallel to Viktor even more: Death in Tarot readings symbolizes transitions/transformations. Then, the Magician is applied to it. In other words, magic is the reason for Viktor's transformation. Since Viktor is the one using the magic, he becomes the Magician himself, as indicated by the card depicting the "future Viktor" with three arms. Lastly, the cards can offer a different reading: The transformation through magic could also be about Piltover. It has always been the city of progress but through magic (hextech) it has made another leap, transforming it into a powerful trading hub. Here, the Magician could represent Jayce, as he is the main driver in transforming Piltover. This would also provide yet another symbolic link between Viktor and Jayce.
A cool detail is that how both Jayce and Viktor change, while Viktor turns obsessed with the hextch to save his life. jayce also is open to be corrupted by magic, but in his case was Mel who triggered that change. (Btw i was thinking the same thing when i saw the tarot cards that was a really good reading)
I noticed the same thing, good observation! Would like to add that both cards were Major Arcanas, so when the reading is mostly made up of Major Arcana cards, "you are experiencing life-changing events that will have long-term effects, and you are called to reflect on the lessons that they provide". Also the cards were upright, which could mean that the person is very much open to these lessons, under external influence AND in concious mind.
Singed being scared by Warwick can still be a thing. It was a pretty huge timeskip, Warwick may have been developed during this time and may be somewhere in the lab, or trapped somewhere else. He may surface in act 3.
Warwick in his lore was a failed experience that was incomplete, he then was dumped somewhere in the sewers / trash where the chemicals actually worked in that environment and then he completed his transformation, becoming alive and fully functional as the Warwick we know. So it could be Warwick hurting Singed and he was never complete until he was thrown away, singed got rid of him as he gave up on trying to make it work while also being dangerous, then in the sewers is where he could actually transform with the matching conditions in there, like the toxins that got into Silico's eyes in Act 1 ending up mixing with the chemicals in Warwick's body triggering the full transformation. Scenario number 2: Where he got dumped in the sewers, it wasn't just the toxins there mixing up that could be the cause. It might be simply because in the sewers the feelings of the toxins triggered the flashback of Warwick's fight as Vander versus Silico in the sewers where he got his injury by the knife in ep 1, Act 1. And yes, it is mentioned that Warwick always has flashbacks although he did lose his memory, so it all adds up. It actually woke him up at last at that is what was missing. Could also be a combination of both scenarios.
@@amrehab6097 the lore of warwick says death was the catalyst of the transformation of warwick so I think warwick(Vander) slasht at singed in human Form died got dumped and is now running free and I would love if silco got injured by Vi or jinx flees and rans in to the jaw of warwick who then proceeds to kill him
@@dylankim9588 Given the success, it is very likely after a year or a year and a half, tying with a release on LoR of Urgot, Mundo, Warwick, Camille or Orianna. The villain of said season would be the Chembarons, being eventually overthrown by Urgot, while being opposed by Caitlyn and Vi, with maybe some support from Jinx and having Camille as the amoral foil to them, working for the same end, just with much more brutal tactics. They also may consider moving to other regions, with Demacia and all the Sylas/Lux business together with the Jarvan/LeBlanc conundrum, or visit the Ionia/Noxus war, with given how popular Ionia is, it would also be a no-brainer to consider it.
I like how the speech Jayce gives when proposing to retire heimerdinger is somewhat true, symbolized in the theater scene as Heimerdinger is enjoying the music as behind his back jayce makes his shady deals, hammering (pun not inteded) the point that he doesnt really do a lot to solve the problems of the city, only focusing on the good parts of it
Yeah, I feel like it's due to his yordle nature, but Heimer really aint doing much outside of helping with science stuff (which fair enough is good). But also he gotta have lots of power yet he hasn't done shit to help Zaun. Not that the other councilors are better, they're worse
He also underestimated the “humans” life span. Like yeah, easy for him to want to take his time when he lives forever. He literally told jayce that the time would fly by. Way different perspective of time.
Heimerdinger certainly has his downsides. It's easy to talk about patience when death isn't constantly reminding you of your mortality, he doesn't even think about making the lives of the Zaunites better once, and he is conservative. But still, his experience, wisdom and kind heart are invaluable. Kicking him out of the Council was far too radical, Jayce crossed a terrible line by betraying a good friend.
@@Mediados It wont make any difference. Heimer was more a spectator than anything, the cities and the council will be the same, Heimer never did anything
You missed 3 important details on the the Vi/Jinx encounter at the end. Jinx asks Vi if she is real, due to her having PTSD and visions. When Jinx tells everyone to shut up and Caitlin replies that she didn't say anything, that is because Jinx PTSD kicked in, making her hear voices in her head. At the end when the smokes lifts and Jinx is alone, she is confused because she can't tell with certainty that the events which just happened, of her meeting Vi again where real or just another Vision to torment her.
15:04 - I’m surprised Necrit didn’t discuss the scene where Vi pinned Caitlyn against the wall in the brothel. She’s calls Caitlyn “cupcake” which is a reference to Caitlyn’s canonical enjoyment of cupcakes, the fact she uses them in her Yordle Snap Traps in League of Legends, and a callback to the basket of cupcakes that can be seen on the balcony in episode 1 of the show when Vi, Powder, Mylo, and Claggor break into Jace’s lab. Also: 13:33 - The old, slow Yordle actually is really slow. Caitlyn is just even slower in her attempt to follow Vi across the rooftops, than it took the Yordle to use the lift. Probably a combination of her lack of parkour training and the fact her uniform is a dress. 25:19 - Jinx ties up Sevika and hangs her from the ceiling in Silco’s office as a message for Silco. This is because he had told her that Vi was dead, as this is what Marcus had told him, but then she learned from Sevika that Vi was still alive. Also, we know this is Jinx’s reasoning because immediately before Silco looks up and sees Sevika, he says, “How much trouble can one girl cause?” referring to Vi. Now that Jinx knows Vi is alive, Vi is adding to the list of problems she’s creating for Silco since Jinx left him because of her. 25:45 - Vi knew that Powder had changed since she last saw her, but she was shocked, horrified, and anguished upon seeing how much Powder enjoyed being brutal and lashing out now.
What I also liked is that in the past Vi said something along the lines of "You're not a fighter and you don't have to be" to Jinx, which I think adds to Vi's shock.
24:24 No, Singed did not pump shimmer into the creature, the creature itself IS the source of shimmer. This lines up with Singed not caring for the subjects of his experiments. He was not curing the lizard to save it, he was making sure to preserve the only source he had to create and study shimmer. As the doctor said during the episode "The mutation MUST survive". This makes the last scene with Signed even more cool and terrifying: he kept the creature alive (most likely in atrocious pain) all this time to continue his work, treating it not as a pet or an animal, but just as a tool. Damn, if you want the definition of Cruel Scientist, look for this bald bastard. I love him.
I like the idea a lot, but the sheer quantity of shimmer produced makes me feel like this isn't super possible. Not sure but I think it is very inline with what we know of Singed
@VICENTE MOLIN I read his lore and even there he´s underrated. Viktor is even as a cyborg a good hearted man (he tries his best) his short stories show how careful and caring he is, especially with kids.
24:30 During the episode, you can see by the way Rio breathes that her exhaling actually pulsates shimmer INTO the tubes. Meaning that Singed is keeping Rio alive in order to harvest more Shimmer from the mutation. This would make more sense, since Viktor angrily asks what Singed has done to Rio. My theory is that Singed only wanted Viktor to feed the specific flowers because the mutation digests it into shimmer.
Came to say this. Later when they raid the shimmer factory you can see that it's being made in some sort of biological reactor, maybe a transplanted piece of Rio. That's why the mutation had to survive.
A deetail you did not mention: The Medarda Councilor is still fiddeling with the "childrens toy" Mel gave him in act I. You can see it at the right edge of the screen at 9:31. Caitlyns first enforcer uniform somewhat matches her old design. Also Vis prison number is 516. In roman numerals VI is 5+1=6.
Sad part is I think Mel is noxus spy and they are coming to invade through the after math of piltover and zaun war. Noxus can occupy the hexgates for an easy way to transverse and sneak up on rival nations.
@@mlekosojowe7312 Heimer who has just been kicked out of the council. Personally I think the noxus would want piltover of its teleportation and supply runs.
I would rather say that Vi was more disappointed at herself to letting powder become that way mainly cause of lines: "You have a good heart, never lose it, take care of powder" also if you would say she is "disgusted" to jinx why they would make all fighting scene with Ezreal and his gang?
Rio is the source of shimmer, he's not pumping more into it. The mutation he created within it, probably allows it to process the flowers in a certain way to create the shimmer, which singed then extracts from its body
I don't really think this is a sure thing. When he says "The mutation must survive", Shimmer was probably not part of the equation before Rio would be dying in my opinion. Looking at the effect shimmer has on it, it probably is not what creates it, else it wouldn't suffer from the use of shimmer. Plus it would probably need to come from the void to produce shimmer, but this is still unsure.
@@sentko8926 Yes this is just a theory... Yours makes sense too. What if he had accidentally discovered that Rio could produce the shimmer when he was trying to keep it alive (coz he had recently experimented on it to create the aforementioned mutation)
@@46raulfull He was pretty much aware he didn't had much time by his coughs and the only part doctors did is to say roughly how much time he has (when jayce wants to talk about his disease he already says how much time I have hinting he knew it all before and that's what made Viktor interested at first place)
When you learn Singed is Viktor's mentor, ironic that his mentor is a deranged man who's more focused on the biological monstrosity of men while Viktor is more focused in the potential of augmentation. It's really funny that his mentor specializes in making biological monstrosities while Viktor is a more adept at turning people to augmented machineries.
I feel like there's a lot of interesting contrast between them, making them "related" was a genius idea. For Singed science is EVERYTHING, nothing is more important than his advancement, including morals. For Viktor science is EVERYTHING, but not for the sake of science but for what it can do for people in need. Singed wants to makes biological monsters and weapons etc. Viktor wants to improve the lives of others with augments and machines. And other smaller things im too lazy to write lol
Actually they have alot in common, they both have intrest in biological science, where one wants to use hextexh and the other wants to use chemtech. One problem with 2 very scary solutions. I wouldn't be surprised if just like in viktors In game lore, Jayce finds his new lab and destroys it, only this time it being singed's lab and thus giving singed his reason to fight
Viktor has a skin line where he takes void monsters and turns them into his army with mechanical augments How cool would it be if Singed had a skinline where he creates his biological army using humans!
The hexcore is coded to Victor's DNA as it was his blood that first entered they crystal, so that's why the plants don't accept the transmutation, but when Viktor touches it he changes.
When Jayce suggests the hextech operations to be suspended we can see that the councillour that Mel gave the child's toy is still trying to solve it, portraying him as extremely dumb, lol.
A little thing i'd like to point out is that the lady who picked the hextech crystal in the last scene, looked at it the way crows and raven does when looking at something that gets their curiosity, fitting for someone with a crow like mask
My favorite detail is at the beginning of episode 6. During the conversation with Heimerdinger, he says his contributions will be short lived as the camera shows a butterfly flying away. It shows not only his life is fleeting and time is running out, but the contrast to the mechanical butterflies of Piltover also suggest his mechanical transformation. So many small details!
When Marcus is holding the bloodied coin it has ties to when he said something along the lines of "every coin that passes through here has a crime behind it" considering it has blood on it, so in a way he's also reflecting on his corruption because he _took_ the coin that he had swore had a crime behind it, rather than cursing it out.
You forgot to mention that in the imagine dragons scene, if you look closely in the background round the alley, you can see that Shaco is not there, thus confirming that imagine dragons is more canon than him.
Lmao. but seriously, shaco disappears and he is meant to be a thing of legends and nightmares. should not be a public figure, he is meant to be hidden only until he kills people
I believe Marcus was being smart while talking to Jayce. He was the one who wanted the bridges closed, I sensed that he wanted to do that to keep Silco away from his daugther
Yeah he has been told to kill both vi and Cait, and he can't do that in piltover so he tricks Jayce in giving him power to block the bridge (which will probably look like an act of war)
I don't think Jinx paints "liar" all over Sevika is because Jinx thaught she was a liar. I think it was a message for Silco that HE was a liar telling Jinx that VI is dead and not mentioning it to her that she is alive when he found out. That's why she paints an arrow on the blade on his desk to look up.
13:33 I think it’s not that the Yordle was not as slow as he looked, it’s just implying he took the bathysphere and it’s a joke about how Cait could have just taken the bathysphere like she wanted to.
I have a minor theory about the Hexcore technology and the purple magic Viktor is inadvertently creating. The Shimmer seems to be excretions from Void creatures living near the bottom of the ocean, but then why does the Hexcore become purple once Viktor’s blood comes into contact with it? Yes yes, red plus blue equals purple, but I have an interesting theory I feel Riot is trying to establish with the nature of the Arcane and the Void. When the blood mixes with the magic, it doesn’t look like it’s becoming a new form of energy right away; it appears as if the blood is CONTAMINATING the magic. This makes me wonder… what if this new force Viktor unintentionally created isn’t malevolent… but rather that it is magic given LIFE? Consciousness with the same prerogative all life has at its core: survival? What if it’s not manipulating Viktor out of malevolence, but because it knows on some level that it NEEDS Viktor to achieve a greater form of sentient life? Maybe THIS is what the Void actually is. LIVING MAGIC. And due to the innate power at the center of these creatures being so overwhelming and devastating, maybe they aren’t malevolent at all, but simply higher/more complex forms of life living amongst the more mundane and arguably more fragile forms of life living on Runeterra.
Awesome theory, I noticed there were a lot of void references with the hexcore too. May give a whole new meaning to Viktor’s obsession with the “Glorious Evolution”. Talk of evolution is always synonymous with the void in league (Kai’sa, kha zix etc..)
I see. "The void consumes all" to just survive. Without hosts, the void isn't able to even be a thing. An example can be that whatever formed Kai'sa's suit was able to survive by becoming one with her. It is also able to become more than what it was back then.
Thing is, the crystals are already alive, they are fragments of the Brakern, Skarner's race, the crystal scorpions from shurima that are not only sentient, but that also pass their whole mind and memories to the next generation, every single one of those crystals is countless souls.
@@phelps6205 maybe the brakern are more closely linked to the void than we think. Who knows at this point. Wherever it is, there has to be some connection with the void somewhere.
Its worth noting that "get jinxed!" is likely entirely in her head. she gets very glitchy and starts jumping between actions, while silco behind her stays consistent. this effect happens throughout the act, whenever her mental instability is acting up
17:48 also its interesting if you know what those tarot cards mean. First its death: Viktor is metaphorically in deathbed, dying, but in tarot death means change, the "death" of old methods or pathways and the founding of new things. Second its the magician: also literally could mean Viktor as the magician beacuse he invents stuff and deals with Arcane (magic), now in tarot the magician is a card that shows you the existence of everything you need to change, like it says everything is right in front of you to go and do that important thing, you just have to do it. Really cool details.
You missed the detail that one firelight members, specifically the one that stole the Hextech gem, also took unconscious Caitlyn right after. Not a very important detail, but it still went by very fast that it's easy to miss.
There is one easy to miss detail that you didn't talk about: the vastayan cook, Jericho. He spoke to Vi and Caitlyn in his own language and apparently they didn't understand him. So he gave them a handkerchief that had the brothel's logo on it. This could be interpreted in many ways. He either thought they were dating and "wanted to help" by inviting them to the haha funny place, or he was genuinely guiding them so they could gather more information. He also could have been instructed to give the handkerchief to Vi, it's another possibility.
I don't think closing the bridges is an issue for Marcus, he was deliberately presenting it as the only option to Jayce in order to push him into giving that order because he had to stop Vi and Caitlyn from returning to Piltover.
I got this from it too. He wants a "legal" reason to not let Vi and Cait across the bridges. EVERYONE has to be searched, so he will know when Vi tries to cross and deal with it.
This what I also think, He Manipulated Jayce into Closing the Bridge so he can Stop Vi and Caitlyn from crossing back into Piltover. I also Believe Caitlyn is going to uncover Marcus' Corruption of be forced to incapacitate Marcus and this is how she will become Sheriff.
With how HEAVILY implied Vander being Warwick is, and the several years skipped, it's not too unlikely that Singed's bandages signify that he has already made Warwick and is still the main cause for his bandages.
when Jinx & Vi was fighting in the last scene i doubt Vi got shocked over Jinx being able to fight BUT how she was fighting brutaly and bloody Vi sounded extremly conserned
I knew that scene was coming, and while watching I was legit screaming at Jayce, don't you kiss that hoe! Bad Jayce! NO! And then 'that' scene came and I was yelling at him so bad, lost my voice the next day: "JAYCE, BRO SHE USING YOU, YOU HER SUGAR DADDY INVESTMENT! NOOOOO," My family thought I was dying... 💀
Seein Caityln through Jinx lenses you can somehow get the feeling that Cait is a well ajusted version of herself, good aim, confident, good morals good relationship with Vi, Caity has a tonne of reasons to hate Jinx, Jinx can only envy Caity
Necrit, with all do respect, I think you're hiding the details that could make Vi x Caitlyn real (or else not noticing). If Riot wouldn't mean to make them a couple, surely they could make those scenes in different ways. But they didn't. In the brothel, Vi told Caitlyn that was the place where all the secrets come out. Later on, she pushes Caitlyn regarding his target (man or woman, something Caitlyn never thought about). Later on she finds out Caitlyn was pretty comfortable and mesmerized by talking with a woman (unlike Pin, where she was kinda uncomfortable with). Not to mention the reaction Vi had when she walked away (surprised yet satisfied/happy about it). In episode 6, yes, Vi's eyes were purple and they were going back to normal, but despite Caitlyn being responsible, their faces were way too close to eachother. And not just that, I noticed 2 things: - Caitlyn, while looking at Vi's eyes, went down on her lips for a moment, and while doing that, she closed hers, like a "holding" expression. - Before getting up, Caitlyn shaked her face like she was some kind of lost in looking at Vi and she came back to reality. And as a bonus fact: In LoR cards, when Miss Fortune flirts with Vi, she answers with Caitlyn references. Now, I don't want to say it's 100% confirmed, but what I learned in this series is that Riot gave so much space in Body and Face language...and THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the best ways to make something clear.
These are all amazing catches, didn't even notice some of them! These aren't really new details, but I have 3 things to add: 1) in the drawing Marcus's daughter made, you can see her "mother" has a set of wings and what looks like a crown, perhaps it wasn't her mother, but something else she saw. 2) I don't think singed is pumping shimmer into Rio, instead, extracting it from Rio as THAT is the mutation singed was talking about when saying "the mutation must survive". The timeline of the amount of shimmer being made and the scene showing Rio being put into a tank to more efficiently keep Rio alive, while also extracting it lines up. (Much more shimmer being made later, as compared to the small amount singed had in act 1) 3) since the Firelights had also stolen the hex gem, its quite likely that ekko will use this gem to power his Z-drive in an attempt to go back and save their friends, instead of making it to save his friend in the comic.
i dont think its shimmer honestly we see being put in rio.. at least it would be a plot hole. when singed says that the reactions to shimmer is stabilizing in ep 1 viktor is at least like 22. that would mean rio was being pumped with a highly volatile and, more than likely, deadly drug like 10 years prior.
I remember an observation from the series. It is exactly the scene in which you were talking about Jayce drinking from his own mug. When he puts it down, it completely covers Viktor out of the scene. It struck me when I saw it in that it is showing how a rift is starting to form between the two. The symbolism for how Viktor is overshadowed by Jayce.
24:50 what if Singed has already 'created' Warwick and that's why his face is covered? I mean it's quite a large time jump between the acts, so wouldn't that be possible?
Silco didn't know vi was alive, Marcus captured her in his own, one of the writers revealed in twitter it was because he felt guilty and wanted to prevent her death
I feel like 3 episodes aren‘t enough, there are so much things that HAVE to appear there. All the „basic“ things (the things, that drive the story on) will take like 2 episodes
Could be both tbh Considering the Symbolism and his speech at the end of Act One That being said, I wouldn’t trust Jinx not to kill everything in sight if she gets a full blown panic attack
Still hesistant to think that the mesh that Viktor watches, or the one reflected on Heimer's imagination (specially as the mage on it is the exact same drawing from the original depiction on Arc 1), are representatives of the Void. The whole concept of the Hextech Gemstones reacting to organic matter may not be a coincidence, the process already exists on creatures innately born with magic. Rather, this suggest how the mind of someone that doesn't have magic themselves grow obsessed with it (much like magic users to the World Runes), and most importantly how a mage exists. To put it bluntly: Infuse magic onto an organism and at best you get a mage, infuse organic matter onto a magic source and at best you get the Hex Core. In layman terms, the ability to create artificial mages, if not to mass produce them. That latter point seems what I personally believe is Heimerdinger's fear about the Hex Core's existence, unlike Hextech that's fundamentally "open sourced magic": He fears that in a world that already has struggled with innately magical beings, for everyone to afford becoming mages themselves. No surprised then to suggest refining Hextech over a decade, to spread awareness first of its responsible usage before handling it to the public. Under these terms, then the reason test subjects such as the plants used by Viktor (whose growths seem reminescent to Zyra's, who also derives from the Rune Wars) don't survive for long is that they're not infusing themselves onto the Hex Core. What I'm implying from the latter is that the Hex Core only works in response to the organism is infused by, which would also explain this being attached to Viktor's staff (or as of Arcane, his cane): He's draining himself to feed the Hex Core in exchange of using its magic to behave as a normal mage would. And with that, perhaps the root to the Glorious Revolution (tm): Transhumanism through magic, to have everyone augmented onto artificial mages to solve all organic ailments.
Is it possible that the "mutation" that Rio has is that, when it metabolizes the flowers, it produces shimmer? And Singed is keeping Rio alive to keep producing shimmer?
Caitlyn traded her gun for the medicine. Showing she took Vi's advice to heart. Also, I thought Jinx wrote Liar on Savikah as a message to Silco lying to her about Vi being dead.
@@kolosinator9870 "You expect everyone to give you what you want. If you want people to talk to you, you have to make them think you have what they want."
Firelights also took Caitlyn with them, you can see the firelight that took the gem also was carrying Caitlyn within the smoke bomb, and she's not there when smoke disappears.
Could the Firefly who took the hextech gemstone at the end of episode 6 be Sky? They have the same hairstyle, and we know she has connections to Zaun. Also, a scientist would definitely use a plague doctor style mask like the firefly had.
On one hand I felt like the voice heard when I think jinx hits them during the fight sounds pretty masculine. On the other hand it is possible all of them are using voice changers. Ekko, if he really is the leader I would think does not sound like that at all. I guess one other counter argument is that the firelight looks very slender while sky is not quite that much from the glimpse that I remember. I still do think it’s a possibility, mainly just expressing some possible doubts I have.
i really doubt its sky only because of the way she looked at the hex crystal when she picked it up, she tilted her head like she was confused/had never seen it before
When Caitlyn asked Vi if she can at least thank her and Caitlyn pulls her shirt down shows that something happened with her shirt to be pulled up, she's also late enough and might have hurried to Vi fixing her shirt afterwards
I honestly loved the scene where Jayce gets it on while Viktor is collapsing. Less focus on playboy, more of a symbolism for the unions . I thought it was showing more that the combination of the hextech and Viktor's blood was some sort of union of two things, joined together like puzzle pieces completing each other, yet we all know that the end result will be tragic for Viktor as he losses himself in his "glorious evolution." Jayce's relationship is most likely a fling, or he's gonna get hurt or taken advantage of, as he further losses himself in his ego and popularity. Viktor made a union of blood with the hexcore, while Jayce made a union of blood with the life of a celebrity, thus both losing their way.
I love that in the theather scene only Heimer is enjoying the play while all the other concilers are making shady deals. Really shows that he's the only uncorrupted of them.
@@Zero-zr6xx The only kinda decent one is Clockwork collar counsellor. Heimer is perfectly alright with having the people of Zaun living in his city's filth. While doing nothing.
@@raxzen-1610 yeah, Heimerdinger may be "nice" and less corrupted than others, but it is obvious that he is choosing to ignore Zaun from the start of his career as a counsellor 😐
Vi's prisoner number is #516 which is a reference to her name V = 5, I = !, VI = 6 Powder falling in well and Jinx's rebirth is a reference to baptism. also another further reference to her eye at end of act 1 and reference to Fallen Angel painting. when Jayce put his head on Mel's lap he said Viktor is like his brother. Caitlyn exchanged her rifle for shimmer, her in-game rifle from her parents is arriving later. Silco called Jinx a child after her admission and failure at weaponizing Hex-Tech gem, further hammering their parent/child relationship. even further hammered by Sevica to Vi. honestly i was surprised about Pim having same VA as Silco😨😨😱😱 also didn't release Skye was that little girl that Viktor saw in childhood. cant wait for next act. thanks for quality content. keep up the good work. wish you well. take care
Also, when Viktor is showing Heim his new arm contraption with the laser, one shot places it directly above him in a way that strongly mirrors the in game model. It is also a robot hand that shoots lasers but that one is obvious enough as is.
The creature singed called a “mutation” has to be from the void. Because in TfT every champ that are classified in the “Mutant” category are all void champs.
@@Zharghar08 Well and he is purple/pink. So it fits the void colorsheme. And as Riot retcons left and right we cant exclude the option that Mundos lore will just be rewritten like everything else to fit new storylines.
That scene where Jinx lit up the torch made me cry so damn hard. Last I cried was at the end of episode 3. Someone needs to explain to me why this show made me get so caught in my feels.
That’s actually a great theory.. on top of that, they’ve been foreshadowing Noxus a lot in the last few episodes… they’ve directly referenced it and keep showing ravens…
Imagine how fucked up it is to be thrown into a prison at a young age, with a warden that brings someone to beat you up every night, for years. Jinx is a cool character but Vi makes me feel things.
What I noticed: In her first scene Jinx made a Pentakill (2 in the hull, 2 beside "Ekko" and that girl who looks like young Vi). The Potion Caitlyn got for Vi could be a "Corrupting Potion" (same color + healing effect).
I think Vi in her last scene with Jinx didn’t get distacted because she can fight but because she was so brutal. Because you can also see her very shocked when she sees Jinx shooting and smiling at the firelights.
Its more like a “what have you become” kind of shocked than a “wow you can fight” kind of shocked. (i think)
Totally, she enjoyed shooting at them, and that disturbed Vi.
Yeah, I support your „theories“. Another reason, why I think that‘s true, is because at the end of the fight, Vi saw her, looking very shocked and trying to stop Jinx, even tho she protected herself. Jinx is fighting now and can take care of herself and as beatiful this message could be for Vi, she is shocked, how she does that. The fact THAT she DOES it isn‘t the disturbing thing, like Necrit said it, Ig (not sure what he exactly said tho). The thing that shockes Vi, is that Jinx does it in such a cruel way. That scene also compared with whom Vi and Jinx grew up with - Vander or Silco. Vi learned, that protecting yourself and the ones you love, is right. Jinx learned nothing in that way, what makes her act only with her overcoming feelings, while she‘s in a mentally weak state. It‘s the same aspect that separates Vander from Silco, when he fights and when Silco does.
That‘s what I thought in that situation, even tho it‘s a few days ago that I watched the last act.
Wow, this comment just grew and kept growing😅😂
Yeah that was my takeaway from that scene too.
+1
That and you can see just a second before Jinx shot in Vi's general direction, just like she did in episode 4 when she shot the Batista guy
Marcus wasn't wearing his mask much when he was in Zaun compared to Act 1. Just shows how much he's been there ever since being in cahoots with Silco.
Oooooh nice I didn’t notice that
Wasn't it mostly inside some place? They always removed the mask inside the buildings.
They dont wear them in buildings
The air has probably gotten better with time, as precised in the video. It would make sense for more enforcers to not need their masks anymore.
They're against masks anyway
I just loved the fact Heimerdinger was the only one enjoying the music itself during the concert, highlighting he's both not corrupted and totally unaware of what's brewing around him; Also that but literally, as there was a scene in the concert a literal storm was approaching but he was listening the music, enjoying it with his eyes closed.
Bro Are you Sherlock Holmes? Damn that was good
I feel he was portray like a fool in that scene. And his destiny was then settled.
nah mate, that's not his character at all to turn a blind eye to corruption. bad analysis
@@zijian219 I dont think he is ignoring it, I think he is just too honest and naive to notice it.
Remember what Mels mom warned about?
"You'll end up slaughtered.. with your eyes closed"
You forgot the last detail: when Vi hugs Jinx she calls her "pow-pow" revealing the origin of the name of Jinx's gun.
Heimer's face when he was voted out really broke my heart :(
He'll show them that he can be cool too *builds giant robotic dinasaur
@@Starryeyeddreamer2001 yes please xD Let him execute the whole council
Yeah, like it seriously broke me and my wife. Heimer's face when he realized what was happening when everybody knew he wasn't ill-intentioned is so powerful.
While it is sad Jayce did have a point. Heimer has allowed Piltover and Zaun to be this way. He has allowed for such inequality to take place. Depending on what happens it might show that yes he was stopping piltover from having the council always acting on shady deals but he was also preserving the system to continue that way. If it implodes it could lead to a better system but with how the lore is piltover and zaun will still be a bad system. It was sad to see heimer like that but it was deserved as he isn't innocent and I would wish this would get him to act to fix things to where isn't shitty but again lore wise it still is so don't think it will go that way.
@@Starryeyeddreamer2001 I havent seen hiemers lore does he go insane? like he's all about safety and then........gigantic killer hex.rex
man jayce was giving the stroke while viktor was having a stroke.
☠️
That scene really showed the inventors having there... Umm... Ups and downs
Well we can say he power slammed her
best comment
Jayce really brought down his hammer
In regards to Singed’s scars, here’s a quote from his story with Warwick, “the subject’s restraints gave way. An instant later, he was tearing into my face, reopening the old wounds and feeding the old rage". “Reopening old wounds” seems to suggest that his face was already messed up before Warwick got to it
And "feeding the old rage" seems to imply Vander's anger and rage towards Silco and his goons, like Singed.
A scene in the show suggests he uses pieces of his own flesh for his experiments.
🤔
So he should be named Slash-Singed?
The Warwick accident could already happened since we know Singed has him for some time now.
It's insane how every frame in arcane can literally be a wallpaper
Especially jinx’s hallucination of cait in the shimmer injection scene
"Yordles are magical creatures who can't truly die"
My Teemos in ranked say OTHERWISE.
God bless the people who kill that thing
Shhhhhhh he’s Top tier after the buffs now 😂
Teemo in ranked… smh that’s the first issue troll
Tristana and Lulu*^
Teemo aint a yordle, he satan
Also, at the beginning of the series, when jayce is talking to heimerdeinger about the speech, he mentions that he could never take his place which is exactly what happened as jayce replaced heimer on the council.
oh fuck good one
Just when I started to like Jayce, he gives me reason to hate him even more than before.
@@Mediados Don't worry watch him save the day at the end
@@Mediados well, he was an asshole in the lore, which is the Jayce after the events of Arcane
@@Mediados I mean I don't necessarily hate him for his decision because think of it from his perspective. The only possible hope he has to save his friend (Viktor) is the Hex Core and Heimerdinger all but demanded that they should destroy it. From Jayce's perspective Heimerdinger is sacrificing Viktor's life because he fears something that may never happen.
I can't say I blame him. If your friend, let's say best friend was dying and you had a potential chance to save their life, but then someone is telling you to destroy that means I feel like anybody would do what Jayce did, even if we (as the viewer) know it is the wrong decision.
It's not like Jayce wanted Heimer removed to gain power or status. He knew with Heimer there was no way he'd be allowed to continue his research with the core, thus (to Jayce's knowledge) doom Viktor to death. Honestly Heimer is the one who annoys me here as he knows damn well that Jayce wouldn't destroy it.
Surely he should've realized that because Viktor was dying Jayce would easily disobey his orders regardless. Instead, wouldn't it have been more logical for Heimer to get involved himself to help prevent any misuse or from something from going horribly wrong? Instead he just demanded it should be destroyed with basically the equivalence of saying "Trust me." Even though "trust me" isn't enough to justify me letting my friend die.
""jayce's exchange of liquids"" was not a sentence i was expecting to hear tonight
You mean Viktor's but I totally agree 😂
@@birdy._.official no, it was jayce.
its called "Sextech"
@@CEEXAGON brilliant
@@CEEXAGON music to my ears
A cool thought I had was that jinx never directly gets injected with shimmer. She uses it as some form of gun powder which produces smoke which would then give her small amounts after shooting. It would also connect her love/addiction of shooting her guns because not only does she get a high from the guns but also from the shimmer.
Holy shit this is genious
That is brilliant omg
Wow, great catch...?
@@46raulfull this isn't genius, this is Vietnam all over gain
This would certainly explain why she is always depicted with shimmery eyes, glowing purple-ish. Great analysis!
Kinda surprised he didn't mention the fact that the band Imagine Dragons is now officially more canon than Shaco lol.
Imagine dragons champion set when
He already did way earlier a bunch of videos ago
When a band has more lore then your existence
Sucks to be shaco
@@johndedios6676 welp, being shaco, he kinda deserves that XD
@@sr.365 oh an imagine dragons skin line would be SICK
Jinx didn’t write liar on zevika because she thought zevika was lying about having a partner. It’s because it was a message to silco calling him a liar. From her POV silco lied to jinx about vi being dead when in reality silco didn’t even know
russian subs say Лгунья it is mean She a Liar
But when Jinx finally saw Vi, she looked shocked that she really was alive tho. Meaning, she didn't believe Zevika, and that she was a liar. I think she even said something of the lines "so Zevika wasn't lying?". Unless I'm missing something.
@@DangoFloat Yeah, the ''so Sevika wasn't lying?'' line is true but Im with Veda on this. Jinx left Sevika up there for Silco to find, so Jinx is calling Silco a liar and what was he lying about? About Vi's death.
@@DangoFloat exactly... it wasn't anything related to vi having a partner like necrit said, that's way too specific and irrelevant since they always had help from someone (Vi's dead friends, Vander etc)
dunno, french translation on netflix, translate liar as "menteuse" which is feminine, thus can' be directed to silco...
Vi wasn't shocked just cause Jinx can fight now. She was shocked how her sister maniacally shooting, trying to kill people with enjoyment in her eyes. She is shocked, cause she sees that her sister is insane now.
Also, some of these aren't hidden details, but obvious plot moments.
Also Jinx almost shot Vi. The bullets went on either side of her.
I believe Vi was more disappointed at herself for letting Powder what she is now rather than "disgusted"
yeah theres a lot of self interpretations in these videos that are up for discussion
fr.. especially when jerico gave vi the note, that’s not a hidden detail it was zoomed in on to be an obvious “turn” in the story
Here is a detail you missed: Vander never appears as a ghost, even tho Jinx saw him "die", youd think if he were dead he would be part of her guilty conscience. Its also shown Singed can keep things alive for years. And by the end of Act 2, Viktor is obssessed with Transmutation, which is the recurring word in Warwick's lore, and goes to seek Singed about it.
Yeah, in act 3, in the finale you can see jinx scream out while spinning, showing the "ghosts" of her friends. But vander isn't in there, implying he's not dead, he's just somewhere maybe becoming a werewolf.
@@roastingnerd8545 You can literally see Warwick's left hand hanging in the air by the end of the episode.
There is a part where memories of the ones she lost has drawn scribbles for heads, Vanders was a wolf
You do see Vander as a ghost. During the second fight of Vi and Sevika. When Vi gets knocked out is Vander's appearence who tells her to stand up and keep fighting
@@XxTeFixXP I think that was vi telling herself what he would have said to get back up sense she wouldn't know of he's alive or not
When Jayce drinks from his own cup, and then sets it down, the cup is positioned so it looks like it's stomping Viktor.
@@DM-dy9bq LMFAO
Noooo his funny comment got deleted. Basically, Viktor coughing up blood = Jayce liquid from body white
I read that one, the reply. Wheres the goddamn bleach
@@CosmoNova. hex before sex
The message it sent to me was "Viktor is living in Jayce's shadow"
People see the boy of progress taking all the credit, but Viktor is assisting him, invisible to the people of Piltover.
Can timestamp
Now we know why "Get Jinxed!" Opens with "blah blah blah" beat intro. This is a VERY well written character.
Also the "lets see what pow-pow thinks"
@@megaantonbj I think it's really cool but a little weird that she named one of her guns with a nickname she had as a kid.
Almost like she tried to cast Powder off for dead, but is still holding onto her old self, barely.
@@CassieCarryd Considering her guns talk to her, Pow-pow might be all that's left of old Powder, mentally.
The Robots in Get Jinxed are actually people.
During Vi and Jinx's reunion she tells Vi "I changed." and Vi replies "I know, you did what you had to to survive." showing she still thinks Jinx is Silco's prisoner. The last time Vi saw Powder she was a scared little girl clutching a stuffed rabbit, crying in the rain, so that's what she was expecting to find. The shock she feels at watching Jinx take on the firelights isn't that she can fight or that she's so brutal at it, it's the realization that her sister truly has changed. Her sweet Powder is now a gun-toting, PTSD stricken, psychopathic killer, and she arrived years to late to play savior to her.
actually it can still save vi powder. powder is still hidden inside jinx just waiting to be rescued. In the future, warwick vi and jinx's paths will cross somewhere and the story will continue from there. singed's goal now is to set up a new lab and then find warwick. Before vander died on the operating table, he said something and singed will search for the word he said.
that scene gut-wrenched me. As the audience, we knew what to expect from the interaction, but it was still so shocking and unexpected seeing how realistically the characters reacted to the situations, the animators truly did a pristine job. It was so sad to see the descent of their relationship as time went on and Vi couldn’t even except the fact that her innocent little sister wasn’t Powder anymore. If you don’t mind me adding, one thing I also picked up and loved was how Vi and Jinx seemed to be polar opposites: Vi uses the past as a way to cope with her trauma and stress as the nostalgia brings her solace and makes her feel more calm and eased with new situations whileas Jinx is literally JINX, a whole different persona, person even, and has become someone entirely new. She’s changed and adapted over time and her trauma eats her up so much on the inside that even the thought of the past (the monkey bomb explosion) wrecks her, like when Vi was saying their old family’s names trying to comfort her and lead her away from Silco and Jinx saw them as monsters getting bigger and bigger; Vi is buff and strong, usually using her fists firsts (she’s street smart, so you could say) while as Jinx is lean and intelligent (for being able to understand the Hextech blueprints); the list just goes on and on… Great analysis! This show really is spectacular and brings a lot of topics to be discussed about.
@@aliyalcn6724 that seems like an interesting idea. Can’t wait to see what season 2 has to offer, would love to see where Fortiche and Riot take the situation of Piltover and Zaun, including Mel’s mother and Noxus and the political situations. Hope they meddle a bit with Warwick, there seems to be so many teasers and I just know he’ll come up at some point. We all know what’s going to happen to Viktor though (the Singed and Viktor segment of the show was also very carefully crafted), the glorious evolution is coming.
yeah but if you think about it...she truly did what she had to survive as well,Powder would have never survived Zaun but Jinx did
Yeah, Necrits's take on this is that she was surprised and proud to see her finally standing by herself for the first time, and that is partially true, but you can see shock grow on her face as she gets worried her sweet little sister might be dealing with stuff but taking it way too far, resorting to (and desiring) violence just like a mirror of herself
Jayce: gotta get the sextech
Viktor: Jayce i'm fucking dying cut the crap and get to work, i only have mere days to live and i'm not gonna waste them on simping for women, the grind is nonstop Jayce, we must reach the glorious evolution Jayce
THINK JAYCE THINK
underrated coment for sure
"Disregard simping, work on the glorious Evolution."
Viktor Sigma Cyborg Grindset
I can hear the burps in the Viktor sentence lol
"apparently the slow yordle is not so slow afterall"
Yes he is. He is super slow.
They were waiting for the lift which took too long, so they jumped down.
Cait took so long to get down that the super slow Yordle was still faster using the lift and walking for a while.
woosh
No, they didnt jump down because the lift took too long, as Vi said: "It's too risky", she implied that the lift, one of the main ways to get down to Zaun, without Vander are now under Silco's control, and thing will be bad if Silco goons recognized Vi.
@@shurlkr3594 You're right, but Necrit still missed the joke that the reason we see the yorddle at the end is not because he is inexplicably fast, but because Cait got down super slowly
@@Korinengamecorp yeah, I can agree with that :D
I think Necrit doesn't miss the joke at all, he just satire
The voices in Jinx head are literally her characterizations of Mylo and Claggor, which influence her actions at time. Jinx wants to ride an airship while Mylo wants to shoot one, she does both.
I've been thinking about this a lot. Do you think that her guns portray Mylo and Claggor? She does talk to the guns and they "talk back"
@@HoaxNess I honestly thought about it, but we still have a couple of more episodes to come and they could in fact be based on character or events we haven't seen yet. Or it could be her attempt at making (crafting) friends, it seems jinx has been very lonely even though she is surrounded by people. The only person she trusts or trusted was Silco, it's the last sane attachment to this world that she has, at least in her head, because she saw him as family. It's also very probable that her guns are more a representation of herself as the minigun is pow pow and her name is powder and the game she was really good at when she was small since it was bilgewater themed inspired fishbones the rocket launcher. The logic behind it being that pow pow is small, fast and resourcefull like her and fish bones is what she kinda saw herself being or semi aspired to be. They were already thieves, and the only thing she lacked was strength and ruthlessness, thus the pirate thing might be something she would have wanted to incorporate into herself.
But this is all conjecture and it's hard to pinpoint what could be what since there plenty of years worth of growth we missed out on because of the time skip and probably many more since when we are in jinx's story arc we can't really trust everything since the reality portrayed around her sometimes isn't what is actually going on or what she is actually feeling or saying. To be more specific we don't know if what we see is true or just one of the many voices in her head suggesting things to her. Because ultimately Jinx still has enough sanity to function and choose what she does, what we don't know is who has control when she has those heightened moments of emotion or how many splits we are dealing with. Is it murder revenge jinx or just childhood deprived this is fun jinx?
I think it has something more to it, like some scenes in act 2 she dodges attacks she couldn't see like someone told her to. The explosion in act 1 might have gave her some kind of arcane hearing.
One theory I have is that the guns are named after people: Fishbones is mylo because of how skinny he was, she also seems to argue with it the most. Chompers are similarly Clagger who we saw loved to eat. Finally Pow-Pow is Powder.
@@egekazkayas8968 ooh that's really good, fishbones does tend to run his mouth a lot just like Mylo. So it could hold true, but only time will tell, or maybe we will get no answer at all.
Also to be noted at the very last scene, the firelights use smoke bombs to completely vanish without a trace, taking Vi and Cait with them. Jinx has been having hallucinations for years now and she wasn't sure if Vi was real or not, and them disappearing like that quite possibly fucked with her mind, when she screams before the cut she probably believes it's all a hallucination and her sister never found her.
Silco, a character we didn't even hear about before the show and who isn't even a champion in the game earned more respect from the fanbase than Viego, a character who has been teased for years.
I thought Silco was Jhin. But Im not that familiar with LoL lore
@@Afreshio definitely not jhin
@@Afreshio not even close both character are like 4 dimensions apart from each other.lol
I think the production of arcane might have had an impact. Viegos event was so rushed and bad but honestly if it meant making arcane this good than I’ll take it.
Morde will always be the true shadow isles daddy for me so I don’t care for viego anyways.
Because Silco is a more nuanced and sympathetic villain from the get go.
He doesn't want to "destroy the World because of his girl", what he wants is what everyone in Zaun wants, but his methods are what set him apart
If Vander really is Warwick, then it's possible Singed still covered his face cause of Warwick. He could've been working on Vanders body for all these years. And it could've been post "throwing away" Warwick as a failure
exactly what I thought when i saw it.
Warwick is almost definitely Warwick, you can figure this out by just reading his lore once
"Though many think of Warwick as no more than a beast, buried beneath the fury lies the mind of a man-a gangster who put down his blade and took up a new name to live a better life. But no matter how hard he tried to move on, he could never escape the sins of his past."
"All he could see was blood. But then he heard a little girl screaming. Screaming something he couldn’t understand. It sounded like a name" That's surely Jinx screaming Violet's name
@@infinityscorner8473 Hmm, yes, the floor here is made out of floor.
Yeah, according to Vi's documents in the archive, it's been about 3-8 years between act 1 and act 2. A lot could've happened in that time.
@@infinityscorner8473 wow, I also think Warwick is Warwick!
I kinda felt bad for Officer Grayson, she died very quickly like- When I first saw it, I was in literal shock on how they can shove something right in front of the viewer's face.... same as Jinx's childhood friends too.
well its a 16+ show, we kinda expect those things xD
@@Filaseth That is impossible in every way imaginable. First of all, Camille is still alive, obviously, she's from a well-known house, Grayson is not and Camille was never an enforcer
@@christoskoukas8856 she was giving me Camille vibes , that's all
@@Filaseth Grayson has heart, camille doesn’t
I'm just sad one of my favourite actresses/voice actresses got an early death :(
I also noticed that in the scene where Heimerdinger was kicked out of the Council at the beginning he is in the middle of everyone on the desk but when Jayce starts arguing with him the camera starts slowly moving to the left (to Jayce) and when they finally kick Heimer out Jayce is in the middle as shown in the overview shots reflecting that he “replaces” Heimer.
I already knew that Caitlyn was looking at/for the shimer in Vi's eyes, but only a few moments later she looks at her lips, only to release what she is doing, become flustered, and move away.
yeah, she looked at vi's lips was split second moment that can easily be missed out
Me: Rito, from 1 to 10, how strong is the tension between Vi and Cait?
Rito: Yes
yeah Cait has it BAD for Vi. she wanted to kiss her so bad right there.
Yeah it's obvious that Vi likes Cait by her calling Cait "cupcake" but I do think Cait really likes Vi back. They really portray a good chemistry between them.
@@seraphimaschannel4001 no shit sherlock. cait having emotional breakdown over their "break-up" is pretty telling in itself lol
Honestly, I cant wait to see how utterly horrifying the Void is going to be in this series.
Kai'sa says hello
@@Mohamed-gv1zt I’m not necessarily talking about shimmer, just in general.
@@Mohamed-gv1zt Singed talking about Mutation.. maybe he mean Void in that Case?
@@Xenoray1 Hopefully we'll find out more in the final act
I almost don’t want to, cause eldritch cosmic horror is gonna be hard to do, champions are easier, but if we’re talking about those giant void creature back in the old war? I can’t imagine how they can pull it off
Something I noticed: Silco's pupil, while still perfectly round in act 1, has now become warped and wierdly shaped, indicating that his shimmer treatment only slows the degradation of his eye.
or that some of the injections of the needle werent perfeclty aimed, possibly why he now lets jinx do it, because since he was getting older his hand wasnt as steady, and jinx is a great markswoman
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@@teecupp8474 just mark. Her name is mark now
There are actually several layers in the Tarot cards at 17:46 (based on what I've learned from my friend who does Tarot readings):
First, note that cards in Tarot readings are called Arcanas (i.e. we're seeing the Death Arcana and the Magician Arcana); A clear parallel in name to the Arcane.
Second, the Death Arcana is below the Magician, meaning that Death was read first and the Magician was then added to provide further detail on the primary card. This supports the parallel to Viktor even more: Death in Tarot readings symbolizes transitions/transformations. Then, the Magician is applied to it. In other words, magic is the reason for Viktor's transformation. Since Viktor is the one using the magic, he becomes the Magician himself, as indicated by the card depicting the "future Viktor" with three arms.
Lastly, the cards can offer a different reading: The transformation through magic could also be about Piltover. It has always been the city of progress but through magic (hextech) it has made another leap, transforming it into a powerful trading hub. Here, the Magician could represent Jayce, as he is the main driver in transforming Piltover. This would also provide yet another symbolic link between Viktor and Jayce.
A cool detail is that how both Jayce and Viktor change, while Viktor turns obsessed with the hextch to save his life. jayce also is open to be corrupted by magic, but in his case was Mel who triggered that change.
(Btw i was thinking the same thing when i saw the tarot cards that was a really good reading)
I noticed the same thing, good observation! Would like to add that both cards were Major Arcanas, so when the reading is mostly made up of Major Arcana cards, "you are experiencing life-changing events that will have long-term effects, and you are called to reflect on the lessons that they provide". Also the cards were upright, which could mean that the person is very much open to these lessons, under external influence AND in concious mind.
Singed being scared by Warwick can still be a thing. It was a pretty huge timeskip, Warwick may have been developed during this time and may be somewhere in the lab, or trapped somewhere else. He may surface in act 3.
Warwick in his lore was a failed experience that was incomplete, he then was dumped somewhere in the sewers / trash where the chemicals actually worked in that environment and then he completed his transformation, becoming alive and fully functional as the Warwick we know. So it could be Warwick hurting Singed and he was never complete until he was thrown away, singed got rid of him as he gave up on trying to make it work while also being dangerous, then in the sewers is where he could actually transform with the matching conditions in there, like the toxins that got into Silico's eyes in Act 1 ending up mixing with the chemicals in Warwick's body triggering the full transformation.
Scenario number 2: Where he got dumped in the sewers, it wasn't just the toxins there mixing up that could be the cause. It might be simply because in the sewers the feelings of the toxins triggered the flashback of Warwick's fight as Vander versus Silico in the sewers where he got his injury by the knife in ep 1, Act 1. And yes, it is mentioned that Warwick always has flashbacks although he did lose his memory, so it all adds up. It actually woke him up at last at that is what was missing. Could also be a combination of both scenarios.
Also; on advertisements, arcane says Season Finale vs Series Finale.
There will be a season 2
@@amrehab6097 the lore of warwick says death was the catalyst of the transformation of warwick so I think warwick(Vander) slasht at singed in human Form died got dumped and is now running free and I would love if silco got injured by Vi or jinx flees and rans in to the jaw of warwick who then proceeds to kill him
@@donnexus1299 That would be awesome to see
@@dylankim9588 Given the success, it is very likely after a year or a year and a half, tying with a release on LoR of Urgot, Mundo, Warwick, Camille or Orianna.
The villain of said season would be the Chembarons, being eventually overthrown by Urgot, while being opposed by Caitlyn and Vi, with maybe some support from Jinx and having Camille as the amoral foil to them, working for the same end, just with much more brutal tactics.
They also may consider moving to other regions, with Demacia and all the Sylas/Lux business together with the Jarvan/LeBlanc conundrum, or visit the Ionia/Noxus war, with given how popular Ionia is, it would also be a no-brainer to consider it.
I like how the speech Jayce gives when proposing to retire heimerdinger is somewhat true, symbolized in the theater scene as Heimerdinger is enjoying the music as behind his back jayce makes his shady deals, hammering (pun not inteded) the point that he doesnt really do a lot to solve the problems of the city, only focusing on the good parts of it
Yeah, I feel like it's due to his yordle nature, but Heimer really aint doing much outside of helping with science stuff (which fair enough is good). But also he gotta have lots of power yet he hasn't done shit to help Zaun. Not that the other councilors are better, they're worse
I mean he took all the blame for the inaction of th council, is if he was the only one responsible for it. Still unfair imo
He also underestimated the “humans” life span. Like yeah, easy for him to want to take his time when he lives forever. He literally told jayce that the time would fly by. Way different perspective of time.
Heimerdinger certainly has his downsides. It's easy to talk about patience when death isn't constantly reminding you of your mortality, he doesn't even think about making the lives of the Zaunites better once, and he is conservative. But still, his experience, wisdom and kind heart are invaluable. Kicking him out of the Council was far too radical, Jayce crossed a terrible line by betraying a good friend.
@@Mediados It wont make any difference. Heimer was more a spectator than anything, the cities and the council will be the same, Heimer never did anything
You missed 3 important details on the the Vi/Jinx encounter at the end.
Jinx asks Vi if she is real, due to her having PTSD and visions.
When Jinx tells everyone to shut up and Caitlin replies that she didn't say anything, that is because Jinx PTSD kicked in, making her hear voices in her head.
At the end when the smokes lifts and Jinx is alone, she is confused because she can't tell with certainty that the events which just happened, of her meeting Vi again where real or just another Vision to torment her.
They are all the same thing and not so important 🤣
That's all super obvious lol
PTSD? It's more like schizophrenia
about the last part, I agree and I believe Jinx will realy think it was all just in her head until she remembers her stab wound on the leg
And just like that my heart is broken
15:04 - I’m surprised Necrit didn’t discuss the scene where Vi pinned Caitlyn against the wall in the brothel. She’s calls Caitlyn “cupcake” which is a reference to Caitlyn’s canonical enjoyment of cupcakes, the fact she uses them in her Yordle Snap Traps in League of Legends, and a callback to the basket of cupcakes that can be seen on the balcony in episode 1 of the show when Vi, Powder, Mylo, and Claggor break into Jace’s lab.
Also:
13:33 - The old, slow Yordle actually is really slow. Caitlyn is just even slower in her attempt to follow Vi across the rooftops, than it took the Yordle to use the lift. Probably a combination of her lack of parkour training and the fact her uniform is a dress.
25:19 - Jinx ties up Sevika and hangs her from the ceiling in Silco’s office as a message for Silco. This is because he had told her that Vi was dead, as this is what Marcus had told him, but then she learned from Sevika that Vi was still alive. Also, we know this is Jinx’s reasoning because immediately before Silco looks up and sees Sevika, he says, “How much trouble can one girl cause?” referring to Vi. Now that Jinx knows Vi is alive, Vi is adding to the list of problems she’s creating for Silco since Jinx left him because of her.
25:45 - Vi knew that Powder had changed since she last saw her, but she was shocked, horrified, and anguished upon seeing how much Powder enjoyed being brutal and lashing out now.
also in game, since she came out, Vi has always called Cait cupcake without even knowing about her cupcake thing.
Necrit touched upon Caitlyn hand her family's affinity for cupcakes in his act 1 videos which is why he probably didn't mention it again
What I also liked is that in the past Vi said something along the lines of "You're not a fighter and you don't have to be" to Jinx, which I think adds to Vi's shock.
"In this scene Vi tells Caitlyn that she's hot. This is in reference that Caitlyn is indeed hot."
I can't believe you missed that detail on poro. He got burn, so in next scenes he have bandage his little horn.
is there an explanation on why one of their eye is blind?
Not really "hidden"... he even backs up and hides from jayce.
Piltover being exactly 200 years old has to be a joke with the 200 years meme
That would be amazing
What's the meme plz
@@Aaronit0 riots design team has 200 years of experience
And Piltover slowly breaking apart perfectly translates into the code of the game
Holy sheets, you're a genius!
24:24 No, Singed did not pump shimmer into the creature, the creature itself IS the source of shimmer.
This lines up with Singed not caring for the subjects of his experiments.
He was not curing the lizard to save it, he was making sure to preserve the only source he had to create and study shimmer.
As the doctor said during the episode "The mutation MUST survive".
This makes the last scene with Signed even more cool and terrifying: he kept the creature alive (most likely in atrocious pain) all this time to continue his work, treating it not as a pet or an animal, but just as a tool.
Damn, if you want the definition of Cruel Scientist, look for this bald bastard.
I love him.
I agree, it must be the source of shimmer shown on the first act
True but i think those flowers have something to do. Maybe rio's metabolism transforms some component of the flowers into shimmer
Kinda makes sense with tft as well, in tft Rio is able to create those exact same flowers
Well then, Why does shimmer make it suffer afterwards, if it creates it ?
I like the idea a lot, but the sheer quantity of shimmer produced makes me feel like this isn't super possible. Not sure but I think it is very inline with what we know of Singed
Viktor is the best character for me. I love everything about him he is so well made.
Totally agreed
@VICENTE MOLIN I read his lore and even there he´s underrated. Viktor is even as a cyborg a good hearted man (he tries his best) his short stories show how careful and caring he is, especially with kids.
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24:30 During the episode, you can see by the way Rio breathes that her exhaling actually pulsates shimmer INTO the tubes. Meaning that Singed is keeping Rio alive in order to harvest more Shimmer from the mutation. This would make more sense, since Viktor angrily asks what Singed has done to Rio. My theory is that Singed only wanted Viktor to feed the specific flowers because the mutation digests it into shimmer.
Came to say this. Later when they raid the shimmer factory you can see that it's being made in some sort of biological reactor, maybe a transplanted piece of Rio. That's why the mutation had to survive.
A deetail you did not mention: The Medarda Councilor is still fiddeling with the "childrens toy" Mel gave him in act I. You can see it at the right edge of the screen at 9:31.
Caitlyns first enforcer uniform somewhat matches her old design.
Also Vis prison number is 516. In roman numerals VI is 5+1=6.
I did notice the 516 but i didnt know if it had any meaning or not
This must be why in some of Vi's skins she has the number 6 tattooed.
Sad part is I think Mel is noxus spy and they are coming to invade through the after math of piltover and zaun war. Noxus can occupy the hexgates for an easy way to transverse and sneak up on rival nations.
@@andrewpenny4676 and Noxus invasion will get stopped by Heimer and his turrets.
@@mlekosojowe7312 Heimer who has just been kicked out of the council. Personally I think the noxus would want piltover of its teleportation and supply runs.
Hey Necrit in the final scene I think Vi was more shocked at how unhinged Powder has become.
one day she is child next day she enjoy kill ppl.
@@user-yd2qw8gr1h sounds like a perfectly natural progression to me ;p
I would rather say that Vi was more disappointed at herself to letting powder become that way mainly cause of lines: "You have a good heart, never lose it, take care of powder" also if you would say she is "disgusted" to jinx why they would make all fighting scene with Ezreal and his gang?
Rio is the source of shimmer, he's not pumping more into it. The mutation he created within it, probably allows it to process the flowers in a certain way to create the shimmer, which singed then extracts from its body
This! ^^^ I felt like Necrit got this wrong. Why else would Singed go through such efforts to keep it alive?
Exactly my thought.
Just had a "ooooooh so that's why" moment
Feel dumb now, Thanks
I don't really think this is a sure thing. When he says "The mutation must survive", Shimmer was probably not part of the equation before Rio would be dying in my opinion. Looking at the effect shimmer has on it, it probably is not what creates it, else it wouldn't suffer from the use of shimmer. Plus it would probably need to come from the void to produce shimmer, but this is still unsure.
@@sentko8926 Yes this is just a theory... Yours makes sense too. What if he had accidentally discovered that Rio could produce the shimmer when he was trying to keep it alive (coz he had recently experimented on it to create the aforementioned mutation)
Has anyone noticed just how many crows are around every event?
Swain is watching.
Yeah a lot of crows actually, even Tho zaun is below the ground
Wait, I thought they meant that as a joke. Does swain and his demon literally use crows to spy on everyone?
Noxus didt invade ionia yet i think soo swain arm is still not demon? Idk... also swain crow have red eyes and shadow they are not normal crows
could be fiddle too 😂
Its Raum, the demon
i like how Viktor is portrayed to be working all the time. he's always sleep deprived judging by his eyes while Jayce is being Jayce.
True, and i think it's because he knows something is wrong with his body even before the doctors diagnose him... and he doesn't tell anyone :(
So sad
THE DEFENDER OF TOMORROW
@@46raulfull He was pretty much aware he didn't had much time by his coughs and the only part doctors did is to say roughly how much time he has (when jayce wants to talk about his disease he already says how much time I have hinting he knew it all before and that's what made Viktor interested at first place)
When you learn Singed is Viktor's mentor, ironic that his mentor is a deranged man who's more focused on the biological monstrosity of men while Viktor is more focused in the potential of augmentation. It's really funny that his mentor specializes in making biological monstrosities while Viktor is a more adept at turning people to augmented machineries.
I feel like there's a lot of interesting contrast between them, making them "related" was a genius idea.
For Singed science is EVERYTHING, nothing is more important than his advancement, including morals.
For Viktor science is EVERYTHING, but not for the sake of science but for what it can do for people in need.
Singed wants to makes biological monsters and weapons etc.
Viktor wants to improve the lives of others with augments and machines.
And other smaller things im too lazy to write lol
Actually they have alot in common, they both have intrest in biological science, where one wants to use hextexh and the other wants to use chemtech. One problem with 2 very scary solutions. I wouldn't be surprised if just like in viktors In game lore, Jayce finds his new lab and destroys it, only this time it being singed's lab and thus giving singed his reason to fight
Viktor has a skin line where he takes void monsters and turns them into his army with mechanical augments
How cool would it be if Singed had a skinline where he creates his biological army using humans!
@@Loliston wrong, creator viktor is about taking humans brains and putthing them in machine bodies of combat weapons to fight vs the void
@@Loliston a chemtech skin line sounds dope af, and that's not just cuz I'm a singed fan
The hexcore is coded to Victor's DNA as it was his blood that first entered they crystal, so that's why the plants don't accept the transmutation, but when Viktor touches it he changes.
That makes so much sense!
When Jayce suggests the hextech operations to be suspended we can see that the councillour that Mel gave the child's toy is still trying to solve it, portraying him as extremely dumb, lol.
I Love that small Detail that the one Guy in the council still didn't solve the childrens Puzzle he got als a gift
A little thing i'd like to point out is that the lady who picked the hextech crystal in the last scene, looked at it the way crows and raven does when looking at something that gets their curiosity, fitting for someone with a crow like mask
She also looks like Viktor assistant, Skye
@@Djcoco34 she might be too old though. She is viktor age which is way older than ekko. Assuming the leader is ekko.
My favorite detail is at the beginning of episode 6. During the conversation with Heimerdinger, he says his contributions will be short lived as the camera shows a butterfly flying away. It shows not only his life is fleeting and time is running out, but the contrast to the mechanical butterflies of Piltover also suggest his mechanical transformation. So many small details!
When Marcus is holding the bloodied coin it has ties to when he said something along the lines of "every coin that passes through here has a crime behind it" considering it has blood on it, so in a way he's also reflecting on his corruption because he _took_ the coin that he had swore had a crime behind it, rather than cursing it out.
You forgot to mention that in the imagine dragons scene, if you look closely in the background round the alley, you can see that Shaco is not there, thus confirming that imagine dragons is more canon than him.
Lmao
even gragas got more lore on the barrels :(
Lmao. but seriously, shaco disappears and he is meant to be a thing of legends and nightmares. should not be a public figure, he is meant to be hidden only until he kills people
@@anonoumos He is not even that, the guy is basically the Schrodinger's champion right now. He exists yet he simultaniously doesn't.
I believe Marcus was being smart while talking to Jayce. He was the one who wanted the bridges closed, I sensed that he wanted to do that to keep Silco away from his daugther
Yeah he has been told to kill both vi and Cait, and he can't do that in piltover so he tricks Jayce in giving him power to block the bridge (which will probably look like an act of war)
Yeah, Marcus was actually manipulating Jayce in that scene, closing the bridge was exactly what he wanted
I don't think Jinx paints "liar" all over Sevika is because Jinx thaught she was a liar. I think it was a message for Silco that HE was a liar telling Jinx that VI is dead and not mentioning it to her that she is alive when he found out. That's why she paints an arrow on the blade on his desk to look up.
That's also how I interpreted it.
13:33 I think it’s not that the Yordle was not as slow as he looked, it’s just implying he took the bathysphere and it’s a joke about how Cait could have just taken the bathysphere like she wanted to.
I have a minor theory about the Hexcore technology and the purple magic Viktor is inadvertently creating. The Shimmer seems to be excretions from Void creatures living near the bottom of the ocean, but then why does the Hexcore become purple once Viktor’s blood comes into contact with it? Yes yes, red plus blue equals purple, but I have an interesting theory I feel Riot is trying to establish with the nature of the Arcane and the Void. When the blood mixes with the magic, it doesn’t look like it’s becoming a new form of energy right away; it appears as if the blood is CONTAMINATING the magic. This makes me wonder… what if this new force Viktor unintentionally created isn’t malevolent… but rather that it is magic given LIFE? Consciousness with the same prerogative all life has at its core: survival? What if it’s not manipulating Viktor out of malevolence, but because it knows on some level that it NEEDS Viktor to achieve a greater form of sentient life? Maybe THIS is what the Void actually is. LIVING MAGIC. And due to the innate power at the center of these creatures being so overwhelming and devastating, maybe they aren’t malevolent at all, but simply higher/more complex forms of life living amongst the more mundane and arguably more fragile forms of life living on Runeterra.
Awesome theory, I noticed there were a lot of void references with the hexcore too. May give a whole new meaning to Viktor’s obsession with the “Glorious Evolution”. Talk of evolution is always synonymous with the void in league (Kai’sa, kha zix etc..)
hexcore will become blitz
I see. "The void consumes all" to just survive. Without hosts, the void isn't able to even be a thing. An example can be that whatever formed Kai'sa's suit was able to survive by becoming one with her. It is also able to become more than what it was back then.
Thing is, the crystals are already alive, they are fragments of the Brakern, Skarner's race, the crystal scorpions from shurima that are not only sentient, but that also pass their whole mind and memories to the next generation, every single one of those crystals is countless souls.
@@phelps6205 maybe the brakern are more closely linked to the void than we think. Who knows at this point. Wherever it is, there has to be some connection with the void somewhere.
Its worth noting that "get jinxed!" is likely entirely in her head. she gets very glitchy and starts jumping between actions, while silco behind her stays consistent. this effect happens throughout the act, whenever her mental instability is acting up
17:48 also its interesting if you know what those tarot cards mean. First its death: Viktor is metaphorically in deathbed, dying, but in tarot death means change, the "death" of old methods or pathways and the founding of new things. Second its the magician: also literally could mean Viktor as the magician beacuse he invents stuff and deals with Arcane (magic), now in tarot the magician is a card that shows you the existence of everything you need to change, like it says everything is right in front of you to go and do that important thing, you just have to do it.
Really cool details.
You missed the detail that one firelight members, specifically the one that stole the Hextech gem, also took unconscious Caitlyn right after. Not a very important detail, but it still went by very fast that it's easy to miss.
Cause the leader asked them to grab them.
There is one easy to miss detail that you didn't talk about: the vastayan cook, Jericho.
He spoke to Vi and Caitlyn in his own language and apparently they didn't understand him. So he gave them a handkerchief that had the brothel's logo on it.
This could be interpreted in many ways. He either thought they were dating and "wanted to help" by inviting them to the haha funny place, or he was genuinely guiding them so they could gather more information. He also could have been instructed to give the handkerchief to Vi, it's another possibility.
i still cant get over the facial expression milo made when the steel pipe punctured his chest really made me tear up.
At first I couldnt even believe that both of them died. its so sad :(
@@dergerhard9724 i hope riot honor them at least by putting them in cards as playable creatures in LoR
@@wass77 "Visions of whats Lost" would be a Banger yet depressing card
@@hohenburg5497 ooh nice name!! indeed would be depressing ugh.
@@hohenburg5497 damn yeah!
I don't think closing the bridges is an issue for Marcus, he was deliberately presenting it as the only option to Jayce in order to push him into giving that order because he had to stop Vi and Caitlyn from returning to Piltover.
I got this from it too. He wants a "legal" reason to not let Vi and Cait across the bridges. EVERYONE has to be searched, so he will know when Vi tries to cross and deal with it.
This what I also think, He Manipulated Jayce into Closing the Bridge so he can Stop Vi and Caitlyn from crossing back into Piltover. I also Believe Caitlyn is going to uncover Marcus' Corruption of be forced to incapacitate Marcus and this is how she will become Sheriff.
With how HEAVILY implied Vander being Warwick is, and the several years skipped, it's not too unlikely that Singed's bandages signify that he has already made Warwick and is still the main cause for his bandages.
Aren't Singed's bandages from the explosion in the lab at the end of ep3.?
@@PhilDonovanguitarstudio negative they are in fact 100% from warwick/vander.
The old councilor isn't Jago Merdarda. We learned in ep 5 during the performance that he is either councilor Hoskel or councilor Salo.
when Jinx & Vi was fighting in the last scene i doubt Vi got shocked over Jinx being able to fight BUT how she was fighting brutaly and bloody Vi sounded extremly conserned
"Hinting that Mel is only using Jayce"
Me, after watching 'that' scene: I fucking knew it
I knew that scene was coming, and while watching I was legit screaming at Jayce, don't you kiss that hoe! Bad Jayce! NO! And then 'that' scene came and I was yelling at him so bad, lost my voice the next day:
"JAYCE, BRO SHE USING YOU, YOU HER SUGAR DADDY INVESTMENT! NOOOOO,"
My family thought I was dying... 💀
@@birdy._.official it's the other way around 😭 he ain't no sugar daddy, he a sugar BABY. Like mother like daughter 🤢 Mel is not so bad otherwise
Seein Caityln through Jinx lenses you can somehow get the feeling that Cait is a well ajusted version of herself, good aim, confident, good morals good relationship with Vi, Caity has a tonne of reasons to hate Jinx, Jinx can only envy Caity
Necrit, with all do respect, I think you're hiding the details that could make Vi x Caitlyn real (or else not noticing).
If Riot wouldn't mean to make them a couple, surely they could make those scenes in different ways. But they didn't.
In the brothel, Vi told Caitlyn that was the place where all the secrets come out.
Later on, she pushes Caitlyn regarding his target (man or woman, something Caitlyn never thought about).
Later on she finds out Caitlyn was pretty comfortable and mesmerized by talking with a woman (unlike Pin, where she was kinda uncomfortable with).
Not to mention the reaction Vi had when she walked away (surprised yet satisfied/happy about it).
In episode 6, yes, Vi's eyes were purple and they were going back to normal, but despite Caitlyn being responsible, their faces were way too close to eachother.
And not just that, I noticed 2 things:
- Caitlyn, while looking at Vi's eyes, went down on her lips for a moment, and while doing that, she closed hers, like a "holding" expression.
- Before getting up, Caitlyn shaked her face like she was some kind of lost in looking at Vi and she came back to reality.
And as a bonus fact: In LoR cards, when Miss Fortune flirts with Vi, she answers with Caitlyn references.
Now, I don't want to say it's 100% confirmed, but what I learned in this series is that Riot gave so much space in Body and Face language...and THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the best ways to make something clear.
MF flirts with Vi in LoR? Nice. So Sarah is also WLW.
yes
These are all amazing catches, didn't even notice some of them!
These aren't really new details, but I have 3 things to add:
1) in the drawing Marcus's daughter made, you can see her "mother" has a set of wings and what looks like a crown, perhaps it wasn't her mother, but something else she saw.
2) I don't think singed is pumping shimmer into Rio, instead, extracting it from Rio as THAT is the mutation singed was talking about when saying "the mutation must survive". The timeline of the amount of shimmer being made and the scene showing Rio being put into a tank to more efficiently keep Rio alive, while also extracting it lines up. (Much more shimmer being made later, as compared to the small amount singed had in act 1)
3) since the Firelights had also stolen the hex gem, its quite likely that ekko will use this gem to power his Z-drive in an attempt to go back and save their friends, instead of making it to save his friend in the comic.
i dont think its shimmer honestly we see being put in rio.. at least it would be a plot hole. when singed says that the reactions to shimmer is stabilizing in ep 1 viktor is at least like 22. that would mean rio was being pumped with a highly volatile and, more than likely, deadly drug like 10 years prior.
FAIRY GOD PARENTS
Yeah I think those flowers + Rio = shimmer
1. Could be Janna?
@@trier598 Could also be the kid combining her mother with the image of an angel/Kayle/Janna
I remember an observation from the series. It is exactly the scene in which you were talking about Jayce drinking from his own mug. When he puts it down, it completely covers Viktor out of the scene. It struck me when I saw it in that it is showing how a rift is starting to form between the two. The symbolism for how Viktor is overshadowed by Jayce.
bruh im glad i wasnt the only one who felt uncomfy with jinx and silco at first
It’s certainly kinda unsettling. I do think Silco cares, but he’s also fucked in the head. Not exactly the type of person to take advice from.
I love these kinds of videos, they make you appreciate the amount of detail and work they must have put into making this series
I feel like we glossed over the fact that a poro is a professor. What???
I personnaly think its an hint to the app Porofessor
I'm also wondering this, I'm not even quite sure how the name is even spelled from the video, Doo? Du? Doom? None of these pull up results on Google
24:50 what if Singed has already 'created' Warwick and that's why his face is covered? I mean it's quite a large time jump between the acts, so wouldn't that be possible?
Silco didn't know vi was alive, Marcus captured her in his own, one of the writers revealed in twitter it was because he felt guilty and wanted to prevent her death
Thats why Vi wasnt on the records initially. And also why silco thought her dead.
I’m really interested to see how they tie everything together in act III! Can’t wait!!!
I feel like 3 episodes aren‘t enough, there are so much things that HAVE to appear there. All the „basic“ things (the things, that drive the story on) will take like 2 episodes
Keep a look out for a hint at Warwick near the end
It wasn't a "drowning". Silco gave Jinx a dark baptism. It's an occult reference. Great vid 👌
Could be both tbh
Considering the Symbolism and his speech at the end of Act One
That being said, I wouldn’t trust Jinx not to kill everything in sight if she gets a full blown panic attack
and pink aye flashes in scene
Still hesistant to think that the mesh that Viktor watches, or the one reflected on Heimer's imagination (specially as the mage on it is the exact same drawing from the original depiction on Arc 1), are representatives of the Void.
The whole concept of the Hextech Gemstones reacting to organic matter may not be a coincidence, the process already exists on creatures innately born with magic. Rather, this suggest how the mind of someone that doesn't have magic themselves grow obsessed with it (much like magic users to the World Runes), and most importantly how a mage exists.
To put it bluntly: Infuse magic onto an organism and at best you get a mage, infuse organic matter onto a magic source and at best you get the Hex Core. In layman terms, the ability to create artificial mages, if not to mass produce them.
That latter point seems what I personally believe is Heimerdinger's fear about the Hex Core's existence, unlike Hextech that's fundamentally "open sourced magic": He fears that in a world that already has struggled with innately magical beings, for everyone to afford becoming mages themselves. No surprised then to suggest refining Hextech over a decade, to spread awareness first of its responsible usage before handling it to the public.
Under these terms, then the reason test subjects such as the plants used by Viktor (whose growths seem reminescent to Zyra's, who also derives from the Rune Wars) don't survive for long is that they're not infusing themselves onto the Hex Core.
What I'm implying from the latter is that the Hex Core only works in response to the organism is infused by, which would also explain this being attached to Viktor's staff (or as of Arcane, his cane): He's draining himself to feed the Hex Core in exchange of using its magic to behave as a normal mage would.
And with that, perhaps the root to the Glorious Revolution (tm): Transhumanism through magic, to have everyone augmented onto artificial mages to solve all organic ailments.
Is it possible that the "mutation" that Rio has is that, when it metabolizes the flowers, it produces shimmer? And Singed is keeping Rio alive to keep producing shimmer?
Holy shit that could be a theory!
Caitlyn traded her gun for the medicine. Showing she took Vi's advice to heart.
Also, I thought Jinx wrote Liar on Savikah as a message to Silco lying to her about Vi being dead.
+1
Which advice?
@@kolosinator9870 "You expect everyone to give you what you want. If you want people to talk to you, you have to make them think you have what they want."
Firelights also took Caitlyn with them, you can see the firelight that took the gem also was carrying Caitlyn within the smoke bomb, and she's not there when smoke disappears.
Also, when Silco stopped the get jinxed music he did it right as it would say "I am feeling a little ignored"
I for some reason absolutely love the scene, when Silco finds out Vi is alive.
The absolute shock as he said "from the dead?!"
Could the Firefly who took the hextech gemstone at the end of episode 6 be Sky? They have the same hairstyle, and we know she has connections to Zaun. Also, a scientist would definitely use a plague doctor style mask like the firefly had.
yes its sky and its the same girl working with victor plus the girl when victor is young
On one hand I felt like the voice heard when I think jinx hits them during the fight sounds pretty masculine. On the other hand it is possible all of them are using voice changers. Ekko, if he really is the leader I would think does not sound like that at all. I guess one other counter argument is that the firelight looks very slender while sky is not quite that much from the glimpse that I remember. I still do think it’s a possibility, mainly just expressing some possible doubts I have.
@@uniquename82 yea also, sky was a kid zaun a long time before ekko so i dont know if they're friends like that. but could be!
i really doubt its sky only because of the way she looked at the hex crystal when she picked it up, she tilted her head like she was confused/had never seen it before
When Caitlyn asked Vi if she can at least thank her and Caitlyn pulls her shirt down shows that something happened with her shirt to be pulled up, she's also late enough and might have hurried to Vi fixing her shirt afterwards
She was sort of climbing down from her perch where she shot Sevika. Doubt it has anything else to do with the previous scenes
I honestly loved the scene where Jayce gets it on while Viktor is collapsing. Less focus on playboy, more of a symbolism for the unions
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I thought it was showing more that the combination of the hextech and Viktor's blood was some sort of union of two things, joined together like puzzle pieces completing each other, yet we all know that the end result will be tragic for Viktor as he losses himself in his "glorious evolution." Jayce's relationship is most likely a fling, or he's gonna get hurt or taken advantage of, as he further losses himself in his ego and popularity.
Viktor made a union of blood with the hexcore, while Jayce made a union of blood with the life of a celebrity, thus both losing their way.
I'm loving my new found love for Necrit's Viktor sounding voice after watching Arcane.
I love that in the theather scene only Heimer is enjoying the play while all the other concilers are making shady deals. Really shows that he's the only uncorrupted of them.
Yeah, and how unfit he is to rule if he can be so oblivious to what's happening all around him.
All of the councelors are sh8t
Jayce and Heimer are the only kinda decent ones atleast
@@Zero-zr6xx The only kinda decent one is Clockwork collar counsellor.
Heimer is perfectly alright with having the people of Zaun living in his city's filth. While doing nothing.
@@raxzen-1610 yeah, Heimerdinger may be "nice" and less corrupted than others, but it is obvious that he is choosing to ignore Zaun from the start of his career as a counsellor 😐
@@raxzen-1610 he tries his best, the guy has no power in a council that corrupt. Any change he suggest would just get rejected by the others.
Vi's prisoner number is #516 which is a reference to her name V = 5, I = !, VI = 6
Powder falling in well and Jinx's rebirth is a reference to baptism. also another further reference to her eye at end of act 1 and reference to Fallen Angel painting.
when Jayce put his head on Mel's lap he said Viktor is like his brother.
Caitlyn exchanged her rifle for shimmer, her in-game rifle from her parents is arriving later.
Silco called Jinx a child after her admission and failure at weaponizing Hex-Tech gem, further hammering their parent/child relationship. even further hammered by Sevica to Vi.
honestly i was surprised about Pim having same VA as Silco😨😨😱😱
also didn't release Skye was that little girl that Viktor saw in childhood.
cant wait for next act.
thanks for quality content. keep up the good work.
wish you well. take care
Also, when Viktor is showing Heim his new arm contraption with the laser, one shot places it directly above him in a way that strongly mirrors the in game model. It is also a robot hand that shoots lasers but that one is obvious enough as is.
The creature singed called a “mutation” has to be from the void. Because in TfT every champ that are classified in the “Mutant” category are all void champs.
Rio looks too nice to be a Voidborn. Voidborns tend to be scary predators.
Singed implied that he's one that mutated it though
Not quite. Mundo is a "mutant" in the current tft set.
@@Zharghar08 Well and he is purple/pink. So it fits the void colorsheme.
And as Riot retcons left and right we cant exclude the option that Mundos lore will just be rewritten like everything else to fit new storylines.
@@MonoReaper could use some more proof
Vi, and Caitlyn seems like very close friends.
Roommates even
Comrades, one might say
@@vincentking2653 OMG they were roommates.
I like me some gals being pals
Scissor friends
That scene where Jinx lit up the torch made me cry so damn hard. Last I cried was at the end of episode 3. Someone needs to explain to me why this show made me get so caught in my feels.
thissssssssss
i cried like a baby basically every episode, damn riot, man
What if Mel is a Noxian spy? Maybe even the faceless woman herself?? I mean, she said her mother was a Warlord... wouldn't she know Swain?
That’s actually a great theory.. on top of that, they’ve been foreshadowing Noxus a lot in the last few episodes… they’ve directly referenced it and keep showing ravens…
@@jaketaste5020 In the teaser for the next episodes there are troops that look very Noxian to me...and Mel's mother is making an appearance.
Imagine how fucked up it is to be thrown into a prison at a young age, with a warden that brings someone to beat you up every night, for years. Jinx is a cool character but Vi makes me feel things.
Also at 19:06 we can see behind victor and heimer the same mechanism viktor used in his boat when he was younger ( 18:44 )
Open youtube And I find necrit posted a vedio I can't be a'y happier
And he's currently live on twitch.
@@shaydnaiel bruh the trailer didnt show much else besides doc oc being "good"
True man so true
Video* any*
One thing, the number on Vi's prison uniform, 516, when pronounced in chinese (wu yiao liu), is intended to sound like Vi's full name, Violet.
What I noticed:
In her first scene Jinx made a Pentakill (2 in the hull, 2 beside "Ekko" and that girl who looks like young Vi).
The Potion Caitlyn got for Vi could be a "Corrupting Potion" (same color + healing effect).
Ekko was in that scene?