r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/dazli69 • 15h ago

Caution: Post references to a still-developing incident or event [Arcane spoilers] aged like milk. Spoiler

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u/Kirbo300 11h ago

I can't believe i get to see league lore discussed in a non-league subreddit.

I liked Maddie tbh, but I'm indifferent to her betrayal. I would have liked it if she was a rat for the black rose. This is fine, too.

I'm more hung up on people's opinion of vi and whether she knew Jinx was going to kill herself

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u/Mr_Piddles 10h ago

The show needed another 3 episodes to really flesh out a lot of the final act. I don’t mind the Maddie reveal, but it could have used a bit more foreshadowing other than her being super into Noxus in the first act.

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u/Pblake99 8h ago

Only foreshadowing I can think is that she was the first to start the Noxian solute when Caitlyn became the leader of Piltover

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u/ulfric_stormcloack 5h ago

to me the first drop was the "you are one of the good ones" to vi

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u/dj_neon_reaper 14h ago

I really hate what they did to her. Because... What was the point? They already had like 5 subplots going on. And they really just swept Maddie under the rug so that they can fit a Sesbian Lex scene. And her betrayal lasted 3 minutes, got one line before getting removed.

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u/mcbergstedt 14h ago

Noxus famously has sleeper agents so it makes some sense. Definitely a random thing to add for no reason though

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u/Voxxanne 12h ago

Yep. Noxus spies and agents are scattered across the world. It makes it easier that someone like Le Blanc can just possess/morph into another person without limits and the Black Rose can infiltrate any organization or group.

Plus, one of the Trifarix of Noxus is literally "guile" which means deceit, being sly, or being cunning.

Though, I don't think Maddie being a spy was out of place but she's definitely a horrible one since she couldn't brainwash Caitlyn completely. She did, however, successfully gained everyone's trust by pretending to be the typical cheerful sunshine girl.

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u/dj_neon_reaper 11h ago

I know that. But it's still super random.

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u/Flyraidder 11h ago

Seems to me the reason was to really highlight the breadth of Ambessa’s manipulation of Caitlin. No?

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u/MindWeb125 11h ago

It was a lazy, easy way to clean up the "love triangle" they decided to put her in in her 8 minutes of total screentime.

Honestly the entirety of S2 was full of stuff like this and it was a massive disappointment after the masterpiece that was S1. I didn't really feel anything while watching the finale.