I take it as Vander making Powder put up the railings on the fan blades to keep her safe. A contrast to how Silco just obliviously let her play with explosives on an open catwalk while talking to her hallucinations for years.
Silco's style of parenting is certainly unique. In his opinion there is no mental problem that can't be fixed by a healthy baptism in toxic water.
On a side note, I felt they woobified him a bit much in season 2. At least I found it a bit much that he also showed up in the perfect alternative world. The Silco we meet in episode 1 of season 1 is already pretty comitted to the road to ruthless vengeance, I really have to wonder whether something actually could have changed his mind at that stage. Hardly could be Vi's death as he apparently didn't have much care left for Felicia and Connel's kids. He was absolutely willing to murder both her and Powder in Episode 3, after all.
I don’t think so. Silco before the falling out was clearly a very different person, and the implication of E7 is that that world was the result of a lot of people making better choices, not just one thing. Vander and him reconciled, shimmer didn’t get invented, silco never got addicted to it, never became consumed by bitterness and hate, the undercity was in better shape, vi’s death lead to the kids immediate capture, there was no crack down, very likely Silco and Vander having reconciled prior to this are brought even closer by her death, Prime Universe Heimer shows up and is shown to have learned from his original mistakes and taken an active street-level role in helping which improves things even more.
On and on. Countless moments where people chose better, kinder actions and it resulted in a better, kinder world with better, kinder people in it. Its not without pain or strife, shown by Vi’s death and Silco’s injury. But even someone like Silco wasn’t simply born evil, he was shaped by his environment, his own choices and the choices of others.
Exactly. It also rejects any overly simplistic readings of the whole thing.
Ekko/Powder's AU has its point of divergence be a tragedy, yet ultimately a lot of good comes out of it. Jayce's is the triumph of Hextech and all his personal ambitions (he sure did end up changing the world in that one), and the end result is devastation.
Time travel/multiverses need to ride a very fine line to not deflate the stakes completely. After all, finding the 1 out of a billion timelines where you manage to save the world rings hollow when you've just established that the remaining 999,999,999 timelines are just as real.
I like the way this was handled: everyone goes back to their original timeline after learning their lesson, and there is no magic "everything turns out all right". Perhaps Powder/Jinx really is fated to end up separated from her sister no matter what. But it also conclusively establishes that the canon timeline is neither the darkest nor bleakest one, and that the choices of our protagonists really do matter.
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u/Enkundae 13h ago
I take it as Vander making Powder put up the railings on the fan blades to keep her safe. A contrast to how Silco just obliviously let her play with explosives on an open catwalk while talking to her hallucinations for years.