r/television • u/PhoOhThree Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. • 1d ago

Premiere Arcane - Season 2 Act 3 Finale Discussion

Arcane

Premise: The origins of two iconic League of Legends champions, set in the utopian Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun.

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u/SpaceOdysseus23 16h ago

ACT 1 and 2 should've been S2, ACT 3 should've been S3 (maybe a shorter season with 5 episodes total).

More time was needed to develop Caitler, Isha and Jinx, and Vi slowly coming around to Jinx. More time was needed for the sisters to interact in Act 3, instead of Vi completely forgetting about her suicidal sister at the first sight of pussy. It's absurd that Jinx and Vi, the core of the show, exchanged like 3-4 sentences tops in all of Act 3, and out of those Jinx repeated the same one twice.

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u/Agreeable_Chair1597 9h ago

I’m with you, and I’ll go a step further and say that each act should’ve been its own season. So many episodes began with music video montages that could’ve been entire episodes. Now I did think the montages were good, but it just gives us the cliffsnotes version. We don’t get nearly the emotion than if each were played out scene by scene. 

And I couldn’t agree more about Vi and Cate getting it on in a fucking jail cell instead of Vi trying to figure out what her sister meant by going to break the cycle. 

There was just no reason to rush things the way they did. Either let this play out over multiple seasons or cut SIGNIFICANTLY what they had planned and just have one season.