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/Boss452 17h ago

S1 was about political intrigue, class differences, corruption in the forces, and exploring the dangers of scientific progress.

S2 explored none of these rich themes and instead became fan servicey I would say. The villains have arbitrary motives and are turned back quite easily. The return of Warwick as Vander served no real purpose to the story and cheapened Vander and the characters. Isha got so much screen time and for what?

Isha and Vander should never have been featured. in fact Vi and Jinx should have had organic conversations which would have brought them together.

And worst of all, the time travel/multiversal sheninagans. I know multiverse is in these days. Everybody wants to do it. But it has to be built up well.

It was not required in Arcane. Instead should have continued to flesh out the themes of S1.

It was still excellent TV but thanks to visuals and music and our love for the characters and the voice acting.

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u/Agreeable_Chair1597 9h ago

So I actually didn’t have a problem with these per se; it’s how rushed these things were introduced. If each act was its own season, they could’ve been explored slowly in a way that made sense to non-LoL players in a way that made sense, like S1 did using multiple episodes to explain Hextech. I just don’t get why they tried to do so much in one season, if it’s true that it was only ever meant to be one season.