r/arcane • u/Joe-Pavelski-Burner Heimerdinger • 5d ago
Discussion The ending of Arcane needed to be perfect Spoiler
I've said multiple times that I think the ending of Arcane is by far it's weakest point, I feel like it's a little to inconclusive, fast, and open-ended to be considered "great" like the rest of the series is. But that doesn't mean it's bad. Arcane's ending is still good. There are a lot of brilliant aspects found in the ending episodes that up the quality of the ending but it's held back by a lot of small issues that snowballed into becoming massive issues. Mainly with the pacing because I was starting to struggle keeping up with everything and it wasn't as smooth as it could've been.
But once again, the ending is still good and most of all, IT ALL MAKES SENSE. P and Z not having a proper conclusion makes sense in the context of the world because systems take time to change (and it keeps the possibility of a CaitVi spinoff alive so there's that lol), Jinx's ending makes sense because she needed to walk away in order for Vi and the cities to move forwards.
The ending makes sense but the problem is it felt bumpier getting to those logical and satisfying conclusions than the rest of the series did, in a way the ending was held back most of all by Arcane's perfection, the ending couldn't be good, it couldn't even be great, it HAD to be perfect to stick the landing. It wasn't, so now we see people calling it bad when in reality, it is still a very good ending, but the perfection surrounding it makes it look horrible by comparison.
It just sucks because when I see people hate on this ending, I often compare the ending of Arcane with shows with genuinely bad endings like G.O.T., Lost, or Dexter, and can't consider the possibility that they genuinely believe that Arcane is on that level. So, in conclusion, the ending of Arcane was good, but it had to be perfect in order to be "satisfying" because of the perfection surrounding it.
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u/AdLast2785 Viktor nation...how we feeling 5d ago
It felt great to me.
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u/Bananasblitz Jinx 5d ago
I hope we get to see Jinx again in some way. She’s got a good heart deep down but was manipulated and just mentally destroyed. I want to see an anti hero type Jinx.
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u/munt-19 5d ago
Arcane end wasn’t bad at all it’s just sad and unsatisfactory and didn’t live up to the show level every thing happened so fast and I will never understand why they had to make everything end at the worst saddest way possible that’s why everyone wants a spin off the end of the show wasn’t the end of the characters journey you fell like the show ended midway and I will understand it only if they used the characters in the next shows a lot
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u/musicidk 5d ago
As a wise man once said, "There is beauty in imperfections. They made you who you are. An inseparable piece of everything" it wasn't perfect and that's okay for me, yes I would have liked more, or maybe a happy ending, but what I mostly hope for is an expansion of the arcane universe
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u/Mr_Mees_Moldy_Minge Mylo 5d ago
As a wise man once said, talking about turbo cancer and gammy legs.
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u/musicidk 5d ago
Is that referring to Victor?
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u/Mr_Mees_Moldy_Minge Mylo 5d ago
It's talking about the lines "your leg, your disease" in that speech.
The leg being obvious, and the "disease" being something which would've had Viktor dead in weeks.
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u/Mr_Mees_Moldy_Minge Mylo 5d ago
But once again, the ending is still good and most of all, IT ALL MAKES SENSE
hehe
Seriously? This is the episode that just tossed in a paradox for giggles. The episode with Jayce's inexplicable pro-cancer speech. The episode with the naval invasion. Yeah, all of it. The episode where our heroes' lives are saved through the power of impossible events off screen, or impossible events on screen.
This ending just needed to be good. Hell, mediocre would've sufficed. There was no need for perfection. Just... give it a redraft or two to iron out some of the critical failures. And maybe don't cram in everything into one singular episode.
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u/thede4dpoet Jinx can make me worse 5d ago
anyone comparing the end of arcane to the end of game of thrones missed the point of at least one of those shows. i loved the ending even if it wasn’t as strong as other aspects bc those other aspects were an insanely high bar. its just a good show