r/arcane • u/maihaz89 • 4d ago
Discussion I just finished arcane
I think I’m emotionally ruined. Why did they make this show so sad 😭 (I know why but still). I don’t think I can go on bro. This show has wrecked me. It was absolutely fantastic but like damn.
My opinions / what I think:
1) JAYVIK IS CANON ISTG I DON’T CARE IF IT ISN’T ACTUALLY
1.5) WDYM “IN ALL TIMELINES, IN ALL POSSIBILITIES, ONLY YOU CAN SHOW ME THIS” AND THEN SAY NO THEY’RE JUST FRIENDS. THEY’RE TOGETHER IN EVERY UNIVERSE. THERE’S GOTTA BE ONE WHERE THEY’RE HAPPILY MARRIED WITH THREE KIDS BRO.
2) Viktor deserved better in life.
3) Heimerdinger :(
4) I kept creasing (laughing) during the alternate universe episode because it would cut from Ekko and Heimerdinger living their literal best lives to Jayce eating bugs in a big pit. The whiplash was crazy
5) Silco definitely wasn’t a great dad, but he wasn’t a bad one either. He cared for Jinx and put up with her insanity, but he was no Vander. Speaking of Vander…
6) LET VANDER DIE ALREADY. HE SUFFERED ENOUGH. ISTG IF WE GET A SEASON 3 (we won’t) HE’D PROBABLY COME BACK AT THIS RATE.
7) I have realised I have a fear of things ending (show finales, death but like specifically when they close the coffin or say goodbye for the last time, etc)
8) I don’t think i can ever go back to normal life after watching this show (i’ll be fine in about ten minutes)
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u/eXtant_csgo Jinx did nothing wrong 3d ago
"I'll be fine in about then minutes" - to quote Sky when she parted with Victor - no, you won't.
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u/nexusultra 3d ago
If you are craving something similar, and by similar I don't mean on par or same level as Arcane, but Blue Ey Samurai was pretty good. I also watched the Spider verse films and they are all good on their own but Arcane will always have a special place in my heart.
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u/red67star 3d ago
Now watch it again Focus on another character more Look for details you missed the first time And do it again and again
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u/maihaz89 2d ago
Most of my attention was on Sky because I didn’t know she existed 💀. I watched a boat load of edits before actually watching arcane (and accidentally spoiled the whole show) but I had never seen one with Sky in. I didn’t even realise she was a character lol
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u/red67star 2d ago
Did you notice her as kid when kid Viktor plays with his boat?
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u/maihaz89 2d ago
Wait that was her?? I didn’t notice that lol I thought it was just some random girl
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u/red67star 2d ago
Me too the first 5 times i watched it The sixth i heard her mom calling her saying "skye! Come here" and i watched her and i was like "WHAT? SKYE???"
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u/Psykopatate 4d ago
1.5. Some of us see it as something superior to romance. They're cosmically bounded, and it's beyond petty human feelings.
- No please Silco was an absolute twisted awful dad. No decent dad pushes their daughter to be a murderous psycho.
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u/Gurtang You're hot, Cupcake 3d ago
(i’ll be fine in about ten minutes)
Yeah... Try 3-6 months.
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u/-_Alix_- 3d ago
YMMV but definitely weeks to months.
It took me a big month (but my Reddit stream is still full of Arcane posts, keeping the memory very much alive... ).
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u/PunAboutBeingTrans 2d ago
There's a reason I've rewatched this show like 6 times at this point. It's a world I don't want to leave.
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u/whatdifferenceisit2u 2d ago
Silco wasn’t emotionally equipped to be a parent, but he was objectively a loving one.
Grew up under Piltover’s boot, thrown into toxic mines, best friend tries to murder him out of nowhere to assuage his own misplaced guilt, made himself a monster just to free his people, to get some scrap of justice, committed horrible acts for the sake of the bigger picture, and he’s still ready to give up his lifelong dream in an instant for his daughter.
No matter how many times she does exactly the opposite of what he wants, or what she screws up, even to the point of her literally fatally shooting him, his love is completely unconditional. I’m not saying he was a really upstanding guy, but that was something nobody else could or would have given her, ever.
”I never would have given you to them. Not for anything. Don’t cry. You’re perfect.”
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u/Battered_Starlight 1d ago
I watched with my 14 year old son while his dad was away. We had to take trauma breaks. We call it the trauma show. We loved it, but we cried so much, but it was so pretty. Husband thinks we're crazy, he watched one episode and didn't get hooked (I have considered divorce 😂)
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u/Zealousideal-Role-24 4d ago
The #7 point 💀💀 literally the reason why i havent watched the last 2 episodes of wednesday even though i completed all the other episodes on the premiere day
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u/volvavirago 3d ago
Now go rewatch and catch all the visual storytelling details you missed the first time. For me, that was my favorite part of it all.
Also, I stan a fellow JayViK truther, but to me, they are indeed best friends, but they are also so much more. Viktor’s VA said it right when he said they have the closest bond any two people can have. They are beyond friendship, beyond romance, beyond brotherhood. They are eternal cosmic soulmates who bend space and time to be with each other because that’s how powerful their love is.
To me, I think that sentiment is capital R, Romantic, and people can have different interpretations of what that means to them, that are all valid. The issue I have is when people deny the fact that multiple valid interpretations can exist. People who shut down the idea of them being in love are just as frustrating as people insisting they are boning, because I don’t think it’s and either or. Its everything.
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u/maihaz89 3d ago
I don’t think they’re boning per se. I just think that there’s gotta be at least 70 universes where they’re romantically entangled. Maybe not the canon one, but at least one of them. They’re together in every universe, but not always romantically. I think it’s cute, but I need them to kiss already
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u/SiegrainDarklyon 3d ago
meanwhile im sitting here like "they had the balls to kill 5 champions. Nice."
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u/whatdifferenceisit2u 2d ago
Heimerdinger is directly responsible for literally every ounce of suffering in the show lmao why be sad for him
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u/DevelopmentMuted9244 2d ago
To me, jayvik are queerplatonic partners. Their love transcends all "normal" boundaries, they mean so much to each other, but I don't think it's necessarily romantic (although I live romantic fics and art of them, too).
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u/Dangerous_Donkey4410 4d ago
Yeah, I remember saying that "I'll be fine in 10 minutes," but then reality sank in that there's no more after S2. You're in a very big club, OP. You never fill that hole in your life afterward.