The downfall of Arcane needs to be studied.

It went from the hottest animated commodity in the world to everyone being ashamed to be associated with it 2 minutes after the second season dropped.

No it didnt

>needs to be studied
opinion discarded

>>149419767 (OP)
>make ugly dykes the protagonists
>show ruined
it's not like we have dozens of examples of this shit already
better try again

All the corruption shit should've been saved for another show, probably one featuring Zilean or Ryze so time travel could fit in. Magic destroying everything happened way too fast and the main theme of the show should've stuck with two sides of a city in conflict during the magical equivalent of the industrial revolution.

>Viktor turns into an apocalyptic eldritch monster
>for no reason at all
>and his arc ends up with him being gay with Jayce in space
>again, for no fucking reason at all

>>149419867
Jinx isn't ugly, she's extremely cute!

>>149419767 (OP)
>It went from the hottest animated commodity in the world to everyone being ashamed to be associated with it 2 minutes after the second season dropped.
It sounds like you're describing MHA, but that was only more gradual between like the 3rd and 4th season.

>>149419767 (OP)

That's a bit hyperbolic, wouldn't you say? Game of Thrones remains a masterclass in nosediving into obscurity. I really don't think that Arcane comes CLOSE to that.

Do I think that Season 2 was a downgrade from Season 1? Absolutely. Do I think it needs a case study for how terrible/bad/divisive it is? Not really - I think there's plenty of cases where the second season just didn't live up to the first. I think it just hurts more with Arcane as Season 1 was so good. Season 2 as well isn't what I would call the worst - its just okay.

>>149419990
this, everyone watched the show for jynx's cute ass she wouldnt have been so sympathetic if she was ugly.

>>149419767 (OP)
>A tale of two cities?
>No, magic slop!

>>149420463
>A tale of two cities?
>No, cringe dyke melodrama

>>149420454
Idk she's kinda ugly too. Like, cute ugly

This is what happens when you get all your opinions from 4chan and have no connection to what real people think

OOOOHH THE MISERY
EVERYONE WANTS TO BEEEEEEEE

>>149420554
>meanwhile, real people

>>149420554
Real people think wearing a piece of cloth on your face protects you from catching an airborne illness and parrot the word science like they aren't extremely retarded

>>149420622
Nobody in your actual life wants to talk to you so you're forced to schizo post about covid on a fucking cartoon forum huh

>>149420647
You really think you'll make people like the second season of Arcane acting like such a fag(like Ekko)?

>>149420413
Stop arguing in good faith you absolute faggot.

My complaints rest largely with Season 2 being rushed through to all hell. They crammed so much stuff into it that really needed more time given to it. The storyline also turning into "everyone unite and fight Evil Jesus and the Warrior Queen" felt like a weird ending for something building up towards a civil war between Zaun and Piltover and the more complicated politics of that.

I enjoyed it regardless but it felt like a missed opportunity for something that could've been fleshed out better with 3 seasons.

>>149420622
>think wearing a piece of cloth on your face protects you from catching an airborne illness
It might not do much to protect you, but it certainly has an effect on reducing spread. Why do you think it doesn't?

>>149421515
>but it certainly has an effect on reducing spread. Why do you think it doesn't?

>Reducing spread

This is literal NPC programming

>>149421630
It's just common fucking courtesy to not needlessly spread contagions to neighbours. You'd have to be some kind of cunt not to care about that.

>>149419982
There is a reason, it's because they let retard shippers steer the plot

>>149419867
but that was the best part. It was ruined by all the boring dudes and their shit plot

>>149422056
>Boring dudes ruined it
>Only part that wasn't an melodrama

>>149419767 (OP)
Isha was a terrible and aggravating character and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. Basically just a manipulative little plot device that was stapled to Jinx to get her to act in ways the story needed her to, not in ways that she actually would.

>>149419767 (OP)
>>>/tv/212776109

>>149419767 (OP)
I haven't watched the show. Is this actually a thing, or is OP just a salty bitch?

>>149422372
Nah, she was fine.
The retards who decided to fridge her and instantly give the manlet gary stu an isekai episode are to blame

>>149419767 (OP)
>It went from the hottest animated commodity in the world
This is why you're so confused about it's downfall, you've already started on the wrong foot.

>>149420413
>Game of Thrones remains a masterclass in nosediving into obscurity
Nosediving in quality, sure, but not obscurity. They are still making Game of Thrones on Amazon.

>>149419767 (OP)
Multiverse shit is always poison

>>149419990
game jinx is cuter

>>149420585
>these fujosniggers will prove my point
Get out of your echo chamber, tranny

>>149421742
>It's just common fucking courtesy to not needlessly spread contagions to neighbours

Which putting a piece of cloth on your face does nothing to stop, assuming of course you even have a contagion to spread

>>149420585
the only thing i remember is slme fag makimg a video of him with the tittle being
>HE WEARS NAIL POLISH
or something, pure crap

>>149420585
based Silco carrying the show even after his death

>>149422558
>Which putting a piece of cloth on your face does nothing to stop
But it reduces it. A regular mask can't stop spread, but they restrict air, so why is it not obvious to you that they'd help to reduce the contagions in your breath?
Just see the image in >>149421515 or countless other analyses on the topic.

Yeah viruses can get through. But like the breath that you exhale, it won't spread as far away from you.
Why do you doubt this?

>>149422907
Not him, but some governments (in his case US I assume) really fucked up the trust people had in them by flopping around between different authoritative statements instead of being more carefull with phrasing. Or not letting people go outside/to the beach. Or standard crackpot.
>Trust is a coin fast spent but hard earned.

>>149419767 (OP)
If Saudis funded it why did they allow so much gay shit in season 2?

>>149421515
No it doesn't, covid particles are too small for anything but an N95 mask to block, and even then the majority of people with n95 masks weren't wearing them properly + were constantly adjusting them and touching their faces, making the n95 mask irrelevant. Please learn actual science and stop promoting medical misinformation and fake news.

>>149422907
It doesn't reduce it at all. It also causes you to constantly rebreathe any viruses you have in your own lungs, leading to amplification of any trace viruses in your body, including the covid 19 corona virus. How many boosters do you have, anon? Be honest.

>Hm, people seemed to like the gay shit. Let's put even more gay shit in season 2.

>>149423402
>to block
It doesn't need to block the particles. Simply restricting your exhale will reduce the spread.
Because even if your breath is full of viruses because the mask doesn't block the virus, the virus still travels through your exhale and if it's restricted then the virus inside of it is too.

>>149423483
>Simply restricting your exhale will reduce the spread

The spread of what? If you aren't sick the only thing you're doing is being a hysterical retard whose cutting the oxygen to his brain by huffing your own waste gas. And if you ARE sick then you keep from spreading it by staying home until you're better

>>149423756
Dear retard, the size of viral particles is irrelevant, people were making the same retarded argument about the HIV virus being smaller than the pores in a condom BUT THE VIRUS EXISTS IN LIQUID AND THE CONDOM IS IMPERMEABLE. Same with the mask, it catches DROPLETS, the virus isn't yeeting around naked, it exists in liquid. And people can BE ASYMPTOMATIC and still spread the virus. Or be FUCKS LIKE YOU and just go around coughing in people's faces.

>>149424516
Yeah I'm not gonna take advice from someone who pays the Idiot Tax to post in the small penis board

>>149419767 (OP)
they fired all the writers and kept a bunch of land whale head shaved women as writing staff for season 2. nothing to study.

>>149424597
Almost. They fired the two main writers from the first season. Only leaving a DISGUSTING Fan-Fic writer who loves writing about toxic relationships and two other flukies. They had no one to control them.

>>149423756
>And if you ARE sick then you keep from spreading it by staying home until you're better
You're aware diseases have incubation periods where you can carry the virus without showing symptoms right? Before you get sick.
But you can still spread the virus around while carrying it even if it's before you've gotten any symptoms. Something like a mask can help reduce that.

Even if the mask doesn't stop the virus from getting through, it does affect how far it'll fly. That stuff still matters.
This really isn't that complicated.

Is that greek gods movie by fortiche happening? Any news on it?

>>149419767 (OP)
I'm glad people hated it. It felt so fucking good seeing people's disappointed reactions.

>>149423479
this

>>149419767 (OP)
Just because 4chan cried HOMO and MISCEGENATION doesn't mean everyone else doesn't still love it. Step out your bubble.

>>149425110
>xir says as zhe posts on a functionally dead board

>>149422056
Actual faggots and femcels like you were the only people who gave a shit about that goyslop it's very obvious the show rapidly lost the majority of its audience the more the show focused on that and ramrodded in the corruption plot

>>149419767 (OP)
>Completely throws away the TECH aspect of magitech
>Warwick is fucking RUINED
>Ekko and Heimer wind up entirely pointless to the actual plot
>The two cities at war has little steam, especially with the most interesting character from S1 dead
>Doesn't matter because it takes a back seat to lesbian melodrama

>>149425207
If only it had any masculine guy in the team thing would be way better .

>league of legends
There were people that willing watched this you guys are really desperate for animation

>>149423402
Masks stop droplet transmission, not individual viruses.

The thing that bothers me the most is how Riot was clear that Arcane was going to be the new canon for their setting right, but problems arise since the show made Hextech out to be this evil corrupting magitech and presumably is banned and no longer available once Jayce and Viktor die together.
This of course cause issues with the several champions that rely on Hextech as part of their origins, like Camille and Blitzcrank, so their own lore is even more mixed up.

>>149422056
Shit take

>>149425229
The first season is excellent, a 10/10

>>149422372
Isha is short for Ishall move the plot forward when we need it to without developing any emotional connection with the audience.

>>149425428
great animation but the writing and pacing were only marginally better than s2 imo

>>149425458
>without developing any emotional connection with the audience
That's the problem, she does start developing that connection and she gets killed off out of nowhere in a hacky manipulative way
And then nobody fucking brings her up again, not even Jinx

>>149425488
nah

>>149422551
Glass house anon.

>>149419767 (OP)
Making Timebomb canon at the expense of the show's pacing killed S2

>>149425656
And they didn't even commit to that, it's canon with an asterisk

>>149421253
Literally this. Act 3 is the entirety of Season 3 and they had zero idea on how to trim off superfluous subplots to focus on the actual core story. Are they making a family drama of a broken family trying to "go back to how things used to be" or are they doing some eldritch jesus is trying to assimilate the world? Or is it about two cities at war with each other and eventually learning how to put aside their differences because at the end they're all human? During all of this we have random bullshit with Powder 2.0, Sevika, Mel's mcguffin origin story, the fireflies and heimer just kinda existing but not really and all of this just going fucking nowhere. It's not even a half baked loaf, it's just raw dough.

>>149425965
Giving Amanda and the other two retards some credit the new season was doing just fine up until episode 5, up until that point there were a lot of good things going on in the story that could have potentially paid off.

Episode 6 just takes all that and shoves it in the garbage, episode 7 was just the isekai cherry on top with episodes 8-9 being the defeat lap.

>>149419767 (OP)
The lesbianerino plotline hijacking so much of vi's character that she becomes caitlyniahu's second in comand and lets her traumatized sister go kill herself just for a few drop of that topsider pussy.
It may not be the sole flaw of the show, but is a clear demonstration that writers shouldn't listen to fans or their genitals

>>149419767 (OP)
I forget, was the show ended, or are they on a long hiatus?

>>149419767 (OP)
Because the S1 hype was fake.
Same thing happened to the Doom and Doom Eternal soundtrack. First one was the best thing ever according to the NPCs. Second one, despite being the same thing, was the worst.
Manufactured hype does not carry on. You need to keep spamming it and making the gullible masses think that something is good. Arcane, ironically, believed its own lie, and so tripped over it for season 2.
There's a reason big movies spend so much on marketing.

>>149422907
Well, for one, science doesn't back this.
The few countries that (were dumb enough to) release the data like Denmark showed that as soon as mask mandates were issued, the coof caused skyrocketed. As soon as they were lifted, they dropped.
As another anon pointed out, the respiratory system also works for excretion in a minor way, so giving the virus a breeding ground in the mask and constantly rebreathing makes your own situation worse while also more likely that you spread it to others.

I wore N95s for 2 months. I caught it. I didn't wear a mask again for the 3 years the bullshit lasted. Never vaxxed, never caught it again, ironically worked in admin in ER and was the only one in my shift not to catch it.

Try to think for yourselves rather than repeating what the TV tells you.

>>149419767 (OP)
I know women that liked it because they simped for young Silco.

>>149419767 (OP)
The invasion of Piltover was just such a fucking horrible mess. Somewhere around 5 boats show up and the city falls with 4 people trying to defend the city?
The fuck was that shit?
They wasted too much time on utterly pointless nonsense (like Jinx being a good girl with Echo) instead of giving their climax the time it needed to be epic.
I mean look at the siege of Autobot city. That shit's 11 minutes long but it feels grand, important, populated, and has cool moments. The attack on Piltover was a huge nothing burger. The pacing was fucked, the scenes were lame and shot in a way that made the city look empty and desolate, and there were no great moments.

>>149419767 (OP)
>my terrorist sister with suicidal ideation just escaped her jailcell!
>no better time to have a 3 minute lesbian sex scene in a public area
why did they do it bros

>>149419767 (OP)
They changed the writing staff completely and the show went from being an almost perfect story about class warfare with some magic elements to a bunch of magic bullshit with some class warfare elements. Which it should have probably been from the start, but no one would have liked it half as much if that were they case.

Also, bringing back Zander completely shit on one of the most important emotional beats of the first season. Again, I know why they did it, but it's still total bullshit.

>>149419767 (OP)
They lost their veteran narrative lead to a stoner cat cartoon

The show was heavily carried by its cliff hangers and at the end there was really no payoff.
It's to be expected since when season one ended you were hoping, begging for some genuine genocidal war with a powder keg that was looking to blow from the very start. What you actually get is music montages, all the preset chem barons committing suicide by LOL character and caithlyn dressing up as hitler for one scene and becoming the unchallenged god king of pitsville because (inworld) her family was the owners of the piping systems. Not like there was a council of five with families that have similar power lol.
Shit was AAAAASSSS.

Instead of focusing on what they had already they instead broadened their scope too wide. Way too wide for 9 episode per season. Time travel, alternative universe, war, hivemind cult, "tyrannical corruption", magic assassin witches, superpower destiny power. All of this and the only answer they gave to the big overworld conflict of the last season was,
>Yeah we never answered any of the problems of the last season but Noxus are the bad guys so our cities will ignore the glaring elephant in the room and fight with you
It's a character show, but you got to admit they didn't give the rest of the world the respect it deserved.

>>149427726
That WAS a good cartoon, though.

>>149423353
My trust in the medical system was already really low but now my opinion of the public is even worse. People are such unforgivably retarded niggercattle and covid made me feel genuine hatred and malice for them, to the point I legitimately don't want 90% of people to have the same rights as I do, I don't even see the point in teaching most people to read or talk anymore. I'm ok with violently silencing maskies and removing them from civilization

Arcane is still relevant and popular. People love Jinx and Ekko.

>>149425599
just my opinion

>>149421253
It says a lot that the episode everyone talks about the most from S2 is one that basically steps out of the plot for an entire episode. The pacing was just too fast for S2 and the final act in particular blitzed through everything including the sudden lesbian sex scene kek

>>149424826
You're arguing with someone that's so uncultured that he probably doesn't even cough or sneeze into his elbows, what's the point? How many men don't even wash their hands after using the bathroom? People are filthy and don't understand the basics of hygeine in Burgerland especially.

>>149421253
>>149425965
I don't know why people say it was rushed, it wasn't even the same story
>The giant civil war that was building up basically disappeared with zero consequences by S2EP4
>Jinx is suddenly cured from her severe schizophrenia, anxiety and insanity and is just quirky now (for some reason killing Silco made her better)
>Jinx's motivation evaporates into thin air, suddenly becomes some bedrotting NEET
>Then suddenly swerves hard into her mental issues near the end

>>149428992
So stupid to such an extreme degree that you are an animal and not a person

>>149427279
If people were honest Silco and Jinx was the greatest part of S1. But it's really creepy to say so no one admits it

>>149423437
>It also causes you to constantly rebreathe any viruses you have in your own lungs, leading to amplification of any trace viruses in your body
retard-kun...

>>149420413
GoT was always overhyped. Arcane is exactly like Korra.
>Intense, dramatic S1
>About rebellion and class divide
>Every piece of dialogue delivering impact succinctly
>Suddenly changes direction and becomes an alright show in S2

The dance scene was beautiful, fight me faggots

Went from a really cool show in Season 1 to extreme derrailing in Season 2 that feels like amateurish fanfiction.

>>149419767 (OP)
>The downfall of Arcane needs to be studied.
Why do you post like a Twitter user?

>>149427493
>FUCKING FANTASTIC

>>149427726
Whats the name of said stoner cat cartoon and does it have Arcane S1 tier writing?

>>149429276
S1 Korra's ending was a total Deus Ex Machina with how Aang just appeared out of nowhere to give Korra her ending back. Korra was never good and S1 would've been better if it had actually left off on a cliffhanger where she accepts she has to relearn or re-unlock her bending instead of continuing to have everything handed to her on a silver platter. It was stupid how the only way they could give her a compelling arc was by making her the PTSD-riddled/punished hero since they couldn't think of a way to have her character grow without just throwing torture at her.

>>149429311
Season 2 was just advanced degenerate fanfiction
>So this schizo 16 year old girl sits on a 40 year old man's lap and performs an intimate operation on him

>>149429347
Korra was a non character in S1, she's just a pawn of the plot. It's the world building, villains and writing that excels. Although it is different from Arcane in that Jinx is undoubtedly the main character of Arcane (even if the creators originally insist there's no MC, to everyone Jinx is arcane)

>>149429164
Glad to know you felt called out by that of all things

>>149422540
Game jinx looks flat and uninteresting
Arcane jinx is pixieish and cute ugly

>>149428174
>I'm ok with violently silencing maskies and removing them from civilization

>Call people retarded
>Turns out he's the retarded one

Many such cases.

Most of season 2 is in a weird spot where it simultaneously feels like fanservice, but also done with extreme reluctance.

>>149419767 (OP)
The show about police brutality stops even thinking about police brutality as an issue in favor of dumbass wizard shit.

>>149427493
The new writers straight up hated Caitvi but knew it was popular with the audience so they were forced against their will to give them what they wanted and we ended up with that hot mess. It's absolutely insane.

>>149429302
>country with less wins in Olympics
Everyone can knock you out, pajeet

>>149419990
Jinx wife
W
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>>149429734
Look at this cute goofball, who could hate this?

SCREAMING FEMALE LEAD WITH DYED HAIR AAAAHHHHHHH

>>149427493
lesbians get turned on by the thought of violence which in this case would be suicide

>>149429775
Screaming manic girls are the best

;_; Jinx ;_;

>>149430071
I want to cheer jinx up :+

<3 Jinx <3

>>149419781
fpbp

>>149419982
>>149420463
>>149421253
>magic already caused multiples apocalypses, our city was literally built to be magic-free
>wait you want to recreate magic? are you crazy?!
>well you did it anyway but at least be VERY careful...
>what the fuck did you just infuse yourself with raw magic???
>*apocalypse happens*
NOOOOO HOW COULD THIS BE HAPPENING TO US???

>>149426848
more or less this except the show is still exceptionally good as a whole. fake hype only exaggerated the S1/S2 fracture.

>>149427404
budget probably prevented this.
huge battles is the weak spot of Fortiche's hybrid animation technique. because it requires matte-painted backgrounds to be somewhat fixed in wide shots, much like in full 2D. but unlike in full 2D they still need to model and textures all characters individually. so they get the worst of both worlds.
that's why they put half of the battle inside the Hexgates and filled the air outside with dust clouds to hide the background.

>>149426556
Ambessa's story got handled like crap but it was actually the FULL story. We actually had just enough context on her motivations to know where she's coming from. The only problem I have was that there was like a 2 minute montage missing showing the time lapse of how Piltover's oppression escalated under her manipulation. That would have helped make the jump between Act 1 and 2 a lot less abrupt since it's supposed to be months and you just never get that feel. The riots that happen are also something that is supposed to happen over weeks or months but again there's no context given on this time frame so again it just feels kinda random. The whole two cities at war shit was basically not even there but at the same time it was a heck of a lot more interesting than the shitty drama that ended up replacing it

>>149419767 (OP)
>try to watch Arcane
>First episode
>00:01 minutes in
>Imagine Dragons starts playing
>turn that shit off

The fact that Riot was able to turn their dogshit zombie game into an anime marketed to divorced millennials will always adstound

>>149430703
Imagine dragons is a bit of a meme band but it goes really well with Arcane

>>149430597
But what the hell was Ambessa's actual story?
>Comes to Piltover to get hextech
>To fight the Black Rose
>It's never explained why she hates the Black Rose
>The Black Rose wants to stop her for vague reasons about a future war, possibly this was a lie
>What happened to Kino was never actually explained too, despite being a pivotal source of motivation
>She randomly sides with Viktor to turn everyone into dolls a la Evangelion
>Starts shimmering her troops, no idea if this has to do with Viktor in any way
>They threw away the whole Jinx plot for this random mess

>>149429409
game jinx is hot especially the redhead skin

>>149430829
Jinx was relevant when she was a lone wolf terrorist who publicly demonstrated the power of Hextech. once everybody goes into war mode (with Silco's death also lifting the embargo on shimmer) a lone wolf terrorist like Jinx becomes just another super-soldier.

>>149419767 (OP)
Not much to illuminate, genuinely well crafted entertainment that slightly challenges the viewer is something that our supremely dumbed down society is completely unequipped to appreciate or even understand, while their ability to cry about their “betrayal by the writers” has increased exponentially. Basically critical thinking has been dead and buried for so long that a mildly mature cartoon is too much for people to handle.

>>149430943
Yes but Jinx just randomly stops doing anything. Hell there was even the whole buildup about her being the next Silco, only for her to do exactly the opposite. Jinx in S2 doesn't even drive the plot, she just receives the effects of it

>>149430977
It’s almost like killing Silco and murdering innocent people had a psychological effect on her eh little buddy?

>>149430993
No, it explicitly doesn't. Her mental state actually gets BETTER after killing her long time adoptive father and her only remotely supportive figure. Shit makes no sense

>>149429276
The only thing both those shows had in common is they have to take back their progress from the last season. They advanced things in a way they ran out of road so they had to walk back a lot of development

>>149431004
It’s almost like without the constant influence of Silco (which again, to remind you, she killed) she changed eh little buddy?

>>149430959
most balanced opinion ITT.

>>149431004
ALL of her hallucinations in S1 were related to Vi, blaming herself for her own alleged estrangement from Vi, and being torn between Vi and Silco.
but then she learns the real circumstances of Vi's original disappearance, Vi "betrays" her explicitly this time by siding with Caitlyn, and finally Silco dies. all of this effectively ended her hallucinating schizo phase. that's why she was perfectly calm when she decided to bomb the council.
of course she doesn't get completely well initially. she's no longer torn but alone instead, so she turns into super depressive mode until she finds another supportive figure in the form of Isha.

>>149428649
Good morning, saar

>>149429302
>download.gif
this is the kind of self-inserting brown subhuman who enjoyed season2

>>149429443
You are literally serbian
And you browse /pol/

>archive schizo returns
>he's not even about the show this time

>>149431047
>>149430993
5 years later and this nigga is still a virgin, still simping for ugly lesbians and still seething about Silco
KWAB

>>149430597
>>149430829
Ambessa is the worst handled character in season2 by far, the more you look at it the more you realized they had no fucking clue what they wanted to do with her

>>149422041
They didn't even fully commit to the bit. They don't kiss or confirm anything, and even some members of the crew say it's a bromance in interviews and external media. The only shippers steering the plot are the lesbian stereotype lovers

>>149432031
>season2 bad because Jayce&Viktor not explicitly gay

>>149431865
Nah seething about Silco would be seeing a simple retelling of the events of the show and then rushing to defend your favorite character like your life depended on it.

>>149421253
They rushed Mel and Ambessa in the game, too. They're both notably lower quality releases.

>>149431865
>kill off Silco
>the show goes to shit
>yuritrannies still crying about Silco

>>149432311
Wait so you’re calling yourself out for being a “yuritranny”?

>>149432789
Almost a hour and that's the best you could come up with?

>>149432811
Yes I was attempting to decipher the layers of hypocritical retardation in that post. It took a while

>>149432917
>hypocritical retardation
why are silco haters always such drama queens, jesus?
you'd think they're all on HRT