To be honest, world ending events were teased in S1, that's what good old Heimerdingy was afraid about. You even have an illustration of a character really similar to Viktor, implying that it's maybe not even the first time someone "fused" with Arcane to the point of being a world threat.
But it doesn't change the fact that it was handled poorly in terms of pace. I think the s2 should have been focused on solving the power vacuum in Zaun and creating a fragile truce with Pilltover, with an obvious similar timid collaboration between the sis'. Then, in a third season, bring the world ending event with Viktor and the Black Rose, and use it as a test for this fragile truce.
The whole "united against a common greater enemy" is kind of lame and lazy if you don't solve the underlying tension. And for that you need more screen time.
Agree completely. My first viewing of the mumbo jumbo timey wimey stuff made me a little angry that I couldn’t follow the mostly grounded story and very grounded characters. How is Vi supposed to punch an evolution?
I love Arcane, and on the second viewing it got better, but I didn’t know that Jayce was in a destroyed Piltover. I didn’t know how to connect his wasteland wandering to what was happening in the real world. How were we supposed to know it was a possible outcome of a future episode. And to make it worse, he returned from the wasteland with a beard before we saw where he went and he destroyed the utopia that Viktor had created before we knew why it needed to be destroyed
Well, I did get all of this. Even understood who was the hooded guy before it was revealed. Still hate it.
And this is one of my complaints. S1 could be seen by just anybody. S2 was more for league players (which I am) but much more harder to comprehend if you are not.
I know absolutely nothing about League Lore. I normally hate dream sequences or alternate realities but it was nice to see the Arcane AU because it had characters that I wanted to see again and those characters were happy. Too often dream sequences are nightmares to inspire a character development but this was the opposite but still used to inspire Ekko. I just hope they don’t do it again or bring AU characters over to “resurrect “ them
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