ARCANE-Episode 6

I'm so exited for the next episode. There are some real banger songs coming up! Would be fun if tim could do a breakdown of the entire OST after season 1 ends. All of the songs have something special imo.

I find it very impressive how Riot (the video game company and producers of Arcane) seeks out musical talent for long-term cooperation. It’s already been pointed out that Imagine Dragons has worked with Riot before, but they’re not the only music artists that make up the backbone of League of Legends. Riot actually has two virtual bands (think Gorillaz or K-Pop Demon Hunters) composed of characters from the game and voiced by real life singers and rappers. KDA is a K-Pop inspired project/virtual band and True Damage is more hiphop influenced. I’m guessing you’ll recognize a few artists’ names on those rosters :)

-Yes, the hextech is the gem, at least that's what Jayce calls it. What you are referring to is simply called the Hexgate, which makes the airships travel at warp speed. -Jayce had to leave Mel to go see Viktor, who passed out and was recovered, that's how they know he's dying. -Haha, yes, Jinx gave Sevika a classic bitch slap. 🤣 -You were right, Marcus is now the sheriff. After Grayson's death and the years-long deal with Silco, he climbed the ranks and became sheriff, the classic case of a corrupted policeman on the payroll of a mob. -The doctor (who you compared to Bane) , his name is Singed, looks like that in the present day because he survived the explosion caused by Powder in episode 3. -Loved your emotional reaction to Jinx accepting Vi and hugging her back! In this moment, she lets herself become vulnerable, Jinx disappears and Powder resurfaces, at least until Caitlyn shows up. Excited for the next one! I always look forward to Sunday for your Arcane reaction!

Everything about this series is amazing so far. They know when to push your emotions and what songs to pick to perfectly go in whatever scene they’re in.

The guys that attacked on the roof are the firelights. They’re the ones that were trying to destroy the shimmer on the ship back in an earlier episode. We haven’t learned exactly who they are just yet. 😉

I came for the wuthering waves music. I'm sticking around for the arcane watchalongs. I look forward to more video game music and episode 7 of arcane

Keeping as short as possible as requested! The junkie that helped Caitlyn get the potion to heal Vi was the merchant in episode 1 that was getting shorted and Vander intervened. Shimmer is like a drug, in small doses it can have safe, medicinal properties but in large levels of consumption is highly addictive and causes mutations. The guys at the end were the firelights, they were the rebels who attacked the blimp with Silco's shimmer on it and Vi beat them up. Easy way to remember is hoverboards = firelights. Love the Heimerdinger conflict because both parties aren't wrong. Heimerdinger has been somewhat naive (disconnected from living in Piltover for so long with no sense of urgency having a much longer lifespan) and overprotective. Though what Viktor and Jayce is doing could be very dangerous and they are being naive and reckless only looking at what hextech can do as a positive, and not what it may cost in the long run. LoL has a lot of barriers to entry, as listed by other commenters. If you'd like to experience some league adjacent stuff, games like The Ruined King or Bandle Tale would be my recommendation. League isn't all bad, it isn't all good, I love it and I love the Esports scene, a lot of people hate it though (I don't blame them) and it's very difficult to try and get into. I would say, like the subtitles, do what you think is best for you.

The song this episode is from one of my favorite artists (Woodkid), so I'm happy you appreciated it :). I find his musical choices and chord progression / key changes really beautiful.

I hate to be negative but, I'd steer clear of the game. The show is based on the game in the loosest of terms. The gameplay itself has almost no context for the show other than the characters. And honestly, knowing who is a character in the game and what they do is more of a spoiler than context. The show is written with people who know nothing about LoL in mind. The game isn't story driven, It is just a PvP isometric class based game. Almost any lore or story exists in text box biographies or short voice lines and they rewrite the games lore to fit the show. So the show is more canon anyway. The game is most known for its extremely toxic and hostile community. Unless you want to see how many homophobic slurs you can get called in 30 minutes (by your own team while winning), Id pass. I checked it out after getting hooked on Arcane and ignored these warnings. Never again. The best place to learn LoL lore is any medium other than the game. That's where most of the lore is anyways. You are missing absolutely nothing.

WHOA I never noticed that Sky was a child in the undercity alongside Viktor. I assumed they had met once he joined the university. With as many times as I've seen this, I'm shocked there are still details for me to notice. She's a minor character, but has been seen/mentioned a few times at this point. I LOVE Viktor's arc. They do such a good job of showing his quiet desperation as he struggles with his mortality. We know he's a good man and cares about others but when he's been backed into a corner he starts to take risks. When Arcane first came out: Caitlyn, Vi, Jinx, Viktor, Ekko, Heimerdinger, and Jayce were all in LoL already, as well as a character we know but that hasn't been named on-screen yet, and a character introduced in Season 2. If I remember right, Silco was an Arcane character first that was added to Teamfight Tactics (TFT), not technically League of Legends. That was exciting for me, I've loved TFT much more than LoL. A little detail from the previous episode that I was reminded of here: Vi had asked Caitlyn if she wanted to blend in at the brothel by speaking to a man or woman. When trying to interview a man she was all awkward, putting on a fake accent. Later, Vi looked in and found her quite comfortable chatting with a woman 😂 CLUES. The outrage at the cliffhanger is so relatable 😂 and when it aired, like we explained, it aired in sets of 3 so there was a break after this episode before they released more we just had to sit with this.

Yes Caitlyn is in the game, so are Vi and Jinx. Also Mel (relatively new character in the game), Jayce, Heimerdinger, Viktor, Ekko and Ambessa (Also relatively new). The game is incredible and is also absorbing and addicting, and that's kinda bad cause it is also played in a way where your team mates have so much influence in your games that you pretty much have to pray you get them decent. Haha, regarding the series, oh I love this moment, the thing I like the most though is that Vi normally doesn't lose not fall, and the only reason she did is because she couldn't believe her eyes when she saw her sister Powder become what she is now, how she was enjoying fighting, shooting and all that... It is a crazy thing really. I enjoyed it a lot! Hopefully you did too! Lupe.-

"It would be cool to play the game knowing this" Answer: no

The Arcane animation style is a groundbreaking 2.5D hybrid that blends 3D character models with 2D hand-painted textures and effects. Developed by French studio Fortiche Production, it combines digital oil paintings with traditional animation techniques to make every frame look like a moving piece of concept art. The style is often described as "painterly" or "Living Painting". Everything from skin and clothing to enviroments has visable brushwork, soft shading, and a rough, hand crafted quality. This Animation type is extremely labor-intensive: animators often spent a full day or more on just a few seconds of footage due to hand painted 2D/3D hybrid teqniques. It reportedly took around 10 months to animate a single episode in some cases.