Arcane 1x6 - 'When These Walls Come Tumbling Down' TIMESTAMP / FULL LENGTH Reaction & Review
Added 2024-07-26 13:41:59 +0000 UTCMarcus...Marcus...Marcus, I have questions about your daughter.
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Fantastic point
Fury Roll
2024-08-11 12:21:52 +0000 UTCMy issues with Heimmerdinger stem not from his caution surrounding magic and hextec. The writers are obviously making a comparison to the unregulated expansion of untested technology in our own world (nukes, social media, AI, etc.). My problem is that for 300 odd years he's presided over a system that's developed such stark class divides while doing nothing
Simon Shea
2024-08-11 00:53:25 +0000 UTCAhhhh nice point, my friend!
Fury Roll
2024-07-31 11:43:59 +0000 UTCI find it fascinating how they managed to include game play elements into the series without going into dumb. Again I don't play LoL, but I assume that Shimmer and Hex Tech crystals actually fuel level ups for the appropriate characters. Yet they managed to make those integral to the character development without actually ever stating it with a text crawl or monologue cheat code.
Matt Drahos
2024-07-31 03:22:28 +0000 UTCWill definitely check it out!
Fury Roll
2024-07-28 16:05:34 +0000 UTCRegarding Ren: In episode 5 there was a scene where Marcus is sitting at his desk. Take a closer look at a drawing on that desk, that might give you a clue to the mother's whereabouts. ;)
Nat
2024-07-27 20:03:11 +0000 UTCOh wow...great catch!
Fury Roll
2024-07-27 11:28:57 +0000 UTCMy favorite little detail in the episode. The flare Jinx sets off releases blue smoke. Jinx also has tattoos of blue smoke all over her body. Did this poor girl tattoo "find me Vi" all over her body?
Robert Jazo
2024-07-27 02:17:41 +0000 UTCThe scientist Victor met as a child is the same scientist who was working with Silco in the first three episodes. You may remember that he was engulfed in flames when Powder's bomb went off, which is why when Victor goes to see him in the present he is scarred.
Robert Jazo
2024-07-27 02:17:27 +0000 UTCThe addict you’re trying to remember is the merchant from the first episode, the one Vander protected when the other two “traders” tried to rip him off. His name was Huck or something like that. He’s a minor character, but really well done. I thought it was brilliant that he betrayed them for shimmer because he’s a weak-minded addict, but then ran off, unlike the other two addicts. The show does character development exceptionally well. Marcus is great too – he starts off too young and angry, makes a big mistake, and loses his mentor because of it. He tries to work with the underworld leader like his mentor did, but neither he nor Silco are as honorable or hungry for peace as Vander and Grayson were. Then there’s Jayce, who tries to please everyone – listening to Heimerdinger and not revealing the new Hextech, taking Mel’s advice to win over the council, and standing with Viktor against Heimerdinger. He tries so hard to do right by everyone, but the outcomes are always flawed. Viktor and Mel are disappointed he didn’t reveal the new tech, and now Heimerdinger is forced out of the council. All around just great characters.
Joel Quinn
2024-07-26 21:44:54 +0000 UTCHey, just a heads-up, there were some characters in this episode that you should've recognized from earlier ones. But no worries, I get that you might watch the episodes with some gaps in between, so it’s all good. Originally, Netflix dropped the episodes in 3-episode chunks over three weeks. According to the "Bridging the Rift" documentary on YouTube, they had multiple seasons planned from the start. The second season got delayed because of some major rewrites and figuring out the lore to tie everything together. I’m not sure why you’re so suspicious of Heimerdinger. You've mentioned he doesn’t really explain why he doesn't trust magic, but other characters feel the same way. It’s a known fact in their world that mages can be pretty destructive. The council is only into magic (Hextech) now because it’s profitable for them. Remember that opera scene? Heimerdinger is just enjoying the music while everyone else is plotting behind the scenes. Also, it’s interesting that a small dose of shimmer was able to heal Vi, but it’s addictive. Similarly, Hextech (magic) can be super helpful, like when it saved Jayce and his mom and improved lives by transporting goods, but it can also be really destructive, like when it blew up that apartment or caused the explosion that killed Vander.
xanderman
2024-07-26 19:23:05 +0000 UTC
