Season 2 was terrible. S1 was alright and the emotional core was good enough that I could look pass glorifying lumpen behavior and passing it off as "revolutionary" because capitalist media will never portray a revolutionary without making them do dumb shit like killing a baby on screen so w/e.
But S2 went full retard and became marvelslop. Multiverse, time travel, world ending threat that everyone must unite against, holy shit it was just so bad in every way. The stakes became ridiculous, every character became a bastardized caricature of themselves, people would do really stupid things just to drive the plot forward where the writer wanted it to go (whereas in S1 it felt like the other way around where the plot was happening because of natural and realistic reactions that the cast all had bouncing off each other).
There was a really good way someone else described it: basically Arcane S2 is a show that everyone thinks they will get when they hear the words "animated show based on league of legends", and Arcane S1 is a show that people think they will get when they hear the words "live action historical drama".
I've been planning to watch it because I heard it's a good demo of certain painterly design concepts and a sort of pseudo-low poly style like Spiderverse. Wasn't expecting it to be that good as a story, but I'll keep an extra notebook for story analysis when I do get around to watching it.
>>44397When you watch it make sure you take a break before going into S2. Season 2 is legitimately so bad that it will retroactively affect your opinion on S1.
>>44396>But S2 went full retard and became marvelslop. Multiverse, time travel>time travelno hecking way dyude, are you telling me that one of the characters of LoL(Ekko) who's entire gimmick revolves around time travel, does time travely things?!? no this cannot be…
>>44399I don't give a shit if it's
>IN DA GAEMtime travel has never been done well in any story ever and any writer or author who wants to write a story with time travel in it SHOULD KILL THEMSELVES IMMEDIATELY for being a hack
>>44400My guy, the show itself is pretty about the champs from the game whether you care about it or not, stop throwing a tantrum while parroting shit from 4chin nibba
>>44401>You have to be from 4chan to hate time travelKYS
and also it wasn't just ekko you retard you didn't even watch the show
S2 was GARBAGE
Time travel and timelines were not a problem in the slightest. S2 was poor because the writers are liberals and uncreative. But at least they delivered on the visuals.
>>44403Also too much stuff to conclude in very little time. Too much of what happened was not substantial. And of course it was politically atrocious, even for me (and I have high tolerance for libshit: I even enjoyed Barbie). Having said that, I liked how they portrayed Singed, he was the star of the show for me.
>>44400Homestuck did it well, but yeah it is an act of usually an huberis to implement.
>>44402Nah i'm pretty sure only Ekko had the z-drive(lil machine) that let him rewind time for a few seconds mate
>>44403>Time travel and timelines were not a problem Did you even comprehend that (SPOILERS) going back all the way to the start to give Jayce the initial runes not only completely failed in attempting to avert the future he was supposedly trying to stop since the correct course of action would have been to just leave Jayce alone instead, but that it also created a PARADOX because the only way (SPOILERS) could go back is if in every timeline Jayce goes on to develop the tech and it always leads to that future that (SPOILERS) ends up regretting? The writers are legit retarded.
Yeah I can go on about the shitty politics and characters but don't deny that the time travel literally shot a massive hole into the entire story.
>it has tropes that are in things that are bad therefore it is bad
I haven’t even watched S2 but come on man that’s a lazy way to criticize anything
I heard it's really libbed up the wazoo
Yeah but how was the cop? Was she hot in this season too?
Trash season. Singed carried.
>>44414There is like no way nobody got brutally murdered/tortured during her dictatorship and yet no one ever ask any questions, she didn’t even get arrested or forced to retire. Sevika on top btw!
>>44462Also S1 Sevika would accept the Council invitation only to get all the power players in one room so she can murder them all. Sevika would never passively accept a cuck chair when the whole point of her betraying Vander was so that Zaun would fight back, and the fact that the writers had no idea what to do other than give her one is one of the millions of signs of how the writers butchered everything in S2.