Arcane

phisey said:

The facial animation for this show is an absolute masterclass.

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0:07+ in your clip, the very first scene in the show when Vi and Powder saw their dead mother, totally sold me. Vi flashing through a half dozen expressions in a second with a more mature grief struggling to keep her shit together, and how Powder's demeanor crumpled inward in exactly the same overwhlemed, tentative cascade as my 5 year old daughter. I immediately knew I was in for a real ride. Fucking brilliant.

Captain Suave said:

0:07+ in your clip, the very first scene in the show when Vi and Powder saw their dead mother, totally sold me. Vi with a more mature grief struggling to keep her shit together, and how Powder's face crumpled in exactly the same tentative cascade as my 5 year old daughter. Fucking brilliant.

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That entire intro was wordless except for baby Jinx's nursery rhyme too. In a couple short minutes the show told a story of crippling inequality, civil unrest, desperation and futility with no words uttered except a kids' song about poor children inviting their rich friends over to visit:


And then, seven episodes later, we get a reversal of the situation. This time it's Jinx walking out of the mist to execute an enforcer on the ground. But she's humming that exact same tune.

TJT said:

Damn, I didn't even notice this one.

The more you pay attention the better it gets.

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Lol, I'm going through that now as my friend makes his way through the show. We had a conversation about he wishes more damage was done to the officer to further push the idea of Jinx being a scary force for the audience(keep in mind he hasn't watch 8 yet which shows the day time full shot of the damage, literal brains on the floor levels). Upon looking back, we both noticed that his arm was blown off, there is like a .5 second flash of brightness but for the rest its in the shadow.. while the focus is on Caitlyn trying to stand backup.

I flipped over to see what all was in store for him on ep8, since its kind of the crescendo of the show.. I noticed without thinking about it the first time for me atleast, the juxtaposition of experience between Vi and Caitlyn comfortably in the bed reminiscing about the past which cuts from Vi to Jinx while shes going through nightmare transformation. I'm sure it's not groundbreaking/hidden for most but looking at it cinematically is just really pleasant.. at the time I was just tranced and just absorbing the show for the show rather than the minor cinematic details.

Also, personally.. I love that they literally made some of the background characters with some really cool design and unique detail to where they don't feel like an after thought.. even more so than some of the main characters.. but in fairness a lot of these main characters have had their design for 8-10 years. Shit even that golden jaw goon.. they did a preview for a2 which just showed him looming over like a bad ass, but then we get to the show where he is delivering the speech.. and he sounds super annoying, you can hear the literal lisp from the fact he has a implant. Immediately reminded me the minor lisp you hear people who wear grills when they talk.

gauze said:

Also, personally.. I love that they literally made some of the background characters with some really cool design and unique detail to where they don't feel like an after thought.. even more so than some of the main characters.. but in fairness a lot of these main characters have had their design for 8-10 years. Shit even that golden jaw goon.. they did a preview for a2 which just showed him looming over like a bad ass, but then we get to the show where he is delivering the speech.. and he sounds super annoying, you can hear the literal lisp from the fact he has a implant. Immediately reminded me the minor lisp you hear people who wear grills when they talk.

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That guy was voiced by Japanese rockstar Miyavi, his accent isn't usually that thick but they made him exaggerate it for the role. I'm curious how they replicated that same effect for other language tracks with other voice actors.


Miyavi is actually the third real-world musical act that was animated into the show. Imagine Dragons and Ray Chen being the others.

Ray Chen was the violinist in the Piltover Opera House scene and he scored the show's entire orchestral soundtrack. He's also credited along with Sting for the last song in the show. The instrumental version of the Bridge song was Ray Chen's violin:

Qhue said:

I have now resorted to extortion to get people to watch this.

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Do you write for Forbes?


That critic has been shilling hard for Arcane so you kinda know what to expect. But he throws some shade on Princess Switch 3 and Red Notice along the way so he's alright.

Great show. I'd have zero complaints if it wasn't for all the gay music.

Drinsic said:

Great show. I'd have zero complaints if it wasn't for all the gay music.

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I like how they leaned into their music choices. They knew that it would alienate some people and would only narrow their audience, but they double- and tripled-down on what they felt was their own voice.

There's integrity in that. Even if you hated the music, the audience can tell when authors are compromising their work for shallow reasons. I don't think Arcane would've been as good as it was if they didn't have that integrity.

Hell, that's what's missing from all the other failed videogame adaptations. Without that sort of self-respect, you get caricatures of the source material, which is what we usually get.

phisey said:

I like how they leaned into their music choices. They knew that it would alienate some people and would only narrow their audience, but they double- and tripled-down on what they felt was their own voice.

There's integrity in that. Even if you hated the music, the audience can tell when authors are compromising their work for shallow reasons. I don't think Arcane would've been as good as it was if they didn't have that integrity.

Hell, that's what's missing from all the other failed videogame adaptations. Without that sort of self-respect, you get caricatures of the source material, which is what we usually get.

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Check IMDB if the band shows up in later episodes.

I forgot she was Vi too. Hawkeye, Spiderverse and Arcane...she is really having a moment.

Qhue said:

I forgot she was Vi too. Hawkeye, Spiderverse and Arcane...she is really having a moment.

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If you asked a woman, they'd be surprised she was in any of those; or that she was nominated for an Oscar for True Grit.

But they'd love her anyway because they binged Dickinson.

They released the Arcane Ekko skin, which they had ready along with the other Arcane skins like Jayce, Vi and Jinx's. Pretty cool that they held back on it till a few weeks after the finale to avoid the spoiler.