Arcane's PERFECT Timeskip

#leagueoflegends #arcane #jinx

This just was done incredibly. Planning and execution both on point, so good!

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[vickytaa]

I see time not passing for Vi as a metaphor for what really happens in prison. Vi spends six years locked up with zero knowledge of the outside, and when she comes out it's to a jarring new world with a new set of rules that has forgotten her. It's a very painful and difficult experience.

[LyonEnigma]

Something I noticed is that every major character in Arcane is motivated by the same thing: To prove that they deserve better than what they've been dealt.

[MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

-Some of the most frustrating aspects about time-skips as a storytelling device:
-When characters constantly have to explain things that happened in the time-gap thus breaking the fundamental storytelling law of showing not telling.
-A reliance on frequent flashbacks to the gap. This can be done right. Storytellers like Christopher Nolan are known for their mastery of this. But this sometimes causes a haphazard narrative, halts story progression, and pads the length. This begs the question _why couldn’t this have just been depicted in a linear fashion?_

Arcane avoided these pitfalls with deft.

[PandemoniumVice]

5:05 Her parents literally got her fired from her job against her wishes. She isn't pampered, she's smothered.

[thatotherguy]

2:45 - Little quibble about Jinx being the second in command of Silco's gang - she's a Wildcard. Sevika is the Second in Command to Silco. Jinx does what Silco tells her to, and she exists outside of the power structure in the gang - in the opening Jinx scene, Sevika is the one in charge there, but Jinx refuses to acknowledge her authority. She doesn't try to exert any authority of her own, though, because she doesn't technically have any. Her only authority comes from the fear people have of her for both her prowess/insanity and the knowledge that whatever she does, Silco will defend her. If Sevika murdered 6 Enforcers on Progress Day? Sevika would be dead, her body found by the Enforcers to close the loop. But not Jinx - that's where her "authority" comes from.

[rustkarl]

Viktor has a really good line that runs parallel to that ‘mistook the means for the goal’ througline you put forward.

‘We lost ourselves. Lost our dream. In our pursuit of great we failed to do good.’
They chased the greatness they sought but skipped the good they wanted to do with that greatness.

[davidb]

Your insight about achieving goals but not anticipating the journey and consequences caught me off guard and kinda broke me. Very well articulated video, I'll be looking forward to any further content you make (especially about arcane lol).

[AllegoricSiren]

I disagree, Vi definitely was going to go back to Powder, she just needed to process on her own for a bit which, yea. But then Silco coerced Powder to join him and Vi was kidnapped and imprisoned. She tried to go back immediately when she saw Powder in danger. She didn’t care about what she did, Powder’s safety was her top priority in that moment, but then she was snatched away.

[ZXbolterZX]

The big divide between Piltover and Zaun is accentuated by the existence of hexgates and airships.

Before the discovery of hextech by Jayce and Viktor, all trade routes were done in the river of Pilt, there are barely any airships flying around, because it was probably inefficient and unsafe at that time.

Both Piltover and Zaun had access to that river and are working together on a somewhat symbiotic level. Trading goods, hiring people to man their ships, they are helping each other on that river.

But as soon as the hexgates were built, Piltover has no need for that river anymore. They weren't looking to trade with Zaun, they're looking out to other farther cities for trade. Piltover has risen even further up into the sky, while Zaun is being left behind in the murky river of Pilt.

The opening of Episode 4 showed a glimpse of this even bigger divide as it happened in the timeskip.

[jessiecoastaliving]

I would add that one of Caitlyn’s goals were to find her purpose and answer the question proposed to her earlier in life, “what are you shooting for?” She found it in helping Vi escape, solve the mystery of the gemstone and be a part of the greater picture to help negotiate peace.

She’s not just a hot enforcer 🙄 She’s a detective, a mediator and a good friend. She found what she is shooting for.

[sharpshooter]

"She's an enforcer and she's also hot."
"So why is the story still going on at this point?"

That made me laugh harder than it should've. Caitlyn truly got the pinnacle of timeskips haha

[leonielson]

Act 1, Episode 1: (mocking derision) "She's a jinx! Every time she comes with us, something goes wrong."
Act 2, Episode 4: (fear, bordering on terror) "It's her! She's here!"

[taylorcorbridge]

Just from a literary perspective, I think the post-skip consequences of each character is what happens when a character doesn't go on the "hero's journey." It's what happens when a character pursues their goals irreverent of their flaws and their needs. It leaves the character feeling like they still need that metamorphosis, like they're not done baking. Normally in a story, a character's goals are blocked off from them by their flaws, or those goals even pull a character away from their needs. Character development comes in the form of rectifying the mess. Here, it seems like the writers intentionally asked "but what if we didn't? What if we gave these characters everything that they wanted and kept the same flaws and same unfulfilled needs?" Everyone is unhappy because not a single character was able to recognize that their goals did not naturally coincide with their emotional needs.

[socriabbas]

The end actually blew me away. It's kind of true, as a kid we long to be grow old be adults but once we reach adulthood we suddenly want to go back to being a child.

[kellharris]

I think Vi has changed but the story doesn't explore it yet. She is more guarded she was beaten up and kept in a cell. Vi mentions it somewhat like when she talks to jayce about captivity. Vi doesn't have time to deal with her own trauma she is so focused on Powder.

[mikulina]

This freaking show is already a classic and it’s only a year old.

[KC_Smooth]

Great point about time skips. In some anime for example, a time skip may occur during a training arc that last a couple of years. During that time the world somehow stays the same, the big bad guy doesn't attack, there are no other big events that occur, etc... The only thing that changes is the characters get older.

I guess my point is that some authors use time skips as a plot device simply for aging their characters, rather than use it as a natural progression of the entire story/world they're trying to build.

[thelastcrow]

"She's probably like one of the most dangerous people in the city"
*Ambulance in the distance*

Perfect, just like Jinx

[skeltonstein]

Feels just like watching a powerpoint lecture. 10/10

[zakarymoninger]

My biggest peeve with time skips is when everyone and their mother uses the EXACT SAME PHRASING to refer to the "before times, " as if the exact amount of time skipped is somehow plot-critical, and the writers were terrified that the viewer might forget it.