Blisters and Bedrock

I have never seen a group of writers that don't understand what made the first season or the characters great and basically ruin it completely with so much worse padding in season 2.

The writers of season 2 are basically so uninspired that they can't write their own ideas and they basically ruin season 1 with their finger paint over a Mona Lisa painting.

To be clear, one the dialogue is so meta and bad. The second thing is that this episode was used to tease a fight that never happened in all the promotional material multiple times.

Finally, the flashback ruins Vander and Silco because the writers had no faith in their own ideas that they had to stoop to fanservice of their best characters Silco and fan favorite Vander.

To be clear, the flashback makes Vander and Silco seem like horrible people because their mutual friend is pregnant and this characters hooks them to her responsibility while these guys are planning a revolution! Imagine if George Washington was planning the revolution and all the pregnant women of Philadelphia tells them: So you have to win this revolution or die trying or take care of my kids if I die in it. These aren't even his biological kids! It's just someone who got pregnant and decided to throw themselves in front of a war expecting to win or die and not care about their kids... Silco is there like: "I won't even remember you or your kids."

Whoever the cheap writers were for this season did not finish their first novel and they were given a writing role on one of the best animated shows in the last 5 years.

They've all been spectacular, but this one has an emotional aspect that episode 3 doesn't even come close to. This is the episode that will make you realize just how much love these characters and this show. It's the best show ever made and I can't imagine anything ever matching it. We have all touched the Arcane and our minds will forever be changed. I just want to thank and commend everyone involved in this show. You have created magic and I feel incredibly lucky to have experienced it. I wish I was good at writing so I could more accurately describe just how special this episode is. 10/10 Absolute Perfection.

Holy moly.. I dont even know where to begin! This was the episode that left me overwhelmed with emotions! This was the moment where I could not hold any tears back and I realized how cruel and tragic this world is!

This episode was simply put, expertly written! Every scene had my fuul attention! Every line spoken was of some significance or importance! The moments between characters were perfect, powerfull and emotional!

Vi amd Jinx just Steel everything! Their dynamic and relationship was just as I wanted, as they share a heartbreaking moment that was on the way since S1 E3!

The flashback came at rhe perfect time! The fight was INSANELY well animated!! My jaw was on the floor.. and rhe conclusion.. peak emotional moment!

Then the end! Wow.. what just happened?

This episode moves Arcane to the top of animated and non-animated series. You can relate to all the characters, see them grow and change. The pacing was just perfect too, every image, every frame is a gift for the watchers.

I'm crying my eyes out right now, it's just too perfect. I don't want to comment anything else, this episode is just for people to enjoy and say thank you. Riot and Netflix made something so unique that is unbelievable. Really I don't want to say anything else about this episode, they just reached a new high that didn't believe it was possible.

Can't wait to see the ending of this story.

I just wanna start out by saying studio Fortiche has been nothing short of excellent in terms of animation quality with Arcane, for both season 1 and especially 2. With how good the writing is so far I feel like I often overlook giving that credit but there's truly nothing like Arcane when it comes to the visual department. And while I don't think Vagabond should get an adaptation because it'd be nearly impossible to have a perfect one, if this is the studio that gets the green light then I couldn't think of a better one.

With that said this was the perfect time for this type of episode after everything that has transpired up until this point. The pacing for season 2 so far has been fantastic, especially considering how this is the final season so it adds a pressure to the writers but they're using every episode wisely and not waisting anything. As said in The Bear, every second counts.

Christian Linke and Alex Lee could go down as the best writing duo in TV history alongside Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould when this is all said and done. Obviously the entire team deserves all the flowers in the world, but those two spearheading this story deserve so much credit.

The emotional depths this story is taking leaves me nervous yet excited for what's to come, but every episode of this 2nd season so far should be cherished for how well executed they are. And the payoffs so far have been nothing short of fantastic.