Speaker 1: Today's episode contains spoilers for the first three episodes of
Speaker 1: our Cane season one. Watch those before you listen today
Speaker 1: or don't.
Speaker 2: I folks, I'm a Boo and I'm Aaron, and welcome
Speaker 2: to x ray Vision Extras, an x ray Vision series
Speaker 2: where we dive deep into even more of your favorite shows, movies, comics,
Speaker 2: and pop culture.
Speaker 1: Every superhero team needs side quests, and our rotating panel
Speaker 1: of producers and guest hosts will be suiting up to
Speaker 1: help Jason and Rosie cover even more of the pop
Speaker 1: culture landscape.
Speaker 3: That's right, and in these first couple episodes of Extras,
Speaker 3: Aboo and I will be rewatching Netflix's Arcane season one
Speaker 3: and a lead up to the release of season two,
Speaker 3: coming out on November ninth. Today, we will be covering
Speaker 3: episodes one, two, and three, Act one.
Speaker 1: But first let's introduce you a little bit to x
Speaker 1: ray Vision Extras.
Speaker 4: Haaren I figure we let the.
Speaker 1: Listeners know what's going on and whether they're hearing our
Speaker 1: voices or not.
Speaker 3: Rosie and Jason, Yeah, I think the main thing to
Speaker 3: know is that nothing's changing with the main show. This
Speaker 3: is literally just us giving you extra bonus treats. There's
Speaker 3: not enough time to have Jason and Rosie cover everything,
Speaker 3: and we're just trying to fill in the gaps.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 3: We'll have a mix of the other producers, Joelle and
Speaker 3: Carmen who you've heard on the show. We'll have guest hosts.
Speaker 3: Jason and Rosie will join us. Sometimes this is literally
Speaker 3: just a.
Speaker 1: Bonus, another cherry on top of your Sunday. Yeah, who
Speaker 1: does want two cherries?
Speaker 3: And for those of you who don't know us, let's
Speaker 3: introduce ourselves a boo. I'll introduce you. Many of you
Speaker 3: have probably heard a boo on X ray in the past,
Speaker 3: including my favorite a boom moment the Deadphone Wolverine episode
Speaker 3: where you famously said the mask means nothing to me
Speaker 3: or something along those lines.
Speaker 4: I did say that.
Speaker 3: Why don't you give the listeners a quick rundown of
Speaker 3: your background and your interests.
Speaker 1: Sure, I am six feet tall, Please don't fact check
Speaker 1: that Dating me is like rewatching the Digimund movie on
Speaker 1: a rainy day. And the green flags that I look
Speaker 1: for are whether or not you spoil your dog and
Speaker 1: whether or not you use a budgeting app.
Speaker 4: So that's everything you need to know about me. What
Speaker 4: about you, Erin, I.
Speaker 3: Don't watch the Bachelor? Is that like a Bachelor thing?
Speaker 3: Is that? I just googled top hinge questions, hinge props. Okay,
Speaker 3: my name is Aerin. You've probably heard me on the
Speaker 3: show talk about elden ring or magic. I love video
Speaker 3: games where you have to roll to dodge attacks with
Speaker 3: a standina Barka. I love heroes that use quippi remarks
Speaker 3: during battle. And I'm a big fan of pretty much
Speaker 3: everything that X ray covers. And it's been really cool
Speaker 3: to be a part of the conversation with all these things.
Speaker 3: And I don't like rogue one, and we're not going
Speaker 3: to talk about it, so let's stop telling about it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll do it a different time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll put a pin in that one.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So that's a little bit about us again. Over the
Speaker 1: next four episodes of x Ray Vision Extras, Aaron, you
Speaker 1: and I will be rewatching and recapping that first season
Speaker 1: of Arcane to refresh our memories, but also to refresh
Speaker 1: the memories of our listeners who maybe haven't watched in
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it came out a long time, a long.
Speaker 1: Time ago, and this is kind of the norm for
Speaker 1: TV shows these days, right, it's the years and years
Speaker 1: in between seasons.
Speaker 3: And it's instead of like twenty episodes a year, you
Speaker 3: get eight episodes over three years. So that's where we
Speaker 3: are with our kide.
Speaker 1: Right, unless you're the bear somehow pulling out a miracle.
Speaker 1: We're also, of course going to be rewatching and recapping
Speaker 1: for folks who are maybe interested in just jumping right
Speaker 1: into season two and don't want to bother watching season one,
Speaker 1: then maybe these next four episodes of Aaron and I
Speaker 1: talking about it are for you. I will say, I
Speaker 1: really need those folks, in particular the weirdos who are
Speaker 1: only going to listen to us and not watch the show,
Speaker 1: to hit us up in discord and explain why it's
Speaker 1: unfathomable to me.
Speaker 4: But I know there's some of you out there.
Speaker 3: I could see that for sure. And I will admit
Speaker 3: that there have been times when I've watched a season
Speaker 3: two of a show and I have not finished the
Speaker 3: season one within the past recent time. I will not
Speaker 3: say how recent because it may give away what show.
Speaker 3: But before we start reviewing ourcane and recapping it, it's
Speaker 3: worth pointing out that the show is based off the
Speaker 3: lore and the characters of the Legal Legends World, a
Speaker 3: game which I have never played. Do you have any
Speaker 3: background with the game?
Speaker 1: It would be an overstatement to say I have a
Speaker 1: background with a game.
Speaker 4: The last time I.
Speaker 1: Played it was definitely over ten years ago.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, But I think that's kind of the magic of
Speaker 1: this show, right. You don't have to know anything about
Speaker 1: the game at all, and you can watch this show
Speaker 1: and walk away so satisfied and loving it. But I
Speaker 1: think if you do know some of the lore of
Speaker 1: the game, it doesn't hnce your viewing of this show
Speaker 1: because there are these little easter eggs sprinkle throughout. There's
Speaker 1: fun world building that they pull from the game itself,
Speaker 1: and you and I will do our us to try
Speaker 1: and call out whatever easter eggs we find in these
Speaker 1: next couple of episodes. But again, neither of us are
Speaker 1: a huge league of Legends players, so I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: miss a ton, So it's up to our listeners to
Speaker 1: point those out to us and let us know.
Speaker 3: But yeah, if for whatever reason, you've listened this far
Speaker 3: into the episode and you haven't watched the show, and
Speaker 3: you are not panicked by the fact that Jason and
Speaker 3: Rosie have not shown up yet, know that you are
Speaker 3: okay to get into the show, even if you have
Speaker 3: no background or context for League of Legends itself.
Speaker 4: All four of you that are still here, you're okay
Speaker 4: to watch Arcade season one. Okay.
Speaker 1: So that's a bit of preamble and housekeeping out of
Speaker 1: the way that we wanted to take care.
Speaker 4: Of up top.
Speaker 1: But we have three year old episodes to recap and
Speaker 1: get through today, so let's take a quick breather. But
Speaker 1: coming up right after the break, we are diving into
Speaker 1: episodes one through three of Ourcane.
Speaker 3: And we're back with Arcane Episode one. Welcome to the Playground.
Speaker 3: We start off Violet and Powder are walking hand in
Speaker 3: hand across a bridge that's been devastated in battle. There's
Speaker 3: fire everywhere and they look up and through the smoke
Speaker 3: they see this figure who we later learn is Vander,
Speaker 3: exhausted dropping his combat gloves, and he sees these girls
Speaker 3: who are terrified. They have looked and they see the
Speaker 3: bodies of their parents there. Vander goes over and carries
Speaker 3: them away from the carnage.
Speaker 4: Boom.
Speaker 3: Title card.
Speaker 1: Incredible, here we are, and not to hit pause right
Speaker 1: off the bat. Here before barely into the show, but
Speaker 1: I just have to say already blown away by the
Speaker 1: art style, blown away by the animation. Having seen the
Speaker 1: trailer and watching this first episode, I remember thinking this
Speaker 1: was another into the.
Speaker 4: Spider Verse moment for me.
Speaker 1: Hmm, wow, Like the way I felt watching Spider Verse
Speaker 1: and going I've never seen animation like this before.
Speaker 4: This is gorgeous. Is how I felt watching Hurricane.
Speaker 3: It does feel elevated. Like there are plenty of incredible
Speaker 3: animated shows out there, this just feels like it has
Speaker 3: a bit of uniqueness to the entire style, and it
Speaker 3: is like someone put I don't know, two hundred percent
Speaker 3: more effort into all the animation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, everything, the lighting choices, the cinematography, the character designs,
Speaker 1: everything is so gorgeous. There are frames in the show
Speaker 1: that are.
Speaker 4: Worthy of being printed out and hung up on a wall.
Speaker 3: They are definitely frames that remind me as we go
Speaker 3: through the show, that remind me of like the Avengers
Speaker 3: movies where they would have comic splash pages. It's like,
Speaker 3: here are all the Avengers and Age of olschron r,
Speaker 3: here are all the Avengers like circling up. There are
Speaker 3: definitely like Team Up comic book cover movies in the
Speaker 3: show design, which is a very cool way of making it.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I am curious, Aaron, you're a musician, you have a
Speaker 1: music background. What do you think of Imagine dragons? God,
Speaker 1: Imagine dragons. DNA is all over this show.
Speaker 3: It very much is. I will say that again. We
Speaker 3: don't want to pause too quickly. We don't want to
Speaker 3: get negative too quickly. I think an immediate stumble of
Speaker 3: this show is I don't know his name, but the
Speaker 3: Imagine Dragon's lead singer's voice comes through, and I X
Speaker 3: Ray tries not to be negative, and that's one hundred
Speaker 3: percent a great way to do it. I have never
Speaker 3: clicked skip intro as quickly as I do in the show,
Speaker 3: and that is you know what, There's just something about
Speaker 3: a modern band being the title card for a show
Speaker 3: that I don't always love, and in particular right here
Speaker 3: I really dislike. It's the way he delivers the lyrics.
Speaker 3: It is the lyrics, it's the melody, it's the song itself.
Speaker 3: Sure yeah, So, like I said, my favorite artist of
Speaker 3: all time. Can't wait for more Imagined Dragon than season two.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, continuing with our summary of this very
Speaker 1: first episode, we join Violet Powder and their gang of
Speaker 1: ne'er do wells, these Ruffians as they break into this
Speaker 1: fancy apartment in the upper City. Things quickly go for
Speaker 1: them when they discover this chest of mysterious blue crystals
Speaker 1: and someone starts knocking at the door. Powder Panics accidentally
Speaker 1: drops a bunch of the crystals, causing a massive explosion,
Speaker 1: and then a chase ensues. The enforcers are after them,
Speaker 1: and the kids are trying to get.
Speaker 3: Away, jumping over a bridge as a ship goes underneath it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very important detail, so good.
Speaker 1: I want to pause here again because I just got
Speaker 1: to say I'm a bit of an audio snob as
Speaker 1: an audio producer and podcast person. This is one of
Speaker 1: the best sounding shows that I've watched ever. And I
Speaker 1: don't have the most high end, incredible surround sound system
Speaker 1: at home, but this is still a show that begs
Speaker 1: to be heard on whatever nice soundbar, rear speakers, surround
Speaker 1: sound janky system you have at home because it is
Speaker 1: just so good. It's mixed so well, and in scenes
Speaker 1: like this, in this chase scene, in this explosion scene,
Speaker 1: you can feel that all around you in the living room.
Speaker 4: It's so good.
Speaker 3: I wrote down that. This is a very visceral chase
Speaker 3: scene because like you, when Milo is running and hits
Speaker 3: the wall, you hear a sound, but when Clagger is
Speaker 3: running it hits the wall, it is a completely different feeling,
Speaker 3: just from listening and the animation. Again, this is like
Speaker 3: going above and beyond to show like these are two
Speaker 3: very different characters. One is very tall and skinny and
Speaker 3: one is this larger character, and they feel like they
Speaker 3: have different weights in this scene. This opening scene is great.
Speaker 3: I also love the Violet's doing her jump first across
Speaker 3: the buildings and you see the little cupcakes on the
Speaker 3: patio or the balcony whatever it is, and then someone
Speaker 3: else jumps down. You see them again, someone else jumps down,
Speaker 3: You see me, and then Clagger jumps down and you
Speaker 3: see him jumping over eating the cupcakes. It was just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: they set that joke up and they let us know
Speaker 3: it's happening, and then it happens. It eats them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little touches like that, and the way
Speaker 1: each of the characters jump down is part of their characterization,
Speaker 1: part of their movement.
Speaker 4: It's all really great stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the crew is running. They successfully escape from
Speaker 3: the Enforesters who are chasing them, but then they're confronted
Speaker 3: by Deckard and his band of thugs and we get
Speaker 3: into a little bloody slow mo fight. And as this
Speaker 3: is happening, they throw the bag with all the loot
Speaker 3: to powder and.
Speaker 4: She books it. That's right.
Speaker 1: I want to pause here once again. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm hitting pause on the TV like every three minutes.
Speaker 1: This fight scene so good, and I'm gonna be saying
Speaker 1: that about practically every single fight scene in this entire season.
Speaker 1: I think this is another example of how this show
Speaker 1: takes it to the next level because the incredible fight
Speaker 1: choreography is enhanced not only by the amazing like cinematography,
Speaker 1: but also.
Speaker 3: By Imagine Dragons.
Speaker 1: Also by Imagine Dragons, the incredible lyricism of Imagine Dragons.
Speaker 1: But I love the choices they made with the camera
Speaker 1: work because throughout a fight scene like this, we see
Speaker 1: so many things happen to the camera it loses focus.
Speaker 1: There's like mud that splashes onto the camera lens. At
Speaker 1: one point, the camera gets like knocked around, like when
Speaker 1: somebody gets punched, the camera just like falls to the ground.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of like Punks Gate movies that you
Speaker 1: would make us a kid were like, oh shit, like
Speaker 1: I ran my skateboard right into the camera. It reminds
Speaker 1: me of that type of like nineties punk skate movie
Speaker 1: in the skate park, and I think it just adds
Speaker 1: another level to an already great choreography. In the fight scene, now,
Speaker 1: as you said, Powder ran off with the bag of
Speaker 1: stolen goods, one of the older kids peels off and
Speaker 1: begins chasing her. She tries to get rid of the
Speaker 1: kid with one of her smoke grenates, which she names Mouser,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't go off. It doesn't work, so she panics.
Speaker 1: She tosses the bag in the river and makes a
Speaker 1: run for it, much to the group's dismay. Everyone is
Speaker 1: pissed up Powder.
Speaker 3: For getting rid of everything they work so hard.
Speaker 4: That's the real thing they worked so hard for.
Speaker 3: Back in the under City, we see Vander again. He
Speaker 3: is now the head of this bar, the Last Drop,
Speaker 3: and he shows up where there's this other criminal merchant.
Speaker 3: Whatever role in business they have a deal is going
Speaker 3: poorly and vandersteps into help them, showing he's a good guy.
Speaker 3: He's what we saw in the beginning that stays his attitude.
Speaker 3: He's helpful, he's respected in this community. The kids show
Speaker 3: up and Vander goes down to talk to them. He
Speaker 3: realizes that they messed up the job he has heard
Speaker 3: about the explosion. Things get a little heated and Violet
Speaker 3: has a heart to heart with him and he tries
Speaker 3: to talk her down because Violet has a lot of
Speaker 3: energy and Vander's trying to tamp that down a little bit.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: I found this to be a really touching scene. We
Speaker 1: really see how much Vander cares for these kids. These
Speaker 1: are clearly not his kids. We're all adopted children, probably
Speaker 1: orphaned in whatever battle we saw at the start. And
Speaker 1: at the same time, we also see how much vi
Speaker 1: respects Vander because she could keep pushing his buttons, she
Speaker 1: could keep being rebellious, but she does stand down eventually
Speaker 1: and at least for now, listen to what he has
Speaker 1: to say, because it's clear Vander has a past and
Speaker 1: he's speaking from experience.
Speaker 3: There's definitely a great parent protector role that Vander plays
Speaker 3: with Violet. And similarly that we see Violet playing with
Speaker 3: Powder as she struggles in the beginning, andlet is there
Speaker 3: to help her, and like Milo's you know like, oh,
Speaker 3: we shouldn't have brought her, She's causing all these problems,
Speaker 3: and Violet is like, shut up, she's here, she's part
Speaker 3: of this group. We're not leaving her behind.
Speaker 1: Totally and actually speaking. In that scene, Powder finds one
Speaker 1: of those blue crystals in her pocket, so not everything
Speaker 1: has been lost from their little job in the Upper City.
Speaker 1: She rushes off to tell her sister the good news. Sadly,
Speaker 1: as she approaches the door, she overhears Milo and Vi
Speaker 1: talking about how Powder is too young and she's the
Speaker 1: weak link of their group. She can't keep up with us,
Speaker 1: she shouldn't be out on jobs like this with us.
Speaker 1: VI stands up for her sister, puts Milo in his place.
Speaker 1: She says, quote, see this look on my face. It
Speaker 1: will always mean it's time to shut up.
Speaker 3: It is one of those moments where it's like a
Speaker 3: TV cliche, I feel like, where someone overhears something that's
Speaker 3: being said about them and they leave before the other
Speaker 3: person defends them.
Speaker 1: Yes, but yes, it's a bit of a cliche, but
Speaker 1: it certainly causes the beginnings of a rift between the sisters,
Speaker 1: even though VI's clearly defending Powder at this point. I
Speaker 1: will say, Milo, not much ground to stand on, my guy.
Speaker 1: You fucked up on this job too, couldn't pick that
Speaker 1: lock at the beginning, wasted time stealing useless junk from
Speaker 1: the apartment. Let's slip to DECKERD and his crew that
Speaker 1: y'all got some good loot. Sounds to me like you
Speaker 1: have fucked up and struck out, Milo.
Speaker 3: Well, that's why he's blaming someone else. Yeah, that's just Milo.
Speaker 3: Vander goes to visit his old friend Benzo, who is
Speaker 3: running a shop that sells goods that have come about
Speaker 3: by potentially questionable means, and they're trying to cover up
Speaker 3: for the kids. And then two enforcers show up and
Speaker 3: they start interrogating them, and Benzo's assistant Echo or little
Speaker 3: Man overhears Vander and the head enforcer, Grayson colluding. They
Speaker 3: have been working together. They've got a little deal. Vander
Speaker 3: keeps his people away from top side. They don't make
Speaker 3: trouble on the enforcers stay out of his business down here.
Speaker 3: But now she's like, this is a big deal. This
Speaker 3: was an explosion, I think I think. He asks, did
Speaker 3: anyone die, and she says, yes, they blew up, but building.
Speaker 3: So she's saying, look, I can't come back empty handed.
Speaker 3: I need someone to take back to the council or
Speaker 3: we're going to be in a lot more trouble.
Speaker 4: That's right now.
Speaker 1: Back at home, VI is controlling Powder and takes her
Speaker 1: up on the roof. We get this really gorgeous shot
Speaker 1: of the city scape down here in the lower city.
Speaker 1: She points out all of the other mistakes that the
Speaker 1: other kids have made in their past, quote, We've all
Speaker 1: had bad days, but we learn and we stick together.
Speaker 1: Such a beautiful line that really struck a chord with me.
Speaker 1: Powder then shows her sister the blue crystal that she
Speaker 1: still has, and the two decide to keep.
Speaker 4: It secret from vanderfer.
Speaker 3: Now definitely a good idea. I'm sure this will not
Speaker 3: pun intended blow up in anyone's face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally Ugh what a scene. I loved this as
Speaker 1: the book end to this episode. As someone who myself
Speaker 1: is an eldest brother and also very much a parentified
Speaker 1: child to an annoying but lovable little sister.
Speaker 4: This scene fucking got me.
Speaker 1: Really, I was already so emotional at this scene, and
Speaker 1: obviously we're going to see the relationship between these two
Speaker 1: sisters of all over the course of the season.
Speaker 4: It gets me every time, folks.
Speaker 3: The episode ends with a mysterious man interrogating Decord, who
Speaker 3: you know, Decord was only supposed to be following the kids,
Speaker 3: wasn't supposed to engage. Decord lies and says, they jumped me,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. But this mysterious man, who we later
Speaker 3: find out is Sosco. He is there with his lab
Speaker 3: assistant Singed, who was demonstrating this magical grape soda on
Speaker 3: a rat, and the rat hulks out and kills a cat.
Speaker 3: This like Doctor Evil, tiny little hairless cat. And it
Speaker 3: sounds like Decord has been volunteered to be the first
Speaker 3: human trial of grape soda number nine.
Speaker 4: Yikes. I think I've had this grape soda from seven
Speaker 4: to eleven before.
Speaker 3: You know, with your food choices. I feel like this
Speaker 3: that checks out good? All right, after the break, we're
Speaker 3: going to get into episodes two and three of Arcane.
Speaker 1: We'll see you soon, all right, folks, we are back
Speaker 1: dive for episode two of Arcane, titled Some Mysteries Are
Speaker 1: Better Left Unsolved.
Speaker 3: We open on a completely new setting. We have Jace
Speaker 3: and Caitlin on the other side of the door that
Speaker 3: Vibe blocked during their robbery, and Jace is attempting to
Speaker 3: open the door and he's thrown hurdled backwards from the explosion,
Speaker 3: and in the chaos, he has a flashback. We flash
Speaker 3: back to his childhood in upstate Minnesota, which I can
Speaker 3: recognize because that's where I went to college. So in Minnesota,
Speaker 3: it is freezing. There is a blizzard, and he's with
Speaker 3: his mom and she is beginning to get frostbite on
Speaker 3: her hand. Jace calls out for help. She collapses, and
Speaker 3: then a mysterious cloaked figure arives and uses a very
Speaker 3: impressive looking like hand motion, very elaborate scroll of town
Speaker 3: portal and teleports them to a warm and sunny locale.
Speaker 3: And he used this small mysterious rock and he gives
Speaker 3: the rock to Jace and disappears.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Loved this flashback. I think it explains a lot about
Speaker 1: Chase the character. It also reveals something that infuriates me.
Speaker 1: Jase was a cute little kid and now we see
Speaker 1: him as an adult and he's an absolute hunk, and
Speaker 1: we know he's smart and charismatic.
Speaker 4: Aaron, some folks just have it all.
Speaker 3: I disagree, and we'll get into that later.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, So back in the present, Grayson and
Speaker 1: a guy with a cane who we will eventually learn
Speaker 1: is Victor are searching the wreckage of Jase's apartment and
Speaker 1: they arrest him while the quote unquote council decides his fate.
Speaker 1: Always a good sign when a council gets involved. Jace
Speaker 1: is visited in his holding cell by Heimerdinger, who he
Speaker 1: has history with through the academy, and Jase explains his
Speaker 1: research to heimer Dinger, who warns Jase not to mention
Speaker 1: anything about magic to the council. Okay, just say you're sorry,
Speaker 1: say you won't do it again, and they'll let you
Speaker 1: off with a slap on the wrist. Don't say the
Speaker 1: M word around the council.
Speaker 3: Seems pretty easy, the cut and dry way to get
Speaker 3: out of this. We cut back to the under city.
Speaker 3: Violet in the gang are hiding out in this tricked
Speaker 3: out arcade they've got. There's a boxing machine, Powder's rigged
Speaker 3: up this shooting gallery where she completely hands Milo his
Speaker 3: ass Outside, though, enforcers are questioning citizens and they're looking
Speaker 3: for the kids, and then they chase after the kids
Speaker 3: and they flee up a fire escape. Thanks to little
Speaker 3: Man and then back at the last drop. People are
Speaker 3: getting restless and they're doubting vanders leadership. They're saying, like
Speaker 3: the enforcers are here, they're supposed to stay out of
Speaker 3: our business. We got to teach them a lesson. And
Speaker 3: while this is all happening and people are losing faith
Speaker 3: in Vander, Echo tells Violet about Vanders deal with Grayson.
Speaker 4: Ugh, that's got it hurt.
Speaker 1: That's got to be like finding out the tooth fairy
Speaker 1: isn't real, right, all right? Jumping back to pilta Over,
Speaker 1: the council members arrive for Jas's trial. Mel Madara, who
Speaker 1: we saw plotting earlier, brings a children's toy for counselor hospital, which,
Speaker 1: of course is better than a half eaten bag of
Speaker 1: nuts that he's allergic to.
Speaker 4: So good on her.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, wait to do your research.
Speaker 4: To your research now. The trial officially begins, and Jace
Speaker 4: is pretty cooperative.
Speaker 1: He's doing everything Heimerdinger told, saying all the right things,
Speaker 1: until the council questions his skills as an academic, as
Speaker 1: a scientist, as somebody who could discover something new for
Speaker 1: this city. And this roused him up enough that he
Speaker 1: says the M word, he drops the M word. This
Speaker 1: becomes very problematic, but Heimerdinger jumps in and is able
Speaker 1: to convince the Council to go easy on Jase. Just
Speaker 1: expel him from the academy, get rid of all of.
Speaker 4: His research and his tools.
Speaker 1: Don't banish him from Piltover all together.
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's we get a little interesting backstory here
Speaker 3: as well as exposition wise with we learn from the
Speaker 3: I don't know, the android looking cyborg creature with the
Speaker 3: neck that magic has destroyed his people. There's clearly an
Speaker 3: anti magic sentiment here, and we get a little bit
Speaker 3: more of this as the episode goes, you know, with
Speaker 3: some more fantastical creatures. I really like heimer Dinger's design,
Speaker 3: and I really like the variety and the diversity we
Speaker 3: see on the Council with like the clock ticking necklace
Speaker 3: is one of my favorite costumes in the show so far.
Speaker 3: But I am excited for more of that too, and
Speaker 3: there will be more of that. But yeah, I like.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite parts about the Council is there
Speaker 3: are multiple non human creatures or characters. I have no
Speaker 3: idea what the robot thing is, but that we may
Speaker 3: learn later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little fun fact about Himerdinger. I did look
Speaker 1: up some more about him, oh, very quickly. He is
Speaker 1: a Yordel, yeah, of course, which is a race of
Speaker 1: small beings that live in Bandal City, which is a
Speaker 1: region that's not actually in room Terra, which is like
Speaker 1: this oh universe that we're existing in now, but is
Speaker 1: actually in a pocket dimension that has many entrances to
Speaker 1: Rune Tarra.
Speaker 4: So he's from another dimension.
Speaker 3: I am a little shocked that all these non human
Speaker 3: creatures are worried about magic, considering you think that like
Speaker 3: the involvement with of magic, with their involvement in this city. See,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I have no idea. They hate magic.
Speaker 3: That's all that I know.
Speaker 1: That's true now, Silko and singed in their underwater villain
Speaker 1: Lair convinced Deckerd to take a shot of the magic
Speaker 1: rape soda vile number ten presumably, and they tell him, look, quote,
Speaker 1: there's a monster inside all of us. It's time to
Speaker 1: let the monster out, which is what I say to
Speaker 1: myself in the mirror.
Speaker 3: Yeah, psaking yourself up for recordings. The enforcers return to
Speaker 3: the Last Drop looking for the kids, and Vander warns
Speaker 3: them with this nice little you know, panic button that
Speaker 3: Powder's designed, and they hide and narrowly avoid getting caught. Powder,
Speaker 3: of course, almost Moos falls as the Enforcter is down
Speaker 3: there again some great camera work where like the camera
Speaker 3: is underneath the table and you think that that's the
Speaker 3: view of one of the kids, and then it turns
Speaker 3: out it's not and the kids are actually up hiding
Speaker 3: in the rafters. Lots of rafters in this show. You'd
Speaker 3: think this was like a dark soul's level. We will
Speaker 3: get back to more things with rafters. Violet wants to
Speaker 3: fight back. Vander brings her up to the bridge where
Speaker 3: we saw in the opening of episode one, and he's like,
Speaker 3: look at this is the last battle we had. I
Speaker 3: led the charge and your parents were part of that
Speaker 3: group and we lost them, and like war is horrible.
Speaker 1: You don't want this, Yeah, And I think the most
Speaker 1: telling part of this is he says, who are you
Speaker 1: willing to lose in this war?
Speaker 4: Milo?
Speaker 1: And Via doesn't react Clagger, She doesn't react Powder, and
Speaker 1: she instantly looks over, you know, she looks away. She
Speaker 1: can't bear the thought of losing powder at a war.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that maybe stays her hand. I
Speaker 1: love this push and pull between Vander and Violet. He's
Speaker 1: obviously more experienced, he's somewhat jaded, clearly based on his
Speaker 1: past experiences. VI, on the other hand, as this like idealist,
Speaker 1: hot headed young person who thinks they can fight their
Speaker 1: way out of every situation.
Speaker 4: And what's cool.
Speaker 1: And I think what makes this emotional drama between these
Speaker 1: characters so interesting is that neither is necessarily entirely wrong
Speaker 1: correct And you.
Speaker 4: Could argue either side of it.
Speaker 1: You could say Vander is taking the more level headed
Speaker 1: approach that's keeping more people alive at the moment. You
Speaker 1: could take VIA's side of things and say, look, things
Speaker 1: won't get better until we fight, and that's going to
Speaker 1: require some sacrifice.
Speaker 3: I actually think they've done it. They do a lot
Speaker 3: of flipping back and forth between Piltover and the under City, Yeah,
Speaker 3: which we can talk about more with three. I think
Speaker 3: it becomes a lot more apparent in episode three, but
Speaker 3: I think they have they're trying to toe the line
Speaker 3: between like we don't want you to hate Piltover, but
Speaker 3: we want you to think the under City hates them,
Speaker 3: and that that's holding them down because other than the which,
Speaker 3: let's be honest, are cops and are villains of every
Speaker 3: story anyways, Like there's no part of me that's like, hey,
Speaker 3: Heimerdinger hates the under City. Like so there's this interesting
Speaker 3: back and forth where like I kind of get where
Speaker 3: Vander's coming from, because, like you know, their status of
Speaker 3: living is clearly not great in the under City. Anytime
Speaker 3: you live in something called the under City that you
Speaker 3: have to get to by like parcouring your way down
Speaker 3: the sewers, probably not the best place to live. But
Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything other than the Enforcers through these
Speaker 3: two episodes where I'm like, yeah, we're against Tiltover. Like
Speaker 3: I understand Violet doesn't love her a lot in life,
Speaker 3: and it is there's a lot that's going wrong down there.
Speaker 3: And again we have to be reminded this is from war.
Speaker 3: They went to war and they lost, so they're clearly
Speaker 3: like there's a victor. History is written by the victors,
Speaker 3: and it is Piltover. Yes, but maybe I just like
Speaker 3: talked myself out of that thought because yeah, they lost
Speaker 3: the war. But so far, like the idea of the
Speaker 3: Enforcer staying out of their stuff that Vander has set
Speaker 3: up is kind of a nice yeah band aid. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I think what you're getting at is, like, no
Speaker 1: one hears overtly the bad guy. I mean, Silko obviously
Speaker 1: is the bad guy, but even Silko will see in
Speaker 1: the next episode, has reasons for what he is doing,
Speaker 1: and you can really empathize with those reasons. And you're
Speaker 1: absolutely correct that nobody in Piltover makes me go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd want to go to war against this guy in particular,
Speaker 1: and in fact, I'm out here rooting for Jace to
Speaker 1: win and get his magic off the ground. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I think that is the magic of the show, Like
Speaker 1: we're rooting for both sides as the viewer, and we
Speaker 1: empathize with all sides as the viewer, and you can
Speaker 1: understand where everyone's coming from and where the drama and
Speaker 1: the emotional intensity comes from is the disagreements between parties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and no party from their point of view is necessarily wrong.
Speaker 1: They're all justified in what they're doing as they see it,
Speaker 1: which makes.
Speaker 4: For a really interesting show.
Speaker 3: Agreed.
Speaker 1: So back to our summ reach, Ja finds himself back
Speaker 1: at his apartment.
Speaker 4: He is distraught.
Speaker 1: He's about to jump off the ledge when he is
Speaker 1: stopped by Victor, who arrives with some of Jase's notes
Speaker 1: and arrives with a proposition, Jace, what if we work together?
Speaker 3: Cut to a message going up our Paddington mail tubes.
Speaker 3: Grayson receives her mail, and then we cut to Vander
Speaker 3: sitting at the last drop with powder and she's very sad,
Speaker 3: and Vander ports are a drink of I assume some
Speaker 3: non alcoholic beverage. And then we cut to Violet sitting alone.
Speaker 3: She's broken into Benzo's shop and she's waiting to turn
Speaker 3: herself into the enforcers, and you hear the marching of footsteps,
Speaker 3: and we cut to the end of the episode.
Speaker 4: Oh God, what an eldest sibling thing to do? Love it?
Speaker 3: I volunteer is tribute?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: Let's roll right into episode three. This one is titled
Speaker 1: The Base Violence Necessary for Change. The episode opens on
Speaker 1: a flashback of young Silko being drowned and fighting for
Speaker 1: his life against some unknown assailant. Of course, later in
Speaker 1: the episode, we will learn that this assailant was none
Speaker 1: other than Vander.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Vander, turns out it was not the Enforcers
Speaker 3: coming to get Violet, it was Vander and Benze. They're
Speaker 3: here to prevent Violet from turning herself in, and they
Speaker 3: lock her in a storage cabinet or something that locks
Speaker 3: from the outside. And then Grayson, Marcus and a bunch
Speaker 3: of other enforcers show up, and Grayson tells Vander she
Speaker 3: can't take him because if she takes He's basically saying,
Speaker 3: I'm turning myself in, I will be the pound of
Speaker 3: flesh that calms this conflict. And she's saying, I can't
Speaker 3: take you because without you, this whole thing falls apart,
Speaker 3: this old shady alliance we have, like who knows what's
Speaker 3: going to happen down here? And then suddenly we hear
Speaker 3: screaming outside. Violet watches from the window in this little
Speaker 3: closet storage room and we see blood splatter against the window.
Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful and horrifying. Yes, yes, the camera pans outside.
Speaker 1: We see a few dead enforcers, including Grayson. Rip Silko
Speaker 1: walks up out of the shadows, and Benzo, who clearly
Speaker 1: recognizes him, though clearly have some.
Speaker 4: Sort of cast.
Speaker 1: Benzo rushes towards him, but is absolutely decked by our
Speaker 1: guy deckerd in hulk mode. Clearly the grape Soda worked
Speaker 1: and kills Benzo right in front of everybody. Marcus is
Speaker 1: in shock. He says a thing out loud that he
Speaker 1: shouldn't have said. This wasn't the deal, Silko, what are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 4: And Silko's response is cold, deal's changed.
Speaker 3: A really again, here we are with the sound and
Speaker 3: the visceralness of the show. Yeah, and we're getting sneaking
Speaker 3: shots of a decord in hulk mode, but just like
Speaker 3: a really well set up scene of danger.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely. I mean it's horrifying stuff. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can put yourself in violet shoes looking out that window.
Speaker 3: And it's especially like I love how Benzo recognizing Soco
Speaker 3: kind of puts you at ease, like, oh, these this
Speaker 3: is like they oh and then no, never mind this totally.
Speaker 3: We cut back to Piltover. Jason Victor are hard at
Speaker 3: work and they think they've found a formula to stabilize
Speaker 3: the hex crystals, the blue gems that they've been working on,
Speaker 3: but they are going to need some of his equipment
Speaker 3: from Heimerdinger's lab.
Speaker 4: To test it. Mmmm. This is giving Upenheimer. MM.
Speaker 1: I do love this storyline though, this Jason Victor teaming
Speaker 1: up to figure out the magic formula. I love that
Speaker 1: this is another tension in this story, right, this idea
Speaker 1: of science first progress just because you can, should you? Heimerdinger,
Speaker 1: of course, is much more cautious. Yes, really echoes of Vander.
Speaker 1: There on the flip side, we have Jason Victor who
Speaker 1: are very much more hot headed, are focused on making
Speaker 1: progress at all costs, and aren't afraid to break a
Speaker 1: couple of eggs or cause a couple of explosions along
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have these two fatherly figures, in Vander's case
Speaker 3: overtly a father figure, who are trying to tell the
Speaker 3: young people like, please be careful, you know, this is
Speaker 3: not something we need to rush into. And then of
Speaker 3: course the kids are rushing into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again nobody's wrong here.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 1: Either side could be argued, And I love that the
Speaker 1: show isn't shying away from tackling these big ideas in
Speaker 1: a way that is mature and nuanced and could lead
Speaker 1: you to the fall on any side of that argument,
Speaker 1: depending on who you are.
Speaker 3: Vander wakes up in a cannery where Soko has been
Speaker 3: mass producing the shimmer. I realize we've just been calling
Speaker 3: it a grape soda. This whole time it's called Shimmer.
Speaker 3: Silko reveals the reason he's doing all this is he
Speaker 3: wants to intimidate Piltover with his shimmer infused soldiers and
Speaker 3: wants them to fear him. And Silko's trying to recruit
Speaker 3: Vander because again we're learning more about their backstory. Vander
Speaker 3: and Soko have not always been enemies. They used to
Speaker 3: be partners, and he wants him to fight with him.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's beautiful stuff.
Speaker 1: And Silko says, you'd die for a cause, but you
Speaker 1: won't fight for one.
Speaker 4: That gave me chills.
Speaker 1: What a line, And that was the line where I
Speaker 1: was like my own Silko side.
Speaker 3: They're definitely a lot of really good one liners. Is
Speaker 3: the wrong phrase because it's not like, it's not like quips, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it is really good quotes to summarize character's emotions.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and it sounds like something that Violet would say
Speaker 1: to Vander and probably has a to Vander, why don't
Speaker 1: we fight more? It's really lovely characterization. And I loved
Speaker 1: this episode in particular sort of being underpinned by that
Speaker 1: flashback where we learn more about Silko and Vander's relationship
Speaker 1: and that clearly traumatic drowning scene that has come to
Speaker 1: define Silko's life in a way that we see the
Speaker 1: fallout for to this day. Now, Victor and Jace back
Speaker 1: in piltovert sneak into Heimerdinger's lab, or they try to
Speaker 1: sneak into heimer Dinger's lab and they're caught by Mel
Speaker 1: in the hallway. Mel agrees to not turn them in,
Speaker 1: but they have one night to prove that they can
Speaker 1: make this damn thing work.
Speaker 3: And the reason they're caught is because this hallway has
Speaker 3: no lights whatsoever. We are in and they we're in
Speaker 3: the city that won the war, and is the technological
Speaker 3: advanced of the two no lights. They're carrying like little flashlights,
Speaker 3: and she's standing there and catches them.
Speaker 4: Incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then my.
Speaker 1: Question is yeah, and look, I'm not going to question
Speaker 1: Mail all that much because she's hot and she gets
Speaker 1: the pass, But what is.
Speaker 4: She doing in this completely pitch black dark hallway at
Speaker 4: this hour?
Speaker 3: I mean, she's looking for the lights. I assume I'm
Speaker 3: going around. Yeah, she just happened to be there at
Speaker 3: the right time, and she's like, oh hello. Violet returns
Speaker 3: to the last drop to collect her things. She's distraught,
Speaker 3: she's going to rescue Vander and she collects the guys
Speaker 3: Milo and Clagger. She's like, come on, we're going, and
Speaker 3: Powder wants to come. She's pulling her bombs together and
Speaker 3: Violet's like, no, you got to stay home for this one.
Speaker 3: And she's learned something from Vander and she's like, you're
Speaker 3: the only thing I have left. You have to go here.
Speaker 3: You can't go, you have to stay. She gives her
Speaker 3: this flare and says, use this shine it. I will
Speaker 3: come find you. I do want to talk a little
Speaker 3: bit about We've talked about this flashback with Soko and Vander.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: I love that. I think that was an incredible storytelling
Speaker 3: device in the beginning. I love like we have the
Speaker 3: Kendrick Lamar swimming pools ask a visual. I in this
Speaker 3: episode in particular, was getting a little sick of the
Speaker 3: constant back and forth. Cut to Violet three minutes, cut
Speaker 3: to Jason's story four minutes, cut to Violet for five minutes,
Speaker 3: cut to Jace for three minutes, And I think this
Speaker 3: is the episode where I'm losing it with Jay's storyline. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm just like, we have this underground city like gang
Speaker 3: warfare thing going on, and Jason Victor still have not
Speaker 3: figured out how to turn the lights on, and that
Speaker 3: has impacted how I have watched the rest of the show.
Speaker 3: I love Violet and I love this storyline. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: And I just think like there are a couple times
Speaker 3: they do these flashbacks when I'm just like, come on,
Speaker 3: just let this one story breathe a little bit more
Speaker 3: before you cut out of it. But yeah, I understand
Speaker 3: that they're trying to get us into both narratives. But
Speaker 3: one of the things I think, like Episode one, I
Speaker 3: think was very strong because it's focused on one group
Speaker 3: and it's a ton of people in that one group.
Speaker 3: We introduced a bunch of people, But I think the
Speaker 3: show right now is having a hard time making me
Speaker 3: care about Jace because the only connection is that they
Speaker 3: robbed him, Like this will not be the case later on.
Speaker 3: I just think there's a little bit in these episodes
Speaker 3: two and three where I was like, I love violet
Speaker 3: storyline a lot more than Jason's, and no amount of
Speaker 3: snow and frostbite is going to change that. So that
Speaker 3: was just how I felt as we're getting to the
Speaker 3: end of Act one.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a totally valid criticism. I agree
Speaker 1: Jason Victor's story slow burn here in these first three episodes,
Speaker 1: we're still building up to the hex Tech basically, and
Speaker 1: Violet and Powder storyline has just been go, go, go,
Speaker 1: go go from the minute we saw them. How many
Speaker 1: fights have they already been in three episodes? And Jase's
Speaker 1: only conflict so far, obviously very devastating for him was
Speaker 1: the council. Yeah, it was the council trial and getting
Speaker 1: kicked out of the academy, you know, and now he
Speaker 1: just has too much free time on his hands. Yes,
Speaker 1: so I totally understand that criticism, and I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: It's certainly a bit slower if I were to put
Speaker 1: myself into the writers and editors and show creators shoes.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 1: I think their intention of cutting back and forth was
Speaker 1: maybe to try and hype up the Jase stuff a
Speaker 1: bit more, to intercut it with the Violet stuff that
Speaker 1: is so good, so intense, so dangerous. If we had
Speaker 1: a very long, extended scene of Jason Victor doing calculations
Speaker 1: on a on a chalkboard, I would, yeah, exactly, with
Speaker 1: no interruptions. Oppenheimer certainly made that interesting. It would have
Speaker 1: been tough in this show, I think. So I do
Speaker 1: want to hand it to them for trying to increase
Speaker 1: the tension of Jace's storyline, because it is a bit
Speaker 1: slow at this moment.
Speaker 3: I do think, you know, like you were saying, you
Speaker 3: you really like Jason his storyline, and that is to
Speaker 3: do through those first three episodes. I it gets better,
Speaker 3: of course, but through those first three I was kind
Speaker 3: of like, I know the parts of this I want
Speaker 3: to be watching, certainly.
Speaker 1: Okay, Back to our recap, Powder in tears devastated, Sobbing
Speaker 1: accidentally drops the hex crystals that she still has on
Speaker 1: the ground and she sees them react violently and puts
Speaker 1: two and two together. She realizes these crystals are what
Speaker 1: caused the explosion earlier during the job, and so she
Speaker 1: knows that she can help.
Speaker 3: Now. Cut back to Jason's storyline. Back to Heimerginger's lab,
Speaker 3: Jason Victor are also experimenting with the crystals. I'll be
Speaker 3: it in a slightly more structured way, but they of
Speaker 3: course cause an explosion and people on the street see it.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: Cut back to Violet, Milo and Clagger, who sneak into
Speaker 1: the cannery to say Vander they very quickly realize, oh,
Speaker 1: it was too easy.
Speaker 4: Getting in here. It's a trap.
Speaker 1: Soilko and his goons are waiting for them, and so
Speaker 1: Violet puts on those power gloves and prepares to fight them.
Speaker 1: To distract the goons while Milo tries to free Vander,
Speaker 1: and while Clagger looks for an alternate exit, Powder arrives
Speaker 1: with her hex crystal infused bombs and is scaling the
Speaker 1: wall outside. It's a really tense scene. There's this really
Speaker 1: subtle tick tick tick that's not quite a clock, but
Speaker 1: it's in the sound design, and it's so good because
Speaker 1: you're like sweating the whole time.
Speaker 3: Thank you, imagine dragons, Thank you.
Speaker 4: So much, Imagine dragons.
Speaker 1: Powder sees Violet on the catwalk fighting silko soldiers and
Speaker 1: knows now's her moment to help.
Speaker 3: So Violet is taking out most of these low level googles.
Speaker 3: A good job, yeah, doing an incredible job. There's some
Speaker 3: great fight choreography here again, and then Silko gives Deckard
Speaker 3: some more shimmer and he completely overpowers her. She has
Speaker 3: another one of these comic books like jumping in the
Speaker 3: air and doesn't matter, so she crawls back to the
Speaker 3: room where Vander is and she closes the door and
Speaker 3: locks it, which I guess is an enough to keep
Speaker 3: him out for a little bit.
Speaker 1: That's right, Such a good fight scene again, great camera work,
Speaker 1: visceral punches, you could feel all of the hits that
Speaker 1: Violet's taking and the goons are taking. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: that power jump iconic so cool.
Speaker 4: I loved it. Wish it would have worked better.
Speaker 3: I also like we see Violet earlier using the boxing
Speaker 3: dummy that has like the painted face and everything right,
Speaker 3: and we it's very cool. In this fight as well
Speaker 3: as in later episodes, we really get a sense that
Speaker 3: Violet's fighting style is a boxing fighting style. She is
Speaker 3: like a bare knuckle brawler, except she's not bare knuckles.
Speaker 3: She's got the most elaborate power gloves that we've seen
Speaker 3: so far.
Speaker 1: Okay, back to Piltover, because we can't forget about Jason's
Speaker 1: Victor are boys, Heimerdinger and some enforcers break down the door.
Speaker 1: Just as Jas and Victor succeed in their experimentation. The
Speaker 1: light is illuminated in blue and everything is floating. Jace
Speaker 1: and Victor sure are up there, cheering and happy that
Speaker 1: they've solved it. The era of magic has begun to
Speaker 1: clear his mel and Jays quickly cuts in the era
Speaker 1: of hextech. And look, I just gotta say, Chase, smart guy,
Speaker 1: good looking, just had an incredible breakthrough, But his real
Speaker 1: genius is knowing the power of good branding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no one is gonna in a city that hates magic.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna get very far, saying, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 3: it's the era of magic. No, you need something different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good branding, hex tech all right.
Speaker 3: Back to the fight. Powder throws her bomb infused with
Speaker 3: hex crystals at DECKERD and it goes off in absolutely
Speaker 3: horrifying fashion. So you have the circus monkey banging at
Speaker 3: symbols and every bang sends out a new shock wave.
Speaker 3: Powder is thrown clear off the wall that she's been
Speaker 3: clinging to. Milo and Clagger are killed in the aftermath
Speaker 3: of shocks, like a pole goes through Milo's shoulder. Clagger
Speaker 3: is crushed, and Vander and Violet are both trapped underneath rubble. Deckard,
Speaker 3: of course, is completely still alive and kicking. The bomb
Speaker 3: did not seem to hit him at all, even though
Speaker 3: it was right next to him, which is probably how
Speaker 3: any of my experience playing League of Legends would go
Speaker 3: missing the target entirely. In order to protect Violet, Vander
Speaker 3: grabs makeshift brass knuckles, not his power gloves, just like
Speaker 3: I don't know what they are. They're like two pieces
Speaker 3: of metal. And he tries going toe to toe with Deckerd,
Speaker 3: and then Soko arrives and stabs Vander in the back
Speaker 3: literally and throws him off the bridge. Vander lands in
Speaker 3: a pile of shimmer vials because this is where they
Speaker 3: are producing all the shimmer, and the shimmer powers him up,
Speaker 3: and he hulks out and comes up and beats Deckerd
Speaker 3: and then he looks He's got Silko's fleeing to one
Speaker 3: direction and Violet is underneath rubble in the other direction.
Speaker 3: The place is falling. We have a real Sophie's choice,
Speaker 3: and Vander, even in this monstrous, hulked out form, saves.
Speaker 4: Violet right Jesus his daughter, and then he dies. This
Speaker 4: is the end of Vander.
Speaker 1: His last act in this mortal coil was to save Violet.
Speaker 1: And he turns to her and he says, take care
Speaker 1: of your sister, take care of power. Heartbreaking stuff. Now,
Speaker 1: Powder herself shows up, excited at first that her bomb
Speaker 1: worked and went off and presumably saved everyone, but quickly
Speaker 1: learns the horrifying truth. Violet, of course, is distraught. She's
Speaker 1: just lost her father figure, she's lost all her closest friends,
Speaker 1: and it's because of her.
Speaker 4: Brat little sister, who she told us stay home.
Speaker 1: They get into a heated argument. Violet says some things
Speaker 1: that she will come to regret and probably shouldn't have
Speaker 1: said in this moment, but you can't fault her.
Speaker 4: It's emotionally heat.
Speaker 3: Not only does she say some things, she slaps her
Speaker 3: slaps Powder.
Speaker 1: It's heartbreaking stuff to see this. Violet walks off on
Speaker 1: her own, leaving Powder there sobbing in exit next to
Speaker 1: the body of Vander.
Speaker 3: Soko so alive, still looking for the girls, and he
Speaker 3: comes into the alleyway and he sees Powder and he
Speaker 3: pulls out a knife. He's ready, and Violet, who has
Speaker 3: been escaping, turns around, sees Silko there sees Powder, unaware
Speaker 3: that he's there, and she's gonna go save her. But
Speaker 3: then Marcus shows up and you know, I forget what
Speaker 3: it's called. Put yeah the chloroform over her mouth. Silko
Speaker 3: shows up Powder, having just lost her entire family jumps
Speaker 3: into his arms and oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, horrifying stuff. And you know what's beautiful is like
Speaker 1: how thematically resonant this is. Silko knows better than anyone
Speaker 1: what it's like to be betrayed. It's the thing that
Speaker 1: is defined him. This whole episode, we've watched flashbacks of
Speaker 1: him being drowned by his brother, by his brother in arms, Vander,
Speaker 1: somebody who he to this day is trying to recruit
Speaker 1: to his side. Silko knows what it's like to have
Speaker 1: a brother betray you, and now Powder knows what it's
Speaker 1: seemingly like to have a to turn on you as well.
Speaker 1: And so she is looking for comfort in the arms
Speaker 1: of somebody who knows exactly how she feels in this moment.
Speaker 4: It's powerful stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not her best move. She's got a lot of blunders.
Speaker 3: I know she's a little kid, but I think she
Speaker 3: was so good in the beginning of episode two when
Speaker 3: she was at the shooting range and she made a
Speaker 3: lot of mistakes she did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly you can't be mad at Violet here for
Speaker 1: the way she reacted, and uh, you do.
Speaker 4: Powder is so.
Speaker 1: Cute and you want to protect her and hugger, but
Speaker 1: she really fucked up here and caused a lot of
Speaker 1: people to die. It's a tough look and a tough
Speaker 1: day for Powder and at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like most of these people just need therapy in a
Speaker 1: hug and they're.
Speaker 4: Just not getting it. It's stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if a place that doesn't believe
Speaker 3: in magic, I'm not sure how Piltover and the under
Speaker 3: City feel about therapy unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Woo.
Speaker 1: All right, this episode's one two and three of Arcane.
Speaker 1: That actually wraps up this like first arc of this story.
Speaker 1: If you know anything of what's to come in the
Speaker 1: future episodes, you know that we are going to flash
Speaker 1: forward and see a couple of years down the line
Speaker 1: what the results of these actions in the first three
Speaker 1: episodes have been. So I'm excited to get into that
Speaker 1: with you, Aaron.
Speaker 3: But that's it for today, all right. On tomorrow's episode,
Speaker 3: Rosie and Joel will be here and they are back
Speaker 3: with more vampires, in particular interview with a vampire and
Speaker 3: queen of the Damned.
Speaker 1: That's right, and Aaron, you and I will be back
Speaker 1: next Wednesday for episodes four and five.
Speaker 3: LeVar Kanes, Let's hope Jace can redeem himself in my
Speaker 3: eyes here you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm rooting for Jason.
Speaker 3: Yeah. All right, that's our episode. Thank you everyone for listening,
Speaker 3: See you next week.
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