WEBVTT - Xtras: Arcane Episodes 101, 102, and 103 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.640 Today's episode contains spoilers for the first three episodes of 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.200 our Cane season one. Watch those before you listen today 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:08.160 or don't. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.480 I folks, I'm a Boo and I'm Aaron, and welcome 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:32.080 to x ray Vision Extras, an x ray Vision series 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:36.680 where we dive deep into even more of your favorite shows, movies, comics, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:37.519 and pop culture. 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:42.200 Every superhero team needs side quests, and our rotating panel 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.800 of producers and guest hosts will be suiting up to 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.600 help Jason and Rosie cover even more of the pop 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:48.680 culture landscape. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.680 That's right, and in these first couple episodes of Extras, 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.840 Aboo and I will be rewatching Netflix's Arcane season one 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.000 and a lead up to the release of season two, 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.200 coming out on November ninth. Today, we will be covering 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.640 episodes one, two, and three, Act one. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.200 But first let's introduce you a little bit to x 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:09.400 ray Vision Extras. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.080 Haaren I figure we let the. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.800 Listeners know what's going on and whether they're hearing our 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:14.480 voices or not. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.400 Rosie and Jason, Yeah, I think the main thing to 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.920 know is that nothing's changing with the main show. This 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.959 is literally just us giving you extra bonus treats. There's 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.360 not enough time to have Jason and Rosie cover everything, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.280 and we're just trying to fill in the gaps. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:30.040 That's right. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.960 We'll have a mix of the other producers, Joelle and 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.240 Carmen who you've heard on the show. We'll have guest hosts. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.399 Jason and Rosie will join us. Sometimes this is literally 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:39.199 just a. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.840 Bonus, another cherry on top of your Sunday. Yeah, who 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:42.840 does want two cherries? 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.319 And for those of you who don't know us, let's 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:49.080 introduce ourselves a boo. I'll introduce you. Many of you 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.120 have probably heard a boo on X ray in the past, 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.520 including my favorite a boom moment the Deadphone Wolverine episode 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.960 where you famously said the mask means nothing to me 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.320 or something along those lines. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:01.920 I did say that. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.480 Why don't you give the listeners a quick rundown of 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.200 your background and your interests. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.640 Sure, I am six feet tall, Please don't fact check 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.440 that Dating me is like rewatching the Digimund movie on 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.040 a rainy day. And the green flags that I look 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.720 for are whether or not you spoil your dog and 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.600 whether or not you use a budgeting app. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.640 So that's everything you need to know about me. What 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.960 about you, Erin, I. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.000 Don't watch the Bachelor? Is that like a Bachelor thing? 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:33.040 Is that? I just googled top hinge questions, hinge props. Okay, 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.400 my name is Aerin. You've probably heard me on the 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.800 show talk about elden ring or magic. I love video 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.679 games where you have to roll to dodge attacks with 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.840 a standina Barka. I love heroes that use quippi remarks 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.680 during battle. And I'm a big fan of pretty much 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.760 everything that X ray covers. And it's been really cool 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.000 to be a part of the conversation with all these things. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.000 And I don't like rogue one, and we're not going 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.320 to talk about it, so let's stop telling about it. Yeah, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:02.200 we'll do it a different time. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.480 Yeah, we'll put a pin in that one. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:03.880 Okay. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.400 So that's a little bit about us again. Over the 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.959 next four episodes of x Ray Vision Extras, Aaron, you 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.600 and I will be rewatching and recapping that first season 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.120 of Arcane to refresh our memories, but also to refresh 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.600 the memories of our listeners who maybe haven't watched in 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:18.959 a while. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.000 Yeah, it came out a long time, a long. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.440 Time ago, and this is kind of the norm for 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.880 TV shows these days, right, it's the years and years 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.000 in between seasons. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.200 And it's instead of like twenty episodes a year, you 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.840 get eight episodes over three years. So that's where we 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:31.680 are with our kide. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.800 Right, unless you're the bear somehow pulling out a miracle. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.920 We're also, of course going to be rewatching and recapping 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.480 for folks who are maybe interested in just jumping right 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.680 into season two and don't want to bother watching season one, 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.480 then maybe these next four episodes of Aaron and I 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.480 talking about it are for you. I will say, I 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.400 really need those folks, in particular the weirdos who are 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.360 only going to listen to us and not watch the show, 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.240 to hit us up in discord and explain why it's 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:00.440 unfathomable to me. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:01.920 But I know there's some of you out there. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.240 I could see that for sure. And I will admit 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.320 that there have been times when I've watched a season 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.200 two of a show and I have not finished the 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:12.680 season one within the past recent time. I will not 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.800 say how recent because it may give away what show. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.960 But before we start reviewing ourcane and recapping it, it's 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.120 worth pointing out that the show is based off the 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.000 lore and the characters of the Legal Legends World, a 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.360 game which I have never played. Do you have any 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:28.440 background with the game? 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.000 It would be an overstatement to say I have a 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:32.880 background with a game. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:33.600 The last time I. 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.560 Played it was definitely over ten years ago. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:36.960 Wow. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.080 Okay, But I think that's kind of the magic of 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.320 this show, right. You don't have to know anything about 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:43.480 the game at all, and you can watch this show 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.080 and walk away so satisfied and loving it. But I 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.159 think if you do know some of the lore of 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.200 the game, it doesn't hnce your viewing of this show 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.039 because there are these little easter eggs sprinkle throughout. There's 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.839 fun world building that they pull from the game itself, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.480 and you and I will do our us to try 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.200 and call out whatever easter eggs we find in these 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.360 next couple of episodes. But again, neither of us are 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.680 a huge league of Legends players, so I'm sure we'll 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.600 miss a ton, So it's up to our listeners to 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.080 point those out to us and let us know. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.840 But yeah, if for whatever reason, you've listened this far 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.640 into the episode and you haven't watched the show, and 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.000 you are not panicked by the fact that Jason and 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.440 Rosie have not shown up yet, know that you are 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.000 okay to get into the show, even if you have 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.000 no background or context for League of Legends itself. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.600 All four of you that are still here, you're okay 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.080 to watch Arcade season one. Okay. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.760 So that's a bit of preamble and housekeeping out of 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.239 the way that we wanted to take care. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:38.679 Of up top. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.960 But we have three year old episodes to recap and 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.479 get through today, so let's take a quick breather. But 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.080 coming up right after the break, we are diving into 0:05:46.360 --> 0:06:15.680 episodes one through three of Ourcane. 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.000 And we're back with Arcane Episode one. Welcome to the Playground. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.839 We start off Violet and Powder are walking hand in 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.520 hand across a bridge that's been devastated in battle. There's 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.120 fire everywhere and they look up and through the smoke 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.880 they see this figure who we later learn is Vander, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.760 exhausted dropping his combat gloves, and he sees these girls 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.880 who are terrified. They have looked and they see the 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.240 bodies of their parents there. Vander goes over and carries 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:32.720 them away from the carnage. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:33.560 Boom. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:34.320 Title card. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.920 Incredible, here we are, and not to hit pause right 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.159 off the bat. Here before barely into the show, but 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.840 I just have to say already blown away by the 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.919 art style, blown away by the animation. Having seen the 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.040 trailer and watching this first episode, I remember thinking this 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.479 was another into the. 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:52.599 Spider Verse moment for me. 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.599 Hmm, wow, Like the way I felt watching Spider Verse 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.120 and going I've never seen animation like this before. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.520 This is gorgeous. Is how I felt watching Hurricane. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.760 It does feel elevated. Like there are plenty of incredible 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.600 animated shows out there, this just feels like it has 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.080 a bit of uniqueness to the entire style, and it 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.600 is like someone put I don't know, two hundred percent 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.600 more effort into all the animation. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.880 Yeah, yeah, everything, the lighting choices, the cinematography, the character designs, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.640 everything is so gorgeous. There are frames in the show 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:26.640 that are. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.520 Worthy of being printed out and hung up on a wall. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.040 They are definitely frames that remind me as we go 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.320 through the show, that remind me of like the Avengers 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.800 movies where they would have comic splash pages. It's like, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.520 here are all the Avengers and Age of olschron r, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.680 here are all the Avengers like circling up. There are 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.760 definitely like Team Up comic book cover movies in the 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.120 show design, which is a very cool way of making it. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:47.880 One hundred percent. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.600 I am curious, Aaron, you're a musician, you have a 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:55.240 music background. What do you think of Imagine dragons? God, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.680 Imagine dragons. DNA is all over this show. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.200 It very much is. I will say that again. We 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.880 don't want to pause too quickly. We don't want to 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.000 get negative too quickly. I think an immediate stumble of 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.240 this show is I don't know his name, but the 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.840 Imagine Dragon's lead singer's voice comes through, and I X 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.600 Ray tries not to be negative, and that's one hundred 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.960 percent a great way to do it. I have never 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.920 clicked skip intro as quickly as I do in the show, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.960 and that is you know what, There's just something about 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.679 a modern band being the title card for a show 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.120 that I don't always love, and in particular right here 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.560 I really dislike. It's the way he delivers the lyrics. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.520 It is the lyrics, it's the melody, it's the song itself. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.640 Sure yeah, So, like I said, my favorite artist of 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.480 all time. Can't wait for more Imagined Dragon than season two. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.839 All right, Well, continuing with our summary of this very 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:52.640 first episode, we join Violet Powder and their gang of 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.720 ne'er do wells, these Ruffians as they break into this 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.280 fancy apartment in the upper City. Things quickly go for 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.240 them when they discover this chest of mysterious blue crystals 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.920 and someone starts knocking at the door. Powder Panics accidentally 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:12.199 drops a bunch of the crystals, causing a massive explosion, 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.440 and then a chase ensues. The enforcers are after them, 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:17.520 and the kids are trying to get. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.760 Away, jumping over a bridge as a ship goes underneath it. Yeah, 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.640 very important detail, so good. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.280 I want to pause here again because I just got 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.640 to say I'm a bit of an audio snob as 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.959 an audio producer and podcast person. This is one of 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.560 the best sounding shows that I've watched ever. And I 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.960 don't have the most high end, incredible surround sound system 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.120 at home, but this is still a show that begs 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:47.600 to be heard on whatever nice soundbar, rear speakers, surround 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.280 sound janky system you have at home because it is 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.960 just so good. It's mixed so well, and in scenes 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.959 like this, in this chase scene, in this explosion scene, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.520 you can feel that all around you in the living room. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:00.000 It's so good. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.400 I wrote down that. This is a very visceral chase 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.920 scene because like you, when Milo is running and hits 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.000 the wall, you hear a sound, but when Clagger is 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.040 running it hits the wall, it is a completely different feeling, 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.640 just from listening and the animation. Again, this is like 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.000 going above and beyond to show like these are two 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.040 very different characters. One is very tall and skinny and 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.679 one is this larger character, and they feel like they 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.440 have different weights in this scene. This opening scene is great. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.600 I also love the Violet's doing her jump first across 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.360 the buildings and you see the little cupcakes on the 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.480 patio or the balcony whatever it is, and then someone 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.840 else jumps down. You see them again, someone else jumps down, 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.680 You see me, and then Clagger jumps down and you 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.200 see him jumping over eating the cupcakes. It was just like, yeah, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.040 they set that joke up and they let us know 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.480 it's happening, and then it happens. It eats them. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.360 Yeah, it's a little touches like that, and the way 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.359 each of the characters jump down is part of their characterization, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:52.160 part of their movement. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:53.360 It's all really great stuff. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.160 Yeah, So the crew is running. They successfully escape from 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.800 the Enforesters who are chasing them, but then they're confronted 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.679 by Deckard and his band of thugs and we get 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.439 into a little bloody slow mo fight. And as this 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.560 is happening, they throw the bag with all the loot 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:09.440 to powder and. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.040 She books it. That's right. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:12.839 I want to pause here once again. I feel like 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.160 I'm hitting pause on the TV like every three minutes. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.400 This fight scene so good, and I'm gonna be saying 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.800 that about practically every single fight scene in this entire season. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.920 I think this is another example of how this show 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.920 takes it to the next level because the incredible fight 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.079 choreography is enhanced not only by the amazing like cinematography, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:33.800 but also. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:34.680 By Imagine Dragons. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:39.679 Also by Imagine Dragons, the incredible lyricism of Imagine Dragons. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.560 But I love the choices they made with the camera 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.600 work because throughout a fight scene like this, we see 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.439 so many things happen to the camera it loses focus. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.880 There's like mud that splashes onto the camera lens. At 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.439 one point, the camera gets like knocked around, like when 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.760 somebody gets punched, the camera just like falls to the ground. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.199 It reminds me of like Punks Gate movies that you 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.800 would make us a kid were like, oh shit, like 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.560 I ran my skateboard right into the camera. It reminds 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.880 me of that type of like nineties punk skate movie 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.040 in the skate park, and I think it just adds 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:16.480 another level to an already great choreography. In the fight scene, now, 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.920 as you said, Powder ran off with the bag of 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.160 stolen goods, one of the older kids peels off and 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:25.000 begins chasing her. She tries to get rid of the 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.199 kid with one of her smoke grenates, which she names Mouser, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.360 but it doesn't go off. It doesn't work, so she panics. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.240 She tosses the bag in the river and makes a 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.040 run for it, much to the group's dismay. Everyone is 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:37.160 pissed up Powder. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.560 For getting rid of everything they work so hard. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.200 That's the real thing they worked so hard for. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.200 Back in the under City, we see Vander again. He 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.440 is now the head of this bar, the Last Drop, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.560 and he shows up where there's this other criminal merchant. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.280 Whatever role in business they have a deal is going 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.560 poorly and vandersteps into help them, showing he's a good guy. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.680 He's what we saw in the beginning that stays his attitude. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.080 He's helpful, he's respected in this community. The kids show 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.559 up and Vander goes down to talk to them. He 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.760 realizes that they messed up the job he has heard 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.840 about the explosion. Things get a little heated and Violet 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:17.880 has a heart to heart with him and he tries 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.960 to talk her down because Violet has a lot of 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.080 energy and Vander's trying to tamp that down a little bit. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:24.719 That's right. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:26.800 I found this to be a really touching scene. We 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.839 really see how much Vander cares for these kids. These 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.920 are clearly not his kids. We're all adopted children, probably 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.719 orphaned in whatever battle we saw at the start. And 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:37.840 at the same time, we also see how much vi 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.720 respects Vander because she could keep pushing his buttons, she 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.480 could keep being rebellious, but she does stand down eventually 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.200 and at least for now, listen to what he has 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.320 to say, because it's clear Vander has a past and 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:50.559 he's speaking from experience. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.920 There's definitely a great parent protector role that Vander plays 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.480 with Violet. And similarly that we see Violet playing with 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.559 Powder as she struggles in the beginning, andlet is there 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.680 to help her, and like Milo's you know like, oh, 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.160 we shouldn't have brought her, She's causing all these problems, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.960 and Violet is like, shut up, she's here, she's part 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.160 of this group. We're not leaving her behind. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.000 Totally and actually speaking. In that scene, Powder finds one 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.440 of those blue crystals in her pocket, so not everything 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.520 has been lost from their little job in the Upper City. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.720 She rushes off to tell her sister the good news. Sadly, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.720 as she approaches the door, she overhears Milo and Vi 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.360 talking about how Powder is too young and she's the 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.880 weak link of their group. She can't keep up with us, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.120 she shouldn't be out on jobs like this with us. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.840 VI stands up for her sister, puts Milo in his place. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.720 She says, quote, see this look on my face. It 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.360 will always mean it's time to shut up. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.840 It is one of those moments where it's like a 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.840 TV cliche, I feel like, where someone overhears something that's 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.000 being said about them and they leave before the other 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:50.960 person defends them. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.760 Yes, but yes, it's a bit of a cliche, but 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.840 it certainly causes the beginnings of a rift between the sisters, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.320 even though VI's clearly defending Powder at this point. I 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.080 will say, Milo, not much ground to stand on, my guy. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.560 You fucked up on this job too, couldn't pick that 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.960 lock at the beginning, wasted time stealing useless junk from 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.520 the apartment. Let's slip to DECKERD and his crew that 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.000 y'all got some good loot. Sounds to me like you 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.640 have fucked up and struck out, Milo. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.120 Well, that's why he's blaming someone else. Yeah, that's just Milo. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.040 Vander goes to visit his old friend Benzo, who is 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.840 running a shop that sells goods that have come about 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.880 by potentially questionable means, and they're trying to cover up 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.600 for the kids. And then two enforcers show up and 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:40.040 they start interrogating them, and Benzo's assistant Echo or little 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.200 Man overhears Vander and the head enforcer, Grayson colluding. They 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.040 have been working together. They've got a little deal. Vander 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.200 keeps his people away from top side. They don't make 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.720 trouble on the enforcers stay out of his business down here. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.360 But now she's like, this is a big deal. This 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.520 was an explosion, I think I think. He asks, did 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.640 anyone die, and she says, yes, they blew up, but building. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.280 So she's saying, look, I can't come back empty handed. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.880 I need someone to take back to the council or 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.560 we're going to be in a lot more trouble. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:09.640 That's right now. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:14.000 Back at home, VI is controlling Powder and takes her 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.120 up on the roof. We get this really gorgeous shot 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.720 of the city scape down here in the lower city. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.000 She points out all of the other mistakes that the 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.800 other kids have made in their past, quote, We've all 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.200 had bad days, but we learn and we stick together. 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.920 Such a beautiful line that really struck a chord with me. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.680 Powder then shows her sister the blue crystal that she 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.680 still has, and the two decide to keep. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.280 It secret from vanderfer. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.560 Now definitely a good idea. I'm sure this will not 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.720 pun intended blow up in anyone's face. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.200 Yeah, totally Ugh what a scene. I loved this as 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.840 the book end to this episode. As someone who myself 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.000 is an eldest brother and also very much a parentified 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.479 child to an annoying but lovable little sister. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.040 This scene fucking got me. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.040 Really, I was already so emotional at this scene, and 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.120 obviously we're going to see the relationship between these two 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:07.879 sisters of all over the course of the season. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:09.720 It gets me every time, folks. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:15.240 The episode ends with a mysterious man interrogating Decord, who 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.400 you know, Decord was only supposed to be following the kids, 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.520 wasn't supposed to engage. Decord lies and says, they jumped me, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:25.240 blah blah blah. But this mysterious man, who we later 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.960 find out is Sosco. He is there with his lab 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:32.919 assistant Singed, who was demonstrating this magical grape soda on 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.040 a rat, and the rat hulks out and kills a cat. 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:42.119 This like Doctor Evil, tiny little hairless cat. And it 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.120 sounds like Decord has been volunteered to be the first 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.960 human trial of grape soda number nine. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.560 Yikes. I think I've had this grape soda from seven 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:51.520 to eleven before. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.720 You know, with your food choices. I feel like this 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:58.560 that checks out good? All right, after the break, we're 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.720 going to get into episodes two and three of Arcane. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:17.200 We'll see you soon, all right, folks, we are back 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.480 dive for episode two of Arcane, titled Some Mysteries Are 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:21.880 Better Left Unsolved. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.679 We open on a completely new setting. We have Jace 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.080 and Caitlin on the other side of the door that 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.919 Vibe blocked during their robbery, and Jace is attempting to 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:35.159 open the door and he's thrown hurdled backwards from the explosion, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.520 and in the chaos, he has a flashback. We flash 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.520 back to his childhood in upstate Minnesota, which I can 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.919 recognize because that's where I went to college. So in Minnesota, 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.480 it is freezing. There is a blizzard, and he's with 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.960 his mom and she is beginning to get frostbite on 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.000 her hand. Jace calls out for help. She collapses, and 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.520 then a mysterious cloaked figure arives and uses a very 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.800 impressive looking like hand motion, very elaborate scroll of town 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.720 portal and teleports them to a warm and sunny locale. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.080 And he used this small mysterious rock and he gives 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.159 the rock to Jace and disappears. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:11.960 Wow. 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.560 Loved this flashback. I think it explains a lot about 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.000 Chase the character. It also reveals something that infuriates me. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.800 Jase was a cute little kid and now we see 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.080 him as an adult and he's an absolute hunk, and 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:25.760 we know he's smart and charismatic. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:27.800 Aaron, some folks just have it all. 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.040 I disagree, and we'll get into that later. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:35.480 Oh all right, So back in the present, Grayson and 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.200 a guy with a cane who we will eventually learn 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.960 is Victor are searching the wreckage of Jase's apartment and 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.560 they arrest him while the quote unquote council decides his fate. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.320 Always a good sign when a council gets involved. Jace 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.600 is visited in his holding cell by Heimerdinger, who he 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.200 has history with through the academy, and Jase explains his 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.360 research to heimer Dinger, who warns Jase not to mention 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.800 anything about magic to the council. Okay, just say you're sorry, 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.439 say you won't do it again, and they'll let you 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.639 off with a slap on the wrist. Don't say the 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:10.920 M word around the council. 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.000 Seems pretty easy, the cut and dry way to get 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.679 out of this. We cut back to the under city. 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.320 Violet in the gang are hiding out in this tricked 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:23.120 out arcade they've got. There's a boxing machine, Powder's rigged 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.199 up this shooting gallery where she completely hands Milo his 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:31.720 ass Outside, though, enforcers are questioning citizens and they're looking 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.840 for the kids, and then they chase after the kids 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:36.880 and they flee up a fire escape. Thanks to little 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.520 Man and then back at the last drop. People are 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.040 getting restless and they're doubting vanders leadership. They're saying, like 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.520 the enforcers are here, they're supposed to stay out of 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:47.480 our business. We got to teach them a lesson. And 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.720 while this is all happening and people are losing faith 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.359 in Vander, Echo tells Violet about Vanders deal with Grayson. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:55.160 Ugh, that's got it hurt. 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.000 That's got to be like finding out the tooth fairy 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.200 isn't real, right, all right? Jumping back to pilta Over, 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:05.040 the council members arrive for Jas's trial. Mel Madara, who 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:10.920 we saw plotting earlier, brings a children's toy for counselor hospital, which, 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:12.480 of course is better than a half eaten bag of 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:13.520 nuts that he's allergic to. 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:14.400 So good on her. 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:16.160 Yep, yep, wait to do your research. 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:21.480 To your research now. The trial officially begins, and Jace 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:23.520 is pretty cooperative. 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:27.240 He's doing everything Heimerdinger told, saying all the right things, 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:32.440 until the council questions his skills as an academic, as 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.639 a scientist, as somebody who could discover something new for 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:38.640 this city. And this roused him up enough that he 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.840 says the M word, he drops the M word. This 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.920 becomes very problematic, but Heimerdinger jumps in and is able 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.359 to convince the Council to go easy on Jase. Just 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.440 expel him from the academy, get rid of all of. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:53.240 His research and his tools. 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.560 Don't banish him from Piltover all together. 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:55.879 Please. 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.359 Yeah, and it's we get a little interesting backstory here 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:05.240 as well as exposition wise with we learn from the 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:09.000 I don't know, the android looking cyborg creature with the 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:13.520 neck that magic has destroyed his people. There's clearly an 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.760 anti magic sentiment here, and we get a little bit 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.000 more of this as the episode goes, you know, with 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:23.280 some more fantastical creatures. I really like heimer Dinger's design, 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.919 and I really like the variety and the diversity we 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.800 see on the Council with like the clock ticking necklace 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.720 is one of my favorite costumes in the show so far. 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:35.800 But I am excited for more of that too, and 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:37.800 there will be more of that. But yeah, I like. 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:39.960 One of my favorite parts about the Council is there 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:44.840 are multiple non human creatures or characters. I have no 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.600 idea what the robot thing is, but that we may 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:48.200 learn later. 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:50.720 Yeah, a little fun fact about Himerdinger. I did look 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:53.359 up some more about him, oh, very quickly. He is 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:57.159 a Yordel, yeah, of course, which is a race of 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:00.439 small beings that live in Bandal City, which is a 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:02.800 region that's not actually in room Terra, which is like 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.560 this oh universe that we're existing in now, but is 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.760 actually in a pocket dimension that has many entrances to 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:09.320 Rune Tarra. 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:10.720 So he's from another dimension. 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.280 I am a little shocked that all these non human 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:16.840 creatures are worried about magic, considering you think that like 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:21.080 the involvement with of magic, with their involvement in this city. See, 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:22.919 I don't know. I have no idea. They hate magic. 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:23.720 That's all that I know. 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:29.439 That's true now, Silko and singed in their underwater villain 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:33.120 Lair convinced Deckerd to take a shot of the magic 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:38.000 rape soda vile number ten presumably, and they tell him, look, quote, 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:40.840 there's a monster inside all of us. It's time to 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:43.520 let the monster out, which is what I say to 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:44.280 myself in the mirror. 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:49.359 Yeah, psaking yourself up for recordings. The enforcers return to 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:52.240 the Last Drop looking for the kids, and Vander warns 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:55.040 them with this nice little you know, panic button that 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:59.119 Powder's designed, and they hide and narrowly avoid getting caught. Powder, 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:02.000 of course, almost Moos falls as the Enforcter is down 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.119 there again some great camera work where like the camera 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:07.359 is underneath the table and you think that that's the 0:24:07.480 --> 0:24:09.240 view of one of the kids, and then it turns 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:11.439 out it's not and the kids are actually up hiding 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.840 in the rafters. Lots of rafters in this show. You'd 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.120 think this was like a dark soul's level. We will 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.200 get back to more things with rafters. Violet wants to 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:22.800 fight back. Vander brings her up to the bridge where 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:25.520 we saw in the opening of episode one, and he's like, 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:29.320 look at this is the last battle we had. I 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:32.159 led the charge and your parents were part of that 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:36.640 group and we lost them, and like war is horrible. 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:39.800 You don't want this, Yeah, And I think the most 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:41.639 telling part of this is he says, who are you 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:42.760 willing to lose in this war? 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:43.439 Milo? 0:24:44.040 --> 0:24:48.040 And Via doesn't react Clagger, She doesn't react Powder, and 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:50.520 she instantly looks over, you know, she looks away. She 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:52.840 can't bear the thought of losing powder at a war. 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:55.679 And that's the thing that maybe stays her hand. I 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:59.440 love this push and pull between Vander and Violet. He's 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:02.879 obviously more experienced, he's somewhat jaded, clearly based on his 0:25:02.960 --> 0:25:06.600 past experiences. VI, on the other hand, as this like idealist, 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:10.000 hot headed young person who thinks they can fight their 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:11.240 way out of every situation. 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:13.120 And what's cool. 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:17.320 And I think what makes this emotional drama between these 0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:21.600 characters so interesting is that neither is necessarily entirely wrong 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:23.400 correct And you. 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:24.800 Could argue either side of it. 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:27.520 You could say Vander is taking the more level headed 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:30.480 approach that's keeping more people alive at the moment. You 0:25:30.480 --> 0:25:33.280 could take VIA's side of things and say, look, things 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:36.119 won't get better until we fight, and that's going to 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:37.400 require some sacrifice. 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.160 I actually think they've done it. They do a lot 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:43.920 of flipping back and forth between Piltover and the under City, Yeah, 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:45.480 which we can talk about more with three. I think 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:47.480 it becomes a lot more apparent in episode three, but 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:50.200 I think they have they're trying to toe the line 0:25:50.240 --> 0:25:53.720 between like we don't want you to hate Piltover, but 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:56.720 we want you to think the under City hates them, 0:25:56.760 --> 0:26:00.680 and that that's holding them down because other than the which, 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:02.840 let's be honest, are cops and are villains of every 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:05.680 story anyways, Like there's no part of me that's like, hey, 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:10.040 Heimerdinger hates the under City. Like so there's this interesting 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:12.880 back and forth where like I kind of get where 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:16.560 Vander's coming from, because, like you know, their status of 0:26:16.600 --> 0:26:19.240 living is clearly not great in the under City. Anytime 0:26:19.280 --> 0:26:21.320 you live in something called the under City that you 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:24.040 have to get to by like parcouring your way down 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:28.639 the sewers, probably not the best place to live. But 0:26:28.880 --> 0:26:32.120 I haven't seen anything other than the Enforcers through these 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:35.959 two episodes where I'm like, yeah, we're against Tiltover. Like 0:26:36.520 --> 0:26:39.639 I understand Violet doesn't love her a lot in life, 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:42.880 and it is there's a lot that's going wrong down there. 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:46.800 And again we have to be reminded this is from war. 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:49.760 They went to war and they lost, so they're clearly 0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:52.479 like there's a victor. History is written by the victors, 0:26:52.480 --> 0:26:55.919 and it is Piltover. Yes, but maybe I just like 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:59.280 talked myself out of that thought because yeah, they lost 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:02.800 the war. But so far, like the idea of the 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:06.200 Enforcer staying out of their stuff that Vander has set 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:09.640 up is kind of a nice yeah band aid. Yeah. 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:11.879 No, I think what you're getting at is, like, no 0:27:11.920 --> 0:27:16.240 one hears overtly the bad guy. I mean, Silko obviously 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:18.680 is the bad guy, but even Silko will see in 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:21.320 the next episode, has reasons for what he is doing, 0:27:21.400 --> 0:27:25.040 and you can really empathize with those reasons. And you're 0:27:25.040 --> 0:27:28.600 absolutely correct that nobody in Piltover makes me go, oh, yeah, 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:31.600 I'd want to go to war against this guy in particular, 0:27:31.680 --> 0:27:33.800 and in fact, I'm out here rooting for Jace to 0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:36.719 win and get his magic off the ground. Yeah. And 0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:38.359 I think that is the magic of the show, Like 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:40.280 we're rooting for both sides as the viewer, and we 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:42.679 empathize with all sides as the viewer, and you can 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:45.879 understand where everyone's coming from and where the drama and 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:49.960 the emotional intensity comes from is the disagreements between parties. Yeah, 0:27:50.000 --> 0:27:53.080 and no party from their point of view is necessarily wrong. 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:55.520 They're all justified in what they're doing as they see it, 0:27:56.000 --> 0:27:56.640 which makes. 0:27:56.440 --> 0:27:57.320 For a really interesting show. 0:27:57.400 --> 0:27:57.680 Agreed. 0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:02.160 So back to our summ reach, Ja finds himself back 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:03.359 at his apartment. 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:04.880 He is distraught. 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:07.359 He's about to jump off the ledge when he is 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:12.000 stopped by Victor, who arrives with some of Jase's notes 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:15.960 and arrives with a proposition, Jace, what if we work together? 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:19.719 Cut to a message going up our Paddington mail tubes. 0:28:20.240 --> 0:28:24.040 Grayson receives her mail, and then we cut to Vander 0:28:24.119 --> 0:28:26.879 sitting at the last drop with powder and she's very sad, 0:28:26.920 --> 0:28:29.399 and Vander ports are a drink of I assume some 0:28:29.600 --> 0:28:33.439 non alcoholic beverage. And then we cut to Violet sitting alone. 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:36.200 She's broken into Benzo's shop and she's waiting to turn 0:28:36.200 --> 0:28:40.280 herself into the enforcers, and you hear the marching of footsteps, 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:41.840 and we cut to the end of the episode. 0:28:41.840 --> 0:28:44.520 Oh God, what an eldest sibling thing to do? Love it? 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:45.840 I volunteer is tribute? 0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:46.840 All right? 0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:50.320 Let's roll right into episode three. This one is titled 0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:54.000 The Base Violence Necessary for Change. The episode opens on 0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:58.000 a flashback of young Silko being drowned and fighting for 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:01.560 his life against some unknown assailant. Of course, later in 0:29:01.600 --> 0:29:03.760 the episode, we will learn that this assailant was none 0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:04.760 other than Vander. 0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:08.720 Speaking of Vander, turns out it was not the Enforcers 0:29:08.720 --> 0:29:11.360 coming to get Violet, it was Vander and Benze. They're 0:29:11.400 --> 0:29:15.320 here to prevent Violet from turning herself in, and they 0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:18.440 lock her in a storage cabinet or something that locks 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:21.280 from the outside. And then Grayson, Marcus and a bunch 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:24.480 of other enforcers show up, and Grayson tells Vander she 0:29:24.600 --> 0:29:27.440 can't take him because if she takes He's basically saying, 0:29:27.840 --> 0:29:30.080 I'm turning myself in, I will be the pound of 0:29:30.120 --> 0:29:33.560 flesh that calms this conflict. And she's saying, I can't 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:36.720 take you because without you, this whole thing falls apart, 0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:40.400 this old shady alliance we have, like who knows what's 0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:42.360 going to happen down here? And then suddenly we hear 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:45.480 screaming outside. Violet watches from the window in this little 0:29:45.520 --> 0:29:51.560 closet storage room and we see blood splatter against the window. 0:29:51.680 --> 0:29:56.320 Beautiful, beautiful and horrifying. Yes, yes, the camera pans outside. 0:29:56.360 --> 0:30:01.040 We see a few dead enforcers, including Grayson. Rip Silko 0:30:01.600 --> 0:30:04.880 walks up out of the shadows, and Benzo, who clearly 0:30:04.960 --> 0:30:06.400 recognizes him, though clearly have some. 0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:07.000 Sort of cast. 0:30:07.560 --> 0:30:12.160 Benzo rushes towards him, but is absolutely decked by our 0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:16.280 guy deckerd in hulk mode. Clearly the grape Soda worked 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:22.040 and kills Benzo right in front of everybody. Marcus is 0:30:22.080 --> 0:30:24.880 in shock. He says a thing out loud that he 0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:27.880 shouldn't have said. This wasn't the deal, Silko, what are 0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:28.320 you doing? 0:30:29.120 --> 0:30:31.960 And Silko's response is cold, deal's changed. 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:35.680 A really again, here we are with the sound and 0:30:35.720 --> 0:30:39.720 the visceralness of the show. Yeah, and we're getting sneaking 0:30:39.800 --> 0:30:42.920 shots of a decord in hulk mode, but just like 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:45.560 a really well set up scene of danger. 0:30:45.800 --> 0:30:48.560 Oh yeah, definitely. I mean it's horrifying stuff. Yeah, you 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:51.040 can put yourself in violet shoes looking out that window. 0:30:51.240 --> 0:30:55.280 And it's especially like I love how Benzo recognizing Soco 0:30:55.880 --> 0:30:58.000 kind of puts you at ease, like, oh, these this 0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:01.760 is like they oh and then no, never mind this totally. 0:31:02.040 --> 0:31:04.680 We cut back to Piltover. Jason Victor are hard at 0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:07.360 work and they think they've found a formula to stabilize 0:31:07.360 --> 0:31:10.120 the hex crystals, the blue gems that they've been working on, 0:31:10.280 --> 0:31:13.160 but they are going to need some of his equipment 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:14.680 from Heimerdinger's lab. 0:31:14.560 --> 0:31:17.680 To test it. Mmmm. This is giving Upenheimer. MM. 0:31:19.760 --> 0:31:22.480 I do love this storyline though, this Jason Victor teaming 0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:26.120 up to figure out the magic formula. I love that 0:31:26.200 --> 0:31:29.640 this is another tension in this story, right, this idea 0:31:29.680 --> 0:31:33.280 of science first progress just because you can, should you? Heimerdinger, 0:31:33.320 --> 0:31:36.400 of course, is much more cautious. Yes, really echoes of Vander. 0:31:36.440 --> 0:31:38.800 There on the flip side, we have Jason Victor who 0:31:38.840 --> 0:31:42.160 are very much more hot headed, are focused on making 0:31:42.240 --> 0:31:46.160 progress at all costs, and aren't afraid to break a 0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:48.360 couple of eggs or cause a couple of explosions along 0:31:48.400 --> 0:31:48.680 the way. 0:31:48.880 --> 0:31:52.120 Yeah, we have these two fatherly figures, in Vander's case 0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:55.480 overtly a father figure, who are trying to tell the 0:31:55.480 --> 0:31:59.040 young people like, please be careful, you know, this is 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:01.320 not something we need to rush into. And then of 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:03.200 course the kids are rushing into it. 0:32:03.360 --> 0:32:05.200 Yeah, and again nobody's wrong here. 0:32:05.240 --> 0:32:05.560 Correct. 0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:07.560 Either side could be argued, And I love that the 0:32:07.600 --> 0:32:11.240 show isn't shying away from tackling these big ideas in 0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:14.880 a way that is mature and nuanced and could lead 0:32:14.920 --> 0:32:16.480 you to the fall on any side of that argument, 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:17.520 depending on who you are. 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:21.080 Vander wakes up in a cannery where Soko has been 0:32:21.160 --> 0:32:24.080 mass producing the shimmer. I realize we've just been calling 0:32:24.080 --> 0:32:26.120 it a grape soda. This whole time it's called Shimmer. 0:32:26.760 --> 0:32:29.120 Silko reveals the reason he's doing all this is he 0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:33.440 wants to intimidate Piltover with his shimmer infused soldiers and 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:38.040 wants them to fear him. And Silko's trying to recruit 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:41.080 Vander because again we're learning more about their backstory. Vander 0:32:41.080 --> 0:32:43.720 and Soko have not always been enemies. They used to 0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:45.920 be partners, and he wants him to fight with him. 0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:48.160 Oh, it's beautiful stuff. 0:32:48.240 --> 0:32:50.840 And Silko says, you'd die for a cause, but you 0:32:50.880 --> 0:32:51.960 won't fight for one. 0:32:52.920 --> 0:32:53.960 That gave me chills. 0:32:54.360 --> 0:32:56.200 What a line, And that was the line where I 0:32:56.240 --> 0:32:58.840 was like my own Silko side. 0:32:59.320 --> 0:33:02.720 They're definitely a lot of really good one liners. Is 0:33:02.760 --> 0:33:06.680 the wrong phrase because it's not like, it's not like quips, Yeah, 0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:11.480 but it is really good quotes to summarize character's emotions. 0:33:11.520 --> 0:33:15.080 Absolutely, and it sounds like something that Violet would say 0:33:15.080 --> 0:33:17.400 to Vander and probably has a to Vander, why don't 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:21.880 we fight more? It's really lovely characterization. And I loved 0:33:22.200 --> 0:33:25.400 this episode in particular sort of being underpinned by that 0:33:25.520 --> 0:33:29.040 flashback where we learn more about Silko and Vander's relationship 0:33:29.320 --> 0:33:32.400 and that clearly traumatic drowning scene that has come to 0:33:32.480 --> 0:33:36.160 define Silko's life in a way that we see the 0:33:36.160 --> 0:33:39.840 fallout for to this day. Now, Victor and Jace back 0:33:39.840 --> 0:33:43.240 in piltovert sneak into Heimerdinger's lab, or they try to 0:33:43.240 --> 0:33:46.200 sneak into heimer Dinger's lab and they're caught by Mel 0:33:46.720 --> 0:33:50.760 in the hallway. Mel agrees to not turn them in, 0:33:51.680 --> 0:33:53.400 but they have one night to prove that they can 0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:54.480 make this damn thing work. 0:33:54.680 --> 0:33:57.600 And the reason they're caught is because this hallway has 0:33:57.640 --> 0:34:01.000 no lights whatsoever. We are in and they we're in 0:34:01.040 --> 0:34:03.880 the city that won the war, and is the technological 0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:09.280 advanced of the two no lights. They're carrying like little flashlights, 0:34:09.600 --> 0:34:11.560 and she's standing there and catches them. 0:34:11.760 --> 0:34:12.360 Incredible. 0:34:12.440 --> 0:34:12.960 Yeah, and then my. 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:15.680 Question is yeah, and look, I'm not going to question 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:17.680 Mail all that much because she's hot and she gets 0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:19.640 the pass, But what is. 0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:22.200 She doing in this completely pitch black dark hallway at 0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:22.680 this hour? 0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:26.239 I mean, she's looking for the lights. I assume I'm 0:34:26.239 --> 0:34:29.200 going around. Yeah, she just happened to be there at 0:34:29.239 --> 0:34:34.520 the right time, and she's like, oh hello. Violet returns 0:34:34.520 --> 0:34:37.880 to the last drop to collect her things. She's distraught, 0:34:38.120 --> 0:34:41.720 she's going to rescue Vander and she collects the guys 0:34:42.080 --> 0:34:44.759 Milo and Clagger. She's like, come on, we're going, and 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:47.719 Powder wants to come. She's pulling her bombs together and 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:49.879 Violet's like, no, you got to stay home for this one. 0:34:50.239 --> 0:34:52.439 And she's learned something from Vander and she's like, you're 0:34:53.000 --> 0:34:56.000 the only thing I have left. You have to go here. 0:34:56.080 --> 0:34:58.120 You can't go, you have to stay. She gives her 0:34:58.120 --> 0:35:01.560 this flare and says, use this shine it. I will 0:35:01.560 --> 0:35:04.360 come find you. I do want to talk a little 0:35:04.360 --> 0:35:08.040 bit about We've talked about this flashback with Soko and Vander. 0:35:08.200 --> 0:35:08.399 Yep. 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:10.920 I love that. I think that was an incredible storytelling 0:35:10.920 --> 0:35:13.400 device in the beginning. I love like we have the 0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:17.440 Kendrick Lamar swimming pools ask a visual. I in this 0:35:17.520 --> 0:35:20.319 episode in particular, was getting a little sick of the 0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:23.200 constant back and forth. Cut to Violet three minutes, cut 0:35:23.200 --> 0:35:25.960 to Jason's story four minutes, cut to Violet for five minutes, 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:28.879 cut to Jace for three minutes, And I think this 0:35:28.960 --> 0:35:33.720 is the episode where I'm losing it with Jay's storyline. Yeah, 0:35:33.800 --> 0:35:38.000 I'm just like, we have this underground city like gang 0:35:38.120 --> 0:35:41.719 warfare thing going on, and Jason Victor still have not 0:35:41.800 --> 0:35:44.600 figured out how to turn the lights on, and that 0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:47.400 has impacted how I have watched the rest of the show. 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:51.600 I love Violet and I love this storyline. Oh yeah, 0:35:51.600 --> 0:35:53.560 And I just think like there are a couple times 0:35:53.560 --> 0:35:56.440 they do these flashbacks when I'm just like, come on, 0:35:57.160 --> 0:36:00.000 just let this one story breathe a little bit more 0:36:00.120 --> 0:36:02.400 before you cut out of it. But yeah, I understand 0:36:02.400 --> 0:36:05.600 that they're trying to get us into both narratives. But 0:36:05.719 --> 0:36:07.960 one of the things I think, like Episode one, I 0:36:08.000 --> 0:36:11.480 think was very strong because it's focused on one group 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:13.560 and it's a ton of people in that one group. 0:36:13.600 --> 0:36:16.520 We introduced a bunch of people, But I think the 0:36:16.600 --> 0:36:20.120 show right now is having a hard time making me 0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:24.600 care about Jace because the only connection is that they 0:36:24.719 --> 0:36:27.640 robbed him, Like this will not be the case later on. 0:36:28.000 --> 0:36:30.440 I just think there's a little bit in these episodes 0:36:30.440 --> 0:36:33.440 two and three where I was like, I love violet 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:36.719 storyline a lot more than Jason's, and no amount of 0:36:36.760 --> 0:36:39.560 snow and frostbite is going to change that. So that 0:36:39.760 --> 0:36:41.200 was just how I felt as we're getting to the 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:42.120 end of Act one. 0:36:42.160 --> 0:36:45.640 And I think that's a totally valid criticism. I agree 0:36:45.760 --> 0:36:49.880 Jason Victor's story slow burn here in these first three episodes, 0:36:50.239 --> 0:36:53.560 we're still building up to the hex Tech basically, and 0:36:54.040 --> 0:36:56.600 Violet and Powder storyline has just been go, go, go, 0:36:56.600 --> 0:36:58.319 go go from the minute we saw them. How many 0:36:58.320 --> 0:37:02.520 fights have they already been in three episodes? And Jase's 0:37:02.560 --> 0:37:05.640 only conflict so far, obviously very devastating for him was 0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:09.160 the council. Yeah, it was the council trial and getting 0:37:09.239 --> 0:37:11.799 kicked out of the academy, you know, and now he 0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:13.640 just has too much free time on his hands. Yes, 0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:17.240 so I totally understand that criticism, and I don't disagree. 0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:19.560 It's certainly a bit slower if I were to put 0:37:19.600 --> 0:37:24.120 myself into the writers and editors and show creators shoes. 0:37:23.880 --> 0:37:24.359 A little bit. 0:37:25.040 --> 0:37:27.120 I think their intention of cutting back and forth was 0:37:27.200 --> 0:37:29.840 maybe to try and hype up the Jase stuff a 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:33.600 bit more, to intercut it with the Violet stuff that 0:37:33.719 --> 0:37:36.440 is so good, so intense, so dangerous. If we had 0:37:36.440 --> 0:37:40.520 a very long, extended scene of Jason Victor doing calculations 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:45.799 on a on a chalkboard, I would, yeah, exactly, with 0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:49.680 no interruptions. Oppenheimer certainly made that interesting. It would have 0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:52.160 been tough in this show, I think. So I do 0:37:52.239 --> 0:37:55.240 want to hand it to them for trying to increase 0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:57.600 the tension of Jace's storyline, because it is a bit 0:37:57.640 --> 0:37:58.319 slow at this moment. 0:37:58.320 --> 0:38:00.240 I do think, you know, like you were saying, you 0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:02.800 you really like Jason his storyline, and that is to 0:38:02.880 --> 0:38:06.840 do through those first three episodes. I it gets better, 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:09.919 of course, but through those first three I was kind 0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:12.839 of like, I know the parts of this I want 0:38:12.840 --> 0:38:14.960 to be watching, certainly. 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:19.960 Okay, Back to our recap, Powder in tears devastated, Sobbing 0:38:20.480 --> 0:38:23.239 accidentally drops the hex crystals that she still has on 0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:26.560 the ground and she sees them react violently and puts 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:29.680 two and two together. She realizes these crystals are what 0:38:29.880 --> 0:38:32.840 caused the explosion earlier during the job, and so she 0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:33.759 knows that she can help. 0:38:33.800 --> 0:38:37.640 Now. Cut back to Jason's storyline. Back to Heimerginger's lab, 0:38:38.160 --> 0:38:41.000 Jason Victor are also experimenting with the crystals. I'll be 0:38:41.080 --> 0:38:44.239 it in a slightly more structured way, but they of 0:38:44.239 --> 0:38:48.279 course cause an explosion and people on the street see it. 0:38:48.600 --> 0:38:49.080 That's right. 0:38:49.680 --> 0:38:53.000 Cut back to Violet, Milo and Clagger, who sneak into 0:38:53.000 --> 0:38:56.319 the cannery to say Vander they very quickly realize, oh, 0:38:56.360 --> 0:38:57.240 it was too easy. 0:38:57.040 --> 0:38:58.400 Getting in here. It's a trap. 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:01.000 Soilko and his goons are waiting for them, and so 0:39:01.120 --> 0:39:04.719 Violet puts on those power gloves and prepares to fight them. 0:39:05.080 --> 0:39:08.440 To distract the goons while Milo tries to free Vander, 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:12.560 and while Clagger looks for an alternate exit, Powder arrives 0:39:12.920 --> 0:39:16.200 with her hex crystal infused bombs and is scaling the 0:39:16.239 --> 0:39:19.520 wall outside. It's a really tense scene. There's this really 0:39:19.520 --> 0:39:22.400 subtle tick tick tick that's not quite a clock, but 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:24.879 it's in the sound design, and it's so good because 0:39:24.920 --> 0:39:26.160 you're like sweating the whole time. 0:39:26.200 --> 0:39:28.080 Thank you, imagine dragons, Thank you. 0:39:28.040 --> 0:39:29.320 So much, Imagine dragons. 0:39:30.200 --> 0:39:34.600 Powder sees Violet on the catwalk fighting silko soldiers and 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:35.959 knows now's her moment to help. 0:39:36.239 --> 0:39:39.800 So Violet is taking out most of these low level googles. 0:39:39.960 --> 0:39:42.120 A good job, yeah, doing an incredible job. There's some 0:39:42.160 --> 0:39:46.040 great fight choreography here again, and then Silko gives Deckard 0:39:46.080 --> 0:39:49.759 some more shimmer and he completely overpowers her. She has 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:52.080 another one of these comic books like jumping in the 0:39:52.120 --> 0:39:55.840 air and doesn't matter, so she crawls back to the 0:39:55.920 --> 0:39:58.680 room where Vander is and she closes the door and 0:39:58.880 --> 0:40:00.480 locks it, which I guess is an enough to keep 0:40:00.520 --> 0:40:01.600 him out for a little bit. 0:40:01.880 --> 0:40:05.160 That's right, Such a good fight scene again, great camera work, 0:40:05.480 --> 0:40:08.239 visceral punches, you could feel all of the hits that 0:40:08.320 --> 0:40:11.720 Violet's taking and the goons are taking. And then yeah, 0:40:11.920 --> 0:40:14.400 that power jump iconic so cool. 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:16.479 I loved it. Wish it would have worked better. 0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:19.960 I also like we see Violet earlier using the boxing 0:40:20.320 --> 0:40:23.480 dummy that has like the painted face and everything right, 0:40:23.640 --> 0:40:26.640 and we it's very cool. In this fight as well 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:29.000 as in later episodes, we really get a sense that 0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:33.600 Violet's fighting style is a boxing fighting style. She is 0:40:33.800 --> 0:40:37.160 like a bare knuckle brawler, except she's not bare knuckles. 0:40:37.239 --> 0:40:40.840 She's got the most elaborate power gloves that we've seen 0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:41.960 so far. 0:40:42.920 --> 0:40:45.720 Okay, back to Piltover, because we can't forget about Jason's 0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:50.040 Victor are boys, Heimerdinger and some enforcers break down the door. 0:40:50.520 --> 0:40:55.040 Just as Jas and Victor succeed in their experimentation. The 0:40:55.120 --> 0:40:59.360 light is illuminated in blue and everything is floating. Jace 0:40:59.520 --> 0:41:01.920 and Victor sure are up there, cheering and happy that 0:41:01.920 --> 0:41:05.440 they've solved it. The era of magic has begun to 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:09.799 clear his mel and Jays quickly cuts in the era 0:41:09.840 --> 0:41:15.200 of hextech. And look, I just gotta say, Chase, smart guy, 0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:19.000 good looking, just had an incredible breakthrough, But his real 0:41:19.080 --> 0:41:21.640 genius is knowing the power of good branding. 0:41:21.840 --> 0:41:24.360 Yeah, no one is gonna in a city that hates magic. 0:41:24.440 --> 0:41:27.640 You're not gonna get very far, saying, ladies and gentlemen, 0:41:27.719 --> 0:41:30.239 it's the era of magic. No, you need something different. 0:41:30.040 --> 0:41:32.040 Yeah, good branding, hex tech all right. 0:41:32.080 --> 0:41:35.279 Back to the fight. Powder throws her bomb infused with 0:41:35.440 --> 0:41:38.799 hex crystals at DECKERD and it goes off in absolutely 0:41:39.560 --> 0:41:43.719 horrifying fashion. So you have the circus monkey banging at 0:41:43.800 --> 0:41:46.600 symbols and every bang sends out a new shock wave. 0:41:47.360 --> 0:41:50.600 Powder is thrown clear off the wall that she's been 0:41:50.920 --> 0:41:55.560 clinging to. Milo and Clagger are killed in the aftermath 0:41:55.600 --> 0:41:59.360 of shocks, like a pole goes through Milo's shoulder. Clagger 0:41:59.440 --> 0:42:03.680 is crushed, and Vander and Violet are both trapped underneath rubble. Deckard, 0:42:03.760 --> 0:42:06.520 of course, is completely still alive and kicking. The bomb 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:08.879 did not seem to hit him at all, even though 0:42:08.920 --> 0:42:11.560 it was right next to him, which is probably how 0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:14.319 any of my experience playing League of Legends would go 0:42:14.880 --> 0:42:18.200 missing the target entirely. In order to protect Violet, Vander 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:22.040 grabs makeshift brass knuckles, not his power gloves, just like 0:42:22.640 --> 0:42:24.880 I don't know what they are. They're like two pieces 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:27.640 of metal. And he tries going toe to toe with Deckerd, 0:42:27.880 --> 0:42:31.839 and then Soko arrives and stabs Vander in the back 0:42:31.960 --> 0:42:35.960 literally and throws him off the bridge. Vander lands in 0:42:36.000 --> 0:42:38.080 a pile of shimmer vials because this is where they 0:42:38.080 --> 0:42:41.319 are producing all the shimmer, and the shimmer powers him up, 0:42:41.360 --> 0:42:43.640 and he hulks out and comes up and beats Deckerd 0:42:43.880 --> 0:42:46.880 and then he looks He's got Silko's fleeing to one 0:42:46.960 --> 0:42:50.280 direction and Violet is underneath rubble in the other direction. 0:42:50.719 --> 0:42:53.120 The place is falling. We have a real Sophie's choice, 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:57.440 and Vander, even in this monstrous, hulked out form, saves. 0:42:57.200 --> 0:43:01.480 Violet right Jesus his daughter, and then he dies. This 0:43:01.640 --> 0:43:02.680 is the end of Vander. 0:43:02.760 --> 0:43:08.200 His last act in this mortal coil was to save Violet. 0:43:08.680 --> 0:43:10.839 And he turns to her and he says, take care 0:43:10.840 --> 0:43:15.080 of your sister, take care of power. Heartbreaking stuff. Now, 0:43:15.360 --> 0:43:18.959 Powder herself shows up, excited at first that her bomb 0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:22.960 worked and went off and presumably saved everyone, but quickly 0:43:23.040 --> 0:43:27.080 learns the horrifying truth. Violet, of course, is distraught. She's 0:43:27.160 --> 0:43:29.840 just lost her father figure, she's lost all her closest friends, 0:43:29.840 --> 0:43:31.120 and it's because of her. 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:33.720 Brat little sister, who she told us stay home. 0:43:34.960 --> 0:43:37.719 They get into a heated argument. Violet says some things 0:43:37.719 --> 0:43:39.920 that she will come to regret and probably shouldn't have 0:43:39.960 --> 0:43:42.279 said in this moment, but you can't fault her. 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:43.759 It's emotionally heat. 0:43:43.840 --> 0:43:46.560 Not only does she say some things, she slaps her 0:43:46.719 --> 0:43:47.800 slaps Powder. 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:52.960 It's heartbreaking stuff to see this. Violet walks off on 0:43:52.960 --> 0:43:56.080 her own, leaving Powder there sobbing in exit next to 0:43:56.120 --> 0:43:57.279 the body of Vander. 0:43:57.640 --> 0:44:00.920 Soko so alive, still looking for the girls, and he 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:03.399 comes into the alleyway and he sees Powder and he 0:44:03.600 --> 0:44:07.440 pulls out a knife. He's ready, and Violet, who has 0:44:07.480 --> 0:44:12.360 been escaping, turns around, sees Silko there sees Powder, unaware 0:44:12.400 --> 0:44:15.239 that he's there, and she's gonna go save her. But 0:44:15.360 --> 0:44:18.360 then Marcus shows up and you know, I forget what 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:23.240 it's called. Put yeah the chloroform over her mouth. Silko 0:44:23.360 --> 0:44:26.920 shows up Powder, having just lost her entire family jumps 0:44:26.920 --> 0:44:29.840 into his arms and oh. 0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:33.320 Yeah, horrifying stuff. And you know what's beautiful is like 0:44:33.360 --> 0:44:38.080 how thematically resonant this is. Silko knows better than anyone 0:44:38.120 --> 0:44:39.759 what it's like to be betrayed. It's the thing that 0:44:39.880 --> 0:44:43.239 is defined him. This whole episode, we've watched flashbacks of 0:44:43.320 --> 0:44:47.000 him being drowned by his brother, by his brother in arms, Vander, 0:44:47.360 --> 0:44:49.680 somebody who he to this day is trying to recruit 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:53.000 to his side. Silko knows what it's like to have 0:44:53.280 --> 0:44:58.000 a brother betray you, and now Powder knows what it's 0:44:58.120 --> 0:45:01.160 seemingly like to have a to turn on you as well. 0:45:01.360 --> 0:45:03.759 And so she is looking for comfort in the arms 0:45:03.800 --> 0:45:06.160 of somebody who knows exactly how she feels in this moment. 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:07.840 It's powerful stuff. 0:45:08.040 --> 0:45:12.200 Yeah, not her best move. She's got a lot of blunders. 0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:15.480 I know she's a little kid, but I think she 0:45:15.680 --> 0:45:17.759 was so good in the beginning of episode two when 0:45:17.760 --> 0:45:20.400 she was at the shooting range and she made a 0:45:20.440 --> 0:45:21.680 lot of mistakes she did. 0:45:22.000 --> 0:45:24.279 Yeah, certainly you can't be mad at Violet here for 0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:27.799 the way she reacted, and uh, you do. 0:45:27.960 --> 0:45:28.680 Powder is so. 0:45:28.840 --> 0:45:31.120 Cute and you want to protect her and hugger, but 0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:34.560 she really fucked up here and caused a lot of 0:45:34.560 --> 0:45:37.239 people to die. It's a tough look and a tough 0:45:37.320 --> 0:45:39.439 day for Powder and at the end of the day, 0:45:39.480 --> 0:45:41.400 like most of these people just need therapy in a 0:45:41.440 --> 0:45:42.280 hug and they're. 0:45:42.160 --> 0:45:44.080 Just not getting it. It's stuff. 0:45:44.160 --> 0:45:46.800 Yeah, I don't know if a place that doesn't believe 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:48.919 in magic, I'm not sure how Piltover and the under 0:45:48.920 --> 0:45:50.680 City feel about therapy unfortunately. 0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:53.120 Woo. 0:45:53.200 --> 0:45:56.440 All right, this episode's one two and three of Arcane. 0:45:56.640 --> 0:46:01.160 That actually wraps up this like first arc of this story. 0:46:01.320 --> 0:46:02.960 If you know anything of what's to come in the 0:46:03.120 --> 0:46:05.320 future episodes, you know that we are going to flash 0:46:05.360 --> 0:46:07.959 forward and see a couple of years down the line 0:46:08.080 --> 0:46:10.080 what the results of these actions in the first three 0:46:10.080 --> 0:46:11.960 episodes have been. So I'm excited to get into that 0:46:12.000 --> 0:46:12.600 with you, Aaron. 0:46:13.360 --> 0:46:16.200 But that's it for today, all right. On tomorrow's episode, 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:18.439 Rosie and Joel will be here and they are back 0:46:18.520 --> 0:46:24.240 with more vampires, in particular interview with a vampire and 0:46:24.760 --> 0:46:25.680 queen of the Damned. 0:46:25.800 --> 0:46:27.960 That's right, and Aaron, you and I will be back 0:46:28.000 --> 0:46:30.239 next Wednesday for episodes four and five. 0:46:30.360 --> 0:46:33.000 LeVar Kanes, Let's hope Jace can redeem himself in my 0:46:33.080 --> 0:46:33.960 eyes here you know. 0:46:34.040 --> 0:46:35.360 Yeah, I'm rooting for Jason. 0:46:35.520 --> 0:46:39.120 Yeah. All right, that's our episode. Thank you everyone for listening, 0:46:39.400 --> 0:46:40.080 See you next week. 0:46:44.880 --> 0:46:48.240 X ray Vision is hosted by Jason Simsion and Rosie 0:46:48.280 --> 0:46:52.520 Knight and is a production of iHeart Podcasts. Our executive 0:46:52.520 --> 0:46:56.760 producers are Joelle Smith and Aaron Kaufman. 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