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Speaker 1: There is episode in case you didn't guess from the
Speaker 1: spoiler warning and our incredible singing. We are talking about
Speaker 1: Arcane season two episodes one, two, and three Act one,
Speaker 1: and after we do our speed recaps, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of dense Arcane law, we will also be talking
Speaker 1: about an overview of some of the production struggles, our thoughts,
Speaker 1: and we will be tapping in the XRV production council
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Speaker 3: Stepping out of the air lock.
Speaker 1: Now, Arcane season two, Episode one, Heavy is the Crown.
Speaker 1: And if you thought that agn All Along had many
Speaker 1: needle drops, oh baby, prepare yourself. It's a show of
Speaker 1: needle drops. Obviously you're gonna get your big imagine Dragon's
Speaker 1: Enemy opening song, but you will get many more songs.
Speaker 1: We open in the media aftermath of Jex's hex infused
Speaker 1: rocket hitting the council chambers. Jason Mellerer alive. That was
Speaker 1: a big question mark there, but they're there. Other members
Speaker 1: of the council are injured or dead, including Caitlyn's mum,
Speaker 1: Missus Kiraman. That's going to cause some problems going forward.
Speaker 1: Jase finds Victor badly injured.
Speaker 2: Guy Cat can't catch a break.
Speaker 1: You know what, he's in the hex tech. We kind
Speaker 1: of saw him. Was he dead? Was he alive? But
Speaker 1: you know what, now he's he's getting healed hopefully. Then
Speaker 1: there's a funeral for Missus Kierman. Things move fast after
Speaker 1: a Jinx terrorist attacks. That's sum question of this.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about talk.
Speaker 1: About that musical montage, new art style. Obviously, Counselor Salo
Speaker 1: he's got plans. He wants to smashes on to pieces.
Speaker 1: He's got the mysterious ambssa, Mel's mother pushing his wheelchair.
Speaker 1: They want to punish the under City and go to war.
Speaker 1: Mel and Caitlyn argue that with Silko dead, the under
Speaker 1: city is leaderless and they should take advantage of the division. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Mel loses the vote two to one. But is it
Speaker 1: really unfortunate due to what happens next we'll see. Mel's
Speaker 1: mum suggests the council present a unified front for the invasion,
Speaker 1: and melagrees, as long as they don't use hex tech.
Speaker 1: Mean everyone else is using hex tech.
Speaker 2: I let'll just stop us here for one second to
Speaker 2: big one comment. It is crazy that we're having a debate,
Speaker 2: a debate which will continue after the next Zon attack.
Speaker 2: We're having a debate about whether or not to go
Speaker 2: to war with Zoon after Jinx nuked the fucking council. Guys,
Speaker 2: time to go in Jesus, why are we talking about.
Speaker 4: Awmongering must begin now if we kind of start now,
Speaker 4: Shure a hex gem at the council and killed one
Speaker 4: of the council, It's time for a war.
Speaker 1: Caitlin blames herself for not taking the shot on Jinks,
Speaker 1: which will become a reoccurring issue. And Caitlyn's mother left
Speaker 1: her the Kiraman key. Now this is very cool. We
Speaker 1: get to see a little history of the Kureman's and
Speaker 1: what the key might do Caitlyn seeks solace in Viola,
Speaker 1: who now admits that Powder is gone and Jinx has
Speaker 1: taken her over. Vy wants to go on a mission
Speaker 1: with the Power Gauntlets and fix this, and Caitlyn says,
Speaker 1: no more rogue missions, but you can become a car
Speaker 1: here's your badge, here's your I'm an enforcer, and VI's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing this. I'm gonna go get drunk with
Speaker 1: the bearded guy. Discord users, if you know who the
Speaker 1: bearded guy is is tell us, because he is really important.
Speaker 1: There are one hundred and forty characters in League of Legends,
Speaker 1: and Aaron went through every single one and he does
Speaker 1: not know.
Speaker 2: Yes, and we're and we are not League of Legends players,
Speaker 2: and I think one of them. One of the strengths
Speaker 2: of our kene is is that you don't need to
Speaker 2: know any of that stuff. The show is great without that.
Speaker 2: But we're have been we've been mystified trying to figure
Speaker 2: out who this guy is.
Speaker 1: Jas, the hunky himbo who wanted war and now he's like, ah,
Speaker 1: what was bad? He wants to be able to keep
Speaker 1: victory of live with the hex Tech, and he's been
Speaker 1: able to do it. But he doesn't really understand how
Speaker 1: he's got survivors guilt due to sky dying because of
Speaker 1: his Invictors hex plans. Mel tells Jase about the council
Speaker 1: meeting and says, like, you go talk to Caitlin and
Speaker 1: see what's going on, because we don't know what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do. As Jason said, you probably should have just
Speaker 1: sent some people down there and stopped it. Caitlin is
Speaker 1: sitting in the courtyard and she's thinking again and again
Speaker 1: about the shot she didn't take on Jinx. This is
Speaker 1: obviously gonna become a big stopping point for the Will
Speaker 1: Caitlin and Vi ever get together crowd? And Jace wonders,
Speaker 1: is y right, Like, will the hex tech works? Should
Speaker 1: she let her get those famous gauntlets? And she said,
Speaker 1: hex Techs may keep us alive, Jase, but it's not
Speaker 1: what will save us. Junior Officer Maddy Nolan, another new
Speaker 1: character for Arcane, finds Violet. Turns out Violet is a
Speaker 1: bit of a legend among the Enforcers. Interesting. Interesting because
Speaker 1: I feel like she's a bit of a rogue, but
Speaker 1: I guess the Enforcers like her, and it's nice.
Speaker 2: It's nice to hear that that Caitlin has been talking
Speaker 2: up by and being exactly. She was amazing when nobody
Speaker 2: wanted to do anything, she went and took on Silko alone.
Speaker 2: She's so courageous and brave, and I think this is
Speaker 2: a This is a big factor in VI's later decision
Speaker 2: to spoiler mild spoiler join up exactly.
Speaker 1: Which you know if you've seen the trailer, you've seen that.
Speaker 1: And her bearded vagrant companion, who I must say is
Speaker 1: very burly and muscly, so we get it. He's going
Speaker 1: to be useful. He overhears and I guess he's in.
Speaker 1: Now he's in the team. So Mel holds a memorial
Speaker 1: for missus Kierman and kind of the people who died
Speaker 1: in the Council. And in case you weren't sure that
Speaker 1: there was going to inevitably be a war, Violet notices
Speaker 1: that there are strange mastered people at the mountain. They
Speaker 1: get here and guess what. It's the Ken Barons with
Speaker 1: hex Tech infused armored soldiers and are really big boy
Speaker 1: and they are attacking a memorial, so pieces it's it's
Speaker 1: out of the question. Caitlin is attacked by a hex
Speaker 1: Tech armored soldier VI obviously saves her. Jason is being
Speaker 1: pursued by Rennie with a very cool all govermented chainsaw, terrified,
Speaker 1: really cool chainsaw. We do. If you are wondering whether
Speaker 1: the action and the art style stands up to season one,
Speaker 1: it does. And these big action sequences. The way they
Speaker 1: use the color of the hex Tech against the kind
Speaker 1: of you know, washed out colors of Piltover is very cool.
Speaker 1: The counselors are all hiding. The biggest boy pulls out
Speaker 1: Junior and Maddie Nolan.
Speaker 2: No security, No security at this memorial. No security apparently
Speaker 2: in Piltover, at the various points of entrance and egress down.
Speaker 3: To the underworld.
Speaker 2: How is this possible when you've got like all your
Speaker 2: surviving heavy hitters in one room and the forces of
Speaker 2: zon can just.
Speaker 1: Like walking, just walking, dressing up as an auntie. I
Speaker 1: feel like there's big problems in Piltover. Jase finds a
Speaker 1: hammer wink wink, very popular Jace weapon in the games,
Speaker 1: his Mercury hammer. So bash is Rennie, but she's got
Speaker 1: shimmer strength, baby, and everybody is on racks, everybody is fighting.
Speaker 1: She cuts Chase across the back their own forces everywhere,
Speaker 1: and then Violet's mysterious companion jumps in and manages to
Speaker 1: protect them, kind of showing his loyalty to Piltover and
Speaker 1: his new drinking buddy. Kaitlin gets off a few well
Speaker 1: placed shots, but not well placed enough. Rennie proclaims for
Speaker 1: my son, but come on, get are you're gonna tell
Speaker 1: your stuff?
Speaker 3: I want to I want to ask a question.
Speaker 1: And I know that.
Speaker 2: Listen, schats Aaron and a Boo. We've done a tremendous
Speaker 2: job covering Arking season one. Check those episodes out. I
Speaker 2: have a question for Rennie the chem Barren, why was
Speaker 2: your fucking son working in a factory?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Oh my god. I was trying to bring
Speaker 1: this up, like that's what you're gonna do. You're gonna
Speaker 1: set You're gonna have your own son be the lookout
Speaker 1: for your drug factory. Like that's on you. That is
Speaker 1: that's on you. That is not on Jason, even though
Speaker 1: he did rush into that, but that is on you,
Speaker 1: absolutely on you. And then we get this big hex
Speaker 1: text blast as VI knocks her off with Jason's hammer
Speaker 1: and looks super cool, and there's kind of this big
Speaker 1: fight Violet can't get the hammer to reload. Jase helps her,
Speaker 1: but at the last second, a big spear and it's
Speaker 1: the Noxian Army. Baby yes, and Bessa stands in for
Speaker 1: war regalia with them, and this was obviously her plan
Speaker 1: from the beginning. She slits Renny throws her to the side.
Speaker 1: Noxi has saved the day. Isn't that gonna work out
Speaker 1: for them? Caitlin just can't believe they attacked during a
Speaker 1: memorial Jason, can you believe it? Have they shown themselves to.
Speaker 3: Who are these animals? How could they have done it?
Speaker 2: Have you not been paying attention, babe, everything that's been
Speaker 2: happening this whole team.
Speaker 1: And also like they are all on this like insane
Speaker 1: drug that like doesn't many were taking and it's not
Speaker 1: like it's not like they're not like, oh, they're ill.
Speaker 1: And it's an addiction that this is like a fictional
Speaker 1: drug that makes you into like a superhero hard they
Speaker 1: are powered up, it's like and she's feeling the grief
Speaker 1: of Kaitlinn's feeling the grief of losing her mother. Even
Speaker 1: though Miss Kierman kind of sucked, Caitlin knows she shouldn't
Speaker 1: have pushed the enforcer bad John Violet, but it's she
Speaker 1: knows if she goes after Jinks alone, one of us
Speaker 1: comes back in a box. So they got a team up.
Speaker 1: The lesbians have got a team up together, and Caitlyn
Speaker 1: uses the Kierman key. I do think this is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things about this episode. You kind of
Speaker 1: learn about, You get some good ones like Lore, like
Speaker 1: Strange plague outfits like history, the Gray told over these
Speaker 1: really beautifully illustrated kind of slide show, and the Council
Speaker 1: is meeting in secret. Caitlin's like, Bro, I'm on the Council.
Speaker 1: I'm going into Zorn, I'm gonna locate Jinx, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: eliminate the Shim operation. I'm gonna root out anyone who
Speaker 1: is still loyal to Silko. And why will I be
Speaker 1: more successful than anyone else? Well, we've got a few
Speaker 1: surprises of our own, and what it is is that
Speaker 1: Navy Junior Officer Maddy Nolan new character and Shield Guy
Speaker 1: also new character. Ah here they've got special Forces looking
Speaker 1: like Cammi from Street Fighter, and then they have Violet
Speaker 1: and she's also down for now with her badass corntlet
Speaker 1: and the episode ends with Victor's body flinching. He's still alive.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, that's not actually the end, and we will
Speaker 1: talk about this more. Cut to Sins traveling in the
Speaker 1: snow to a cave with two wolves, and just like Sins,
Speaker 1: you are going to be on a journey with us
Speaker 1: as we talk about Arcane Act one. And so let's
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Speaker 1: a break.
Speaker 3: M Okay, we're back. Can I ask you?
Speaker 2: I want to ask one question that we don't need
Speaker 2: to answer right now. The Naxian Army and AMBSSA like
Speaker 2: one shot these Zohnian big boys like with the spears.
Speaker 3: Boom boom boom boom boom gone, why don't we send
Speaker 3: them down there?
Speaker 1: Uh, that's that's just what she asked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's season two Power Season two, Yes, episode two,
Speaker 1: watch it all open. There's music, there's imagic dragons, and
Speaker 1: now is monologuing to Silko in the waters. Then there's
Speaker 1: another musical montage where the casbout.
Speaker 2: The the This moment with Silko and Jinx felt a
Speaker 2: little oz and mom, didn't.
Speaker 1: It, oh baby, which I actually found very interesting because
Speaker 1: I had never found I had never gotten that vibe
Speaker 1: from the relationship before. I definitely got the adopted father vibe,
Speaker 1: but this time was very love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, I mean from Silko side, it was
Speaker 2: certainly like the various very obvious father dag yeah things.
Speaker 3: That was actually one of them.
Speaker 2: That was I thought was one of the best like
Speaker 2: emotional subplots of the entire season.
Speaker 3: One was that I actually felt.
Speaker 1: Bad when Silko Yeah, me too, me too.
Speaker 2: But this was it was just it struck me as
Speaker 2: a very weird tone because she's cradling his face and
Speaker 2: it was anyway.
Speaker 1: Jinks like chill out. She obviously has guilt, but it's yeah.
Speaker 1: And now the music musical montage where we kind of
Speaker 1: see each of the kem Barons fading away from the
Speaker 1: table after their death. Jink saves a little kid from
Speaker 1: gang members, not particularly for altruistic reasons, but it will
Speaker 1: become very important.
Speaker 2: She points a gun at him and is like, day
Speaker 2: you feel that, like you feel the fear of like
Speaker 2: it can all end of the second of Idolatry. It's
Speaker 2: like Jinks, Jinks, come wow, your sister, chill out.
Speaker 1: Her wanted posters are all over the alleyway and the
Speaker 1: kid decides to follow Jinks and this will be like
Speaker 1: an important point going forward. Smeach, perfectly named Smeech is
Speaker 1: putting his next move to remove the maning keem barons
Speaker 1: as they divvy up what's left of Silko's empire. His
Speaker 1: accountant worries about hitting Margo and cautious story. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just need you to know that that
Speaker 1: Smeach has an accountant, That's the most important thing. Sa
Speaker 1: Vikier is holding a meeting with the other kem barons,
Speaker 1: urging them to put aside their squabbles, and Smeech is like,
Speaker 1: I will be you a new arm if you deliver me.
Speaker 1: Jink Sevikia is like, eh, I'm gonna set and guess
Speaker 1: what Jinx is there in the rafters. They connect over
Speaker 1: how much they used to do for Silko and Jink's leaves.
Speaker 1: But Smeech was hiding out waiting. That's not gonna end
Speaker 1: well for him. Now Victor is hearing voices through the
Speaker 1: hex tech blob he is in case thin. He's managed
Speaker 1: to pull himself out, and now his body's looking like
Speaker 1: a skeleton and a T one thousand and he's looking
Speaker 1: very strange, and this is going to be the start
Speaker 1: of something the fans will know about in the Glorious Revolution.
Speaker 1: Jase offers him clothes because he's like, you must be
Speaker 1: called no Jase. He is like a hex techy. He's
Speaker 1: hex Jesus. Like Jase plans to resign from the council,
Speaker 1: and Victor's like, I don't care. He's like you thought
Speaker 1: I was your friend. Now I'm just living hex tech.
Speaker 1: I gotta put on this cloak and take out my
Speaker 1: gandal staff and we got to be on our way.
Speaker 1: Echoes firelights are taking more refugees but hymen, and one
Speaker 1: of them is Heimerdinger, who's like entertaining the kids.
Speaker 3: There's like a bubble gun checking this out. Kids made
Speaker 3: of Canadon that makes bubbles.
Speaker 1: Echoes worried about, like the leaves are kind of look
Speaker 1: like they're being poisoned, which we can recognize looks like
Speaker 1: hex tech or like there's purple and blue on it.
Speaker 1: Heimerdinger and Echo decide the best thing to do is
Speaker 1: to do a heist. And I love this because I.
Speaker 3: Love him through his own facility has complete access.
Speaker 1: But he's also like, fuck that I'm not part of
Speaker 1: them anymore. Man puts on a mask, makes up code
Speaker 1: phrases and Jase obviously catches them and confirms that yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. It is Hex's Tech.
Speaker 3: Now somehow hex Tech is drifting.
Speaker 1: Somehow hex Tech is drifting to somehow hex Tech returned,
Speaker 1: you know. And now we see Messiah Victor and he
Speaker 1: is walking through the underca hearing Sky's voice, whom he
Speaker 1: is now by the lab assistant that he killed with
Speaker 1: his experiments, and he sees footsteps a light before him.
Speaker 1: And guess what group of vagrants follow him, including our
Speaker 1: tragic buddy Huck. And you're gonna know what happens next.
Speaker 1: But Jinks, first of all, hiding an old arcane, sees
Speaker 1: the Enforces through the smoke. Uh oh, it's Vi and
Speaker 1: her other crew. Let's say Aaron made up this great
Speaker 1: name Seal Team Kiss. Jinks has shot a Violet, but
Speaker 1: she can't take it and it's a lone tear drops
Speaker 1: and falls on Violet's hand. Jinx escapes, but as she runs,
Speaker 1: she gets ambushed by Smeach back again. Sevika saves her.
Speaker 1: Jinks has built Sevika a sick new arm.
Speaker 3: Great video.
Speaker 2: It's so yeah, please, I mean I think Legal Legends
Speaker 2: people will understand how this arm works.
Speaker 3: But it seems to have like a.
Speaker 2: Random power generator, Like that's kind of like a one
Speaker 2: arm bandit style, Yeah, a mechanism, and I guess I
Speaker 2: don't understand how it works. Like my understanding of gambling
Speaker 2: with those types of machines is you have to have
Speaker 2: like more than one symbol like hmm appear in each
Speaker 2: of the slots. And so I guess I just don't
Speaker 2: understand like how the power of the arm works.
Speaker 1: I guess like the arm is probably like the answer
Speaker 1: is probably like hepsac, you know, but I may be.
Speaker 2: But it's like the the the boxing glove appears in
Speaker 2: the middle and then she has the boxing glove power,
Speaker 2: but like another time, like a mushroom appeared in the
Speaker 2: middle and there was nothing. So like I don't I
Speaker 2: am people who understand League of Legends get it.
Speaker 1: A League of Legend lowheads tell us, Aaron, Aaron, I'm
Speaker 1: cooling as it works.
Speaker 5: I don't know how it works. But I also think
Speaker 5: Civika is not another character in Legal Legends, so there's
Speaker 5: no game lore as far as I can tell.
Speaker 3: Around me.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, very insting, very interesting.
Speaker 3: Because I was like, how is this armworking in this fight?
Speaker 3: That looks really cool?
Speaker 1: We have it looks incredibly cool, and it's a really
Speaker 1: bad idea because it's kind of this casino luck of
Speaker 1: which slot machine kind of powers you get and it
Speaker 1: does look really cool. So eventually she kills Smitch smeech Jackpot,
Speaker 1: and then we go back to Victor and guess what
Speaker 1: Victor is curing lepers? But he is curing them with
Speaker 1: hex Tech energy and essentially replacing their skin with like
Speaker 1: Hextech armor skin. And once the vagrants and the crew
Speaker 1: see it happened to Huck, then they start to bow
Speaker 1: down to Victor and it's clear that he's going to
Speaker 1: be going around curing the people who are addicted to
Speaker 1: Shimmer by replacing their skin with his Hextech And this
Speaker 1: seems absolutely unhinged to me, Victor, but go for it.
Speaker 1: Another ending fake out. It was not the end, even
Speaker 1: though that would have been a big end. Now we
Speaker 1: catch up with Cinched again. He's killed the two headed
Speaker 1: wolf Boo and extracted its fangs and eyes, but has
Speaker 1: somehow kept the double heart pumping, just like we keep
Speaker 1: the podcast pumping. Messages from US posters and We're back.
Speaker 1: Arcane Season two, Episode three, finally got the name right.
Speaker 1: Using the Kiraman key, Caitlyn lends her family devised the
Speaker 1: ventilation system to isolate the Gray Seal team. Kiss finds
Speaker 1: he not smeeches old account, and I told you the
Speaker 1: account would be important. Tied to a propeller in a
Speaker 1: ventilation system. He really, he reveals, and this is actually
Speaker 1: a really good evil plan Jinx planning to reroot the
Speaker 1: ventilation systems. Caitlyn's like, fuck this, I'm actually done with it.
Speaker 1: Now we're We're going to war. Amara, a member of
Speaker 1: Piltover's Merchant Guild, seeks an audience with am Bessa to
Speaker 1: settle a debt. She's actually a witch. Love this threatening
Speaker 1: ambssad that even in Piltover, her kind is still watching
Speaker 1: her and she'll never succeed. This basically confirms Ambssa's suspicions.
Speaker 1: She overpowers and kills Emara and a Bessa wants to
Speaker 1: prepare for war. Her girl God warns that Salo isn't ready,
Speaker 1: she doesn't care and they should involve Mel, but am
Speaker 1: Bessa thinks Mel, She's like, keep her out of it.
Speaker 1: I love my family and Bessa's big on family, but
Speaker 1: she's always making strange decisions. Violet tries to convince Caitlin
Speaker 1: that they should travel just as a pair. I'm like, guys,
Speaker 1: just kiss first of all, and then get an army,
Speaker 1: because please, the rest of the team is going to
Speaker 1: get hurt. Violet knows her sister is gone. No, you
Speaker 1: don't look first of all, that's my big thing. I
Speaker 1: love my sister. Even if she turned into Jinks, I
Speaker 1: would still be repping her. I wouldn't. But Violet, you
Speaker 1: just gotta stop lying about the fact that you know
Speaker 1: Powder is gone. You don't every time, you just keep
Speaker 1: seeing And she's like, Caitlin, please don't change like everyone else.
Speaker 1: And finally, finally we get a kiss about time way
Speaker 1: too long, and best of visits Salo, who's being attended
Speaker 1: to by lest no kisses here. She just chokes him
Speaker 1: out and drops him on a table and gives him
Speaker 1: a concussion. She's like, mate, She's like, this is what
Speaker 1: will happen to you if you don't do what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Go get the families of influence because we're about to
Speaker 1: have a meeting. Mel meets with Less backstage unless is
Speaker 1: like your mum is crazy. She's like please, like I'm
Speaker 1: o one out, like your mum's got problems. Mel Is like,
Speaker 1: well I can stop her, so don't worry. And Lester
Speaker 1: it's like, here's you. You can't. You don't know what
Speaker 1: she's got. You can't, we can none of us can
Speaker 1: stop our mums. Lest gives Mel a new cocktail spiked
Speaker 1: with shimmer. Uh oh, I feel like everyone's getting into
Speaker 1: the shimmer business. Not a good idea, everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ah. Jace, he's exploring the wild Ruins with Echo and
Speaker 1: him a Dinger. This is a fun trio, explaining that
Speaker 1: the arcane is everywhere and the wild ruines might be
Speaker 1: a reaction of overuse of hextech. Heimerdinger says, oh, ball suck.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Now, I will say we have been talking
Speaker 1: about this hypothetically before this and working out now, Abou says,
Speaker 1: and he's correct. I'm sure that they said the arcane
Speaker 1: in the first season of Arcane, but they are bringing
Speaker 1: up a lot more. Now, what is the arcane? That's
Speaker 1: what we've got to talk about that afterwards, because like
Speaker 1: we don't know. Jace, Echo and Heimerdinger are now on
Speaker 1: a little fun adventure, they go deep underground to see
Speaker 1: what the heck Skates are doing. They reach the Gemstone
Speaker 1: Mesh base, where they have a fail space. But while
Speaker 1: Echo and Jace argue, Heimerdinger notices the Arcane's influence and
Speaker 1: suddenly the wild Rune appears and envelops the room. These
Speaker 1: are some really trippy visuals, guys. I know we're doing
Speaker 1: like this is obviously an audio recap, but I'm saying,
Speaker 1: if you've watched the show once you have had your spoilers,
Speaker 1: put it on and just like go through the visuals
Speaker 1: because the hex Tech stuff and the hex Gate stuff
Speaker 1: here starts to really push the ideas of what made
Speaker 1: this show great in the first season, which is like
Speaker 1: different styles of animation used on top of each other,
Speaker 1: unexpected colors, beautiful landscape. So Violet and Caitlin reach a
Speaker 1: chamber littered with Jinx's graffiti. She just can't help telling
Speaker 1: people where she is. Jinx blames Violet for betraying their
Speaker 1: roots and working with the enemy. Caitlyn takes a shot,
Speaker 1: but it was just a reflection. You did not kill
Speaker 1: your girlfriend's sister. Jinks appears behind Violet, and as Caitlyn
Speaker 1: lines up a shot speaker ambushes her. Everyone in this
Speaker 1: fight is out for blood. Great fight scene. Also, just
Speaker 1: like a huge moment in slow mo, in this show,
Speaker 1: you get the Jinks so much Lomo and also big
Speaker 1: like jinks Vy moments. Here the wild Room reacts to
Speaker 1: Jason or the hex Tech. Now we're back with them
Speaker 1: and the weaponry short circuits, and we kind of get
Speaker 1: these glimpses of what the Heck's tech could do and
Speaker 1: what it shouldn't do, and it's very interesting. Caitlin blows
Speaker 1: off Jinx's middle finger. I don't know if these family
Speaker 1: Dinners are going to be good in the future, and
Speaker 1: Violet jumps on her, ready to finish her off. But Isha,
Speaker 1: the little kid that Jinks save told you that kid
Speaker 1: would be important, grabs a gun, gets in between Jinks
Speaker 1: and Violet, and Caitlin fires a bullet to knock out
Speaker 1: the gun, but v will not let Kate show shoot Jinks.
Speaker 1: She says, for here fear of hitting Esha, but also
Speaker 1: I think it's because that's your say. Jason's like, he's
Speaker 1: just killer I.
Speaker 2: Am how much more. Listen, no one wants to see
Speaker 2: a little kid get shot. This is a kid with
Speaker 2: a gun. That's pointing a gun at one of your
Speaker 2: squad members. This is a kid with a gun protecting
Speaker 2: the terrorist of this underworld that not only like murdered
Speaker 2: the council in an unprecedented attack, but is part of
Speaker 2: the group, you know, attached to the group that later
Speaker 2: attacked the Memorial like and is up to no good
Speaker 2: down here, planning on rerooting the ventilation.
Speaker 3: Systems of the tunnels.
Speaker 2: I cannot polluted piltover like and flooded with noxious chemicals
Speaker 2: and drug air.
Speaker 1: I know not. And guess what, Just take the shot.
Speaker 1: Just Caitlin, your mom's dead too? Is that adding all
Speaker 1: furity to you? I have Violet and Kate, they're not
Speaker 1: It's not going well for them. Savika activates a propeller
Speaker 1: gens jettinis in cat and via way and setting off
Speaker 1: their plan and then we see and pilt over the
Speaker 1: vents all explode with very colorful explosions. Is this the great?
Speaker 1: Is it a glitter bron pank? Is it shimmer? You
Speaker 1: know what? We're not gonna find out right now because
Speaker 1: we go back to Caitlin and Violet, and Caitlyn is like,
Speaker 1: I never should have expected anything different from you. Like,
Speaker 1: and then she hits over with the butt of the
Speaker 1: gun in the stomach and Violet crying alone and the
Speaker 1: kiss it's over. They kiss, and now they're broken up
Speaker 1: and it's going to be bad for everyone. Mel And
Speaker 1: and Laura have been spying on Sailo as well as
Speaker 1: kind of like, what wise, where's my brother gone? What's
Speaker 1: going on with that? And a Laura is overcome with
Speaker 1: the witch's magic and whispers Black Rose as Mel is
Speaker 1: overtaken and disappears very interesting. She drops the cocktail lest
Speaker 1: gave her good No shimmer for you. And then this
Speaker 1: is the big moment at the end here, which kind
Speaker 1: of sets up how this scene is going to end,
Speaker 1: but also I would assume kind of teases how the
Speaker 1: rest of room Terra will come into it. Sailo and
Speaker 1: am Bessa meet with the remaining families of influence. She
Speaker 1: beat him up and he bought the families there, and
Speaker 1: am Bessa says, look Zorn night, assassin's killed. Amara. Wrath
Speaker 1: must be met with wrath. She urges them to declare
Speaker 1: martial law, and she and her Noxi and soldiers will
Speaker 1: be at their disposal until all families are safe, and
Speaker 1: then she's like, so we got to get a new leader.
Speaker 1: And obviously Sailor's sitting up in his little chair and
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm ready, but me here we go go.
Speaker 1: She's not talking about you, Sailoh, She's talking about Kaitlyn Kierman,
Speaker 1: and this is her plan. From the beginning, we get
Speaker 1: flashbacks of Ambassador and her troops. They're scheming, and by
Speaker 1: the end of this even junior Officer Maddie Nolan is
Speaker 1: pounding her chest with the idea of war, though interestingly,
Speaker 1: our bearded vagrant shield guy is not having it and
Speaker 1: walks away, which makes me think he has some kind
Speaker 1: of history with Ambassador and Noxia. Anyway, very good, strong ending,
Speaker 1: but it's not really the ending because we got to
Speaker 1: go back to Singe. Do we hear heavy animal breathing.
Speaker 1: Blood is coursing through his vials into singed body, and
Speaker 1: he's attached to some kind of massive creature suspended above him.
Speaker 1: And that is the end of Act one of Arcade
Speaker 1: season two. You will get the next season next week.
Speaker 1: Once a week, I mean the next act once a week,
Speaker 1: so you have to wait another week. Jason, your feelings
Speaker 1: about Kaye season two, Act one?
Speaker 2: I think that they took it up a notch with
Speaker 2: regards to the animation style. With regards to the action,
Speaker 2: I might here's my one note, and while we'll discuss
Speaker 2: this with the group as well, I think the pacing
Speaker 2: is needs to be faster, in particular because due to
Speaker 2: the outrageous costs over runs of production of this show,
Speaker 2: we're only getting season two. See it's over after season two.
Speaker 2: And I think the fact that it took three season
Speaker 2: three episodes to open season two of debate about like
Speaker 2: are we going to attacks on should we go to war?
Speaker 1: About with Zon?
Speaker 3: Are we going to go after.
Speaker 2: Like two devast like incredibly devastating attacks that either on
Speaker 2: their own would be enough to be like yes, then
Speaker 2: the fucking troops and what are we waiting for?
Speaker 3: Is crazy? It's I think.
Speaker 2: I love all the side plots, but like those should
Speaker 2: be pruned down, and just in general, like I feel
Speaker 2: like we should have opened up season one Caitlin and
Speaker 2: the Strikeforce and v are in the tunnels and we
Speaker 2: start from there. It's just too much talking about doing
Speaker 2: the thing. And this is where I feel like you
Speaker 2: really feel that they must not have had a lot
Speaker 2: of material written and ready to go when production ramped
Speaker 2: back up, because this is just like a lot of
Speaker 2: slow mo and needle drops and not.
Speaker 3: Moving the ball forward story wise. Anyway, that's what I think.
Speaker 3: What did you think, Crazy?
Speaker 1: I know, I think you make some really good points.
Speaker 1: I love seeing this back on a screens. It's really
Speaker 1: really beautiful. I love the will they won't live Caitlin
Speaker 1: and I. I love Seat Jinks and Vie back together.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do think it's really interesting because seeing
Speaker 1: as it is adapting a game that is not necessarily
Speaker 1: a narrative heavy game in its game play, it does
Speaker 1: end up almost feeling more like it's adapting like a campaign,
Speaker 1: and that's why they're so much like talking and plotting,
Speaker 1: kind of more like your vox Markina or something like that.
Speaker 1: Very interesting, and let's call in our own seal team
Speaker 1: Kiss to discuss the events of Act one, Aaron.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts, Your thoughts on Chapter one, Season two of
Speaker 2: Arcane thus far.
Speaker 5: I thought the ending of episode three was incredible and
Speaker 5: one of almost maybe even better than I thought the
Speaker 5: end of season one was. I loved the little twist
Speaker 5: with Caitlin being, you know, in charge of everything. And
Speaker 5: I'm a fan of the Wolf of Wall Street chest
Speaker 5: pounding as much as the next guy, and so I
Speaker 5: love seeing that with everyone. I did think the the
Speaker 5: fake out post credit scene every episode was too much.
Speaker 5: I totally could have had.
Speaker 1: That so at exactly, I don't.
Speaker 5: I didn't care enough about Singed from season one to
Speaker 5: need an update on him every single episode, And if
Speaker 5: they are building him up to be the big bad,
Speaker 5: I needed more of him in season one. Also, along
Speaker 5: the lines of what Jason was saying, maybe they didn't
Speaker 5: know that they were going to do that with him,
Speaker 5: and so now they're trying to make up for lost time. Yes,
Speaker 5: and yeah, give us. I think what happens is they had.
Speaker 2: Animatics and production material left over from season one, and
Speaker 2: as production ramped up for season two late and delayed,
Speaker 2: and they didn't have enough writing, what.
Speaker 3: Are they gonna do? Throw that stuff away?
Speaker 2: We needed to figure out a place for all this stuff,
Speaker 2: and that's why you have this kind of hodgepodge, a
Speaker 2: weirdly paced.
Speaker 1: It makes a great point that originally the show was
Speaker 1: set to be five seasons. Yeah, and then they had
Speaker 1: to shrink it down to two. Now. I think at
Speaker 1: first a lot of us were like, ooh, you're saying
Speaker 1: you're gonna end it off to two seasons. That feels
Speaker 1: like a kind of brave creative choice where you obviously
Speaker 1: know you're telling the perfect story. We now know that
Speaker 1: that is obviously a production decision, so I think we
Speaker 1: asked starting to feel a little bit of that. I
Speaker 1: also want to say, though, I think if you loved
Speaker 1: the first season of the show and you were just
Speaker 1: vibing on it, and you love the music and you
Speaker 1: love the vibes, I think you're just gonna love being
Speaker 1: back in this world. I do think it's like a
Speaker 1: very specific space, and I think if you are committed
Speaker 1: to it, this second season does feel a little bit
Speaker 1: less accessible than the first. Is like one of my
Speaker 1: biggest critiques because I knew so many people who never
Speaker 1: played Legal Legends, who don't watch animation, who loved the
Speaker 1: first season of Arcane. I don't necessarily know if when
Speaker 1: they jump into this second season unless they've rewatched it
Speaker 1: and kept up with it, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: necessarily going to be as much as an easy jump in.
Speaker 5: I do love the almost Game of Thrones esque treatment
Speaker 5: of characters, where we have so many characters in the
Speaker 5: show that we can start playing with the pairings, and
Speaker 5: like you mentioned in the recap, I love love jas
Speaker 5: Heimerdinger and Echo.
Speaker 1: That feels like it's gonna be like a fan fave grouping.
Speaker 5: I also love Jinx working with Sevika, like that relationship
Speaker 5: changing from being so antagonistic to Jinx without even Sevika asking,
Speaker 5: she just made her this new arm that, like you were.
Speaker 1: Saying, the standing that you have to like team up
Speaker 1: with the people who are.
Speaker 5: We relied so much on Silko and he's gone, What
Speaker 5: do we do now we have no place in the
Speaker 5: world kind of But like you mentioned the game, the
Speaker 5: game has over one hundred and forty playable characters, and
Speaker 5: as you kept mentioning, we have the Shield guy who
Speaker 5: we still don't know who he is. We have Junior
Speaker 5: Officer Maddie Nolan. We have the Navvi esque character of
Speaker 5: Seal Team Kiss that we never get a name for.
Speaker 5: There are so many characters from the game they could
Speaker 5: be introducing, And if they actually want to make this
Speaker 5: this big expanded universe where they're making other League of
Speaker 5: Legend run Terra shows, wouldn't you want to be introducing
Speaker 5: some of these one hundred and forty playable characters that
Speaker 5: could be the leads of future shows.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Game of Thrones, and I think that's an
Speaker 2: important point to jump off to talk about the cost
Speaker 2: of the show. A recent Variety article pegged the entire
Speaker 2: cost of the show at something like two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty million dollars, which is staggering.
Speaker 1: That's most staggering an anime series of old time by
Speaker 1: us a staggering long margin.
Speaker 2: The first nine episodes of season one came in at
Speaker 2: something like eighty million per The second batch of nine
Speaker 2: for this season are coming in at one hundred million
Speaker 2: per and so, and that's on top of Riot Game's
Speaker 2: own sixty million of its own money that it put
Speaker 2: into promoting the series, which is excellent and listen, and
Speaker 2: that's clearly why they're ending after only two seasons of
Speaker 2: a planned five. I'll just say that. I mean, we
Speaker 2: mentioned it it up top all the needle drops. I
Speaker 2: if you're looking for money to cut and.
Speaker 3: This is a first time.
Speaker 2: This is like the first project of this type for
Speaker 2: Riot This is the first project of this type for
Speaker 2: the French animation studio whose name I'm forgetting, So I
Speaker 2: get it. There's a lot of like newcomer stuff here
Speaker 2: that said, don't spend music licensing top dollar music licensing
Speaker 2: money three and four times per episode, four and.
Speaker 1: Always per episode.
Speaker 2: You don't, Yeah, you don't need to do it three
Speaker 2: four times per episode for artists that are that are
Speaker 2: kind of expensive.
Speaker 3: Like these are not like indie artists.
Speaker 2: These are like mint tier artists that you're paying like
Speaker 2: significant dollars for. And these are the kind of things
Speaker 2: where I'm just frustrating because I.
Speaker 3: Wish we were getting five seasons and not just two.
Speaker 2: As we're ramping up to introduce a villain whose arc
Speaker 2: is clearly going to be curtailed because we're only like
Speaker 2: in the back six episodes of the entire story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will, I will say I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I also think that for some viewers the music is
Speaker 1: too much. We know that Joelle is definitely in that camp,
Speaker 1: Nick is in the same cap Like that just just
Speaker 1: does not do it for them. Now, I will say, I.
Speaker 3: Like it, But how about cheaper artists, how about less
Speaker 3: fine artists?
Speaker 1: You know, get there, get them some exposure, pay them
Speaker 1: like not a million dollars, a million dollars. I love
Speaker 1: the one composer with an incredible score. But I will
Speaker 1: say something that we are or we all have in
Speaker 1: common here is we are all over the age of
Speaker 1: twenty right now. And I'm just gonna say, my niece
Speaker 1: is five and my nephew is ten, and all they
Speaker 1: watch on YouTube are like edits of video games or movies,
Speaker 1: and they're just set to popular songs. So in that way,
Speaker 1: this is like trying to can I do it?
Speaker 3: Can I come back equivalent?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, But the thing is on YouTube, nobody's paying the money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But can I can I answer that? And I
Speaker 2: do think this is a conversation we've had. I'd love
Speaker 2: to get Aaron's take. It does clearly seem like season
Speaker 2: two they're are aiming at a younger audience. And that said,
Speaker 2: and and no disrespect to any of our like age
Speaker 2: fifteen and younger fans that might be listening. But like
Speaker 2: kids don't know what's good.
Speaker 3: They'll watch, you know, like they don't know.
Speaker 2: And it's one thing to like take the stylistic forms
Speaker 2: of YouTube and other platforms and put that into and
Speaker 2: use that to mold our cane. But like they don't
Speaker 2: know a good top dollar music artist from like a
Speaker 2: bottom door, Like they don't They simply don't, Like, you
Speaker 2: don't have to make it that good. If that's what
Speaker 2: you want to do, you don't have to spend that
Speaker 2: much money.
Speaker 1: That's true to do this that they watch are like
Speaker 1: really busted, like like yo, like nature kids breaking news.
Speaker 1: Jason Conception says, ohol kids have bad taste. They just don't.
Speaker 2: They just don't know what they No one excites them,
Speaker 2: but they don't know that exactly.
Speaker 5: So Yeah, I do think someone is gonna make that
Speaker 5: TikTok edit with the clips from the show set to
Speaker 5: whatever's big budget name.
Speaker 2: Musician are in your thoughts, your thoughts about the music
Speaker 2: drops and the general costs and the disappointment of like
Speaker 2: only having two seasons.
Speaker 5: I mean, as a musician, I'm never opposed to musicians
Speaker 5: getting paid as writers, performers, whatever. That more said, you
Speaker 5: could have licensed the song from these artists instead of
Speaker 5: asking them to write a piece specifically for the show
Speaker 5: just to appear in the trailer.
Speaker 3: Uh, like we haven't I was going to seen the scenes.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Aaron. What was some of the artists
Speaker 1: you were talking about who have recorded songs specifically for
Speaker 1: the show that have yet to actually appear in the show.
Speaker 5: So Ashnico does a song, uh the Around You Blue,
Speaker 5: all Around You, very Jinx coded, like perfect match of things.
Speaker 5: But you know, we could have had that maybe in
Speaker 5: a Jink scene, but Jinx's character is so much darker
Speaker 5: and more somber this season. We have not seen Jinks
Speaker 5: like off the edge, like going crazy. And then also
Speaker 5: we have this beautiful song that is sung by Cheryl
Speaker 5: Lee Ralph, who you probably know from things like Sister
Speaker 5: Act two or Moesha or potentially as Barbara in Aviod Elementary.
Speaker 5: She's incredible, but she sings this song that like that
Speaker 5: could have gone in any number of places in these
Speaker 5: first three episodes, and instead we're getting like I couldn't.
Speaker 5: There were a couple spots the music with Victor becoming Jesus,
Speaker 5: like really two on the nose, We get it, We
Speaker 5: know what you're referencing here. If we don't need like
Speaker 5: these choiry strings of Jesus.
Speaker 3: Anybody heard of Jesus?
Speaker 1: You know? So you see just curing people.
Speaker 5: Now, and they do have like a music video to
Speaker 5: start every single episode so far, which felt like a lot.
Speaker 2: And again this is to your point, this is not
Speaker 2: existing songs that are licensed for this which is cheaper.
Speaker 2: This is original music that has been created for this show,
Speaker 2: sometimes with like songwriters.
Speaker 3: I mean Sting is a songwriter on one of these.
Speaker 2: This is like top dollar stuff that you're paying for
Speaker 2: and it's three four times an episode.
Speaker 1: It does scream like music video game exact. So will
Speaker 1: like make sure that you get some sting in o Kane.
Speaker 1: I really think the kids are gonna love Sting like,
Speaker 1: which is anat song.
Speaker 5: The Sting song is actually in season one, but also
Speaker 5: season one has it had push a t on the soundtrack.
Speaker 5: This is like a great collection of artists but.
Speaker 1: Also huge names.
Speaker 5: Oh and my other thing we talked about the pacing.
Speaker 5: If you're gonna have these montage music videos at the
Speaker 5: beginning of every episode, use that to tell us a
Speaker 5: little story, get us like faster as opposed as opposed
Speaker 5: to just here I am remembering my mom and hears uh,
Speaker 5: you know the different art styles and yeah, so your
Speaker 5: point on that, Like there's one of I think it's
Speaker 5: the episode two video opener where it's like.
Speaker 1: You see ken the pools water.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it's and then it morphs into this
Speaker 2: uh you know music video execution telling us that now
Speaker 2: Silko's like lieutenants are fighting each other.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, it just feels like a double beat
Speaker 2: to me, Like we get it. We've just had the
Speaker 2: conversation that, like the gangs are disunited. We had it
Speaker 2: in episode one that they're going to be at each
Speaker 2: other's next fighting for control of the lanes. We just
Speaker 2: heard Jinks in the baptism scene where she's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: mourning Silko saying that, like, these two big gangsters are
Speaker 2: fighting for control of the lanes. We don't then need
Speaker 2: an entire music video that like takes us through like oh,
Speaker 2: Silko disappearing and now this person disappearing, and now these
Speaker 2: two already and you know, like ready disappearing, and now
Speaker 2: these two already each other's next.
Speaker 3: Like we get it.
Speaker 2: But again, I think this all comes back to the
Speaker 2: fact that, as is reported in this Variety story that
Speaker 2: after delays, they didn't have when they came back and
Speaker 2: had production, they didn't have writing done. So they clearly
Speaker 2: were having to tread water in a lot of different
Speaker 2: areas and find reasons to include various different animations. And
Speaker 2: I just think there's a lot of repeated beats that
Speaker 2: could have just been beat out once you hit us
Speaker 2: over the head with stuff.
Speaker 1: I think you make a good point. Also, I wonder
Speaker 1: if this is that kind of that hard jump from
Speaker 1: season one being so accessible and everyone like this is great.
Speaker 1: I love how easy it is for me to jump
Speaker 1: in to then trusting your audience enough in season two
Speaker 1: to not necessarily do the same repeated beat stuff that
Speaker 1: made it really easy to get into in season one.
Speaker 1: But I still didn't find this. I think, like if
Speaker 1: somebody was like just watching a random episode of this
Speaker 1: with their friends, I still don't think this season is
Speaker 1: particularly easy to get into. But those repeated beats are
Speaker 1: like very very clear. Yeah, it definitely an editorial guy, No, no, no, this.
Speaker 2: Is it's just the frustration of like, this show is
Speaker 2: going to be over now it's.
Speaker 1: Six episodes, and also it costs two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars plus.
Speaker 3: You know, so we gotta get more for our money.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, and also this is you know, this is
Speaker 1: that conversation as well of like is streaming sustainable? Like
Speaker 1: people love TV shows that are on Netflix, and Netflix
Speaker 1: are well known for occasionally they'll cancel, you know, a
Speaker 1: popular show. That's something that's happened and I think that
Speaker 1: these kind of conversation about budget and production stuff are
Speaker 1: important because it's part of the context of the industry
Speaker 1: and how and why these shows get made or don't
Speaker 1: get made.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One more comment, because the two hundred and fifty million
Speaker 2: figure that is in this Variety article, the exec who
Speaker 2: is quoted in this article does not confirm that that
Speaker 2: is indeed the number, which leads me to believe that
Speaker 2: it's actually higher.
Speaker 1: Higher. I did, I got higher. I got that too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So any closing thoughts.
Speaker 5: Aaron Closing thoughts, I, having just rewatched all of season
Speaker 5: one and really getting into it, I'm so happy that
Speaker 5: it's back. When we get new stories after two three
Speaker 5: years whatever it was between the end of season one
Speaker 5: and season two. It's great to see things again, loving
Speaker 5: the outfit changes for everyone, and we're getting advancement of
Speaker 5: some of these storylines, albeit slowly. I'm excited to see
Speaker 5: what the final six episodes are. But I do think
Speaker 5: at the end of this I really love the high
Speaker 5: at the end of episode three, but there was a
Speaker 5: little bit of bumpy road to get there.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Okay. Let me ask you both, what are
Speaker 1: your biggest questions for like the next act, Like going
Speaker 1: into the next act, what's the thing you most wanted?
Speaker 1: Shield Guy?
Speaker 5: Whose shield Guy?
Speaker 3: What is hurricane?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know arcane? What is the arcane? That's the
Speaker 1: biggest question, I think, And also who is shield guy?
Speaker 1: We need to know, guys.
Speaker 5: I also want to know that I felt like I
Speaker 5: was stupid. I rewatched the scene to make sure when
Speaker 5: Jinx sets off the bombs and we get the colorful
Speaker 5: smoke going into Piltover, I expected it to be the
Speaker 5: gray and everyone just kind of kept different going, Yeah,
Speaker 5: there didn't seem to be the gray, And I don't
Speaker 5: know if it was just a warning shot and she's
Speaker 5: gonna you know, like reverse the duct system later, but
Speaker 5: why would you give that away?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: That seemed to be an incredible visual moment that didn't
Speaker 5: have a true story aspect yet I know I was like.
Speaker 1: Is it meant to be Shima or a version of
Speaker 1: Shimmer and then she's gonna get That's.
Speaker 3: What I thought.
Speaker 2: I was wondering if it was like I was wondering
Speaker 2: if it was like flavors of Shimmer, like you know,
Speaker 2: like different Kem Barons factory Shimmer, factories like popping off
Speaker 2: into Yeah, into piltover I. I same as you, Aaron.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of questions about what comes next
Speaker 2: with that particular plot. Well, that's it for today's episode.
Speaker 2: Coming up on Extra Vision this Thursday, we're breaking down
Speaker 2: the cinematic future of the DC universe. Then next week
Speaker 2: we're you know, gonna rub a little dirt in our
Speaker 2: hands and cress the wheat as we celebrate sword in
Speaker 2: Sandals weeks starting with a Gladiator rewatch on Monday, two thousands,
Speaker 2: Gladiator Arcane Season two, Act two on that Tuesday, and
Speaker 2: then Extras returns with our reactions to the first episode
Speaker 2: of Doune Prophecy on HBO.
Speaker 3: Max, and much more.
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