Arcane: League of Legends: Season 2 | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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Audience Member Arcane is a first dive into the world of league of legends lore on screen for people outside of the video game.This masterful animated show will stand the test of the time. Season one deep dived into all the interesting minds of each character learning what makes them tick. Season two is where things really take off. All these characters intercept into one of the most awesome of climaxes I've ever witness in a TV show.Trying to keep this spoiler free.I will say keep an eye out for episode 6,7 and 9 as they are the peak of the show with 7 being my favorite. One thing is for sure, this might be the end of Arcane, but with so many people now sucked into the rich lore of League of Legends, I am sure there will be many more shows to come.The only question left is, with this show costing a massive 250 million to make, if we see budgets drop, will they be able to keep the same standard of writing and animation that has Arcane the spectacle it is. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/29/24 Full Review rai k this is a piece of art in motion, every frame involves a story. you can literally pause it and see the details of the character’s feelings, i’ve never analyzed a show like this before, definitely worth all the tears i spilled.also a great bridge for future entries, i will miss these characters. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/29/24 Full Review Audience Member sorry but arcane season 1 still top if we talk about pace and storylines. there's a lot to be introduced in this second season and the stories are just all over the place.the animation still carried the show, well done fortiche. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/29/24 Full Review Devin H I agree with the reviewers criticism on pacing. However, I feel like the animation and story telling super-cede this flaw. As far as I am concerned, this is the Banksy of television media. It is an undiscovered gem for a lot of people. But when found, it is unlike anything previously discovered.This show depicts what can happen with synergistic artists. The raw emotion in this story and art set the bar unlike any other in modern day. The score and incorporation of music are powerful vessels which amplify the gritty, sad, exciting, and tense emotions. Complex like Game of Thrones, but encapsulated by incredible animation. If you pause any singular frame of this show, it is worthy to put up on any wall, any museum, and/or any screen. I am happy to have been exposed to this fictional universe. And it leaves me only wanting more exposure to the possibilities of what can be. This maybe one of the most expensive animations ever made, but in my eyes; these people deserve way more. Bravo. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/29/24 Full Review Eleni Aleksandra T The visuals are amazing, some storylines are very good but:Vi became a simple support character. Has no big fighting scene. Her personality lost, she just: oh no Jinx, oh no Caith, oh no Vander. And she is dark and badass... She was the most heroic character. The problem is not with her strugle, but the lack of story. She was raised by Vander to be a leader! And she was up to it. She understood him, she should carry his legacy. If not it's okay, but should be more reason, it just doesn't make sense. Now she is there only to be a love interest for Caith, and a love-hate sister for Jinx. Love the Jinx line btw, she finaly became a lovable character. The sisters story barely meets the big forces here. In season one the personal problems and the political ones were deeply connected. Heres the two has very few to do with it. The big ending for them seemed so little next to the Hextech line. Their deep story is getting lost in the toooooo many storylines. Echo also seemed so badass, but finaly he also had little influence compared to the lot of sacrifices. There was no time to give proper lines for each character. This should be two seasons. So much amazing work was in there. But some threads didn't make sense or had proper ending. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/29/24 Full Review Noi 0 Seldom are writers soo uninterested in answering questions they posed.Arcane Season 2 becomes nonsensical with only vibes and amazing animation/voice acting pushing the story forward. Paying attention negatively impacts understanding of the story.I'm one of these people that watched Season 1 around 40 times. I watched Season 2 twice and it feels like with each episode it undoes all the plot set up of first one, creating plot holes and contrivances while becoming lost in some philosophical discourse writers never laid groundwork for and have no skills to resolve.Complex questions and interesting conflicts of S1 are answered with banal points, if answered at all. Which leads me to believe that authors had nothing interesting to say about most stuff they touched on in S1, just threw some cool sounding dialogue and hoped the viewer would forget.That goes for the main conflict of Season 1 which was Piltover vs Zaun, or Zaun's independence. This was teased to high heavens coming into Season 2 - only to be dropped. The Zaun independence vote is never even mentioned, there are no consequences for Jayce or Viktor for bringing it up. None. S1 big finale dropped from the plot. Just like half of the cast.Season 1 set up a lot of interesting questions, ie. "What should we do with technology that could potentially change the world? How should we implement it?" Season 2 delivered the answer: We shouldn't and just in case scientists that made it should die. That's the quality of answers bestowed on the viewer after 18 episodes.Any kind of nuance is swept to the side for final battle of our heroes vs people turned into prettier version of car crash test dummies that would take over the world as a hive mind.Motivation why this is happening in the first place and how to avert THE DOOMSDAY scenario will be explained to the viewer 15 minutes before the end of the last episode in a flashback. And then it ends, thankfully.Not to mention the theme - main conflict - now being about 'how people need to make their decisions, to have a choice' and 'beauty in imperfection' is delivered through a narrative mechanic of a time loop (yes, a time loop) where the same character is sent on the same trajectory to set same events in motion and having to get it just right - one could dare to say perfect - to break the loop. This is definitely a great, logical narrative choice for the theme.For a Season that cut half the cast, setting aside most politics and technology discourse for several episodes - the story still feels rushed and like it's spinning it's wheels without meaningful resolutions.Caitlyn's and Ambessa's relationship, her break up with Vi , her grief and quest for revenge teased for Act 2 are resolved in a few quips straight from Joss Whedon's writing class. It's a tonal whiplash of what the show was and wants to be and writer's skills when comes to resolutions. We're meant to believe that the change of Caitlyn's attitude happens because of time skip.And that act 1 and 2 two time skip does a lot of heavy lifting. Probably all of heavy lifting, anything not coherent in character development is explained by 'the time skip', that goes for Caitlyn, Viktor, Jinx, Vi. The characters just appear at point B with their new character development off screen. Especially Caitlyn and Viktor could be just new characters since they're so disjointed in where we leave them off in Act 1 and Act 2. To summarize: Caitlyn is back to being good now and not wanting revenge and Viktor is evil, or possessed, or both.If it's not character development happening in the time skip, we get Jayce-Ekko-Heimerdinger being transported to some other timelines for an episode to "learn a lesson". This is not only obviously contrived story wise but showcases lack of skill integrating organic character development into plot.Mel is one of few characters that actually has an arc that spans Season 1 and 2, her relationships impacted by her choices in S1. But even her secluded story line lacks logic on the second glance: a powerful organization that abducted Mel in her own home, held her captive for months, knew about the danger coming for months - didn't bother to send someone else for months to investigate or stop the threat to the world.Watch the trailer of Season 2, skip the show. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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