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[00:00:16] Hello and welcome back to the Radioactive Ramblings Podcast. I'm one of your hosts, Chase.
[00:00:24] And I'm Aaron, your other host.
[00:00:27] Sadly today, Richard will not be on the podcast. We had some scheduling conflicts and this bum needs to get his bread up, so he's at work.
[00:00:38] Yeah, he's at work and the two of us have had our final exam season going on, so all around it's been a little bit of a pain in the rear to get scheduling going.
[00:00:49] But we're here and we're getting Season 2 of Arcane, or at least the first act of it, reviewed and yeah.
[00:00:58] Yeah. For today's episode we're going to be covering Act 1 of Season 2 of Arcane.
[00:01:03] And before we get into things, we just want to let you all know there will be spoilers for Act 1 of Season 2.
[00:01:10] And that we're going to do a quick plot review of the act as a quick refresher before we get into any of the real review and interesting moments and such.
[00:01:20] Yeah.
[00:01:20] The refresher is for both us and the viewer, just so we can make sure we're really focused in on what happens in this specific act.
[00:01:30] Yeah. Chase, how are you doing today?
[00:01:36] I feel a little like my nose has been a little stuffy today. I think my sinuses are not great, but other than that, I think I'm chilling. Why? What's up?
[00:01:49] I was just wondering how you were doing. I haven't seen you all day, pretty much.
[00:01:53] Yeah, I... So, a new season of Beastars came out on Netflix, and I watched the entire thing last night till like 4 in the morning.
[00:02:08] And then I went to bed and woke up at 1pm.
[00:02:12] And I was blowing my nose and I had a bloody nose.
[00:02:17] Today's been, honestly, trials and tribulations for me.
[00:02:23] I've just been going through it a little bit.
[00:02:26] A lot of minor things. I wouldn't say anything crazy, but...
[00:02:31] That's very unfortunate, but it is deserved.
[00:02:35] Um, sure. Sure. I'm sure I've done something along the way to deserve a little bad karma.
[00:02:44] Alright, let's get into the rundown a little bit.
[00:02:48] In Act 1 of Season 2, the narrative resumes immediately after Jinx's devastating attack on Piltover's Council, plunging both Piltover and Zaun into turmoil.
[00:02:59] The explosion results in significant casualties, including the death of Caitlyn's mother, Cassandra Kiramun.
[00:03:07] And this intensifies Caitlyn's resolve against Zaun.
[00:03:12] Amidst the chaos, Vi and Caitlyn form a task force to apprehend Jinx and dismantle the Shimmer Trade.
[00:03:18] Their mission leads them into the heart of Zaun, where they confront Jinx and her new ally, Savika, Silco's former lieutenant.
[00:03:26] A fierce battle ensues, testing Vi's loyalty to her sister and her commitment to justice.
[00:03:31] Meanwhile, Victor, having survived the Council attack, undergoes a profound transformation after merging with the Hexcore.
[00:03:41] He returns to Zaun, where he discovers his newfound abilities can heal the afflicted, attracting a following among the Undercities downtrodden.
[00:03:50] This development hints at Victor's evolving role and the potential consequences of his powers.
[00:03:55] In Piltover, political dynamics shift as Ambessa Medarda, Mel's mother, seizes the opportunity to assert control.
[00:04:03] She manipulates the Council's response to the crisis, pushing for militarization and the use of Hextech weaponry against Zaun, further escalating tensions between the two cities.
[00:04:16] All right.
[00:04:17] Sorry, before we get into anything, is your, like, character on the dock a pig?
[00:04:24] Sorry.
[00:04:25] Sorry.
[00:04:25] Like, the guest image for your, oh, it's a sheep.
[00:04:29] Sorry.
[00:04:31] I can't see what my guest thing is on the dock.
[00:04:34] It just shows me you, but am I, like, anonymous sheep or something?
[00:04:39] Yes!
[00:04:40] I thought it was a pig at first, but I think sheep is just as funny.
[00:04:45] That's pretty good.
[00:04:48] Maybe I'll just change my profile pictures everywhere to that sheep, just to keep it consistent.
[00:04:54] Yeah.
[00:04:54] You are a sheep.
[00:04:56] All right.
[00:04:59] Oh, my God.
[00:05:01] Well, thank you for writing the recap today.
[00:05:04] I greatly appreciate it.
[00:05:05] That was a good reminder for me, because I may have done something that I said I wasn't going to and watched the entire season.
[00:05:15] Yeah, it's, I understand.
[00:05:20] Richard is going to be the, probably having the best, like, view on things for our next episode, because he's going to be back for our next episode.
[00:05:31] Because he hasn't seen Act 2 yet, so his, like, perspective on Act 2 will be really great to have.
[00:05:39] Um, yeah, it's hard not to watch his head.
[00:05:42] But he's got the wool over his eyes.
[00:05:44] Okay.
[00:05:46] Nice.
[00:05:53] Um.
[00:05:54] Sorry.
[00:05:58] No, yeah, once you start watching this show, it's really hard to turn it off unless you have to, unless you're, like, tired or something.
[00:06:04] Like, this show is just so entertaining.
[00:06:08] Every time I've sat down to watch this show and thought to myself, I'm just going to watch three episodes, I'm just going to watch this act, whatever.
[00:06:15] I always end up watching six episodes in one sitting.
[00:06:19] It's kind of ridiculous.
[00:06:21] Yeah.
[00:06:22] All right.
[00:06:23] Review start.
[00:06:24] All right.
[00:06:25] Um, we're going to cover the characters here.
[00:06:28] Um, I'm only going to go over, like, big, big, like, changes in the characters from, like, the main characters from season one.
[00:06:39] But then we have some characters here that come to a lot of prominence in this season.
[00:06:45] So let's talk about them first.
[00:06:48] First being Mbessa.
[00:06:49] Mbessa is revealed in Act 3 of season one, I believe.
[00:06:55] And she's Mel's mother in season two.
[00:06:59] Even in Act 1, she has a really big role to play.
[00:07:02] Mbessa is Mel's powerful and authoritative mother who comes from a war-torn region of Sharima.
[00:07:09] Okay.
[00:07:09] So this is a little lore, not from the show.
[00:07:13] It's just from the, like, League of Legends wiki that they, or not wiki, but website that they released after Mbessa's release into League of Legends as a champion.
[00:07:25] Because, uh, she got released as a playable character in the game after season two of Arcane released.
[00:07:32] So we can assume all of these things about her on the League of Legends, like, web page are 100% accurate to the show.
[00:07:40] So Sharima's just another, uh, area in Runeterra.
[00:07:45] We don't really have to worry about it for this story.
[00:07:47] Um, but now she's a formidable and ruthless leader in Noxus, known for her strategic mind and ability to manipulate situations to her advantage.
[00:07:58] Mbessa's presence in the story highlights the complexities of Mel's character, particularly as it reveals influence and expectations placed on Mel by her family.
[00:08:08] It's kind of iterated over and over again, even in season one, that the Medarda family is a very, uh, powerful and respected family.
[00:08:19] Yeah, uh, kind, kind of going off of what you said at the beginning about Mbessa's release.
[00:08:26] I, I just looked it up and apparently Mbessa was the first character to be released after Arcane came out.
[00:08:33] Like the, the first character from the show.
[00:08:36] Yeah.
[00:08:37] Yeah.
[00:08:38] Oh yeah.
[00:08:39] The first like character from Arcane.
[00:08:41] Yeah.
[00:08:42] Because all the other characters, yeah.
[00:08:45] All the characters in Arcane that are in the game already existed in the game before the show came out.
[00:08:52] Okay.
[00:08:53] So this is really the first kind of lore edition or not even lore edition, but like legend edition, whatever you want to call it.
[00:09:01] Yeah.
[00:09:02] I mean, it's kind of both.
[00:09:03] Um, she kind of, uh, adds on to the Noxus like power system, how it's ruled and stuff, but that's not really important.
[00:09:12] I mean, they mentioned it a little bit throughout the show, but it's not really that important to it.
[00:09:17] Yeah.
[00:09:17] Yeah.
[00:09:18] And then Mbessa's, Mbessa's ambition and harsh methods set a high bar for her daughter, contributing to the political drama in Piltover.
[00:09:26] So we see Mbessa is a very, she holds a lot of power.
[00:09:32] She comes to Piltover and she's very easily able to manipulate a lot of the already powerful characters there.
[00:09:41] So yeah, that's Mbessa.
[00:09:44] Yeah.
[00:09:44] She has this really strong will because she's this warlord type of character and it's really easy for her to kind of intimidate and manipulate the counselors.
[00:09:59] Especially we see her manipulating.
[00:10:01] Oh God.
[00:10:02] What's the, what's that skinny?
[00:10:04] Sallow.
[00:10:04] Thank you.
[00:10:05] We see her manipulating Sallow pretty heavily in this first act and even screwing him over at the end, which was one of my favorite moments for Mbessa.
[00:10:15] She just, as far as characters go that lean more towards villains, I don't know that I would necessarily put her in the full villain category.
[00:10:24] I don't think that she is a malicious character.
[00:10:27] I think she's a villain for sure, but I enjoy her presence on the screen greatly.
[00:10:35] I think she's a very enjoyable character to have on screen.
[00:10:40] I actually like her character a lot.
[00:10:42] I think that she's definitely a villain and more on the evil side of things, but I think that like she does like a lot of things out of what she believes to be the goodness of her heart and for her family.
[00:10:55] Yeah.
[00:10:56] Yeah.
[00:10:56] That's what I was saying about her not being completely a villain, because in my mind, a villain would have to be someone who is genuinely doing things for the sake of, I don't know, trying to put someone down or commit some sort of horrible act.
[00:11:15] I think that Mbessa, throughout the whole time, thinks that she's genuinely doing what's best for her family, even when it gets in the way of her own family.
[00:11:26] I mean, I think that's an interesting ideal, but I think that a lot of times actions speak louder than words.
[00:11:34] So just because you're doing something out of the goodness of your heart, even if it causes a lot of harm, it's going to be harmful.
[00:11:43] It's going to be villainous.
[00:11:45] I think that intentions definitely matter a lot for sure.
[00:11:50] I think that someone who's doing something to be evil and the action they're doing is evil is a lot worse than someone who's trying to do good, but their action ends up hurting someone.
[00:12:01] But I still think that Mbessa's a villain, for sure.
[00:12:06] Yeah.
[00:12:08] Now, what is...
[00:12:10] It says that she's from the region of Shurima.
[00:12:13] Do you have any little lore tidbits on Shurima?
[00:12:15] Because I know that we're getting a Noxus spinoff, right?
[00:12:19] Yeah, okay.
[00:12:20] So Shurima is not in Noxus.
[00:12:22] It's like a completely other area.
[00:12:25] It's just that her bloodline and her family is born in Shurima, but she's a Noxian ruler.
[00:12:33] Okay, that makes more sense.
[00:12:35] And I do believe...
[00:12:39] I can't remember if it was towards the end of Season 1 or the beginning of Season 2,
[00:12:42] where we see the flashbacks of young Mel and Mbessa,
[00:12:48] and we sort of see the type of relationship that the two of them had,
[00:12:53] where Mbessa wanted to essentially raise Mel to be her successor.
[00:12:57] And you have that moment where she's like,
[00:12:59] maybe I'll make you a queen.
[00:13:02] And I think it's really interesting that it went a completely different direction,
[00:13:07] where Mel was exiled and she chose to make something incredible of herself
[00:13:14] and didn't really need her mother's help.
[00:13:16] She had that upbringing, but she really is self-made
[00:13:19] and maybe even successful in spite of her mother rather than because of her mother.
[00:13:24] Yeah, for sure.
[00:13:26] And I think that Mel kind of represents almost the opposite of Mbessa.
[00:13:32] Like Mel, she tries to solve things more diplomatically,
[00:13:35] while Mbessa tries to solve things with violence and force.
[00:13:38] And Mel is much more compassionate of the people rather than Mbessa.
[00:13:46] Yeah, they're definitely two sides of the same coin though,
[00:13:50] because I don't know about you,
[00:13:52] but whenever I watched Mel do manipulation tactics on like Jace in Season 1
[00:13:59] or different characters throughout Season 2,
[00:14:02] I saw really similar tactics from Mbessa.
[00:14:08] The way that they manipulate people is really similar,
[00:14:11] even when it is for completely different goals, obviously.
[00:14:15] I just thought that that was a good detail that the writers put in there
[00:14:19] for the family to have those through lines.
[00:14:22] Yeah, I agree with you.
[00:14:24] All right, let's get into our next character.
[00:14:26] We're going to get into Singed.
[00:14:29] He's a brilliant and morally ambiguous scientist from Zahn.
[00:14:35] Singed is known for his twisted experiments
[00:14:37] and his willingness to push the boundaries of science and ethics.
[00:14:41] He works closely with Silco,
[00:14:44] contributing to the development of dangerous substances and weapons,
[00:14:48] such as Shimmer.
[00:14:50] Yeah.
[00:14:50] And then following Silco's death, of course, in Season 2,
[00:14:53] Singed continues his scientific endeavors.
[00:14:55] In Zahn, he's seen experimenting on wolves
[00:14:58] and preparing to use a toxic gas canister on them,
[00:15:03] indicating his ongoing commitment to hazardous research.
[00:15:07] Yeah, I think that Singed is a really interesting character,
[00:15:11] particularly because of his moral ambiguity.
[00:15:14] I would say more so than any other scientist we see
[00:15:19] or have seen so far.
[00:15:22] He's willing to do some pretty horrible shit
[00:15:26] in the name of furthering science.
[00:15:29] And we do get a little bit of a glimpse later in the series
[00:15:31] as to why he's doing such awful shit,
[00:15:33] and he has a really great quote surrounding that.
[00:15:36] But at this point, he's just kind of a backwater scientist
[00:15:43] who's doing maniacal shit.
[00:15:46] He's almost a Dr. Doofenshmirtz-y type of character.
[00:15:49] I don't know.
[00:15:51] Yeah, I mean, we see that Singed is using Silco
[00:15:59] to further his research when he creates Shimmer.
[00:16:02] We see that Singed is not making Shimmer to make all this money.
[00:16:06] He's not doing it just because he wants people to get hooked on it.
[00:16:09] He's doing it because he needs Silco
[00:16:12] to further his resources in order to be able to create
[00:16:17] whatever he needs to create.
[00:16:19] We don't know yet at this point.
[00:16:21] But I think he's a really interesting character.
[00:16:26] Like, oh, I think a lot of the characters,
[00:16:31] especially the scientists, as you said,
[00:16:33] we see in the show are all driven towards progress
[00:16:39] and helping others while Singed is a very selfish individual.
[00:16:45] Yeah, he's also very reclusive.
[00:16:48] You don't see him working with people
[00:16:50] or developing relationships with people very often
[00:16:54] unless it's something that he thinks is going to benefit his work.
[00:16:58] The one time that we sort of get a break from that
[00:17:01] is his relationship with Victor,
[00:17:03] but that's very limited even.
[00:17:06] And I think that the majority of that
[00:17:08] is in later parts of the season,
[00:17:09] so I won't get into it now.
[00:17:12] I don't have too much else to say about Singed.
[00:17:15] Do you have any final thoughts
[00:17:16] before I take us into Savika?
[00:17:18] Um, no, let's get into Savika.
[00:17:22] Cool.
[00:17:23] As a former enforcer under Silco,
[00:17:26] Savika now seeks to maintain unity among Zahn's factions
[00:17:29] amid the ensuing chaos.
[00:17:31] She leads a rally at Vander's statue
[00:17:34] aiming to inspire solidarity.
[00:17:36] However, her efforts are disrupted
[00:17:38] when Noxian forces led by Ambessa Medarda
[00:17:41] intervene, resulting in Savika's capture
[00:17:43] and the destruction of her prosthetic arm.
[00:17:47] The raid that happens at Vander's statue,
[00:17:52] I thought it was a really good example of...
[00:17:55] I'm sort of going off of Savika for a second.
[00:17:57] I thought it was a good example of how Ambessa
[00:18:01] is very power-hungry
[00:18:02] and doesn't really care about Piltover or Zahn or anything.
[00:18:06] She's just in this for her own gain.
[00:18:11] Yeah, I think that the way we see this a lot
[00:18:15] is how she treats the people of Zahn.
[00:18:20] Mm-hmm.
[00:18:21] She has a lot of her people just, like,
[00:18:24] beating the shit out of them
[00:18:26] and locking them up,
[00:18:29] just straight up throwing them in prison
[00:18:30] for no reason.
[00:18:32] Yeah.
[00:18:34] I think that Savika, in this season,
[00:18:37] especially towards the beginning,
[00:18:39] is such a good case study
[00:18:42] of what Silco's absence means to the underworld.
[00:18:46] I think that Silco
[00:18:49] was just this awful, terrible guy,
[00:18:52] but, like a lot of awful, terrible people
[00:18:56] throughout different groups in history, whatever,
[00:18:59] he had the respect of the people
[00:19:02] that were working with him,
[00:19:03] or at least he had their fear,
[00:19:04] and so he was holding everything together.
[00:19:06] Savika does not have that same respect or fear,
[00:19:09] and everything is just kind of falling apart
[00:19:11] from under her.
[00:19:13] Yeah.
[00:19:15] I mean, that's why she's trying so hard
[00:19:17] to get Jinx to come to the rallies
[00:19:20] and have people join together.
[00:19:25] Yeah.
[00:19:26] Yeah, I think that Savika's doing her best
[00:19:30] to try and keep this ragtag group of Zahnites
[00:19:36] who were united for at least a little while
[00:19:38] from splintering,
[00:19:40] and ultimately it's not working out in her favor,
[00:19:45] which is quite unfortunate.
[00:19:47] The work that Silco put in
[00:19:48] to get the whole Undercity into one camp,
[00:19:52] it's like, it's all gone in a day.
[00:19:55] And for all the people that believed
[00:19:57] in his dream of Zahn,
[00:19:59] that must really sting.
[00:20:01] Yeah.
[00:20:02] All right, let's get into our next character.
[00:20:04] Let's get into Isha.
[00:20:06] Isha has not too much screen time in this act.
[00:20:11] She's the young orphan who is running away
[00:20:14] from the, like, Ken Baron lackeys,
[00:20:17] and she falls into Jinx's lap.
[00:20:20] Jinx saves her,
[00:20:22] and from then on they slowly get closer and closer
[00:20:26] as Isha sticks around with Jinx.
[00:20:28] Yeah.
[00:20:29] Their bond reminds me a lot of
[00:20:31] Vi and Powder's relationship in Act 1 of Season 1.
[00:20:36] Yeah, for sure.
[00:20:37] I think.
[00:20:38] I mean, it's clearly a parallel
[00:20:40] that's being drawn, for sure.
[00:20:42] Yeah.
[00:20:43] Absolutely.
[00:20:43] I really like Isha.
[00:20:45] Isha was genuinely
[00:20:48] my, like, top three favorite characters
[00:20:50] this season.
[00:20:52] Yeah.
[00:20:53] Isha just does so much
[00:20:55] for Jinx's character development,
[00:20:57] and I don't want to boil down Isha
[00:20:59] to just being a plot device for Jinx.
[00:21:02] No, okay, I was going to mention this
[00:21:04] when we go over Act 2,
[00:21:05] but I was seeing some stuff on Reddit
[00:21:08] that was really pissing me off about Isha.
[00:21:10] Were they saying what I just said
[00:21:13] of, like, it's a, of Isha being a plot device?
[00:21:15] Yes, kind of.
[00:21:16] I disagree with that entirely.
[00:21:18] Me too.
[00:21:19] I think that Isha was a really good,
[00:21:22] oh my goodness,
[00:21:23] a really good character in her own right,
[00:21:26] and just because her relationship with Jinx
[00:21:29] defined a lot of who her character is,
[00:21:33] I don't think that that takes away
[00:21:35] from her as a character.
[00:21:37] I think that she can both be
[00:21:39] a great character independently
[00:21:41] and be a great foil for Jinx.
[00:21:45] So.
[00:21:46] Yes.
[00:21:46] That's my rant.
[00:21:48] All right.
[00:21:49] Do we want to get into some interesting moments?
[00:21:52] Yeah.
[00:21:53] Let's get into some interesting moments.
[00:21:55] Do you want to take it away here?
[00:21:57] So, I thought an interesting moment
[00:22:00] was when the Kem Baron,
[00:22:02] like, Chainsaw Lady attacks the,
[00:22:05] like, I think it was, like,
[00:22:06] a memorial speech, right?
[00:22:08] Yeah.
[00:22:09] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:22:11] And we see that Jace and Vi
[00:22:13] are about to work together
[00:22:14] to take down, like, the big, giant,
[00:22:16] you know what I'm,
[00:22:17] you guys know what I'm talking about,
[00:22:18] like, hulked-out guy
[00:22:19] in, like, the armor suit.
[00:22:20] Yes.
[00:22:21] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:22:22] But we see that
[00:22:24] Mbessa's people take it down first.
[00:22:27] I, like, immediately was like,
[00:22:29] whoa, this, like,
[00:22:30] has to be foreshadowing of something
[00:22:32] that, like,
[00:22:33] Mbessa is,
[00:22:34] is, like,
[00:22:36] somehow involved with this attack
[00:22:38] or that, like,
[00:22:41] this is foreshadowing
[00:22:42] that, like,
[00:22:43] because of this,
[00:22:44] Jace and Vi,
[00:22:45] or not Jace and Vi,
[00:22:46] but, like, Vi
[00:22:47] and the people of Piltover
[00:22:49] are going to have, like,
[00:22:50] a disagreement
[00:22:51] and Vi is going to go back to Zaun.
[00:22:53] Something of the sort.
[00:22:54] Like, I just felt like
[00:22:55] something was amiss
[00:22:57] because of that.
[00:22:59] Yeah, I think that
[00:23:00] that's something that I didn't think about
[00:23:02] when I watched for the first time,
[00:23:03] so I,
[00:23:05] that's really awesome
[00:23:06] that you caught that
[00:23:07] and thought that there was
[00:23:08] something more to that
[00:23:09] to add off of that a little bit.
[00:23:11] I think that
[00:23:12] through the character of Mel,
[00:23:14] we've been taught as an audience
[00:23:15] not to trust Mbessa as well,
[00:23:18] so that kind of compounds with that.
[00:23:20] Yeah, I mean, for sure.
[00:23:22] Everything that Mbessa does
[00:23:24] is shady to begin with,
[00:23:26] so I think that, like,
[00:23:27] obviously adds upon
[00:23:28] everything she has
[00:23:29] her Noxian soldiers do
[00:23:31] has me, like,
[00:23:32] questioning
[00:23:33] what they're up to,
[00:23:35] for sure.
[00:23:35] And the next interesting moment
[00:23:37] I want to talk about
[00:23:38] is
[00:23:39] Caitlyn's
[00:23:40] bastardization
[00:23:41] of her mother's charity.
[00:23:43] Her mother creates, like,
[00:23:45] the ventilation system
[00:23:46] that causes, like,
[00:23:47] the gray
[00:23:48] to not just, like,
[00:23:49] blast straight
[00:23:50] into the people's homes
[00:23:52] and Zaun
[00:23:52] all over the streets
[00:23:54] and everything.
[00:23:55] The gray
[00:23:55] is that
[00:23:56] really,
[00:23:57] really powerful
[00:23:58] and strong smog
[00:24:00] that basically
[00:24:01] instantly causes you
[00:24:02] irritation
[00:24:03] and other issues.
[00:24:05] Bleeding from the eyes,
[00:24:07] I think, too.
[00:24:08] I thought that was
[00:24:09] such an interesting moment
[00:24:10] because,
[00:24:11] I mean,
[00:24:12] we see
[00:24:13] in season one,
[00:24:14] like,
[00:24:15] Caitlyn is
[00:24:15] trying to be a champion
[00:24:17] of the people
[00:24:18] and in,
[00:24:19] I would say,
[00:24:20] opposition to her mother
[00:24:21] who seems like
[00:24:22] she doesn't really give a fuck
[00:24:23] about the Undercity,
[00:24:25] but then we see now
[00:24:27] that her mother
[00:24:28] put into place
[00:24:29] this ventilation system
[00:24:30] because she believes
[00:24:31] the people of the Undercity
[00:24:33] deserve to breathe
[00:24:34] and Caitlyn is using this
[00:24:36] as chemical warfare.
[00:24:38] What are we doing,
[00:24:40] Caitlyn?
[00:24:41] I know.
[00:24:42] I think that Caitlyn,
[00:24:45] she is a little bit
[00:24:47] villainous in my head,
[00:24:49] the same,
[00:24:50] to obviously a much lesser degree
[00:24:53] than Ambessa
[00:24:54] or Silco
[00:24:55] or any of those
[00:24:56] other characters,
[00:24:57] but Caitlyn is certainly
[00:24:59] willing to do
[00:25:00] awful things
[00:25:01] for the sake of her goals.
[00:25:03] She gets tunnel vision
[00:25:04] when she has something
[00:25:05] in mind,
[00:25:05] I think.
[00:25:06] Yes,
[00:25:07] for sure.
[00:25:09] The first thing
[00:25:10] that I kind of
[00:25:10] took note of
[00:25:12] was
[00:25:13] Caitlyn's appointment
[00:25:14] to being the general
[00:25:16] slash commander
[00:25:17] of Piltover
[00:25:18] at the end
[00:25:19] of episode three,
[00:25:20] and that was
[00:25:21] a plot by Ambessa.
[00:25:23] So once again,
[00:25:24] we have Ambessa
[00:25:25] pulling the strings,
[00:25:26] and it's something
[00:25:29] that she springs
[00:25:29] on Caitlyn too.
[00:25:30] It wasn't a premeditated thing.
[00:25:32] Ambessa told Salo
[00:25:34] that he was going to be
[00:25:35] the one in the hot seat,
[00:25:37] and then Ambessa
[00:25:38] just completely turns it around
[00:25:39] at that meeting
[00:25:40] and nominates Caitlyn,
[00:25:42] which
[00:25:44] she doesn't have
[00:25:45] any real authority,
[00:25:47] Ambessa that is,
[00:25:48] but
[00:25:49] clearly in the aftermath
[00:25:51] of this great tragedy
[00:25:52] and her use
[00:25:54] of her Noxian soldiers
[00:25:55] to sort of bring order,
[00:25:57] it's given her authority
[00:25:58] that she shouldn't have
[00:25:59] over the city.
[00:26:01] Yeah,
[00:26:02] I mean,
[00:26:03] well,
[00:26:03] I think part of the authority
[00:26:04] she gets to
[00:26:05] is because she's like,
[00:26:06] my whole unit
[00:26:07] and myself
[00:26:08] will be devoted
[00:26:09] to
[00:26:09] whoever we elect,
[00:26:11] and then she makes
[00:26:13] a suggestion
[00:26:14] for who to elect
[00:26:15] with the
[00:26:16] assumed
[00:26:17] Salo's
[00:26:18] backing,
[00:26:18] who has a lot
[00:26:20] of power currently,
[00:26:21] even though,
[00:26:22] because like,
[00:26:23] she has Salo
[00:26:24] call the meeting,
[00:26:25] so everyone assumes
[00:26:26] that her and Salo
[00:26:28] are on the same page,
[00:26:29] and that's why
[00:26:29] she has her guy
[00:26:31] like sit him down
[00:26:32] when he's like,
[00:26:33] what the heck?
[00:26:34] What do you mean,
[00:26:34] Caitlyn?
[00:26:36] Yeah,
[00:26:36] I know.
[00:26:37] This is one plot point,
[00:26:39] and I'm interested
[00:26:40] to get your thoughts
[00:26:41] on this.
[00:26:41] One plot point
[00:26:42] that really confused me
[00:26:44] in the first act
[00:26:45] of this season,
[00:26:45] has Jace quit
[00:26:47] the council?
[00:26:48] Yes,
[00:26:49] yes,
[00:26:49] he quits the council.
[00:26:50] Okay,
[00:26:51] because I,
[00:26:52] I didn't remember
[00:26:53] that moment happening,
[00:26:54] and this whole first act,
[00:26:56] I'm,
[00:26:56] I was sitting here
[00:26:57] thinking like,
[00:26:58] at the end of season one,
[00:26:59] he was the de facto
[00:27:00] leader of the council,
[00:27:01] and now he's just
[00:27:02] not even a part of it.
[00:27:03] I didn't remember him
[00:27:04] quitting,
[00:27:04] but I might just
[00:27:06] I think he says it
[00:27:07] in both seasons anyways,
[00:27:09] but in season one,
[00:27:11] act three,
[00:27:12] I'm pretty sure he says
[00:27:13] after like,
[00:27:14] they signed the thing
[00:27:15] to make Zahn
[00:27:16] its own nation
[00:27:17] to emancipate it,
[00:27:20] that he was gonna
[00:27:21] step down anyways,
[00:27:22] but I think that
[00:27:23] in season two,
[00:27:24] he says like,
[00:27:25] after,
[00:27:26] after the attack,
[00:27:27] he's stepping down
[00:27:28] or something.
[00:27:29] Yeah,
[00:27:31] and Mel,
[00:27:33] Mel has got to be
[00:27:34] feeling pretty
[00:27:36] uneasy about the fact
[00:27:37] that her mother
[00:27:37] is gaining all
[00:27:38] of this influence
[00:27:39] in the city
[00:27:40] that she has sort of
[00:27:42] ran away from
[00:27:42] her mother too.
[00:27:44] Yeah,
[00:27:45] I mean,
[00:27:45] I think in this act,
[00:27:47] maybe put a marker here,
[00:27:48] but I think this is where
[00:27:49] like at the end
[00:27:50] of episode three,
[00:27:51] Mel gets like
[00:27:51] abducted by the Black Rose,
[00:27:53] right?
[00:27:54] Yes,
[00:27:55] yeah,
[00:27:55] it's at the very end
[00:27:56] of this act.
[00:27:58] And we get a little bit
[00:28:00] of information
[00:28:01] about the Black Rose too,
[00:28:03] I think.
[00:28:03] We hear a little bit
[00:28:05] of exposition
[00:28:06] about how Mel's brother
[00:28:08] Kino
[00:28:10] was killed
[00:28:10] by sorcerers
[00:28:12] in Noxus
[00:28:14] and we don't really
[00:28:15] know exactly
[00:28:16] the details
[00:28:17] of what happened
[00:28:17] other than the fact
[00:28:18] that Mbessa
[00:28:19] has this really
[00:28:20] strong hatred
[00:28:21] of mages.
[00:28:24] Yes,
[00:28:25] and then also,
[00:28:26] I think
[00:28:27] this is the episode
[00:28:28] that,
[00:28:29] or not the episode,
[00:28:30] sorry,
[00:28:30] the act where
[00:28:31] Mbessa is making
[00:28:32] like miscalculations
[00:28:33] in her movements
[00:28:35] that like some
[00:28:36] of the things
[00:28:37] she's doing
[00:28:37] are unexpected
[00:28:38] because she wouldn't
[00:28:40] expect such a master
[00:28:41] tactician to make
[00:28:42] such a silly mistake.
[00:28:46] Yeah,
[00:28:46] I agree.
[00:28:47] I think Mbessa
[00:28:48] clearly presents
[00:28:50] herself as being
[00:28:51] a really intelligent
[00:28:53] and great strategist
[00:28:56] and that's very true,
[00:28:57] but I do think
[00:28:59] that she has
[00:29:00] the character flaw
[00:29:01] of being short-sighted
[00:29:02] in her plans.
[00:29:04] Oh,
[00:29:05] and then we also
[00:29:05] hear from
[00:29:06] the like cat lady
[00:29:09] that was like
[00:29:10] painting the
[00:29:11] like shimmer
[00:29:13] stuff on Sallow
[00:29:14] that Mbessa
[00:29:16] seems backed
[00:29:17] into a corner.
[00:29:18] Yes,
[00:29:19] and I actually
[00:29:21] noted that
[00:29:22] in my art section,
[00:29:23] the whole like
[00:29:23] painting thing,
[00:29:24] so I kind of
[00:29:25] want to talk about
[00:29:26] that later.
[00:29:27] Yeah,
[00:29:28] but anyways,
[00:29:29] my second thing
[00:29:30] that I took note
[00:29:31] of here was
[00:29:33] when Victor
[00:29:34] in episode two
[00:29:35] at the very end
[00:29:36] heals the shimmer
[00:29:38] addict,
[00:29:38] which this guy
[00:29:39] is a recurring
[00:29:40] character.
[00:29:40] We saw him
[00:29:41] in the very first
[00:29:42] scene of season one.
[00:29:44] Vander comes and
[00:29:44] saves him from
[00:29:45] a deal gone wrong.
[00:29:48] Yeah,
[00:29:48] exactly.
[00:29:49] So this guy
[00:29:50] has had a long history.
[00:29:51] He's also,
[00:29:52] if you remember,
[00:29:53] the guy.
[00:29:53] Yeah,
[00:29:54] he's the guy
[00:29:54] that helped
[00:29:55] Caitlin heal Vi
[00:29:56] by getting
[00:29:57] a hammer for her.
[00:29:58] And then
[00:30:00] betrayed them.
[00:30:02] Yeah,
[00:30:03] he sold them
[00:30:03] out to Silco.
[00:30:05] Yeah,
[00:30:06] but when Victor
[00:30:07] heals this guy,
[00:30:09] I thought that
[00:30:09] that was such
[00:30:10] an amazing
[00:30:11] moment.
[00:30:12] And from what
[00:30:13] I understand
[00:30:13] of his character
[00:30:15] in League of Legends,
[00:30:17] he's called
[00:30:18] the Machine Herald,
[00:30:19] I believe.
[00:30:20] And yeah,
[00:30:22] his character
[00:30:22] is getting reworked
[00:30:24] in League of Legends
[00:30:25] right now.
[00:30:26] Okay,
[00:30:27] I did hear
[00:30:27] something about
[00:30:28] that,
[00:30:28] that his character
[00:30:28] was getting reworked
[00:30:29] to fit the arcane
[00:30:30] lore a little bit more.
[00:30:32] Yeah,
[00:30:32] he's getting reworked.
[00:30:34] A lot of Victor's
[00:30:36] lore kind of got,
[00:30:37] I wouldn't say
[00:30:38] like replaced,
[00:30:39] but augmented.
[00:30:41] Yeah,
[00:30:42] but this,
[00:30:42] I think,
[00:30:43] is the first step
[00:30:44] that we kind of see
[00:30:44] towards Victor
[00:30:45] becoming that more
[00:30:48] messianic character.
[00:30:50] He's,
[00:30:51] I mean,
[00:30:51] you can see
[00:30:52] the parallels
[00:30:53] between him
[00:30:53] and other holy figures
[00:30:55] where he goes
[00:30:56] and is healing the sick.
[00:30:57] He's got his robes
[00:30:58] and he's got the staff
[00:31:00] and the whole thing
[00:31:02] is going on
[00:31:02] and I,
[00:31:02] I love characters
[00:31:04] like that
[00:31:04] who take on
[00:31:05] this almost divine role.
[00:31:07] Do you have any
[00:31:07] thoughts on
[00:31:09] Victor's beginning here?
[00:31:11] I don't know,
[00:31:12] I think you got it all.
[00:31:13] All right,
[00:31:14] sweet.
[00:31:15] Should we mention
[00:31:16] Richard's points?
[00:31:17] I'll mention
[00:31:18] Richard's points.
[00:31:19] Yeah.
[00:31:20] He made a point
[00:31:21] about an interesting
[00:31:22] moment
[00:31:22] where I think
[00:31:25] Hemroid,
[00:31:26] Jace,
[00:31:26] and
[00:31:27] you.
[00:31:31] Heimritter,
[00:31:31] Jace,
[00:31:32] and Echo
[00:31:32] go to the
[00:31:34] hex cores
[00:31:35] and they find out
[00:31:36] that the
[00:31:37] hex core
[00:31:37] has been
[00:31:38] unknowingly
[00:31:39] funneling
[00:31:39] the pollution
[00:31:41] into the
[00:31:42] waterways
[00:31:42] and air vents
[00:31:43] that lead
[00:31:45] straight to
[00:31:45] the Undercity,
[00:31:46] to Zaun.
[00:31:47] I just think
[00:31:48] like it kind of,
[00:31:49] I think what
[00:31:50] Richard was trying
[00:31:51] to get at is it
[00:31:52] kind of lends
[00:31:53] credence to the
[00:31:53] fact that like a
[00:31:54] lot of the people
[00:31:55] of Piltover don't
[00:31:57] really think of how
[00:31:58] things are going to
[00:31:59] affect Zaunites
[00:32:00] or the Undercity.
[00:32:02] Yes.
[00:32:03] I think that another
[00:32:05] interesting point
[00:32:06] going off of that
[00:32:07] is that
[00:32:08] Jace is the one
[00:32:09] who knows about
[00:32:11] the polluting
[00:32:12] hex core
[00:32:13] stuff going on
[00:32:15] in the Undercity.
[00:32:16] Victor doesn't even
[00:32:17] know that
[00:32:18] that failsafe thing
[00:32:19] is down there
[00:32:20] if I remember
[00:32:21] correctly.
[00:32:22] What do you mean?
[00:32:23] Like the,
[00:32:25] there's that
[00:32:26] hex core
[00:32:26] in the Undercity
[00:32:28] or like close
[00:32:29] to the Undercity,
[00:32:30] the one that's
[00:32:30] polluting everything.
[00:32:31] I remember a
[00:32:32] plot point being
[00:32:33] that Victor
[00:32:35] was upset
[00:32:35] that he didn't
[00:32:36] know that that
[00:32:37] was there.
[00:32:39] And I don't
[00:32:40] remember if it
[00:32:40] was the first
[00:32:41] season or if it
[00:32:41] was the second
[00:32:42] season.
[00:32:42] I don't think
[00:32:43] I remember that.
[00:32:45] Yeah,
[00:32:46] I mean,
[00:32:47] Jace didn't know
[00:32:48] it was polluting
[00:32:48] things.
[00:32:50] No,
[00:32:50] obviously I
[00:32:51] don't think
[00:32:51] Jace definitely
[00:32:52] didn't know that
[00:32:53] it was polluting
[00:32:53] things.
[00:32:54] I just mean that
[00:32:54] Victor didn't even
[00:32:55] know that that
[00:32:55] was down there,
[00:32:56] which I thought
[00:32:57] was an interesting
[00:32:58] thing.
[00:32:59] But yeah,
[00:33:01] and then Richard
[00:33:01] also made a point
[00:33:02] about the horrible
[00:33:04] enforcer and
[00:33:05] Naxian soldier
[00:33:06] brutality on the
[00:33:07] Undercity,
[00:33:08] which is nothing
[00:33:09] new from season
[00:33:10] one.
[00:33:10] That's just a
[00:33:12] continuation,
[00:33:12] but it's so much
[00:33:14] worse this season.
[00:33:15] They really,
[00:33:17] it's the Undercity
[00:33:18] goes through it
[00:33:19] in so many
[00:33:21] different ways in
[00:33:21] this season.
[00:33:23] But before we go
[00:33:25] on to the art,
[00:33:26] I kind of want to
[00:33:26] talk about the
[00:33:27] music real quick.
[00:33:28] Did you think it
[00:33:29] was better?
[00:33:30] Did you think it
[00:33:30] was worse in this
[00:33:32] season?
[00:33:32] I think we talked
[00:33:33] we talked about
[00:33:34] this a little bit
[00:33:35] the other night.
[00:33:36] I thought that
[00:33:37] the music from
[00:33:38] season one was
[00:33:40] really great,
[00:33:41] obviously,
[00:33:42] except for the
[00:33:42] Imagine Dragons.
[00:33:43] but okay,
[00:33:45] I think that
[00:33:47] I've said this
[00:33:48] to you the
[00:33:49] other day.
[00:33:52] There's a
[00:33:53] Woodkid song
[00:33:54] in this season
[00:33:55] called Ashes
[00:33:55] and Blood.
[00:33:57] It's so good.
[00:33:58] That song was so
[00:33:58] good, dude.
[00:33:59] It's so good.
[00:34:01] Woodkid is the
[00:34:02] type of edgy,
[00:34:04] basically what I'm
[00:34:05] trying to get
[00:34:05] out of here,
[00:34:05] Imagine Dragons
[00:34:06] thinks that they're
[00:34:07] Woodkid and
[00:34:08] they're just not.
[00:34:09] They're trying
[00:34:10] so hard to be,
[00:34:11] they want to be
[00:34:12] like them so bad
[00:34:13] and they're just
[00:34:15] not.
[00:34:16] No, I think
[00:34:16] that, um,
[00:34:18] I mean,
[00:34:21] we'll talk about
[00:34:22] this a little bit
[00:34:22] more later,
[00:34:23] but I think
[00:34:23] art-wise and
[00:34:25] sound design
[00:34:26] and music-wise,
[00:34:29] it's somehow,
[00:34:31] they've done the
[00:34:31] impossible,
[00:34:32] they've outdone
[00:34:32] themselves,
[00:34:33] it's somehow
[00:34:33] better in season
[00:34:34] two.
[00:34:35] I agree.
[00:34:36] I think that,
[00:34:38] I mean,
[00:34:39] we're going to get
[00:34:39] into it later,
[00:34:40] but arcane's
[00:34:42] so good,
[00:34:43] it got me
[00:34:43] listening to
[00:34:44] French music.
[00:34:47] It's so good,
[00:34:48] man.
[00:34:49] The sound,
[00:34:50] or not the
[00:34:51] sound,
[00:34:51] the soundtrack,
[00:34:53] so yes,
[00:34:54] the sound,
[00:34:55] god damn it,
[00:34:55] the soundtrack
[00:34:57] for this season
[00:34:58] was really good.
[00:34:59] I think Richard
[00:35:00] talks about this
[00:35:01] in his little
[00:35:03] segment that he
[00:35:04] wrote later,
[00:35:04] but heavy as a
[00:35:05] crown,
[00:35:05] I loved the
[00:35:06] arcane version
[00:35:08] of it.
[00:35:08] I went and
[00:35:09] listened to
[00:35:10] Linkin Park's
[00:35:11] actual version
[00:35:12] of it,
[00:35:13] I liked that
[00:35:13] one too,
[00:35:14] but I think
[00:35:15] the arcane
[00:35:15] one was so
[00:35:16] good,
[00:35:17] that one
[00:35:17] was so
[00:35:18] fire.
[00:35:19] Yes.
[00:35:20] Alright,
[00:35:21] I'm ready to
[00:35:21] get into the
[00:35:22] art,
[00:35:22] unless you have
[00:35:23] something else
[00:35:23] you want to
[00:35:24] say.
[00:35:24] Yeah,
[00:35:24] I had one
[00:35:25] more thing
[00:35:25] to say about
[00:35:25] the music,
[00:35:26] which is,
[00:35:27] once again,
[00:35:28] back to the
[00:35:29] Woodkid song,
[00:35:29] he said that
[00:35:30] it was written
[00:35:31] from the
[00:35:31] perspective of
[00:35:33] Victor talking
[00:35:34] to Jace.
[00:35:36] Oh,
[00:35:37] that song
[00:35:37] in specific?
[00:35:38] That song
[00:35:39] in specific,
[00:35:40] because it
[00:35:40] was made
[00:35:41] for the
[00:35:41] show.
[00:35:42] Oh,
[00:35:42] that's so
[00:35:43] sick.
[00:35:44] Yeah,
[00:35:45] which,
[00:35:45] when you
[00:35:45] listen to
[00:35:46] the lyrics,
[00:35:47] it really,
[00:35:47] it makes
[00:35:48] sense.
[00:35:48] But anyways,
[00:35:49] yeah,
[00:35:49] let's get
[00:35:50] into the
[00:35:50] art.
[00:35:51] Why don't
[00:35:51] we bring
[00:35:51] up Richard's
[00:35:52] points first,
[00:35:53] since he's
[00:35:54] Yeah,
[00:35:54] yeah,
[00:35:54] we'll talk
[00:35:55] about him.
[00:35:59] Quick note
[00:36:00] here from
[00:36:00] editor Aaron,
[00:36:02] the song
[00:36:03] Ashes and
[00:36:04] Blood that
[00:36:05] I just
[00:36:05] mentioned is
[00:36:05] being written
[00:36:06] from the
[00:36:07] perspective of
[00:36:07] Jace talking
[00:36:08] to Victor.
[00:36:09] I messed
[00:36:10] up.
[00:36:10] I meant
[00:36:10] to say it
[00:36:11] was the
[00:36:12] 21 Pilots
[00:36:13] song that
[00:36:14] was written
[00:36:14] for this
[00:36:15] show.
[00:36:15] So,
[00:36:16] sorry about
[00:36:17] that.
[00:36:17] That is my
[00:36:18] bad.
[00:36:18] But anyways,
[00:36:20] back to the
[00:36:20] program.
[00:36:22] Since you
[00:36:23] did the
[00:36:23] whole Act
[00:36:24] 1 touch
[00:36:25] up.
[00:36:26] Um,
[00:36:28] so Richard
[00:36:28] said Jace
[00:36:29] touching the
[00:36:30] wild rune
[00:36:30] was a really
[00:36:31] sick art
[00:36:32] thing.
[00:36:32] I definitely
[00:36:33] agree.
[00:36:34] I think he's
[00:36:34] talking about
[00:36:34] when him,
[00:36:35] Hemroid,
[00:36:35] and Echo
[00:36:36] are in the
[00:36:37] hexcore area
[00:36:38] and they get
[00:36:38] sucked into
[00:36:39] like.
[00:36:41] I'm never
[00:36:42] good.
[00:36:42] Every time
[00:36:43] you say it,
[00:36:43] it takes me
[00:36:44] like half a
[00:36:44] second to catch
[00:36:45] it.
[00:36:45] And you're
[00:36:46] like,
[00:36:46] what is he
[00:36:47] talking about?
[00:36:49] No,
[00:36:49] actually a
[00:36:51] little pain
[00:36:51] in the ass.
[00:36:54] Dude,
[00:36:54] I have to
[00:36:56] give credit
[00:36:56] where credit
[00:36:57] is due.
[00:36:57] I read
[00:36:58] that on a
[00:36:58] TikTok,
[00:36:59] but I
[00:37:00] think that
[00:37:00] might have
[00:37:01] been the
[00:37:01] most creative
[00:37:02] high comedy
[00:37:03] that I've
[00:37:04] read all
[00:37:04] year.
[00:37:05] So we'll
[00:37:08] continue with
[00:37:09] the Jace
[00:37:10] touching the
[00:37:10] wild rune.
[00:37:11] That was a
[00:37:12] really sick
[00:37:12] moment for
[00:37:13] sure.
[00:37:13] When it's
[00:37:14] like him
[00:37:14] alone after
[00:37:15] Echo and
[00:37:16] Heimerdinger
[00:37:17] get like
[00:37:17] teleported away
[00:37:18] from him and
[00:37:19] it's just him
[00:37:20] with the
[00:37:20] wild rune in
[00:37:21] like the
[00:37:21] white room
[00:37:22] and then it's
[00:37:23] like the
[00:37:23] infinite Jaces.
[00:37:24] I thought that
[00:37:25] was a really
[00:37:26] cool scene and
[00:37:26] I think Richard
[00:37:27] probably thought
[00:37:28] that too.
[00:37:28] They do such a
[00:37:29] great job in
[00:37:30] this show of
[00:37:31] visualizing the
[00:37:32] more mystical
[00:37:33] components when
[00:37:35] you're shifting
[00:37:35] between dimensions
[00:37:36] or like...
[00:37:38] Yeah, I think
[00:37:39] they do a
[00:37:39] really good job
[00:37:40] of allowing
[00:37:41] the viewer to
[00:37:42] feel just as
[00:37:43] like befuddled
[00:37:44] as the
[00:37:45] character.
[00:37:46] I think a lot
[00:37:46] of the time
[00:37:47] when we see
[00:37:48] characters having
[00:37:49] like a crazy
[00:37:50] internal headspace
[00:37:52] moment where
[00:37:52] they're seeing
[00:37:53] things, it's
[00:37:54] kind of poorly
[00:37:55] done in a lot
[00:37:56] of shows where
[00:37:56] oh like the
[00:37:57] colors will
[00:37:58] distort or like
[00:37:59] their vision
[00:37:59] gets blurry or
[00:38:01] something like
[00:38:01] that or like
[00:38:02] they start
[00:38:03] drowning out all
[00:38:04] the sound around
[00:38:04] them but then
[00:38:05] we see Jason,
[00:38:06] it's like he's
[00:38:06] literally having
[00:38:07] a fever dream.
[00:38:09] Yeah, I really
[00:38:10] enjoy that
[00:38:11] visualization because
[00:38:14] the whole idea
[00:38:15] behind it is
[00:38:16] something is
[00:38:16] happening to
[00:38:17] these characters
[00:38:17] that's completely
[00:38:19] beyond their
[00:38:19] comprehension and
[00:38:20] I think that's
[00:38:21] reflected in the
[00:38:22] art style.
[00:38:23] It's like you
[00:38:23] can see why
[00:38:24] whatever is
[00:38:25] happening is
[00:38:26] beyond human
[00:38:27] comprehension.
[00:38:28] I really enjoyed
[00:38:29] that.
[00:38:31] Yeah, for sure.
[00:38:32] Alright, do you
[00:38:32] want to get into
[00:38:33] your art moments
[00:38:33] or should I just
[00:38:34] continue with mine
[00:38:35] and then we'll
[00:38:35] finish off with
[00:38:36] yours?
[00:38:36] Um, yeah, I
[00:38:38] can get into
[00:38:38] mine.
[00:38:39] I mentioned my
[00:38:40] first one earlier
[00:38:41] which was the
[00:38:42] shimmer painting on
[00:38:44] Counselor Sallow.
[00:38:45] I thought that
[00:38:45] that was such a
[00:38:46] cool idea of
[00:38:48] these shimmer
[00:38:49] tattoos that get
[00:38:50] painted over and
[00:38:52] this design that
[00:38:54] comes out.
[00:38:54] Yeah, it's kind of
[00:38:55] like topical
[00:38:55] steroids almost.
[00:38:57] Yeah, it is and
[00:38:59] I really also like
[00:39:00] the idea of this
[00:39:02] drug that we know
[00:39:04] has a physical
[00:39:05] effect on people.
[00:39:06] that it is
[00:39:08] manifesting even
[00:39:09] on a character
[00:39:10] like Sallow
[00:39:11] because I feel
[00:39:12] that in this show
[00:39:13] we've seen the
[00:39:14] shimmer sort of
[00:39:16] have varying effects
[00:39:17] on people like
[00:39:18] certain characters
[00:39:19] become these
[00:39:20] mutant monsters
[00:39:21] and then other
[00:39:22] characters who are
[00:39:22] constantly in
[00:39:23] contact with the
[00:39:24] shimmer don't have
[00:39:25] much happen to
[00:39:26] them.
[00:39:26] So say this
[00:39:27] middle ground.
[00:39:28] The mutant monster one
[00:39:28] is like a lot of
[00:39:30] over consumption of it
[00:39:32] probably.
[00:39:32] Yes, for sure.
[00:39:33] That's like you're
[00:39:35] taking a Vander
[00:39:36] size dose and
[00:39:37] yeah, yeah, you're
[00:39:39] taking a whole vial
[00:39:41] straight to the dome.
[00:39:42] Yeah, but this more
[00:39:44] gentle painting thing,
[00:39:46] it was just visually
[00:39:47] interesting and I
[00:39:48] enjoyed it.
[00:39:48] But then the other
[00:39:50] thing that I thought
[00:39:50] was really cool was
[00:39:52] Victor's hex core
[00:39:53] cocoon seeing him in
[00:39:55] Oh, when he was
[00:39:56] like in like the
[00:39:58] rectangle.
[00:40:00] Yeah, it kind of
[00:40:01] reminded me of Han
[00:40:02] Solo frozen in
[00:40:03] carbonite a little
[00:40:04] bit.
[00:40:04] That's exactly what I
[00:40:05] was reminded of
[00:40:07] when I saw that.
[00:40:09] I'm glad we're on
[00:40:10] the same page.
[00:40:12] Dude, and then like
[00:40:12] when Heimerdinger and
[00:40:14] Echo see like the
[00:40:16] empty one, it
[00:40:17] literally like looks
[00:40:18] like it too.
[00:40:19] It really does.
[00:40:21] It looks so similar
[00:40:22] to it.
[00:40:23] And the sort of
[00:40:25] runes, you can
[00:40:26] hear the magic
[00:40:28] seeping out of it
[00:40:29] and whispering around
[00:40:30] it.
[00:40:31] And I don't know,
[00:40:33] you can definitely
[00:40:34] feel the air that
[00:40:36] something is changing
[00:40:37] inside of Victor
[00:40:38] during his period
[00:40:39] of stasis.
[00:40:41] So hats off to
[00:40:42] the artists for
[00:40:44] being able to
[00:40:46] portray a
[00:40:47] transformation like
[00:40:48] that so well.
[00:40:48] I also really like
[00:40:49] that he was in the
[00:40:50] cocoon for a while.
[00:40:51] It wasn't just an
[00:40:52] instant transformation.
[00:40:53] He actually, his
[00:40:55] body is undergoing
[00:40:56] something pretty.
[00:40:57] Yeah, it was like a
[00:40:58] whole episode, I
[00:40:59] think, right?
[00:40:59] Where he was just
[00:41:00] like out of the
[00:41:01] series.
[00:41:02] Like he was just
[00:41:02] yeah.
[00:41:03] Yeah, I think that
[00:41:05] yeah, I agree with
[00:41:07] that point actually a
[00:41:08] lot is that I think
[00:41:09] in a lot of shows we
[00:41:10] see like, oh, this
[00:41:12] guy got injured and
[00:41:13] then it's like next
[00:41:14] day.
[00:41:15] Oh, it's been like
[00:41:15] three weeks.
[00:41:16] You're in a coma.
[00:41:17] But it's like none
[00:41:19] of that is ever
[00:41:20] portrayed like the
[00:41:22] actual like recovery
[00:41:23] process.
[00:41:25] Yeah.
[00:41:25] And interesting.
[00:41:27] We also get to spend
[00:41:28] a lot of time with
[00:41:29] Jace dealing with
[00:41:30] the stresses of
[00:41:33] maybe not never
[00:41:34] getting his partner
[00:41:35] back.
[00:41:36] He thinks that
[00:41:37] Victor is kind of
[00:41:38] lost and he's
[00:41:39] desperately trying to
[00:41:40] find a way to save
[00:41:40] him instead of
[00:41:42] destroying the hex
[00:41:43] core like he said he
[00:41:44] was going to which
[00:41:45] will obviously
[00:41:46] cause some tension
[00:41:47] later on.
[00:41:49] Yeah.
[00:41:49] All right.
[00:41:51] The art moments I
[00:41:52] found interesting
[00:41:53] were the gray the
[00:41:55] way that they
[00:41:56] animated like the
[00:41:58] gray moving was
[00:41:59] really interesting.
[00:42:01] And in the scene
[00:42:02] where they they
[00:42:03] head to like where
[00:42:05] Jinx is and Jinx
[00:42:06] gets away and we
[00:42:07] see the gray like
[00:42:08] coming through the
[00:42:09] broken glass and
[00:42:10] filling the room.
[00:42:11] You see do you
[00:42:12] remember how like the
[00:42:13] gray formed like the
[00:42:14] shape of a
[00:42:15] monster.
[00:42:17] Yes.
[00:42:18] That was a really
[00:42:18] cool visualization.
[00:42:19] That is an Easter
[00:42:21] egg for the game.
[00:42:24] Oh.
[00:42:25] Easter egg because
[00:42:26] that monster is
[00:42:27] Fiddlesticks who is
[00:42:29] canonically the
[00:42:30] embodiment of fear
[00:42:31] and like your worst
[00:42:34] nightmare.
[00:42:35] Like he can turn
[00:42:36] into whatever you
[00:42:38] he's basically it but
[00:42:39] like even scarier.
[00:42:41] And his name is
[00:42:42] Fiddlesticks.
[00:42:43] Fiddlesticks.
[00:42:44] Yeah.
[00:42:45] Well yeah.
[00:42:47] Yeah.
[00:42:48] Okay.
[00:42:50] League.
[00:42:51] Glad you didn't put
[00:42:53] that one in Arcane
[00:42:54] because I don't think
[00:42:55] I would have been
[00:42:56] able to keep it
[00:42:57] together if you had
[00:42:58] a character named
[00:42:59] fucking Fiddlesticks.
[00:43:02] Yeah.
[00:43:03] Not that Smeech is
[00:43:04] much better.
[00:43:05] Well he's not
[00:43:06] supposed to be scary
[00:43:07] I don't think.
[00:43:08] No.
[00:43:10] Alright.
[00:43:10] The next art
[00:43:12] moment I wanted to
[00:43:12] talk about was the
[00:43:13] Savika and Smeech
[00:43:15] fight where Savika
[00:43:16] gets her new arm
[00:43:17] from Jinx.
[00:43:18] I just thought that
[00:43:19] whole sequence was
[00:43:20] amazing.
[00:43:21] I really really
[00:43:23] liked the like
[00:43:25] almost music video
[00:43:26] esque style of
[00:43:28] fights that they
[00:43:28] did throughout this
[00:43:29] season.
[00:43:30] I saw a lot of
[00:43:31] people complaining
[00:43:31] about this and I
[00:43:32] didn't really
[00:43:33] understand why.
[00:43:34] I feel like for
[00:43:35] these fights there
[00:43:37] doesn't really have
[00:43:38] to be the dialogue
[00:43:40] to tell us what's
[00:43:41] happening.
[00:43:42] I think that we
[00:43:44] are seeing it on
[00:43:45] screen.
[00:43:45] I think the music
[00:43:46] adds to it.
[00:43:47] I think they do a
[00:43:48] really good job in
[00:43:50] their soundtrack
[00:43:50] selection for the
[00:43:53] songs for these
[00:43:53] fights and I like
[00:43:55] that they let the
[00:43:56] art do the talking
[00:43:57] because the art is
[00:43:58] beautiful.
[00:43:59] I agree.
[00:44:00] I think that they
[00:44:01] did that in season
[00:44:02] one with the
[00:44:02] fight between
[00:44:05] Jinx and Echo
[00:44:07] and they saw
[00:44:09] that that worked
[00:44:10] so well and it
[00:44:11] fit with the art
[00:44:12] style of the show
[00:44:13] so well and I
[00:44:15] think they did that
[00:44:16] on a larger scale
[00:44:17] and more often
[00:44:18] in this season and
[00:44:19] I'm thankful for
[00:44:21] it.
[00:44:21] I think that any
[00:44:22] scene that they do
[00:44:23] is just so creative
[00:44:24] and innovative but
[00:44:26] specifically with this
[00:44:27] fight scene the
[00:44:28] whole like slot
[00:44:29] machine arm was
[00:44:30] really fun.
[00:44:31] yeah when
[00:44:32] they're not afraid
[00:44:33] to play around
[00:44:34] with the concepts
[00:44:35] a little bit I
[00:44:36] think that's when
[00:44:37] they really shine
[00:44:37] and they take a
[00:44:40] lot of risks in
[00:44:41] this season that I
[00:44:42] think pay off very
[00:44:43] very well.
[00:44:44] All right do we
[00:44:44] want to get into
[00:44:45] the how we feel
[00:44:46] section?
[00:44:47] Take us away
[00:44:48] Chase.
[00:44:49] All right so I
[00:44:51] just wanted to
[00:44:52] start by saying I
[00:44:53] take back what I
[00:44:54] said in our last
[00:44:56] arcane episode where
[00:44:58] we reviewed season
[00:44:59] one when I was
[00:45:00] asked if I could
[00:45:02] spot any uptick in
[00:45:03] quality.
[00:45:04] I think Aaron you
[00:45:05] probably asked that
[00:45:06] I think.
[00:45:07] Yeah.
[00:45:08] And I do think
[00:45:09] upon a second watch
[00:45:10] of both seasons
[00:45:11] because I got a
[00:45:13] good rewatch of
[00:45:14] season one so I'm
[00:45:15] refreshed on that
[00:45:15] and a rewatch and
[00:45:17] now I've seen
[00:45:18] season two twice
[00:45:18] because I watched
[00:45:19] like 90% of it
[00:45:21] again with Aaron
[00:45:22] after already
[00:45:23] finishing it.
[00:45:25] we really do
[00:45:26] see an increase
[00:45:28] in quality art
[00:45:29] wise and I
[00:45:32] think I think
[00:45:33] in everything we
[00:45:35] see an increase in
[00:45:35] quality actually.
[00:45:37] This is a statement
[00:45:38] that I heard it
[00:45:40] and I completely
[00:45:41] agree with.
[00:45:42] You can this is
[00:45:43] like the first
[00:45:44] like series like
[00:45:46] hundred like
[00:45:48] million dollar
[00:45:49] project plus I
[00:45:50] know I think it's
[00:45:51] two hundred fifty
[00:45:51] million dollars but
[00:45:52] it's like the
[00:45:53] first like hundred
[00:45:54] million dollar plus
[00:45:55] project we've seen
[00:45:56] in a while where you
[00:45:57] can see where every
[00:45:58] dollar went.
[00:45:59] I truly like I see
[00:46:01] this show and I see
[00:46:03] the two hundred
[00:46:03] fifty million dollars
[00:46:04] I see it in every
[00:46:06] second of the art I
[00:46:07] see it in the
[00:46:08] soundtrack choice I
[00:46:10] see it in the
[00:46:11] narrative I see it in
[00:46:12] the character design
[00:46:13] everything feels so
[00:46:14] inspired.
[00:46:15] I agree.
[00:46:16] Fun fact actually
[00:46:17] out of that two
[00:46:19] hundred and fifty
[00:46:19] million dollars two
[00:46:20] hundred million went
[00:46:21] to securing the
[00:46:22] rights for Imagine
[00:46:23] Dragons.
[00:46:25] Imagine.
[00:46:27] Imagine Dragons
[00:46:28] paid them two fifty
[00:46:29] million to be in the
[00:46:30] damn show.
[00:46:32] Probably.
[00:46:34] Oh my god.
[00:46:36] I think that
[00:46:37] narratively speaking
[00:46:38] season one and two
[00:46:39] are on the same
[00:46:40] level which I don't
[00:46:42] think is a dig at
[00:46:43] season two I just
[00:46:44] think season one is
[00:46:45] just so well done
[00:46:47] but art wise season
[00:46:48] two does have an
[00:46:49] upper hand for sure.
[00:46:50] I think this act
[00:46:52] really does and
[00:46:53] but oh that's
[00:46:54] supposed to be
[00:46:55] emphasize that is
[00:46:57] emphasize holy shit
[00:46:59] this act really does
[00:47:01] emphasize how deep
[00:47:02] these characters are
[00:47:03] and how human they
[00:47:04] feel.
[00:47:05] I'm gonna leave this a
[00:47:06] bit more simple as
[00:47:07] I've seen the whole
[00:47:09] series twice over and
[00:47:10] I don't really want
[00:47:11] that to be super
[00:47:12] super influential of
[00:47:14] what I'm saying here
[00:47:15] and now about act
[00:47:16] one of season two.
[00:47:19] looking at the
[00:47:19] series as a whole is
[00:47:20] also really helpful
[00:47:21] though so I I
[00:47:23] wouldn't take that
[00:47:23] away from your
[00:47:25] thoughts at all.
[00:47:26] But yeah the start
[00:47:27] of the season is not
[00:47:28] only an improvement
[00:47:29] in my opinion in the
[00:47:31] visual department like
[00:47:32] Chase said but the
[00:47:34] character work is so
[00:47:35] strong in this set of
[00:47:36] episodes.
[00:47:37] The fallout from
[00:47:38] Silco's death sort of
[00:47:39] bringing Savika and
[00:47:41] Jinx together it's so
[00:47:43] unexpected but the
[00:47:44] writers make it feel so
[00:47:46] natural and giving
[00:47:48] Jinx people to care
[00:47:49] about who are a
[00:47:50] better influence on
[00:47:51] her like Isha it
[00:47:53] does so much to help
[00:47:54] her along in her
[00:47:56] redemption arc just
[00:47:57] an A plus to the
[00:47:58] character work and the
[00:47:59] world building done in
[00:48:00] these episodes the
[00:48:01] world it's getting
[00:48:02] weird it's getting
[00:48:03] unstable and the
[00:48:05] stage feels very set
[00:48:07] for an incredible
[00:48:08] finale to this series.
[00:48:11] Yeah I'll go over
[00:48:12] what Richard said he
[00:48:13] said as Chase said
[00:48:14] the quality does
[00:48:15] increase I think this
[00:48:16] set of episode I think
[00:48:18] in this set of
[00:48:19] episodes it's most
[00:48:20] notable in episode 3
[00:48:21] given the fight
[00:48:22] animation and style
[00:48:23] used during the wild
[00:48:24] rune sequence.
[00:48:25] The music is better
[00:48:26] especially the special
[00:48:27] version of Heavy is a
[00:48:28] Crown by Lincoln
[00:48:29] Oh okay so he agrees
[00:48:30] with me on that.
[00:48:32] I thought he would
[00:48:33] say that he liked it
[00:48:34] but he liked the
[00:48:35] original version better
[00:48:36] but okay that's
[00:48:38] really cool.
[00:48:39] That's surprising to me
[00:48:40] too.
[00:48:40] The character
[00:48:41] development of
[00:48:42] characters new and
[00:48:43] old alike is super
[00:48:44] great as per usual
[00:48:45] and the world still
[00:48:46] feels as alive as
[00:48:48] ever with the twin
[00:48:49] cities of Zon and
[00:48:50] Piltover.
[00:48:50] Yeah I think Richard
[00:48:51] has I mean I think
[00:48:53] we agree on everything
[00:48:54] here.
[00:48:55] I do think his
[00:48:56] emphasis of the wild
[00:48:57] rune sequence is
[00:48:59] really important.
[00:48:59] I do think that art
[00:49:01] was just
[00:49:02] breathtaking.
[00:49:04] I mean
[00:49:05] that shit was
[00:49:06] incredible.
[00:49:07] I mean
[00:49:07] everything was
[00:49:09] incredible art
[00:49:10] wise for sure.
[00:49:11] yeah actually I
[00:49:13] have one more art
[00:49:14] slash moment point
[00:49:16] that also ties into
[00:49:17] the music.
[00:49:18] It's a little bit of
[00:49:18] everything that I
[00:49:19] think is worth
[00:49:20] bringing up and
[00:49:21] talking about for a
[00:49:22] second which is I
[00:49:24] believe it's episode
[00:49:25] two when we get a
[00:49:27] recap of everything
[00:49:28] that's happened in the
[00:49:29] underworld since
[00:49:30] Silco has died and
[00:49:32] we get introductions
[00:49:33] to all of the
[00:49:33] different like
[00:49:34] Kem Barons.
[00:49:35] Oh the Kem Barons
[00:49:36] yeah and like how
[00:49:37] they like
[00:49:38] disperse.
[00:49:39] Yeah.
[00:49:40] Yeah and we get
[00:49:40] it over the song
[00:49:42] Sucker which is
[00:49:44] kind of a
[00:49:45] the lyrics are a
[00:49:47] little bit goofy
[00:49:47] but I like the vibe
[00:49:48] of it for
[00:49:49] for that.
[00:49:49] I feel like it
[00:49:50] fits perfectly though.
[00:49:51] Yeah I agree.
[00:49:52] I think they do
[00:49:53] such a good job
[00:49:54] incorporating the
[00:49:55] music.
[00:49:56] I this is why I
[00:49:57] was like so
[00:49:59] heated over the
[00:50:00] people being like
[00:50:00] I really think
[00:50:02] that it takes away
[00:50:03] from the immersion
[00:50:04] when it puts me in
[00:50:05] a music video for
[00:50:07] a fight.
[00:50:07] It's like what do
[00:50:08] you that's it's so
[00:50:09] intertwined with how
[00:50:11] the show is already
[00:50:12] and like how does
[00:50:14] that take how does
[00:50:15] that not further
[00:50:15] immerse you like this
[00:50:17] awesome song that
[00:50:18] like perfectly is
[00:50:19] fitting with what's
[00:50:20] going on on screen.
[00:50:21] I don't know.
[00:50:22] I just think that
[00:50:23] that kind of pisses
[00:50:24] me off too because
[00:50:25] I don't know you
[00:50:26] can have that
[00:50:27] criticism of the
[00:50:28] show but if you
[00:50:29] don't like that
[00:50:30] aspect of the show
[00:50:31] I think you might
[00:50:31] be watching the
[00:50:32] wrong thing because
[00:50:33] yeah I feel like
[00:50:34] it's such an
[00:50:35] integral part.
[00:50:36] Yeah I think it's
[00:50:37] a little weird to
[00:50:38] enjoy arcane so
[00:50:40] deeply and then
[00:50:41] complain about that
[00:50:42] because I yeah I
[00:50:43] agree with you.
[00:50:43] It's so ingrained in
[00:50:46] what is arcane the
[00:50:48] show and like all
[00:50:50] of these like really
[00:50:52] important fights to
[00:50:53] the story include
[00:50:54] some sort of music
[00:50:56] in it and I think
[00:50:57] I think that
[00:50:58] furthers it.
[00:50:59] I think that
[00:51:00] enhances it.
[00:51:02] I think so too.
[00:51:03] I never once had a
[00:51:05] scene except for the
[00:51:06] Imagine Dragons
[00:51:07] in season one.
[00:51:08] But that's not
[00:51:10] that's an outlier
[00:51:11] that that's the
[00:51:12] exception that makes
[00:51:13] the rule.
[00:51:15] For sure.
[00:51:16] Okay we do mention
[00:51:17] this like every time
[00:51:18] we talk about the
[00:51:19] soundtrack in private
[00:51:20] is that I feel
[00:51:22] personally and I
[00:51:23] think Aaron agrees
[00:51:24] here is that
[00:51:26] Imagine Dragons
[00:51:28] their inclusion in
[00:51:30] arcane is like the
[00:51:31] one dark spot on
[00:51:32] its record.
[00:51:34] Yeah it just
[00:51:35] doesn't fit the
[00:51:38] vibe of arcane
[00:51:39] very well to me.
[00:51:41] I feel so strongly
[00:51:43] about this show
[00:51:44] that it has such a
[00:51:44] great soundtrack
[00:51:46] and everything is so
[00:51:48] fitting for the world
[00:51:49] and the characters
[00:51:51] and the sort of
[00:51:52] middle school
[00:51:53] angstiness of
[00:51:54] Imagine Dragons
[00:51:55] just doesn't
[00:51:57] fit for me.
[00:51:58] I will agree
[00:51:58] that is the one
[00:51:59] like music video
[00:52:00] esque part of the
[00:52:01] show that does ruin
[00:52:02] the immersion for sure.
[00:52:04] But I do think it is
[00:52:05] also like peak comedy
[00:52:07] so I
[00:52:07] enjoyed it for what
[00:52:09] it was.
[00:52:10] It's so bad that it
[00:52:12] was good.
[00:52:12] I do think that
[00:52:14] having it as the
[00:52:15] intro I think it
[00:52:16] would have been more
[00:52:16] forgivable if it was
[00:52:17] just that scene but
[00:52:19] having it as the
[00:52:20] intro for every
[00:52:21] episode of every
[00:52:22] season was a
[00:52:24] little much.
[00:52:25] Yeah I will thank
[00:52:26] Imagine Dragons for
[00:52:27] the pure comedy
[00:52:30] aspect of me and
[00:52:31] Chase sitting in our
[00:52:32] living room and
[00:52:33] every time the
[00:52:34] intro came on me
[00:52:35] hoarding the Apple
[00:52:36] TV remote so that
[00:52:37] he had to watch
[00:52:38] the whole thing.
[00:52:40] Yeah this
[00:52:40] motherfucker would
[00:52:41] make me watch the
[00:52:42] entire intro every
[00:52:44] episode like what
[00:52:45] I don't want to
[00:52:46] listen to my enemy
[00:52:47] every episode
[00:52:49] come on please.
[00:52:51] Every 40 minutes
[00:52:52] everyone wanted to
[00:52:53] be your enemy.
[00:52:54] And then it got to
[00:52:56] the point where I
[00:52:56] started singing along.
[00:52:58] We were both belting
[00:52:59] it out our roommates
[00:53:01] must have thought that
[00:53:01] we were insane.
[00:53:04] Alright.
[00:53:05] Should we get into
[00:53:05] our outro here?
[00:53:07] Are we gonna
[00:53:07] cover
[00:53:09] are we gonna
[00:53:10] record on Sunday
[00:53:12] or Saturday
[00:53:13] this weekend?
[00:53:15] I think so.
[00:53:15] I'm hoping to have
[00:53:16] this episode out on
[00:53:17] Saturday.
[00:53:19] Okay.
[00:53:19] Let's get into the
[00:53:20] outro then.
[00:53:21] Alright.
[00:53:22] Sweet.
[00:53:23] You wanna start us
[00:53:23] off?
[00:53:24] Yeah I'll take the
[00:53:25] Richard portion too.
[00:53:27] Cool.
[00:53:28] Alright everybody.
[00:53:29] I think that's
[00:53:30] all we have for
[00:53:32] today.
[00:53:33] And thank you all
[00:53:34] for joining us.
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[00:53:43] our process
[00:53:44] of covering
[00:53:45] Arcane Season 2.
[00:53:47] We know it's
[00:53:47] been out for a bit
[00:53:49] now and that we
[00:53:50] had some scheduling
[00:53:51] errors and we're
[00:53:52] sorry for that.
[00:53:53] We're just as
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[00:55:18] I'm liking season
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[00:55:21] I'm sorry did I say
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[00:55:24] Star Wars Canon
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[00:55:45] I apologize.
[00:55:47] Anyways,
[00:55:47] back to the outro.
[00:55:49] Rings and Rituals
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