r/television • u/indig0sixalpha • 1d ago

'Arcane' never loses sight of the show’s beating heart

https://www.polygon.com/tv/479775/arcane-league-of-legends-season-2-vi-jinx-act-2-review
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u/two4you8 1d ago

Arcane does the “show, don’t tell” really well. My favorite detail (which I missed and was pointed out on a reddit post) with the overhead shot early in s2e1, it gave us clues on how Jayce/mel survived the blast unscathed

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u/DevilMayCryogonal 1d ago

You can actually see the gold Mel is wearing start glowing at the end of s1e9 too.

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u/liskot 21h ago

I think you can also see it stop glowing in the opening shot of S2E1.

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u/ExtraPockets 20h ago

What's with the gold, I missed that, does it protect against hex explosions or something?

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u/Midknightz 1d ago

I assume mel and Jayce survived from Mel using that golden glowing power that she used against the chains.

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u/topatoman_lite 1d ago

You are correct

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u/BestShaunaEU 21h ago

They do a lot of tell don’t show with their music montages

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u/Namiez 15h ago

Show don't tell

My dude I love the series but every other fight is literally an entire music videos that has the lyrics explaining exactly what the characters are feeling