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What a week for Netflix-dropping both Cobra Kai S6.2<\/em> and Arcane S2<\/em> on the same week!\u00a0 Much to the dismay of mythical wife, I went with Cobra Kai first, primarily on the fact that because the episodes are so short and generally way more digestible, despite my guilty-pleasure love for the show, I really wanted to clear it from the queue so that I could really savor and enjoy Arcane S2, which I knew was going to be the way heavier show.\u00a0 I regret nothing, and the fact that I\u2019m writing about Arcane and not another post about Cobra Kai says what left a stronger impression in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n To cut to the chase, I would go as far as to state without any hesitation or real need to think about it, that Arcane is probably the greatest video game-to-on-screen adaptation, like ever.\u00a0 The bar of such a category wasn\u2019t really that high to begin with, but I would say that it was previously set at like, a generic office building height of like 16 stories, but then Arcane came along and pushed the bar to the height of like that one gigantic ass building in Qatar or Abu Dhabi that\u2019s considered the tallest building on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n Like, despite my heavy criticism for Riot Games as far as business practices and bad behavior goes, and how critical I am of the League of Legends<\/em> community, mostly being a nuclear toxic wasteland of the worst human beings in existence, Arcane combatted and overcame these handicaps and still put out an absolutely legendary banger of a program that I\u2019m hard pressed to say anything negative about, because it was just so wonderfully executed from top to bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n The art style is breathtaking, the voice acting top-notch, and the writing and storytelling was A+ from start to finish.\u00a0 There are plenty of easter eggs and references to satiate fans of the game, while not at all being difficult for those who didn\u2019t play to watch without failing to understand what\u2019s going on.<\/span><\/p>\n As I said from the first season, it\u2019s all so good, it almost makes me want to start playing the game, and if not for the fact that I\u2019m a parent who never has any time on his hands and can\u2019t fathom the amount of time I sunk into playing League in the past, I would consider re-downloading the game and looking around at the virtual arenas that I dumped a solid 5-6 years of my life into.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, I don\u2019t even know where to begin on how to praise how good this show is.\u00a0 They do a bang up job of utilizing existing characters, and the ones they invented for the show meld so seamlessly with them that doesn\u2019t feel forced, feels organic and feels cohesive.\u00a0 Ambessa and Mel feel like they belong in the original game\u2019s canon all along, and their general arcs and development feed well into the overall storytelling of the show.<\/span><\/p>\n Viewers like me become emotionally vested in the characters, and despite the fact that as a player, Jinx was one of my mains, but just in general, I\u2019ve grown tired of the Harley Quinn-type of mentally unstable girl that seems chaotic and unkillable while also happening to be harboring genius level intelligence hidden behind a fa\u00e7ade of psycho, by utilizing her history and life as Powder, she\u2019s still a character to get behind, and not tire of her antics when she\u2019s Jinx.\u00a0 Even though it\u2019s not simple to deconstruct a Harley Quinn-type, Arcane does such in a way that is realistic and allows for actual growth and development instead of plateauing with more of the same psychotic behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n The one character I probably had the most feelings about after watching S2 was probably Ekko; I never played him in the game, and I always dreaded seeing an Ekko on the opposite team, but his treatment in the show was done to perfection.\u00a0 In spite of the fact that he wasn\u2019t nearly as focused on in the first season, he was a major, major player in S2, and despite my general ambivalence for his character based on my history as a player, he was easily someone I was definitely vested in during the show.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention that<\/em> scene in the show with Caitlyn and Vi; like I\u2019m surprised that it happened, and happened so graphically, and there\u2019s a multitude of feelings of surprised that the show and Netflix let it happen, but at the same time, I applaud the acceptance, the portrayal and the acknowledgement of all of the above, and I can sum it up in a singular word of \u201cbold\u201d and much like how I feel about the rest of the show, I think it was done appropriately, and not even from a sophomoric standpoint as much as it\u2019s commendable that it was done in a manner that doesn\u2019t hide from it, feels emotional and real, and probably gave long-time fans who felt similarly a moment to pump their fists in what feels like a metaphorical win.<\/span><\/p>\n Oh and the music of the season, my god.\u00a0 I don\u2019t seek out and look for new music these days, I\u2019m usually content to occasionally stumble across an artist when it\u2019s spoon-fed through me on Pandora or Sirius, but the soundtrack from S2 was out of this world.\u00a0 I especially love the fact that it was pulling from all sorts of songs of other languages, and I felt like it was a little deliberate nod by Rito to do such, due to the global reach of the game itself, and if there was a soundtrack of it on iTunes, I\u2019d be compelled to actually spend money on it.<\/span><\/p>\n As I\u2019ve said countless times in my life when thinking about shows, films, books and any forms of storytelling, endings are the hardest thing in the world to come up with, and big props to Arcane for also not fumbling that aspect of the show.\u00a0 Seldom are stories ever truly wrapped up in neat little bows, and Arcane is no exception, but at the same time it\u2019s probably for the best, because to my understanding, Arcane may be over, but Rito definitely isn\u2019t going to not want to tap the wells of numerous other League worlds to source future media from, so it\u2019s best to keep things open ended for the sake of future shows or movies.<\/span><\/p>\n Overall, I can\u2019t say anything bad about Arcane.\u00a0 I really can\u2019t.\u00a0 I would give the show a solid 10\/10 and not one of those bullshit reviews where internet reviewers give it a 9.8 or 9.9 out of 10 because people who review shit are hipsters who are convinced that shit isn\u2019t supposed to be perfection, but as far as I\u2019m concerned, I have no justifiable critiques about Arcane.\u00a0 Art style, direction, voice over work, storytelling, music, plot, absolutely everything was good.\u00a0 Not even mad that it was just two seasons, because if they dragged it out, it would inevitably open the door for flaws, this was just A++ show execution from top to bottom, and I\u2019d recommend most everyone to watch this show, because it doesn\u2019t take a history of playing League to enjoy it, and it\u2019s just straight up excellent televison.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a week for Netflix-dropping both Cobra Kai S6.2 and Arcane S2 on the same week!\u00a0 Much to the dismay of mythical wife, I went with Cobra Kai first, primarily on the fact that because the episodes are so short and generally way more digestible, despite my guilty-pleasure love for the show, I really wanted … Continue reading LoL: Arcane, season 2 \u2013 so unprecedently 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