arcane spends the first season highlighting how brutal and unforgiving the piltover occupation of zaun is its objectively and cartoonishly evil there are almost no redeeming qualties for it but it all shifts when jinx does the piltover equivalent of 9/11 and the messaging shifts from brutal occupation and conflict to the characters not being able to cope with trauma so they now commit facism
jinx and zaun are constantly shunned by the show while caitlyn and piltover are so quick to be forgiven
but in the end its okay because they find a common enemy and obviously the biggest enemy is collectivisim
the show is so hilariously amercian and lib it is not even funny
caitlyn gets to win the girl but jinx gets so guilty that she tries killing herself multiple times and ends up faking her own death and escaping her only family
i am genuinely so fucking pissed
I was hoping season 2 would explore Jinx falling ass-backwards into founding a revolutionary movement (and to be fair a couple of early episodes in S2 seemed to be about this) but then Robot Jesus hijacked the show and I got a really bad re-thread of End of Evangelion instead…
Honestly I was expecting the lib ending because that’s mostly how these things go, but moreso than anything else I feel like the main problem is that they crammed a season’s worth of plot points into the second half of S2 and every single character (aside from Jayce and Viktor, and maybe Ekko) got really unsatisfying conclusions to their character arcs.
I want my Maoist Jinx arc! Zaunite Protracted People’s War against the Piltover imperialists now!!
Better writers would have just copied the Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie except make her shed her nihilism and misanthropy as she rediscovered class consciousness through the surrogate daughter character but noooooooooo breaking the cycle involves stopping Robot Jesus from making everyone a hivemind for some reason…