Arcane episode 7 'The Boy Savior' First Time watching/reacting.

[@jakecameron2976]

I have to note a brilliant moment in this episode. Jinx is humming the same song that she was singing on that same bridge in the opening scene of season one as she shoots an enforcer, mirroring when an enforcer shot her parents.

[@RelaxwithJC]

I didn't say anything but I did notice that. I love that detail.

[@Hecarim420]

I assure you that every scene on Arcane is a "detail" :p It's not just art that we can notice in first glance (Shakespeare symbolism on theater ==> politics, Charles Dickens story of two cities and more). Storyline and plot logic is actually much better than it seems despite "archetypal vibes" and still manage make much more faithful adaptation of champs origin than any popular IP destroyed by Hollywood wokness and other enlightened filmmakers (star Wars last trilogy, wheel of time, Witcher and soon Amazon Ring of powers) ===> Of course u can still enjoy watching these, but when u know original work, or just pay attention to details, all of them are really unfaithful, poor to source material and actually just bad/stupid storytelling with visuals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Arcane is modern art masterpiece with reeeally good plot and amazing storytelling. I recommend to check Primal 2019 ==> interesting approach of storytelling without any dialogues in animation of Genndy Tartakovsky (samurai jack fifth season, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, Hotel Transylvania and more). Sorry people for these maybe unnecessary essay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit I will add that Ekko vs Jinx is also nice touch on his ultimate ability.

[@BlancheNuit]

there are so many things like that in season 1, even months later I keep finding more of them, they worked so hard on this holy shit

[@Shax22132]

What Ekko was silently saying to Jinx, when he pulled out the pocket watch and started swinging it: "Let's play our old game...one last time." And while he was ready to kill Jinx, he wasn't ready to kill Powder. One of the many things I like about Arcane is that there aren't really any heroes or villains. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of characters doing terrible things, but they aren't doing them just to be EVIL. The show does a good job of showing us that each character has reasons behind their actions. It also doesn't push the viewers towards 'right' or 'wrong;' it simply tells the story, shows the characters and their actions, and lets you make up your own mind.

[@chance757]

vi and powder actually ARE blood sisters. i don’t think you guys recognized her for who she was but we’ve actually glimpsed their mother twice; she has purple hair! couldn’t see their father’s hair color under his hat but i like that her hair was the color combination of both her daughters.

[@C.V.Q]

i feel like i see u everywhere chance. every time i binge reaction vids lol

[@chance757]

@@C.V.Q you do, i’m everywhere 💀

[@JustCauseFan]

i read somewhere that one line of Echo in the game when Jinx is in the opponent team is "i had a crush, until you started talking to your gun". That perfectly explains why he couldn't kill her

[@keyronkathrynekathrynkeyron]

Jinx vs Ekko fight scene "Let's play our little game One Last Time"

[@pedantech]

This is the best episode. That ending is amazing. If you haven't watched the Imagine Dragons & JID "Enemy" music video, you should. Among other things, it shows more of Echo & Powder when they were younger. You can watch it any time now, there's no spoilers for the rest of the series. I'd love to see it as a reaction video.

[@RelaxwithJC]

We may just do that 😀

[@rebornjm]

*ekko

[@ChesyreFrog]

This show never ceases to amaze me with how well it evokes emotion in the most unlikely places.

[@pedantech]

Regarding Rio, my thoughts are that Singed didn't care as much for the creature as he did the properties of the mutation. That's why it was important that the mutation survive, even at the cost of the creature's happiness. That's why "love and legacy are the sacrifices we make for progress."

[@th3voice]

Yup. Singed primarily cares for what he can learn from Rio, I think.

[@marcps3522]

// **Possible Spoilers Ahead ** \\ // ** Possible Spoilers Alert ** \\ It is only hinted at the end of the finale but another champion of the game (Orianna) might be her daughter. The one he talks about with Silco "I too once had a daughter". This would be a bit of an alteration to the game lore but following Orianna's lore, she had an illness and her father had to replace parts of her body for mechanical parts to the point where she would be a full robot with the shape of the girl. Orianna's father wasn't originally Singed but to fit in Arcane's lore it could perfectly be that Singed started experimenting with shimmer (thats why he separated from Heimmerdinger) in a desperate intent to save Orianna's body. That's why Rio is so important to him, or at least that Rio is alive, wich means he could experiment on Orianna and keep her alive, even if she would be unconscious forever.

[@marcps3522]

And about shimmer, it's not yet clear where it comes from but (Again SPOILERS) we can see a bit of it at the end, in episode 8/9 where we can see a hanging "brain shape" with pipes to extract shimmer. It might be a creature/beeing from the void. A special "region"/parallel dimension in Runeterra. So Rio is not the source of shimmer. It was probably a small creature that got experimented with Shimmer and managed to survive. Why it was important to Singed is explained in my comment above.

[@RelaxwithJC]

Thank you for putting spoilers. If I remember I will read this when we finish the last 2 episodes.

[@marcps3522]

@@RelaxwithJC Hope you remember and give us your opinion! :p However they're not really spoilers since almost everything I said is from the game lore and a theory on how it could be tied to Arcane. But yes, it's advised to finish the show first and then if you're interested check this out! Enjoy the last two episodes!

[@MrCoolAttitude]

Obligatory statement about how the transition for the Jinx/Ekko fight was a masterpiece.

[@RelaxwithJC]

Probably my favorite fight. At least so far

[@xXTheRedrubyXx]

There's the green ones, which are real and which we saw by the tree and also at the end of jinx's scene just before they cut to ekko, the mechanical ones are new and jinx stole them during progress day, you can see her working on them when silco comes to confront her about what she did.

[@RelaxwithJC]

I thought so! I was like they're not all mechanical.

[@TheGridMedia]

The ending scene with them as kids and how he learned/remember her pattern of fire and was able to win this time. AMAZING

[@shadowclaw8607]

There are actual firelights. The bugs are around the tree mostly. One was found in Jinx's workshop. The ones on the bridge were all explosive

[@renascienza.bazarclub]

About the explosive firelights: In "Happy Progress Day" (04) near of the University entrance I can see that old guy entertaining children with mechanical bugs. Jinx was there in several moments. But later on the same episode in her hideout (she was hearing her own music theme, "Get Jinxed") we see Jinx designing and making tests with the same kind of mechanical bug. Now in episode 07, we see what she was really doing: she weaponized it, taking advantage that this glowing insects are so common on undercity. And yes, the insects are completely mechanic. Alone, a single mechanical bug can't do that much, but combining hundreds of little explosions she can sum the areas of compression delivering a lot of damage. She can even shape the area of destruction, something that no regular bomb can do. Yeah, Jinx is a (bad) genius.

[@6666Imperator]

I mean she figured out the Hextech technology by her own when she is a teenager and manages to use it for her own weapons. Despite her never going to any school let alone a higher education for technology or hextech

[@renascienza.bazarclub]

@@6666Imperator Jinx is an autodidact genius. She only need to know how to read and basic math, and the rest she can figure out. We can see her learning process studying Jayce's notes about Hextech, something as: "oh, that is the main point, and this is boring, also boring, interesting, this is irrelevant, oh, work like that". She can ignore the fundamentals, but grasp the causes and effects. There is people like that in real life? Yes, my own father in law was an example. He created his own tools, and could fix almost everything, without any previous training. Interesting detail: the explosive bugs are not really Hextech at anyway. Is the regular mechanics used in all Pilltover (from Heimerdinger probably) with Chemtech improvements (the default technology from Zaun, even when she was a kid).

[@6666Imperator]

@@renascienza.bazarclub I hope I didn't give you the feeling that I was disagreeing? Because I really aren't. And in terms of Hextech I didn't think about the bugs but rather Fishbones

[@renascienza.bazarclub]

@@6666Imperator Oh, don't worry, there is not disagreements here, we are just talking. Even if there were, there wouldn't be any problem either. (But hey, we are still on 1x07... We know nothing about this "Fishbones" thing yet, is a dish? A painting? 😏)

[@6666Imperator]

@@renascienza.bazarclub haha yes a delicious dish best served cold I guess :D I jumped the gun a bit there but I thought given that the episodes are out for a while now that everyone knows already what happens. You are right though I should not assume something like that. There is always someone joining the party late. Luckily I don't think he or she will be spoiled a lot by that reference alone

[@greywarden5513]

You are one of the only reactors to come to the conclusion that Ekko hit the nade before it went off🤩

[@RelaxwithJC]

No way they kill Ekko that easy

[@demise0]

Considering we saw Jinx injured/unconscious after the blast, we know it wasn't hit away. I have a different opinion, relatively simple, but it's informed by knowing more from the next episode and I don't want to even suggest spoilers.

[@Vizible21]

@@demise0 my theory is that Jinx doesn't really care anymore at all. Vi abandoned her over and over. Silco betrayed her atleast in her own mind. And her best friend hates her. In her own mind she's now all alone so the first time I saw it I instantly headcanon the scene as Jinx wanted to just kill herself.

[@morpheuslp4738]

As always absolutely loved your reaction! Thanks a lot for sharing your Arcane journey with us.

[@valmiro4164]

Shimmer is from voidlings

[@morpheuslp4738]

@@valmiro4164 or that yeah its made purposly unclear. Either way its not from Rio^^

[@N___03]

This episode is up there with Episode 9 and 3 as the best of the season. Everything from action to emotional damage. and God the amount of details, I literally rewatch the show just to see how detailed the expressions. That Jinx vs. Ekko Literally the peak of Visual storytelling.. that last part No dialogue, Just pure visual and music and did it hit hard? gosh even hit harder than some scene with a lot of dialogue.

[@carbuneskinny5797]

Great start to act 3 !! :) Quick edit : Only the exploding ones on the bridge were Jinx's bugs. The ones in the tree room and so on were real bugs. And yes u were right they showed Jinx working on those in episode 4

[@mathies3598]

Jinx made the firelight bombs obviously. Vi knew what they were from before powder could even make bombs let alone flying ones, so there were definitely real ones too.

[@nemesiszumbizada]

firelights are living beings, jinx was building these robots while playing music in her "room"! when Silco complains about the dead enforcers!

[@kitkami]

Not all the firelights were robots, she mixed her fake ones in with the real ones. If you look in the background when Jinks and Ekko are fighting theres a crow behind her and a firelight behind him. Thats what the real ones look like.

[@topgamer101]

In the context of how this story is framed and the events that have happened, yes Silco is her "old man." Just because you don't want to see it doesn't mean that's not how the story is playing.

[@miguelmonte5157]

innocence lost. hence the tears. i hear u.

[@contggs]

Jinx and Ekko were very close when they were younger. It's like theyre best friends, this fact makes this scene even more impressive, you can see a little of this relantionship in Arcane song - Enemy. You guys can react one day for us ^-^~

[@th3voice]

I don't play the game, but apparently there's a voice line from Ekko where he admits he had a crush on Jinx, "until you started talking to your guns".

[@kaijingarou6526]

1:30 🤣🤣🤣 They are sisters in blood though 🤣🤣

[@7woundsfist]

The ones that exploded were clockwork dragonflies. The real firelights are the green beetles.

[@renascienza.bazarclub]

Silco probably worked on gas and coal mines as young, so the poisoned air isn't weird for him.

[@th3voice]

"So what, Silco's immune?" Nope. Before she entered with the gas canister and closed the door, he breathes in deeply. He conserves breath, speaking slowly, and breathes in only shallowly to keep speaking. That, combined with how used he is to the smog, lets him keep it up until he breathes in through the mask. I also love that as he says "we came from a world where there was never enough to go around..." at the same time it becomes obvious that there is one fewer masks than there are people in the room... not enough to go around :P

[@marcps3522]

Nope. Silco IS immune, or as immune as he can be. This scene is Silco showing them that he never left the underground. He builded the place, got them into a place of power and they left to upper city with more sun and cleaner air (not Piltover but the outskirts). Silco, while he was the most important guy in the underground, never left the place. That's why he looks pale, why he can breath. And that's his message in this scene. "You're blaming me but I brought you here and I never left, you're only living the lives I gave you". And then again, he gives them the right to breath.

[@RelaxwithJC]

That was my interpretation as well Marc

[@th3voice]

@@marcps3522 Then why does he very clearly take deep breaths before the smog comes in? Sure, he's more resistant to it than everyone else, but not IMMUNE. That, combined with preparation, lets him essentially ignore it. But if he was completely immune, he would not have USED the mask himself, before dropping it.

[@demise0]

@@marcps3522 I think it's like smoking. Take a hit off a cigarette when you've never before and you choke. But smoke for any amount of time and it no longer bothers your lungs the same. But give up smoking and try again, and the lungs will again be intolerant to it. The gas canister contained the poisoned air of the undercity, probably the really bad air from deeper down like in the fissures. Silco still maintains his office down in the undercity, but the chembarons don't, they're up at the surface. They've lost their tolerance to the toxic air. Silco hasn't. However the toxic air (much like smoking) is still bad for anyone, regardless of tolerance.

[@thatepicwizardguy]

@@th3voice that could also just be a level of control over his exasperation having to deal with these people he despises and thinks are leeches. Its a bit unclear which is fine. Interpretation over moments like that in the show are kinda fun lol i like your take on it but think hes more likely not as affected by it considering his upbringing but its very hard to say. Either way incredible power play

[@jefferymojo3761]

the firelights are real... Jinx made them mechanical one to fool people.

[@patrikneperfekta7575]

Jinx, Vi, Cait, Ekko, Viktor, Jayce, Heimerdinger, Singed and 1 bonus secret character that is just hinted. 9 characters in S01 out of 159 champions.

[@gappy9574]

you're talking about warwick right?

[@RelaxwithJC]

@@gappy9574 spoiler my friend. I haven't seen it yet. But now I know Warwick is in the next episode.

[@jaredwallace3270]

Plz not so long for next episode.. loving your reactions 👌

[@demopem]

No, there are real firelight insects. You see them now and then in the series, one close up in this episode at 7:15 . But there are mechanical ones as well, you can actually see Jinx working on them in an earlier episode, and there are some on her workbench in this episode.

[@gorrarz5760]

the shimmer theory is around for a long time but i don't think that shimmer is rio's blood but instead something to keep her alive. i think the source of shimmer might be the plants that sience dude gave to her. but we have no confirmation yet. we saw the healing potential of shimmer. vanders stab wound disappeared after he took shimmer, and so did vi's. so we need to wait for a conclusion. did you get that the science dude is the one that worked with silco in the beginning? that's why he wears a mask cause he got burned in episode 3 from jinx's explosion.

[@RelaxwithJC]

No I didn't realize that he was the same dude. Thank you for pointing that out!

[@gappy9574]

The science dude name is singed that's disrespectful

[@gorrarz5760]

@@gappy9574 i called him that cause the name was never mentioned in the show. just in the subtitles and credits. i didn't wanted to spoil any reveals so i said "science dude". you know, respectfull to the channel.

[@xaviercharles9616]

that fight at the end is the very last we see of powder, when she realises she's fighting and being beaten by the one who was her closest friend, and she decides to just end it...

[@ncXXhell]

Firelights aren't mechanic VI said she never saw so alot of them. Because some of them are fakes.

[@fernandogutierrez1121]

Infiana jones gracia por darnos una linda infancia

[@nguyentai464]

Wow love u guys . Will you guys react to league of legends cinematic?

[@NiaMakiReacts]

Yo what the heck KZbin algorithm is messed up why did this not show immediately?! Where is that notification bell…

[@RelaxwithJC]

KZbin failed you!

[@ShaDoWLoC187]

Gotta luv McLoving

[@RelaxwithJC]

[@souradeeproyc]

Yes i was waiting for this...

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

What I find amusing about videogames is how health and stamina are handled, like in the case of Viktor. In a human body, specific health problem requires specific solutions. But in videogames, a potion raises health bar as a whole. Videogame medicine is amusing. In Tomb Raider Lara falls from a helicopter and dies. Such a fall would break bones and that would kill a person. But how does she come back to life? CPR. Yes, as if she had choked. Well, that is a videogame. CPR raises the health bar lowered by an impact that breaks bones. Normally every universe has its rules. Star Wars has WWII physics and as long as rules are consistent, that is Ok. In episode 8 those rules were broken when they had range anxiety due to lack of fuel. And in videogame fiction, I always expect videogame medicine. And here you have it. The magic potion to recover health bar.

[@keyronkathrynekathrynkeyron]

Jinx Kamimakaze

[@valmiro4164]

Shimmer doesn't come from Rio.

[@niceguy7171]

Where naruto

[@TripleDsTV]

20:20 This is actual gaslighting and Im not sure to what end or motive this was done. It couldve been played off as a joke, but there was no reveal that it was. Very uncomfortable to watch.

[@RelaxwithJC]

It's not that serious. It's not gaslighting if the person truly believes what they are saying is true.

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

What do you mean? Are you saying she was purposefully trying to gaslight him by saying the fire lights were all mechanical?

[@tehgdk224]

Bud you're a weirdo, some people think what they think is true and don't mean anything by it. Maybe you do this sort of stuff but don't accuse innocent people of saying what they believe.