Arcane - 2x7 - Episode 7 Reaction - Pretend Like It's The First Time

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[@HaydrogenBomb]

The way they keep cutting from Ekko living his absolute best life to Jayce live his WORST is unintentionally hilarious. 🤣

[@elpepo0]

ekko living his dream while Jayce over here trying to speedrun Elden Ring💀

[@pabloc8808]

Ekko having the best week of his life while Jayce is in hell's basement for like 6 months was the funniest bit of the entire show

[@rebornjm]

It’s almost like a role Reversing episode.

[@dezceusrosa]

they did the same thing in season 1 with viktor fighting for his life at the same time that jayce and mel were having hot scenes together 💀

[@mathies3598]

I wouldnt say ekko is living his best life. He's being mindfucked. As much as he would have wanted this, safe from Vi dying, doesnt mean it feels right to him

[@pla9galctrl75]

At least ekko and powder are happy in one universe 😭😭😭

[@SuryaGupta-te7fq]

they really said life is a paradise without Vi lmao

[@pla9galctrl75]

​@@SuryaGupta-te7fq and her chaos partner jayce😭

[@nguyentai464]

@@SuryaGupta-te7fqlmao 😂

[@keithbos4506]

@@pla9galctrl75 They weren't just accomplishing nothing, they were actively ruining everything and we just didn't know it

[@riccardobert1950]

Glad to see i wasnt the only one bawling my eyes out at the dance scene 😭😭😭

[@L0stwitn0nam3]

"They have to do something terrible to balance this happiness out"

[@Nyx__]

*instantly cuts to Jayce going through literal hell*

[@cameronbrown8384]

What I love most about Heimerdinger is that even after Jayce and the council sending him away, with the years he’s spent reflecting, he feels that he failed Jayce. “How could I forsake a brilliant pupil? Again?” The optimism he has now is a product of Ekko and seeing the Undercity. I can only imagine what he will accomplish in his next life.

[@mathmexican4234]

I'm glad Madison noticed the necklace having their pictures in a flower pattern. And you may not have noticed Powder had a single red strip of hair in honor of Vi in that universe. Also, the lore of Yordles like Heimerdinger is that they are immortal and if their body dies, their soul is respawned in their home city of Bandle City, which isn't in runeterra, but a spiritual realm, but they sometimes come through portals into runeterra. So perhaps heimer will find himself back there again.

[@mathmexican4234]

Also, I think Vander has a Vi tattoo on his arm.

[@MRST0R]

But if heimerdinger can go to bandle city from this alternate reality and then come back in the actual reality, then doesn’t that mean that yordles have access to all alternate realities ? That seems quite far fetched. I think he’s just stuck in that alternator reality even after respawning

[@mathmexican4234]

@@MRST0R OK i mean this lore is from the game so they dont spell out how it works exactly. I dont know how their portals work.

[@-quoreo-7196]

​@@MRST0R it's possible that in this universe, Heimer wasn't the one (at least) who founded Piltover. It could be possible that all across dimensions, no the same yordles exist more than one and maybe they're the reason why dimensions are different from each other. He could have possibly made a name for himself in those 3 years he got sent here. The only evidence I can really think of is that in this alternate dimension/reality or what-not, I don't think I have seen the female yordle that owns/works at the brothel from the lanes in the original timeline. Quite far-fetched still, but I suppose it's my head-canon since I really liked the in-game yordle's lore.

[@abelmulato8991]

Dude it’s not fair seeing how happy they all could’ve been, Ekko is the most selfless guy I’ve ever seen

[@abdulwaduod11]

yeah look at him being the leader of firelights helping people in underworld

[@stewpidasso5646]

I like the parallel between Ekko’s and Jayce’s experience through the Arcane. In a way, the universe they end up in is a making of their own. Jayce’s vision from the beginning is all about creating world peace through control, whereas Ekko’s vision is about giving people what they need to live peacefully. What I find fascinating is that they both somewhat realized the pivotal moment that led to their reality’s outcome… for Ekko is giving up on Jinx, and for Jayce is giving up on Viktor.

[@pabloc8808]

It's also a testament to Ekko's character that he goes back to his universe for love because there are people who need him there, while Jayce wants to go back full of hate to kill Viktor, so he wants to stop violence through violence

[@HYLT_edit]

Best episode ever

[@ranniwolves]

i was sobbing this entire episode, between mylo, claggor, vander, benzo, silco, jayce, timebomb, and heimerdinger’s song and sacrifice, i just couldn’t stop… such an amazing episode! probably the best of the season

[@gilliandm]

INSTANTLY clicked when I got the notif! My fav episode of the season 💙 - a fellow subscriber from hk!!

[@_MrToast_]

I love the dancing scene so much... The music, the artstyle... everything.

[@jerrylamb2385]

OMG, I have never even would've been able to catch it, thanks so much Madison, infact, if you go back where Powder is spining the necklace, you can see them both, Ekko on the left and Powder on the right, looking away. Great eye Madison.

[@mavenofmadnesss]

This timeline's Powder is wearing Vander's bracelet as a necklace. In our timeline, Vi was wearing it. We can see it in Vander's flashbacks. That's kind of the moment I realized there was no Vi here. This is just the sweetest and the most painful episode in my opinion. Oh, and please check out the translation for Stromae's song. It's beautiful.

[@inigorodriguez8299]

Stromae’s song is heartbreaking. It’s a beautifully painful contrast to the scene of them dancing.

[@JustCauseFan]

Ekko really left his perfect universe just to save his own broken universe

[@camilacaceres7812]

Is not his universe

[@XC11301991]

What I see from this is like a reverse "It's a Wonderful Life." Death of Vi got Vander and his kids to mourn, with at some point Silco being informed and them reconciling. The death of Jayce doesn't create a bigger gap between Piltover and Zaun. This vacuum allows Vander and Silco's recuperated friendship to finish up their mission to bring Zaun up as a community and form a peaceful relationship with Piltover which seems to have brought an intellectual renaissance in science and art.

[@kadeyray7222]

Jayce is living Elden Ring

[@ljlysong001]

Jayce probably couldn't join them in that world because that Jayce died. Remember in season 1 when Jayce was going to commit suicide? He probably went through with it since it his unstable hexcore that exploded and since it already had a casualty (being Vi) Viktor never advocated for him.

[@CarbonMage]

Either that or the explosion took him out too. He was kicking the door down when it went off.

[@M_i_z_a_r_y]

@@CarbonMage or he didnt get rescued as a kid in the beginning :)

[@runningshoes9753]

15:09 After what they did to us in 2x6 we at least deserve this.😭

[@lucasferreira7420]

This is definitely my favorite episode of the season, its so beautiful 😍🥺😭 I'm so happy to know that at least in one universe Ekko and Powder (Jinx) are happy together 😍⏳💣💚💙

[@michaelcarlson1208]

I thought I would like just let you know, in league of legends lore, Yordles are technically spirts. They can't die and technically are "immortal." Their spirit just returns to Bandle City which is dimension that only Yordles can only travel back & forth to. Unless Riot are going to retcon their own universe lore and rules since Arcane is cannon.

[@Pepsolman]

I loved this episode. Getting to see them happy and healthy due to VI’s sacrifice to the timeline. It was a consolation for losing that happy family hug we got to see for a moment.

[@17thknight]

Great catch on the necklace Madison! I missed it the first time. Easily my favorite episode in the series.

[@Apsis12]

The strength it took to leave that world behind to go save your own. Better man than me, truly the boy savior. In a way, this was like the ultimate closure for him. Now, to set things right

[@daviddastoli3926]

15:39 That is a blue rose. Blue roses symbolize something unattainable because they don’t and will never occur in nature. Their love is unattainable😢

[@Ali-bm4un]

15:14 the fact that it goes from happy to Jayce just Absolutely going through the shit is diabolical editing 😭😭

[@Orapac4142]

Ekko and Heimer: Dropped into a better timeline. Jayce: Dropped into Warhammer 40k

[@kairuashiba8736]

Ekko the boy savior and the boy who shattered time is the best character for me

[@GerblerM]

14:31 fun fact about this dance scene: it plays at 4 frames per second like how far back Ekkos machine takes him

[@chrishouseinc]

15:08 "they're gonna have to do something terrible in the show to balance this out" Jayce 5 seconds later crawling through an Elden Ring boss arena hell: "Am I a joke to you?" lmfao

[@ThePonderer]

Went from giving Timebomb no consideration to it being OTP. Impressive for one episode.

[@keyronkathrynekathrynkeyron]

Best episode in season 2... Ekko scene no war... No death

[@kimways8182]

this is the best episode of act 3 IMO

[@cm31572]

contender for best episode of the whole show

[@kimways8182]

@ eh not for me but i loved it WAY more than episodes 8-9. i wasn’t a big fan of act 3 as a whole 😓

[@JLR9698]

Song title in the dance scene translates to “my dearest enemy”😢

[@lucafavole]

Best episode of the entire series... hits different

[@batknightchannel8169]

There's always a price. And here ,It was Vi. Not that i want anyone else to die ,butit sucks. It reminds of Logan's sacrifice & how he became the anchor being to the whole timeline. Maybe Vi was this arcane world's anchor being.

[@VinniePaul91]

Jayce climbed out of the fissures up to piltover with a busted leg. He had to go through what Viktor went through.

[@aranthur]

The other big difference to remember in this alternate timeline, besides hextech not existing, is that Heimerdinger is still the head of the Piltover Council but also remembers his time with Ekko in the undercity, so he was able to make huge strides in fixing the problems he once helped create through his ignorance Which makes me sad that so much good could have also been done for them in the main timeline in only 3 years, if the council had ever bothered to try, but... It also makes me kind of hopeful that maybe they could still manage a similar level of progress just as quickly if they can also manage to unite the two cities now??

[@Nazz-b7p]

The fingers on the mage in s1e1 who gave jayce the stone aren't the same here.

[@MN-vz8qm]

Did nobody realize that there is no reason to believe that Jayce ended up in a different universe? We know they all arrived at different times, like Heimedinger theorized, and (spoiler from ep 9 incoming) Jayce meets an old Viktor, hence simply arrived in the future of the same universe. But how this universe ended up like that if when Ekko came, there was no Hexteck? Well, Ekko is the one who showed to Powder how to make Hexttek, and we see at the end she has crystals. So yeah, Ekko dancing with Powder was cute, but the most important part is that by ocming there, he condamned her and his entire world to death.

[@CarbonMage]

Probably not. Jayce is likely dead or exiled in the timeline Ekko and Heimerdinger went to, but that's definitely him and his hammer on top of the hexgate tower in the bad future. Not to say that Powder getting Hextech isn't going to cause problems, but at last not that specific one

[@MN-vz8qm]

@@CarbonMage We have zero information about the whereabouts of Jayce in this alternate timeline. I have a hard time believing he would brag about magic at his trial if a kid had died. And this is his pursuit of magic which led to a severe punishment, as going against the ethos of the city was punishable by exile. On the other hand, we could even wonder if the person holding the hammer is Jayce anyway, as travelling between parallel universe is a spiritual thing and not a physical one, people inhabiting the bodies of their counterpart. And it seems that Powder wouldn't be the source of the issue anyway, just as Jayce wasn't, Viktor would, eventually. The young engineer recognizing the potential of Hexteck might be an occurence in several timelines. Really, there is nothing pointing at Jayce going to a different universe. The only rule we have, that they all arrive at different times in the same universe, is fullfilled considering that Viktor is old in Jayce timeline.

[@CarbonMage]

@@MN-vz8qm Victor would presumably have died of his illness without the hexcore available earlier, but there's enough questions around the mountain rescue timeloop that I'm wondering if we'll eventually get some info on authorial intent. Jayce's bad future feels like it follows from the show's normal timeline, but you're right that we don't have hard information

[@rillzy9637]

When I say I sobbed, I lost it completely.

[@FelipeSilva-te8js]

What a beautiful episode, and Claggor's look at Mylo, I caught the subtext of the situation lol

[@loco_logic]

Claggor: 😏 Me: 👀👀👀

[@foxthroat3410]

I think Claggor is into him, but not Mylo. Mylo got his eye on the other one he choked talking to xD

[@HaydrogenBomb]

​@@foxthroat3410That's rough, buddy

[@FelipeSilva-te8js]

@@foxthroat3410 Yes, Claggor would like that but Mylo was really into the girl he talked to before, but it's still a nice touch

[@HenHen666]

Pure love scene Ekko ❤ Jinx

[@Cenforge]

Bravo.

[@Jourifouler]

I feel as though it's implied Powder will try and recreate the device

[@VinniePaul91]

She closes the drawer. It reads to me as Powder believing those stones should be left tf alone.

[@RSR4DG]

Halfway into this episode I thought Jayce got dropped into the future of same universe as the others, and whatever Ekko and Heimerdinger did to get back destroys Piltover. Then at the end I thought maybe alternate Ekko and Powder continue the Hextech research and that ends Piltover. Hope that’s not the case

[@rickymoranjr9609]

those robot Manneqines (or whatever they are) remind me of the mannequines from Little Nightmares 2 but more scary especially when they slowly approach Jayce behind him

[@riccardobert1950]

I think its heavily implied that the alternate universes ekko and powder are in fact a couple. If you pause the screen during the episode in powders hideout you can see notes on her desk with hearts and "i love you" on it. Also theres powders scribblings in ekkos notebook with all smiley and hearts, which i think "only friends" wouldnt do. Also pretty sure that this universes ekko kissed powder before, which is why our timelines ekko says the famous words aka the episode title. Theres also a couple of indicators that implied that powder even realized that smth was off with ekko. she looked very interested at ekkos notes where he drew 2 souls connected through an infinity sign, hinting at multiple dimensions. also that she didnt really look shocked when she saw a "clone" of her ekko, which was our ekko, shortly before vanishing.

[@elpepo0]

​@@riccardobert1950plus she has all the hex crystals so she could try to mimick what ekko and haimerdinger did

[@mitchhamilton64]

because ekkos reality needs him. he would just be living in a lie. going to that reality showed him that there was more he needed to do, to make up for giving up on jinx. if he stayed, he'd only be running.

[@rickymoranjr9609]

@@mitchhamilton64 good point

[@jefferymojo3761]

This Universe is happy and health because of Vi death. Had she lived none of that would've happened. Powder realize how dangerous the Hex Stones were and has been hiding them.

[@ivnaqn8521]

Jayce was probably arrested in this world so he never met Victor.

[@robyluenrenton2798]

NEVER BEEN THIS EARLY!!

[@daoberik]

go to the end guys

[@O_Towne_Bear]

"What could have been"

[@mx9226]

Is it bad that I actually laughed when it cut to Jayce suffering while Ekko was having the time of his life?

[@Vexclorion]

This episode tore me apart

[@tommyprabowo4576]

Don't worry heirmindinger respwan back life realm bandel city yordle is Immortal can not kill body death but spirit back born bandel city

[@tommyprabowo4576]

Ekko universe like spider verse happy date with powder maybe still here more time happy Not lucky jayce Univers fast like silent hill 2 and elden ring

[@HaydrogenBomb]

I'm so glad this reality wasn't erased after Ekko left. Also, Imma just say it: Ekko and Powder is better than Cait x Vi.

[@GEMINIVice1]

Damn straight they are. But imho…. it felt like the writers weren’t trying to do Vi any favors this season. Not trying to spoil for those that haven’t finished the season yet, that’s just what it felt like to me….after seeing everything, sitting and thinking about it for a few days.

[@ranniwolves]

@@GEMINIVice1what makes you say that?

[@itsregal]

The second I heard Stromae's voice i knew we were in for the PAIN