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@alisonreilly25492 ай бұрын
Another point I would add to Ekko and the hover board - is that for us in the real world hover boards were a childs dream of where invention could go, and that hope was never really achieved, and I atleast wonder why that is. Technological inventions all too often involve weapons or at the very least not fun things. It both represents Ekko as someone who holds onto his dreams until they are fulfilled and honors 'innocence' to an extent. He is the closest arcane has to an un-corrupt dreamer. I think a scene that establishes this as well is that we see the children playing with it. Being said they are used as a tool for travel to commit violent acts, so there is some grey in there but also practicality.
@eloise23192 ай бұрын
One of the Councilors says something regarding your question about why Jayce isn't practicing to become a mage. "Arcane talents are something you're born with. They can't be fabricated." You must be born with the ability to harness magic or else use magic through technology like hextech.
@flux.aeterna2 ай бұрын
I think the fact that Heimerdinger doesn’t use his skills to invent things in recent memory, as far as the text of the show tells us, says a lot about how his fear about preserving the status quo of his legacy, Piltover, has made him stagnant as a scientist/inventor. He’s so focused on protecting the topside snow globe from harm that he’s never bothered to reconsider how he could still innovate to make things better for those around him until he meets Ekko.
@kevinscottbailey83352 ай бұрын
Just FYI, Jayce was never "courting" Cait. He's close to 10 years older than her (23ish to 14ish in Act I) and their relationship is WAY more big brother/little sister than anything else, as the only reason she knows him is because her wealthy parents are Jayce's patrons.
@emma28842 ай бұрын
My first thought was absolutely yes! I stand by it. But what if they allow their daughter to spend so much time with him hoping that in 10 or 15 years they will court? I could see her politically minded mother thinking of something like that.
@kevinscottbailey83352 ай бұрын
@emma2884 I don't think that makes much sense though, since Jace is both way older than her and from a lower social caste. No, they were his patrons and Cait was just his young friend.
@emma28842 ай бұрын
@kevinscottbailey8335 I expect you're right. Unless they expected true greatness from him.
@taylorparis72282 ай бұрын
Cait's also a lesbian😆🌈🌈 plus like you said, ther relationship is veryy brother/ sister like.
@ortezac.5339Ай бұрын
It's pretty evident from the way he calls her "Sprout." They're like close cousins, or at best the big brother and the more authoritative little sister.
@hachmanno2 ай бұрын
I think Jayces Hammer should probably be mentioned as well. Inspired by a childhood hero fantasy, he tries to heroically solve his problems with violence and immediately makes the worst mistake of his life (so far)
@flux.aeterna2 ай бұрын
He’s definitely got a savior complex!
@nitzan37822 ай бұрын
I think it's no coincidence that, after being ousted from the de facto throne of Piltover, Heimerdinger immediately aligned with Ekko. Ekko's invention represent risky survivalism: agile, counteroffensive and most of all fleeting. *Heimerdinger's invention is Piltover,* a city where people can be safe from magic and live under an industry, under technology. Heimerdinger is so focused on stopping one kind of calamity he neglects the bigger picture, and once his narrow view becomes his undoing, he goes to the people he's failed to see how they've grown. I think he was equally displeased with the HexGates because he *knew* they would lead to the Seed, but he was overruled by the rest of the Council. I also think you hit the nail on the head with Jayce. He and Caitlyn both care but don't understand Zaun. Caitlyn dedicates her life to learn all about it, and through Violet and Ekko she finally gets a glimpse of the world through their eyes, but Jayce's only connection to it is Viktor, who himself has been separate from that community all his life and taken in by a Piltover exile.
@Flailmorpho2 ай бұрын
singed also in lore is a war criminal who likes to experiment for the sake of it. He was hired to gas bomb a foreign nation for Noxus once and he responded by gas bombing both sides. Arcane doesn't show much of his cruelty compared to the lore, but he seems to just be guided by his curiosity with little care given to who suffers from the consequences.
@chrishaven14892 ай бұрын
In the initial lore, Singed was motivated by jealousy of Jayce's hextech discoveries. So he goes to the undercity to continue his biochemical research which he feels is largely overlooked by his peers. But I'm pretty sure that backstory has been thoroughly retconned for the sake of this show, and I think that's a good thing. I agree with Little Thought Tree. I do think his daughter's death is the primary driver for his actions. Furthermore, I theorize that Singed feels like he could have saved his daughter's life if only he had pushed the boundaries of science just that little bit further. Do away with morals, ethics and Heimerdinger's overexcessive caution. If he just did whatever it took to save his daughter then maybe she'd be alive today. And now that's all he cares, scientific progress for the sake of progress. Whatever it takes to extend life and defeat mortality.
@BrokenSoul79x2 ай бұрын
17:30 i got the sense that when singed first said "the strain must survive" was meaning that rio must survive because that's how he was _making_ the shimmer...
@NerveUnderscore2 ай бұрын
Oh- that is even worse...
@mylittlethoughttree2 ай бұрын
I both like and feel unnerved by this theory
@Belbecat2 ай бұрын
In Runeterra magic is generally frowned upon due to that catastrophic incident Heimer kept referring to - some countries/cities outlaw them, most don't. Piltover as Heimer said was a city built to escape the warmongering of mages to be a scientific utopia of sorts and judging by the council reaction, outlaws magic.
@ShirDeutch2 ай бұрын
Maybe Rio IS his daughter? Like if she had a terminal illness, and in his attempts to cure her, he ended up mutating her beyond recognition...
@rasmusn.e.m10642 ай бұрын
Powder -> Jinx made me cry the first time I watched it because it mirrored my own young adult development where my insecurity and Caesar-or-nothing attitude made me a real fricking villain to other people once I fucked up once and couldn't square my precious self-image with my actions anymore: "Might as well give people what they see." Then I ran away and tried starting from scratch, which has worked wonderfully so far. I have learned about how to actually have self-love and integrity and help people, but I still can't see people from before or even be reminded of them because then I turn into a crying self-hating mess. It's pretty ironic to be your own source of loss of innocence, but that's how it is. I know I have to work on loving my prior self, but the point is; holy hell there are some parallels to Jinx there! -and I bet people with substance abuse and other issues in their youths also relate to this, but Jinx/Powder has nobody to tell her, that she is ok and that it wasn't her fault because she was a child in an untenable position.
@mylittlethoughttree2 ай бұрын
This is a wonderful comment, really nice to hear you are finding your way
@tripster1032 ай бұрын
That Singed analysis was spot on after watching season 2 act 2 damn.
@КириллПарамонов-э6о2 ай бұрын
It is a marvel that you after 3 year of the show airing managed to contribute new insightful analysis into the analytical youtube content regarding Arcane.
@reno98212 ай бұрын
I think Jayce was already born into a Piltovan family or at the very least one focused on technological craft. In the flashback we see the arcane element being added which I think motivates him to specifically find a bridge between what we're able to invent and harnessing the arcane. Rather than just pursuing a life of magical arts. On top of that, approach in which characters and regions see and use magic varies in the lore. And the lore itself is going through bit of an overhaul now which makes things even more uncertain. It seems Piltover is in general cautious of magic though and I think Jayce would have to puruse a pure mage life elsewhere and abandon his home and other passions inherent from his home.
@panagiotiskris98172 ай бұрын
Answering your question why Jayce won't train to become a mage 7:54 : In the Arcane universe in the region of Piltover and Zaun mages are very infrequent. In addition magic in the Runeterra universe is sth you are born with or is within the region or culture where sb group up, or sth acquired by daunting means. So it's easy to assume that Jayce wasn't born with a gift for magic and probably the community and region he was born didn't have any mages or magic. Lastly, for Jayce who is a scientist its logical for him to try to reverse engineer magic he has previously seen with technological means rather than magic hands or mana, etc. Because it's the only way he can utilize it.
@clamagi04_ofcАй бұрын
I think the purple flowers that Singed and Viktor feed to Rio are the base ingredient of Shimer. Rio is not a test subject for Shimer, but an instrument to develop it, a way to mutate the ingredients of the purple flowers and turned them into Shimer. So when Singed says "The mutation must survive" he's not talking about Rio, but about the Shimer. Therefore, when Rio gets conected to the tubes what is happening is that Singed is extracting the Shimer of her, killing her in the process.
@claudiaborges8406Ай бұрын
8:40 In S2 Jayce mentions how the council asked him for the hex gates. We don’t know who came up with it but the massive tower for transport wasn’t all Jayce’s spontaneous idea. They also mentioned early in the series that the arcane is something you’re born with. We did learn Viktor’s way to do it but that’s implied to be an anomaly… and is also, in a sense, blood magic and uses shimmer, which itself changes one’s nature and is corrupting in a way. “The hex core is adapting” or whatever, it doesn’t sound like something that magic would do on its own, except maybe for Heimer’s remark at his past experience with magic “looked just like this”
@Hiflash43Ай бұрын
singed"s character review being on point without even watching the second season quite remarakable really
@efoxkitsune94932 ай бұрын
Really insightful! Especially the segment about Jace and his inventions reflecting his insecurity and desire to belong and be accepted - I mean it seems so obvious, but I never actually thought about it that way. Beautiful analysis all around. Can't wait to hear more of your thoughts on Arcane.
@reno98212 ай бұрын
Also, as for Singed. There's not much to go off of only through the show you're right. The daughter thing definetly feels like it's the inciting motive, but I sincerely hope that's a mislead. I think Singed geniuenly is just curiosity at its darkest and most extreme. The goal and end result is what matters, the ethical boundaries that have to be crossed to get there? Unimportant. You are problably right that Singed seeks to fight nature and possibly even death, it's likely even what drove a wedge between him and Heimerdinger. I think Shimmer is just a step in exploring that, Silco basically funds his research in return of being allowed to distribute his product. Something Singed is likely happy to do regardless because seeing the effects it has on human specimens all around the city would be valuable insight to him. Could this all stem from a loss of his daughter? Absolutely, but I think it's too much of a deviation to his character and changes the message of him being science at its most dangerous and boundless.
@chrishaven14892 ай бұрын
9:19 Woah, woah, woah. The relationship between Jayce and Caitlyn is strictly plutonic. There's a significant age gap there. Caitlyn's a little girl
@mylittlethoughttree2 ай бұрын
I did not know that, thanks!😅
@spikethewolf22842 ай бұрын
No there not there same age?
@amandaidange49812 ай бұрын
I think Pilltower banned magic, etc. Because it was faunded by survivors of a wizard war.
@lindenshepherd60852 ай бұрын
Yeah, that’s what I assumed from Heimerdinger’s flashback and the emphasis on scientific advancement. He’s trying to mentor a mortal city away from the Arcane and towards the slower form of progress he seems safer. Based on how Jayce is discouraged from utilizing the Arcane and how Viktor is shamed for attempting a magical way to treat his condition, the Arcane seems to be either highly regulated or outright forbidden in Piltover. It’s also interesting to notice that Piltover is the least involved in foreign wars of the cultures we hear about, at least comparatively, and gender doesn’t seem to be a limiting factor for advancement or respect.
@ChibileanuАй бұрын
perfect intuition on Singed. Rio, sounds really close to Ori which could've been how he was calling little Orianna.. I enjoy watching your vids
@queglar2 ай бұрын
Love your work @mylittlethoughttree - eh and damn the YT algorithm. After season 2 drops and you have more content to work with, you should do one deep dive per-character like you did with GoT or Spirited Away. When you do character analysis of content with a crap ton of density like these you always manage to find a lot of nuance that isn't immediately obvious and it is glorious.
@joshuahicks77982 ай бұрын
This definitely needs more views. With arcane season 2 coming up i hope your channel gets a boost
@vel3062 ай бұрын
The show actually answers ur question during the Jayce trial, magic (to their knowledge) is usually just something you are born with. What Jayce was doing with the magic and science thing is something they have never heard of before. Viktors thing later in the series with the rubix cube hextech stuff was his idea of the possiblity of becoming a mage. In reality learning magic without being born of it is not i thing I believe, unless you are using a magical artifact or inbueing yourself without magic which I believe the latter always has consequences.
@lucindamakin12622 ай бұрын
One of the council members does clarify that to become a mage, you need to be born with the capability to learn it. Some regions call it "arcane blood" but it's not necessarily hereditary. Hence Jayce cannot learn to be a mage, but he wanted to use science to mimic it. This is in the judgement scene of Ep. 2 (?). Different regions of Runeterra have different approaches to mages but they all agree it's a dangerous thing to meddle with. Noxians are the most indifferent to the idea of one having talents of the Arcane - it's up to the individual to use it and exploit it for the good of Noxus. The island of Ionia is the most magical, and being born there increases your chance of having the Arcane in you. Demacia is an isolated Imperial city that not only makes mages illegal, but they have a stone material that suppresses the Arcane in it's people. And as we know, Piltover/Zaun see the Arcane as a gift, but more of a piece of individuality, not something to use and exploit, hence why they were so hesitant to embrace Jayce's mimicking it through science - but science and progress is their thing so...
@AverageDonaldDuckFan2 ай бұрын
I love how hypocritical Hemerdinger is. He says he's an inventor, but we never see him inventing while he's on the council. He says he wants what's best for society, but we never see him trying to better it. He's a perfect example of how telling instead of showing can make your character seem fake and shallow.
@yamcha65Ай бұрын
it is said pretty flat out early on in the show that magic is only able to be used by people born with it, which is rare.
@axel_d91192 ай бұрын
7:45 Magic in Runeterra is complicated but i can try to explain. Be careful i explain with my knowledge. First their 3 or 4 type of magic. Elemental magic, Spirit magic, celestial magic and runes magic. For all of you are born with the capacities to use it or you have to become able to use it (only celestial). Elemental mage, are mage who use light, fire, etc. Like in Avatar. We dont see anyone in Arcane, but in the Lore Zery is a elemental mage of Zaun. Spirit magic, is thevmagic of spirit realm, a realm where dead spirit, naturz spirit, and a lot of other AND yordle, bandle city the city of the races of heimerdinger, is in the spirit realm. This magic is more important in another region not P/Z. But in trailer we can see a sculpture of a woman in the fight between Vi and Jinx, She is Janna a Siprit god of the wind and protector of Zaun. Celestial magic, is the magic of constellation who are space creature. They are the creature who create Runeterra with the telluric runes. They can give a mortal magic and those who believe and worship can use their power. This are magic use in Targon region and shurima region more than in the rest of the world. And we arrive to runes magic or Arcane. The telluric runes (of number of 5) are powerful runes who create the world. And when heimerdinger make flash back this reference the telluric rune war who almost destroy the world. Ryze try to obtain them all to protect them and avoid another war. But yordle who are almost immortal, remember this terrible war, an entiere region was build to avoid magic after this war Demacia. This runes can be use by those who have arcane. And jayce recreate the runes symbole and use a catalyst (hex gem) to use it. In hex core we can see only 4 runes symbole and not 5, seem they lack knowledge and this is why they cant use it fully, the experiznce with the plant who die, is an example. So hextech make human use runes magic. The most common magic is spirit because yordle or vastaya (another race) use it, after this elementary magic, we have a lot of elementary mage in the world. After this celestial magic. And Arcane in last, but hextech make the Arcane the most use magic in the world. I hope i have help a little. And coreect me if you have more information
@ghostlyapples2 ай бұрын
About magic: the world of arcane went through romething called Rune Wars, that was when the magical runes that helped shape the world were used like magical nukes by human mages. The rune wars is that destruction Heimerdinger sees and why he's terrified of magic. Heimer is a yordle, they're magical creatures that can live for centuries, so he remembers that magic isn't safe in the hands of people than can be corrupted. There's a whole nation called Demacia that is anti-magic and has a whole mage conversion therapy thing going on. It's a very "post magic" world, but there are still mages being born like Lux (a girl from a very important family in Demacia) but it seems like in the Arcane show the "danger" is in things that can harness magic and be used, not magical beings themselves. Which will be very fun if the thingy Viktor created really is something from the Void
@BriefDownpourАй бұрын
19:19 She lost her parents to bombs, so maybe that's a way she can take something scary and turn into something friendly. She builds the bombs herself, probably because seeing her parents die at young age was womething confusing to her, and studying this helps her to process what happened.
@sakurachangt72372 ай бұрын
8:04 You asked the question on why Jayce didnt try to learn magic. In this world its known that if you have arcane ability, you are born with it. It cannot be learned. Thats why Hextech is so revolutionary- its the first time someone has harnessed magic without having the ability themselves. This was proven by a passing comment made by the councel member with the gears when Jayce is being tried. See episode 2, timestamp 16:00. Scene right after Jayce says "I was trying to create magic".
@pinip_f_werty13822 ай бұрын
8:05 Magical affinity is something you're born with. Jayce has none.
@peppapotato2 ай бұрын
Thanks for your insights ❤
@axel_d91192 ай бұрын
17:10 in singed i highly recomend to read is story on the LoL universe website.
@andreluislimaa2 ай бұрын
im sorry to know the algorythm didnt help your last video. i do like all your videos. keep up the good work!
@Tyrisalthan2 ай бұрын
Heimerdinger is a builder. He also has a trauma, he has seen what horrors magic could unleashed, so he build Piltover to shelter people from it.
@joz-2 ай бұрын
It's so good seeing new Arcane analysis! A few comments/ideas! I think it's purposeful we don't actually see Heimindinger invent anything or even build anything outside the toy for the undercity girl. It shows how stagnant he is as an inventor bc of his strong adherence to 'order.' I don't think his League lore gets too much more specific on it either but I may be wrong. I'm not a league fan. I'd also like point out that while Jace's hammer is a tool, it's also destructive. Even when building something, you use a hammer to hit and smash. Jace's intentions are constructive but his tactics are the opposite. I forgot about Viktor's comments about hextech being alive and it's very fitting to compare it to something spiritual or godlike. Viktor doesn't only rely on it for work and for helping others but as his only chance at life. It's like a petty old god in his life, it can revatalize his life, give him gifts and boons but snuff out life just as easily as it gives if he acts out of turn.
@demonseed3602 ай бұрын
They don't explicitly name an invention, but Heimerdinger is the founder/one of the founders of Piltover.
@vulcanus71272 ай бұрын
I am here from the future to say "Replace" turned out to be a perfect word for Viktor's perspective, rofl
@mylittlethoughttree2 ай бұрын
Oh, so it did!
@AMB-c4c2 ай бұрын
So good
@angelrose8464Ай бұрын
If you saw season 2, there were a couple things you were right on the money about 💕
@styrofoamboogie20422 ай бұрын
good video
@Vizible212 ай бұрын
11:12 No you don't need to analyze them but it's not there "just because it's in the game"- It had to be there because this is a game adaptation and not including them would be a stupid change for tge writers. The champions weapon are literally the only distinctive part of League as a game. Jayce without his hammer is not Jayce League of Legends. You might as well remove the Lol on the title if you change them.
@purplevoice13632 ай бұрын
" ..man.. man?.." y o r d l e
@inhkhanhtoan62102 ай бұрын
There was literally a line said by a councilor that arcane magic is something you born with, and cant be fabricated.
@sunhorse93782 ай бұрын
Well, in lore all hextech is just a little Skarner's brothers. He hear how they screaming in agony, while Piltoverans just used them
@reno98212 ай бұрын
@@sunhorse9378 that is no longer canon
@chrishaven14892 ай бұрын
@@sunhorse9378 Hex crystals don't work that way anymore, unfortunately. That's been retconned
@sunhorse93782 ай бұрын
@@chrishaven1489 they decided to delete Seraphine and Skarner????
@chrishaven14892 ай бұрын
@@sunhorse9378 No. Seraphine is still very much there. Skarner on the other hand is now a paranoid kaiju residing beneath Ixaocan, guarding the nation of Ixtal against outsiders beyond the jungle barrier.
@torfansurvivor45422 ай бұрын
If I understood the wiki correctly, the key to my understanding Heimerdinger is that for a yordle, he's about the equivalent age as Jayce and Viktor
@Akela3dn2 ай бұрын
Now that im thinking more on it this scene hurts even more because in the end of the first season jinx asked vi "are we still...sisters" and vi says "nothing will ever change that..." but now vi flat out says "im done pretending your my sister your not" the switch up is crazy and the fact that vi is wearing the same uniforms of the people who have been opressing and killing citizens of the under city including there parents now seeing how vi and her group were treating the under city citizens literally gassing them out its like the call back from the beginning of season 1 ep 1 where there were a bunch of enforcers burning and killing innocent people ill always be on jinxs side....vi chose her little enforcer crush over her sister regardless if she was "to far gone" vi had the ability to bring her back multiple times she could have done it in these eps but again she chose her crush. " The road to hell is paved with good intentions" - SOOOO Fuck Caitlin and Vi. One is just scum, the other is even worse scum, abandoning your sister, because it was you who made her a monster. Vi and Caitlin burn in hell
@theemmengard41442 ай бұрын
But what IS Heimerdinger’s whole deal!?
@GoddayIwebema2 ай бұрын
To think his more of fraud, we no the rule of show don’t tell in character building but this is the opposite we only know his the founder and most of the things he has done but seen none
@GoddayIwebema2 ай бұрын
To me*
@Formalec2 ай бұрын
Yes, magic is not learnable for most. Natural mages are rare.
@SuperLegendOf3642 ай бұрын
Really trying to pump these out before the new season, eh?
@lostvarius2 ай бұрын
What’s wrong with that exactly ?
@SuperLegendOf3642 ай бұрын
@@lostvarius nothing, just something I noticed is all.