REACTING TO ARCANE: BRIDGING THE RIFT Part 1 - I Only Dream in Risky - League of Legends

Joins us as we react to Arcane: Bridging the rift Part 1 titled I Only Dream in Risky. This behind the scenes footage of how they made the iconic League of Legends show Arcane is beyond astonishing. The showrunner, creator and writer Christian Linke did an amazing job at giving us something special. Fortiche the animation studio behind Arcane created a very unique style of animation that had personality but also was extremely cinematic. All this combined with thousands of talented artist brought us one of the best animated shows in history. Vi, Powder, Ekko, Vander, Silco, Jinx, Caitlyn, Jayce and Viktor will always be in our hearts.
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[@ninjatoriumnova2483]

Christian and Alex are so damn passionate about Arcane, but I feel like the production aged each of them at least 20 years.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

It’s insane! Specially when you see those older clips of when the production started VS now. I think more than aging they got so much experience. They look confident in the new clips. They definitely took all of the hurdles and used them to fuel this masterpiece and what’s to come 👏

[@bridgethaines7127]

This documentary is as enlightening as the show itself was amazing. I know you're going to just be gobsmacked at what it took to get this made and out there.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Thanks so much for coming back and commenting! Honestly, we're a few episodes in and it's so inspiring and insightful, we're truly thrilled you guys recommended this for us!!

[@tarinindell8217]

The song Christian was singing that starts with "Every Child..." is the Amumu cinematic. Christian, the show runner, is also a musician, which is why he was so focused in the Get Jinxed music video, etc.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Whooaaa that's awesome!! Thanks so much for sharing that with us!

[@tarinindell8217]

@@OfficialMediaKnights You dont have to react on the channel, but check out most of the music videos that Riot/League of Legends has produced. Theyre all pretty awesome and get better over time. Also, some of their World Championship live performances are outstanding. 2017, 2018, and 2019 are all wonderful. As for cinematics, Warriors, Awaken, Legends Never Die, Pheonix, Rise, and all the KDA stuff and Pentakill stuff are fantastic. However, its easy and fast content to react to as well, so if you need some "get ahead" videos, those would be easy to knock out.

[@tarinindell8217]

@@OfficialMediaKnights As for the specific song he is singing, its for the "Curse of the Sad Mummy" cinematic

[@natanm.v8145]

It still is so crazy to me that at some point we are going to get most if not all of the crazy stories of Runeterra adapted with the writing and animation quality of Arcane, like, we are currently in a time-line where in next 15 years Aatrox vs Pantheon has a really big chance of actually being adapted to Acane and animated, and it's going to be fucking epic. I don't want 1 more season of Arcane, want at least 30 more seasons of Arcane adapting the rest of Runeterra, and i want Christian and Fortiche to take their time to do it

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

I sure hope so! I want more Arcane! And we’d love to watch the evolution of these shows. If they can maintain quality I don’t see why not 😄 Like you said, they can take all the time it takes!

[@peteryang5056]

This whole documentary is incredible, but that little bit where they show how the Jinx rig has the two face variants, "full Jinx" and "Powder Jinx," has really stuck with me. It's such a subtle but brilliant tool for gently reminding the audience who Jinx once was and, therefore, immediately contrasting that (or, in some cases, tying that) to who she has become. I remember seeing this moment in the documentary and immediately flashing back to a number of scenes where I just *knew* they used the "Powder" face rig - when we first see her as she emerges from the smoke on the airship, as she sinks beneath the water during her baptism, her expression when she sees Vi for the first time in seven years (and especially as she reciprocates Vi's hug). And one final time, I think, as she cradles Silco's face while he utters his dying words. It's a testament to the brilliance of these filmmakers and the incredible level of detail they brought to creating this series that this is just one of a multitude of amazing little details we learn about in this documentary.

[@kaizen5023]

24:11 Wow, didn't know you two are script writers! That helps explain your insightful commentaries. 💯 Great little mini-message/encouragement here to all artists.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Haha thank you soo much for returning and commenting!! There are countless artists out there, and so much talent, we just have to keep supporting each other!

[@ariochiv]

Being a writer kind of spoils one's enjoyment of media to some extend, because you're always critiquing it, noticing its flaws... and that's why something like Arcane is such a joy, because it's so exceptionally well written and executed. We can just enjoy it.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Sometimes when something is written by lazy writers it can kind of be a turn off knowing every turn that’s gonna happen. But most of the time even though the plot can be predictable there’s still so much to enjoy. Performances, cinematography, score etc. with Arcane though as you said everything was top notch 10/10 👌😄

[@piphead]

U guys are amazing! Thank you so much for all you do ❤️

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Nooo it's all thanks to you guys!! Thank you for all your support!!❤️

[@concettasorvillo3719]

It takes a lot of hope, crazyness and faith to built a project like that for something that you don't even know when it woul be released. And have hundred of people be focused and still driven. So inspiring.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

That’s why they ended up making this so special. All the dedication does not go unnoticed! Can’t wait for season 2 😄

[@3dCraddock]

What's crazy is all of those snippets of previous work by fortiche members, I remember all of them. Came across most of it while in animation school, but had no idea how many of these little animation bits where made by people that eventually all worked together.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

It’s insane to see just how talented this entire team is. All the cogs in this machine are well oiled and top notch! What they’ve done with Arcane is excellence! 👏😄

[@unknowndane4754]

Riot's Behind the Scenes! Where even it ends with cliffhangers.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Right?! Got some hella good story tellers here!

[@drusilla913]

I've never been someone that gets as emotional as I have watching a docuseries. There is something about how they almost made this Docu-series a love note and thank you to Christian Linke and Alex but more specifically Christian is amazing. This series will blow your mind and make you emotional, and feel all the things. I can't wait to watch the rest of your reactions

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Seeing how much they struggled and having similar problems we’ve both encountered when it comes to going back to the drawing board was definitely inspiring and emotional. It’s incredible to see all the moving pieces of a show like this one. Part 2 coming soon!

[@Mariboo_]

So excited to follow along as you watch the documentary!! I absolutely loved learning about how this amazing show was created and it's so nice to see you appreciate the process as well.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Absolutely loved the Part 1! Can’t wait to share with you guys the rest. This is mind blowing! All the things they went through to give us Arcane. They deserve a standing ovation for some of the things they had to go through 👏

[@templeofdoom8629]

Yay! Loving this reaction. Thanks guys for keeping my arcane journey going...I've been absorbing everything I can since I finished Arcane at the end of 2021...keeping me going until season 2!!

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Let’s gooo! We’re also on the season 2 train hahaha thank you for watching!

[@housey_]

I don't know if this is sacrilege or not but I might even enjoy watching you react to this behind the scenes series more than the series itself, so glad you decided to do a reaction for it.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Haha nah we know what you mean!! This BTS is truly so fascinating!

[@meadmaker4525]

Just finished watching your reactions to Arcane S1, so naturally found myself watching these. If you haven't done so already, you owe it to yourselves to watch/react to KDA. It's an all-girl K-Pop group League of Legends came up with a few years back to promote some new skins in the game. In typical League of Legends fashion, though, they hit it out of the park so hard with the music and animation (Fortiche again, I believe) that KDA was leading the ACTUAL K-Pop charts for quite some time. KDA is a virtual K-Pop group, though, so the 4 animated group members are characters from within the game. The singers include 2 actual K-Pop singers from G-IDLE, and a couple of Americans. Here are some songs to start with: Pop Stars. More. Villain. Baddest. Oh, and of course the name, KDA, stands for: Kills, Deaths, Assists. Hope you give these a look. They're awesome!!!

[@heinzerhardt7047]

Funny how they even put a cliffhanger in their behind the scenes video. :D

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Ahah right?!! Such a great sense of storytelling!

[@j.f.fisher5318]

Haha yeah

[@slaaneshhedonite7068]

I worked GW promotions office for a few years. When the creativity was rollin it was amazeballs. The best writing I ever did. Find people you can brainstorm & blather to & with. You can create an endless amount of content & fun.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Yesss, this!!! Honestly, collaboration just elevates both the quality and the experience you gain! Sharing ideas and blabbering on and on to someone who feels as passionate, is honestly one of the best feelings!

[@ZeZapatiste]

I love that documentary, can't wait to see the rest. As for the series, it gets better every episode. One note : French animators are particularly talented. Well, not more "talented" but well trained (also these days with a fairly large and positive presence of Japanese influence too). French productions are not very successful in terms of theatre entries but have often a high reputation (Persepolis or The Triplets of Belleville are the first examples I can think of), and Disney or Pixar hire a lot of French talents. The thing that lacked the most was a emblematic studio to gather some of the best national artists on top of the collection of independant studios to expose all that talent, and Arcane allowed that.

[@BergsArt]

Episode 3 of this documentary is my fav. Nearly made me cry

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Yesss! It was incredible! Stay tuned, it'll be up soon!

[@Azh_Tiel]

I can't believe your starting Bridging the rift, can't wait for the next parts

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Part 2 will be out shortly after episode 4 of The Last of Us! Keep an eye out 😃 we are so excited to share more bridging the rift with you!

[@kurist9443]

im so happy you guys are reacting to this !

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

And so are we! This is fantastic! Love how much of the process they are sharing 😃

[@TheGediento]

love you guys, my favorite channel of all you tube for sure!!!

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Aww man…comments like these make our day! This is what we strive for. We are honored ❤️

[@restless3178]

Ill be waiting for all of your league of legends reactions i love so much your content and reactions

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Woow thank you so much for your comment!! We are so glad you're enjoying it, stay tuned for the rest!

[@harleyarmstrong8175]

absolutely loving this arcane series ❤️

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

We’re enjoying everything Arcane has to give so so much! Can’t wait to share part 2 with you guys 😃

[@j.f.fisher5318]

This is so inspiring. I've watched it a few times on my own and a few more in reactions. :)

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Right?! It was incredible to see all the things they had to do to get this made! So inspiring indeed!

[@aperson9847]

I swear all the best media comes from groups of people who are like "we have no idea what we're doing but let's do it anyway." You can't fake the kind of passion it takes to drive someone to take risks like these creators did.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Couldn’t agree more. They knew they had the passion to tell a story they care about. And they did everything necessary to get there. So so inspiring!

[@thedysfunctionalcrew]

Yess!! Bridging the rift!

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

This is fantastic! So cool seeing them at work 😄

[@AppleBaron]

Great reaction, guys) Also, I think you accidentally put intro in the middle of the video instead of the beginning 😆

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Hahaha nope that was intentional 😂 trying to keep things entertaining and give you guys what you want without wasting time - which is the reaction! 😀

[@JasperAyeee]

thrilled that you've decided to do a League/Arcane deep dive

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Thank you so much for the love and support! ❤️

[@SinSiricheDu]

I’d be happy and honored just to make coffee runs for the people at fortiche.

[@hiimswiss2930]

Yep. This is it. Now you know what I'm addicted to.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Ahah definitely addicted to this as well!

[@clydeericksoncapati7566]

The thing will suck about season 2, is that Silco is gone😢. I know that's needed for the story, but the character and the VA was such a joy to be entertained by.

[@pelidonte]

Thanks for sharing! I've thought about creating an animated show for so long, I even had some characters and story created in my head. But never stick with it because always felt I'm hitting the block and eventually stopped. Its inspiring how they keep going forward, and you guys too. Looks like I'm going to start over again, really is tough and don't know if I'll ever get there, but I'm going to at least take the first step. BTW if there's a chance to see your works, I really love to!!!! Will you guys be sharing someday?

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Keep working on your passion and your projects! Keep putting in the effort. It’ll be worth it. Can’t wait to watch your animated show someday 😃 and yes the goal is to eventually share it with all of you. Little bits of what we are doing or what we do 😃

[@DarkKnightBatman420]

9:45 As a roller blader I can confirm this happens. Knee/elbow pads are a requirement and a blessing. Saved by them so many times. Gloves are good too.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Haha that's good to know, will keep that in mind if I ever dare to put those back on 😂😂😂

[@christopherholley8164]

As a writer I'm sitting here thinking, "Oh my god, he said what I was always afraid to tell my therapist when she asked about my creative process. I was afraid she throw me in a padded cell."

[@keyronkathrynekathrynkeyron]

There we go 🥰🥰🥰

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

We hope you enjoy! 😃😄

[@DarkKnightBatman420]

Watching Gab Smolders play dead space right now. I was too scared and too busy to play its 360 version ten tears ago. Just wanna get this off the checklist of things to see. Cinepals got a new video up and then I'm here for this one. You guys ever try to get some of the super popular videos on KZbin reacted to? History of the Entire World, I Guess would probably be a good one. I haven't seen it in a decade probably. It would probably open up a whole new wave of commenters requesting things of course.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

That's so interesting, we appreciate the idea! We're definitely working on expanding our repertoire for sure, so we'll definitely delve into more versatile things in the future! Also no wayy, we're playing Dead Space right now, the game is soooo good!!

[@DarkKnightBatman420]

@@OfficialMediaKnights Now that I think about it, pretty sure Death Battle did a Harley Quinn vs Jinx video. Given how good Arcane was, I'd say this is one of those must see things.

[@Cenforge]

Bravo.

[@Hitora_San]

Don't forget that they needed to animate atleast four different versions of the show, concerning the different censory level in each region. US and the EU are quite the same, but Germany in itself some Asian countries are on a whole different level. They couldn't even air the show in North Korea due to the story arc, which is "in pursuit of freedom, oppose the opressing goverment". An uni student smuggled the series in the country, showed it to some of his friends, he got sentenced to death by a firing squad and the people who saw it were sent to work camps. That country is nuts.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Wow…that’s really painful to hear about. But yeah..it’s crazy that the world isn’t always moving at the same pace. Very interesting fact that we didn’t know about! Thank you for sharing

[@carbuneskinny5797]

Yay !

[@monil2447]

⭐😎⭐The Media Knights in two years and three million subscribers: ARI: "When we started this channel, all we wanted was to inspire people." DENISE: "Yeah, we had these amazing subscribers all over the world and we've always thought..." ARI: "What the devil should we be doing next?" DENISE: "Yeah! I always thought that if there's any superpower that we had in the beginning it was wether or not we could really unleash the potential of the susribers."⭐😎⭐

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Ahh man! That would be a dream come true! With the amount of love and support you guys show us someday for sure! We got some cool things planned for y’all 😄

[@3dCraddock]

yaaaaaaay!

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

We finally did it haha thank you for your support!!

[@chunchunmaru1995]

Loved your Arcane reaction and there are huge content for Arcane/LOL and i love to see your reactions to them. Get jinxed music video 2013 (they started to work arcane after this video) Enemy music video League of legends opening ceremony 2021 (it's awesome, promo for arcane, u will lose your mind) Warriors cinematic video And there are too much content, cinematics, music videos etc. I hope u guys dig into Runeterra universe more until next season come up. U will shock after see how big this universe. I love to see people like u that started to interest about this universe. And i guarantee u that your channel grow up too if u interest LOL content.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Thank you so much for your comment! We absolutely loved arcane and now learning more about the League of Legends world. As a player (Ari) it was so nice seeing how these characters interact with each other. I cannot wait for season 2. We will be checking your suggestions out 😄 thanks for the support!

[@seph123]

is this gonna be weekly?

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Depending on how much work we have laid out for the week expect 1 for sure and 2 episodes if we can squeeze it in 😃

[@phoenixwing5133]

AHahahah yes, more bridging the rift reactions to consume 😈

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

We are so glad we could provide you with your Arcane fix haha 😄

[@derekwilliams3721]

I love, love your reactions, but I've wondered if both of you ever reacted to older films around the 50's-60s? Yea, I know the regular viewer would be like blah, boring. But these films are NOT. They are amazing and suspenseful. They are very loved. The films that I'm talking about are Wait Until Dark (1967), The Nanny (1965), and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962). They are more like suspense thrillers and will have you on the edge of your seat. If you watch Wait Until Dark, that's a movie that should be watched with the lights off.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

We love a good suspense! We’ll add them to the list. We have a bunch to catch up with this year 😄

[@TexasSnyper]

Before Arcane, Fortiche had almost nothing under their belt btw.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

That is just insane to think about! The amount of talent that studio has is insane. Now that they have experience can’t wait to see what they come up with 😃

[@Hisoka0017]

Where's the next episode 😱

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

It's coming up, we're so sorry about the delay, our day jobs have been killing us!

[@rinkairiozuki7245]

Riot saved it, by doing it themselves. Making sure, they have Full creativity freedom, and don't give a chance for Netflix to fu*k this up. Also it seems that lot's of people at Riot are still from a day they made those characters. Long term developers definitelly help

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Honestly, that is true. It is a pattern that when large conglomerates get involved, you lose the true story - not always, obviously, but we've seen it happen time and again. Sometimes it's just better for you to do things yourself because you know your story best!

[@anasshole6976]

damn 13 days ago no follow up yet

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Part 2 is up!!!