What’s your unpopular Arcane opinion? We listen and we don’t judge.

75% of these opinions aren’t even unpopular lmao you can even say they’re cold takes.

I wish we got to see more of Pitfighter Vi’s arc. It would have been interesting to see her overcome her problems like feeling no sense of purpose since she no longer has anyone to protect, her spiraling into alcoholism and getting into fights just to ease the pain in her heart. I wanted to see how she’ll get back up from this devastating blow that life gave her. I want to see her grow as a character. But in the end we only got 3 minutes of screen time and then that whole arc is gone lol. I like what we got in Act 2 but I really wish we got to explore that route more

Cait’s comment to Vi about becoming an enforcer were absolutely foul.

Vi tries to explain the trauma of becoming an enforcer- a group that literally *killed her parents.* and Cait brushes her off repeatedly. Vi tells her she doesn’t understand and Cait says “yes I do, I do know what it’s like-“ umm. No you dont?? And then Cait scoffs and says “I thought you were on our side.” Sorry Cait did you forget the *years* Vi spent in prison getting regularly beat by enforcers?

She basically ignores everything Vi says and then hits her with “I thought you were one of the good ones.”

Black rose and the medarda family thing is plain and undeveloped, goes too fast, appears too little that turns meaningless for spectator and just a bunch of colors and light each moment

During season 1 never was even subtly mentioned that Mel has magic powers, she never has training or knowledge about it but then with a saylor moon sequence she knows how to use it, later even attack other witch, is like c’mon

Heimerdinger was right all the time, if everyone listens to him instead of banning, a lot of things will be different

Steb is my favorite character in the whole damn show

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Scar the Piccolo of Arcane. He pulls up looking cool as hell but gets folded by Jinx in s1e04 and Vi in s1e06. Just a punching bag😭

The whole Vander/Warwick plot was unnecessary and badly handled.

There , i said it.

I’m not a fan of alternative timelines. I’m so tired of stories including this cliché.

I actually like Vi’s whole “dirt beneath your fingernails” line but every time I hear it I think to myself, “I know Vi’s a bit of a messy slob but she has to know you *are* supposed to clean beneath your fingernails, right?”

I feel like they did Ekko dirty in the show.

You’re meaning to tell me a twice orphaned boy who had to grow up in drug riddled, gang run, shit stained city had became sugar, spice and everything nice with ZERO mistakes? Without any other positive adult figure and role model around him, after Benzo gone?

Let the homeboy make some mistakes ffs, let him and people around him suffer for them, let him learn from his mistakes and improve and grow from them. Every other character were allowed to make mistakes and grow from them, be it Vi, Jinx, Cait, Viktor, Jayce, Mel, Ambessa, hell even Silco. But not Ekko, he had to be the perfect, live, laugh, love, all good in the hood, protecting the hoods lifestyle and identity generic black teenage boy. Which made him boring honestly.

And then, they doubled down, created an entire fan service episode where his character has even more reduced into the lovestruck boy savior, he completely forgot about anything else other than Powder/Jinx.

They did Ekko dirty.

I feel like Mel’s character didn’t stand out much in Season 2.

Don’t get me wrong — Mel’s my favorite Arcane character. But I still don’t fully get the significance of her journey. The whole thing with being trapped in the cave, becoming a mage, fighting Mamadarda, and then saving Mamadarda from the Black Rose—like, it all feels very “chosen one” to me.

In season 1, she used to be the one manipulating everything, pulling all the strings, but in Season 2, it’s like she’s just reacting to the situation and letting herself be manipulated. Except that part in the end when she fooled(?) the black rose from getting red juice from Mamadarda’s head.

I *loved* the “Blood, Sweat, and Tears” MV, though — Loved it to bits. I was encouraged to go to the gym and run the extra mile because of that song. I feel like it adds depth and explains what Season 2 didn’t quite manage to.

Gosh, that song had some OOMPH, some soul and pain and power.

That MV awakened such a fierce, protective instinct in me—it made me cry out of protective rage, like full-on mama-bear rage(in this case, wolf-rage i guess), ready to defend the people I love, no matter what.

Would love to know about your thoughts on this one, please. <3

The ending made 0 sense and Victor should not have been the big bad.

Agree with the Marcus opinion. Now, a few of my own:

The writers took a lot of shortcuts in the second season, and it shows.

Maddie was handled lazily – we had the potential to see the complications in relationship, but oh no, she had to be a spy, and thus, made it incredibly convenient for people to hate her. With Marcus, they made it clear that he was not to be liked. With Maddie, they wanted to make her likeable, then didn’t know what to do with her.

The show went from one about Piltover and Zaun to a show set in Piltover and Zaun – we lost all of the political intrigue, which is why I hate the eighth episode. The two nations were far too willing to team up, in spite of everything. The PnZ war should have been set at the end of the continuity they are currently trying to set up.

I loved what they did with Isha when she was alive in the moment, but she became an afterthought in the third act, and it kind of makes her feel gimmicky.

Ambessa talking about sacrifice once is simply insufficient to justify the loss of Caitlyn’s eye, if that is the path the writers take her in. Moreover, we see bits and pieces of Caitlyn sacrificing things throughout the series, making this even more redundant, and this would be a bridge to far. Physically, the injury makes zero sense – if you rewatch it, Caitlyn moves her face enough for the blade to move completely past the side of her face, yet there is blood despite it not even touching her eye. The lack of physical sense that the injury makes has gotten to the point where fan artists have to add extra scars from absolutely nowhere in order to justify it.

It honestly feels like the writers did not want to write Caitlyn actually addressing her actions against Zaun, so they tacked on a physical injury (which, as stated above, makes no sense) and I don’t think those two wrongs make a right. This would also kill Caitlyn’s career as a sheriff well before it began – one eyed field agents are either augmented in other ways or possess incredible skills. Also, we clearly see that PnZ has the technology and medicine available to completely heal these wounds, so which further renders this as a permanent injury as asinine.

A similar criticism goes to Vander – he does not look anything like a werewolf or his in game model, and him completely losing his memories makes little sense, as in game Warwick clearly still remembers his children. I also think that we saw far too little of a lucid Vander, and him going feral would have been a lot more impactful had we seen him interact with the sisters. However, this could change and he regains his memories in a future series.

The Dynasties and Dystopia scene was short and conveyed so much in such a small amount of time. Nothing really happens in the Guns for Hire scene, but it is my favorite scene in all of Arcane. That being said, the creative team also spent far too much time on musical scenes in the second season, without anywhere near the same impact as in the first.

Vi’s character writing worked in the first season because we could contrast her stagnancy with the changing world around her, but this just doesn’t work in the second season.

Onto slightly greener pastures, I admit that I liked most of Viktor’s arc. The premise was similar: get rid of human imperfections. They addressed this in completely different ways, though. Had this been an original character, it would have been grear, but since it contradicts League lore, there is more controversy, and it is easy to see why.

For now, though, Arcane as canon makes zero sense, and trying to make such drastic retcons defeats the purpose of trying to pass the show as an origin of sorts.

I just know jayce and viktor are alive somewhere. That ending sent them elsewhere

1. Ekko is too much like Mary Sue, I simply cant buy and enjoy this character

2. Some fight scenes were too long and I hate Smeech Sevika fight. Generally whole Smeech plotline could be removed and screen time used better.

3. Ending with Vander/Warwick coming back and dying like 4th time was cheap and unnecessary. Jinx could sacrifice herself in some other way, without creators using him again.

Saying this I still rated this season 9/10 and absolutely love it.
I tried using some actually unpopular or not talked about points. It seems like 80% of comments here arent really unpopular

I hate how they portrayed the resolution between upper class piltover and zaun here.

“Hey I know we allowed police brutality to be rampant, completely ignored the drug barons, pretty much never tried any social services, dump all of our garbage on your homes and literally fucking gas your civilians, but we made a world ending experiment and now we need you to die fighting our enemies.

But also you have to be the bigger man and just accept we did all of that and let us get away with zero consequences and in return we’ll stop beating you… maybe.”

And then the people in Zaun just… agreed?

I liked Jinx’s direction in the second season, but I would have preferred her character to become more and more evil until she became the main villain.
I’ve already seen a million redemption arcs, I want an arc of corruption with no return.

CaitVi was ruined for me in season 2. I liked their relationship dynamic up until their reconciliation in episode 7. After that they lost their deep and caring connection and it became shallow where lots of things were unspoken. I also feel like VI’s trauma needed to be explored and the fact that they didn’t made Cait seem like she was taking advantage of her in a way. I mean Cait hits Vi after knowing her backstory in Stillwater, that’s not a normal reaction. Hitting the people you supposedly love is serious and in Arcane they just brushed it off.

At the time, Vi was so desperate for someone that she’d settle for anyone, she loves hard and Cait took advantage of that. Vi literally had no one but Cait who never even apologized. You NEED to verbally apologize and explain if you hit your partner, I’m sorry but that’s just how it is. They could’ve had just ONE scene where they actually talked about what happened, but literally all Cait had to say is “I KNOW”.

I really loved Jayce and Viktor’s ending a lot more than CaitVi because it actually showed true connection and true love, not just convenient love.

and don’t even get me started on how this translates to real life statistics on lesbian domestic abuse. I’m queer myself and this topic was treated in an insensitive way with CaitVi.

*I’ll probably get downvoted for this even though it’s a safe space, but oh well

The amount of people excusing Mel’s actions at the start of season 1 and going as far to say she wasn’t manipulative towards Jayce or literally everyone around her minus Elora or well she’s a politician that’s her job just baffle me . Even the writers seem to excuse her actions since when Jayce finally calls her out , she doesn’t even apologize or feel remorse for her earlier actions and then in the next scene Jayce apologizes which is wtf

I get Mel grew and later probably developed real feelings for Jayce and is complex and yada yada but that doesn’t erase the fact that she was part of the oppressive council of Piltover that led Zaun to be that bad, that she is essentially the (one of) richest person in Piltover with so much influence and power and she could have done something to make a change , at least speak up about Zaun and that they are also people or need help once in a blue moon, anything, and not accumulate more money or not take part in the council when she already has enough money ffs. She only starts caring about Zaun literally around the time they start causing problems and become a threat and when Jayce brings it up, NEVER before cuz they aren’t a threat up her ass to her status. Or her pretaking in corruption and shady deals (she was teaching Jayce so she presumably also takes part in corruption ) which i mean you can choose not to do it, like Heimerdinger (who is just oblivious probably but still doesn’t consciously enable corruption )

Mel to me seems like those extremely beautiful celebrities or CEOs that are super rich , have shady businesses going on, hundreds if not thousands of people suffer due to their actions (or inactions especially because she chose to take part in politics and not idk merchant guild or some other non government business ) but people totally overlook or forget that because oh this person is attractive (aka fuckable) and they have a cool girlboss personality…

I am actually glad i read somewhere on instagram that if Mel and Jayce’s genders were reversed more people would be appaled by her bullshit at the start . Because a manipulative slightly older male in a position of financial and social power over two scientist females like Jayce/Viktor that has sex with one of them would be more shocking and controversial .

I could give more examples of how her behavior at the start is totally appalling (small things like her supposedly caring so much about Jayce and knowing him for years , but she has 0 idea about his personal relationships past Heimerdinger like when Jayce tells her Viktor is super close to him she says she didn’t know or in the forge Jayce says “no signs of Caitlyn either” Caitlyn his only other major friend, a girl he has known for years, basically Jayce’s little non blood related sister , his (bond) SISTER ffs and Mel just replies “the kiramman girl?” Indicating that she has no idea why Jayce would call her by first name or that they are close, nor with Viktor, because she is so used to using people she probs can’t comprehend Jayce isn’t just using Viktor for his knowledge or using the Kirammans for their funding (like how she would) ….but she supposedly knows him for years , which shows she initially only cared about superficial stuff and how much profit he was making for her, not his actual deep relationships or anything else)

Anyway back to the main beef since Mel isn’t shown directly harming anyone like Cait, Vi , Jinx, Jayce , Silco , Sevika , Singed, who directly harm people or talk about harming people, everyone overlook Mel’s involvement with piltovers oppression, even in the show (same with Heimerdinger but at least he tries to go to Zaun and then goes to Ekko to help who lives in Zaun so dude makes some in person attempt even tough i could go on about how Heimerdinger is also older and even worse since he let everything get worse but anyway) . Same in real life people will be appalled at someone directly punching or harming or murdering another person and calling them awful , but won’t be mad at ultra rich people or politicians who indirectly ruin the lives of hundreds, thousands and millions, because they haven’t directly seen them harm children or other people.

1. i didn’t like how they handled sisters dynamic this season
2. isha is cute but i couldn’t feel anything when she died because it was crystal clear from the first moment we saw her
3. i can’t help but feel sad when i think vi’s potential and development in S1 turns into her following cait and did not really a significant role in S2
4. jinx was NOT a better sister than vi
5. it annoys me when people make jinx and ishas relationship maternal, they clearly had a sister dynamic
6. it annoys me when people say jinx is incapable of love because she has mental ilness
7. ep7 was very much of a fanservice, and as a fan i was serviced thank you very much
8. that final line was so ass

I was not a fan of the soundtrack. While I do think most of the songs are good, the music really just pulled me out of the show.

Isha was a boring character with no personality of her own. I wish they would’ve had Jinx bond with an established character instead of creating the plot device that is Isha.