OT: Consolidated Entertainment Thread (TV, movies, books, games) part VI - use spoiler tags!

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Arcane season 2 ... oof, what a disappointment after act 1. Season 1 was THE BEST SHOW I've seen in ages, in any genre, hands down, goated, show or movie. Maybe it gets better with parts 2 and 3 but the way Netflix shows go I'm not hopeful, f*** me.
Curious to if you finished it. I loved season 1 and the first 3 episodes of season 2 I thought were pretty good. The remaining 6 episodes were a big disappointment overall unfortunately. Definitely seemed rushed but I didn’t care for how the storyline in the other world or whatever that was just completely dominated the rest of the season. When they focused on Jinx and Vi it felt much like season 1 to me but all of the other supporting characters seemed to get thrown into the spotlight and the show suffered for it.
 
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Curious to if you finished it. I loved season 1 and the first 3 episodes of season 2 I thought were pretty good. The remaining 6 episodes were a big disappointment overall unfortunately. Definitely seemed rushed but I didn’t care for how the storyline in the other world or whatever that was just completely dominated the rest of the season. When they focused on Jinx and Vi it felt much like season 1 to me but all of the other supporting characters seemed to get thrown into the spotlight and the show suffered for it.

Yeah I finished it, ugh. It's not that it's terrible it's just such a departure from season one. It's super rushed, with so much crap crammed in I could barely process it, they needed another season. The worst thing is most of the main cast is separated with barely any meaningful dialog or interaction between characters.

I hated the flashback with Vander, Silco and Vi's mom. So you're telling me, Silco (along with Vander) who's now on the hook for protecting Felicia and her kid, is on board and invested in her, the very same woman who dies on the bridge for HIS cause, ultimately decides that he's happy with killing Vi. GTFO with this garbage.

The Black Rose stuff was a waste of time. I didn't like that they put in some multiverse crap and time travel stuff. I hated Isha, just an annoying cheap way to humanize Jinx (but the parallels with Powder and Vi, blech). Sevika is on the counsel now hahaha cmon. They did Heimerdinger dirty, one of Piltover's greatest citizens, they didn't even mention him at the end lmao. There's some other stuff that annoyed me but yeah lol.
 
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Yeah I finished it, ugh. It's not that it's terrible it's just such a departure from season one. It's super rushed, with so much crap crammed in I could barely process it, they needed another season. The worst thing is most of the main cast is separated with barely any meaningful dialog or interaction between characters.

I hated the flashback with Vander, Silco and Vi's mom. So you're telling me, Silco (along with Vander) who's now on the hook for protecting Felicia and her kid, is on board and invested in her, the very same woman who dies on the bridge for HIS cause, ultimately decides that he's happy with killing Vi. GTFO with this garbage.

The Black Rose stuff was a waste of time. I didn't like that they put in some multiverse crap and time travel stuff. I hated Isha, just an annoying cheap way to humanize Jinx (but the parallels with Powder and Vi, blech). Sevika is on the counsel now hahaha cmon. They did Heimerdinger dirty, one of Piltover's greatest citizens, they didn't even mention him at the end lmao. There's some other stuff that annoyed me but yeah lol.
It’s not that it’s terrible…. But then it’s pretty terrible :laugh:. Just kidding… I’m completely understand and agree with what you said. Expectations were sky high because of season 1. Season 2 came nowhere near close.
 
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:laugh: I meant to say on a surface level it's not terrible. If you don't know much about it you could be like wow look at all this cool stuff going on and the animation is amazing, this is great.

Oh the last thing, stop with all the music videos, waaaay to many of those. I get why they did it, they're just big exposition dumps of info but I'd rather see those things actually play out on the show but they didn't have enough time.
 

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Really enjoying Dune: Prophecy through the first 2 episodes

I think the series did a great job of making you root for a guy you know is an evil bastard, but at the end of the day he's still an evil bastard that the hero is going to have to take down. But I'm also just kind of over the sympathetic villain thing right now and I'm okay with just a purely evil monster that needs to be taken down. Might have something to do with things that have happened recently.:laugh:

I think there’s room for sympathetic villains but also yeah Oz shouldn’t be that guy.
 

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