@@LeonDractus it seems so normal to cling onto hope at that point, even when we are aware that Powder was just a child and this situation is far above her qualification. We are so used to a protagonist making a positive change in the first Act and proceed to figure their "quirk" in later Acts, but no.. you've been vibe checked.
Silco doesn't just take Powder to use her, it seems to me he's initially going to kill her, but in her pain over her sister abandoning her, he sees himself having been betrayed by his brother, Vander. And even though he is a monster, he's still a human being and seeing this girl in the same pain he was once in appeals to his empathy. To be clear though, it remains to be seen if it was absolutely the case but I'm fairly certain that he and Vander were brothers in the sense that they were brothers in their cause (self-determination for the under-city as the nation of Zaun). The schism between them likely over their reaction to Piltover's (Top-side's) oppression and the violence they used to enforce it. Vander came to adopt the children of his followers that were orphaned following him and he came to love them as his own family and sought to protect them from the kind of violence he lived through. Silco on the other hand couldn't understand why Vander would give up the fight at this point, his life WAS the cause and it seems like the Over-city's violence cemented in his mind that violence was necessary to achieve it.
yea, the only reason he approached her softly instead of killing her on the spot was to find VI. He changed his mind when he saw himself in Powder, having been betrayed by his brother the same way Powder was by her sister. Even when hes on the ground and Powder is hugging him and he raises his arm, he hasnt made up his mind, hence the exaggerated motion, as if hes gonna grab her really hard but then lowers it and embraces her.
Yeah seriously, what use does Silco have with a 11 year old girl he's never met? What use does a man like Silco have by "take advantage" or "manipulate" a little girl. Yeah we as an audience know Powder is smart and because she's a main character. I find it surprising how many people think Silco takes Powder in for some type of malicious or greedy reason.
"Oh my god it's explosion after explosion" - it's the same explosion, shown from different angles. Arcane likes to do this. They did it with the lab explosion in Ep 1 / opening of Ep 2 as well.
Maybe. But I'm not convinced. Powder put three stones into the monkey. And there were three explosions. 1st directs to Sevika, 2nd to Mylo and Claggor, 3rd above to the sky.
@@mullworm it wouldn’t make sense for the monkey toy, which blew up in the first explosion, suddenly become whole again for the next few explosions (the key turning is repeating, when it obviously blew up the first time)
Oh, yeah. The drowning thing. Nobody tried to kill me, but I flipped a tire inner tube once. Swam straight up. Hit the river bottom. That was not up. I had no sense of direction until the muddy "Wrong Way"
"I feel that he's just so consumed by hate that he can't see a better way" Allow me, for a moment, to play devil's advocate. Who's to say there IS a better way? From what we've seen, the conflict between Vander and Silco is... a decade old, or more. It seems Vander has been largely in control of the underground (and "built" it, as Sevika said) for that long. And... things don't seem great. If that way hasn't lead anywhere in a decade plus, maybe trying another way isn't the worst idea.
i agree! i kinda talk about this in a later episode but unfortunately there seems to be no right answer or solution for any of this. it’s a messy, sad, and difficult problem
@@AlanaMisako It's a quick and easy conclusion for us to reach, isn't it? "War and fighting is bad, peace is better!" And when circumstances are at a TOLERABLE level, that's probably true, as well... but from what we see in this show, I would think that armed insurrection is all but inevitable, given that the lives of the people in the underground seem to be getting worse, rather than better, and Vander seems too be a great community organiser, who sadly has no plan other than "for the sake of everything, NO FIGHTING", which I don't think is a good idea here. But then, this show does do a LOT to toy with our prejudices and preconceptions and tropes, as it turns out. Who'd have thought the guy we are first introduced to cracking the skulls of downed police officers would turn out to be a caring father and pacifist, for instance?
I think the Martin Luther king's of the world would probably disagree, in the sense that civil disobedience and revolution do not have to mean murder (nor do they have to mean kumbaya and holding hands), but for some people, that is the quickest way to be heard
@@AlanaMisako from political and historic points of view Silco is right. Moreover, Silco is not "consumed with hatred" - really forgiving person: "as time passed, so did my hate". And the third thing: they were brothers-in-arms, not blood relatives, like Vi and Powder.
@@jamesliggins891 Martin Luther King Jr. was fortunate enough to live in a world where media could draw attention to the atrocities committed upon his people. Zaun and Piltover are a very different environment, it would appear, otherwise change might already have taken place in the decade plus Vander kept the peaceful resistance bit going. Sadly, it seems to have brought them exactly ONE ally topside. For a decade's work that's not really sufficient.
The way this show express and explains every characters' side of the story is well planned. Each character has a reason for what they do and its not hidden to the audience. Just freaking love it
Silco is willing to do anything to achieve respect/freedom for the under-city and Vander wants to protect what he has left, yet both they journeys began together and they split up at a crossroad of perseverance & preservation.
This was the episode for me where the show went from "you had my interest" to "now you have my attention." So many layers, so many "almosts" as you see fates take turns down different paths. No one is just a cardboard cutout character like so many shows, even the characters you hate, you can understand.
I was waiting for you to react to this one SO BAD and you didn't disappoint ! Things are far from over though, hope you'll continue to enjoy the ride !
Usually when I watch reactors I tend to watch the show while I listen to what they say but your reactions are so dynamic but not exaggerated that I tend to watch you instead. Glad I found a gem among the sea of reactubers
Hi, Alana. Thanks so much for uploading this awesome reaction video. Your content is absolutely amazing, and I love watching you react to different shows.
In the first episode you said something along the lines of "something that small did that much damage" and i immediately thought of this scene, powder using just 1 would of been enough but she used 3 because she didn't full understand the effects and extent of them
I've heard many reactors say, like you, that Silco was going to "use" Powder, and I've always found it silly. She was like a traumatized, fragile ten year old little girl with no apparent skills. She was of absolutely no use for Silco. Yes, MAYBE he could train her, but there were already dozens and dozens of skilled fighters among the grown-ups. ^^; Him taking her wasn't strategical. He made the connection between the Vi's "betrayal" and Vander's "betrayal". It was emotional.
That's what I thought too tbh. And for a bit it was more or less following that template, a little bit dark but not overwhelming. And then ep3 hits and just flips every expectation on its head.
Ah, some definite things in the Arcane reactions : 1. Always call my boi Viktor sketchy and suspicious. 2. Forget Claggor's name. 3. Thinking that Silco will abuse or take advantage of Powder.
Viktor HAS to be suspicious because he has a European accent... Mel HAS to be ill-intentioned because she's into politics... her mother CAN'T possibly care about her, she's just here the technology... Heimerdinger HAS to be the good guy because he's sympathetic and fluffy (and is right about ONE thing)... Silco HAS to be using Jinx as a tool without feeling anything for her because he's the piece of shit who killed Vander... People spend the first two acts of Arcane underestimating the writing.
Silco isnts really "evil" hes just "extreme". He has a good he wants done, which is building a home for the people of the underworld, the Nation of Zion, which they state here. He felt betrayed by Vander because they once shared that same dream.
Wouldnt say hes a good guy. But I agree he is not evil. Evil is doing bad things cuz you enjoy it or because you like to see others suffer. Doing bad things for a good reason is still doing bad things, sometimes misguided and not necessarily ok, but it doesnt make you evil. I usually compare Silco to Thanos. They couldnt be more different except for the fact that at their core they dont do what they do cuz they enjoy it but because they believe it has to be done for the greater good. The biggest difference is that Thanos was clearly wrong. With all the infinity stones he couldve done literally anything like for example doubled the resources of the universe rather than killing half of it. Silco is way more nuanced tho and its not really clear if he is right or wrong. His methods are brutal and callous, but what hes fighting for is actually justice and its not really clear it can be achieved in any other way. Does that make him good or bad? Thats really up for debate, but I dont think you can call him evil. I wont spoil anything in case someone who hasnt seen this reads it but the Jayce/Silco scene in the last episode clearly shows that Silco is not unreasonable, violence isnt his first choice if it can be avoided. Hes just not afraid to use it if he has to. Silco is one of the best villains in modern history. God damn, its beautiful to watch.
I hear what you say about how this show makes you feel because you have an older sister. This show is primarily about family. I have a younger daughter and I see Vander's sacrifice and I don't see any other way it could end.
Never made connection that they paired scenes of powder a novice inventor about to experiment with the crystals straight to a controlled experiment between Jaycee and Victor... Even with their knowledge that scene showed how dangerous it was to be messing with them
Well after being betrayed by Vander and spending years of probably being distant and paranoid of anything and everyone around him, Silco at least connected with another human being so at least theres that positive nugget in this sea of misery.
my theory is that in the past Silco was the good guy and peaceful, but Vander wanted to fight Piltover, then in their disagreement, he tried to drown Silco, and the Silco we know was born, then the bridge war happened, and Vander realized what he had done.
I doubt Silco was the "good guy and peaceful", but rather he just wasn't the violet extremist that Vander was, and so he could have been seen by Vander as holding the movement back. Vander couldn't make his assault on Piltover with Silco arguing to be more strategic and contemplative on the long game. I do agree that at the time of the incident, Vander was the more extreme between the two, and not like some suggest trying to stop Silco.
Silco and Vander weren't brothers by birth but more like brothers-in-arms. Two men fighting for a common cause who believed in that cause so deeply that they came to see themselves as kin. Where they diverged is while Silco believed any price was worth paying for the cause Vander came to realize some things were too steep a cost. Silco was willing to burn everything down around them, themselves with it. Vander wasn't, so he tried to take Silco out before he could light the match.
it's not his end goal but his methods, which are questionable at best, that make him a villain. He is still a wonderfully written character (and my favourite one in the entite show), but he's definitely not one of the "good guys"
@@lyrebirb83 in this show? no one really, everyone does questionable stuff at one point or another...but Silco is 100% the villain of the 1st season notice how i put it in quotation marks?
A reactor that actually understands how bombs work. I watch so many people cheering Powder dropping a bomb Ina building get family is in and then being shocked at the results. 🤦
The end of act 1. It's gonna be interesting how you gonna react to the Powder and Violet dynamic during the final episode. But I daresay Vi's scenes always have the best animation sequences although my favorite one is not hers.
@@johanstenfelt1206 Oh, this. Yes. But to me, it's pretty simple, Arcane Jinx is Powder, and Powder has nothing to do with the game. The game isn't worth Arcane. :D
I'm not saying powder was right but also keep in mind, that she was always taught to keep pushing it until she could keep up with her friends. Plus even you guys were rooting for powder to blow up that guy, it's just most shows don't show the negative effects of the hero on the good guys. Most shows have friendly fire off and this one had it on which just makes it all the more realistic
Много людей в реакциях не понимают, как так быстро Паудер отвернулась от Ви. Я видел как моя младшая сестра в свои 15 лет, сказала своей старшей сестре, что она ей больше не сестра, потому что та не поделилась чипсами)) Дети и подростки очень импульсивны в таких решениях
So I decided to watch this reaction of yours per act. To just more feel the enjoyment and sadness in your reaction. 😆 Imma let you all upload the act 2 and then watch it all at once.
That's one of the reasons I love this show so much. It does a great job if subverting expectations by leaning on what we expect to happen and then giving us something different. This is also why I don't get what people are talking about when they say the show doesn't do anything new. If it didn't, then everyone would know predict what is going happen but everyone goes down the wrong path completely based on their expectations.
There's things about the setup that are really familiar but the best stories have recognizable and relatable aspects and struggles. It's all about execution and getting people to invest and care. And yeah this show pulls some incredible swerves and has you second guessing everything by the end.
I will say this, watch the show from both perspectives and not just a 3rd point of view seeing everything cause the characters don't . So many people love to hate on certain characters but never see thing from there point of view.
21:38 Exactly why when I recommend Arcane to someone I always tell them to skip the intro. You went into it blind and the intro STILL spoiled a major part of the story for you. 😥
Silco sees himself in Powder, both betrayed by someone they considered their sibling. He fully intended to kill her once she told him where Vi was, until she declared, "She is not my sister anymore." (The grinch's heart grew three sizes that day). I'm always a little sad that no one seems to care or comment that Vander //snaps the neck// of a kid (clearly being used and under the influence of a drug) the same age as Vi. Poor Deckard. He was a jerk, but he didn't deserve to die for being a jerk any more than Mylo did.
In a way Deckard is probably the biggest victim here, a poor street kid probably only 17-18, used by Silco and killed by Vander. Thrown away and forgotten.
@@Addam_ Ah yes. The parallel people tend to miss because of the emotional impact of other scenes close to it but one of the more important ones non the less. "I knew you still had it in you." Vander was the aggressive one back in the day, full of rage and bad tempered. We see it in the way he drowns Silco and the way he beats that enforcer into pulp at the beginning of E1. The triumphant emergence of Vander from the shackles is presented as a short return to glory days and we tend to cheer him on, but is in fact what Silco wanted all along - to prove to Vander that rage and violence IS the only way to protect what he cares about. That's what his speech to Vander earlier was all about. And he didn't even need to shimmer him, he was on the level of a shimmer monster all along. Silco just wanted an army of Vanders! But then you see where the blind rage takes you. When he's holding Silco by the throat with his damaged arm he is defeated on two levels in that moment - physically and spiritually. And that scene is EXACTLY the same as Vi holding Powder by the jaw and calling her a Jinx a few minutes later. "This? This won't solve your problems. It just makes more of them." Then he drinks the stuff and completes his transformation into a rage demon. As good as dead already, with his mind not his own, he uses strength and rage to snap the neck of a kid (in monster form, but still as helpless compared to him as when they were normal humans) not unlike the ones he tried to save after the failed uprising. He's completed his fall. And then Vi repeats his mistakes down to a hand movement, creating Jinx in the process. Rage and fear now distilled into a new incarnation. A "perfect" one, if you will. God, this show has spectacular writing...
@@godofnothing428 Everything is if you have any concept of what it is like to live in a class system that leaves you at the bottom of it, that exploits you, that doesn't care if you are sick or die from that exploitation, that hoards all the resources so you have nothing. Silco is the most understandable morally in the entire show. He wants equality, he wants better for the people of Zaun. When you know some of the lore it's even easier. Zaun was created by the carelessness and greed of Piltover who didn't do the proper research before deciding to make a ship channel through the city.Half the city collapsed and created the underground, a place filled with toxic water and fumes, where it's people were forced into dangerous mining jobs to survive.
"You just hit her" Yes, and she just killed their adoptive brothers and father. in the grand calculus of the multiverse their death means infinitely more than the slap.
21:23 Why do you want this happen... Well in game name powder is not in league .... They need to die to JINX reborn... My favorite psyco girl 🥰🥰 This is not powder and vi story IT'S JINX AND VI story 🥰
i thought it was off-script slip by the voice actor. She was emoting the hell out of it and probably uttered "mom" because of the weight of the scene and producers left it as it is
@@bridgethaines7127 Nope. That's not how it works. Creators choose their ad settings. I appreciate that people want to monetize their videos, but I have more respect for creators who value the communities they want to develop. When RU-vidrs value monetization more than my attention,-when they force me to endure four ads before their reaction video even finishes-I simply communicate with RU-vid's algorithm by abandoning their video, unsubscribing, and telling RU-vid to not recommend their channel anymore. Let me be real with you: Reaction videos are lazy. If I don't respect my attention, I have no right to expect others to.
@@bridgethaines7127 "that you pay NOTHING FOR." We most certainly do pay with our attention. To not understand that attention is valuable is to not understand social media. You seem disproportionately wound up that I just don't like so many ads. I never said I didn't enjoy her commentary or her video. Obviously, I was interested enough to click in the first place, and I cared enough to leave feedback as to why I didn't like the video. She's free to ignore my feedback, or even to adjust her production of future content with my comment in mind--it's totally up to her. Bored now. Have a nice weekend, Bridget.
