Arcane | Vi and Jinx vs. The Firelights

The little flashes of vi noticing jinx's insanity is so well placed and foreshadowing

If I had a dollar for every time Vi was knocked out and kidnapped, causing jinx to have an absolute mental breakdown, I’d have 2 dollars. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

The fact that they made Jinx get her leg cut just so she knows it wasn't an hallucination is such a nice detail.

Jinx's Screaming "Noo" at the end is so heartbreaking. When she realizes she lost Vi again...

Jinx's psychotic episodes seem to enhance her perception and reflexes in combat. But in her everyday life she seems to have lost time to them. Its interesting to say the least

Jinx has some insane reflexes and senses. Maybe she sees everything in bullet time because of excessive adredaline? She dodges attacks she doesn't see, hear the firelights approaching well before anyone else, shoot projectiles midair, and even does extremely precise movements with gret speed while evading attacks.

The voice actress for Jinx really did a great job especially in this episode, she was just so on point with Jinx's insanity

Notice how jinx doesn't shoot when they had her sister instead runs toward them, a simple but lovely detail.

How jinx dodged and set the grenade at 1:09 is so dope

it’s really cool how her dodging that attack kinda connects to her passive from the actual game, like how she gets increased movement/reflex speed

Bruh I see Jinx so much different after arcane. Watching her crazy and with pink eyes and finally realizing why she is crazy and what hides behind hits me. Especially with this music lyrics. Jinx story is so epic, sad, and beautiful at the same time. Ofc I feel bad for her, but there is a tragic beauty in how she went mad, if you get me

The details 1:26 HERE. RIGHT FUCKING HERE. When Jinx is blasting away with her minigun (Pow-Pow), the shots eventually get close to shooting us (the camera), giving us the instinctual "woah, I almost got shot" sort of feeling, and immediately afterwards Vi nearly gets shot too, and because of what just happened we can easily relate to her. It's a small detail, but sheeeeeesh.

1:28 many people missed or forgot about this short scene here. This is Vi's first time seeing what Jinx has become. Not only did Jinx almost shot at Vi by accident, she was absolutely enjoying the mass shooting. This is very different from Vi or most regular people's values - Vi was just fist fighting while self-defending here. This incident planted the first seed; then Ekko told Vi that Jinx is too far gone. The next time Vi and Jinx met, Jinx blew up the whole bridge, killing dozens of enforcers and almost killed her and Caitlyn. When Vi said that she ran away when the real monster showed up, she was talking about Jinx, not Silco. It also explains that why Vi was doing anything but actually searching for Jinx in the later episodes - she didn't really know how to face her.

It makes me sad for both Vi and Jinx because Vi just found her sister and just seeing how she fights and acts, Vi is heartbroken at what Silco has done to her. The way she said Powder just shows that she never wanted her sister to be this way and sees what has happened since Jinx was by herself all these years.

1:38 I love the owlish movement of her head when she notices the sphere. It's very endearing and telling of her personality in just 2 seconds. These little details make this show !

I love how Vi gets to see a glimpse of just who Powder has become and you can tell that it scares her, that she is now a capable and deadly fighter with no remorse in her actions as she ruthlessly beats these people and you can just see that realization in her eyes seeing the smile on Jinx's face.

I like how when that firelight first disappears jinx looks shocked because she probably thought it was a hallucination. A normal person would just think they got away, but Jinx is not really in a good mental state. And then in the ending where everyone leaves and it’s as if they were never there, jinx is probably even more afraid that it was a hallucination. It’s a good thing she got that cut on her leg to tell her that it was all real.

1:47 gotta be one of the sickest dodges ive ever seen

If we know something good, it's that she still love Vi. That also means there's hope

I dunno why, but the crows look so fucking cool