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Arcane Season 1 Episode 5 Reaction Edited (Patreon)

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2025-07-11 19:00:06
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Still can't believe Vi was stuck in Prison for all this time, but at least she's out now and can try and track Powder down; it's good to get more on Caitylin, and already she feels like a better successor to Grayson than Marcus. And then on the other side, Mel and Jayce are getting busy while Viktor's dying 🙃

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DenFoze

Another great episode, showing us some co-operation between Undercity and Piltover for change. Vi and Caitlyn looking for Jinx even if for completely different reasons, meanwhile Silco and Marcus are playing out their own corrupt version of the deal between Vander and Grayson. Shimmer has definitely been developed further. In the past 7 years it's gone from simply inducing monstrous mutations into a drug people huff on the streets (in the intro song sequence) and even a power source of some kind as we see with Sevika's arm. Her arm was disintegrated while shielding Silco in episode 3 and I love that she got such a cool replacement. I think this is the first replacement limb we've seen on screen but the bearded councillor mentioned them in the last episode: "Shimmer, body replacements. We have seen their ingenuity over the years." The fight was incredible as well, feeling the force behind every strike and frankly I'm impressed Sevika could put up a fight at all after getting a knee-kick to her face before getting started, much less such an even fight. Then she goes and reports to Silco, who reacts with fear and shock. I agree that he is afraid of losing Jinx because of Vi but I believe it might be more so that he fears meeting Vi could break Jinx again, rather than just bring Powder back. He is also shocked as he seems to have genuinely believed Vi to be dead which would mean Marcus lied to him. Marcus is still suffering the consequences of his decision to co-operate with Silco 7 years ago. He clearly cares for his enforcers and the people of Piltover. But the potential consequences to his daughter force him to keep working for Silco even when it means covering for the murderer of his enforcers, a situation that's clearly eating him inside. Silco's situation differs from Vander in that he is willing to sacrifice some people of the Undercity to keep Piltover off of his daughter. Vander wasn't willing to sacrifice anyone but eventually himself. He tried to wait things out without giving Piltover anything. Silco has enemies in the Undercity as well: the Firelights, so he'll gladly throw them under the bus to protect Jinx. It's a win-win for him. Silco's motivation, as he told Vander in episode 3, is to scare Piltover into leaving them alone. Essentially forcing them to grant independence to Zaun by making them afraid of the conflict that refusal would cause. This plan seems to have been on pause since their shimmer operation took some steps back due to the events of episode 3, all the while Piltover started taking steps forward with hextech. He, like Viktor, seems to be focused on bringing Zaun up, not bringing Piltover down, so they might actually get along. Momentarily at least. I doubt Viktor would approve of Silco's way of gaining the power necessary to put the fear into Piltover. He's gaining power by spreading shimmer, which is actively damaging the Undercity as a drug. Silco probably sees this as acceptable sacrifice in order to achieve independence after which they could fix things. Kinda goes with his philosophy: "The base violence necessary for change." Now to Piltover. One clear purpose they have established for hextech so far is that it can power virtually anything. The gemstones being unique in that they are portable and therefore viable for weapons (or mining and artificing equipment as Jayce and Viktor put it in their naivity). Mel is drawing Jayce further and further into the corrupting reality of politics while Viktor is drowning himself in researching hextech. The thing is, he seems to know he's not fine even before the symptoms are blatantly shown to us. "This is a poor use of our time", "I'll probably sleep here tonight" (again). When he wakes up in the hospital bed, his first actual question is "How much time do I have?" The man is working desperately, knowing his time is running out. I imagine Miss Young's words "You know there's always tomorrow, right?" must have stung. Love how complicated Mel is. On one hand she speaks of Jayce as an investment which depending on the person saying it might or might not automatically be malicious. She also admits that Medardas tend to only take from the world. It's difficult to tell whether she's just manipulating Jayce and really good at it or if she really does care about him beyond being an "investment". One thing she has effectively already achieved through Jayce, is an extra vote. In this episode she rather quickly talked Jayce into something he was strongly against. If she can so effectively get Jayce to agree with her, that's an extra vote for whatever agenda she is voting for in the council. Similar to how she clearly had the bearded councillor's vote in the very first council scene. All the while poor Heimerdinger is oblivious to the corruption around him. I apologize if parts of my comment seem more disjointed or messy than usual. I had written a nearly complete comment when patron randomly refreshed and wiped it from existence so this is a second draft, shadowed by slight frustration.

Ben Spiller
>>180126839

It really is amazing how we’re seeing the conflict between the city evolve like this, having the positive example be displayed through Vi and Caitlyn while the negatives be through Marucs and Silco; it shows off that change is certainly possible but it’s going to take a lot to get rid of what already exists. Shimmer feels like such a terrifying substance, I’m hoping all of it has changed for good as it could have easily split where the possibility to create monsters still remains while also acting as an addictive drug, but it’s so crazy what this thing is capable of and how easily it allowed Silco to gain control. Sevika is an absolute beast!! The arm replacement is so crazy, but I love most that it isn’t just that which makes her powerful. It’s shocking that she gets kneed in the face and still puts up a very good fight, her stamina and durability I don’t think have anything to do with Shimmer so she’s just incredible strong. And then the fight scene itself was done so well, each strike carried so much force behind it and I just loved the brutality of it all! While I admit Marcus’ perspective is quite interesting and it’s clear to see how conflicted he is about everything he’s doing, I still hate his guys. Maybe he’s changed and this conflict has grown for him over the past years but everything he did in the first arc is still stuck in my mind, how he disrespects the undercity so openly, betraying the sherif and helping Silco. I definitely still hate his guts. Silco however is so annoying here, he gets put in the same position as Vander yet is able to avoid it thanks to him having no morals whatsoever, we had a whole arc watching Vander struggle to figure out what to do and to protect everything he cared about, to eventually giving him self up, but now Silco just hands over a grenade, blames it on the Firelights and that’s it over with. I wish he got to suffer as much as Vander did but it goes to show that Vander died with morals while Silco is just empty. I really love Silco as a character with his motivation being almost contradictory, he’s willing to destroy everything to get this independence quite literally with what effect he’s had on the Undercity, like if he ever got his way what would be left for Zaun to be. His such a great contrast to Viktor with them both trying to do something for this city but how they’re missions have taken completely different directions. For Silco, when he nearly died and was ‘reborn’ so was his mission and he became extreme, while Viktor just wants to help his people and doesn’t care about independence. From what I’m getting, the gemstone is basically a portable infinite power source which saying it now makes it seem so insane! It’s easy to understand how they were able to make such advancements now but also explains their fears around the Undercity getting it as it represents such limitless potential. I can’t believe Viktor’s dying; he’s got to be one the purest characters in this show and he’s the one that’s time is running out. It’s so clear now from all his lines that this isn’t a sudden thing either and that he’s clearly not ready to accept this fate, he’s working tirelessly to try and find something that can help him, he wants to advance his technology as fast as he can to try and get some possible benefit from it for him and it’s so sad to see the time is clearly drawing to it’s end. I’m absolutely loving Mel and having so much fun trying to figure her out! I’m really hoping that her affection for Jayce is sincere but I’m definitely going to need to see more to feel more confident in it. It feels like there’s so many layers to her already and so much info but it’s all rather mysterious and stops you from making a concrete conclusion about her, all I can think of her is through her actions and the outcomes of that, she’s been able to get her way in basically every matter so it’s a good chance she does only see Jayce as an investment and got close to him to secure a vote as it works for him, it would be equivalent to giving the bearded one the toy as it’s different methods for different people. I’m very looking forward to seeing if this relationship will be tested as I assume it kind of has to with Viktor and whether or not Mel will stick with it even though she may not receive anything from it. Sorry to hear this, Patreon kind of sucks with this stuff and I always type out replies in a word document and copy it over. Though the comment was great and didn’t feel disjointed at all 😁

Marta Kira Ayanami

In other words, when it comes to Jinx, you want for her what Vi wants for her. But, without spoilers, ask yourself: is that possible? Is it feasible? Can what could've been - still be? Hold that thought, and you'll understand future episodes more even on first watch. That's all I can say. EDIT: I'll talk about Vik and Jayce later, I can't talk about my boyfriends in a hurry. (Just kidding, 😉of course, they're my fictional younger distant cousins, not my boyfriends.)

Ben Spiller
>>180484124

The more I’m seeing the more I’m getting this 😢 I so desperately want Jinx to be the sweet and innocent Powder that we were introduced to but it’s clear that she’s become someone new and I’m actually starting to like her as Jinx 😬 😂 Yes she’s broken but even if she were to be ‘fixed’ at this point she still wouldn’t be Powder that Vi knows, she is a different person torn between Vi and Silco and now I just want her to be happy at the end of the day. 😂 😂 Can’t wait to learn more about Vik and Jayce, their relationship is already so good seeing them be pulled back and forth from each other and can’t wait to see what else will happen with them!