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Khane

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The stylized animation and story in this are great but fuck me... why are the mouth movements so goddamn atrociously bad? It's really distracting.

Its ReBoot with way better graphics in that regard
 

Mahes

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Maybe it's been so long but the animation seemed a stepdown
The "Music Videos" are artistic in nature. The animation is not as detailed. It is a step down but it is a step down only in that it feels like they do the memory and music videos more often this season. I do think over all the, animation is not as good, but again it is more of a balance of air time, than a hit on the quality. The parts where the story plays out does not appear to have lost any quality and serves only to remind me of how amazing this show is.
 
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Chris

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The time and effort put into making Warwick feel like a terrifying threat was amazing, that was better than most horror movies.

Really curious how they tie up all these plot threads in 3 episodes. I'm worried that they'll diminish the finale because they won't kill characters their business is selling skins of, but they earned a lot a trust.
 

Burns

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What time does this drop? Is it 12AM EST?
Internets says 12am PST and I recall either Prime or Netflix releasing at that time in the past, but I can't think of what show it was, since it was ages ago.
 

TJT

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Bob Heimerdinger Dylan is excellent shit.

They also had to make the two boys from Jinx/Vi's childhood into queers.
 
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Homsar

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7-8 were not very good episode, final fight was entertaining, music was complete shit.
 

sakkath

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Tied everything in a bow pretty well.
That Ekko/Jinx arc was heavy as fuck.
I guess it's ultimately unexplained how exactly tinkering with magic gave Viktor the synthetic ascension. It felt like they were hinting that there was some power behind the Arcane that was puppeteering him but maybe not, he just became so imbued with the Arcane he could use it to try to achieve his goal of curing humanties weakness.
 

TJT

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Unclear why the Black Rose absolutely must go through all of these shenanigans to get at Ambessa. If they can kill pretty much whoever they want, whenever they want. Why can't they kill her and instead have to get the daughter and all this other crap?
 
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velk

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I got a bit of pre-emptive eye-roll from the time travel device - here we go, avengers all over again. I was glad to be completely wrong about that ;p

Overall s2 was great, for pretty much all the reasons s1 was great, along with some really interesting and unpredictable storytelling.

Two thumbs up from me.

I salute the t1 style predestination loop. Just for those who were beginning to doubt if *everything* was Jace's fault.
 

velk

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Unclear why the Black Rose absolutely must go through all of these shenanigans to get at Ambessa. If they can kill pretty much whoever they want, whenever they want. Why can't they kill her and instead have to get the daughter and all this other crap?

She was carrying a shitload of anti-magic wards - presumably to stop exactly this. Black Rose only grabs her after Cat steals them off her during the duel
 

TJT

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She was carrying a shitload of anti-magic wards - presumably to stop exactly this. Black Rose only grabs her after Cat steals them off her during the duel
She took all those from Rictus. She didn't have them previously.
 

BoozeCube

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The first 6 episodes of season 2 were amazing, the last 3 not so much.

Such a disappointment. They had intended this to be 5 seasons originally and instead gave it the "Game of Thrones" treatment but with more fag shit.
 
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Homsar

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The first 6 episodes of season 2 were amazing, the last 3 not so much.

Such a disappointment. They had intended this to be 5 seasons originally and instead gave it the "Game of Thrones" treatment but with more fag shit.
This is exactly how I feel
 

TJT

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1.6 seasons of amazingness is good enough these days I guess. I'll watch Season 1 again.

I don't think it ended poorly but it didn't end on a good note either. Just meh. Still a better ending than Game of Thrones though.
 
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Malakriss

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Essentially the pacing was going to be massively thrown off wherever they put the "what happened to Jace and Ekko" parts, but it did not need to be a full episode and given the ending of Ep6 they did some characters dirty.
 

ronne

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Overall it was worse than S1, but could have been the GOAT if they took their time with it. I'm really kinda perplexed why they had to cram so much in to S2? The entire last act felt so fucking frantic trying to hit all its story beats in the tiny amount of time it had. It's not like the show was floundering for popularity, so why the speedrun to wrap it all up?

I was like 75% right on the Jace Terminator arc. It was pretty sick though.

Ekko's bits having to deal with Jinx killing herself 50 times in a row was fuckin brutal.

Jinx definitely still alive so I assume she shows up in whatever project they have going next, if even only as a cameo.

Heimer turning in to a fuckin banjo player sent me pretty hard lol. He's super fuckin dead tho - creating that arcane core thinger required a blood sacrifice in the main timeline too in the form of Sky or whatever her name is, and Heimer paid it in that timeline.

My man Singed was the real winner of this whole thing. Gets his perfected robot daughter to work even if it took burning the entire nation to the ground.