Arcane 1x3 'The Base Violence Necessary for Change' | First Time Reaction

Sorry for the Watermark on this episode. We don't plan to make it a regular thing but this episode was beyond hard to keep from getting blocked and I ran out of ideas. Hopefully it's just cause this episode is so famous. ~ Love Chad

Maple: "please I hope something goes right for her" Everyone: 😬

Voice acting was turned up to 11 with this show. They murdered this episode

Powder crying “I only wanted to help,” really tears me up 🥺

Great reaction. I do think that Silco absolutely intended on killing Powder (he had the dagger ready in his hand), until he realised she was 'just like him'. Such a powerful moment.

I was enjoying the show up until this episode. Then I fell in love with it.

What I love about young Vi fighting is that she's putting her entire body into each punch. She's experienced, would be if Vander was your teacher, but she's still young and is fighting fully grown adults. Plus those gauntlets can't be light to get that much blood on them. She's lucky to have been fighting on a walkway that's too narrow for more than one person to attack her. If not then she would have lost easily. You can also see her getting tired and she puts everything into one last attack but loses.

Episodes 3,6,7,8,9 are all 10/10 for me. One of the best seasons of television ever.

Marcus took Vi away because, as he said, "He'll kill you if he hears you". She would have ran in to save Powder and gotten herself killed. He came to investigate the explosion and removed her from the field for her own safety. No malicious intent there.

This was, genuinely, a game-changing episode. Like, the show is heading down one path leading up to it, and through most of it, and then... _boom_... This is honestly one of my favorite shows of all time because it just takes you through one of the most satisfying emotional roller-coasters of an experience possible. Don't worry, no spoilers. One thing I'll say is that this show hits on a very personal emotional level for me, with a lot of the things I've experienced in the last few years. An example from this episode where Vander is challenging Silco, and he asks, "For what? Pride?" When Silco snaps back, "For respect," it is easy to... see that as being a minor difference. However, speaking as someone who has been starved of respect within their own household, I can unequivocally say that being denied respect the way that Silco and The Undercity have been denied respect is very much something that can drive someone berserk. Something that can drive people to fight for that respect the same way that a drowning person will fight for air. Now, to be clear, as much as I understand where Silco's desperation for respect comes from, it doesn't forgive what he does. He lets himself go too far... to the point where he is willing to use fear and conflict as his weapons... where he no longer cares about what lives his cause costs on either side. That makes what he does unforgivable, in my book... even if I understand what brought him to that point.

I balled so hard watching this live... Vi and Powder being the first 2 champs I really played when I got into the game, and all of the lore build up over the years to FINALLY seeing this and not even expecting such a gut wrenching emotional punch of the part 1 finale just was too much for me

Vander meant "brother in arms" when they started their conflict with Piltover.

The last shot of "Powder" (/ first shot of Jinx) being a recreation of the fallen angel painting by alexandre cabanel is some of the most inspired villian-origin symbolism ive ever seen, its so gorgeous!!

So this scene with why powder did what she did with the bombs makes so much sense. Powder is 7 years old who lives in the undercity and is expected to jump off roof tops and stuff like that. In real life barley in kid could do this. She’s been pressured by Maylo and the gang to do better. Vi encourages her all the time. Vi is like her hero. And Vander was even stronger, like no one would mess with him. So when vi told them that a monster killed benzo and took vander, and powder saw how scared vi was, she thought this must’ve been a really scary monster. So she thought she needed to create a really big bomb to help them. And when vi ,her hero, said powder wasn’t ready, that just pushed powder more to live up to their standards. And the reason silco got to powder because, she was emotional, in pain, and she was 7 years old. She was angry at vi for leaving which in reality could happen with a 7 year old. Normally anger like that would past, but silco manipulated that emotion and made her focus on it more.

Such a quality series. Great reaction! The show is in 3 “arcs” of 3 episodes a piece. So good

This was the episode that sealed the deal for me. This show went from good to great. Powder's voice actor is phenomenal! You can really feel the pain. More amazing things to come.

you can feel powder's hurt and fear at being abandoned while she was crying. even after being struck by vi, only the pain of being left behind registers with her and powder only breaks down when vi walks away.

Man, I love this episode as a first look into who Silco is. Such a great, well-developed villain

I love that they never explain what went down between Vander and Silco. As much as we like Vander from what we've seen of him, just one little tease is enough to make us wonder if Silco is actually justified in becoming who he is now.

This episode has one of the best examples I've ever seen of I-fucked-everything-up-and-see-no-hope crying. That scene is so hard for me to watch because I think everyone has had that moment.