arcane spends the first season highlighting how brutal and unforgiving the piltover occupation of zaun is its objectively and cartoonishly evil there are almost no redeeming qualties for it but it all shifts when jinx does the piltover equivalent of 9/11 and the messaging shifts from brutal occupation and conflict to the characters not being able to cope with trauma so they now commit facism

jinx and zaun are constantly shunned by the show while caitlyn and piltover are so quick to be forgiven

but in the end its okay because they find a common enemy and obviously the biggest enemy is collectivisim

the show is so hilariously amercian and lib it is not even funny

caitlyn gets to win the girl but jinx gets so guilty that she tries killing herself multiple times and ends up faking her own death and escaping her only family

i am genuinely so fucking pissed

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    23 days ago

    Jinx falling ass-backwards into founding a revolutionary movement

    I want my Maoist Jinx arc! Zaunite Protracted People’s War against the Piltover imperialists now!!

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      23 days ago

      Better writers would have just copied the Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie except make her shed her nihilism and misanthropy as she rediscovered class consciousness through the surrogate daughter character but noooooooooo breaking the cycle involves stopping Robot Jesus from making everyone a hivemind for some reason…