Damn that's a good observation!

OOOOH love that thanks very well thought out

I would also like to point out that when Jinx is on the bridge seeing Vi and Caitlyn together, you see the form of Mylo grow much bigger behind her, amplifying her negative emotions.

I don't think that Claggor is particularly positive influence on Powder/Jinx, though. From the little that we saw of them, Claggor was mostly a passive presence from her perspective, he didn't bully her but also didn't defend her like Vi. He was just there. And that's why his doll is little, he didn't have a great impact on Jinx beyond her guilt of causing his death.

@@Lightice1 He actually defend her in episode 2 in the gaming zone.

Yes I was going to do it but I am waiting on Jinx act 3 for it =) Nice call

That would be nice to see, but current Jinx, has black painted fingernails. I noticed as I was watching the show and was wondering if the stuff and lore (back story of champoins) matched up. The only trace of her childhood still having effect on her, is what she says and the fact that her mini-gun is named Pow-Pow. The childhood nickname Vi have her. And she's always taunting the gun and saying 'she's such a cry baby'. Arcane is set in the past, so I think Jinx considerably let's go of her attachments. But even then, she's always pranking Vi to get her attention, so there's that 🤔. (My source is from the League of Legends lore 😊)

@@cleo_patra3463 Pretty much. [spoilers] In the current lore its stated that "Jinx has an obsession with an pink-haired enforcer from Piltover".

@@cleo_patra3463 in the card game there’s a mode called path of champion where she still clearly seems to want to keep some sort of relationship with vi she still gets pissy at Caitlin whenever she’s involved with vi but otherwise doesn’t go out of her way to harm her.

I noticed the nails too and actually got them painted to resemble her!

i like that assessment

Right? And the fact she was making mostly working machines at a very young age from scraps and garbage lying around in Zaun is also a testament of a precocious intellect. She's a bloody genius, and if she was born and raised in Piltover, no doubt her talent would have been noticed and she would have been a student of the academy, hailed a genius just like Jayce or Viktor.

I believe she would have schizophrenia anyway but maybe they could help her

Nah makes you wonder what she would have done if that situation never happened her and ekko most likely would probably have tried to attend the school in the mere future as inventors like jace and probably would of made stuff to better improve zaun

@@snowlily6601 Without the string of events that destroyed their lives...yeah, it's interesting to imagine what could have been if Powder, Ekko and Vi grew up in Zaun, what they would have done of their adult life.

Even during the burglary, she recognised the maker of the clockwork orrery.

that would be wonderful

I was about to make a similar comment on how masterful the animation was that they conveyed enough human emotion to be 'read' by a professional therapist and in a way that is coherent, logical, and consistent.

@@GeorgiaDow Hi, I want to ask you something about Jinx, I was wondering if she has ADHD? 😅

@@normalzman661 Georgia said in the video she doesn't feel comfortable diagnosing Jinx, since she can't talk to the character.

@@shadowkat678 ou, I see, thanks 😊

Like your idea, but she most definitely didn't care who she killed on the bridge, I don't even know if she care about not hurting Vi at that point

@@ItsJoeHut She does care what are you talking about… she hasn’t tried to kill Vi and killed Silco to protect her

@@HazelAmarie she was shooting at both Vi and Caitlyn when she saw Vi was helping Cait. This ties back to episode 4 where she's losing control of herself. Which also makes the ending more suspenseful; because we wouldn't have known who she aimed at. Silco or Vi? Because in those moments she could only react blindly. Which makes me believe if Vi was the one that's gonna shoot Silco, Jinx would've killed Vi instead.

That's a cool little nugget. I do think she cared about who she killed. Every enforcer (beside Caitlin) and Marcus died , Caitlin and ekko came away relatively ok so I think jinx was extremely selective with who was targeted. In addition when she shoots to me they're just warning shots at perceived taunts from Caitlin. From everywhere we know about her aim she could have easily killed Caitlin at that point if she wanted to.

@@keith9864 I see. Yeah she might be shooting at them intentionally knowing that Vi would push Caitlyn away and thus separating them. More of a "get away from my sister" warning. And yeah you're right that she was targetting every other enforcers and Marcus, because those butterflies didn't land on Cait or Ekko.

It's one of the things I look forward to most each vid

Fr she be looking good

From what I remember of my psych course, when you pull memories out of long term storage, you're actually opening them in a read/write state, not just a read state.

@@bthsr7113 guess that's why over time memories get changed and distorted from the truth, interesting

me too

hear me out: a full, FULL Get Jinxed mv with jinx either vibing or an edit. Honestly, I'd be down for it

An then literally 10 hour version of that... it'd be awesome to have Jinx in her element, working on her stuff on a secondary monitor while I'm working on my stuff. That would be awesome!

Low-fi beats to psychologically self-destruct to

Is there a video with subtitles? Cause I always struggle to hear what Mylo's saying in her hallucinations.

yes that would be a good idea

I feel bad for that, since I think he had his hands so full with Vi simply because she was the one looking for trouble and dragging the others along, that he was hoping when he gave his lessons to Vi, shed pass them on to the others, especially Powder. But lets not forget all 4 kids were adopted by him.

I would love to see that!

@@Orapac4142 sure it wasn't five? Ekko was in that group when he came downstairs in The Last Drop after the Enforcers searched it. Then again...

@@GeorgiaDow When I came to think about it... Powder is a really bad name. It's associated with something weak. Even Jinx is a better one because it indicates something that at least can defend itself.

I don't thinks it's currect to assign blame to a single person or factor for Jinx's mental illness. It's really everything.

Mylo is the entirely negative voice in her head. He never had anything positive to say to her, so it's no surprise that he's the voice of her negative talk. Vi is a mixed voice. Both the positive enforcement that kept her going. And the face of her abandonment issues. Vi is a much more important figure to her, but I think that for a while she was trying to hide Vi away, because she was too painful to deal with. She had Vi's doll closed off in a box with the flare. As a symbol of hope that she was scared to try for. While Mylo and Claggor's dolls were out in the open. Vi is much more of an influence on her than Mylo is. Mylo is the voice of all her negativity and doubt. Vi is family and hope and abandonment.

Dont forget, thats just how she sees the birth of Jinx, and shes not exactly in a great spot. Honestly I think it was a mixture of all 3 in different ways. Mylos part in it was his constant belittling of her to become the cruel voices always poking at her. Vis part was, as she said, the part that helped her keep going and picking her up when was down and all that. But Silcos part? It wasnt to do his "hard won lessons" at all, but the fact that he enabled and encouraged violent tendencies, fed into her abandonment issues because of his own issues and his projection onto her, turning her into a child soldier and really making her a darker parody of powder, turning her from a (relatively) well meaning child inventor to the monstrous one she is now. I also think its sort of telling she doesnt outwardly say Mylo or Silco had a role to play for a couple reasons. For Mylo, its because she doesnt want to give him credit or power over her. For Silco, I think its because she doesnt want to blame him for something she knows her sister wouldnt like. But when shes saying Vi did it, shes trying to phrase the whole becoming Jinx thing and Vis role as something good; she helped her survive the undercity even when she was gone, helped her see the colours in life, kept her safe still.

@@jascrandom9855 wholeheartedly agree (pretty sure I started off saying that...if not, I meant to!), but there are varying degrees of "guilt", so to speak, for their contributions to Jinx's self esteem and insecurities that led to her downward spiral. I think that, while Jinx says Vi is chiefly to blame, Mylo is in fact king of that mountain

@@Orapac4142 All of this is gold. I love it. It's super interesting how my mind immediately went to "this must be an accusation" when she said Vi made Jinx, when it could just as easily be a commendation when you consider what you said about how she viewed Vi's influence. I can't stress enough how much I loved this show.

Jinx act 3 happening

yes it is

@@GeorgiaDow Yes. If you actually turn on the CC it actually has subtitles of what he is saying to Jinx in this scene.

@@GeorgiaDow Hey Georgia, I wanted to restate my understanding of DID, I thought Jinx was suffering from DID because I was comparing her to Anakin/Vader. I then recalled Golum/Smeagol from lotr/The Hobbit and understand that he has more DID than Jinx or Anakin does. The commonality that all 3 had is that they underwent some severe trauma in their lives, for Jinx it was killing her family, Anakin killing his wife, Smeagol was killing his friend Deagol; now they all created an alternate persona or changed their personalities to cope with the trauma that they went through, but Golum/Smeagol has actual DID due to the fact that there was still a core personality (Smeagol) that is who he is and the alternate personality (Golum) that is evil that is designed to be a coping mechanism to help with the trauma and isolation. Vader and Jinx on the other hand don't have alternate personalities; it's just their core personalities that has under gone some radical change but no development of an alternate personality.

I thought that the crows represented bad luck and were the harbingers of misfortune as every time they showed up something bad happened. I have two takes on the scene where Jinx shoots one. First, is that she acknowledges this kind of superstition, and she doesn't want it to be true as she came to this place to battle her insecurities so she doesn't want to mess up. She shoots the crow as the sign of 'nah, I won't let the situation screw up this time, it's too important'. My other take is that she sees herself as the harbinger of misfortune as well, as a 'jinx', and shooting the crow represents her self-loathing for all the trouble she have done. But I like your interpretation as well!

@@amaranth7612 that one too! I know crows are seen as a sign of bad omen and wherever jinx goes there is death etc, but there must be more to it regarding the way she interacts with them, that's what I thought at least. She sits on jinx chair which was heavily decorated with crow feathers, that was very intentional, for example.

@@Raven_Black_252 apparently it relates to a champion in League of Legends but I didn't want to spoil myself and I don't play it.

thanks !!

While this is a good reading, and crows might be playing dual use, crows are a symbol of Noxus who come into play later in the series and might just be there laying the groundwork for Noxus gathering information

Yes! and we all know that he is not the best for her, but he almost keeps her grounded in a way. He understands/gets to her in a way that Vi will never be able to do. Silco's bond/hold on her is unhealthy, but we all know that he has abandonment/trauma issues too, so I cant blame him. Jinx's emotions run her all the time.... she's very quick to act on something and not think about the things she's doing yk.

thank you

@@bellal320 yes, thats what i want people to understand him that why he lied to her about Vi being back for the crystal not for her but silco has really abondonment issues and he's such a complex character

@@csnichcain5031 he did not lie to her. from his point of view she made a deal with the enforcers for her freedom. and tbh she did make a deal, cait freed her in exchange to help find the one responsible for the bombing. and in the end she did give up her sister to the council. So I guess silco was right all along :)

@@bellal320 He understands her because he molded her since Vi’s been gone. Vi’s not going to understand her sister is a mass terrorist just after being released from prison nor should she be expected to.

thanks this one may have been over the top but I had to

@@GeorgiaDow no I absolutely love it! this arcane series has been so interesting - thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all!

@@GeorgiaDow I think it works really well, you manage to draw out just enough imagery of the characters youve been doing without making it distracting. Though with Jayce, you're going to need to have a 5 oclock shadow glued on, and a sledge hammer in the background lol.

When she did Viktor if only she had a puzzle cube to solve in the background haha

@@Orapac4142 exactly! it’s a lovely subtle detail which I look forward to each video - especially between acts!

There's also a lot more Mylo shaped halucinations But since he's dead she can't point it at him at instead at a person who's actually alive

thank you and thank you for the wonderful work you do with kids

I was thinking the same. It really shows when Jinx is targeting someone to kill and when it is to just scare away. And when she shots to kill, most of the times it ends up dead.

I watched it more than once and then went over the scenes again to ensure I was accurate on the emotions. Wasn't something I wanted to be incorrect with =)

That is fair, wanting to verrify your information before putting it up for the world to see is good idea.

I talked my therapist into watching it too LOL

I too told my therapist to watch arcane LMFAO

my therapist is on a 6 month break rn so I can’t recommend it 😔 I guess I was too exhausting for her lmao

i didnt notice that a sweet nod

It’s after her toxic baptism that we see her schizo typical personality go full schizophrenia, although as pointed out she is at around the age when schizophrenia tends to express.

Aww thanks =) "my superpower"

While yes she is indeed amazing, I think its just as amazing that they can animate those micro expressions, to the point where a therapist can actually analyze it.

@@DarkHarlequin and don't forget you have more studying to pass an exam to get a licence

@@DarkHarlequin Getting Dr Strange vibes here :D

Oh wonderful detail

yes her journey of who she is as a person

yep

I like that scene too. I think what is important is that this happened after Silco "baptises" her and tells her to essentially let her fears die and accept who she is. Before this moment, when she tried to figure out the gemstone she was filled with fear which expressed itself in the forms of those flashbacks. But after, she was in her element with no sense of fear and full of confidence.

@@cfadipe2755 Great catch!!!

Great scene, but sadly she chooses to use it for the people who killed her family and took over her home. It was Vi who encouraged her to use those skills, but sadly it took her many years to learn that lesson. Imagine if she used her weapons to avenge her family instead of fighting for- and loving their killers. What could have been....

Actually she does go back to him to talk and he can easily disarm her. And she also still completes his weapon. And she wasn't actually going to leave him I think. It would be like, leave the only person that accepts me for the past or stay with the only person that accepts me and leave the past.. In the end it was leave the past with no one as she fucked up once again. But she still worked with silco to complete his weapon.

I think you are right for the most part, she never really had vander as a father the same way vi did, so I think silco replaced vi rather than vander from jinx's perspective

I think this is an awesome, well thought out take, even if I disagree with some of it. If she wrote Silco off as soon as Vi re-entered the scene, I don't think she would have doomed her relationship with Vi after killing Silco by choosing the Jinx chair and firing the weapon. I believe Jinx is co-dependent, violent, volatile and reactionary, and responded in the heat of the moment and in the worst way when the two most important relationships of her life were irreconcilable and at odds. It's an honest to God tragedy, and one of the best character-driven story arcs I've ever had the privilege of experiencing in my life.

@@The_SinisterMister I’m not saying she writes Silco off like that. I did say they still love each other, years of attachment and emotional dependency will do that, but love doesn’t get put on hold, it stays in the mind even when a relationship is severely strained (her embracing Vi in seconds after she turns up if proof of this). Silco’s death mattered to her, but ultimatelt why she turns away from Vi is because Caitlyn (unintentionally) and Silco (intentionally) convince her that Vi won’t be able to stay faithful to her and would inevitably abandon her again (because of this Jinx identity that Silco has also convinced her is perfect and shouldn’t change, even though neither of those are even remotely true and even if they were, Vi still wouldn’t abandon her. It isn’t loyalty or love for Silco that causes Jinx to abandon Vi (Jinx actually instinctively fires at and kills Silco to protect Vi when he tried to shoot her, one of the writers confirmed this).

its so complex isn't it

thank you !

I hope you are doing better and I aim happy that my work touched you

Communication is key

yes they can and thanks for appreciating the cosplays they are as much fun as the videos

Thank you very much for accepting me as me =)

Thank you for such a thoughtful comment

they really do

@@GeorgiaDow I still find it amazing that the lead writers never wrote a script or anything like this before in their lives.

Ha thanks

thank you for this

@@GeorgiaDow and thank you for your time ☺️

Good analysis, but I don't think it's about Vander realising the cycle being repeated. Imho Vander saw the cost of their revolution, the price of true freedom and was unwilling to pay it. Silco is willing to pay whatever price is required to be free of Piltover. It's the age old question of does the end justify the means. Silco believes it does. I don't think he's evil, but just set on his goal - a free Zaun, free of Piltover. To do this, he needs power, which means he's willing to do anything (child exploitation, the bit where he says he would have killed the woman's son for betraying him, drug supply) to achieve it, because it may be bad, but it's for the greater good. He's willing to head into the abyss in order to achieve his aims. Vander stares at the abyss and blinks. He views the lives being lost as too high a price, that being alive but living in terrible conditions is better than sacrificing lives for freedom. Silco wants to be free of Piltover, he needs power to achieve that aim. But it doesn't drive him in itself, he views power as a means to an end. If all he sought was power and wealth, he already has it. For me the telling scene is the one with the other gang bosses in the penthouse, where they bring in the dirty air. The other bosses have used their power to give themselves a nice life, clean air - and they all choke when the contaminated air comes in. Silco doesn't. He hasn't allowed himself to forget, to become weak. If he was motivated by power, he wouldn't have been breathing the dirty air as a reminder. For him, any hardship, any cost is acceptable - at least until the cost becomes Jinx. At least that's my interpretation. Georgia Dow, I'd love to see more about Silco, him and Jinx are by far the most nuanced characters and I think he isn't really a villain, just someone who is "willing to do the things others aren't" in order to achieve his goal - being free of Piltover.

I really do like Sevika a lot

really like this assessment. yes it gave him control of the situation

thanks =) and I will look into it

@@GeorgiaDow Sweet, and I cant want for season 2 and all the things to come. Crying awaits 🥲😅

Aww thanks !

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yes I will =)

I mean thier relationship was quite simple, to me at least.

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I love your comment. If I were involved in the series, that would be the biggest compliment ever 😊

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yeah that would be great :)

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