I did.

I love that you pointed the fact that it was an amazing teamwork effort.

It perfectly completes the short analysis that I made about the episode Here:

To go farther:

"The solution is not not* to show the flaws of people in those situations... "

A Political critic of #Arcane

Now.. this is indeed quite a critic.

But it doesn't mean that you must stop enjoying the story. It's completely possible to love a story that is not perfect on politics, even for activists.

#Arcane is still a jewel of storytelling and animation even with its flaws.

But keep those points in minds.

And so.. I can understand when people are mad because resistants are depicted as dying in the suits of their oppressors without names and without much depth..

And this is the biggest flaw of Arcane, it is depoliticizing in the sence that it renders the political question the matter of individuals favored or cursed by change and do not really question the systems in place or the powers in balance.

It's an idealist vision of change.

In reality, no matter the ennemy, fascists will use people they dominate as tools to wage wars.

To think that a democracy can rise from such a system is naive at best.

Because we are talking about the rise of fascism here. A completely oppressive system that is suddenly brushed off by "the bigger oppressor" and the "common enemy" trope.

While this is cool in storytelling, is is once again depoliticizing.

In Arcane, it is as easy as "making the good choice" for a fascist with moral struggles in power to suddenly turn toward her lover just because of a nice word and thus creating the condition for a rebellion.

But in reality, such a choice do not exist and especially not for people under oppression.

But that's exactly the problem !

In reality we don't or rather, this choice is limited by the material conditions of our existences and society do not become more evil become some people decide to be evil but because of systems that push people to act consequences.

In reality the big problem of Arcane is linked to all those problems.

The big problem comes with the biggest philosophical debate :

The notion of Change and the fact that because people change.. that society becomes good or evil.

As Jayce puts it "we should have a choice"...

t feels like the problem here comes from scientists themselves or mad scientists..

While this can be true, in reality.. the problem with science comes from people who don't really have a lot of things to do with science, the lack of fundings, the problems of dissinformation..

At the end, the irrational love for science must be destroyed with science, and no knowledge can be constructed from the remains, the knowledge disappear into oblivion and we end up with only death..

It's still amazingly looking. But it's not really the best, especially in our current context.

While it is normal, because science must be as reasonnable as possible, the counter demonstration is never really shown.

Only exist the Science as a tool of devotion or fast inventions.

In our current context, where science is demonized and laughed at, this is not the most pertinent commentary.

Another critic I would make is the philosophical debate around science.

Science - once again - takes the bad place...

The seeking of fast progress and fast researches is antagonized.

But again.. The representation is really not the worse at all.

There are very good things and a very good character arc coming from that.

I would just prefer not to have those type of character be the beacon of "irrationnal" destruction... for once..

The solution is not to show the flaws of people in those situations... but showing that two people with physical and mental problems are two of the main reasons for the major part of the destructions in a city or the potential end of the world is a bit much.