Discuss and Rate the Last Thing You Watched (non-movies)

[Casual Shinji]

2D animation isn't always cheaper (if anything I think it's supposed to be more expensive) but there were a bunch of montages that were essentially just animated slideshows. Very stylish and well done animated slideshows, but slideshows nonetheless. I'm pretty sure most of the time making a static image in 2D is a lot cheaper than making a static image in 3D.

Again, not saying it detracts from the show, but I do think it's a noticeable difference from the first season.

Also I do think they never mentioned shield guys name out loud, maybe in subtitles. I laughed out loud when they revealed he was an enforcer as well. I just assumed he's a name character in LoL or something.

Something tells me there was more story they wanted to tell then they were given the time and money for. Apparently one season costs like 200 million. This is supposed to be the final season and we just found out Mel is the super baby love child Embessa had with one of the Black Rose three episodes before the end. Not to mention Jayce, Ekko, and Heimerdinger. Probably the reason we got a lot of montages and music video-esque sequences this time around, and why certain characters new to Season 2 have disappeared pretty heavily into the background.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Something tells me there was more story they wanted to tell then they were given the time and money for. Apparently one season costs like 200 million. This is supposed to be the final season and we just found out Mel is the super baby love child Embessa had with one of the Black Rose three episodes before the end. Not to mention Jayce, Ekko, and Heimerdinger. Probably the reason we got a lot of montages and music video-esque sequences this time around, and why certain characters new to Season 2 have disappeared pretty heavily into the background.

I think the showrunner did mention that they wanted to end on a good note rather than dragging it out and making the quality suffer, which would be par for the course for Netflix. Which is why I said I'd rather get these money-saving sequences done well than see Arcane not be gorgeously animated.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I think the showrunner did mention that they wanted to end on a good note rather than dragging it out and making the quality suffer, which would be par for the course for Netflix. Which is why I said I'd rather get these money-saving sequences done well than see Arcane not be gorgeously animated.

I'd say it works out well with how all over the place this world itself is. It kinda just feels like the 'cool stufff' universe. And while the show does a good enough job fleshing it out, the fact is that you have classic fantasy elements with punk, BDSM, and metal aesthetics around the next corner. The show not lingering too long on this mishmash probably works in its favour.