crankyweasel

[crankyweasel]

I'm back once again everyone! But for the last review or whatever, I decided to do it differently. Which, is only because, the first episode of Act III, was so confusingly crazy that I had to switch tactics, so please enjoy:

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Ep. 7:

So we actually got Ekko and Heimerdinger back but in a very weird way. Apparently the arcane anomaly sent them to a different universe where everything is peaceful and harmonious. There are some incredible bonding moments which shocked me, due to how we ended the last act;

It's weirdly nice to see the gang alive and all grown up - apart from VI who apparently died in that universe very early on ('s crazy);

Two completely unrelated points: I really don't know how to feel about alternate Vander's man-bun, and Heimerdinger can sing pretty well;

- Back to where we were before; Heim, Ekko and Jinx trying to recreate the anomaly but ending up creating a weird time machine is very on brand to me. Also mullet Jinx is not only absolutely gorgeous but that lovely moment with Ekko absolutely has my heart;

At the end of the episode Heim and Ekko trying to go back was so confusing. It seemed like Heim just sacrificed himself and then we see Ekko on the floor with, also Ekko in the anomaly bubble - but apparently alternate Ekko is still alive? - so very confusing.

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And now for our very own hobo boy Jayce:

He is apparently in some sort of arcane apocalypse anomaly thing, which, constantly felt like an acid trip (no lie). We actually get to see him gradually lose his little mind and I suppose because the war criminal himself;

This was I guess how he procured his swanky beard and he kept seeing an anomaly hallucination? - I truly have no idea, but I suspect that what we witnessed was him before the whole genocide thing.

We did see much less of him in ep. 7, so there's that I guess.

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Alrighty ep. 8:

So Mel is actually finally back, and she's an incredibly strong and smart mage woman now? Good for her honestly. Her brother Kino is actually dead (which, is sad). And I guess she's got blood ties to the Black Rose? - Ion know. But I hope she won't end up being evil in the last ep;

- She also showed her face in Piltover, which, for some reason made hobo boy mad. But he's crazy enough already so what gives. Mel did save his life though with her crazy but astonishing arcane magic - these two love each other huh. And they have a weird bonding moment as well.

Oh and the uh, Medarda family have issues, and that is all I'll say about that.

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In his entirety I have no clue what the goal of Jayce is. He is apparently taking the role of a rebellion leader against the lovely alliance of Ambessa, Singed and evolution man. Something is clearly loose in Jayce's head;

But he is apparently the big good, and he also knows what's up, so I suppose the rebellion made sense.

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I have zero fucking clue what Singed is doing right now honestly. What is up with this madman?! - Someone kill him please ( I know he won't die because he's an actual league champion, fuck him tho);

It's so very bizarre, everything he does is really. I can't tell if he's tryna jump-start Warwick or he's using him to sustain Viktor? But at the end of the ep it seems like he was transferring Viktor into Warwick, which, I can confidently say I didn't like - leave the poor creature man alone guys sheesh.

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Let us continue on from Viktor; who is I suppose a cultist now? Did that come out of Jayce committing genocide or what? Although I suppose it doesn't matter because mr. Evolution man decided to join the rag-tag fuckery of Ambessa and Singed. 'S a lovely alliance what can I say;

Moving on speaking with honeyed words Viktor was trying to recruit hobo boy Jayce who managed to get some swanky rags (nice job man), but when that clearly didn't work they decided to try to kill each other;

The breakup hit 'em hard I guess.

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Now, let's take a peak at our scorned lovers:

So Cait is back to being herself and is no longer Caitler (thank fuck - didn't like that phase). She then had a marital spat with Vi who was pissed about Jinx being arrested;

Poor Jinx is just a depressed person now, who is apparently talking to Silco's spirit/ghost who is just full of wisdom huh. Oh and she just fucked off after locking Vi in her previous jail cell. Lovely times we live in.

What I really wanna know is, did Cait ever break up with Maddie? (were they even dating, or just shagging - mystery of the universe);

Vi, you know decided to have a chat with Jinx (she still loves her lil sis), which didn't end well for her. Well and then, when Cait went to get her the lovers actually reunited. Guys jail cells are not for a good romp okay - why couldn't they have gone upstairs? Like seriously;

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In the height of this rebellion lotta people are fleeing, but plenty'o people are willing to put their fists up.

And once again an absolutely unrelated point is that we not only love Scar, but we also love Loris. And for some reason green lagoon man (whoever this enforcer may be, he's cool).

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Ep. 8: This shit was crazy..

Well apparently after everything we went through the last step was war. But what did we expected with Ambessa being a war loving bastard eh?

After talking war tactics, they immediately fell into a war zone. Which starred: Noxus v Piltover, whom was then joined by Zaun, Firelights and Jinx. - Wild shit.

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Jinx having enough of life, torching everything from her past and trying to commit suicide essentially was kinda surprising to see. She was just mad sad (she also wacked off her massively long hair, copying Vi's hair);

Then Ekko shows up from the alternate universe and tries his very best (using his time machine) to convince Jinx to not blow herself sky high. Which he managed because he joined the war with her so.

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Vi's running around, smacking the shit out of people and lumbering someone around;

Apart from punching the shit out of people with her oven mitts, she doesn't have that big of a part in the war until the crazy end of it really;

Eh well she and some others tried to reinforce a wall which was immediately smashed to bits - great jobs guys.

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Some sad news time, thems Noxian bitches killed Loris - so fuck 'em noxian soldiers.

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Cait was putting her whole soul and body into trying to kill Ambessa which didn't work;

Which, was then followed by the Noxian soldiers capturing all of em. From then on Mel came to knock some sense into her "lovely" mum (didn't help none);

Cait and Mel teamed up against Ambessa, which took a lot from both ladies, but in the end they won, with Ambessa getting rosed, Mel saving her and then having her die - crazy way to go.

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Ekko, Vi and Jinx teaming up as well was endearing to see, even if it was against weird, fucked up mind washed (and thinner?) Warwick, who lost his Vander-ness.

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Meshing everything together (because this post is probably the longest I've ever written)

Viktor became the Machine Herald, imitating god - because having choices is apparently bad and everyone's path should be set - which Jayce saw through hobo boy is an all seeing all knowing bitch (his anomaly was the future I suppose);

By all technicalities Ekko was the real saviour, as he didn't get hive minded and as such he used is nifty lil time machine to break at mr Herald man;

Jayce then talked the shit out of the situation sticking with Viktor to try and save the world - leading the belief that these guys definitely loved each other (it was a poly relationship).

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After the whole Vi, Jinx and "Vander" thing I definitely need even more therapy then I already needed;

And also Jinx pulling a resi 2 ending, with Vander-wick was both daunting, shocking, and kinda lovely - tho I am sad for Vi, she lost her crazy lil sis;

But hey, thankfully (if you can count it that) Cait and Vi stuck together (and I suppose they live together as well) which was amazing to see.

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I truly thank everyone who read through this and the previous two that I've written. It made my world, to see people liking my weird rants.

So once again thank you (whoever you may be), have an impeccable day and I'll see ya the next time I have something to write about!

[crankyweasel]

We're back my loves, and uff I am still in shock. So let's get started: Act II of Arcane

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I don't even know where to start, so I guess here?

Ambessa is tryna work arcane stuff but it really doesn't work, she is also apparently doing her very best to take over Piltover which is crazy. Her lt. Rictus has sort of a personality but he's kinda a terrorist (if evil why hot, don't like him tho). She was also trying her hardest to make Caitler her protégé - I'll talk about her too worry not. And let's not forget my most standing opinion of her, I hate her with burning passion. Good strategist, a solid con-woman, smart as all hell, terrible mama and apparently she had an affair with someone?

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Let's stick to the Medarda family for now, we got prison era Mel. She's one smart woman lemme say. We got a glimpse of how her brother - Kino - is/was supposed to be like, although he was a Black Rose apparition thingy (it was weird). Mel is, I suppose the affair baby, from which she has some sort of power or something? - Her arc confused me,

Though I am extremely excited to see what happens next with her, so there's that.

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Zaun is really coming together, with Jinx as their hero of sorts? It is, quite an interesting turnaround. (the second act feels like ww2 Germany and I'm scared of this revelation)

Zaunite people are uprising and working together which was nice to see. It's not the Undercity anymore, it's fully the nation of Zaun,

We also saw much more of mr. Firelight Man Scar, who is awesome and we love him in this household,

We also saw a glimpse of the tree community centre situation, which, was pretty bad. The tree is seemingly dying. A very sad and dire situation? - I would say.

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Moving on from Pola- I mean Zaun let's turn to our saviour Jinx!

She's a retired mama for a while which was strangely adorable to see. I swear on the humanity that I have left, that Isha is her kiddo,

Jinx is still kinda crazy which is character accurate I think. She's great tho, I really like her character turn, that and the small time we saw Sevika for she was a great second mama too. The crazy lil family. Perfect for them really,

Now for Isha. She's great. Very cute lil kiddo, though I do think she's either mute or just nonverbal (which, both is fine don't get me wrong). But, big BUT Isha you damn self-sacrificing idiot!? I genuinely teared up at the end - she sacrificed herself and killed lava-wick - what the fuck Isha?! All in all love her.

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The breakup really broke VI huh? Crazy.. but not really. It was genuinely cool tho to see such a drastic change after a relationship ending (I think many people could relate), I do like this phase tho. The apparent alcoholism, not so much but what can ya do?

We did get to see a glimpse of Vander knock-off ex-enforcer man but he didn't have a big role I guess,

The crazy-sister reunion wasn't on my bingo card but, well appreciated truly. The bickering, the fighting - true sisters here.

And oh my god. The lil family reunion with Vander-wick made me (also) genuinely tear up, like damn please stop playing with my emotions like this RIOT!

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After the dictatorship was chosen for Caitlin in the last act, we truly got to see Caitler at work huh. Also what the flying fuck was that with Maddie?! Didn't make a lot of sense to me but I do so love Riot embracing the whole lesbian thing,

Her dictator character arc didn't really move me in any direction, to me it was only "meh". Like yes, I know your mama was killed by Jinx and that made you vengeful, and that made her wanna get rid of Zaunite people (Caitler much?) but it wasn't that moving really. That and the moment she reunited with VI she dropped the dictatorship, like huh? - make up your mind woman. Also with that cape of her's, she looked like fucking Dracula. Weird aesthetic.

But the reunion was pretty nice, 15/10 reunion.

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Uhm the whole Jayce and Viktor thing was so crazy, holy hell,

So Vik fully embraced his hobo jesus Herald status, made a whole community out of it too. He really made his own holy church. Clever lil mighty Jimmy,

The Salo/Viktor thing freaked me the hell out, genuinely. It was a very weird thing to see. But I guess hobo boy Jayce didn't like it either because he killed Salo in cold blood - because apparently he's got that pure chaos in his mind? I mean Vik just say he's crazy, it's easier,

Then, because he's not done yet (what the hell man?) he goes to the land of salvation of hobo Herald and commits genocide. Committing war crimes must be fun, I'm sure Jayce could tell us.

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Next on our (my) list is the second individual whom I hate with burning passion, I give you - Singed!

He is apparently either a coward or just eighteen million steps ahead of people and the problem is I can't tell. Because locking himself in the cell after unleashing - our man, our myth, our legend - Warwick, is no doubt cowardly (I was like, "face the music bitch"), for which he was held accountable, but then he kind of wasn't? The fuck Ambessa?!

He's got a daughter I suppose who is either, genuinely dead or just very comatose, can't tell this one either, and his name is Reveck? What kinda name is that you old psycho-alchemist?!

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And for the last bit I chose Warwick, because I love him (not in-love with him mind you),

Thing is I always loved Warwick's character design even though I never really played L.O.L myself (I played for like a month). I think he's a fascinating character and I was super excited to see him in Arcane,

After realising that it was Vander who got turned into him was also very interesting. Because like, I did like Vander when he was alive, but back in my mind I always was thinking that he's either the Chekhov's gun type or he's just not that significant - which he really turned to be (not ignoring the pseudo-father situation),

This Arcane humanoid Vander-wick was an interesting choice as well, because I'm sure a lot of people will argue that it's not really the same character. But I personally really liked it, it's a nice change of pace. And this Vander-wick also has heterochromia which is just so cute, honestly, it shows his more human/sane mind,

The family hug, and Vander's memories were really trying to make me bawl, and honest to fuck they almost succeed,

The ending though, different situation. After the whole genocide thing, Vander-wick, not only going full Warwick but rather lava-wick?! The hell guys it was going so good and then BAM pure chaos. I hate every single person at Riot and I'll sue them for therapy money, I swear.

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Thank you for enduring the second rant about Arcane, I really like writing like this and I hope other people do as well.

Till next act loves, please have a lovely day everyone!

[crankyweasel]

Second season of Arcane just dropped, and boy am I exited.

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First of all, the only thing I write here is apparently my options and stuff, so sorry 'bout that. So without further ado, lemme share my review on the first act of Arcane season II:

Honourable mention amongst everything is of course the music, tho I can't really believe that they got Woodkid again (gotta love 'em tho),

I gotta give out another honourable mention to the spec ops Enforcer squad that Cait put together. For some reason I wish we got to see moar of them. That, and we got knock-off Vander, but enforcer? He's the highlight of the squad, hands down.

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Runner up is gonna have to be (for me) the weird sisterhood that Sevika and Jinx formed. I didn't expect it at all, but gotta say I'm here for it. I do like the fact that both of 'em were like "well we were pawns... ain't no more bitch". Like the whole first season they hated each other's guts and now it's like "we gotta do some'n about the Undercity situation...bet".

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Next up, we have Heimerdinger adopting Ekko's whole crew. The lil old man just found his place in the Undercity apparently, and it's pretty nice I gotta say. He's a great addition to the tree community centre situation they've got going on,

Continuing off from this, is the whole teacher - protégé relation between Heimerdinger and Ekko. It's nice, it's cute and quite honestly an interesting dynamic.

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Moving on now. I've no clue where to rank this (this is actually not a ranking post), so I'll just put it smack dab in the middle. I GOTTA give immense love to hobo jesus Viktor. Also ain't no one telling me he isn't hobo jesus. His weird godly-hood comeuppance was a whole ass rollercoaster. First we got him butterfly style cocooned (also, comatose I guess), he then reawakened, body moar purple than Thanos, he then proceeded to do a confession a.k.a that whole "affections" thing (the fuck you mean Vik, the fuck we mean Riot?!), moves back to the Undercity and promptly becomes hobo jesus, like the hell? All in all I fucking loved that arc, 10/10.

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Powering the fuck on, in my eyes and opinions, a huge "fuck you" to the one and only Ambessa Medarda. Man does her character piss me off. She is the ultimate player and that makes me tip my imaginary hat to her but that's 'bout it. She is a master manipulator, she's cunning, annoying, I swear if she was an animal she'd have scales and her every opinion/ advice is titled "war".

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Next up on the roster is, the man, the myth, the legend...(drumroll please) clueless Talis himself! This man is so confused and lost CONSTANTLY that it's not even funny anymore. His only guidance is in the form of Mel, he's all over the place and his moral compass is questionable at best. Love this idiot to bits tho,

After blues clues boy, I find it appropriate to mention probably the best part. Which is, the root of all problems apparently...the magic, a.k.a the arcane. Which, as we find out is on acid? I don't know what corrupted amalgamation was that in the chamber but it felt like the arcane was on acid and so was I simultaneously. Suffice to say it was wild, the arcane is wild.

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Before I reach the end of this review/rant thing, I must mention a point that I'm most excited about, and a point that I absolutely hate, so here we go again:

We finally see glimpses of Warwick, which undoubtedly I'm most excited for, because let's be real that beast-man will rock everyone's shit (if he turns out to be a cheap imitation of what and who Warwick is imma be pissed),

I fully and whole heartedly want to kill the old fucker doctor hoodless a.k.a Singed. He creeps me out, gives me slight Dr. Frankenstein vibes (but worse), he's got his fingers in a lot of pies and he's old as fuck but somehow still alive?! Like this crazy motherfucker is 70, someone kill him please!

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And I shall end it with the lovely and incredibly stupid sort of couple VI and Cait! At first I was like, "please don't fight, don't hurt my blacked out soul". Then, in the Undercity I was like "yes! please stay together, trust each other and perhaps love each other", to my absolute shock and miracle it seems like Riot heard our collective cries and made them happen just to rip it all away. I hate y'all at Riot, but man do I love y'all too. Their emotional turmoil rollercoaster was both daunting and electrifying. Suffice to say I loved it.

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That's it, that's all (for now, just wait till the next and then the last act comes out). Thanks for reading this rant, have a nice acid-trip day everyone! Till next time.

[crankyweasel]

This is gonna be a rant.

Okay, I'm not happy about today's Grand Prix. Any way you look at it, it was a shit-show. I feel like every minute, Max was yelling for some reason, and then there was the shit McLaren pulled. I wanna be happy for Piastri, man I really do but I can't like this.

Yes he started from an amazing position, but if you're not fast enough, you can't hold onto a P1, THAT'S racing. He did, do good this race, can't argue against that and I won't. But after the pit stop, he couldn't get back that place which is sad but also normal.

And McLaren towards Lando, was just plain shitty. After Piastri's pit stop, he got into P1, position. But at the end of the race, first trying to force him to pit (knowing the amount of time lost in a pit), there would have been a possibility that he completely lost on the podium altogether. And hell, after that just plainly shaming him and guilt tripping him, about how you don't win a championship alone, or that he'll make things awkward, is just terrible team behaviour.

It was almost like, this was McLaren's way to show everyone that buying Danny Ric out of his contract was worth it in the end. And it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Yes I do think Piastri deserved to win, but not like this. This way was bittersweet for both drivers. Lando was basically robbed of a win, as he is doing better in the Championship, and the win that Piastri actually deserved was tainted as a consequence.

The whole thing was maddening, and I think if McLaren keeps this up both drivers will second guess whether they wanna stay there or not, because this is just not it.

That's it, that's all I had to get out of my system.

[crankyweasel]

I've just finished watching Masters Of The Air, and I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The whole series was an emotional rollercoaster and I could not be happier knowing I got to watch it. Also, knowing that most of it actually happened to actual people makes and breaks my depressed little heart at the very same time. Now tho, I have no idea what to do with myself except order and read the book it was based upon.

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I've a bone to pick with Activision. First game was good, great even. Loved playing it. Second game was fucking lovely, we fully got Soap and Ghost, basically the whole TF141 (well 'cept, Roach), good story and complementary characters. And then we get to now..Fucking MWIII. Wish it didn't exist. The game was more like warzone than anything and let's not talk about how it ended. The only good thing about the whole game was, that Ghost is apparently a roast machine and how annoyingly golden retriever Graves was. Activision didn't need to take away a gem from the community but they did. Would people be interested in storming their HQ?

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[crankyweasel]

When I die, I won't go to heaven or hell. I'll be in a run down bar, with an empty glass and cigarette box, waiting for my friends to join me so we could have a grand time.

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*If one day I wake up and run over a teacher, it'll be justice not a crime.*

*Because in the end, they can go fuck themselves, for all I care*