#while likely dealing with mandate of endless cameos and Connected Universe of Shows setup

[invested-in-your-future]

The most hilarious thing for me is the apologia of some fans who have come to tout Arcane S2 ending as "realistic.".

An entire show worth of build-up of police brutality and division culminating in majority of government body being assassinated (and then next person in power literally gassing the poor) got written off because the show dedicated the second half of its final season to a subplot of everyone uniting against interesting-character-suddenly-turned-magic-technogod-villain and an Evil Other Empire from Outside in a conclusion that involved a character spending entire season away to develop superpowers, dead characters being retconned as alive(and then not used because gotta set up an MCU of More Shows rather than telling a story), magic robot zombies being fought, world-wide robot apocalypse, parallel universes, and time travel as the class struggle, character psychology, prominent LGBTQ+ romance(gotta love sidelining the queer for the centrist nonsense) and the nature of the class division that the first season intricately built up all take a backseat to deliver the most worn-down MCU style trope.

Like, can y'all not?

For some, S2 worked; for some, it absolutely didn't, but like or dislike the messy season 2, it's not debatable that it's a completely different show than many fell in love with in S1.

And certainly not because "it got more realistic.".