This show on Netflix is good enough I think it deserves its own thread. I'm not a gamer, so I've never played a single minute of League of Legends... but I am a lore fiend, and this show has dman beautiful art, very cunning and bold storytelling, and has genuinely made falvor text backstory stuff high drama. Any one else watching this? Any standout performances you like? I'm partial to J.B Blanc as Vander; dude's long been an excellent badass bass voice for any number of character's but here he got to show his real charm and warmth and pitch it against his usual repertoire of brutality. Jason Spisak is chillingly effective as Silco as well.
I actually have the show on my Netflix queue; and I've never played LOL at all. I do like that character "Jinx" though; I've seen some images of her online and she reminds me of Harley.
The weirder but cooler thing is that apparently she was inspired more by Ledger's Joker than Dr. Quinzel... ...Which makes a lot of sense when you start Act II of the show and she starts terrorizing her opponents in a genuinely scary way.
I kept on expecting them to have him and Jayce have a more visceral falling out to set-up their rivalry in-game, and usually if a character is supposed to be shown getting corrupted by political power, they use a deteriorating relationship with his friends to show that. Here, they've done a good job showing Viktor and Jayce as still being very much best friends on a personal level, with the only real difference being that Viktor is clearly more interested in PROGRESS!!! to make people's lives better, while Jayce is more interested in progress to MAKE PEOPLE'S LIVES BETTER!!! - its mostly a distinction without difference... but you can see where they diverge and likely will split.
It was a good show, not my usual taste but very well-done and compelling to watch from start to finish.
Really good show. Very tragic watching a innocent young girl turn into a psychopath. Very Anakin/Palpatine vibes with Jinx relationship with Silco
Exceptional ending. The mister insisted I watch it, to the point I had to watch it with him, so he could enjoy my reactions. He's a little obsessed!
I'm just disappointed we didn't see her actually turn into one, it happened off-screen during the time-skip.
Someone gave this show some TLC. From the look to the characters everything works and works very well.
We kind of do see it we see it Jinx wrestling with who she is and the whole Dinner scene at the end is her becoming Jinx and before that as a child we see her sobbing amd hugging Silco after Vi's abandonment of her essentially the start of her fall.
She was already a psychopath before the dinner scene, and really at the start of the time jump.Hugging the person who found her, who’s the villain, foreshadows what will happen. But we don’t actually see the transformation.
On a side note in 1 sense for me they kind of made it to real. I don't want to see this villain do a villain scheme, I want to see this poor abused traumatised abandoned mentally ill girl get the help she so desperately needs
It’s true that we don’t see the beginning of it, but Jinx believing that Vi has replaced her with Caitlyn combined with Singeds procedure is what gives it its finality, and that we do see. Until the last scene the question of whether or not Vi can help her is an open one.
I hope there is that opportunity in S2. She is an abused traumatised and abandoned mentally ill girl who needs help. The idea of that person just being a classed a villain forever is hard to stomach
Most “villains” are like this. It’s why I think everyone needs love and should get redemption. But they still need to be stopped and prevented before harming more, there’s still something wrong and they still made poor choices, and that can’t always be fixed or healed in life.
True but I think it would be a mistake for the writers to try do a video game style reset to the original persona like in there music video. It just won't work now. They've gone deep they need to handle it responsibly
@Ghost After I posted that and can't edit it I read this Honestly this is kind of soul Crushing what the writers are saying https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.en...ew-league-legends-riot-netflix-170027289.html
I think I read somewhere that they've decided the show is ambiguously canon to the games - so that they don't have to have the two characters end up with the same ha-ha antagonistic rapport from the game, and are really just more exploring the word and implications of the lore. And I'd prefer that - partially because it would allow them to do similar things with other characters from LOL. Like, there's Katarina (assassin for Noxus, Mel's homeland) and Garen (general for Demacia, Noxus's archenemy nation) having a romance that, as much as I enjoy the goofy and hilarious flirt lines they have, would be better if made more subtle and sweet/sad.
I want to see Urgot in this show. Dudes basically Bane, but like a Bane that went the extra mile and turned himself into a colossal cyborg weapons platform.
I mean it will definitely depend on how S2 is handled. They went very deep and real in S1 maybe a bit to much and they need to handle the follow up sensitively