Never played or cared for LoL, so I don't know if a fan would have an issue with anything, but this was a damn good show, and had a really great villain.
Didn't catch any woke shit either.
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I wouldn't say it was woke but it had some woke-adjacent sensibilities. I still really liked the show.
It had an implied same-sex relationship which is cannon in game lore. The main character of the first 3 episodes has cookie cutter dyke aesthetics. The idea of a battle-hardened muscle-bound horny black grandma is 100% woke wank material, same with the idea of a black or woman "engineering genius" but it isn't immersion breaking because of the fantasy setting.
What it does do to "subvert expectations" is an explicit denouncement of violent revolution of the "oppressed" as counterproductive. Also the women fail a bunch in a spectacular fashion, the men aren't all incompetent, and there is a positive portrayal of fatherhood.
I loved the show and even disregarding the plot entirely the art is mindblowingly gorgeous and you can tell the creators knew it because of how they lingered on the background shots or showed so many "movie poster" scenes.
Agree with the visuals being impressive, and it gave a bit of a Dishonored vibe too which I also quite liked in that game back in the day.
If you put all of what you wrote on a scale I would say it is pretty balanced, definitely a lot more, than most of the drivel we get these days.
And Silco was mighty fine.