This new season is actually still pretty good.
The animation is still great. There is some interesting character development for the main characters.
The soundtrack is mixed. I am not a big fan of some of the rap songs used.
Minor spoilers but it is so damn funny that the one lesbian couple has a domestic violence incident.
Overall I think it is worth a watch if you liked the first season.
I haven't seen much of any woke bullshit or any leftist preaching so far.
The ending to the first season was so beautifully tragic. I can only imagine that a second season will ultimately tarnish that, even if it ends up being good.
It's something I'm beginning to recognize as a problem with current era media: creators no longer understand how to leverage the audience's imagination as part of their own work.
We'll have to see, the bar is damn high at least since S1 was so great. I am no LoL fangirl but remember some of the lore could be fun, they ruined it later on I am sure. I do remember the weirdo bitch that uses the souls or bodies or something of skarner's people and it's totally okay and not fucked up(would be cool if it was fucked up and treated as such).
one of the things I liked about the first season was that it paid so much respect to every character. Even the strictly bad guys had clear motivations for why they did what they did.
does the new season still deliver on this?
EDIT: just finished the first three episodes. so far, the second season has been as advertised: all the male characters are sidelined to make way for women drama. the newly introduced major male characters are quickly killed off. maybe it'll change in the coming episodes, but I doubt it
There is grey morality in this season as well.
Everyone has their reasons for doing what they are doing
I'm sorry but I'm just not seeing it in the second season. Piltover seems to do everything it does because Zorn bad. Zorn does everything it does because Topsiders bad. The character relationships in revolving around Jinx make very little sense. it just isn't as well written as the first season
Zaun and Piltover are basically a stand in for the wealthy elites vs working class/poor
The main conflict is basically a old fashioned class war.
The main characters of the show have always been Vi and Jinx with some focus on supporting characters Caitlyn, Jayce and Viktor.
killed off, influence completely gone
Some of the main characters of the first season, now a bunched together and shoved in a corner with hardly any screen time.
shoved in a separate corner, now a simp for ghost black qween jesus
killed off, but at least he has somewhat of an impact on the second season
it's pretty obvious that they wrote out the male characters. Netflix gonna Netflix
This seems to be a common trend for reasons I can't explain beyond its so common they can't not draw from experience writing it.
Like, fucking Bugsnax had a very uncomfortably realistic abusive lesbian girl in it who spends every flashback being a piece of shit.
So we're just now accepting that faggotry isn't woke? You know we've lost when even in this forum people have accepted faggotry as not being woke.
The existence of a gay or lesbian character is not a guaranteed sign of wokeness.
Woke narratives shit on heterosexuality and demonize it while celebrating homosexuality.
The show doesn't do that at all
So how many straight white couples are featured in the show?
Vi and Caitlyn are White lesbians and they have a very dysfunctional relationship.
Jayce is brown(Latino) and he is in a heterosexual relationship with a Black girl from Noxus
We only have two couples and thus we got 0/2 for straight White couples
Which kind of proves my point.
The shows primary relationship focus is on faggotry.
It doesn't matter if people try to downplay it as dysfunctional, it's the fact that the centerpiece of this show's relationship building arc is on faggotry. That's how subversion works, and it's something I mentioned in another comment some months ago about their two-prong approach to boiling the frog: the frying pan, and the pot.
Also, asking about couplings is usually how I test how woke a show is: how many straight white couples are in it?
No straight white couples? It's pure Leftist propaganda.
I can also always tell how converged someone is from that propaganda based on how much of a meltdown they have whenever I bring up the straight white couples.
Some guy tried defending that Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't woke at all, so I asked him, "How many quests are in the game that see you helping straight white couples get together?" he went into an absolute meltdown about how "gays exist", and prattled about nonsense.
Same thing with a guy defending that Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't woke at all, it was just that setting contained elements that the Left push because that's what the cyberpunk theme is about. I asked him the same question. He didn't have a meltdown about it, but had to admit that there were no stories helping any straight white couples. But hey, there were plenty of major and minor subplots about faggots.
The Peralez are a white couple in Cyberpunk, although latino, still caucasian.
It only seems that way because of decades of gradually increasing wokeness. Used to be, woke shows showed gay relationships as being equal to normal relationships. Before that, woke shows showed gay people as being just like normal people, instead of being filthy degenerates who couldn't even stay monogamous for a few years to stop AIDS from spreading.
I was worried they would do the old, faithful Netflix swap in season 2. Where everything becomes globohomo. Glad to hear that's not the case, at least in the first 3 eps
Give it time, it's inevitable with new tv shows.
Haven't watched the first season yet. Does it deserve its rating or is it overrated?
The animation is extremely good. It's one of those shows where 9/10 scenes could be paused and played off like it was something an artist drew by hand for 5 hours. Excellent voice acting throughout, especially involving the drama in the first 2-3 episodes of S1. The story happens because of things that could have been prevented, but fate conspired against the characters. Motivations seem reasonable and not retarded.
There's some 'Woman Strong' stuff that goes on, but it's not egregious, it's just the end result of having what amounts to 'superhero' characters. There is one of those shitty rap/pop songs for the intro and theme of the show. Two main characters (mentioned in the OP) are lesbians and their budding relationship gets a fair bit of screen time, but I found it to not interfere with my enjoyment of the rest of the show. The show stops just shy of doing a 'Capitalism bad' routine with the upper/lower class dynamic, but I don't remember it being too distracting a plot point. I last watched it in Nov 2021 when it was new, so I am likely forgetting the things that rubbed me the wrong way more than the things I enjoyed about it.
I think it's one of those shows that is "quite good," but because so much of the rest of modern TV is unrepentant trash it stands out all the brighter. A 6/10 lady in a pretty dress who is a healthy weight among landwhales and slobs. It gets my recommendation for the animation alone. It's beautiful.
Guess I'll give it a shot. Thanks.
Finished the first season now and I pretty much agree with you on every point. The first 3 episodes were truly great but the other 6 felt rushed. Would have benefited greatly from a longer runtime. Silco was definitely my favorite character. A villain that isn't really a villain but also not an anti-hero but a believable, complex and compelling character with understandable motivations.
Overall the character development wasn't as in depth as I would've liked it to be, voice acting was lacking sometimes and quite a few female characters were basically just men with tits (not talking about the established characters/champions from the game).
But truly great visuals and animations, good soundtrack even if I'm not too much into the chosen genre, solid story that wasn't black and white, no or barely noticeable agenda preaching and no beautiful characters intentionally made ugly. Even the men with tits were actually believable characters. And truly violent (not gory) fight scenes.
Good show, very good compared to the average slop we get these days but falls short of being great. So a bit overrated but not by too much. Gets my recommendation.
Hopefully S2 at least maintains that quality. I think I'll wait until all episodes are out before I binge watch it.
I'm glad I could convince you! I'm holding my breath for S2 to stand up to S1, the show could completely ruin its reputation is it bungles the follow-up. I expect they understand how much the show was liked, and they know how popular LoL is and I'm confident that Riot Games has a strong investment in it as well.
The real question is, Jinx; could you fix her, or is she perfect the way she is? :^)
Depends. In 2D or 3D? :^)
First season is a genuinely good show. Very good writing, very good animation, compelling character arcs...it's just an all around high quality work of fiction. The ending to it is just sublime.