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.
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