S2E1

Heavy Is the Crown

Arcane · 2024-11-09 · 41 min

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from 34 comments

COMMUNITY

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what happens

Vi and Caitlyn wrestle with how best to respond in the wake of a terrible tragedy that claims lives — and escalates tensions between the twin cities.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 34 comments — 15 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 15 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

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what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“I loved the depiction of Caitlyn's (and I guess Vi's) grief/numbness as her surroundings are grayed out during Cassandra's funeral.”
paxbanana00▲ 220about 75–100% inread it ↗
“It was really powerful watching Caitlyn have to be poised, strong, stiff-upper-lip all through the opening scenes, including watching her mother's casket close and go away, and it's only when she sees Vi that she could actually cry and be vulnerable.”
VsAcesoVer▲ 75about 0–15% inread it ↗
“i liked the heavy is the crown montage at the end with caitlyn looking through her family key book. very ominous.”
cjm0▲ 73about 90–100% inread it ↗
“Caitlyn's entrance at the end was so fucking raw I didn't realize how tense I was the entire episode until it was over and my shoulders were braced”

who made it

directed: Arnaud Delord, Pascal Charrue, Barth Maunoury, Etienne Mattera
written: Amanda Overton

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Kevin Alejandro as Jayce (voice)
Toks Olagundoye as Mel Medarda (voice)
Harry Lloyd as Viktor (voice)
Brett Tucker as Singed (voice)
Katie Leung as Caitlyn (voice)
Mara Junot as Shoola (voice)
Ellen Thomas as Ambessa Medarda (voice)

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