Arcane explores the volatile merger of technology and magic, and the social tensions between Piltover and Zaun.
The news involves two potential mergers, both incredibly volatile. The first is the plan by inventor Jayce (Kevin Alejandro) to use technology to harness the power of his world’s bygone age of magic, in a combination he dubs “Hextech.” The second is the uneasy relationship between the neighboring communities of Piltover, opulent and allegedly utopian, and Zaun , Piltover’s neglected, crime-ridden underbelly.
Piltover’s governing body warns Jayce about the danger of using arcane magic at all, let alone in conjunction with machines, and it simultaneously ignores the entreaties of the Zaunites to be allowed a say in their own governance. Even these separate conflicts intersect, since Hextech is ultimately perfected in partnership between Piltover native Jayce and Zaun émigré Viktor (Harry Lloyd). At various points throughout the series’ recently-concluded two-season run, these combinations — plus others involving rival factions within Zaun, or between the Piltover government and representatives of a distant empire — seem to be working out perfectly. And at many others, things combust in ways even worse than the sternest warning might have suggested. The series itself manages to bring together a wide array of ideas and stylistic influences in ways that are utterly gorgeous, on both aesthetic and emotional levels. Like Jayce and Viktor’s plans for Hextech, the series eventually gets too ambitious for its own good. But unlike its characters, the series never winds up in full calamity. It is both a sprawling story and a small one. It chronicles the rise and fall of Hextech, and enormous tumult in the relationship between Piltover and Zaun
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