71 points

The sun rises and you walk into your apartment wearing the same clothes you had on the night before. Your roommate asks"Netflix and chill?". You nod. “How was it?”, they ask. “It…it…was earth shattering” you reply with the face of someone who genuinely feels like life will never be the same. “Holy shit! Was the sex that good?!?” asks you roommate. As you shake your head you answer, “no sex”. Bewildered your roommate asks, “No sex?!? Then what the hell did you guys do all night that’s left you like this?”. In a distant voice you say, “we binged Arcane”.

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21 points

Do you need to know anything about League of Legends for Arcane?

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32 points

No. It’s beautiful all on its own.

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18 points

Not at all, LoL’s lore gets retconned so often that Arcane is basically it’s own thing but with borrowed ideas.

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2 points

It’s honestly probably better if you don’t know anything about the characters. Caitlyn and Vi are pretty different from the game and really the only deep lore cut you’d miss is the Brackern crystals, and that’s probably going to be spoilers for season 2.

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13 points

Nope. It’s great.

If you like muscly aggressive women it’s AMAZING.

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12 points

Can confirm other opinions:

  • Did not know anything about League
  • Enjoyed Arcane

The game and the show aren’t really related at all. AFAIK, if you’ve played the game, you just get to be like “Oh hey that’s one of the characters you can choose” once in awhile… But there’s no overlapping plot or anything.

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5 points

It has overlapping plot in the same way Overwatch does. Technically the characters all have backgrounds, and that’s what Arcane shows some of. The game may use that to give character to the heroes, but the game itself doesn’t really add anything to it. The game is probably improved by the existence of the show (I assume, I never cared for it I’m general), but the show really doesn’t depend on the game.

(Technically I think there are multiple games in this universe now. I can’t tell you much more, but I think there’s an action game with some pirate character at least. That may have more story, but it doesn’t matter for Arcane.)

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8 points

I’ve never played the game, it was a couple episodes in that I noticed that it was based on an exiting IP rather than being completely new.

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3 points

Is that the League of Legends show? Is it good even if you’ve never played the game?

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16 points

Yes. I’ve never played the game.

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7 points

Oh my god yes. Watch it. You’ll be so happy you did. Riot did a fantastic job relaying such raw emotions through animation. If you know the game, then you’ll know some of the characters but it truly doesn’t matter if you do or don’t.

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3 points

Riot did a fantastic job relaying such raw emotions through animation.

Dude you weren’t kidding. I’m less than 3 minutes deep in the first episode and it’s already messing me up. Jeez.

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2 points

Adding to it, animation quality is top notch.

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1 point

Alright, thanks for that reassurance. It’s hard to explain to people why they should watch a show you love, I know that through experience. I can tell you really loved this show, so I’ll make sure to check it out. 👊🙂 Respect!

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6 points

Yes. I’ve never played the game but I loved the show.

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1 point

Alright, cool. Then maybe I’ll check it out. The IMDb rating is insane.

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55 points

This actress is super beautiful, but in this pic she looks like Gollum.

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36 points

She has giant eyes. That’s honestly something I really like about her, but yeah it sometimes turns into Gollum in some pictures.

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Whilst I don’t agree with that (but I do like ppl making weird faces, eg the sort Danielle Panabaker is constantly making), … I almost had to check who the actress is or did just Lizzy Caplan age backwards:

Or Natalie Morales (just as an association):

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30 points

She switches between Gollum and pretty a lot. But I don’t mind, it honestly adds to the show.

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27 points

Stupid sexy gollum…

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11 points

Honestly, that’s half the vibe of character creation in Fallout games too. Perfect casting tbh

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11 points

Dude what. Still beautiful…

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23 points

Stupid sexy Gollum.

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51 points

Do you wanna make my cock explode now?

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10 points

Waterfall on a loop & chill (with popcorn).

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3 points

I’m sorry, I mean coitus

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31 points

I don’t see the problem, you just have sex while watching a show!

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24 points

Doggy style so you can both face the TV.

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50 points

So we can both watch X-Files

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13 points

After all, you and me baby? Ain’t nothin’ but mammals.

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13 points

For people who have watched the show is it good or bad ?

I don’t know if I want to watch it

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I’ve played every fallout including Tactics. I enjoy good drama. The lore blips don’t really matter to me as drama is about people interacting based on their circumstances and relationships, not about whether a specific numbered year matches up to another specific numbered year in a fictional universe. For the purposes of what makes drama work I would say it was a 7/10. Maybe a 7.5 because it had cool fallout stuff in it.

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You put words into my mouth. I don’t mind some of the “alterations” but as with any creative works and drama-- if it works, it works. People complained of the Brotherhood’s cultish acts which deviated from the videogame, but it is in line with real life drama where any organisations do not stay the same overtime. For example, the Catholic Church of today is not the same as the Catholic Church 500 years ago.

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2 points

I’m wondering if those complaining about the “deviation” played the same games as me. The BoS was as always a bit cultish. While I didn’t quite catch it as a kid it was pretty apparent when starting the series over as an adult.

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1 point

I wasnt specifically referring to yourself and no offense was meant.

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It’s good, but it doesn’t care about the lore so people got mad for a while. Just like what bethesda does.

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21 points

The only lore it changes is shady sands and the year could just be a production error so there’s a chance nothing got retconned at all

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5 points

It assumes the BoS ending from fallout 4 because the airship is named the same and power armor jetpacks.

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3 points

Lol, no, thats just the big one that raises some questions about the timeline, if you think the Fallout show properly follows even the lore of F4 you’re not paying attention.

Just off the top of my head right now while I shit:

  • Ghouls don’t take drugs to not turn feral

  • Where the FUCK is the NCR, the country? It wasn’t just Shady Sands surrounded by ruined LA, it was an actual nation-state that had civilization and laws and was generally less shitty than the rest of the wasteland

  • Mr. House was NOT at some pre-war meeting where Vault-Tec admitted to their vault tests AND that they’d drop the bomb. If he was his actions as explain in FNV no longer add up.

  • for that matter, that vault-tec meeting scene at ALL

  • No, the Enclave are NOT still around with enough power to still have scientists and camps and shit, we’ve destroyed how many of their HQs now?

I could go on if I thought about it but its wipe time

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18 points

From what I 've seen the lore is more than acceptable. If people got mad over that, they have some serious issues in their lives.

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6 points

I thought it was a 8/10, and I played all the games. Lore seems accurate.

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4 points

I really enjoyed it, and I usually have a hard time getting sucked into tv shows. That said I probably only have about 15 hours across all the fallout games I’ve played (3,4,NV) because I get stressed out about rads and weapon decay lol

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I’m really enjoying it so far! I’ve never been into the fallout games but I have dabbled with 3 for a few hours. I can tell that if feels like they really care about the source material. They captured the look and feel of bringing a video game to TV. The cinematography and set designs are absolutely fantastic!

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