Arcane Season 2 Starts on Saturday, 9 Nov 24 on Netflix

[Stalker0]

The graphical style of Arcane continues to impress. This season they do a few scenes that are just a series of still images back to back, and yet they invoke such wonderful emotion.

My only fear is if this the last season, there does seem to be a lot to close out. the war, the mystery of the arcane, now we have this black rose organization, the end credits stuff that apparently is building towards something....lots to chew through.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

And yet we live in a world where people often feel shows live on long past their expiration dates, and we are left with lame final seasons with terrible endings that ultimately take the shine off the show's legacy.

So?

That barely ever happens. There's easily 20:1 ratio of shows in the last 20 years who got killed before they got anywhere near their destination and shows that went on too long.

Netflix's choice to keep shows small in exchange for continuous innovation is a bold strategy

It isn't a strategy at all. It's just repeated cheaping out. We know this for a fact because in several cases they've agreed with creators that they were doing X seasons of a show, then suddenly cut that down drastically or cancelled the show entirely (sometimes even when the show appeared to be very successful from all metrics we can access). It's particularly common when there are management changes at Netflix, which strongly suggests that like any other corporation, what's going on here is more about pet projects than anything else. You can see an obvious example of this with Netflix giving Graham Hancock a documentary series when his son got in charge of their documentary division, and then giving him another season, even when the first was utterly debunked.

But in exchange, those shows burn bright in our memories, and it leaves space for the next Arcane to come around the corner.

Unlikely, honestly. The amount of good quality genuinely original (i.e. not merely "Netflix Original" branded, actually funded by them) content is roughly equal to streaming services with a fraction of the output (c.f. Apple TV+, which seems doomed but still), and the amount of trash, in the form of increasingly exploitative and irrelevant true-crime stuff, and more and more truly dire "reality TV" (not all of which has to be dire, but Netflix ensures it is) seems to be continually increasing. Oh let's not forget the horrifically bad and totally unnecessary remakes/animation-to-live-action like the Avatar TV series (with proud ancestors like the physically painful to watch Cowboy Bebop live-action).

 

[MarkB]

Oh let's not forget the horrifically bad and totally unnecessary remakes/animation-to-live-action like the Avatar TV series (with proud ancestors like the physically painful to watch Cowboy Bebop live-action).

Cowboy Bebop was dire, but Avatar was a mixed bag and overall reasonably good, and if you throw out the concept on the grounds of those two, you miss out on the uncannily great live-action One Piece.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Cowboy Bebop was dire, but Avatar was a mixed bag and overall reasonably good, and if you throw out the concept on the grounds of those two, you miss out on the uncannily great live-action One Piece.

The Avatar live-action PROFOUNDLY doesn't understand the messages of Avatar, or the character of Aang, nor even the actual stories or morals of those stories it retells (not shocking when whilst they very lightly involved the original creators in the writing, they aren't even EPs, let alone showrunners). It's bizarre and it's not "reasonably good", it's horrid. I'm not even a huge Avatar fan and I was appalled. It's just a crude cosplay re-enactment like the awful Disney remakes (except Jungle Book, by some bizarre alchemy that's arguably better than the original!). It's insane that it's getting three seasons.

I have heard good things about One Piece at least. I don't think doing that to Cowboy Bebop was worth it, but I'm prepared to believe it's okay. Ironically Netflix only renewed it for one season, so are probably getting ready to axe it (they renewed Avatar for two).

 

[wicked cool]

Me personally I found this season to be a hot mess and in many ways was a big let down from season 1
Less is more and it strayed 2 far

 

[Arilyn]

I just read in a few different places that the makers of Arcane always planned it for 2 seasons, but have plans for a show focussed on other characters from same world. Here's hoping!

 

[Richards]

I found season 2 more interesting than the first, despite everything I don't think I preferred this season, I would put them in the same level of excellence.

I'm thinking that was meant to be posted in this thread.

Johnathan

 

[Vael]

I still haven't forgiven Netflix for canceling Marco Polo or Sens8. So it is hard to get too deep into shows that have an uncertain lifespan.

That said, I have loved Arcane. Animation is beautiful and expressive, I like these messy characters. I know little of the lore, as I tried the game once and realized it was not for me.

 

[Ryujin]

I still haven't forgiven Netflix for canceling Marco Polo or Sens8. So it is hard to get too deep into shows that have an uncertain lifespan.

That said, I have loved Arcane. Animation is beautiful and expressive, I like these messy characters. I know little of the lore, as I tried the game once and realized it was not for me.

Unlike most Netflix series, that are unceremoniously cut off at season 1 or 2, "Arcane" has a planned run of only 2 seasons. It should have a more satisfying conclusion, as a result.

 

[Stalker0]

I still haven't forgiven Netflix for canceling Marco Polo ...

yeah was a big fan of that show!