caitvi s2 rant w/ spoilers
i LOVE caitvi, like seriously. they’re probably my favorite ship of all time.
but watching act 3 for the first time, i felt as though JAYCE and VIKTOR’s FANON ROMANCE had more depth and attention than the LITERAL CANON LESBIANS.
i’m so grateful for caitvi’s sex scene, kiss scene, and endgame confirmation, but to be quite frank, their payoff doesn’t fully land. which is honestly so devastating. it all plays into how the piltover/zaun conflict was completely brushed over, therefore their representations in the narrative do not get afforded the depth they needed.
because caitlyn and vi had more to them than their relationship to jinx. with caitlyn consistently in positions of power, we never end up seeing her weaponize that power for the people she claimed to care about in season 1. “the undercity needs healing” was so powerful because caitlyn had the moral compass piltover didn’t. yes, she becomes blinded by rage and grief after receiving an ounce of trauma from zaun that piltover reapplies tenfold. but she’s supposed to COME BACK from that. we see her push back against ambessa which is valuable to her character, but she is still the figurehead to ambessa’s warmongering. we get the small acknowledgment of it via caitlyn, but despite losing an eye for her crimes, nothing is done to remedy her actions. she makes it up to vi by using her power to aid in her prison break, that’s all. if caitlyn can withhold kiramman funding to make vi a enforcer, she has so much money and power to change the course of zaun’s treatment.
also, i found the “what are you shooting for” line to be so key to caitlyn’s character in season 1 and they NEVER call back to that. do they even properly answer that question in her character? i would have loved a callback to grayson for caitlyn to wake up from her commander nightmare. because she was a person in a position of power who, while not always perfect, cooperated and worked with vander behind closed doors. she understood the value in achieving communication. caitlyn never wields her power to help in season 2 but i felt as though the caitlyn we knew in season 1 would at least find her way even after everything that happened. or vi would be there to remind her. but alas, nothing.
vi was a vehicle in season 1 to address zaun in the eyes of piltover. she is the bridge between with her really knowing it, she has other personal goals in that moment. as time goes on, we never see her grapple with the weight of becoming an enforcer. we see her use her leverage with caitlyn to become a voice for zaun at the table in one small moment. but largely, vi just becomes complicit in caitlyn’s grief-stricken rage, losing most of her personal agency. there is NOTHING about vi dealing with this, which is such a shame.
this really could have informed a ending for both caitlyn and vi where they assume positions of power that focus on proper communication and peacemaking legislation for piltover and zaun. caitlyn could have lead enforcer reform to protect the undercity. caitlyn using her mother’s insight via the key to make informed decisions. or vi becomes a community builder in zaun working with ekko to create better lives for their citizens. idk even something cliche is better than not acknowledging anything at all. them helping to remedy the piltover/zaun conflict helps tie their narrative from season 1.
yeah caitvi get to live a happy, quiet life together in a huge mansion but at what cost. after all of the loss and pain vi has been through. vi fully disconnected from her family and everything she’s ever known. they don’t even confirm if they stay as enforcers moving forward. who takes the kiramman seat at the council? none of these questions are resolved. very very sad to me.
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