#scene notes

[yesitsterriblysimple]

Hey I still love Mel and Jayce together, they are so beautiful. Even after Jayce lashes out, they still have a lovely relationship and value each other so much.

Jayce and Mel are together and leave Viktor ALONE on the FLOOR

Gawd it feels so personal. Viktor has never been this dramatic. It really feels like he put himself out there and was turned down.

Sky reaches out to comfort Viktor, but Viktor draws away. And that's when he says...

[blueclanmarkings]

Guys?

I miss Dabble. :(

[lokilickedme]

The Magnussen Ultimatum is coming along about as chaotically as I expected it would :D

Scene notes under the cut featuring Aiden, Kaine, Clarissa, and a very cranky Harpy (oh and a confused Ramba that just wants to skewer someone and doesn’t care who atm)

Fitz might even make an appearance - heh, yeah he does

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Aiden and Kaine have both just been yanked off a building by a Harpy and as they’re dangling haphazardly forty floors above the concrete being slammed into the side of a building by this thing Aiden is screaming JESUS CHRIST!!!! and Kaine is yelling down at him STOP SAYING HIS NAME HE WAS JUST A GUY and Clarissa is sitting on the ledge of a building across the street watching the fiasco and yells back AND YOU KNEW HIM DIDN’T YOU?!!

Kaine is just trying to stay alive and screams back THIS IS NOT THE TIME CLARY!!!

Meanwhile they’re hanging upside down and Aiden is trying to shoot the Harpy with his crossbow and Kaine is being ripped in half by Aiden’s weight hanging twenty feet below him and the Harpy slamming them around and Aiden tosses a grenade up to him

Clarissa is sitting there swinging her feet off the edge of the building grilling Kaine about how many of the Discliples he knew personally

Aiden is firing everything he’s got at the Harpy and barely missing Kaine with each shot (probably on purpose)

Out comes the Ramba

This time it’s Kaine screaming JESUS CHRIST!!!!

Clarissa chirps WAS THE WINE TRICK FOR REAL??

SHUT UP CLARY YOU COULD BE HELPING HERE

Aiden is aiming the Ramba from upside down and Kaine is remembering all the times he personally used that thing drunk and accidentally set it to imprint on himself

GEEZUS FUCK PUT THAT THING AWAY USE SOMETHING ELSE

ADMIT IT KAINE YOU WERE AT THE LAST SUPPER WEREN’T YOU

Fitz meanwhile is on the ground watching all this squinting through those ridiculously thick glasses with his pen in hand, just ITCHING to add all their names to the Book Of The Dead

HEY HOW DO YOU SPELL YOUR NAME KAINE?  IS IT A “C” OR A “K”?

[stevie-vincent]

01-12-2018

soft guitar music plays, cat perches more perch from a lap and leaves are read, hands never happened, from penning fortunes to blanketed respite, to teasing prey for the cat

[yesitsterriblysimple]

He looks so alone and helpless

it was a CHOICE for Jayce to be (a) wounded (b) shirtless for this scene. It was a real choice.

BABY augh

amazing facial expression, what a mental state Jayce must be in, amazing way to realize your friend is naked

Like, this is a serious scene and I love it and I don't mean to make light of it, but the fact that they're both wearing little to nothing is driving me a little insane, that was a choice, that was such a choice

Harry Lloyd's line readings man. idk why this fucking killed me

HE'S BEAUTIFUL??????

aughhhhhhh

AHHHHHHH

AAAAUUUUUUUUUGH

This scene has me climbing walls and gnawing on glass

[yesitsterriblysimple]

Throughout season 1, Viktor's journey was one of isolation. He was an isolated child, an outsider in Piltover, met Jayce but then grew apart from him throughout acts 2 and 3. As the Machine Herald, however, he's connected to everyone.

"I'm alone no longer..." he says in the Council Chamber...

"I now speak with all their voices." And I think the camera move is really interesting, the way it spins around him, it's like it *should be* a reveal, you would expect the camera to whip around and show all the voices Viktor is speaking with. But instead, all it reveals is that he is alone. It's a false connection, but he believes in it.

At the Hexgates in the finale, Viktor tells Jayce about what he thinks he's doing. He tells him that he's setting them on a path where "we can be of one mind. United."

Later, when Viktor brings Jayce into the cosmic realm...

"This is what you see?" Jayce says. He's been fighting VIktor since he got back, but now it all makes sense. All these souls, together, and connected. And it's beautiful.

In the end, though, Viktor is absolutely shattered by what his older-self says. And why? On the surface, it's a calm scene. a beautiful scene even...

But dreamless solitude... Old-Viktor isn't just admitting he was wrong, he's saying he created a hell for himself. He condemns himself to loneliness. And it destroys him...

I also want to take an aside, to talk about the other part of what Old-Viktor says...

This ties into something Machine-Herald-Viktor said earlier, and contrasts with it, that he thought he was heading down the path of "an unbroken saga of progress..." He didn't realize where he would end up was "an end to pursuit." And what is an end of progress, and end of evolution, if not death? Viktor had condemned not just the world, but himself to a waking death. But that's a tangent from the theme of isolation vs. connection I'm focusing on here.

When Viktor comes back to himself now, he sees all the "evolved" souls differently. This wasn't connection that persisted until he was old, it was a false, forced connection. He is actually alone.

Except that he's not alone. It's Jayce's love for him, that real connection, that loves him despite everything, that he didn't have to be a saviour or a herald to deserve, that saves him.

[yesitsterriblysimple]

This is such a smart shot, because of how fractured Orianna is. She's already a creepy robot, but more than that, our picture of her is broken into pieces. We see her back. Her eye in one mirror. Her hands in another. Her shoulder in another. Her face and Singed's face are separated, reflected in different mirrors, emphasizing the distance between them.

How is this a happy ending?

[yesitsterriblysimple]

I don't think we talk enough about what a knife in the gut this scene was. Vi re-enacting her biggest mistake with this new-Powder.

But instead of everything going to shit, Jinx comforts Isha with kindness and maturity.

Maybe there really is a second chance for them.