Big emotions also in season 2? Arcane is set to continue later this year. Image source: Netflix
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Fans of League of Legends and the animated series Arcane based on the hit game will have to wait a few more months. Season 2 starts on Netflix on November 2nd, 2024.
Waiting for the new season shouldn't get any easier after reading this message. Because the Jinx spokeswoman finds in a new interview big words about what lies ahead in season 2.
Hence a small one Spoiler warning: We're making a guess as to what might happen in Season 2. Since our crystal ball works about as well as our LoL skills, that doesn't mean anything. You should still read carefully if you want to avoid any theories until the release.
“It's devastating…”
Ella Purnell is keeping busy these days. After all, she plays one of the main roles in the new Fallout series on Amazon Prime and therefore has to take on a lot of PR activities.
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In an interview with TechRadar The actress is asked not only about her time in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but also about her role in Arcane. In the Netflix series, Purnell voices the character Jinx, who, together with her sister Vi, has to somehow survive in a harsh world.
You can watch a teaser for season 2 here:
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According to Ella Purnell, something big is about to happen in season 2. Whether big also means bad remains to be seen. Judging by your words in the interview linked above, we should prepare our tear ducts for busy hours:
I was just back in the studio doing some ADR for the Season 2 finale – and I was crying. I think other people will cry too. It's devastating and no one will feel good after watching it.
what is ADDR
? This term can mean several processes in the context of synchronized speaking. In this specific case it should Additional Dialogue Recording meant additional dialogue recordings that Ella Purnell had to record in the studio after the main recording of season 2 had been completed.
The end for the two sisters?
Of course, we can't get any solid clues about what will happen in season 2 from the quote above. But it has to be something sad, because positive experiences are unlikely to be considered positive devastating
be attributed.
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So it's quite possible, that Season 2 of Arcane marks the end of Jinx and Vi's journey – in what form remains to be seen. This assumption receives some support if one considers an earlier statement by Brandon Beck.
The co-founder of the League of Legends studio Riot last year Episode 5 of Bridging the Rifta behind-the-scenes documentary about Arcane, dropped an interesting sentence:
The fact that we spent five hours in Piltover and Zaun [in Staffel 1] and now we're doing it again in the second season before we start to step out of this little corner of the world and this handful of characters – just that scope of possibilities is incredible.
If you put two and two together, Season 2 will actually be a bittersweet experience for fans of Jinx and Vi. We won't know for sure until November, so you still have enough time to read all sorts of exciting articles on GameStar.de until then. We have linked three of them for you above.
How much did you like the first season of Arcane and how much are you looking forward to season 2? What do you think is behind Ella Purnell's statements? Feel free to write us your guesses in the comments!