#cast commentary

Well. This helped a bit. Understanding the motivations of the characters helps me better understand their storylines and endgames in the final Act. But I still think all of that stuff was unnecessary to the main story which was that of the division between the twin cities and how the poverty of the underground plays into it.

Particularly the whole Viktor becoming a God-like figure and then overhauling that to help Ambessa.

You could say the magic was too corruptive for him to remain his human self with his own free will as soon as he connected to the Arcane through the hive mind but that still leaves it pretty empty for why he has to do it.

He was brought back to life by Jayce to commit to a higher calling as some type of divine being and heal the ill. But he was technically still ill himself all the while.

What do we, as the audience, get out of that outcome?

Are we supposed to learn that we shouldn’t touch that level of power because we can’t really comprehend it?

It’s just a messy arc because there wasn’t enough time to flesh it out and give those sort of lessons properly and explain why they were necessary to the main story.

Mel’s arc is pretty much the same although I do get why discovering her true nature helped her defeat Ambessa.

Jayce’s arc for the most part made sense but the parallel universe stuff completely confused me. It took me out of the theme that he was tied to: Ambition. And it brought like an odd Christmas Carol similarity to it with him only realizing the error of his ways by being shown his future. But like what was the purpose of that? How did that connect with what happened previously?

But the cast did help to answer some of my questions. I’m glad they knew what the hell was going on at least.

But it really could have done with one more episode to explain all of this new lore that came into it last minute and gel it all with the main story of Piltover and Zaun.

I just didn’t understand how any of that helped or even concluded the main story aside from certain characters from both cities suddenly joining up to fight together.

But the question is why? And how does that inform them going forward or how is it a conclusion for them?

Caitlyn asks Vi whether she is still in the fight and Vi basically replies with that she’ll always be in it because that’s who she is and you can’t get rid of her that easily. But that’s fine because her characterization never changed as far as what her motivations were. She was always a willing protector and defender for her loved ones if not the innocent. She was always the heroine. All of that made sense with her because that didn’t change but the other characters were wavy as far as that went and it was hard to understand why they were doing it and how it concluded their arc or builds on it more so that they can come back and be main characters again.

Jinx for example. If she’s not really dead then what was her sacrifice all about? Why does it matter to her story?

I don’t know. There’s just a lot there that I didn’t understand. I’m usually fine with TV art/entertainment being left open to interpretation and given ambiguity but if I don’t understand the characters motivations and the changes that happen within them and why…

That’s about as useful to me as a blank piece of paper and no instrument with which to put something on it.

This is a translation for the cast commentaries that were posted on Twitter! This one features the members of Chevalier!

■ Members ・ Emilio - (CV: Tamaru Atsushi) ・ Cyrus - (CV: Furukawa Makoto)

※ Please note that since Alex and Harriet are unplayable at release, they don’t have their own cast commentaries (yet).

Watch the original video of the cast commentaries here! (in Japanese)

Read more about the members of Chevalier here!

Billy and Dom in the cast commentary: We crashed Sean Bean’s car.