"There are always constraints," Arcane boss responds to complaints of rushed story

Arcane showrunner Christian Linke has responded to fan feedback on the beloved Netflix series’ second season, and specifically the suggestion its final episodes speed through their story too quickly.

The excellent League of Legends spin-off has now finished its run on Netflix after two highly-acclaimed seasons of eye-popping animation. (There are no spoilers here, if you haven’t yet finished.)

But while still highly-regarded, a common theme among fan responses has been that Arcane’s second and, sadly, final season simply had an enormous amount of story to tell in order to finish up its various plotlines – and not always enough time to do it complete justice.

“Some theories here a bit too far out there,” Linke said, writing on the Arcane reddit. “No, we didn’t ask Fortiche to produce a 1h30 final episode. It’s quite the opposite, our scripts are always shorter than what Fortiche ends up proposing in the story board phase. We wanna let them get inspired and roam free so we can then reel it in while also allowing for the magical moments to find themselves.