With followers persevering with to debate Netflix’s Arcane sequence months after its ending, Amanda Overton, who served as a author on the present, has defined why Vi and Caitlyn solely shared a kiss in Season 2. In a current interview, Overton revealed the motivations behind delaying Vi and Caitlyn’s first kiss collectively, regardless of the duo forming a romantic dynamic within the first season.
Amanda Overton wished ‘to make everybody wait’ for Vi and Caitlyn’s kiss in Arcane
Whereas talking with Collider‘s Perri Nemiroff, the seasoned tv author remarked that Vi and Caitlyn, voiced by Hailee Steinfeld and Katie Leung, respectively, shared their first kiss in Arcane Season 2 Episode 3 because the present’s creators wished to completely flesh out the connection between the 2 leads.
“For me, as a result of we knew their relationship was going to be endgame and that it was going to take the entire sequence to get to, I actually wished them to kiss, and I prefer it when characters are doing both the precise factor for the unsuitable causes or the unsuitable factor for the precise causes, as a result of then you definately need to watch extra,” Overton defined.
She then added, “As a result of we knew that we have been having a second season, and we have been going to make this arc final that lengthy, I used to be like, ‘Don’t put the kiss within the first season! We have to make everybody wait.’ Which, sadly, that was like torturing individuals, sadly.”
Nonetheless, not everybody agreed with the choice to carry off on Vi and Caitlyn’s kiss within the preliminary phases, as per Overton. Notably, Steinfeld and Leung’s characters share a particularly susceptible and tender second in Season 1, the place Vi opens as much as Caitlyn about her internal conflicts. Whereas many followers anticipated the pair to change into intimate on this scene, Overton defined that the sequence “was like type of the primary second the place they have been in a position to let their guards down, and to us it was like they wanted to be in that second.”
Regardless of the lengthy wait, Vi and Caitlyn developed an in depth bond following their kiss, with the 2 ending up collectively on the finish of Arcane Season 2.
Initially reported by Apoorv Rastogi on SuperHeroHype.
