remember when, before volpina aired, the creators trolled the fanbase by making it seem like lila would be a new miraculous hero, only for volpina to come around and have her be an akumatized villain to trick ladybug and chat noir. show runners do that kind of thing a lot and it’s in good fun i guess
the weird thing is that they sorta did that again with chloe… except it’s more than just teasing fans with concept art and whatever, she got the bee miraculous in canon, promotional material showed her off as queen bee, and it’s not just her getting it by accident in the first episodes that she has it, other episodes have her fight alongside the heroes too, like the heroes day eps. a conflict is set up between chloe and lila to show that she’s better than the other mean girl?
but miracle queen has chloe revert to being a villain and season 4 is going to introduce another character to be the bee miraculous holder (somewhat similar to how, after volpina, it was revealed the real fox miraculous holder would be alya). like… the first time it’s a prank, but this time it just feels like the writers couldn’t decide on what they were doing with chloe for a while.
&i’m not convinced they know what they’re doing with lila either. her characterization is consistent, but it’s weird how she’s this minor villain who feels like she should be a major villain, she’s not in the s3 finale, her goal seems to be to get closer to adrien and it’s not working and we don’t have insight on what she’s gonna do about it..? and also get revenge on ladybug/marinette & yeah again no idea how that’s going after ladybug (the episode)
tbh i didn’t hate the finale at all but it’s a weird way to end the season like it’s not exactly a cliffhanger? but there’s loose threads i guess. when s1 ended with volpina that’s sort of a cliffhanger as well but it made me interested in what’d happen and get hyped for like, fox alya and lila’s return and stuff but this ending just makes me concerned for how much messier this is gonna get with more wasted potential











