Timetagger
This time around, in this newest episode we finally have TIMETAGGER (an episode I’ve been looking forward to for reasons)
My initial thoughts/theories for this episode was that this was an episode with future LB and CN potential… and well :)
LETS GET RIGHT INTO IT!
We start off with CONFIRMATION that the twins and Chris/Noel are indeed friends that hang out and play a lot. They’re The Three Musketeers you cant change my mind.
Then there’s #MarinetteforRapGod2019 . I stan.
Slim Shady better watch out
The fun gets cut short, of course, because of Mr. Pigeon, who keeps getting akumatized because he’s so attached to his pigeons… Pretty frequently it seems. Ladybug and Chat Noir can take out his akuma with their eyes closed. It’s nothing new. They even have an ice cream with him and have a one on one two? talk. Things were going so well and easily until… enter Timetagger.
This was “unforeseeable”.
Now let’s talk about this setup and why it matters (to me at least):
I know SW2 was meant to set up a halfway point to the show and demonstrate how things will change from then on… But I wanna talk about how this very episode executed what SW2 should have, and did a much better job in. In this episode we’re shown a villain from S1 who is now considered as “threat-less” when he once was a big threat. Even the people instead of getting to safety now stand close by as an audience. It’s far too easy now. Then suddenly enter a much more powerful villain from the future, and now they’re suddenly in for the big fight.
I just have to say that I thought that THIS was a good way to show that things will change (not a clipshow). You contrast a an old villain to a future one, which only seem to be getting more powerful overtime. Anyway that’s enough on that, moving on.
After the duo evades Timetagger and recharges, they run into Alix, and then marks the tying of some lose ends we had since Timebreaker (love the theme she has going with time btw. It’s a nice touch.) We learn:
The Rabbit Miraculous grants Time Jump powers. (I’m shook, like I really like it!)
The mysterious family heirloom wasn’t a useless high tech watch for its time, but a Miraculous in camouflage.
Alix doesn’t just get to be a holder, she’s been a holder the entire time. Right under our noses!!!
Bunnix most likely gave it to an ancestor to be passed down for generations as back up.
Seeing as the Rabbit Miraculous powers deals with time, it was a smart backup to do in the event her Miraculous was ever damaged.
Bunnix probably got herself trapped in the stone when her miraculous got damaged, Timetagger sent her back, and upon reaching the past she got frozen in time under a stone.
Alix is too awesome and “Minibug” hasn’t noticed yet. FACTS.
CONFIRMED ML LORE: The Miraculous can be placed in a camouflage mode.
Future Alix couldn’t give Chat Noir an answer on if they ever get together because to her they’re all over the place at all times. What I do gather from her answer, is that they’re so focused on hero work as heroes in the future that they most likely mastered keeping their civilian lives a separate secret.
On to facing Timetagger outside, Bunnix goes at it while using her powers for a lengthy time. Chat makes note of it only to be answered with “No, because she’s an adult.”
CONFIRMED ML LORE: Adult Holders don’t seem to require to recharge so soon after using their powers. Or maybe even don’t need to recharge?!?
(In other words it explains Hawkmoth being able to stay transformed.)
The fight continues but “Kitten Noir” gets impatient. He uses Cataclysm and almost destroys her miraculous a second time. Immature move, Kitty.
Lucky for us, Bunnix already saw it coming, and now we know how she got herself in the stone in the first place. Take this as a lesson, Kitty.
She managed to warp Timetagger back and things looked promising… Until her memory reminded her of a key point in time right before she “failed”. So Timetagger comes back and now our heroes are in an actual twist… Except Ladybug had an idea she knew would work in “the future”.
The Future:
Ladybug makes a false story that she’s sending an apology message to the future for failing and sends Bunnix back with a message… To an older Ladybug and Chat Noir who were already expecting it.
A plan from the past.
Side commentary: Adult Chat Noir? Nah. That’s BEEFCAKE NOIR for sure. Our boy probably picked up some workouts for photo shoots given that he’s still probably a model (or at least a celebrity of some kind.) Either way, he looks well. Ladybug also physically looks well. What doesn’t is that same basic costume, but you know, as this episode has said “the future isn’t set in stone.” I’ll just look past it for now. (They probably did that to clearly imply that it very much IS them as adults, any slight difference could only lead to thoughts that it’s different people, apparently lol.)
Back to our present day, Hawkmoth is finally living in the moment that he’ll get his wish in the future, only to be bursted with:
“There’s a Hawkmoth in my future. . But it isn’t you.”
(Mmmm, tea. Didn’t I say it would be interesting if Nathalie betrayed Gabriel and became the ultimate bad guy in the future to come on the last ML post I made? This cruelty tea is delicious btw.)
Hawkmoth is now the big sad to learn he won’t be in power for long.
Timetagger is close to getting the miraculous, but then the future duo steps in and helps out in disarming him. Victory once again from the past to the future.
Then we learn that the akuma was Chris/Noel the entire time, and has picked up rapping?? (My personal headcanon is that: Nino grew up to become a profesional DJ/music producer and his little brother helps him by providing any lyrics or vocals. It’s a cute idea, okay?) Anyways Bunnix is returned to her time and Paris is saved once again.
Meanwhile we catch up on Gabriel “the big sad” Agreste commenting how he’s not in power in the future and that he’s a failure now if only he recognizes that as a father. But then Nathalie comforts him that it’s probably not a failure… But perhaps a sign of victory…
(Nathalie, I’m on to you. I’m past “just thoughts” and am now full on theories with you)
Now on to concluding the episode, Mr. Remier is akumatized upset yet again and Marinette can’t babysit The Three Musketeers, instead Lila can.
Side note: If Lila wasn’t such a snake, she could actually be decent at story telling with kids and maybe even looking after them. Huh. Who knew.
Ladybug and Chat Noir have some more encouragement time with poor pigeon man and recommend he finds a new animal to look after. Pigeons just aren’t cutting it for him. After leaving they go over the wild villains they’ll face… Like Mr. Rat?
Who is that?!? Such a crazy name.
I wonder how that akuma’s origins even started…
Lol.
And that’s that.
Conclusion: This episode gave us Alix with a miraculous as well as explanation to her badass family heirloom, minor cameos of future Ladybug and Chat Noir, and overall some kind of progression. This is an episode I was looking forward to, and I’m glad it wasn’t handled as filler.
I give it a 9 out of 10 butterflies. Not bad.
