After everything I've seen about 9-1-1 and the bi Icon Buck. I have officially started my first watch through. Maybe I'll give updates or possibly not.
Disclaimer: these reviews are from 2017, don't seek out the people who wrote them. This is all for fun.
A guest with lame comments. Joy.
Okay but you are being a pain. Babe I was a literal infant just vibing.
Lmao okay and? You could have just left, I wasn't planning on missing you
Love,,, just go. "Best of luck" was an incredibly poor attempt at covering up your blatant rudeness. Try harder next time ig?
This was a Spider-Man fic where did Supernatural come from?? Not upset, just confused
Are you... encouraging a child to curse? Do you know how stupid that is? I was severely uncomfortable with swearing at the time and lived life how I was comfortable? Why would you?? I don't even?? And then you proceed to insult my writing by calling it annoying and cliche... and then pretend like you didn't just do that. And say I did a nice job on the last chapter. This comment is... wow.
Let me just wrap this up by saying that leaving comments like these isn't constructive or helpful. It's just rude. These days I'm able to look back on these and lose my shit laughing, but back then it really hurt. Don't do this shit. It's unnecessary and it's just annoying. If you don't like a story, just go?? No one wants to hear your schpiel. If it was bad enough that you need to talk about it, do so in private. Authors are people with feelings, you know.
I am.. very frustrated with this special. For many reasons. I’m gonna go through a list of pros and cons though, to try and sort out how I feel about the episode.
Pros:
The art!! This was a very pretty episode!
I really liked the starting scene with Ladybug and Chat Noir, I think that it was a really good way to set up their friendship! I love how Chat was thinking of Ladybug’s boundaries while still showing how he cares for her. Probably my favorite scene besides the Luka and Kagami ones.
I really liked how Kagami reacted to Adrien. She expressed that she was sad with him, validating now he feels, but still expresses that she’s excited that this just means they get to spend time with each other. It was a genuine reaction, even if she’s a little closed off.
I squealed when I saw Luka. The fact that when Mari learned she was late she called Luka first? And he immediately rushes to help her? My heart can’t take it. And him wishing her good luck and hoping it would give her closure? You can tell that he knows that she’s trying to stop this crush on Adrien, and he’s just hoping it works. It’s not him wishing that when she comes home she’ll go on a date with him, or expecting anything. He just wants her to have closure for her sake. I love that.
I loved the little alarm Ladybug has for Chat. How she keeps it on her and how it's a little Plagg plushie, that's so cute.
I really liked the two kids from America! Jess and AI(I still don’t know her name. Is that her name?), and their moms. I was thrilled when I saw that e had another lesbian pair, and that they were parents and mentors! I loved that the kids were POC, and that we had an ingenious heroine!
I think it’s really cute that Sabrina got to have a little romance, though I wish we could have seen more of it.
The Kwami being an eagle and representing freedom made me genuinely laugh. Stereotypes stay strong after all.
I loved learning about Ladybug’s powers! Seeing that her Miraculous Ladybug has its limits, even though I'm a little confused about that. She’s had to have fixed things more than this, right? I don’t get why it can only fix what one specific villain does, instead of just what’s been done. I find it very interesting that she can bring people back to life.
I... actually like that Adrien gave away the miraculous. He just killed someone, a girl, who could have been Ladybug if AI hadn’t stopped in the way. It makes sense that he would be overwhelmed and filled with guilt. He just killed someone! Honestly I’d be shocked if he didn’t give up his miraculous and was okay. He’s just a kid, a kid who just killed someone, give him a break.
Cons:
I don’t understand why they didn’t just have Bustier on the trip. Or why they set up the other teacher to be jealous and feel insecure about how the students felt about her. This had no payoff, I don’t understand why it's there. Was it for the seat change? There really was no reason why this should have been in the special.
Is Bustier going to stay pregnant? Will we see her throughout her pregnancy? Or is she vanishing for good now that she's pregnant?
I’m upset that Chat didn’t tell Ladybug he was leaving. I understand he thought he had it under control, but he really should have just called her, told her that there was a last minute change and he would be out of town, and that he wouldn’t be able to stay in Paris. They could have discussed the plan he had together, and at least Ladybug would have known that he wasn’t going to be in Paris.
The villain is very underwhelming. I forgot he was there most of the time.
HAWK MOTH ALMOST BECAME A WAR CRIMINAL. I mean, he already is, he’s a terrorist after all, but like, he almost caused another world war. How can people still find him redeemable and not Chloe, who is a TEENAGER.
I don’t like how quickly Ladybug forgave Chat. I understand her being sympathetic to what he just went through, but really, if she couldn’t trust him before, now it’s going to be very hard for her to trust him again. He gave up his miraculous, and now she knows that he had set up his cataclysm without knowing at all what he was going to do. He lied to her about where he was, left Paris in danger, and killed someone. And instead of facing the truth, he ran, where she would have never found him again. I understand why Chat did what he did, but Marinette has every right to still be upset.
Why did we have to see Marinette fall off a bike, slide on the pavement, and burst into tears while pleading for Adrien to stay? There was nothing she could have done in this situation. Adrien has no choice to stay or not. Her saying something doesn't change this.
THEY LEFT GORILLA.
Gabriel really made Natalie use the miraculous while she was already in bed sick. She’s already suffering from what Emilie went through, and he had her use the miraculous when she was already weak.
I’m mad at Alya. So mad at Alya. It's one thing to want your friends to end up together, it's another to go against your friend’s wishes and make her uncomfortable while just adding more stress to her situation. I don’t understand the extremes she went through, or why on earth she would even CONSIDER putting her friends in danger.
I’m upset that the American superhero lesbian mom is pretty sexualized. Like it's one thing to give your character big boobs, it's another to have them very prominent and showing cleavage in her civilian form. It's a small thing, but I found it very gross for a kids cartoon.
I like how they set up that more Miraculous heroes were going to be made in America, I don't like how rushed it was. It all took place within a minute and two breaths.
Also, other heroes exist?? Alya had thought Ladybug was so cool because she was a superhero nerd who loved comics and stuff. I didn’t think that superheroes actually existed. That kind of makes the Miraculous seem.. Pointless. Also why aren’t there any Parison heroes? Why only America? Why have no heroes come to help these two children defeat a supervillain??
I didn’t like the special. There were a lot of parts I genuinely adored, but there were too many bad parts or parts where I was cringing and wishing that it would go by faster. I don’t think I would watch this again.
i was asked recently what it meant to ‘grow up’ and frankly from what i’m going through, it’s that your errands list gets longer and longer and longer.
