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The thing about the Miraculous Paris special is that making Marinette and Adrien dumb because of plot convenience is hilarious. They knew Shadybug and Claw Noir were still them in their universe, so anyone with a brain would go straight to Betterfly and ask "hey can you tell us who you are so we can check if your counterpart in our universe is the butterfly holder as well and we can defeat him". But again. Plot. Lmao
Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, you're this close to such a ridiculous darkwoke slam dunk, just trust me on this. All you need to do is confirm that Tomoe is a supremacist. It's all you have to do. It would exonerate you for using the rising sun flag as a 5D chess move, it would explain everything, you would be exploring topics no children's show has ever even grazed before. You just have to show that the sentimonsters are an allegory for eugenics and that Tomoe Tsurugi thinks the Japanese are the best race on earth. You're so close already. You got so close with The Dirtifiers. The interplay between the strained mother-daughter relationship and the sentiplot and whatever Lila has going on here and villains advocating for racial purity could be Emmy winning. You want your Emmy, right? Don't you? Don't you want that Emmy award? Just- Just make her a Japanese imperialist and a supremacist. It would be so fucking easy. I promise this would not backfire in your face and even get the show canceled. Be a maverick, Thomas.
Cut forward to S8 finale.
Marinette, Kagami and Tomoe are hugging amongst a destroyed Paris. Tomoe is asking forgiveness for trying to send Sabine to a charcoal factory, and Marinette magnanimously forgives her for her actions.
Tomoe proceeds with the Sepukku ritual.
All is well.
Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, you're this close to such a ridiculous darkwoke slam dunk, just trust me on this. All you need to do is confirm that Tomoe is a supremacist. It's all you have to do. It would exonerate you for using the rising sun flag as a 5D chess move, it would explain everything, you would be exploring topics no children's show has ever even grazed before. You just have to show that the sentimonsters are an allegory for eugenics and that Tomoe Tsurugi thinks the Japanese are the best race on earth. You're so close already. You got so close with The Dirtifiers. The interplay between the strained mother-daughter relationship and the sentiplot and whatever Lila has going on here and villains advocating for racial purity could be Emmy winning. You want your Emmy, right? Don't you? Don't you want that Emmy award? Just- Just make her a Japanese imperialist and a supremacist. It would be so fucking easy. I promise this would not backfire in your face and even get the show canceled. Be a maverick, Thomas.
Lol the big lie from Adrien's view isn't about whether or not Gabriel really was a hero & actually defeated Monarch. It's whether this heroic deed is enough for Adrien to make up for all the hurt, all the abuse he caused him over the years. There's NO doubt he wasn't world's best father. ADRIEN WAS THERE, HE LIVED WITH GABRIEL! It's why what Marinette does to him isn't simply lying it's gaslighting. To make him believe all he lived through IN PERSON is false memory. For the record she both lies about Gabriel's alter ego AND actively rewires his own experiences of abuse. It's not one big lie it's two separate big wrongs.
Once more Asstruc shows off his splendid short-term logic capacity not knowing what's the topic about he set up himself. Why's the 2 second screentime Adrien gets about whether or not Gabriel was a good guy when there's no doubt from his perspective he wasn't? His struggle is, better said, should be the above mentioned. He doesn't need to come in terms with oh he was a great man after all, there's nothing in this area to come in terms with, he knows the truth. The fact that he's struggling with this at all is the result of active gaslighting & Tommy boy not caring about how the big lie reflects on any other character than his dream child
as she was watching the stereotypical japanese character and her stereotypical japanese mother resolve their problems with a katana fight (again), she thought to herself, "who are we kidding, that's just straight up racist"
Astruc has a problem with Chloe and shows
his concept of "some people never change" sounds good in theory but this is a teenaged girl with abusing parents you already showed us can have good qualties and you expect us to not root for her and root for her downfall? and also the refusal to aknolwdge that the adults in her life failed in her uprbing and making her take all the blame is even worse. its lauable the new season is so good but you can see how much the writting quiality dropped just to bash Chloe. she desrves better than this.
The more I think about it, the more I believe Chloe's "reaction" was, even unawarely, justified.
I mean lets suppose Chloe did wrote that letter to Sabrina.
The PRIVATE letter, where she bared herserf asking specifically for SABRINA'S forgiveness despite her huge-ass pride, containing extremely intimate feelings we know Chloe would NEVER utter out loud for people to see.
And then Sabrina shows up with her dad's replacement daughter and the person she most hates the guts of. They both red the private letter and show up there nonchallantly with a "we forgive you too uwu" aura
Honestly Id want to hang them from a tree and shoot too.
I've said that Marinette has to "make a mistake and learn a lesson every episode" because she needs to have an active role in every episode no matter how tenuously relevant, but I never sat down to, like, actually quantify that, so let's play a game. What episodes can you remove Marinette from except as Ladybug and have said episodes work just as well, if not better?
I'll start.
Riposte: The conflict was entirely between Adrien and Kagami, and literally anyone could've made the call that led to Kagami's akumatization, including D'Argencourt. Heck, strictly speaking not even Kagami needed to be in the episode—fencing is a gender-segregated sport, and honestly Adrien having a male rival that he later becomes friends with is a much more interesting idea than yet another love rival for Marinette.
Reverser: Literally any classmate could've come up with the idea of erasing Marc's name from the notebook, including Marc himself.
Cat Blanc: The conflict of the episode wasn't caused by Adrien and Marinette knowing each other's identities, but by Gabriel knowing Adrien's, and Gabriel could've found that out about a trillion other ways.
Simon Says: Marinette being grounded had no relevance to anything and was basically only there to staple her to an episode otherwise all about Adrien. Sad, because it could've made for a great episode all on its own.
Silencer: Bold claim considering it's the Lukanette episode, but like. Luka really didn't need to have a crush on Marinette, and he didn't even need to be in a band with her classmates. Dude goes to a completely different school and was initially supposed to be older.
Party Crasher could do even without Ladybug herself IMO. Let her be somewhere away for the party (that she wasnt even invited btw) while Adrien, Fu and Kim have to deal with the Akuma by themselves.
I don't think Emilie, when she got herself pregnant with the Peacock Miraculous, was thinking about creating a perfect child. Some people just really want to have a biological child of their own. I mean, there are plenty of people in the real world who keep trying for a child when they have fertility issues. I think that that's more of a real world issue that every person has to grapple with on an individual basis. And adoption is not really as easy as you think it is. Sadly, health concerns that make conception harder can also make getting approval for adoption harder as well. Adoptions can run you nearly 50K with years of waiting and interviews and counselling. So, using the Peacock Miraculous to have a child was cheaper and faster than adoption. Do you know how many well intentioned parents would take this option if they could? Not adopting doesn’t make you evil. I don't think any of us are entitled to judge what anyone choose, real of fictional, child or no child.
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Like, sorry to everyone reading this, but I’m gonna have to use the dreaded “slave” word for Sentipeople, because the people defending Emilie are defending the conscious choice of a rich white woman to create a slave to play house with (under the direction of the white middle class writers) while never taking said slave's remote control off.
THE PEACOCK MIRACULOUS IS ONLY CAPABLE OF CREATING SLAVE CHILDREN. This is a function hardwired into the Miraculous. It can only create children that are tied to the Peacock Miraculous, meaning they can be killed in an instant, and the Amok, meaning they can be controlled with a THOUGHT. “Well-intentioned” parent doesn’t BELONG in the same BALLPARK as USING THE FUCKING PEACOCK MIRACULOUS. And that’s BEFORE you take into account the fact that EMILIE NEVER TOOK THE RING OFF.
Also, Emilie and Gabriel are insanely rich. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that money and RICH WHITE PEOPLE wait time isn’t going to be an issue. Never mind how this is the show where André is able to adopt Zoé by basically just going: “I fucked up my first child, I want to start over with this new, better-behaved one” and everyone was cool with it.
Frankly, because none of these characters are real human beings, I find the choice for them to decide to go with slave children over all other options FASCINATING. What might have gone on in the writers’ room when they were deciding that. I also find people defending Emilie’s decision to go with a slave child fascinating. What do you think about conservatorships? Or Elon Musk using sex-selective IVF and then abandoning his daughter when she came out as trans?
We just had the perfect chance of Adult Hotcaked Sexyman Chat Noir but were denied at the front entrance. Ill never forgive the writers for this.
No but a lot of stupid discussions in this fandom would end if people sat down and actually familiarized themselves with any of the genres/media ML is pulling all its material from.
"Marinette's motivations revolve around Adrien, the writers clearly prioritize him" ML is a romance. The female leads in those almost invariably have motivations connected to their love interests. That doesn't suddenly mean said female leads stop being main characters, or that the writers are centering their LI over them.
"Does Adrien deserve to hand out Miraculous" Handing out Miraculous shouldn't even be a thing, wtf are you on about? No team-based show allows characters to pick and choose their teammates.
"Marinette should take away this character's Miraculous" See above, with added 'Y'all have gotten too comfortable with Marinette having insane amounts of power over her teammates pretty much no other superhero is ever afforded.'
"You're getting mad that Adrien was kept out of the final fight and Marinette lying to him when you had no problem with Harry Osborn" Harry didn't have powers, so him not being in the final fight made sense. Also, the lie ended with Harry becoming a full-on supervillain, so unless you want to imply Adrien's going to become the next Hawk Moth, you're not making the comparison you think you're making.
"Marinette constantly embarrasses herself, the writers must hate her" If she was any other hero, yelling at a girl over petty romantic drama in the middle of a public park would end with a video of that outburst being all over the internet, Nadja running a news segment on why she's not qualified to have superpowers, and losing the spellbook just for good measure.
And so on and so forth.
So the characters learned nothing and have -100 IQ and we have 7 episodes left.......god give me strength
Marinette, using pastries to ask Adrien "would you be okay if I brought you one thing I thought you liked but you actually hated it and wanted a different thing" does not adequately cover the realities of lying about Gabriel being Monarch. I feel like she doesn't actually understand why the reveal of that lie would actually be upsetting.
Fr she forgot to mention the chouquettes were filled with abuse and trauma
I'd just like to remind everyone that this counts as a gay kiss.
Thank you for your attention.
Sorry yall but Ill be placing Heart Fixer in the "Bad Episode" box for the first time this season.
Im not even going to touch the fact the pacing was dogshit or the whole let-down that was Marinette akumatization. I want to focus on the point of this episode in the context of the season.
I mean what was even the point of this episode? To show us Marinette's weakness is her relationship with Adrien? She is literally throwing all Paris under a bus this season because of it, so we already knew that!
To show how Lila was close to know her secret Identity? We already know Lila was suspecting and this episode clearly didnt throw her off the scent, so a burguernothing.
To hype Adrinette? Adrinette has been hyped by the writing as "the most sincere demonstration of true lovism to ever exist" since this whole season started.
Even if the sole reason of this episode is to basically feel sorry for Marinette it still comes out as shallow because the reason we are feeling sorry about is just shock value drama and has nothing to do with the elephant in the room that is the Big Lie.
Honestly, Heart Fixer is just cheap soap opera through and through. Even the thing that connects the episode to the Big Lie, the letter, just seems like its randomly shoved in and has nothing to do with why Marinette gets upsette this episode, and the only reason I can think of this episode is because we are supposed to feel sorry for Mari through and through and that somehow this feeling needs to seep through her issues with the big Lie so we can feel sorry for her about that too. This episode couldve been Marinette slamming her pinky toe in a table and crying over it and screaming to the skies whoe me.
Ok I take back what I said, Shelter may actually be a really neat power and not underpowered at all.
Lady Chaos showed Carapace can actually protect himself not only from physical attacks but from Akuma's influence! I certanly didnt expect that.
That got me thinking how Shelter may not actually be a shield at all?? And we just got fooled by its name??
hear me out. What if Shelter actually is a power that creates an area-free of whatever the holder wants?
It just SEEMS like a shield because its a power that keeps nulifying the phisical attacks from outside, but can actually do so much more than that.
If my headcanon is correct, that also means Nino can create Area-Free of many other stuff. Oxigen? Light?Diseases? Lies? Can create special conditions so only some people can enter? Can single out objects so its easier to find?
The possibilities are infinite and that would be SO dope.
