#hopefully they do somethign interest with this new plot development now

[simplystefanie-rae]

I’m genuinely surprised by ML’s uh.... focus, this season. It’s not perfect, there’s still issues (which I’ll get to), but isolated and not taking past episodes into consideration it’s been surprisingly solid? where was this last season? Last season was such a mess, it’s like its being written by different people.

Marinette snapping all over the place in gang of secrets was giving me life. First of all, her dialogue?? The way her VA PERFORMED her dialogue? Amazing. 10/10. When she said she wanted to go for a swim in the height of her losing her mind and actually swam in her magical girl swim suit?? Iconic. Love it. It was in the middle of an intense break down but it’s okay, we all been there. Yelling at her friends and pretending to be mad at them so they’d leave her alone even if they were mad at her? First time this show made me feel something in a very long time. Tbh, with how intense Marinette’s sadness and anxiety is this entire episode, idk how the hell the writers decide that she’s not the one akumatized, or at least almost akumatized. I know it’s difficult to try and do that in a single episode (imo it’s a two part finale situation) but how much more pain can the girl go through before a butterfly catches her lol

I am tired of Tikki being weirdly useless in regards to actually helping Marinette where it matters. But there’s also issues sometimes with the writing saying one thing then something else entirely in the next moment, my example being Marinette venting to Tikki about how she can’t have a love life because she has to lie, then going on to say that she has to lie to all of her loved ones, including her friends and her parents. So it’s less about romance and more about this secret double life taking a toll on her, which is something Tikki should understand seeing as how she’s the one who stress’s secrecy and has had chosen holders for thousands of years. She should have some kind of advice. But the writing just swings back to focus on romance just so Tikki can’t offer anything helpful. It’s weird. I don’t like it. Tikki has enough knowledge to know right from wrong, to scold Marinette when she sees her doing something not in line with strict morals Tikki clearly has, but when Marinette is genuinely distressed from this job Tikki suddenly becomes childlike and naive. It’s where this being a kids show who has to teach lessons but also trying to be it’s own unique thing doesn’t work. They can’t find their own balance. Is Tikki a vessel for the episodes morals or is she a creature that has the mind of a child because they are suddenly suppose to lack human interaction? It can’t be both.

If they don’t wanna do shit with Marinette’s fashion designing can they reroute and have her interested in engineering?

Stop making Juleka mumble shit. 

Give these characters some new akuma designs (except rose, I love hers)

is trixx the only responsible, useful kwami? fucking maybe

Chat doing his usual flirt thing is...annoying, but at this point it just feels perfunctory even if it should be in very bad taste. He just broke up with Kagami, but he was still flirting and hoping to get with Ladybug while even being with her, and I honestly don’t understand how the writers, who constantly insist he’s a sweet boy, don’t criticize this. It’s been so many episodes of him flirting with Ladybug, liking Kagami too, not feeling guilty about any of it or even trying to move on, and the writing is just nothing with that. I don’t get it. I understand it being a kids show that needs repetition and it being kinda a trope at this point but c’mon.

Finally, I missed this Alya so, so much. This is season 1 and 2 Alya, the hero and the best friend that inspired Marinette in the first place. I never really got the Alya salt, because it’s not like the writing was really favoring her, just forcing her to serve the plot so she was going to come across bad no matter what (either she was simping for Lila to cause problems or pushing Adrienette), but at the same time people being like ‘See Alya salters??? She IS great, in your face!’ are just as annoying. This is her first great episode since Rena’s debut, and that’s almost 2 seasons ago. Just because the writing for her was finally great here doesn’t mean it was always. Anyway, hopefully this season really keeps this momentum going regarding her character. No more pushing Marinette to be with Adrien, I want support, but also I want an episode just about Alya and her own character development. It’s an absolute travesty that the new characters in the specials have better writing and character arcs then the character that has been with us for 4 seasons.