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Why doesn’t Shadowmoth just create a sentimonster that grants wishes?
Emotion? Desire.
You can revive your wife and you don’t have to destroy the universe
I mean, they have yet to introduce a limit to his power.
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How you gonna hide this in tags? Like did we learn nothing NOTHING from the beginnings of anthropology? Like, we INVENTED race in order to feel better about enslaving people. Oh how history repeats itself.
Is this new product called Eugenics?
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I think what stings most about Chloé’s failed redemption and the writers going “lol yeah she just doesn’t want it” is the way Marinette was treated during it all as the main character
- Despair Bear: she was teased by her friends for not wanting to go to Chloé’s party until Adrien was there, never mind that a) Chloé has bullied her for years, b) Chloé set off the fire alarm just to sabotage her father, and c) Adrien is the only person Chloé will want to be nice for, so why wouldn’t Marinette not want to go to the party unless he was there to influence Chloé? The fact that she was brushed off as a lovesick girl isn’t surprising, considering her episodes with Lila and Kagami, but oh boy
- Zombizou: she was taken outside and basically told to suck it up and put up with Chloé’s crap in the hopes that she could change (spoiler alert: nope). The episode tried to make us feel sorry for Chloé and coo at how Ms Bustier hugged and forgave her but like...what was the point if they were just going to bait and switch her redemption arc? Now it’s ultimately just an empty episode that serves no purpose. Not to mention that Marinette is the one Chloé should’ve apologised to. But of course she didn’t, because it’s easier to apologise to the one coddling you than to the one you’re bullying.
- Queen’s Battle: just...ugh. An entire three episodes dedicated to a secondary character, rather than to Marinette and her decision to stay in Paris. Everyone’s already made posts about this so there’s nothing new I can say other than a side character got more of an arc than the literal protagonist. At least with Adrien and his family drama, he’s still one of the main characters.
- Miraculer: Marinette was basically made out to be the bad guy for not giving Chloé the Bee again, even though a) Mayura literally did as predicted and stole it when Chat did try to give it, and b) she hadn’t earned it. She was still being nasty, acting like being Queen Bee cancelled out what she did as Chloé Bourgeois, and Ladybug literally told her to her face that she couldn’t be Queen Bee anymore and yet she still stood there and expected it. Sure, she had the right to feel hurt before then (without the episode needing to make Marinette look bad for it, mind you), but after Miraculer? And especially because Ladybug explained that it was for the safety of her and her family. You can’t show us that Chloé wants to fight when it’s her parents who have been akumatised and then show us that she doesn’t give a damn about them potentially being targeted because of her leaked identity, then expect us to believe that she wasn’t doing anything except vying for attention. Which she was, and Miracle Queen did show that, but my point is that more effort was once again concentrated on Chloé rather than Marinette when her redemption arc was ultimately amounting to nothing.
- Loveater: how Marinette was basically shown to pick Kagami out of “jealousy” despite literally demonstrating numerous times before (including in this very episode) that she’s willing to stand aside for Kagami. It just...doesn’t compute. But then again, the writers never seem to know what to do with her. All we needed was a line of reasoning that the Dragon was better equipped than the Bee for that situation, or that Chloé fighting her parents on Heroes’ Day didn’t go well, or anything. But nope, even as it’s throwing out Chloé’s redemption arc, the story is trying to shit on Marinette and make Chloé sympathetic.
That’s 7 episodes. 7 episodes dedicated to a side character whose redemption arc didn’t even come through. They could have pulled off the failed redemption without sacrificing so many episodes. But the fact that they focused so much on a character whose redemption arc they were ultimately going to toss away? They could’ve shown it in the background of multiple episodes, building it up without sacrificing the main character’s story, and then there wouldn’t be so much criticism that Chloé’s redemption failed because...there wouldn’t have been so many episodes dedicated to something that never really blossomed.
They could’ve even sacrificed the Lila airtime and introduced her in S4. Or they could’ve made her the main villain of S2. Or they even could’ve scrapped Volpina and introduced her in Chameleon but not given her much of a focus just yet. Have her in the background, seeming shifty but not outright malevolent...just yet. But trying to juggle these two girls also took its toll on Marinette’s story and airtime and weakened the overall plot of S3.
It strongly reminded me of S12 of Supernatural, which tried to have two antagonists at the same time: the British Men of Letters and Lucifer. There’s a reason why it’s been heavily criticised, mostly because its plot was all over the place and didn’t really have a focus and the BMOL just kind of...faded away at the end. Having two opposing antagonistic forces rarely works out well, and trying to balance Chloé and Lila was a definite flop, especially with Hawkmoth and Mayura in the background.
And Marinette’s the one who suffered for it. That’s so much story time that could’ve fleshed her out more:
- shown us her training with Master Fu, which would’ve made his ending in Miracle Queen so much more emotional (newsflash, Astruc: no one cried. No one that I’ve talked to, anyway)
- delved deeper into the Miraculous lore instead of dumping it all in the last few episodes. We could’ve seen Marinette interacting with the kwamis, learning about their powers without having to wait for the new hero to be introduced, and seen why they love her and why she’s regarded as such a strong holder. As much as I loved Kaalki meeting Max, I was also thrown because of Kaalki and Marinette interacting as friends when we’d never seen them meet before
- better shown her relationship with Adrien shifting and her interactions with her friends suffering due to Lila (rather than when the episode plot demands it)
- shown us more Mari and Adrien trying to stand together against Lila, rather than having him say he’ll be with her, then pretty much ignoring what’s going on until she gets expelled
- talked a bit more about the secret identities and why Marinette would have to give her earrings up if her identity was discovered when throwing a newbie against a stronger Hawkmoth and Mayura and breaking that bond between Ladybug and Chat Noir that they’ve built from scratch would basically be delivering the earrings on a silver platter
- shown her with commissions or her other fashion-related stuff, which is one of the reasons I enjoy Mr Pigeon and the only reason I enjoy Style Queen and Queen Wasp. Her fashion pursuits are only really brought up now for plot relevance rather than because she’s a character who’s into fashion
- just...anything. She’s the main character
And let’s not even mention the damn status quo because otherwise I won’t shut up
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Anonymous asked:
Can't believe andre glocked all other ice cream bussinesses in paris and is the evil monopolist society warned me about
I wonder what underhanded methods he uses for evil
Plus he hands out his ice creams for free... yet he still is somehow still running his “business”
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*Inhales*
FREDERIC, WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK??
You promised your daughter you would get Varian HELP.
But what do we find out happened to him? He was put in a jail cell in the dungeon. Not only THAT he was put in a jail cell WITH A VIOLENT CRIMINAL WHO HAS ALSO TRIED TO KILL PEOPLE AND TOPPLE CORONA.
How is any of that “getting Varian help”??? In what world does that even REMOTELY seem like a good idea?
Honestly, I should have expected as much but I’d hoped for better after his “character arc” at the end of season 1. But with Fred’s history of bad decision making I can’t really be surprised.
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Eugene’s ancestors were like:
“Hey! There’s this deadly opal that will probably kill anyone who comes across it. Let’s build a kingdom around it!!!”