I wanna start by saying that I know this episode was exactly the right cup of tea for some of y'all and I am aware that my opinion is not universal.
But let's just list the issues (again, from my POV): -Time travel, unless done absolutely perfectly is KNOWN for being a cheap, empty plot point by TV writers. It's known for this, and yet this show has given us multiple episodes with this kind of teasing. Once? Okay you got it out of your system. Every season now? No. You're done. You want an example? Dr Who. Dr Who is all about time travel, except it's not. Because the Doctor doesn't control it, he ends up where he's supposed to be to do something that he needs to do because the universe wants him to be there to do the thing. He can't go back and save people, and it creates constant issues in the Doctor's plot and it's awesome.
-How Gabriel discovers who Cat Noir says is just stupid. I won't argue that point because it just is. CN & LB are literally the hottest things in Paris rn, Adrian saying "my lady" could literally just be a thing the kids are saying now for all he knows. Moronic, oversimplified, rush job of something that would have been much better as an ark.
-Continuing on that last one: How much better would that have been if he'd heard that and just gone "huh.... that's weird... could he be? Could I be such an oblivious father that I just.... completely failed to notice my own son is Cat Noir? No! ...Well.... No no no, I'm a great father I'd have noticed" and then have him struggle with that in the future season? There's other ways to do it but that was just an example.
-As mentioned before, this episode felt empty and rushed for something that should have made me feel..... something emotional. ESPECIALLY the moment where LB reveals herself to him (something else that would have made a great inner turmoil arc). It felt like a cheap cash tease that I'm sure in France was filled with commercials that made it look like they were FINALLY gonna be together.
I want to add that I think the writers think we all want them to discover who the other one is but a lot of us don't want that. If they do and it makes for good story then that's great but that isn't the main thing most of us want. We just want them to be the amazing couple they will clearly one day be. How they get to that specific plot wise doesn't matter as much as getting them to open up and communicate in general. So when you wrap up an episode like this with them still making zero progress towards that then folks like me get sick of this.
For those of you feeling the pain and frustration of this episode I recommend the Chinese Drama O2O. It's a great palette cleanser of simplicity to give you what you're wanting out of Miraculous rn.
But let's just list the issues (again, from my POV): -Time travel, unless done absolutely perfectly is KNOWN for being a cheap, empty plot point by TV writers. It's known for this, and yet this show has given us multiple episodes with this kind of teasing. Once? Okay you got it out of your system. Every season now? No. You're done. You want an example? Dr Who. Dr Who is all about time travel, except it's not. Because the Doctor doesn't control it, he ends up where he's supposed to be to do something that he needs to do because the universe wants him to be there to do the thing. He can't go back and save people, and it creates constant issues in the Doctor's plot and it's awesome.
-How Gabriel discovers who Cat Noir says is just stupid. I won't argue that point because it just is. CN & LB are literally the hottest things in Paris rn, Adrian saying "my lady" could literally just be a thing the kids are saying now for all he knows. Moronic, oversimplified, rush job of something that would have been much better as an ark.
-Continuing on that last one: How much better would that have been if he'd heard that and just gone "huh.... that's weird... could he be? Could I be such an oblivious father that I just.... completely failed to notice my own son is Cat Noir? No! ...Well.... No no no, I'm a great father I'd have noticed" and then have him struggle with that in the future season? There's other ways to do it but that was just an example.
-As mentioned before, this episode felt empty and rushed for something that should have made me feel..... something emotional. ESPECIALLY the moment where LB reveals herself to him (something else that would have made a great inner turmoil arc). It felt like a cheap cash tease that I'm sure in France was filled with commercials that made it look like they were FINALLY gonna be together.
I want to add that I think the writers think we all want them to discover who the other one is but a lot of us don't want that. If they do and it makes for good story then that's great but that isn't the main thing most of us want. We just want them to be the amazing couple they will clearly one day be. How they get to that specific plot wise doesn't matter as much as getting them to open up and communicate in general. So when you wrap up an episode like this with them still making zero progress towards that then folks like me get sick of this.
For those of you feeling the pain and frustration of this episode I recommend the Chinese Drama O2O. It's a great palette cleanser of simplicity to give you what you're wanting out of Miraculous rn.
