I love miraculous... For its characters... (besides Marinette)
Plot:
Let's be honest, 6 years in and this show has gotten nowhere. Almost nothing has changed between seasons 1 and 4 besides the fact Ladybug became a guardian and more and more people are getting miraculouses... The plot is still the same focusing on Marinette crushing on Adrien, sometimes attempting to fool us, trying to make us believe she's actually going to confess to her crush but no, if she were to do so, the world would literally end! Why? Cause we gotta milk this series as much as possible am I right? The story has so much more potential than it seems, if only every episode didn't have no lasting consequences for each character. For example, Marinette humiliates Lila in front of Adrien cause she's scared Lila will take Adrien away from her, even though she and Adrien aren't a thing. At the end of the episode Marinette doesn't have any consequences to face, therefore preventing Marinette from growth. In the New York special, the heroes aren't in Paris and the city takes a lot of damage while they are away, at the end of the special no one is mad at them for not showing up to protect their city, no one seems afraid that Hawkmoth could take over Paris and possess everyone and the authorities don't seem to search for Hawkmoth a lot, no investigation is ongoing, yet in an episode, I can vividly remember a police officer telling ladybug that it wasn't a kid's job to fight crime but doesn't seem preoccupied with stopping the man responsible for all these attacks... There are so many other examples but I don't feel like going over them right now as it would take hours to write them all.
Each time a big risk is taken in an episode, one that could move the plot forward, everybody forgets by the end of the episode, so the plot doesn't go anywhere..
The miraculous aren't and will probably never be correctly explained in an interesting way.
The plot is repetitive, afraid of change and has become uninteresting.
Characters:
Marinette is a creepy, obsessed stalker, a mary-sue who ultimately has everything go her way (we all know she and Adrien will end up together at the end), no one stays mad at her even when she screws up, everyone seems to like her, she ALWAYS finds a solution to everything... She's just... Boring...
Adrien is waaaay better yet has less than one tenth of Marinette's screentime even though he's a main character, his story would be a far better focus, the drama in his family is easily the most interesting part of the show which is weird because this show is about magic and superheroes... He deserves better than Marinette.
Chloe is just as good, she had a sort of redemption arc in season 2 but got screwed over by the writers in season 3 and especially season 4 because the creator does not like her but she's waaay better than Marinette. Everyone is in this show.
Gabriel is really weird sometimes he really cares about his son and sometimes he doesn't care at all, to the point of akumatizing Adrien in some episodes. Still he's got an understable goal and tries... Maybe not his hardest but he tries... Better than Marinette...
The animation in this show is really inconsistent, some episodes look awesome, some not so much...
Overall this show is meh, but I love it for its characters besides Marinette, who unfortunately gets 99% of the screentime in this show... The fanfics are better than the show..
Plot:
Let's be honest, 6 years in and this show has gotten nowhere. Almost nothing has changed between seasons 1 and 4 besides the fact Ladybug became a guardian and more and more people are getting miraculouses... The plot is still the same focusing on Marinette crushing on Adrien, sometimes attempting to fool us, trying to make us believe she's actually going to confess to her crush but no, if she were to do so, the world would literally end! Why? Cause we gotta milk this series as much as possible am I right? The story has so much more potential than it seems, if only every episode didn't have no lasting consequences for each character. For example, Marinette humiliates Lila in front of Adrien cause she's scared Lila will take Adrien away from her, even though she and Adrien aren't a thing. At the end of the episode Marinette doesn't have any consequences to face, therefore preventing Marinette from growth. In the New York special, the heroes aren't in Paris and the city takes a lot of damage while they are away, at the end of the special no one is mad at them for not showing up to protect their city, no one seems afraid that Hawkmoth could take over Paris and possess everyone and the authorities don't seem to search for Hawkmoth a lot, no investigation is ongoing, yet in an episode, I can vividly remember a police officer telling ladybug that it wasn't a kid's job to fight crime but doesn't seem preoccupied with stopping the man responsible for all these attacks... There are so many other examples but I don't feel like going over them right now as it would take hours to write them all.
Each time a big risk is taken in an episode, one that could move the plot forward, everybody forgets by the end of the episode, so the plot doesn't go anywhere..
The miraculous aren't and will probably never be correctly explained in an interesting way.
The plot is repetitive, afraid of change and has become uninteresting.
Characters:
Marinette is a creepy, obsessed stalker, a mary-sue who ultimately has everything go her way (we all know she and Adrien will end up together at the end), no one stays mad at her even when she screws up, everyone seems to like her, she ALWAYS finds a solution to everything... She's just... Boring...
Adrien is waaaay better yet has less than one tenth of Marinette's screentime even though he's a main character, his story would be a far better focus, the drama in his family is easily the most interesting part of the show which is weird because this show is about magic and superheroes... He deserves better than Marinette.
Chloe is just as good, she had a sort of redemption arc in season 2 but got screwed over by the writers in season 3 and especially season 4 because the creator does not like her but she's waaay better than Marinette. Everyone is in this show.
Gabriel is really weird sometimes he really cares about his son and sometimes he doesn't care at all, to the point of akumatizing Adrien in some episodes. Still he's got an understable goal and tries... Maybe not his hardest but he tries... Better than Marinette...
The animation in this show is really inconsistent, some episodes look awesome, some not so much...
Overall this show is meh, but I love it for its characters besides Marinette, who unfortunately gets 99% of the screentime in this show... The fanfics are better than the show..