Man, I Was Watching The Movie And The Entire Time I Was Thinking "Wow. This Would've Been So Much More

Man, I was watching the movie and the entire time I was thinking "Wow. This would've been so much more satisfying in the show" because the show has earned it. The show's writing is far from perfect, it has many, many flaws, but my god is it far better than Miraculous Awakening will ever be. And I'll tell you why.

I will preface by saying, yes, an hour and a half movie has way less time than a TV show with several episodes to build up characters and relationships, so time constraints will make it so we may not get as much depth in the on-screen relationships.

You know what, though? The time they spent playing mediocre songs could've been used better to show us all the things the songs had to outright tell us. Cause that was the problem.

The movie sure liked telling us how the characters were feeling. It rarely showed it. Like could you tell me why movie Marinette liked Adrien? Because I couldn't. What did he do to earn her affection beside look pretty? Why did we only get a montage of them getting closer instead of actually seeing it? Or how we never really see much of Gabriel and Adrien's struggles with the loss of Emilie, we simply get glimpses. How am I supposed to feel anything when Gabriel stops being Hawk Moth when this movie showed us literally nothing of their strained relationship? And then there's Gabriel's claim that he did absolutely everything to get Emilie back. No he didn't. He did actually nothing. He freed a couple of criminals and then akumatized himself. That's it. That's all he did.

Could you tell me why Alya decided to befriend Marinette? Could you tell me why Adrien "who decided not to get close to anyone" was friends with Nino? Could you tell me why Chloe was so confident Adrien had any interest in her when they never actually interacted?

And then there wasnt enough explanation on how anything that we should've been told worked. Could anyone really tell me how these versions of the miraculous work? Or why Master Fu was in possession of them? Or why they really chose their holders? Could you tell me if the kwami had much personality and were necessary?

Like, I will say, there were funny moments, the animation was nice, and there were cool set pieces, but where was the substance?? It was nonexistent. If you don't watch the show, would you know or feel anything for what was going on in this movie?

Cause even for me, who does watch the show, I didn't.

Think about this. The show has even faked out multiple reveals to me and every time I was hyped and screaming, I have read fanfiction of these same to characters falling in love and confessing every which way and I've swooned, but we get reveals and love confessions that are real and permanent in this movie and I felt. Nothing.

It's okay if yall disagree with me, but I just needed to get this off my chest. I'm hard on this movie because I wanted it to be good because I love the characters and story from the show.

scott says trans rights!

Fanfic writers who write in past tense unite!!

Interesting… I’m going to now write stories where people just lie and give awful advice to the main character, not because they actually think it’s helpful in any way, but because they are just a shitty person :) (in a “/j I knew you would figure it out” kind of way)

Friends in fanfic always give the main characters such wise, sage advice. “You’re just scared” “Tell him how you feel” “You should talk to him”. Where are the friends giving shitty advice? I want to read about dumb friends who are as clueless as the protagonist — “keep your feelings to yourself, mate,” shit like that

there's this concensus I've seen around aspecs and smut and I'm curious. so

don't like smut = avoid it, filter it out, skip smutty scenes in bigger stories etc

don't mind it = if it's like part of a long fic you're reading, for example, but you wouldn't necessarily seek it out on your own

actively chooses = willingly reading or looking up smut fics for the purpose of smut

if you wanna elaborate on anything (for example ik it's like a common joke that aces like particularly raunchy or kinky smut but i ran out of poll options to check these specifics) please go right ahead!

and of course, reblog to reach more people if you can!

I’m tempted to make my own 40 minute video essay just to explain the actual concepts and metaphors that can be taken from the series

matpat never touch good media again challenge

like

did he just miss the entire point? did he not care? was the in-depth and beautiful metaphor of the chains content creators are put in not click bait enough? “he’s the founder”, that’s the classic “oh, WE’RE the villain” shtick game theory always pulls because it’s easy, lazy, and makes money.

i’m sorry i’m so genuinely pissed at matpat clearly only making this video for views. there was no love for the project. no thought about ranboo, and how the ENTIRE POINT of generation loss was also him showing us how fucking impossible it is for them to escape the old content they made, and be seen for what their current life reflects.

this “theory” is a shitty head canon at best. no basis in fact. it’s like he didn’t even watch genloss.

i’m genuinely upset over this i cannot with matpat.

-aries(/mateo/mark)