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trishmishtree · 6 years

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Live-tumbling my reaction to ml season 2 episode 16 (Troublemaker)

(Spoilers and salt below)

With the way Penny is getting pulled left and right, it’s really no surprise who the villain will be.

Wait, is Rolling Stone an actual ship? I thought it was an ml crack thing.

I have never liked Marinette’s English voice. And here it still sounds like a grown woman plugging her nose and badly imitating a kid (i.e. it’s squeaky and annoying as ever). I try to keep my complaining about this particular issue to a minimum, but it’s really distracting today.

“She did the cover for my latest album”--is this “latest album” the same as the one he’s just now releasing? Or is he releasing a brand new one? I need to know for timeline purposes!

Hey remember that time in Gigantitan when Marinette got all her female friends together and they were scheming to get her and her crush together, except she thought none of them knew it was Adrien but they all did because they weRE ALL IN HER ROOM WHERE SHE HANGS UP A GAZILLION PICTURES OF ADRIEN ON THE WALLS? WHAAAAAAAT? HOW DID THEY EVER GUESS??????

Well, clearly she never learned.

(Also, secondhand embarrassment is not a substitute for good writing.)

(Though we really shouldn’t expect this to go anywhere because the writers are milking the love square for all it’s worth while writing off their feelings for each other as a joke anyway.)

I don’t get it. Wasn’t this supposed to be a reality show (i.e. the type of thing that you don’t broadcast live because it needs to go through post)? Or was that the plan that Penny canceled in favor of getting Jagged to do that bit in Tom’s bakery? Why was it live? Why did it need to be live?

I skipped the akuma-creating scene because it’s always recycled footage and Hawkmoth’s English voice is also stupid. Probably didn’t miss anything there.

Cool, she phases through things.

I’m sure Marinette freaking out would be cute and funny in another dub, but I just CAN’T STAND her English voice.

Sabine’s voice is a little too young sounding, too.

“Sure your bakery isn’t build on an ancient cemetery?” lol

Troublemaker’s motive isn’t exactly clear to me. Who is she mad at? Jagged? Bob? Alec? Mari? Or is she just fucking things up for shits and giggles?

Since she’s phasing through things and apparently invisible and everyone thinks it’s an angry ghost, they really should have called her Poltergeist instead.

“Let me take care of this, it’ll be a piece of cake” *grooooooaaaaannnnnn*

This is hardly the first time they’ve had to fight a villain in Marinette’s room (remember the Puppeteer?), so I don’t get why this Marinette’s-a-creepy-stalker issue wasn’t addressed earlier. (Though, Ladybug isn’t exactly in the wrong for snapping at Chat Noir to focus on the job and stop snooping around.)

Sure, just stand around and shout out your plan for anyone to hear when you’re fighting a villain who can tuRN INVISIBLE.

Oh, cool, I never noticed that Troublemaker has to click her pen in order to turn immaterial.

I guess the transformation drops faster if the wielder of the miraculous wants it to drop, and it drops slower if the wielder is fighting to keep it? But that doesn’t make any sense because Lady Wifi knocked Chat Noir’s ring off when he fell in the freezer, and he detransformed instantly. Maybe it’s just a Ladybug thing? or just bad writing again. And where was Tikki? Ladybug lost the earring against her will, so Tikki should have fallen out. And the detransformation always loses the mask LAST, so why was half her mask coming off before the rest of her suit?

Ladybug’s miraculous is a stud earring. There’s supposed to be a clip-on button thing in the back keeping it in place. I’m pretty sure you can’t remove them by just pulling them off, unless you want to tear someone’s earlobe or it’s one of those stick-on earrings for kids.

...speaking of stick-on earrings......

That was actually pretty clever. Now make sure to re-apply that superglue regularly so both their miraculouses will stop falling off/getting taken at inopportune times. If the masks are magically stuck on, then I don’t see why the miraculouses can’t be glued on either. (”Sorry Hawkmoth, sir, I couldn’t get their miraculouses because they’re glued on!” is one way to prevent Hawkmoth from getting the “ultimate power,” I guess.)

“The girl of my dreams.” Ok, I knew that line was coming (thanks for not tagging your spoilers, assholes), but it wasn’t as bad as I expected.

^This was sweet and all, but can the English VAs please stop it with the weird moaning/grunting noises?

The voices are still annoying, but now I’m even more annoyed by the weird pauses in dialogue. There’s probably only a half second’s pause, but it just feels off, or stilted and unnatural.

Can Adrien materializing behind Marinette’s locker when it’s impossible for him to get there be the new running gag in the show?

(Speaking of running gags, you know what we haven’t seen in a while? Mari the phone thief. I miss her.)

So Marinette brushed it off as “I’m really into fashion [implied: your dad’s designs are where I get my inspiration]” and Adrien brushed it off as “I guess that means we’re really good friends!” :D

I don’t know if the fandom is upset that Adrien finding about all those pictures didn’t lead to any Adrienette development or Reveal™, but I’m honestly fine with that. Probably because I pretty much expected it to go down that way, seeing as the writing for this season isn’t that great and I know they want to drag out the love square gag for as long as they can, but Marinette’s crush on Adrien and Adrien’s crush on Ladybug are still too idealized and shallow anyway.

Overall, I’m giving this episode a 7/10. It was not as dumb as I was afraid it was going to be, but the villain’s design and concept were lazy and the voice acting was too cringey to ignore. Will re-evaluate the rating after the French dub comes out.

Also, Mari really should take down the most egregious pictures and keep them on her phone or in that diary box, where no one else can access them. That, or put up more pictures of all her other friends.

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