Chat Noir Is THE BEST Character In Miraculous. No, Nothing Can Change My Mind. He's THE Most Interesting

Chat Noir is THE BEST character in Miraculous. No, nothing can change my mind. He's THE most interesting character in this show. And yes, he deserves better.

“you’re just mad your grumpy fave wasn’t there to glare at everyone”

No, I’m mad that this show doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. What is The Bad Batch doing? What is their end goal? What is this season slowly working towards? I can appreciate a slow burn when I can get some idea of what it’s building up to, but literally what is the end destination for The Bad Batch? Like yeah, the Clone Wars had filler episodes but it also had self contained multi-episode arcs and we knew it was going to all lead up to the end of the war, Order 66, and the rise of the Empire. But what is the Bad Batch doing? It doesn’t seem to be going anywhere and we don’t even know if it’s gonna get more than one season.

We all thought they’d make the end goal getting Crosshair back, especially after they seemed to be pushing it so heavily in the first 3 episodes, but now the Batch don’t seem to care about him at all. Out of 13 episodes, Crosshair has been in like 5 and one of those was only for literally a minute. You separated him from the Batch for… what? The angst? They don’t seem that broken up about it. Because Crosshair is gonna do something important with the Emprie? He’s barely been on screen. And we know the squad is not going to fight the Empire or help the rebellion because Hunter has said they’re not interested in that to both Rex and the Syndullas when offered. So what exactly are they doing? Protecting a Omega from the Kaminoans? Cool. We haven’t heard anything about the Kaminoans in multiple episodes. Figuring out what Omega’s purpose is? Nothing. Just trying to survive Imperial rule? Great. So is the rest of the galaxy. Why are you showing us their story specifically?

I can appreciate a slow burn as much as anyone, and I don’t mind filler episodes (I think more shows these days should have them), but you still have to be careful of moving too slow or else interest in your project is going to fizzle and die out before you actually get to the bits you’ve been building up to. And it’s even worse with The Bad Batch because we as an audience don’t know what the heck you’re trying to build up to. Every time we think we’ve figure it out, a new episode comes and changes the direction. This show has no direction.

So yeah, obviously I’m sad when my favorite character isn’t in an episode, but mainly I’m getting tired of the way every episode only gives us half an inch of plot, character development for Hunter and Omega while Wrecker, Tech, and Echo are just kinda… there, and Crosshair offscreen somewhere being vaguely “eeeeeviiiiilll” when we have absolutely no idea if the story is supposed to continue after one season or not. Every time they’ve set up what could be considered a “main plotline” they then completely ignore it for 4-5 episodes. At this point I really hope they do get another season because I don’t see all those loose ends tying up in a satisfying way in 3 episodes.

anakin skywalker: a summary

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THIS PARALLEL DOES NOT GET ENOUGH CREDIT. Obi-Wan, in being unable to kill Anakin, because he could never do it, he could never force himself to make that last stroke to end Anakin’s life, he just could not do it, feels as though he let the Emperor win because of it. Luke faces exactly the same situation and it isn’t that Obi-Wan is saying that Luke has to kill him (George Lucas was explicitly clear on that he had to be ready to do it, if Vader tried to kill him, not that he absolutely had to, that’s not what Obi-Wan and Yoda were saying), but that he has to be ready for it to be a possibility that will come up. Obi-Wan himself failed at accepting that possibility, even when he went to Mustafar to face down Anakin, to beat him in that fight, even able to cut off his limbs.  But he genuinely could not kill Anakin and because of this Vader lived and went on to hurt, kill, or enslave millions of people in the galaxy, because of this, the Emperor won.  Because Obi-Wan couldn’t set aside his feelings in the moment that was most crucial, even when there was no other way around that Mustafar confrontation.  Yoda was right, he couldn’t have faced Sidious, either. And the reason Luke can succeed where Obi-Wan couldn’t, where Padme couldn’t, where Ahsoka couldn’t, is because Anakin cannot face what he’s done and live with it, he cannot face the look on Obi-Wan’s face, on Padme’s face, on Ahsoka’s face, when they know him, when they knew who he was, when they know what he’d done.  Even if they forgive him, they’ll always see who he had been and how he fell and Anakin can’t make peace with that and live.  But Luke only sees the future, he doesn’t know much of the past, he only knows that there’s still light in Anakin.  And Anakin can let go because he doesn’t have to face how far he’d fallen from the person he once had been, not and still live. This was a miracle and one that nobody was happier about than Obi-Wan, but his advice isn’t wrong either, from his experience.  His inability to face the truth of Anakin’s fall and the consequences of it, his inability to let go of his feelings for Anakin, is what allowed Darth Vader to live.  Darth Vader made his own choices, nobody is responsible for them but him, but Obi-Wan certainly feels the weight of, if he had killed Anakin then, if he had been able to do that when Anakin forced his hand, then they wouldn’t be in as bad of a situation as they are now. And that makes sense from his point of view–and, had Anakin been unwilling to let go of his own hate and rage, had Anakin been unwilling to give up his own life for Luke’s, it’s entirely possible that Sidious would have deep fried Luke and the galaxy would have been in his clutches still yet, the Emperor would have won again.  If Obi-Wan couldn’t stop Anakin, if Padme couldn’t stop Anakin, if Ahsoka couldn’t stop Anakin, it’s entirely reasonable that Obi-Wan would think Luke couldn’t stop Anakin, either. Because Obi-Wan knows who Anakin was, Obi-Wan loved him, and he knows exactly how those feelings can be used against you and evil will triumph.

Ahsoka sees Anakin

(Not ship art!)