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i’m fucking livid over the cancellation of ofmd3.
it doesn’t even make sense for them to cancel it. ofmd broke streaming records for HBO max. it was one of the top shows of 2023 despite coming out in october. there was official merchandise and a huge advertising campaign (which i remember VERY vividly because i was sick before it came out and i was passed out on the couch for a solid week, waking up several times a day to “no, we’re on a break”).
it’s obvious what’s happening. this is what happens when writers don’t queerbait; the studios do it. they love our money and viewership, but they hate US as people. david jenkins and the rest of the team behind ofmd gave us an unashamedly queer story, and now that we’ve lined HBO’s pockets, it’s getting kicked to the curb.
the ending of season two was a “just in case” ending, which was appreciated, but i feel like everyone thought it was a given for there to be a season three. sure, season two wasn’t as good as the first one, but most of that was a pacing issue that wouldn’t have been there if HBO Max didn’t cut the budget and season length. already looks pretty sabotagey to me. not to be tinhatting about this, but that’s hella fuckin suspicious. trying to tank the ratings so they’d have an excuse to cancel the show.
but after years of sherlock levels of queerbait, we were fine with it. ofmd2 was good even with all the cuts and restrictions. of course it could’ve been better, but we all know why it wasn’t, and now we all know why we won’t have an ending.
i was scared for the finale to come out. i thought they were gonna massacre half the characters, rocky horror style. a whole “this is what happens when you’re queer” hayes code era twist. but of course that didn’t happen, the writers love us and their show too much for that. i always have seen that people like us don’t get happy endings, but for a moment, we did. and then we didn’t.
doesn’t that make you viscerally ill? we were given a show that treats queerness as a given, not as some tragic odd-one-out character development thing, depicts relationship dynamics we never thought we’d see on tv, and celebrates all of us. we were profited off of, which is okay as long as that profit is going toward the people who made this for us, and a lot of it did. then, the executives who platformed the show to get into our untapped consumer market rip it all away. they have our stats and subscription, that’s all they wanted.
the thing is, they could’ve had more. they could’ve just let us be and profited even further off of a third season, but something about us is just too much for them. it’s sick. it’s bigoted. it’s infuriating.
this keeps happening. remember when I’m Not Okay With This got canceled on a cliffhanger? and for what? the show got great viewership, an active fanbase, and people willing to stay subscribed to netflix for another season. it wasn’t even corporate greed of not wanting to cough up the production costs. they would’ve made a whole bunch of money if it was renewed. their bigotry was stronger than their corporate greed.
they hate us that much. enough to manufacture a tragic ending. enough to not rake in more profits just to get us off of their roster. i may be a bit dramatic about this but god DAMN it sure does feel intentional.
why can't i just write happy poetry..
Does Marinette Have a Crush on Cat Noir?
I was thinking about Cat Noir’s ridiculous and failed attempts to kiss Ladybug in Prime Queen. I remarked that Cat would be better off turning his attention to Marinette, oddly enough. Afterwards I realized that my comment stemmed from the balcony scene in Glaciator. Looking deeper at the scene, I noticed similarities between it and another: Luka’s introduction in Captain Hardrock. Because of these similarities, I believe that Marinette might be crushing on Cat Noir as well, meaning she’s torn between not two but three boys (though really only two).
Glaciator starts off with Ladybug refusing a not-date with Cat Noir to hang out with friends, but mostly Adrien who doesn’t show up because he still hopes Ladybug will come for their not-date. Marinette is upset that Adrien doesn’t come, and so goes out on her balcony to think/sulk. When Cat, who is also upset, sees this, he joins her. Marinette opens up to Cat Noir because she feels badly about standing him up (though she really didn’t) and Cat tries to make her feel better in turn. This is a sweet bonding moment for the pair as they are probably the most honest with each other that they’ve ever been, in either of their identities. In Captain Hardrock, Adrien once again is unable to hang out with his friends--though this time it’s because his dad is being a jerk. Marinette is upset and, even worse, starts to believe that maybe she and he aren’t meant to be. While in this vulnerable state, she meets Luka. While she doesn’t open up to him like she did Cat, Luka still goes out of his way to comfort her. This moment is important for Marinette and Luka because Luka was there for Marinette when she needed someone, even though they were practically strangers at the time (Juleka might have talked about Marinette, but Luka had never met her before). Both of these episodes involve Marinette being troubled by Adrien’s absence and someone coming to her aid while she was down.
These similarities are part of the reason I say that Marinette has a crush on Cat, the other being her behaviour to him during and afterwards. During the scene, Cat takes Marinette to the balcony he had set up for his and Ladybug’s not-date.
Both of their expressions say a lot here, but I’m just going to focus on Marinette’s. She’s comfortable with Cat Noir. He’s her partner; she trusts him with her life, though he doesn’t know that of course. But the way she smiles is telling. I’ve never seen her smile like that for Alya or Nino or any of her other friends. This is a smile reserved for Adrien (and eventually Luka). Throughout the rest of the season, Ladybug seems to respond to Cat’s flirting a lot more, even calling herself his lady at one point (Befana: “Fighting evil with his lady.”). Then there’s Zombizou. Not only does she seem more distressed when Cat gets ‘bitten’ than when she’d though Adrien was a zombie--which could be brushed off by saying the episode had put Ladybug through the emotional wringer by that point and he’d sacrificed himself for her once again--but they’re this line: “Don’t worry Kitty, you’ll get your kisses.” Now, nothing comes of this in the episodes, but that still seems like something odd to say when Cat Noir probably isn’t going to remember anything that happened. From my own experience, whenever I’m comforting an animal (slightly different as they don’t understand what I’m saying instead of just not remembering it), I say things that assure me more often than not, as I know it doesn’t matter what I say to them.
None of us can really know for sure until either the creators say something or Marinette admits it, so I could be wrong. However, because of the similarities between the balcony scene with Cat and Luka’s introduction along with how Marinette acts around Cat now, I would not be surprised if Marinette has a crush on Cat Noir as well as Luka and Adrien.