So some people - and you know who you are! - got me into watching Miraculous Ladybug

[conuly]

and now I have opinions about this show, and only 95% of those opinions are "Why the hell do they not air these episodes in some sort of sensible order?"

I'm not going to go wholly in-depth with all the rest of my opinions except one: seriously, I think the best way to teach our supervillain to be careful what he wishes for is to just fucking let him win. It won't make him happy, and I will laugh myself silly when that happens, even if it means his secondary love interest dies.

It's honestly the only way he'll ever learn.

Actually, his stated motivation is pretty relatable, and I do kinda feel that if he'd just stop monologuing enough to tell people what he wants, the city would be pretty sympathetic to him. But then again, people are usually crap at knowing what their true motivations are, especially in fiction. Maybe his true motivation is a deep and abiding love of eeeeeeeeeeevil.

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[grav_ity]

I love this show SO MUCH, and I am sad that Netflix doesn't have the whole thing, because I will never know how/if it ends.

But then again, people are usually crap at knowing what their true motivations are, especially in fiction.

I think that's...the show? Like, many of the time the people who get akumatized are legitimately stressed out teenagers, and talking them through it is how they get the thing out.

I cannot believe I remembered the word "akumatized".

Oh, Hawkmoth. Actual disaster villain.

ANYWAY this stupid show. I love it so much. Bless the ninth grader who, at a book club pizza lunch, said "I love your tumblr, and you need to watch this show".

[conuly]

Okay, well, I'm not going to say that it's trivially easy to find free streams of episodes online and only about half of them are fansubbed from Portuguese, but I'm not going to not say that either.

[alexseanchai]

all episodes aired to date have aired in English and can be watched Several places (the legal place for S4 is Disney Plus; the useful place, though install an adblocker first if you haven't already, is miraculous.to)

this is only going to be true till Tuesday, but the episode airing in Brazil on Tuesday airs on Disney US on Saturday, and the four episodes after that will air the four Saturdays after that; they seem actually determined to air S5 in order everywhere

(of course, the world premiere of 5x05 is the day after the same network premieres 5x08, but I'll only have to vanish from Tumblr and Twitter a few days in order to watch in order, since there will be fansubs; everything we know about air dates is on allthemiraculous)

[grav_ity]

This is all very good to know, thank you.

Disney+ is infuriatingly different in Canada (*weeps for Owlhouse*), but we'll get there eventually!