Miraculous Watch-through 3: "Lady Wifi" and "Timebreaker"

It's been a few days, so let's get back to my watch-through of Season One of Miraculous Ladybug. Once again, I'll be looking at two episodes this time – and once again, these are not intended as full reviews, but rather some comments on things I found interesting, significant or just plain amusing. As ever, the S1 DVD from the UK is guiding my episode order, so the next episode will be...

S1E04: Lady Wifi

"But... but... I thought 'Fanfic' was just the name of an akuma victim!"

It's been a while coming, but at last we have some reasonably extensive scenes in Miss Bustier's classroom, where Alya is still obsessed with finding out who Ladybug really is. This time around, she becomes convinced it's Chloé. Oh dear;  as Plagg "helpfully" points out to Adrien, "It means you must have a crush on Chloé!" Adrien looks suitably unimpressed with this. And thanks to the student we all love to hate, we also get to meet the bizarrely-named Mr Damocles this time too, as well as Chloé's dad the city's rather bumbling Mayor.

Lady Wifi's powers are interesting, and had it not been for Ladybug's magic mask (yay, more lore!) she'd have unmasked Marinette fairly easily. LW even, albeit temporarily, heads off the threat of a Cataclysm. Cat Noir himself veers between awkward clumsiness when he loses his ring in the cold room and awkward curiosity about Ladybug's secret identity. The latter leads him to come oh so close to discovering the truth, and Alya's phone filters near the end could easily have blown the gaff entirely! Plenty to chew on this time round.

Quote: Ladybug to Tikki: "But you don't have any toes!" Those two are so adorable together.

S1E05: Timebreaker

Once you see Kim as an Angry Birds character, you can't unsee it

One of the more complicated of the early S1 episodes now, with things getting as confusing as they usually do when time travel is involved. An interesting little snippet: Marinette's parents have been married 20 years. As for Alix, it's her 15th birthday. Odd, given she's in Miss Bustier's class with Marinette, who at this point hasn't turned 14 yet! Not sure if this is an Annoying Dub Thing like "tenth grade" was. The Kubdel family is definitely one to watch, though, given their involvement in "The Pharaoh". I mean, come on, you can't show an ancient holographic watch like that and not mean it to return in the future, surely? As for Kim, he's a fairly dull character at this point.

Alix has serious justification for being so upset before she's akumatised, too. I quite like Timebreaker's design, and she's a pretty dangerous villain – all the more so when she teams up with, er, herself. I mean, she basically kills Cat Noir when he throws himself in front of Ladybug, though Ladybug rescues him. We also get two Ladybugs, though one of her is still Marinette at first. My brain hurts. Maybe Cat Noir has the right idea in just grinning like an idiot. Interesting that their Lucky Charms don't produce identical items. Also, there's a cake shaped like the Eiffel Tower, because clearly we don't see enough of the Eiffel Tower in this show. Oh, and Alya? You could have at least tried to fit the watch in your jeans pocket!

Quote: Hawk Moth: "Do I see double vision in my future? Or should I say double villain?" I had to stop the video for a minute because I couldn't see for laughing.

Next time, I'll be talking about the glory that is "Mr. Pigeon". Oh, and "Evillustrator".