Bang up to date – twice!

I've now completed a second watch-through of every episode of Miraculous to have aired thus far, which is to say all of S1 and S2, plus the premiere of S3. I decided to do this as it's a rather different experience watching the show when you already know what's coming. For example, I could pick up on things that I didn't know first time around, such as which villains would be making a second appearance, who was going to get Miraculouses¹ and – of course – Hawk Moth's real identity. There's a little foreshadowing here and there, too.

I thought I might find some of S1 rather tiresome this time, given that it's almost pure villain-of-the-week stuff with very little lore revealed. There are exceptions, the first being "The Pharaoh", but not many. As things turned out, though, I still had fun, as the akumatisations are generally pretty imaginative. What I would say is that S1 feels like a slightly simpler, less mature show, and there are relatively few of the big emotional hits you get later on. The balcony scene in "Glaciator", for example, couldn't possibly have worked in the first season.

I'm intending to take a short break from watching the show over the festive period, unless of course S3E02 is suddenly sprung on us! What I may do at some point early next year is begin a third watch-through – and, this time, write about it here. Nothing major, just a paragraph or so for each episode, and probably a single screenshot of something that catches my eye. Like the rest of this blog, they'll be written on the assumption that readers are fully up-to-date, so spoilers will not be marked. You have been warned!

¹ I'll generally use "Miraculous" as both singular and plural, as is the norm in the English dub (at least in S2), but there will be occasions – as here – when I feel that using "Miraculouses" makes things clearer. I don't intend to get hung up about it, so will go with whatever seems best at the time.