wintermoth:

so yeah i think Zombizou is my favorite episode of the season thus far. It did fuck all for the lovesquare, didn’t introduce anyone new, but instead did great things with what we already had.

We understand Chloe a little better now. We see she can and is learning from her mistakes. She’s learning to make amends. She’s a child, a child who has been deprived of some very important things and lessons in her life. She deserves the chance to redeem herself by learning these lessons. (Thomas…s’il vous plait monsieur.)

We were given the full force of the wonderful woman that is Mme Bustier. This episode took a relatively minor, unimportant character and revealed her to be possibly one of the best characters in the show. We saw who she is to these kids, who she is to Adrien, to Chloe. We saw in her people from our own childhoods, which is why seeing her corrupted as she fought to protect Marinette struck such a blow.

We saw Chat Noir corrupted again, yes, but for the first time…he, with full knowledge of what would become of him, intentionally allowed it to happen. He chose to sacrifice himself to protect Chloe and give Ladybug the best chance at saving them all.  (The person being bitten and staying behind, knowing they’re in for a painful death followed by returning as one of undead, giving up the promise of a simple bullet to the head to end it all, in order to give their dear friend(s)/lover the chance to escape is a common zombie trope but it’s one of the more profound tragic sacrifices in the genre and they put Chat Noir in that role.) From that, we got a few brief, but powerful Ladynoir moments.

We got to see Marinette grow as a person, too. She forgave Chloe, she learned an important lesson, and she’s giving her a chance. Which now leads me to believe she will be the one to chose Chloe for the Miraculous following the lesson she learned here.

Juleka and Rose. Max and Kim. Ivan and Mylene. NINO AND ALYA.

And ofc we got to see some grade a zombie movie bullshit thrown into a 22 minute episode of a children’s cartoon.

Forget Luka. Forget Kagami. Forget the loveydovey lovesquare-centered episodes. That’s all good shit but…man this episode is VERY good and I don’t know if it’s going to get the respect it deserves when compared to other episodes in this season.