#is it too much to asked for depressed and abused adrien to find some joy and love

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Might delete this later ... but I need to rant

I really love this show but it honestly feels like it's just... the shenanigans and angst keep escalating and there doesn't seem to be any hope of even smaller plot lines being tied up along the way...

Like sure, if there's one, two maybe even three major plot lines that's fine but give us small victories along the way? Give us a Chloe redemption arc, let Marinette get over her stutter, just give us something

No I don't count Alya finding out because it once again added more problems than it solved.

Maybe I shouldn't be comparing but once all the Adrien!sentimonster stuff (which honestly I thought was some crazy headcannon that i didn't hate just didn't think it would work with the show) started to show up in cannon... it gave me the strongest flash backs to teen me reading the Mazerunner and Divergent book series' and never finishing them because?? They just took such wild and sudden turns that it really put me off?

Don't get me wrong, if sent!Adrien is legit so be it but I feel like it could be worked in better... the weight of such a development looming on the horizon would be really interesting if we knew that Adrien knew he had a support team (ladybug/Marinette) who would understand and support Adrien through that.

Idk maybe I can't call it "bad writing", maybe its just personal preference. But my opinion is that a story should give and take.

Where's the identity reveal that makes Marinette realise that them dating in previous timelines is what resulted in catastrophe so they can know but not date... we get a bigger support for both of them, a closer team built on trust but it leads to mutual pining and constant emotional restraint.

Where's the result of all Chloe's set up for character development? She got on my nerves so bad but I saw the potential for a Zuko-style redemption arc and I was holding out for that (heck even let her claw her way to redemption only to plummet back down and become a villain in her own right) but instead it feels like the show forgot about her. (Even if there's a plan to combine all these loose threads in one fell swoop.. its gotten too much now. Start. Wrapping. Up. Arcs.)

The Lila stuff, the Guardian stuff, Alya knowing before Chat Noir, all the drama around Kagami and Luka, Chloe and Zoe, Felix??, Natalie's entire character, role and motivation in all this, the backstory around Emilie... so many things getting dangled in front of the audience, so much build up only to be yanked away and fade out of focus.

It's getting to a point where I don't know if or how the build up will be resolved in any nice meaningful way. I could see Adrien getting through his fathers identity reveal because he also found out Ladybug's identity but now his entire existence may hang in the balance plus he doesn't even feel like he can trust Ladybug anymore... its too much. I don't see how the characters can come back unscathed by all this... sure some scarring is expected but its getting to a point where it feels unrealistic that they'd be able to just bounce back from this.

The chance for a believable resolution to everything is getting smaller and smaller and I honestly.. it's making it harder to stay invested...