#fix fics

Like I steer clear of those sorts of videos in general because of how I often come out thinking, "Wow, way to miss the point of XYZ element," or, "I feel like I'm being summerized a fairly interesting fanfic that they could be pouring this passion into." It's a spectrum.

But a lot of them tend to lean towards the former. It's not that they "miss the point" and that they cannot possible critique it period but more in the case of:

-deleting whole characters rather than looking into how they could work. I think Miraculous has a good supporting cast while grounding the show with Marinette and knowing not to overwhelm too much at once even when it's a class effort.

Furthermore, they give Marinette's slice of Paris a firm identity. It ties in with my stanning of Steven Universe's Townies since, well, it's all well and good to save the world but we should get a firm idea of the world being saved first or it feels like just an empty sandbox.

Now one could argue how they could be expanded upon more without crowding things like, say, a Ladybug-lite episode that had them deal with their own problems and an Akuma attack before back-up from the Guardian arrives.

-treating character's flaws and mistakes made by them as problems in and of themselves, trying to sandblast their edges rather than embrace them as humans just like us. Look, call Marinette a stalker all you want but I'd prefer somebody took that and explored it from a different angle I may disagree with rather than do away with it.

My post speaks of this at length: https://matt0044.tumblr.com/post/773298817057587200/yeah-im-not-comfortable-with-the-way-stalker

-Chloe's redemption arc sticks the landing? Okay. But I feel it'd be more interesting to look at the reversal in Season 3 and try to understand where the narrative was going with it before thinking, "How could this've worked better?"

-Maybe Season 1's plot could've been more linear with some episodes informing the events of others more directly. However, I do feel like discarding the episodic format would nerf how Miraculous has stuck around for so long. Each episode being its own thing makes for rewatching just select stories rather than whole seasons easy rather than adhering to the made for streaming model.

My point is that some feel like they're cheating with less of a "fix" and more of an "overhaul" that's hung up over what Miraculous isn't rather than what it is. I often muse about rewriting a certain Power Rangers season myself but I often go for a "Take the existing elements and see how they can mesh from your execution" approach.