#also let's ignore that Lila isn't actually a master manipulator

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I think the problem wasn't the advice itself, but, like a lot of things in this show, the execution.

I'm not sure that I agree, because I really don't see how Adrien's advice was good. If you'd like to explain why it might've been good advice, I'll gladly listen. Here's what I think:

The way the dialogue was framed (I assume that's what you mean by execution) gave off the impression of Adrien being the wise one and Marinette having to listen to him. The narrative doesn't treat Adrien's advice as his opinion and much rather as a fact that exposing Lila would be bad because "Making people suffer won't turn them into good people" and Marinette is in the wrong for wanting Lila to face consequences, for example in the form of loosing trust from the class. So the message of the episode is "Don't try exposing bad people or calling them out because is makes them sad lol just keep suffering"

This directly contradicts "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing", which for me makes more sense and just fits the series better. Half the show is two teenagers fighting an evil terrorist, they actively do something so that evil won't triumph. Like, fighting HM/SM/Monarch won't make him a good guy, so why bother anyway? Oh right, because he causes suffering. So why should the case with Lila be any different? Adrien is portrayed to have a strong sense of justice, yet still he's willing to let Lila get away. And it somewhat makes sense for him to think that way, because Adrien, at that point, was very forgiving and tried to see the best in people like Lila or Chloe, even if it meant his friends were being lied to. But just because he thinks that way doesn't mean he's right about it. Especially because a few episodes later, Lila manages to get Marinette expelled. Adrien said to do nothing, so Marinette did nothing and it came back to bite her. Marinette faces undeserved consequences for the lack of action because of Adrien's advice. At this point, nobody can argue that this was actually the right thing to do. And even after that, Lila was able to further wrap the class around her finger and became class representative. So yeah, Adrien's advice didn't have any positive outcome and that's why I think it wasn't good.

Also, regardless of the advice, I like that Adrien is actually questioning the way he saw things in the past and that he might've changed his view on things. I want his character to grow and develop, the reason I dislike him is that he didn't do that. I've already made posts how I didn't like how a lot of his issues were just brushed off and magically don't exist anymore, so having him admit that he thinks he had made a wrong decision back then is something that I can appreciate.

#ask #anon #ml salt #adrien salt #for the sake of keeping the post spoiler free I'm ignoring what I know will happen from the leaks #I wanted to make some dumb comments here and there but decided against it #also let's ignore that Lila isn't actually a master manipulator #I just went with what the show wants us to believe #when in reality I think Lila might be a zombie who ate everyone's brains and that's why they're so fucking stupid around her #I mean who knows at this point