Talk:Chameleon/@comment-34998547-20181129032134

Well, Marinette has not straightened out Alya about Lila; if anything, things are worse than ever. Alya is buying into an arrangement to let Lila sit in the front row, while Marinette is shoved to the back. With Nino displaced from his original seat, Alya apparently chose him as her table-mate over Marinette. However, if you recall "Origins pt. 1", Nino had originally chosen a seat in the back row — so I shouldn't imagine he would generally mind sitting back there again, which would've allowed Marinette to keep her old seat. But I guess now Nino and Alya really want to be together.

And Lila has the whole class duped into sympathizing with her.

To elaborate on something I mentioned earlier, with the sneak peek it's substantiated that the shot showing that back table and bench empty when the shot zooms in on Lila and Adrien is an animation error. Marinette is definitely supposed to be sitting at that table at that point. Maybe the zoom-shot is intended to be her POV, but it shows too much, that the table back there is clearly unoccupied.

We now see that Rose and Juleka, for no apparent reason, have switched to the other table in the back vacated by Nathaniel. I imagine the real story reason for that is to put Marinette in that corner near the outside wall, so the akuma can reach her without anyone seeing it. (I suppose one could say that Rose and Juleka had wanted to sit on the inside-side before, but Nathaniel got in the way of that. But that reason has to be "invented". Marinette's placement is the only "real" reason for it.)

Back to the main issue, it would be poetic justice if the crucial element of defeating Chameleon is an illusion created by Rena Rouge!