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type_wildtl;dr Yeah, if he's meant to be an explanation for Marinette's decision-making this season, they're sure not interested in getting that across to the audience.
S2: Original planned placement of episode
S3: Episode airs as one of the last episodes of the season. Thanks to time-travel and miraculous ladybugs, status quo remains at the end. Marinette uncharacteristically cuddling Cat Noir in relief in the final scene might suggest some change in her feelings for him, but this isn't followed up in later episodes. The episode is not brought up again in S3, and at no point does Marinette appear to have been mentally affected by the experience.
S4: Marinette reveals her identity to Alya, and Hawkmoth cottons on to Rena Rouge (whose identity HE knows) being special. In the final third of the seasons, Marinette repeatedly doubles down on the fact that no-one can know both her and CN's identity, since Hawkmoth would then only need that one person to get everything he wants.
"Sentibubbler": Episode is a bit past halfway through S4. Immediately after letting Alya keep Trixx permanently, Marinette is clearly having doubts about Alya's decision-making independent of her. The episode starts with a nightmare where Alya has made Marinette's idenitity public to all the world, which gets increasingly absurd until Cat Blanc shows up talking about getting married. The scene is not framed as particularly scary to the audience (again: compare it to "Oblivio" or "Cat Blanc"), and nothing in the directing and the framing recalls her actual run-in with him. Both Tikki and Alya chide Marinette for overreacting to the nightmare, and the episode is about proving them right: Alya is trustworthy and cunning and capable of keeping her miraculous safe. Marinette doesn't as much as think about Cat Noir until he shows up for battle and she's got to keep him from finding out that the Ladybug on scene is an illusion. Cat Blanc's presence in the episode is connected to Marinette's insecurities about Alya; at no point are there lines drawn between him and Cat Noir.
"Ephemeral": Adrien is once again akumatised. The only tenuous connection to "Cat Blanc" is the fact that Gabriel uses the same chain of events for akumatising him: get him while he's still reeling from the shock of Emilie's corpse and Gabriel being Hawkmoth.
"Kuro Neko": Ladybug thinks Cat Noir has been akumatised as a civillian. The only possible connection to "Cat Blanc" is her assuming that the akuma would be in the bell. There are no flashbacks or otherwise mentions made of Cat Blanc.
"Strik Back": CN calls her a pussy for refusing to learn his identity; when she brings up the aforementioned earth logic, he counters that they "can't be akumatised". She briefly recalls Cat Blanc, which she knows proves him wrong (and he doesn't, since she for whatever reason never told him about it). She does look upset at the memory, as anyone would (there's also the fact that he's clearly not comprehending how dangerous this could be). They're interrupted by Rena Furtive's activies being revealed to him and the topic not brought up again.
To borrow my own cleverness from elsewhere: Remembering that the world ended because you gave your crush a present =/= having PTSD
S2: Original planned placement of episode
S3: Episode airs as one of the last episodes of the season. Thanks to time-travel and miraculous ladybugs, status quo remains at the end. Marinette uncharacteristically cuddling Cat Noir in relief in the final scene might suggest some change in her feelings for him, but this isn't followed up in later episodes. The episode is not brought up again in S3, and at no point does Marinette appear to have been mentally affected by the experience.
S4: Marinette reveals her identity to Alya, and Hawkmoth cottons on to Rena Rouge (whose identity HE knows) being special. In the final third of the seasons, Marinette repeatedly doubles down on the fact that no-one can know both her and CN's identity, since Hawkmoth would then only need that one person to get everything he wants.
"Sentibubbler": Episode is a bit past halfway through S4. Immediately after letting Alya keep Trixx permanently, Marinette is clearly having doubts about Alya's decision-making independent of her. The episode starts with a nightmare where Alya has made Marinette's idenitity public to all the world, which gets increasingly absurd until Cat Blanc shows up talking about getting married. The scene is not framed as particularly scary to the audience (again: compare it to "Oblivio" or "Cat Blanc"), and nothing in the directing and the framing recalls her actual run-in with him. Both Tikki and Alya chide Marinette for overreacting to the nightmare, and the episode is about proving them right: Alya is trustworthy and cunning and capable of keeping her miraculous safe. Marinette doesn't as much as think about Cat Noir until he shows up for battle and she's got to keep him from finding out that the Ladybug on scene is an illusion. Cat Blanc's presence in the episode is connected to Marinette's insecurities about Alya; at no point are there lines drawn between him and Cat Noir.
"Ephemeral": Adrien is once again akumatised. The only tenuous connection to "Cat Blanc" is the fact that Gabriel uses the same chain of events for akumatising him: get him while he's still reeling from the shock of Emilie's corpse and Gabriel being Hawkmoth.
"Kuro Neko": Ladybug thinks Cat Noir has been akumatised as a civillian. The only possible connection to "Cat Blanc" is her assuming that the akuma would be in the bell. There are no flashbacks or otherwise mentions made of Cat Blanc.
"Strik Back": CN calls her a pussy for refusing to learn his identity; when she brings up the aforementioned earth logic, he counters that they "can't be akumatised". She briefly recalls Cat Blanc, which she knows proves him wrong (and he doesn't, since she for whatever reason never told him about it). She does look upset at the memory, as anyone would (there's also the fact that he's clearly not comprehending how dangerous this could be). They're interrupted by Rena Furtive's activies being revealed to him and the topic not brought up again.
To borrow my own cleverness from elsewhere: Remembering that the world ended because you gave your crush a present =/= having PTSD
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