So I Saw The Season 9 Trailer · 4:32pm Mar 10th, 2019
And well, I'm of a few different minds on this.
On the one hand, it feels pretty well expected, and the natural final step along the direction that was bothering me about the show in the first place. Now everyone's going to be princesses! (After Twilight tries to do it herself and gets stressed out, because it's not like we haven't already done that lesson a million times) In addition to running a school. In addition to all their original jobs that I can only presume they're still doing in the background? At least Luna and Celestia will get their well-deserved retirement, hopefully we can see more of them actually getting to do stuff now? Or maybe they'll just go vanish off to the astral plane or whatever and that'll be the last we ever see of them outside of flashbacks...
Which brings me to the second point; the Sombra stuff with the Crystal Empire. Either he's coming back, or we'll be getting time travel or flashbacks. This could go either way, really; either it's a chance to properly flesh him out as a villain and TCE as a setting, or it'll just be another thing that happens without really changing things for either. I want to be optimistic about this, but at this point... I'm hard-pressed to get really enthused until it's out.
But despite all my gripes and hesitance and whatnot, at the end of the day, I want to see this through. Friendship Is Magic was a huge part of my life from 2011 to 2015, and as much as I'm tempted to just pass this over and jump back in with G5's beginning, there's also a part of me that wants to be here for the ending of this. To get closure, if nothing else, but also to properly say goodbye to a show that meant a lot to me at one point, and did help me improve my writing and opened my eyes to several things.
So you know what, if I can do it, I think I will try to catch up, and watch Season 9 as it airs again like I used to. I don't know whether I'll be able to keep myself from whining and complaining the whole way, but I'm going to try dammit. It's been long enough that I really should be over this stuff anyway.
So really, the question now is just if I can. I have infrequent and unreliable access to Netflix at the moment, and while I could watch on Dailymotion or other online hosts, I don't find it as easy as I used to to just watch it without losing focus and opening other tabs. One thing I definitely won't be doing is detailed episodic reviews, as that's what did me in last time I tried to watch Season 7. I may share my opinions on episodes of note, but for the most part I'd probably leave my thoughts brief and to the point, no more than a sentence or two.
Still, hopefully I can do this! Expect to hear back from me either in a week, or two years later after once again failing to keep to my word. Let's see how this goes.
This was definitely in my thoughts as I watched the trailer.