Thoughts on the Season Finale

When I eventually heard Twilight was becoming an Alicorn, I thought the same thing everyone else did, it was nothing more than a marketing ploy. Over time, as I continued watching everyone freak the fuck out, I gradually began to find I liked the idea of her becoming an Alicorn, yet did not know why.

After seeing the episode, I would like to say that although it may very well be just a marketing ploy, it is an AWESOME marketing ploy. Celestia's song could not have been more perfect. The cosmic back ground, and the images of Twilight's childhood set the atmosphere, and then we have Celestia singing about how she had watched Twilight since the beginning and how proud she was of her development. I watched the song twice (a few hours apart even) and both times, I felt manly tears welling in the corner of my eyes.

Also, the fact they crammed a large amount of songs into one episode, almost as if they were saying "Okay, they're going to gripe about not having any songs to blast in the car. Lets give them as many as we can squeeze in!"

Did Hasbro screw over their biggest miracle of a fan base in known history? Perhaps they did, but at least they kicked off the ending with a bang, rather than taking a half assed "Twilight's a princess now" episode that comes out of nowhere.

This episode was entertaining, just as epic and loveable as any other season finale they've had up to this point. So Alicorn Twilight wasn't as big a flop as we were all expecting it to be.

Additionally, people seem to think Alicorn Twilight is the death of all fan fictions, when I was under the impression we had quite a bit of fics involving Twilight eventually becoming a princess / goddess. Think of this as an opportunity to make more fan fics, rather than cease and desist.

Besides, we now have clear confirmation that Alicorns are a form of divine transcendence, rather than a natural born race. So we can now have OC's climbing their way to godhood and have it make sense!