Welp, Twilight's an alicorn now · 4:19am Feb 17th, 2013
And I gotta say, the changes to the character relationships, and cries of RUINED FOREVER now being partially justified don't bug me nearly as much as the fact that this episode was incredibly boring. It went through the plotline at the speed of light, with problems happening and then getting resolved instantly, even faster than normal for a series with 22 minute episodes. Yet, despite that, the plot just wasn't that interesting. The first half of the episode could have been interesting if it had actually gotten a full episode to itself. Instead, we got some of the worst music FiM has dropped on us, a problem made, sung about, and then solved while singing about the solution. There was no detail put into it, it was just shoved out of the way in order to get to turning Twilight into an alicorn.
Now, I am interested in that Celestia got her own song... but it kept in with the quality of the music this episode had given to us, meaning it was easily one of the worst songs to appear in FiM. Also Celestia was just kind of a bad singer in general.
The thing was, after watching it, I thought "Well, that's all I could have expected from a little girl's cartoon." and this should not be.
"When I took the job, I braced myself for criticism, expecting many people — without even watching the show — to instantly label it girly, stupid, cheap, for babies or an evil corporate commercial. I encourage skeptics like this to watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with an open mind. If I'm doing my job right, I think you’ll be surprised."
—Lauren Faust
Well Lauren, you did do your job right. But the people who were going to fill your boots really dropped the ball here, because this episode was girly, stupid, cheap, for babies, and the only reason it was written was because a corporation demanded an alteration of a character to produce a new toy.
Now that I've watched it, I don't think I'll ever come back to this episode. It was 22 minutes of my life I'll never get back. And quite frankly, this finale does NOT bode well for season 4.
As I said on my own blog, this thing didn't even *have* a plotline to speak of. Basically, it went...
Twilight: Huzzah, everything's awesome!
*Sees Rarity trying to control weather*
Twilight: Shit the bed, that's not good! How could this happen? Oh yeah, must have been that spell I tried last night whilst drunk. What to do? I know, I'll use a thinly disguised variation of the plan I used against Discord that time.
*A short while later*
All: Huzzah, everything's awes- bugger, we just killed Twilight.
Celestia: U princess nao. Don't ask why.
All: Yay!
-End-
Still... we have fics. Let's just lose ourselves in those until S4!