My 8 cents on The Show From Now On

I don't want to bore you guys with all of my complaints about the season finale, (but hey, if you're reduced to reading this, you probably don't have anything better to do, right?) but I will say just a few things to condense my feelings about it.

It was too short. You're all probably aware of this opinion from the hundreds of others who have said so, but I do feel the finale should have been a two-parter. At the extreme, I believe they could have fit in more than enough to make it a THREE-PARTER, but we'll never know, so that's that. I was impressed, as I am with the other episodes that exemplify this problem, that the writers could fit in so much into 22 minutes, even if it did ruin the feeling ever so slightly. Basically the entire episode was just turned into a big musical, which I was surprisingly fine with, given the quality of songs. But fitting that much potentially good story into 22 minutes is like shoving a three-course meal down your throat in one setting, again in my opinion.

Again, giving my 8 cents (because my opinion is more valuable than 2 cents) about the future episodes, I have only faith that the show will continue in its good run. The 13 episode limit of season 3 left me with an inexplicably bad taste in my mouth, but if the future season 4 keeps the quality of season 3, then I shall be quite okay. Of course, i do predict a steady decline in the show's quality per the absence of Lauren Faust, but that is another topic entirely.

All I can say is, I've already devoted so much of my time to this great show, and I'm not giving up on it quite so fast.