100th Episode Review! · 9:49am Jun 17th, 2015
As the credits roll, I wonder if the things I have just seen were even real. Surely these abominations could only have been the byproducts of an overactive, cynical imagination, and not the fruits of actual labor from actual humans, making what they thought would be a fantastic episode of a fantastic show. Surely, our god is not so cruel to have allowed something like this to be created, with or without malicious intent.
But, even now, I recognize that what I have seen was all too real. I recognize that nothing is out of the reach of the great defiler that is humanity. Nothing is sacred; nothing can escape the greed of our hands, trying too hard to improve great things and instead ruining them, like a pencil sharpened beyond usefulness. Too much of a good thing can only annul whatever made that thing good in the first place, diluting its essence beyond redemption.
I am reminded of time spent visiting my late grandfather in the dementia ward. Husks wander the halls, going through the motions of the past life they think they're still living. A fate sadder than death: to have all of one's psyche withered away, leaving an empty man-shaped shell which doesn't realize that it no longer holds any purpose. My grandfather was a decorated soldier who served in Vietnam, and later became an architect. In his final years, he couldn't control his own shit. As great a man as he, reduced to a living, breathing piece of defecating meat—in limbo between life and death—by the inexorable march of time.
This episode is the final stage of dementia for the show. Joyless, soulless attempts at characterization and humor, performed like rote by a lifeless machine, are echoes of what once was; stubborn throes like the nerves firing randomly in a dead body.
"If there is a god, then why do bad things happen?" A question for the ages. This episode, this callous mockery of an episode, has, as a silver lining, given me solace in the answer to that ageless question:
God is dead, and ponies killed him.
I will still probably watch the show and will for sure continue to write, but just let it be known that this episode is one of the worst things I have ever watched.
