Crusaders of The Lost Mark: Review · 11:17pm Oct 18th, 2015
I am baffled why this episode is getting any praise, any praise whatsoever. It took a great idea, something which should have been one of the best episodes in the show, and instead we got a rushed, cliche, shitty musical episode which has a complete disregard for both the CMC and Lauren Faust.
The fact people are saying this episode is a masterpiece really shows how stupid and idiotic they really are. Bronies are some of the most bias, easily manipulated, and overly positive group of people I have ever met. Like when they said Slice of Life was a masterpiece simply because it was about the background characters, where as a matter of fact it was one of the worst episodes of the entire show.
And it's the same here, the fact that this episode had the POTENTIAL to be good and FEELS epic and powerful, tricks people into thinking that it's good. Yes, forget about how rushed it is, forget about how utterly contrived and disrespectful the episode is, if it FEELS good, then it obviously is good. This episode IS NOT.
In fact, this episode made me so angry that for a while I put off reviewing it because I had so much negative things to say that I couldn't even start. Nearly everything this episode does is wrong, and I don't even know where to start, but i'll try my best.
The main problem with this episode is that it is rushed. And I don't mean just that it could do with a bit more time, I mean that this episode had no time to develop its conflict, story, and ideas, which should have been amazing. They put it together instead with bland, generic, songs with the most cliche lyrics you can imagine, which makes the entire episode cliche.
Let's start with Diamond Tiara's reformation. Now when I heard Diamond Tiara was going to get some real character development this season I was hyped. Fictions like Why Am I Crying had portrayed the character so well, and I was avid to see the shows take on it. But it is done so quick and is given no time to develop just like everything else in this episode. We basically see her being a brat, then see her parents telling her that she needs to be high society (which by the way was the most boring route they could have gone for) and then she suddenly sings a song about how she wants to change, goes to the CMC Clubhouse, tries to become president and then suddenly decides that everything she's been doing to the CMC for so long was wrong.
How about we actually see the CMC and Diamond Tiara bond and get to know each other? How about the CMC learning more about Diamond, as she begins to realize that being the best and richest is not always the best thing to do, and that strong friends that care about you are more important? Nope, it happens in a fraction of an episode in the form of bland songs.
This is disgraceful. The idea to reform Diamond Tiara was great, I believed that there was some real potential in the character which could be explored, and we could learn why she bullies the CMC. Not only is the idea of high society supremacy extremely uncreative, far inferior to many fanfiction, which explained Diamond's bullying of the CMC to be out of jealousy of Apple Bloom, due of her having such a caring family, whereas her father is neglectful. But it is also extremely rushed on a whole new level. In the end she just decides to change her ways, but there was so little build up to it.
I also found the CMC annoying during the reformation. I can't believe their just happily willing to help Diamond Tiara after what she had done to them for such a long time. Surely before they helped her they should have done some thinking first about whether she deserves their support, but again nope, their all happy and smiley, and their initial reactions are to straight away help her.
There is also the issue of the cutie marks and the way they were handled, because it was done in the most lazy way possible.
It was made apparent from the very beginning that the CMC were different from each other, both in terms of personality and skill. Faust actually made it very clear what the CMC's marks were going to be. Sweetie Belle was going to sing, Apple Bloom's was going to be construction, and Scootaloo's her scooter. These are normal cutie marks for a pony, and getting these marks individually in different episodes and growing and changing like real people would have been amazing. It would have caused strain on all 3 when one of them got their cutie mark, and when one was the last person to not have a cutie mark.
But instead they decided to give them their marks at the same time and have the same mark. And what is that mark? Finding OTHER people's cutie marks, so that the writers don't have the characters grow and change, and that they can be the CMC forever except without a cause that we care about.
And at the end of the episode they make it feel all epic WHEN IT'S NOT. This episode was rushed, convoluted; and was quite frankly offensive to everyone who cared about the CMC, as the way they got their marks was completely offensive.
Crusaders of the Lost Mark is a giant middle finger to everything relating to the CMC. With bland
songs and having no time to play out, this is without a doubt one of the worst episodes in the series.
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Good thing I decided to do this when I learned what happened in this episode
I encourage you all to read this.
I think that one of the main reason why people loves this episode is just because they're happy that the CMC got their cutie mark, no matter what exactly that Cutie Mark is.
>> Jarvy Jared Erh, it's a WAAY too long in my humble opinion.
And okay that latin is important, but heck man, speak a english a bit....