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Nov
30th
2015

Woah there, Octavia. Save those eyes for the bedroom. · 8:35am Nov 30th, 2015

No screencaps because 1:07 AM. Also holy crap, season finale.

I loved it. Not so much because Starlight Glimmer (anything about her, really), but everything else. Really, I like to look at this special as a nod to fanfiction, because I swear the writers were looking at us for this one, maybe even more than #100.

FoE's self-levitation? Confirmed.

RD and PP as hotshot soldiers (non-Royal Guard even, and looking their coolest ever, if I do say so myself) in a total war against laser-crystal-armored death trooper ponies? Oh yeah.

Every frickin' AU we've ever considered, and then some? Sure.

Return of FRICKING Nightmare Moon, better and badder than ever? Oh ho ho yes.

Freaking ZECORA leading a resistance against

Flim Flam Brothers considered worse than Nightmare Moon according to Twilight's "Every future worse than the last" ranking? Why not?

What I want to see now is how each of those AU's avoided the others without the Elements of Harmony. How did they beat Nightmare Moon in the Chrysalis timeline? How did anyone beat Tirek or Discord? Please write, and let me know.


So let's look ahead. We know we have at least one more season to look forward to, and I think there's a lot we can see coming from here. For instance, the map missions are still going. I think this is going to be like Season 2, where the second or so episode will add some new element to the season's scheme and the finale will finally wrap it all up. Or, you know, more or less. (did the Friendship Reports go all the way through S3?)

So there's still hope for my minotaur headcanons and fanfiction to be shot down, and for Lightning Dust to join the rapidly-growing club of now-bland reformed antagonists. So that would be RD's and FS's map episodes at least. Who else? FlimFlams for AJ? Blueblood for Rarity? Can't think of anyone for PP, so that would probably be someone new, like the Hooffields and McColts this season.

And aside from the map, we haven't seen Discord or the other Princesses for a few episodes now. I kinda hope they play a bigger part in the S6 opener, though not in their old roles of course.

And we can't forget the CMC. Their last focus episode was a nice season finale for them, but it was an even bigger setup for something more, so much so that we all expected more of them this season. I'm really excited to see who they get to help, especially if it's characters we already know. I would also love to see more Cutie Mark stories from supporting characters.

And, what with Twilight's new study of the CMC's unique marks we saw in this finale, I'm really suspecting that they'll play a more central role in the next season's larger story. Can't say too much now, though.

One more thing I think we need to see in Season 6: someone actually meeting Starswirl. Twilight would be the obvious one of course, but it could just as easily be someone else. Make it a la Through the Looking Glass and What Pinkie Found There where Starswirl is just retired somewhere bizarre and outside time, and someone like Pinkie Pie or the CMC meet him and try to get his help.

I have two reasons for that prediction:

One is that time travel is now opened up and revealed to be more than we previously thought possible. The scroll may be gone (because the table finally said "You probably shouldn't have this"?), but I'm sure Twilight will want to explore the possibility for herself out of scientific curiosity if nothing else. Also a very good way to keep Starlight involved in the future.

Two is that Starswirl has been hyped more and more as the series has gone on. At first he was so obscure that not even Spike knew his name, and now people make jokes that nothing happened in the past that Starswirl wasn't behind. It would be a really easy card for the folks with their hands in the pony puppets to pull, and they could make it work. Just look at this finale.

Speaking of time travel, I still think it would be cool to go to the future. I used to see that as a future-episode wish list for the CMC's Cutie Marks, but now that those are already here we can go to the future without feeling like we're spoiling anything. Can you imagine RD meeting her future self, captain of the Wonderbolts (or retired and bitter?), or FS finding out she settles down with a brash stallion and has foals (or maybe no foals)? So much potential. And frankly, the show writers are not above that sort of thing. So I say bring it on!

Comments ( 1 )

How about the CMC helping Glimmer figure out how she can look at her own special talent in a more positive light? I can't imagine she's been happy about having her own flank stamp, even if it has made a lot of her plans possible.

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