The Actual Season Wrap-Up

Season 7 has now ended, so now it's time to see what I think of the finale. Well no more waiting; here you go!

Season End Play, because we're watching...

Shadow Play: ...I was expecting a Sombra episode. I was HOPING, for a Sombra episode. But rather than go with the guy who's name literally means "shadow", we get yet another entirely made-up one-time-use big baddie. Sigh... Well, anyway, on with the review. Soooooo, if "Secrets and Pies" felt like fan fiction, then this feels like a storyline from the comics. Simple enough premise: Our heroes venture forth to get some artifacts by performing Paper Mario-esque activities, all in order to rescue the Ancient Legends of Equestria, only to wind up bringing back an ancient evil as well (also Paper Mario-esque). Then they putter around a bit before going to fight the big bad who's been holed up in the ground for much of the time. And they stop him by... having a conversation with him. They... talked the villain into being good, instead of blowing him up... That's actually a pretty good reversal to the usual season finale resolution formula (admittedly it had been attempted last season, but here it actually stuck). I only have one question regarding this: Why couldn't it have been Sombra? This was the perfect setup for a Sombra redemption story but instead you make some cookie-cutter (but nicely animated) sob story edgelord wannabe to get that privilege oh my frickin' god showmakers what were you thinking why why why wyh why WHY WYH WHY WHY WHY WHYYYYYYYYYT???????

*ERRRRZZZTTBBRRRTTMALFUNCTIONMALFUNCTIONSYSTEMREBOOT...*

Eh-hem, sorry about that. So like I was saying: aside from that MASSIVE missed opportunity, this came off as more of a season opener than a finale. The villain wasn't particularly threatening, the stakes were nowhere as high as they want you to believe, and overall this whole thing came off as half-baked. Yeah it raises some questions as to what's going to happen having these living legends walking about the place, and it's pretty nifty that this has made Equestria Girls canon in its own way, but there really was no excitement in this whole thing. Last season it was a rescue mission with a group of unlikely heroes; the season before was a battle through time itself; the season before that was a bombastic laser duel with Satan with a side of Discord betrayal; and the season before THAT was eh um okay no. But you get what I'm saying: there's just no pizazz. Practically two regular episodes smushed together is what they came off as to me. So... pedestrian. And that's what the bulk of this season has been, just like the last one. Perhaps even more so. I'm probably well long over the hype or the enthrallment for this series. Just a show about talking pastel-colored horses with occasional highlights of creativity and heart. Sigh...

No real hopes for what the next two seasons will bring, to say the least. As my roommate put it, "Where else can this show go?" (Starlight's ascension to princessdom, but we already knew that) Hope you all have a wonderful Halloween and fall-time holidays. Until the next time I find something worth blogging about, all the best.