This week... Holy crap! Lore!
All 78 episodes on 2 discs, the translation is just as solid as the Hulu version, the subtitles are on by default, and they even translated the mid-episode character cards.
Well, because there was no TYT this week...
Here's an absolutely adorable tutorial on how to hug your pony from doubleWbrothers.
With my quest/race to get a Rainbow S on all of Freedom Planet 2's stages, my creativity lit up like a bonfire again, and I started crafting an alternate ending of sorts for the past week.
That story is now complete, and posted in its entirety over on AO3.
Spoilers below the break!
So, yeah. That was probably the most ambiguous finale we've ever gotten, and it was awesome.
Either there's more to CG than meets the eye, or that's the youngest villain we've had.
Like, Equestria has some real parenting issues if she's really a pony. I'm not ready to place bets on that yet.
Great finale, though! Go Student Six!
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Up to a certain point, I thought she was working for Neighsay, turns out he is not evil, he is just a racist asshole.
Aye. First of the positive reviews!
I read MythrilMoth's review earlier and this couldn't be further from his opinion.
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I forgot the part what all opinions have to be the same.
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I've got plans for him in Letters.
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Fascinating that the Moth actually exposited on his opinion whereas Miles only states his.
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A racist asshole who does a lot of stuff that was probably beyond his authority. He's the equivalent of Equestria's secretary of education, that shouldn't give him the authority to usurp control of a project backed by at least three princesses without express permission, or to detain kids on the "crime" of 'not being a pony/being a non-pony sympathizer.' Honestly he deserved some punishment for his actions as well. His ironic comeuppance as Cozy's hooves doesn't count.
Really if I had to hate on something, it'd be Neighsay's lack of punishment, and the fact that everyone readily believed that even Starlight would leave a FOAL the age of, or younger than, the CMCs in charge of a school, I don't care how good an assistant she was.
Also racist Equestria confirmed? The rest of the students seemed pretty quick to turn on the Student 6 when Cozy started throwing species stereotypes around.
(a) Luna's been busy reading through the old friendship reports and tossing every halfway-dangerous creature into Tartarus' waiting room.
(b) They put a foal. In Tartarus. For all eternity apparently, since based on the lack of caretaking mechanisms it's some sort of stasis-prison where no one has any metabolic functions. What the hay.
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At the very least he had a good valid reason for it, mistrust of other species cause of what happened with their kind in the past. Could be he was raised on that notion and it took getting to actually know them to fix his mindset. At least he realizes he was wrong and has already started making amends.
All I can say is, Holy shit, they went balls deep with the Traitor thing. But this finale was spectacular. Although it did have a nice way of Neighsay Heel face turning due to realizing his flaw, and showing signs he may not be able to forgive himself due to his bigotry.
But, having a Juvenile as the main villain, that takes balls, and guts. But....one thing does bug me, why did they banish a minor to Tartarus instead of Juvenile detention?
Overall, on my list: 9.5/10
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Because without magic, Equestrian society would probably cease to exist.
I'm still not convinced Cozy is a pony.
At first I was deeply disappointed that Cozy Glow wasn't actually Chrysalis in disguise. Bugbutt needs more respect/love/whatever. She's been downgraded from villain to annoyance.
Then I realized that Cozy Glow being a villain makes the show much, much darker than it would otherwise come off as being. Child sociopaths are now confirmed as being canon to My Little Pony. If the show weren't rated and intended for kids, Cozy Glow might actually murder a fellow foal without a second thought.
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That sounds like it will be fun to edit.
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Neighsay is nowhere near Betsy DeVos in either de jure or de facto power or influence. He is on the level of Ed McQuillan.
Ironic comeuppence has consistently been more just in FiM than consciously-delivered judgments.
Racist Equestria has been confirmed since "Bridle Gossip" and "Over a Barrel." But it was especially confirmed throughout Season 8: I've said since the beginning that the School of Friendship was a racist concept, and DrakeyC agrees.
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It's interesting how people compare the current stuff negatively to the first two seasons, since it seems like this finale was all about addressing things we criticized the show for literally from day one and onward:
-That the "Power of Friendship and Love" just seems to be having the power to blast your enemies with lights and colors.
-Most people in Equestria relying magic to perform basic functions.
-Ponies being isolationist and not being familiar with or trusting of other species (or just being straight-up racist).
-Twilight having to relearn to take her friends on life-risking danger.
-Instant forgiveness for villains without any comeuppance.
I distinctly recall people speculating (or just complaining) about all these years and years ago when I was just getting into this particular website, and when I was delving into the analyst scene on YouTube. That part where they established that magic kept the food from going bad on the road? I'm sure that was meant for people with the kind of Shandification kind of mindset compelling them to write their own entire fanfiction universes.
I wouldn't go so far as to say this finale was revolutionary, but it is evolutionary.
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I suppose Neighsay felt he had to take drastic action when building blocks of their civilization started failing, and that the crisis made it harder for anyone up in Canterlot to respond; assuming they even knew what he did in the first place.
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Equestria seeming to be very closed off to the rest of the world, and somewhat close minded, is definitely a vibe people have been getting for a long time now, and it's appreciated that this season just puts that upfront. I don't see at all how the inviting the Student Six into the school is suppose to be singling out any species as bad.
I did read DrakeyC's 'autopsy,' and among other things, the signs of racism don't make a lick of sense. Like how he compares it to "indoctrination of foreign races into Western culture via forcibly enrolling them in the education system." Presumably things like how the US tried to exert control over Native Americans, or how Britain tried to control... take your pick. But then he immediately pulls his argument apart by mentioning, oh yeah! Everyone is at the school voluntarily, Equestria hasn't conquered anything, and aren't planning on annexing anywhere. There is no "Manifest Destiny Equestria" as he puts it.
A lot of his post reads like some of those overly alarming titles people dislike Game/Film Theory for. "So-and-so character is actually dead/stupid/lying/evil!" But at least channels like those and CinemaSins give off the vibe they're here to have fun, and that the game or story is still enjoyable.
The school doesn't even single out non-ponies as it's premise. The student body is an equine majority, and even if there isn't a single foreign student attending, the school doesn't just shut down. Neighsay and the EEA didn't even oppose the idea of it in Equestria. Neighsay's doubts first came up over whether Twilight and her friends could teach (which is totally valid flaw, that the show didn't do enough to cover), and he really flipped his lid when he found out that non-ponies were allowed in. Flim and Flam started a ripoff in Las Pegasus, and ponies flocked to the thing. So the school really is teaching something of perceived value.
Now, what the heck a diploma in Friendship is supposed to do is another weird topic that would probably launch into another long-winded post. But the point is that it's something valuable. This isn't ponies trying to control the world, it's accepting international students. That's something colleges have been doing for generations. Then the graduates can maybe take what they've learned back home, decide they want to move to Equestria, or just decide to disregard it all and do something completely different with their lives. The key word there being "decide." The Student 6 still have their future in front of them, coming to the school has just given them more paths they can take.
Something very impressive about this finale, and also What Lies Beneath, is a much more subtle kind of racism. We've already had the blatant tirades of Neighsay, and those are easy to demonstrate to a viewing audience. Cozy Glow demeans the foreign students with her sympathy, and how they're virtuous just by trying to overcome their 'disadvantages.' Cozy Glow could have very easily made all of that part of her facade, sure. I'm sure she planned on tyrannically enslaving all species equally. But that's still exactly how a lot of people act, and the rest society doesn't take any action just because they can keep up a civil countenance.
The writers here really demonstrated the nuances of treating people unequally, as opposed to just acknowledging differences.
If there's any kind of agenda to the school, it's closer to the NAFSA than it is some kind of conversion camp (something that this show has already given us an example of with Our Town).
How is it that you came to that conclusion? Give an argument other than "this one guy agrees."
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That doesn't justify any of that. Again, he's a high level EDUCATION bureaucrat. Not military or even law enforcement. And if his response to a crisis like Equestria losing all magic is to go and screw around with a school he doesn't like nor should have any actual authority over, then his judgement should be called into question as well.
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Never said that.
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He actually reminds me of a general.
Maybe he has seen some shit. But you can't trust Hasbro to actually put in the effort and let the villain have some depth.
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Well, I glanced at his blog, and it sounds like he didn't enjoy Season 8 at all. Not really an opinion piece I want to read.
We had a falling out after one of my chapters of Letters years ago, and he unfollowed me, haven't heard from him since.
Each to their own.
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The starting point is the same. Your culture and values are deficient, you must become like us, and we must enlighten you. And Equestria has engaged in colonial/imperialist conquest - in Season 1, with respect to the Buffalo. Who are not represented at TSSF, because the current staff likes to pretend the show began when they started working on it, in Season 5.
And "accepting international students" to convert the international student to the host country's way of thinking the better to disseminate it in their home country, as a form of intellectual imperialism, is indeed something that real universities do. That's what the Rhodes and Fullbright scholarships are for, for example. It's also pernicious, no less so because it is normal.
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I have no idea what "starting point" you're talking about. The school isn't catered to non-ponies, and non-ponies don`t get assigned any more, less, or different workloads. The even studied other countries and their histories in Twilight's class, involving those artifacts that came into play during the finale.
You're right, I did forget about the buffalo. That could definitely be interpreted as colonialism on the part of Equestria. But along with that conflict having been resolved a long time ago without mass death, there's been no moves like that against hippogiffs, dragons, yaks, or changelings (since the fall of Chrysalis).
I'll fully admit I'm still a little confused as to whether Griffinstone is actually part of Equestria as some kind of vassal state.
But there's no reason to put down the character of the current show staff, imply that they somehow don't care about their peers' past work. The reason none of the other nations in this season are about the Diamond Dogs, minotaurs or buffalo is most likely because Hasbro though they wouldn't sell as well.
If it's imperialistic to invite a bunch of people to be in a classroom together and hang out at the library afterwords, I don't know how to respond to that. So how would you rectify the implications of the school? By Twilight not inviting people from out of country?
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By not having it in the first place. The idea is rotten to the core. Words on the page of "School Daze" were "there world is filled with so many different creatures who know nothing about friendship." Neither going out to proselytize or recruiting "volunteers" (in reality cajoling or strongarming the various leaders to send representatives to the School) is acceptable.