The Last Crusade - Episode Reaction · 10:50am Jun 16th, 2019
Alright, let’s go! Heard a few things that got people all up in the clouds, not sure if that was from this episode or any other early release tho, so we’ll see.
All I know for sure is that title sounds ominous to me, but let’s see where this is going.
Onwards!
In the arms of S P O I L E R S !
Once confirmed Scootaloo has a home and not living in an orphanage, as popular fannon was. Think I know now which spoilers were for this one after all.
Ah yes, there they are.
Anyways, yay! CMC camp callback with return of random foal from past episode!
Adorable voice work on that lady.
Huh, short appearance of the canon queer couple. Still, they are dang adorable, I see how people like them. They act quite natural around each other, for what little we get to see. Neat.
Anyways, Scootaloo is on a scheduled babysitting routine it seems. Huh.
PARENTS CONFIRMED!!
Themesong visuals *ding*
Aww, she’s so excited!
Show and tell just got much more interesting.
Awww, family reunion is always more sweet after a neardeath experience. Also why was that cage propped right up by the door? And brought to school?
All the foals are immediately all cool, poor Cheerilee is still shaking on her desk XDD
As usual ponies show absolute disregard for animal and other creatures comfort with too small cages. Also that gotta be a baby bugbear since we have seen them much bigger. Getting poachers vibes at this point.
Aww, wing hug.
Yes, awesome. Gonna drop a ball on WHERE that assignment gonna be?
Oh gosh, her getting picked up with her hooves on theirs, too cute!
Theeere it is.
So sad, yet so silly.
Just wanna note I love the callbacks framed on the wall behind them.
Ah yes, instead of trying to talk it out with the parents, the plan shall be deceit and lies. Gotcha. Heh, and Rainbow Dash with her tickets XD
Ah yes, this can only go great.
Eh, the ONLY three with matching cutiemarks? Oh honey, yer clearly not obsessively observing background ponies as much as the rest of us.
He has a point. Obviously.
Applebloom still fiddling with potions, I’m glad to hear it.
Heh.
Gotta love pony writing, I’m oddly fascinated by how i can juuuuust deceiver that sticker says “sold”. Oh yeah, also, parents very casual about foals chaining themselves together to a pole.
Yeah, saw dat coming, still laughed.
She finally get to say it.
The aunts are back!
This is just cute and heartfelt. They are actually just casually talking how they feel, young ponies and adults, listening to each other. No overreactions, asking simple questions and listening to the answers. Communication.
... dat was a freaking cockatrice in a cage out on the street in Ponyville... sounds safe.
A bit much, but cute.
Awwwww ... also, ho dang, who is that afro pone in the back?
awwwwwwwwwwwwww..
Also I decide my headcanon that the parents are staying that extra month in Ponyville, because no way they made it to the train at that point. And it was made clear the next train for their destination will first be next month. So bonus parents time for Scoots!
This was a cute episode, for sure. We finally got canon family for Scootaloo after all this time. Anypony missing family confirmed by now?
I see why people are all up in the clouds about the aunts, as it is indeed made clear only Holiday is Scoots’ aunt by blood, making the other her partner. Confirmed canon queer couple. Awesome (Bonbon/Lyra first in my head tho, ya can’t change my mind).
And still a good story centered about Scootaloo and her parents. It is a good conflict to bring up, as many kids experience the uprooting of their life to follow their parents’ job and careers. And it can definitely be tough. I like the story didn’t demand a full happy ending by forcing the parents to quit to stay with Scootaloo, as that would muddle the lesson they brought up. Instead it made good use of the aunts, who were already confirmed caretakers on that shift watch they mentioned before Scoots’ parents were confirmed to make it home. Sounded a lot like Scoots was the ‘community care’ foal. A herd of animals in the wild can have habits of taking shifts and caring for each others’ youngs after all.
Anyway, it was still a fairly simple episode with some very good and touching moments. The CMC ain’t as over the top as they would have acted in the first seasons, showing a maturity while still going for childish solutions in hope of resolving the issue faster. But no cringe or drama added for their efforts, which is good.
Just a matter of finding a way to explain something important as a foal to adults. So I understand the big scene needed with Ponyvile citizens and others gathering to point out to the parents that the CMC isn’t “just” a club. Which is understandable they would think it as, as they haven’t been around to see the actual importance it played. They simply needed to expand the perspective and sometimes that take outsiders to point out, to move the bias.
Anyways, I’ll stop rambling now. Very cute episode, loved it.
Thanks for reading.
