Help! My Heart is Full of Pony! - Growth · 2:24pm Aug 28th, 2019
Yesterday, I posted an essay about Summer Sun Setback, the princesses, and the fact that the end of the show is neigh. There are, however, a few more thoughts on the episode that I wanted to share that don't quite fit into that box.
The theme of Summer Sun Setback was growth - moving on, and the story reinforces that theme in a lot of little ways in 22 minutes.
Scattered throughout the story are subplots that resolve quite differently from the typical pony formula. For starters, it sets itself up like one of those trope stories where everything goes horribly wrong because nopony communicated. However, the farce never happens. The problems that the Mane 5 run into are solved with a simple montage. Nothing gets out of hand. Why? Because they've got this. Once all six of them work together, it's pretty simple to fix. Then there's the fact that Twilight Sparkle never goes Twily-nanas. She's grown. Granted, it's a little odd that this episode is a direct follow up to a full-on Twilight Sparkle meltdown episode, but still, the point they're emphasizing here is growth.
Even the Triumverate of Evil (Tirek, Chrysalis, Cozy) have gotten so good at teamwork and friendship since last we saw them, that they function like a well-oiled machine. What a delight it is to watch them! They've grown as characters so quickly and so naturally, it makes you wonder what they're growing toward. I'll leave questions about which of them will get redeemed and how for another time, but suffice it to say that everypony here is miles from where they started.
And so are we all.
If you ever find yourself laying awake at 3 am, kicking yourself over something you said or did several years ago, maybe it's time to look at your own growth - see how different you are now from the person who did that thing that makes you cringe. If you genuinely don't think that you would repeat that mistake today, then it's a call for celebration, not remorse.
-Sprocket
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Cringing at past actions is like cringing at your old writing. You look back on it with shame because you know how much you've developed since then.
Hopefully.
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