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Darth Link 22


I'm a mysterious man with a large Viewer list, despite being very self critical of my work. Looking to write professionally someday.

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    Wow... it's been a while.

    So... yeah. Where have I been? I've been at home. And I didn't realize it until this weekend, but I've been pretty unhappy since this whole mess with the pandemic began.

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    Well, here we are. Another inevitable episode about these different ponies who had little in common now having to put up with each other after having a mutual friend in Twilight. I can picture this already having happened between Rarity and Rainbow Dash, having learned to live with each other after having a mutual friend in Fluttershy.

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  • 146 weeks
    Where I've Been

    Yeah... I'll bet you're wondering about my absence lately. I swear I didn't mean to take one.

    Until the pandemic actually ends (and I mean ends, not just when everything opens back up) I'm going to be working overtime. I'm hoping it's coming to an end, but there is still mandatory hours for June.

    I have a lot in the pipes, and I will still rereview the series. Just... please be patient.

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Oct
13th
2019

Last Three Episodes rambles! · 7:45pm Oct 13th, 2019

Okay, I got all my important things done. I took care of every important thing I needed to do today. Now, time for a reward for my hard work. Time to wrap up Friendship is Magic Time for a completely excellent and memorable episode and Discord is Grogar.

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Okay. Deep breath. Yeah, this annoyed me. This show has messed up before. But they've never repeated a major mistake within a few episodes. Namely, it has the same problem Daring Doubt had. It was so obsessed with having a twist that it didn't stop to consider whether the twist was any good. Even with Discord's explanation, this whole plan was so phenomenally stupid that I'm left wondering if Discord was smoking what every character was smoking in A Canterlot Wedding to make them so stupid.

Fortunately, it's pretty easy to pretend they just killed Grogar and got Discord right after, because the rest of the episode is absolutely fantastic.

This shows a problem that's very real right now. Everything in politics seems to boil down to us vs. them. The villains using this tactic was disturbingly relevant. There are a lot of people in my hometown brony group that I can't follow on social media because they flood their feeds with posts talking about how stupid everyone that doesn't think like them is. It gets exhausting quick. I'm always up for stories showing how damaging this mentality is.

Discord managing to redeem himself, that's good. I was afraid everyone would just forgive him.

The kids rallying everyone to work together was also good. Though I admit, when I saw Neighsay, I was half expecting he'd have something to do with it. His ultimate redemption. That would have been nice.

Flim & Flam showing up in the final battle? Well, no ultimate karma, and I doubt they've reformed, but whatever.

The final fate of the villains of being frozen in stone... I guess that's that? Unless the real Grogar could conceivably come back. I'm guessing Equestria will remember the last few years as an interesting time.

Now, the final episode. Well, it's a wrap up, and it was a needed one. Showing what happened to everyone.

I'm a little surprised by the shipping in it. Pinkie and Cheese, Lyra and Bon Bon (yeah, I missed the proposal in A Big Mac Question), Yona and Sandbar, and I guess it was implied with Applejack & Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy & Discord? They're all okay pairings. None of my favorites, but I wasn't ever expecting anything to become canon.

So, over all, a solid finale with one very bad slip up.

Now, onto the series as a whole: it's great. I don't think it's the best toon that came out in the 2010s, but it's definitely up there. It had its highs (The Return of Harmony, The Perfect Pear), it had its lows (A Canterlot Wedding, The Cutie Re-mark. I'd even say it jumped the shark, but it's post jump was still better than most shows, and nowhere near as bad as some shows (The Fairly OddParents, for one). And I got to say, no fandom has brought me out of my shell, gotten me back into writing, and made me friends like this one.

So thank you all. You made this fun. And don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. I'm sticking by this fandom.

I'll see you all in Gen 5.

...no, wait. There's one more Equestria Girls special... and I don't think I reviewed the last one...

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Comments ( 13 )

I loved the finale! So epic and great story telling. I was a bit disappointed by the twist involving Grogar, but it was surprising nonetheless. I can understand Discord’s reasoning a bit for trying to help even if he went about it the wrong way, and maybe if he had kept a better eye on his “recruits” it might have worked. Heck, his recruits almost ended up reforming on his mission he gave them. Wonder how he would have explained that to everyone if it actually happened?

The last episode was heartwarming. Equestria has become a true utopia and I love how beautiful Twilight has gotten and how buff Spike is now.

Yona and Sandbar, and I guess it was implied with Applejack & Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy & Discord?

Eh, yes and no. Jim confirmed on Twitter that any couple that we’re not explicitly shown to be married (like Lyra and Bon Bon or Big Mac and Sugar Belle or Pinkie and Cheese) is purposely left ambiguous and left to the interpretation of individual viewers. So if fans don’t like pairings like Appledash or Yonabar then they can interpret them as just friends.

Yeah, I was one of the few who caught the leak regarding this twist, and that, among other things, was why I passed on the finale.

Hopefully, a story I've had planned for some time will be just as awesome as the last few episodes.

Possibly my favorite part
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BRING ME YOUR CAKE FOR I AM YOUR GOD NOW

Well thanks for the journey darth and glad to have had you on it.

Appledash is canon? What?

Yeah, I didn't mind the discord was Grogar bit as much as the reason why he did it.
It would seem way more fun/interesting if he tried to "reform" them in his own way as a confidence booster for twilight. Like "See, you taught me with friendship so well I could also teach these three"

It also seemed like Tirek was the only "sensible" one out of the trio, Don't bother with the chaos magic, go after twilight now, windigoes bad we should deal with it now.

Also can't say I much enjoyed the implied aj/dash pairing although I guess it's vague enough to completely ignore it.

But on the whole it was fun ride still

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No, not exactly. They arrived together and talked about doing chores together. It was confirmed by Jim on Twitter that they are one of the pairings that were purposely left ambiguous for fan interpretations.

I loved the finale overall.

I was left a little sad in the aftermath as the show is over but I'm glad for what has been who i've met and to the characters I have come to love

All Hail Princess Twilight.

Glad I'm not the only one who dislikes the Discord was Grogar plot twist, it's from the same writer who decided to reform Ahuizotl. But for me, Discord never truly redeemed himself for it, he kept downplaying it and saying how it sounded like a good idea in his mind. Applejack even suggested he hadn't learned a thing at all because of that, and I'd have to agreee.

5138242 Well AppleDash can work, but I don't know how exactly you explain YonaBar being just friends when they had a colt running past before they came out of Carousel Boutique together. Pretty sure that was their kid.

I really liked the finale. Grogar turning out to be Discord was surprising, but I can see where he would thought his plan was a good idea - before it all went horribly wrong.

The battles were incredible, and the Young Six managing to rally the other species to help in the Mane Six's darkest hour was an amazing scene. And the villainous trio got what they deserved in the end.

The epilogue was a sweet little story, with Twilight and her friends having to prove to her own student how important friendship is. I really enjoyed seeing what everyone's been up to over the years, and the final song was beautiful.

Comment posted by Fusion Blaster deleted Oct 20th, 2019

The finale was okay. At least the first two parts. I made a whole blog post about my finale thoughts weeks ago, so I'll keep this brief. Grogar twist bad, Mean Three statue bad, final battle good, Young Six rallying everyone together great. I feel like if they dropped the twist with Grogar and stretched the finale into a three-parter or even a four-parter, it would've been way better. We could've possibly gotten an explanation about Cozy Glow's backstory and motives. I'm ultimately disappointed that we didn't get the Mean Three becoming a Found Family.

As for the Last Problem, I hate future flash episodes because they tend to put characters into roles that don't make sense. Case in point- Sandbar and Yona, neither expressed a real interest in fashion and yet were shown running the Carousel Boutique. Or even better, Gallus never showed any aspirations for the Royal Guard and was shown guarding the throne room. I also can't accept Twilight or Spike's future designs; Twilight's is just her colors pasted over Celestia's model and Spike's is unrealistic. Like, it made sense in his daydreams because those are exaggerated, but not in his actual life.

In conclusion, Ending of the End Part 1 and Part 2 were okay but not better finale material than School Raze. The Last Problem I can't accept as the future.

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