Season has ended. · 12:41am Oct 14th, 2019
So... Gen 4 has come to a close, and it will be missed. Unfortunately, to me, it has ended on a rather sour note as Season 9 is the worst season of them all. Overall I can only give 3 of the episodes and above-average rating, with the finale getting a grudging average. The problem is the entire foundation of it started off terribly with the first episode of the season, which bled into most of the following episodes, dragging them all down.
For one, Celestia went from a poor to middling ruler, to complete trash tier with how she was doing... just about everything. I don't even know how she got through a thousand years alone with everything that happened in this season. Yet, there she goes, just up and abandoning everything without really teaching Twilight how to rule a country, let alone making it a stable transition. In fact, the reasoning for the transfer, the longest peaceful period in history, was a complete and utter lie with everything that happens through it all.
Most of this can be chalked up to poor writers though as everything really did start going downhill after Faust left. The true creative vision of the show went with her and we were left with the mess that followed. Not everything was bad, but there was enough that it left a sour taste in my mouth in the end.
Still, here's to 10 years, and hoping that Generation 5 is just as good... And not a Generation 4.5.
Oh, and at least we still have this. 
Indeed we do