Oct
5th
2020
MLP Season 12 Episode 9 and 10 Revealed · 5:21pm Oct 5th, 2020
Season 12, Episode 9: "Bringing It On"
Episode Summary: The School of Friendship's Cheerleading Squad participates in a charity performance in an effort to raise money for the war effort, but after an embarrassing performance, Rainbow Dash must do whatever she can to raise their spirits.
Publishing Date: October 24th, 2020
Season 12, Episode 10: "Send in the Royal Clones"
Episode Summary: In an effort to create their own resistance against Grogar, the Mean Six comes up with a devious plan: to create clones of Celestia and Luna as their alter egos Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon.
Publishing Date: October 31st, 2020
Most impressive, although you are still planning to have an episode about the Young Six performing for the Circus.
These DEFINITELY look like great additions. And, yeah, hopefully Mean Six Twilight/Midnight will be powerful enough to do a better job keeping Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon under control than Chrysalis was able to do with her and the rest of the Mean Six. Of course, being an actual alicorn being augmented by the Alicorn Amulet would probably be powerful enough to swing that. At the very least, she would be powerful enough to be able to handle Daybreaker and Nightmare should they decide to double-cross her.
All in all, that DOES sound like an excellent Halloween/Nightmare Night episode.
Ah, here we go, the Big Bad Ensemble is coming together. Grogar is the primary villain and antagonist, but Megatron and Mean twilight have their plans to betray him. I wonder, will Megatron and the Mean 6 team up? With the combined power of Megatron, Daybreaker, NightmareMoon, and Mean Twilight, they might stand a chance against Grogar, provided they all fought him together and none of the other villains were backing him up.
I have so many questions; what is Lavan's story? Would the Mean 6 really be able to control the evil sisters? What is Megatron's plan? How are the Dazzlings going to react to seeing just how evil Grogar is? Why hasn't Discord freed Scorpan and the others? How can the heroes possibly defeat all these villains?
There seems to be an AWFUL lot of villains in this series. Seriously, when are the heroes gonna get some more backup? Either some of the villains switch sides, the heroes use he mirror pool to increase their numbers, or someone new appears.
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To be fair, having a lot of villains in this could set up later seasons for AFTER the "War with the Legion" arc is taken care of (i.e. still having plenty of villains to challenge the heroes individually after the Legion is broken up and giving those that reform plenty of opportunities to prove themselves).
Plus, Sunset could end up ascending to Alicornhood off this as well (specifically becoming the Alicorn of Empathy and Redemption).
If there's going to be clones of Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker, would the REAL Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker still pop up?
Like coming from within Luna and Celestia.
I just hope its not like the only NMM and Daybreaker we will see would be just clones there honestly..
Another possible episode idea:
"The Best Weapons": The Flim-Flam Brothers take advantage of their mechanical skills to become the new Weaponsmiths for the Equestrian Alliance because 1. They KNOW there would be NO profit to be made if Grogar and his Legion win, 2. They are businessponies BUT NOT murderers or traitors and 3. Once word got out that they helped design and build the weapons that helped defeat the Legion and saved not one, but two worlds, the positive publicity would cause their business would skyrocket.
Of course, one has to wonder if they will actually grow to enjoy helping others.
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I am actually dreading that part about Mean Twilight overpowering and subduing Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker and making them obey here. It would make the whole "Twilight is stronger than the sisters" issue even worse.
It was bad enough in the season 10 premire that Discord told the sisters that Twilight is stronger than them(which is freaking insensitive due to his plan made Luna and Celestia look like failures. He pretty much added salt to the wounds he caused to the Royal Sisters, especially Luna due to she already had to deal with being in Celestia's shadow)
The writers of the show pretty much screwed Celestia and (especially)Luna for the sake of Twilight there..
Luna and Celestia's credibility was already demolished in the show with how despite they're supposed to be really powerful(and shown to have potential for more power in the form of NMM and Daybreaker) but are unable of beating any bad guys or kept getting taken out/defeated. Having their more powerful darker selves get threatened/pushed around/subdued by Mean Twilight and/or Grogar would damage that credibility even further.
Daybreaker is like what Celestia be if she lets go and unleashes her true destructive power with no regards of who gets hurt if she goes wild, having Daybreaker get pushed around/threatened and subdued like that will destroy the weight from Celestia being afraid of her true power and forcing herself to hold back.
Nightmare Moon had potential big time but the writers squandered it by using her as a "starter villain"(and not going with Faust's original idea of NMM being the season finale villain with her conflict being the whole season), having that humiliation I mentioned happen to her and it damages her potential even more.
Even if the Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker here are clones, its still bad and it will do them dirty there(especially if the REAL Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker don't show up).
If somehow cloning the Royal Sisters causes the real NMM and Daybreaker to be separated from Luna and Celestia and thus giving them their own bodies(even though cloning shouldn't work like that big time), it will make the issues I mentioned even worse.
Speaking of cloning, I am pretty disappointed about it..
Like it feels like its a cop-out, like instead of the REAL Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker showing up(as in awakening with Luna and Celestia and the two have to struggle to control those inner powers and even have to embrace them and their darker selves in order to protect Equestria. Luna learning more about her inner darkness and taking on the duty of showing that darkness isn't always evil), we just get copies of them instead. It feels like Luna will lose out on having to deal with her inner darkness and controlling those powers due to they have to face freaking clones of their darker selves. Even if somehow the clones are the real NMM and Daybreaker now in their own bodies and somehow separated from the Royal Sisters, its still bad due to losing out on that struggle.
Like Luna having to live with she has a split personality and having to resolve those issues there, like if she befriends Nightmare Moon within she has to learn how to live with essentially sharing a body with someone else. And learning to control those inner dark powers.
Yeah.. sorry about the big post..