Clockwork's Hot Take on "Make Your Mark"

Hi,

Here is the full, official synopsis of the Make Your Mark special:

Months after magic has returned to Equestria, Sunny Starscout and her new pony friends are excited to celebrate their new lives on Maretime Bay Day! But while their group may have adjusted to magic's return, plenty of Unicorns and Pegasi are still having trouble mastering their powers, frustrating the non-magical Earth Ponies who wish to return to how things were before.

This division worries Zipp, who notices that the Unity Crystals have begun glitching, disrupting magic for everyone. Zipp begins investigating, discovering the glitches seem to be happening more and more, their chaos further dividing the ponies of Maretime Bay. She tries to convince her friends that the Unity Crystals are acting strange, but they think she's worrying over nothing and DON'T believe her.

That is, until they witness a Pegasus falling out of the sky onto an Earth Pony themselves. This spurs outrage from the Earth Ponies, who threaten to boycott Maretime Bay Day if the town isn't made a magic-free zone. Now on her side, Zipp explains to her friends her discovery that magic is glitching when ponies aren't treating each other with kindness. Their mission now is to throw such an amazing Bay Day that everypony comes together in harmony to stabilize magic again.

But as the Earth Ponies air their frustrations with the inclusion of Pegasi and Unicorns in a holiday they see as their own, the glitches escalate, bringing about a massive magical storm that threatens to swallow the town. In the end, it's only the power of Sunny and her friends working together that saves the day.

As magic stabilizes, the Earth Ponies discover they now too have powers! Feeling included and having seen the error of their ways, they apologize and come together with the Unicorns and Pegasi in harmony to celebrate the rest of Maretime Bay Day together.

While I did say earlier today that I find MLP is gearing more towards younger children, evident by how the trailer presents the mane cast, I am also pleased to see an adventure story that seems to be for all ages, if done properly. I am left with a few questions, though. What powers the MacGuffin crystals, other than kindness? Who made them? Why doesn't magic work on it's own?

I hope the later series (also named Make Your Mark) covers some of these questions. I plan on watching this with cautious optimism.

What about you?

Comments

[Shady Nail]

For the most part, I'm gonna stick to Gen 1-4.
If the new stuff is good, that means more things to love.
If not, there is always the AU tag to save the day.
Besides that, just wait and see.