"A Horse Shoe-In" Review: Starlight Glimmer and the Challenges of Life · 2:42pm Sep 16th, 2019
Things are moving forward. The more time passes, the more Twilight gets tangled up with duties to prepare her coronation to Equestria's sole ruler.
Things are moving forward. The more time passes, the more Twilight gets tangled up with duties to prepare her coronation to Equestria's sole ruler.
It's only two days anymore until Episode 3 of Season 9 airs and when I looked at the teaser screenshot that was released for the episode, I discovered something very exciting and unexpected about the Student Six' possible future role in Equestria.
I'll talk about that below the page break, to not spoiler anyone more than necessary.
Well, what do you know, this episode delivers on not one, but many things I said just last episode we were in dire need of by this point. Of course, how well it executes said things can only be found out by looking at the episode itself. Best to do just that.
I waited for this episode and looked forward to it for a while now. And I was wrong with all of my theories and thoughts about it. The party seen in the trailer was not a party for Starlight Glimmer, but instead the pony dance we heard about, we did not just see
And here is Part 3 of today's Future Equestrian Stories Analyzis Firework, which is also the last part! Aside from the previews for the "Rainbow Roadtrip" Special and the official, english MLP: FiM manga, we've also gotten the synopses for Episodes 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 of Season 9 on Tuesday! They contain quite a couple intriguing things and surprises, so I'll talk about them after the page break, as usual, to avoid spoilers!
A Little Foreword: I am still writing ponyfics and have never stopped doing so. I know this account seems like I have shifted to do other things with it lately, but it has not become a review and blog account and will never become one. Ponyfiction is still a priority here, I just find myself very slow with writing because of a recent wave of new depressions, and the reviews and blog entries about the future of the show that I started to publish this season are just an addition to my
We are one big family, spreading love and harmony!
So, the hints for my observation that the attack by King Sombra was just a giant ruse by Celestia and Luna to test Twilight and her friends before they retire that I expected to see in this episode weren't there. But nothing that contradicted my observation either, so I'm still on point with it.
Sometimes, when I watch a new episode or read a new comic issue of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, what I see in it lines up perfectly with something that has happened to me before. "The Point of No Return" is one of these episodes. Even much more so than in the past, since I found myself in a similar situation as Twilight literally only a few days before it aired.
I have already made one analysis of the Season 9 Trailer, but there are a few smaller moments seen in it that also offer room for speculation. There isn't much that can be extracted from them, so I put them all into the same entry.
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“…this review image kind of gives away the episode’s plot, doesn’t it?”
“Eeyup.”
“But then again, the episode title already does that, doesn’t it?”
“Eeyup.”
“So I suppose this doesn’t really count as a spoiler then, huh?”
“Eenope.”
It's time to do this. It has been a long time coming. And I would have done it much earlier already if my writing skill hadn't suffered so much since Spring 2017 that it needed almost two years of recovery to get to a point where I can trust the quality of my writing again.
But now the time has come. I will do what countless pony authors have done before me and open a Patreon account to get financial support for my writing.
As the main character, Twilight Sparkle made a big transition from student to new mentor over the 9 seasons of FIM. Perhaps that's why there were so many episodes were she only had one scene?
Time to weed out some followers. A while ago, it came to my attention that Save MLP has a group here on FIMFiction.net. I checked it out and when I was going through the group's member list, I discovered that some of the members are also followers of mine. And I don't want to have anyone following me or reading my stories who supports this harassment campaign. To be blunt, if you support what Save MLP is doing, you don't deserve to read pony stories and you don't deserve to read my pony
Here we are. Season 9 is here. This is the last time I am going to write a review for a season opener. And this time, I will go about it a little differently.
*I sit in front of a big, fancy chair in the middle of a big fancy old room while in front of a fire place while wearing red robes and smoking a pipe*
So, let's try this again, shall we? Last year, I had very similar writing plans and the coronavirus and the distractions it brought messed with all of them and jumbled everything and shook and mixed it into one big pile of chaos. But now there is a new year, new opportunities rise and I feel new
Because it can't be allowed that the last Cutie Mark Crusaders song we'll ever hear is getting uploaded so late:
And no, this is not the tribute to them that I talked about in my review of "Growing Up is Hard to Do". That will come later.
Enjoy this song more than you ever enjoyed any other song before. It's the last time.
Stay easy as a filly!
~ Fluttercheer