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The ending of the season 6 was magical. Because, to write a 40 minutes adventure episode with Discord and Chrysalis and make it boring and predictable, you really have to be a wizard.
The old town of Starlight teases her. What do you think it’s gonna happen after some dream episodes with Luna?
Ponyville seems to be very fake. What do you think it’s gonna happen after the Thorax episode?
Spoiler alert: What you probably think it’s gonna happen will happen.
To be honest, it’s not a bad episode, but I don’t think it’s a good one, specially if we consider this the ending of season 6. It’s kinda like a mixed bag. I don’t think Starlight is a very interesting character. Not only because in many episodes she’s overpowered, but when you take her magic away, I don’t remember her personality. There are sentences like “I don’t have a plan” or “I’m not that clever”. I think these are tricks to feel sorry for her. She’s more like these Mary Sue characters we read in some fanfiction. I think the key of a good character is his vulnerability. Some Disney movies are great examples of this. Tiana, Ariel, Belle, Anna, Simba… Imagine them with incredible powers and then imagine them with some dialogue like “I can’t do this”.
I also don’t see why Trixie should be one of the main characters of this story. It’s like making a big return of Tirek and the only ponies who can save Equestria are Starlight and the Flim Flam brothers. I think it’s very random. I can understand that she makes tricks to deceive the changelings, but she’s not very interesting to give her a 40 minutes adventure episode.
Discord is funny until you take his magic away. And Chrysalis doesn’t have that altered voice from the season 2. I think that detail speaks for itself. Her castle… is interesting. But I would have loved it more if it had been darker. I always imagined it with dark tones and green lights.
I wanted to see an epic duel with Chrysalis and what we got is a Deus Ex Machina which she runs away and the evil changelings are multicolored deers with fairy wings and alien eyes.
No comments.
What do you think it’s gonna happen after this finale? I think the ending of season 7 is going to be Chrysalis dying or being good out of the blue and Starlight is going to be like the naive, good protagonist that can only do the right thing, kinda like the Chosen One trope.
You know what? I should be excited about this episode. It has Chrysalis and Discord. I think I didn’t like it enough because of little details and the fact that Starlight is a Mary Sue. The funny thing is that, hours later, I watched that trailer of Blade Runner 2049, the one with Ryan Gosling. And I was excited. The music, the art direction, the photography… Maybe that’s because Blade Runner is one of my most favourite “whatever” of all time and one of the reasons why I love movies and TV shows, but I’ve seen passion in that trailer. I think this finale needs that passion and energy. Everything feels so lazy.
I don’t think Josh Haber is a talented creator, to be honest. I like some of his ideas, like the fact that a town is controlled by a unicorn… but he writes Starlight like that perfect and misunderstood pony, like a fanfiction made by someone who wanted an overpowered character as the main character. I also don’t understand why this unicorn is more powerful than an alicorn, but that’s another topic. I think you should rewatch the ending of season 2 instead of watching this. At least it has some great songs and the plot was very unpredictable (I didn’t expect a creature like Chrysalis).
And about the season 7… I have high hopes and low expectations. Maybe I check out some news about it.
About this comic, at first the literature teacher was supposed to think “I have to make it look like an accident” or “I want to retire now”. Finally her sentence is a reference to Calvin & Hobbes. And drawing like a little kid who wants to tell a silly story is curious, because you have to know how this little kid has to tell and draw this story. When I was 10, I used to draw a lot of stupid stories related to Smash Brothers because I loved the Nintendo 64 game. That was many years before Internet was pretty common.
The old town of Starlight teases her. What do you think it’s gonna happen after some dream episodes with Luna?
Ponyville seems to be very fake. What do you think it’s gonna happen after the Thorax episode?
Spoiler alert: What you probably think it’s gonna happen will happen.
To be honest, it’s not a bad episode, but I don’t think it’s a good one, specially if we consider this the ending of season 6. It’s kinda like a mixed bag. I don’t think Starlight is a very interesting character. Not only because in many episodes she’s overpowered, but when you take her magic away, I don’t remember her personality. There are sentences like “I don’t have a plan” or “I’m not that clever”. I think these are tricks to feel sorry for her. She’s more like these Mary Sue characters we read in some fanfiction. I think the key of a good character is his vulnerability. Some Disney movies are great examples of this. Tiana, Ariel, Belle, Anna, Simba… Imagine them with incredible powers and then imagine them with some dialogue like “I can’t do this”.
I also don’t see why Trixie should be one of the main characters of this story. It’s like making a big return of Tirek and the only ponies who can save Equestria are Starlight and the Flim Flam brothers. I think it’s very random. I can understand that she makes tricks to deceive the changelings, but she’s not very interesting to give her a 40 minutes adventure episode.
Discord is funny until you take his magic away. And Chrysalis doesn’t have that altered voice from the season 2. I think that detail speaks for itself. Her castle… is interesting. But I would have loved it more if it had been darker. I always imagined it with dark tones and green lights.
I wanted to see an epic duel with Chrysalis and what we got is a Deus Ex Machina which she runs away and the evil changelings are multicolored deers with fairy wings and alien eyes.
No comments.
What do you think it’s gonna happen after this finale? I think the ending of season 7 is going to be Chrysalis dying or being good out of the blue and Starlight is going to be like the naive, good protagonist that can only do the right thing, kinda like the Chosen One trope.
You know what? I should be excited about this episode. It has Chrysalis and Discord. I think I didn’t like it enough because of little details and the fact that Starlight is a Mary Sue. The funny thing is that, hours later, I watched that trailer of Blade Runner 2049, the one with Ryan Gosling. And I was excited. The music, the art direction, the photography… Maybe that’s because Blade Runner is one of my most favourite “whatever” of all time and one of the reasons why I love movies and TV shows, but I’ve seen passion in that trailer. I think this finale needs that passion and energy. Everything feels so lazy.
I don’t think Josh Haber is a talented creator, to be honest. I like some of his ideas, like the fact that a town is controlled by a unicorn… but he writes Starlight like that perfect and misunderstood pony, like a fanfiction made by someone who wanted an overpowered character as the main character. I also don’t understand why this unicorn is more powerful than an alicorn, but that’s another topic. I think you should rewatch the ending of season 2 instead of watching this. At least it has some great songs and the plot was very unpredictable (I didn’t expect a creature like Chrysalis).
And about the season 7… I have high hopes and low expectations. Maybe I check out some news about it.
About this comic, at first the literature teacher was supposed to think “I have to make it look like an accident” or “I want to retire now”. Finally her sentence is a reference to Calvin & Hobbes. And drawing like a little kid who wants to tell a silly story is curious, because you have to know how this little kid has to tell and draw this story. When I was 10, I used to draw a lot of stupid stories related to Smash Brothers because I loved the Nintendo 64 game. That was many years before Internet was pretty common.
it feels better if you think of it like twilight sparkle spent the entire finale psychologically breaking starlight glimmer. 40 minutes is a long time for a redemption, even if sunset got a whole movie’s worth. starlight’s redemption was wasted it’s true, b/c tney glossed over it in a montage at the end.
sunset shimmer: sabotaged friendships, terrorized the entire school for years, attacked people in the halls, bullied fluttershy, stole the element of magic, used it to become an evil she-demon, enthralled the entire student body against their will, raised an army to conquer equestria, caused heavy property damage
starlight glimmer: stole the main 6’s cutie marks, not for her own personal benefit, lied to the townsponies about removing her own cutie mark, cast some weird spell at them, which twilight blocked before it did anything, and destroyed a natural rock formation in self defense.
really, starlight may have a lot of bad ideas about how to live, but she didn’t actually do much that needed forgiving.
I don’t think anyone is excited for Starlight. She’s poorly written and developed.
This season has been gold, and this finale was the gem encrusted in that gold.
Starlight is what us fans have been screaming for, and they heard us. I’m just glad they learnt from their mistakes with Sunset to make Starlight a more likeable character than her… ’cept for them both having nearly equally terrible reasons for being evil. Comics fix that though.
From the very first episode, I got the impression that the writers were desperate to make lightning strike twice and recreate whatever it was that made us love Sunset Shimmer in “Rainbow Rocks” – without having the first clue what that “something” was. Here’s why that doesn’t work in the slightest:
Sunset Shimmer was hit with the Magic Rainbow Whammy™, giving her a plausible excuse for the sudden personality reversal, she faced actual adversity with patience and grace, and in the end she helps save the day by joining our heroines instead of sidelining them,
Starlight Glimmer is given the dumbest possible Freudian Excuse that anyone has ever come up with and just suddenly changes her mind about being evil. She is instantly forgiven by everybody and instead of facing consequences for her actions, she is promoted to become part of the main characters. Every time she appears in Season 6, the episode has to be about her, which culminates in the finale, where the heroines we’ve come to love are written out of the picture for her benefit.
Such an utter waste of a great villain and a great potential redemption.