Unpopular opinion time

I wasn’t talking necessarily about Mudbriar.

If I met Mudbriar, I’d kill him, so Maud would date me instead. ;)

@SparkleDash  
That’s something Starlight would do, especially considering what happened in Uncommon Bond. xD

Mudbriar’s a perfectly fine character. I’m not a huge fane of him, but as a character in the show he’s handled well.

I don’t know. He’s exactly like Maud Pie but with sticks. I said this a couple of months ago, but a character like him makes Maud Pie feeling less unique an authentic as a character.

@SparkleDash  
Wouldn’t she be more likely to put her hoof through your head?

@Latecomer
 
That’s why you don’t do it in front of her.

@Ring Team  
Rent-free

@Jaredking203  
Whatever during that time skip between the finale and epilogue, she must’ve done something right for that to happen. Guess counseling others was her true calling after all.

Like season 8, I made a Top 10 and Bottom 5 of season 9. I don’t expect you to agree with me, but just for fun, I’d like to recap some episodes.
 
Top 10
 
10. The last crusader
 

 
The episode isn’t particularly funny (especially in the seond act) and I wish Scootaloo’s parents appeared in previous seasons, but the main conflict of Scootaloo and the ending made this episode works.
 
9. Uprooted
 

 
This one also doesn’t have good jokes, and I thought Gallus was a dumb bird, but the overall episode still works and the ending is very nice.
 
8. Sweet and Smoky
 

 
One of the few episodes in season 9 that were actually funny, and the episode and lesson here is great. My main complain is that Garble doesn’t look like Smolder’s brother. I wish they did it with a new character that looks like her brother, but it’s a good episode.
 
7. Common Ground
 

 
The episode is very good, the characters are great and the moral is fine. I wish the Buckball sequences were a bit shorter, it felt like filler to me.
 
6. Between Dark and Dawn
 

 
This one gave Celestia and Luna a more relatable approach and the story is decent. However, the ending of the second act feels odd. Did we need them to make a jab at the other sister just because it’s the ending of the second act? It felt weird, but it was a very good episode.
 
5. The ending of the end
 

 
Because, despite all the problems it has, the episode uses these flaws to make a very entertaining episode with pretty much all the characters. I wish Chrysalis’ final match was with Twilight instead of Starlight, but I also think this is where Starlight is at her best. And that’s saying something.
 
4. The summer sun setback
 

 
There’s a lot happening in 22 minutes and it doesn’t feel boring. My only two problems is that I think the villains are doing the work that I think only Chrysalis can handle, and I wish this was an episode from season 4. But it’s at least pretty good.
 
3. The beginning of the end
 

 
Because, even though this episode would make more sense in season 4, this is the point where most of things starts to make sense. Twilight’s duty, the retirement of the royal sisters, the return of most villains… It felt big and unpredictable. And I respect that.
 
2. The last problem
 

 
Not only we see the evolution of all our favourite characters, not only they look great, not only Luster Dawn is adorable, not only Twilight shares a very relatable fear she had in the past, not only the final song is fantastic, but the episode is also wonderful as the epilogue of a very good show. I can’t imagine a better ending like this one. The only problem I had is that it could be a bit funnier, but it’s still a damn good episode.
 
1. The last laugh
 

 
Because not only we got a very nice episode of Pinkie Pie in an era where almost all her episodes were excuses for her to go insane, but the overall story is great, the art direction is great, Cheese Sandwich had a very relatable conflict and the third act is perfect. I wish this episode was funnier, but it’s a very very good one.
 
Bottom 5 (from bad to worse)
 
-Daring Done
 

 
Because, like all the Daring Do episodes, it repeats the same villains, the same misunderstandings, the same situations, the same traps, the same type of dialogue and the same ancient relics. It’s also very weird that the show wanted to show some consequences to some character’s actions but not every character in the show.
 
-She talks to Angel
 

 
I think this episode could have been insanely funnier if Fluttershy started to squeeze like a rabbit and Angel just started to talk like Morgan Freeman or something. But the overall approach was very boring. I’m pretty sure they made this episode because the overrated Your Name was really popular.
 
-Going to seed
 

 
I would have been fine with this if the episode was funny, but it was overall incredibly boring and surprisingly slow.
 
-Student Counsel
 

 
This episode is not as vile as other bad episodes in previous seasons, but the first half of the story was such a headache to follow. It doesn’t make sense that Starlight becomes a workaholic to the point where she forgots Sunburst’s party and Trixie’s picnic. These two are supposed to be her best friends, but the more I think of this episode, the more I believe Starlight said that so she could get away with it.
 
-A horse shoe in
 

 
Because, even though the show wanted Trixie to redeem herself, she ends up doing lots of things that you don’t wanna see in the main character of an episode. The worst part is the ending, where, after Starlight’s rant, Trixie decided to be just snidey even though Starlight was right the entire time.
 
If somebody asked me why I think the season 9 is worse than season 8, it’s because of this one episode.

Back before Season 9 premiered, I had this thought where a kirin would become part of the Student 6 as some sort of parallel to Starlight. Thinking about it again, I’m glad that they didn’t do that, but it still would’ve been interesting to see how a Kirin would become integrated into pony society and adapt to the school like what they did with the different species.

The Kirin? You mean the creatures from The sound of silence?

@Ring Team  
What else would they mean?

@Ring Team  
A horse shoe-in:  
I think they wanted to share some of Trixie’s flaws and such.

@WyrmSpawN  
I don’t remember the name of the races very well, that’s why I asked.

@Ring Team
 
Ugh. I realize that I’m really not overly fond of most any of the episodes listed.
 
Season 9 honestly sucked.

@Spinny  
It’s one of the weakest seasons in the show, but it’s not that bad. I think it has the same problems from season 4 and 6. Too much filler, uninteresting episodes, misleading and/or confusing premises, etc.
 
If it wasn’t for A horse shoe-in, I’d say season 9 was better than season 8. I wish that season got some episodes like The last laugh and The last problem. I like this type of stories.
 
Now that I think of it, they’re becoming two of my favourite episodes in the show the more I think on them. I didn’t expect that.

@Ring Team  
A horse shoe-in
 
Ah, an episode where Trixie became heavily flanderized.

@Ring Team  
Yes

The legion of doom should have all died individually.  
The writers didn’t give two shits about giving Sombra gruesome deaths, it doesn’t make any sense for this to be any different.
 

@Background Pony #4530  
Being trapped in stone forever hopefully is it’s own hell. But that’s what happens when you try to maim a baby dragon in front of his essential mother and grandmother.

@Egil  
*girlfriends

@Background Pony #E848  
the fuck?

@Egil  
I don’t like their fate because it’s an open ending, no one thought Discord would be frozen forever, neither will these 3.  
Having them die would prevent this feeling

@Background Pony #4530  
Pretty sure they don’t have the power to escape or the need to be released by someone else, so it’s not as open-ended as you would hope.