@Background Pony #A980  
Thank you

They do NOT deserve to live 💥💥💥🔫

YOU NEED A LITTLE REVIIIIIIVE!!!

Don’t revive

@Smart Heart  
I was venting.

@Background Pony #331B  
Oh? How so?

@Background Pony #F41D  
Spike is not a sympathetic character. Not at all.

“Mission Failed, we’ll get em next time.”

Revive? After you 3 have been hogging all the med-kits? Forget it.

@Background Pony #0241  
Why not take your time by chiseling them to see if they can feel it?

Revive yeah right put tons of C4 and detonate  
this is for trying to rip Spike’s wings

Revive?
 
grabs the sledgehammer
 
I DON’T THINK SO.

It’s the pony version of “Laocoon and Sons”.

@Background Pony #FC7E
 
Now that you mention it, that sounds like a good idea.

I want to see them like this but humanized, especially Cozy and Chrysalis.

@Background Pony #54D9  
So it’s like being banned on Derpibooru? You get to hear people talk around you for thousands of years? Or are you unconscious/in a state of suspended animation when turned to stone?

@Aliu23  
Right? And the worst thing is that they expect the bronies to do all the work of filling in the blanks to justify this ending which results in even more oxyayt. That’s not how canonicity works, DHX schmucks!

@Macharius  
That should have been the ending. If that happened, the writers could definitely get away with actually destroying Grogar instead of just temporarily turning the villains to stone. The whole Discord thing was bullshit.

@HumanoSiniestro  
well they’re not really dead, they can always be brought back. If Cozy ended up with the same fate as Sombra, the censors would not be happy with that.

I have to admit MLP is one of the few modern infantile shows that can show an infanticide with no problems. Excellent job done with that! Now fuck this.

“Come on bro, I have the raygun. Please, bro. Come on, bro.”

@swordcat9  
They had an entire 26-episode season to wrap everything up but only used five episodes to tackle the biggest, most complex villain event in the entire show (and in practice they only had three because the first two were basically a retread of the first time Sombra showed up and basically nothing else, then they went and disregarded the development shown in Frenemies so really it was more like two) and just one single episode to finishing the main characters’ nine-season journey - and even that ended up raising more questions than answers!
 
And it’s also worth noting that these episodes are written a long, long time before they broadcast. According to the leaked scripts the premise of episode 16 was laid down on April 12 2018, and completely locked in by August 17 2018. To compare that to an extreme example, each episode of South Park is smashed out in a week and they still manage to have plot threads that run through an entire season with quite a lot of development before the resolution.

@Macharius  
I think the writers didn’t really have enough time, enough episodes to write a great ending. The ending was good, but I find myself wishing they had planned a grand ending in advance.

@Background Pony #F962  
I would agree with you if “Frenemies” didn’t happen. It showed that Chrysalis’ titanic ego can be tempered and she is capable of forming genuine bonds with others - remember that at the end of the episode the trio were this close to touching the magic of friendship all by themselves. If the writers had carried on that theme of real friendship developing between the three instead of just kind of forgetting about it and keeping them as “egotistical villains out to conquer the world for themselves but now they’re standing next to each other” then I think it would have been possible to redeem Chrysalis in a natural sort of way.
 
BUT it would require Grogar to actually have been Grogar instead of Discord in disguise (which is stupid for a whole host of other reasons that would completely derail this post). Having a common enemy in the ponies allowed Chrysalis to bond with the other villains, so the most logical way to open the door for a ‘true’ redemption would be for the villains and the ponies to have a common enemy as well - Grogar. As a very rough idea, the villain’s plan to betray Grogar goes wrong and he ends up with his bell, perhaps after Discord and one of the Princesses have been knocked out of the fight. Neither the ponies or the villains are strong enough to beat bell-powered Grogar on their own, so they’re forced to put aside their differences and work together to defeat him. At several points during the final battle the ponies save the villains and the villains save the ponies, etc. and once it’s all said and done the ponies extend the hoof of friendship, which is very tentatively accepted in a “I guess we won’t try to kill you any more but we’re not friends okay” sort of way. Then in the finale with its time skip the trio can be shown again, reformed and still working together amongst the ponies in some amusing manner.
 
Unfortunately the writers seem to have been very lazy when it came to wrapping up the show and ended up retreading the same villain battle we’ve been seeing over and over for nine whole years now instead of trying to do something different.