DM: For the crime of attempting to remove all the magic in Equestria, putting many lives at risk… Cozy Glow is sentenced to imprisonment in Tartarus for 10 years. This surely won't be the last Equestria has seen of her… But that's a story for another time. This brings our flash-forward palate-cleanser session to a close!
Silverstream (PP): What about us? Do we graduate from the School of Friendship?? Since our friendship saved Equestria?
Gallus (RD): That's not a bad idea.
DM: We've been over this before. Saving Equestria from certain doom only once doesn't give you special privileges.
Sandbar (AJ): Do we at least earn some extra credit in our classes?
DM: Oh yeah, tons of extra credit! …If each of you writes a detailed 20-page report of the entire incident, including moments when you had to rely on your teammates and suggestions on what you could have possibly done better!
Student Six: AWWWWWW…!
DM: Mwahahahaha!
Welp, the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic finale has just aired. I suppose I should say a few things. I'll try to keep it short and to the point.
It was always going to be bittersweet. I'm happy that it didn't try to last forever (because it was never going to), and I'm happy that they ended it by giving the fandom one last bunch of brand new narrative toys and sandboxes to play with. A good portion of my livelihood depends on the fandom living on for a while after its official ending, but I don't have much fear that it won't. Looking back, this weird phenomenon has brought me a lot of happiness in dark times, from many different places I never thought I'd be connected to.
I'm happy to keep going with this if you're all willing to stick around.
Anyway, there's another Spudventure uploaded.
The Forgotten Ones, Session 9: Podcast | Video
Still watch the show, but went from a morning routine where I had to watch, to absently remembering an episode aired and having nothing to do. Still, enjoy a bunch of content the fandom created, so will be around for a bit yet.
Not going anywhere. Show stopped being canon to me back in season 4. Since then I've been waiting for the rest of you to catch up, and delighting in fanworks and parody.
What was your favorite moment of My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic?
Me:I'm split between the changelings defeating Queen Chrysalis; Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo getting their Cutie Marks; Sunset Shimmer reunited with Princess Celestia; and that last song..
My favorite episode was Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three.
It made me feel very validated about my own study style, which I had unknowingly been bitter about for years.
Still here, too. The show always had to end, and that was for the best. Now, the voice actresses, actors, writers, and so on can try out other creative projects. Now, new MLP fans can have their own series (starting next year, anyway) without feeling like they have to catch up on 9 seasons plus extras of lore (because continuity lock is a real thing). And none of that invalidates the existing fandom.
New series next year? I'd heard there was a second movie coming out in 2021, and a live-action musical tour in 2020, but both based off the current series.
Wow, no reaction at all from the players to a kid getting sent to hell monster prison? I expected at least a joke about "wow, harsh time-out" or something like that.
I was surprised too. But at least this time we hear an actual length to the sentence. AFAIK, in canon, every prisoner in Tartarus gets life without parole.
I'm actually okay with Cozy Glow's canon sentence.
Why?
In all the episodes, start to finish, we never see her parents. You'd think after everything she's done, they'd at least make an appearance.
Unless she *did* something about them, of course.
What if the *reason* she's apparently unaccompanied in the School of Friendship is that she realized she needed to be there in order to carry out her master plan... so she gets rid of her parents in a way that generates sympathy for becoming an orphan filly. That sponsors her into the school, and gets her all sorts of special attention from the ponies she'll have to hoodwink to carry out her plan.
Some people you can't reform. The Charles Mansons of the world are better kept behind bars. A filly who would kill off her parents to advance her schemes would be another one.
You are basing your judgement on an assumption. She could really be an orphan (or a dwarf posing as a kid... wait a moment, aren’t ponies already dwarf horses?) anyway maybe her attitude comes from not knowing real love so she learned to mimic it to survive. Or she is just a bad orphan. Just because you are an orphan doesn’t makes you automatically good. What I mean is that we don’t have enough information. This is a show where they reformed even an antagonistic god after all.
Actually there apparently is a tweet from the writers out there that she was supposed to be like Baby Doll from Batman The Animated Series. She is actually an adult trapped in a fillies body. It was dropped because that raised certain questions about who she was hanging out with.
10 years? Tartarus or not, that's a very light sentence for almost getting rid of all magic in the world, not including attempted genocide (for all those magical creatures/beasts that would no longer exist). Im pretty sure Cozy would be charged with Treason (maybe even terrorism), one of which I know is a capital punishment that would result in the death penalty (U.S. state/country pending).
Not to sound harsh, but child or no child, that's what I'd sentence her with. That or indefinite banishment with no parole.
(I don't comment for a awhile, and the first thing I say is to off a child, ugh. So sorry)
On the other hand there is something very wrong with the system if it allows a kid to reach that point. Imagine if a kid get its hands on the nuclear missile controls and get very close to launch the missiles. The problem here is not much the kid but the system that made it so easy to get world destroying powers in the hand of a single individual that even a kid did it. If it is so easy to get it it would be very vulnerable to organized groups, a rich bastard, enemy spies, etc. it is a terrible system!
Yes, but that just means that it's unsafely easy to get your hands on the "means of destruction". I'd honestly say that incentivizes harsher punishment, since "I can't do this" doesn't work as a deterrent, so "They're stronger, they'll slap me down, and they'll slap me in prison" is going to have to.
I mean, if we assume a world like our own, that says bad things about the military, but I personally suspect Equestria is a lot more "destroyable" than ours is. Which still makes it say bad things about the government, but if a person "legitimately tries to conquer the country, seriously endangering lots of people..." then they probably should be put in jail
My point here isn't so much about the sentence as it is about none of the players having a reaction to it at all. Like I said, even a jokey comment would have been nice.
Yeah, considering how long the OTHER time-outs have gone, 10 years is basically 1% of what other characters as destructive as her have to sit through.
The exception being Starlight.
I haven't actually watched the show since probably season 5 or so, but I've been following this comic for a long time! I'd be happy to see it still going!
To be honest I kinda wanted the show to go on a little longer cause I felt like it they could have told more stories like going to Zebra Country or explaining what Luna's Chariot pullers race were. Or just having more stories of in Equestria without the mane 6. But still, I have stayed with the show since the start of season 2 and while the show is over now, the fans will keep it alive. But it does raise a question of how long it will take you to get to the end of the show?
Keep going!
Neither a gamer nor a "I have nothing left to live for now" brony.
I just enjoy the clever ways you've entangled the genres using nothing (well, there was ONE time you hired an artist) but sceenshots.
The show went out on a high note. One of the few series which knew better than to wear out its welcome. And the IDW comics will continue. I suppose they'll be considered canon from this point onward.
I felt the show should have ended 3 years ago. So many writers changed out that there were definitely a lot of episodes that felt like they were season 1-2 lessons rehashed.
The show hasn't been any fun or made much sense after Larson left. The ponies were never the whole point, it was the writing that made it worth a watch, so as soon as the good writers were all gone, that was that.
Looking at the other comments, it seems a lot of other people lost interest in the show some time ago as well, so you can put your mind at ease about how well you will do without it.
This island is a lot bigger than you think. There will always be a vocal minority of negativity, no matter what the group. And hey, I'm right there on that island with you. Even if no one else shows up, we can play tabletop games and sing songs of friendship until we're rescued. Or starve to death.
I loved Fim from begining to end, and still love it. There were ups and downs, of course, but I honestly don't get it when people say it decreased in quality from X point onward and has been bad since.
Perhaps there’s another way of thinking about it? Rather than “after point X, it decreased in quality and I gave up on it”, it could be expressed as “I enjoyed it up until point X, then I stopped watching”.
That’s certainly my experience—I like the first three seasons the best and didn’t really find anything to latch onto in the later seasons, while enjoying Equestria Girls for the novelty. I don’t see it as a decline in quality so much as the show going places I wasn’t interested in following, so I enjoy the pieces of it that I do.
All those people saying they stoped watching the show ages ago make me think they missed the episode about Applejack's parents, and that's not an happy thought.
They didn't so much open new narrative tools as close off some. It can feel like new ways are open because they were made explicit but those were always possibilities. It's why I feel like "End of the End" would have made a better ending than "The Last Problem". Which is a shame because the idea behind TLP had potential.
Me:I'm split between the changelings defeating Queen Chrysalis; Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo getting their Cutie Marks; Sunset Shimmer reunited with Princess Celestia; and that last song..
It made me feel very validated about my own study style, which I had unknowingly been bitter about for years.
Why?
In all the episodes, start to finish, we never see her parents. You'd think after everything she's done, they'd at least make an appearance.
Unless she *did* something about them, of course.
What if the *reason* she's apparently unaccompanied in the School of Friendship is that she realized she needed to be there in order to carry out her master plan... so she gets rid of her parents in a way that generates sympathy for becoming an orphan filly. That sponsors her into the school, and gets her all sorts of special attention from the ponies she'll have to hoodwink to carry out her plan.
Some people you can't reform. The Charles Mansons of the world are better kept behind bars. A filly who would kill off her parents to advance her schemes would be another one.
Not to sound harsh, but child or no child, that's what I'd sentence her with. That or indefinite banishment with no parole.
(I don't comment for a awhile, and the first thing I say is to off a child, ugh. So sorry)
I mean, if we assume a world like our own, that says bad things about the military, but I personally suspect Equestria is a lot more "destroyable" than ours is. Which still makes it say bad things about the government, but if a person "legitimately tries to conquer the country, seriously endangering lots of people..." then they probably should be put in jail
The exception being Starlight.
Neither a gamer nor a "I have nothing left to live for now" brony.
I just enjoy the clever ways you've entangled the genres using nothing (well, there was ONE time you hired an artist) but sceenshots.
The show went out on a high note. One of the few series which knew better than to wear out its welcome. And the IDW comics will continue. I suppose they'll be considered canon from this point onward.
CUPCAKE.
I also found 3.5 though this lovely comic
so yeah Im not leaving.
It's like how I feel with Ninjago, except I never lost interest in Ninjago.
Looking at the other comments, it seems a lot of other people lost interest in the show some time ago as well, so you can put your mind at ease about how well you will do without it.
Last season was one of the best overall, IMO.
That’s certainly my experience—I like the first three seasons the best and didn’t really find anything to latch onto in the later seasons, while enjoying Equestria Girls for the novelty. I don’t see it as a decline in quality so much as the show going places I wasn’t interested in following, so I enjoy the pieces of it that I do.
My favorite episode gotta be Filli Vanilli. Well, I must admit I loved a lot of Fluttershy centred episode.
Favorite moment must be when the CMC got there cutie Mark and the remaining of the episode after that. But before that, the episode was only meh lol!
My favorite character was Angel... JUST KIDDING! I must admit though that I loved the Kinrin. Wish they could have being used more.