People bitching about this season finale is really starting to annoy me. MLP isn’t going to have a deep and nuanced plot. It’s not An Officer and a Gentlemen, it’s a kids’ show that lasts 22 minutes per episode. The writers have to cram all the essentials of a J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy adventure into 22, 44 minutes at most. By the time the episode is 6 or 7 minutes in, they need to already be setting up for the climax. The writers want to try new ideas and plots, not delve into nuanced and shaded introspection into each character’s lives and motivations. Leave that to fanfic. Here comes someone to disagree with me. I can hear them.