So, Twilight, AKA Miss “Has absolutely zero experience or skill in diplomacy to the point even someone as mentally unstable as Pinkie Pie would be a better candidate” is to become the successor to two princesses while the poorly developed and easily eclipsed by better villains freakshow is back…
Either standards for the series has drastically fell down a ditch, or… there’s clearly more than meets the eye. None of this makes sense. There’s no in-between in this situation, we’re either looking at a tragic trainwreck, or a masterful case of a rug being pulled under our feet.
I’ll be honest and say that I do think it’s the latter. The staff knows better, and there are clear hints of things being plain wrong (Celestia’s expression upon announcing retirement, the “Friendship cannon” being re-re-re-introduced after such a long time, Sombrero…). This feels like an illusory/manufactured test for Twilight, something of a MMC 2.0 after which she’ll be told “Good job, now come back down to earth and spend at least the next couple years learning everything you still have to learn, this isn’t how transition of power is to be done, duh.”.
If not, well, so much for me believing the series would end on a positive yet still fulfilling and meaningful note, instead of this “And they all lived happily ever after, there, done with this shit” shallow crap. This is the kind of development the series has somewhat managed to keep at bay until now, so why would they crash right before the finish line like this? The series has been almost a decade in the making, the fans which were there from the start are no longer small kids, it’s okay to go for a deeper, more impactful end as opposed to a “Book End” that could’ve been predicted from the very first episode.
