Season 9 Discussion Thread [Warning: SPOILERS!!!!!]

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It could be different in different versions of the episode - that’s happened before.
 
The one I heard was definitely not a noticeable difference outside of the one scene where Sweetie Belle was several tones lower.
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It has happened; Capper had begun a collaboration with the FlimFlam brothers in Las Pegasus, where he entertained the audience with his demonstrations on how to operate in the gray zone of which he is an expert. He and the brothers are friends, but Capper was very clear that friendship will not prevent them from scamming each other sooner or later. So he left before that happened when Luna recruited him for an important interdimensional mission.
 
IDW: Nightmare Knights 02. Now probably canon since Capper is seen in Equestria - he even has his own airship from IDW: FiM 76, so he can travel from Klugertown to Canterlot.
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If you ask me, petrification was rather light for these suckers. And we have Cozy to blame for that. once she got into the game there was no way she was going to get killed.
 
And there go the background ponies regressing to Fame and Misfortune mode all over again.
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Oh, I actually really liked that Pinkie Pie was able to use chaos magic. I also really liked how easily they took it back from her before bad things happened.
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And there go the background ponies regressing to Fame and Misfortune mode all over again.
 
That’s the one thing I heavilly disliked from the finale. From the ending of The Summer Sun Setback, I thought they were gonna cast a spell over Equestria. Instead they just pulled the same “he said she said” crap to everypony. I could believe it working on that group of unicorns, but the fact that it worked on almost everypony in Equestria is just dumb. The fact that their only argument was, “I should hate you because this random pony who was sitting behind a bush said so.” makes them all look like idiots.
 
I also realized that if it wasn’t for this feud, the Young Six would’ve been completely useless. It was their only contribution to the finale, when they should’ve had more.
 
Basically everything revolving around the race war and the windigos were disappointing.
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The idea of having the Windigos return was good. The implementation was pretty shoehorned, though, yes.
 
To be fair, they didn’t just spread rumors - they also fabricated evidence. Unfortunately, that wasn’t shown in the finale, merely explained as they went. They like, stole food and committed arson and stuff like that.
 
I accepted at face value that racism was easy to spread in Canterlot, which has been shown to be full of rather pompous and bigoted people and was the direct city targeted. Buuuut it was a bit odd that everywhere else in the nation followed suit within what seemed to be a very short time span.
 
And yes, if Chrysalis repeatedly came out of bushes to slander random people, I don’t see how that was so successful over the long-term lol
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I actually think a stronger role for them imght have worked - like a whole horde rather than just three, and having them freeze the Triio and serve as the last boss to be Rainbowed.
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Remember when we thought MMDW was the worst episode of the show?
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I really think that Non-Compete Clause is the worst. At least MMDW and FPK have the excuse of being early in the shows run with things not completely established. Non-Compete Clause doesn’t have that and just has nothing really going for it outside of the student six being somewhat good in it.
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MMDW and Feeling Pinkie Keen seemed to be well intended(as weird as that sounds for MMDW) but misguided and being early episodes kinda makes it easier to forgive them, especially with the writers(at least up to S5) trying to avoid repeating the episode’s mistakes. From S6 onwards though some of the episodes they made felt like they actively wanted to make the worst possible episodes, especially after the leaks, reading how some episodes like Newbie Dash, AJ’s Day Off, or even the fucking Cheerleading episode were supposed to be a lot more pleasant
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What’s MMDW?? Mysterious Mare Do Well??
 
If so: No I don’t, because it was never widely considered “the worst”. It had criticism absolutely, but Feeling Pinkie Keen remained the #1 most hated by far until Luna Eclipsed and both were dwarfed by… basically all of Season 3. Season 3 was so despised the writers publicly apologized and pretended it didn’t happen for about the next 3 years.
 
What’s that? “What’s wrong with Luna Eclipsed”? Nothing - now that we’ve had seven years of Canon Luna. Back then, Luna’s only previous appearance was in her little bitty woobie form in the pilot, and there was an ocean of fanfics and “headcanons” based on that one appearance. Canon Luna rendered all of them null and void. I myself even threw a tantrum over it. (I am rather fond of Canon Luna now.)
 
As for Feeling Pinkie Keen, this was an example of popular grifting. There was absolutely nothing wrong with that episode other than that it was a bit bland and slapstick-heavy. The problem is that Tumblr (RIP) saw an opportunity to make it political, and misrepresented the episode as “anti-scientific”, combined with the fact that everybody already hated MLP in S1 because the first wave of bronies could not stop constantly shoving it in the face of every single other fandom.
 
The actual lesson was “You should accept your friends as they are rather than force them to justify their weird quirks and habits to you”, but if people had ever understood what this show was about, it would never have turned the direction it did, so it’s a moot point.
 
MMDW was just considered a slip-up on the grounds that Dash’s friends were assholes drastically overreacting to some of the mildest asshole-ness Dash has ever had in the show. It clearly didn’t work, given Dash behaves much worse in future episodes. No significant number of people absolutely despised it, unlike the Tumblr (RIP) campaign against Feeling Pinkie Keen.
 
By contemporary standards, the high risks they put all of Ponyville in were fine (it was a comedy cartoon with very little drama yet), but by modern standards MMDW is rather uncomfortable and sloppy.
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Just my analysis. I admit NCC being pre-pilot is quite extreme, but Stare Master is the only other episode where I remember the CMC being babied like that (And this is coming from someone who hasn’t watched Season 1)(STWOM doesn’t count as that’s the actual conflict of the episode)
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