@Background Pony #B837
That’s great analysis. Again, the people who actually care enough to logically evaluate the episodes have a much different opinion than those who don’t.
Where is their reward for years of excellence? Where are titles, where are the boons due to heroes such as them? Nothing like it is even hinted at. They just continue their existences in almost the same way they were left in before the finale… only worse. AJ is still nothing more than a farm owner. RD is just replacement Spitfire. Fluttershy is just forever stuck in her sanctuary and the shipping dimension. Pinkie is a dutiful housewife and baker and nothing more. And Rarity… did she just MOVE TO THE FREAKING YAKS? Yona and Sandbar living in her boutique or something? What in the actual untitled goose game is even going on there?
even had trustworthy ponies to help them take care of or take over their mundane life things
This is not a celebration of friendship – this is an ending to a friendship. And I dunno about you, but I don’t think the end of a friendship-themed show should necessarily feature the friends drifting apart and no longer being friends – if anything, I think the opposite should be true.
It’s so bad, it makes me think that, despite Twitter assurances to the contrary, the production people actually intended to forestall any further fan work about “what happened next” with this epilogue – to stamp their one last final mark on the show by cauterizing it, so no further growth from it is possible and all turns to a foregone (and unsatisfying) conclusion.
It’s the same old “People who like what I don’t like are cretins who don’t care about what they consume” argument. Which is always annoying, especially since I DON’T like every episode of the show, and sometimes I do think characters are written poorly. But because I liked the finale (not that I found it flawless), I guess that means I don’t care.
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