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

@Anonycat  
Considering the filters work the right way then I can believe in something like that. I had seen great stuff on /mlp/ but now days barely, don’t know about the rest.

@gingerninja666  
I guess Luna, as part of her plan to help Spike win the sibling rivalry contest.

@gingerninja666  
It’s explained, there’s different guards now in general. You should definitely watch it to not get spoilered.

@gingerninja666  
Luna hired Zephyr after her talk with Spike.

@gingerninja666  
I think Luna was the one who hired him.

There’s a bit of a pun to be found here, if you think about it.
 
Spike got Luna’s help for his own plan, and it worked… so you could say this was a bit of a Dark Horse Victory.

@AWGear
 
Nope. There’s basically no “general chat” thread in the downtime between seasons. So that thread is the defacto one.

So I just saw Twilight’s Seven, and it was really good.
 
The theme of Season Nine is that of closure. A lot of the time, closure doesn’t mean “it’s over”, but rather “things are going to be okay”. The Beginning of The End shows us that The Mane Six can use The Elements of Harmony without physical representations. Uprooted shows us that The Tree of Harmony lives on. Twilight’s Seven shows us that Canterlot is stepping up its security.
 
On top of that, the season is about the cast and crew taking their bows. In this episode, the tertiary siblings (Maud, Shining Armor and Zephyr Breeze) take theirs. There’s not a whole lot to analyze; it’s a twenty-two minute victory lap by the talented people who voiced the main characters; celebrating just how much there is to reincorporate. I loved all the little references, and it was even nice to see Twoiloight Sporkle’s Buhloon again.
 
Just a few stray thoughts:
 
I really liked the sibling motif. It really brought things together.
 
Twilight and Shining Armor’s sibling rivalry was friendly and good-natured. Who could have seen that coming, except literally anyone who doesn’t turn their brain off the second they encounter a potential plot hole?
 
I like how no lesson was really learned. Getting rid of the obligation to end every episode with a lesson helps cement how much the main characters have grown, and gives the writers more freedom.
 
I talked about reincorporation, but I especially liked the detail about the remains of Chrysalis’ throne.

@SGX-II  
To end this argument for now, why did I like season 6 more:  

@AWGear  
Well, finally:  

Question: has Derpy been sighted during this season?

@DerpyFast  
I generally agree with you. The only complaint about this episode that I’d have would be:  
YES, WE GET IT HASBRO. SOMBRA IS DEAD. YOU DONT HAVE TO MENTOIN THAT FACT IN 3RD EPISODE IN THE ROW.

@gingerninja666  

 
I think that was another one of Luna’s sabotages. She was the one to escort him after all.

@Anonycat  
Yes, she’s on the ramparts when Canterlot is getting taken over in Episode 2.

@SGX-II  
I’d always take mediocre episode (like Surf and/or turf) than a cringy one (like Father Knows Beast), but that’s just me.

Zephyr’s obsession with Dash is both creepy and awkward, and it’s disturbing to me that it’s played up to be funny.

@Spinny  
The funny is how out of his league he is and his obliviousness to this fact. That’s assuming it’s even supposed to be funny.

@Spinny  
Ya… that one moment was especially creepy. I’m suprised that they went as far as they did.

I ship Zephyr and Dash.

@MadVillain  
Me too, kinda ^^

@AWGear  
Father Knows Beast was a bad episode.

@Spinny  
I say the same thing about Star Tracker and Twilight.

How does this compare to the 100th episode?
 
For me I prefer the former for being more out there and different from a standard episode. This one was good though.

@Oddball64
 
This one’s better structured.

@SGX-II  
Bad and cringy episode.
 
 
@Oddball64  
I prefere this one, as it has one storyline that it’s useing to the fullest extent, instead being a clusterfuck of diffrent ideas like with Episode 100. Also, this one doesn’t mess with fanon unlike 100th did.