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

The problem with having a three-part finale is that there’s no way i’ll have the time to watch all these episodes at once. So, i’ll just watch one a week, in reverse order, because i’m not feeling like facing week-long cliffhangers.
 
The Beginning Of The End:8.7  
Uprooted:9.1  
Twilight’s Seven:9.2  
The Point of No Return:9.4  
Common Ground:9.2  
She’s All Yak:9.0  
Frenemies: 9.3  
Sweet and Smoky:8.2  
Going to Seed:7.0  
Student Counsel:9.4  
The Last Crusade:9.3  
Between Dark and Dawn:9.0  
The Last Laugh:9.5  
2, 4, 6, Greaaat:8.7  
A Trivial Pursuit: 7.5  
The Summer Sun Setback: ∅  
She Talks To Angel: 9.0  
Dragon Dropped: 9.3  
A Horse Shoe-In:9.4  
Daring Doubt: 8.7  
Growing Up Is Hard To Do:8.9  
The Big Mac Question: 9.5  
The Ending of The End: ∅  
The Last Problem: 9.6
 
 
 
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_{P.S. - Spike’s new design still looks bad. and his voice having changed nothing doesn’t help anything. It’s like Snails in reverse.}
 
@Selaphiel
 
Given how this show is about backstories, if she had gotten one, that would mean she would inevitably get reformed.
 
@Background Pony #B0D4
 
What astounds me the most is that some people simply refuse to believe some children can be.

@Mildgyth  
Children cannot be evil in real life, if that’s what you’re saying. Cozy getting punished is fine, because it’s a cartoon, but if anyone advocated for anything remotely similar happening to a real child, they’d be 100% wrong.

Huh, found a link, so I can watch it now.
 
Okay, found a link. Let’s go!  
Shutterbug and a chef  
Spreading hate, I see  
And here’s the legion  
Tirek’s the planner? Oh boy…  
Ew  
Tirek’s right  
The hole–  
Longest cold open, I think  
Theme  
There they are. Shame they never got married…  
And so has Tambelon  
TWABA callback  
This is your fault, McCarthy. Learn your fucking limits  
How long has she been grown up for, though?  
Nah, it’s a first  
Every step?  
Racism ahoy  
Yes, she has  
No, it’s racism  
Is that why there’s still a queen IRL?  
G5 foreshadowing  
Frosting callback  
Discord is so being turned to stone after this  
No, the original intention was to not involve Discord at all…  
Discord is a selfish asshole  
Okay, Discord, this is your fault  
The ultimate final battle is afoot, be prepared  
There we go  
And this does what exactly?  
I wonder how this would work as a video game boss…  
Would True Grogar be stronger than the Demi-Fiend?  
No more magic for you  
And she’ll never make it  
Duel to the death  
Starlight is Equestria’s only hope  
Or not  
Cozy is unbeatable  
Truly  
Can she be beaten?  
Oh, hi, Discord  
There goes the whole city  
Rarity?  
Yeah, the DDS Demi-Fiend has nothing on Grogar. Nothing!
 
Part 2 is go  
Theme  
Let’s make a chart  
Trapped for eternity  
Now they’re fighting…  
That’s not an excuse Discord  
Now Discord betrays them all  
A comics reference!  
Starlight’s free!  
Hope they can do it  
And what happens now that the whole world is racist  
Coral Currents! That’s one for the bingo!  
Fluttershy to the rescue, we can only hope…  
They’re gonna sacrifice themselves…  
This is your fault, Discord Meghan  
Yes they can  
Windigos are back  
Oh, there she is. Yeah, there was literally no communication between VA and animation  
Twilight gives up  
Fluttershy shows character growth  
Friends forever  
Flurry is the last hope… Fanfic idea maybe?  
Even Cozy is affected  
Chrysalis really thinks she can kill Graham’s Number windigoes…  
Here come the three Demi-Fiends  
Close one…  
Epic battle, but will it work  
The shield spell  
The bell!  
Friendship has betrayed them  
They’re all united!  
The Young Six save the day!  
Berry Punch has a line  
There she is again  
Even the griffons and dragons get it  
It’s the final countdown  
Here it comes…  
They’ve still got fight  
Season 2 callback  
They finally know about it…  
Indeed, no punishment  
And now they get carved into the statue next episode  
Post-apocalyptic? What makes you think that?  
Donuts, eh?  
Perfect? I dunno…  
Terry Klassen needs to talk to the animation team sometime.
 
Also found the man-filly (>>2152310) va, it’s Richard Ian Cox, the voice of Snails, Dumb-Bell, Clump, Grampa Gruff, and Featherweight. That voice didn’t sound like the latter at all though. The unicorn filly was voiced by Smolder and Silver Spoon’s VA.
 
Now for the epilogue.

Final episode time  
There’s the Mane 6 statue carved from the villains statue  
Hello, Luster Dawn!  
Welcome back to The N-Team by the way!  
It’s only been 20 years, I think  
WHAT?  
Theme  
Richard Ian Cox was also the main male VA in MLP Tales apparently…  
Final episode is go!  
Is this immediately after Ep 25?  
Dual Rainbow Legend begins tonight  
Lyrabon marriage!  
Applejack has work to do  
What can Gummy even do?  
So Fluttershy’s swans will place the crown?  
How can the best two fail?  
Even Rarity…  
So the moral is, the only constant is changed…  
So she’s all alone now…  
Spiders… I hate spiders…  
They don’t care?  
And this is the “moving away” episode for the kids… Better laaaaaaaaaaaaate than never…  
Pinkie Cry  
They don’t see each other for 20 years  
She doesn’t like spiders either  
Rumble cooking!  
The problems are piling up…  
What did they do with the sheep?  
Halfway through  
Moondancer, Pillars, Flurry…  
Spiderses, Rarity…  
The whole thing will end in disaster  
Babs! And she has her cutie mark! Finally!  
I’m guessing Big Mac can’t read?  
What does Spike mean?  
Because the yaks don’t kill themselves now  
This flies in the face of Non-Compete Clause  
The whole thing is a mess…  
It’s a picture, right?  
No, it’s a book by Memory Lane Pictures!  
Were those show clips?  
Well, I’ll be. Episode 1 clips.  
The council of friendship…  
In Silver Shoals then, but where are they now?  
Rarity’s fading!  
Here we go again…  
The final song…  
And here we have what Ponyville is now  
Super Funk?  
Cake twins!  
Silverstream works there now?  
Kirin!  
Winona bred!  
Did Sandbar and Yona…  
Hi, Discord…  
These montages  
Shame we never see Twilight’s in full…  
There we go…  
And the book closes.  
Should have used that alternate theme. It worked for The Crystalling…
 
Now we just need Episode 23… Heh… heh… heh…

@Holofan4life  

 
and me.

@Cyborg_pony  

 
Wait I thought Flutters and Discord just remained friends?
 
This is getting way too confusing.

@Background Pony #0CA2  
It’s ambiguous on purpose for both AJxRD and FSxD. Believe whatever you want. Although the intent to tease is there, if it means anything.

@Peroxy
 
 
Being up in the air makes everybody happy honestly.
 
Those people who ship them together.
 
Along with others who dont like that shipping pair and ship them with others in the show.
 
Or those “waifu” and fimfic writers who can claim Rainbow Dash, Applejack, or Fluttershy for themselves.
 
Or in a slight twist claim Applejack and Rainbow in a relationship but in a bisexual way allowing a male partner in an open season type fling. So somebody OC gets two mares lol

I was dreading the end of FIM but now that it’s passed, I’m quite sanguine about it. I think the comics have something to do with it.

@OldMangyMutt  
Yeah - but I’m glad it’s a pairing I support.
 
And as I said, not having any of them married/mothers would give the wrong impression.
 

 
 
@Background Pony #0CA2  
The shipping was intentional. As was Fluttercord, which was also much more obvious.
 
 
@Cyborg_pony  
I think that might be the root of it - I believe Ashleigh liked them as a couple, though I’m not sure where I heard it.
 
 
@Background Pony #0CA2  
Er,, Fluttercord is implied heavier than Appledash.

@Cyborg_pony  
I would gripe if they didn’t do your gripe, so I guess you can’t please everyone.
 
The students did get passed over a bit (especially Ocellus) but I loved their role here.
 
And the retirement thing never really worked for me.
 
The villans - I really didn’t want a cheap redemption, but I didn’t like what we got either? I don’t think the good guys have ever attacked defeated enemies before.
 
As for the epilouge pairngs - they don’t have much time to establish them, so new chracters are probably a no. And definite no to Rainbow/Zephyr.
 

 
 
@Selaphiel  
Meh, she’s fun enough as she is. And I don’t trust the show with backstories after Season 5.
 

 
 
@Cyborg_pony  
It would be even wierder for me if she never became one.
 
 
@Background Pony #B0D4  
A lesson too rarely taught.

Which character had the best S9? I say it was Spike.
 
>Won the Sibling Supreme Crown  
>Gets recognized as a brother by Twilight and Shining  
>Makes amends with Garble  
>Gets a new friend/girlfriend in Gabby  
>Becomes royal adviser/ambassador  
>Gets buff

@Background Pony #0061  
Fluttershy, she got to the point where the writers were practically worshiping the ground she walked on by Daring Doubt

@Background Pony #0061  
I’ll second this.

@Wiimeiser  
time for season 10 comic XD

I wish more G1 villains like Arabus or Lavan appeared in the show.

@Background Pony #0061  
Maybe if they’d made a regular thing of it - but the constant calls for Grogar were probably one reason I never liked him and was initially pleased with the twist (although I later soured on it a bit.).

@Background Pony #0061  
well, there’s always g5 i quess

@Vortaxonus  
I’m starting to hope that g5 is essentially a new version of g4. Like same names and characters but in new contexts and rewound back to the beginning.

prays be G5 just be good.

I will not watch G5.

@Background Pony #FE0C
 
@UserAccount
 
To both of you - why?

the ride continues with the fandom!!! ^^

@Latecomer  
I just don’t have any interest in it at all.

@UserAccount  
There isn’t anything to have interest in or not, at this point. Why not keep your options open?