I just want want another villain song! C'mon Hasbro! Is this/that really so much to ask?

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Here, have a cupcake. I give one to everypony who's on our side.

*hands a cupcake*

Well said, good sir.


I really want to like this change, I really do. But a part of me can't help but to feel that this should have been a series finale. The show has always been about Twilight learning about friendship (hence the title "Friendship is Magic"). Now, she has apparently finished her studies and has now ascended into a higher plane of being.

The end?

Nope, we still got another season coming up. So this beg the question: What are they going to do now? We've already done away with what the show was originally about: learning about Friendship. Do we focus on Twilight's royal duties? Or do we focus on the remaining Mane 5 and their daily lives whilst their best friend has left them to rule a kingdom?

The writers say that this will not change the dynamic of the show, but how can we be so sure about that? Twilight Sparkle, a nerdy but friendly ordinary unicorn, has now been turned into a demi-god. If the writers can still keep the dynamic intact, then I applaud them.

I wonder how Lauren Faust feels about this, though.

Also, some bronies have to accept that there are those who did not care for this change. If you liked it, fine, but don't bother those who didn't.

@ Twi's lack of choice: Certainly a good point!
At this point of time, she's freshly coronated by canon. We shall see what she has to deal with, and how much drama will be stirred up.
Hey, she may even keep it low key!

@ Twi fic: Oh I'm sure one of the grimdark ponies will do it. Realistically she has Celestia, Luna, and Cadence, so she's not exactly without help.
If that doesn't work, what about stepping down? I'm sure the writers will have a field day and a half with that idea.

@ Shows future: Mmm, I'd say hold your breath. Never know what will happen.

I'd like to start by saying I agree with this 100%

Most of the songs were great, but I didn't like how rushed they are. I read somewhere that they had to cut the length of all the songs due to needing to fit everything into one episode. I'd have loved to hear Twilight's sad song go on for a full song length, not half a minute.

Something that is a very small disappointment that I don't think will find many people in agreement would be the fact that they completely ditched the theme song. Since, unlike others, this intro didn't change drastically every couple episodes, it has become a sort of semi-precious tradition. It bothers me most with the idea that they probably left it out to get the most time they could in 22 minutes. Totally nothing to get the least bit butthurt about, but just a sad note I feel has gone unnoticed.

The episode was pretty rushed, yeah. I spent most the time trying to absorb something that happened a minute ago while the show goes on, leaving a huge "What." apon my face at th end. It certainly should have been a two parter, and the cutie mark problem should have been as some call it, just another season filler episode. That whole issue seemed to be just like any other one our beloved mane 6 has gone through, but glorified in the dumbest way. I still don't understand. What did the spell do, exactly? It has a couple possiblities. If it turned her into an Alicorn, why not do that to everypony? If it took her to that fancy place, how come Celestia could get there? How does that whole thing make her worthy of alicornification and princesshood?

And the clips floating around in a magical place showing parts of Twilight's life just screamed "Thanks for watching!" Especially with Celestia's soft and sad toned song mixed in there, which I'm also not a fan of. Her voice is wonderful, but the song itself just doesn't leave a satisfied feeling.

The entire four minutes with Twi becoming an alicorn + princess coronation was just a punch in the face. It felt SO misplaced in the episode. And I like the point you made, how she never got a choice. Even though people from MLP said she wouldn't be leaving her friends, I still feel like, if given time to think, she would decline the offer.

When I first heard about this all, I was super upset. After I watched the episode, I was even more upset. Then after a little to calm down, I watched the episode thinking about it through another perspective, and gained partial acceptance and respect to this new thing. But I still don't like a couple things about it such as:

The balance of the group is shifted. 2 pegasi, 2 earth ponies, one unicorn, one alicorn. I liked the equality that was established when the show started. Another thing would be is that they aren't all equals now. There was a message, intended or not, showing that ordinary people, or in this case, ponies, could accomplish extrordinary things. Now it's the five ordinaries and the princess.

The last thing that bugs me is that Celestia told Twi how she showed all the qualities of her friends + leadership, proving her to be a good princess. But if you were to run through the seasons again, you'd see that the other five have done the same. I feel all of the mane six share the qualities each element.

I'm taking some of the songs in the episode as secret messages. Like "Everything is fine" and that line Futtershy sang to Rainbow Dash when she was helping Rarity, something like "At first it may seem bad, but you'll begin to understand." Those words aren't close to the actual line, but I'm sure you get the drift.

A little side note, I think everyone has a right to their own opinion. Us bronies have the right to be either upset, happy or have any other feeling towards this. As long as it doesn't get out of hand. People shouldn't go attacking MLP because of this, and those happy need to stop being angry at those who don't like the change. Seriously. You need to realize you're being butthurt while you yell at others about being butthurt.

Overall, I'm just hoping to see unicorn Twilight again, but I can live with alicorn Twi if I must. I'm afraid the show might lose sight of its base and trail off into Twi's new princess-ness, rather than friendship, but I still have faith in the writers, minus this half-failure.

I'm hoping I, or we, can find our optimistic sides like Pinkie Pie and hold on until we get feel if from the season four premiere.

(Sorry for any typos.)

I swear that earlier I saw someone say that according to one of the people working on the show, the finale only 1/3 of the story, and the season 4 opener will finish it. But don't hold me to my word ^^