04-02-2017, 02:59 PM
S4E26 Twilight's Kingdom Part 2
Heh. Well I guess I should start off on a positive note. I like Rainbow Power as a concept, especially Rarity's design, and something about it in particular just feels quite special to me. And they did fix the tree of harmony to at least include the Mane 5's elements
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The bad:
Everything else
Like I don't even know how to begin. Is it how foolish Celestia is? Like she seems on par with Snails in this episode. Tirek likely doesn't know of a 4th Princess when A) Discord is his buddy now and B) There are the stained glass windows of her. Does she really think that Tirek is somehow blind to this? Hell he's more likely to know more about Twilight than Cadence. And not allowing Twilight to tell her friends, and then having Twilight basically abandon them to themselves because of that "Fuck the Mane 5 ever being allowed to do anything significant in this show" basically leaves them as bait for Tirek. And that whole bit with Discord, I'm sorry, what the hell was McCarthy thinking, and now they just accept him back? What? I'm at a loss. Admittedly I didn't think so much of it before because I never actually finished this episode until this point, but wow. That was stupid. And I go back to this is really awful with continuing to put Twilight on a pedastal with a guise of still trying to make it look like it's about the Mane 6, but really it feels like they're shoved in the corner more and more. That atrocious "fight scene" is by far one of the worst moments of the show. If I wanted to watch Dragonball Z, I would. It was unnecessary, contributed nothing to the episode other than wasted time for no real purpose. And the blowing up of the Library, what the hell was that? Firstoff, Ponyville could recover from the nonsensical DBZ damage to it, but the treehouse goes because fuck it, we need Princess Twilight to live in a castle now I guess? What was wrong with keeping it, it wasn't even done in a meaningful way, just blown up like nothing. I could go on and on. This really is just such an awful finale, and one of the more poor episodes of the show.
Now onto my thoughts for S4. All in all this really was on par with S2, in terms of its high points and low points. First you get a Rarity Takes Manehattan, then It Ain't Easy Being Breezies. It was highly varied, and I think a big problem of it was how it really showed that they kind of had no idea what to do with Twilight being a Princess, and it would appear as if they were stuck in some limbo state because of it. One episode would put her seemingly on a pedastal, the next would act like that didn't. And while I may prefer the latter absolutely, some consistency would be nice. But it didn't quite seem like that at all, in fact almost as if most episodes were written without even knowing she was a Princess. It was odd. All in all, the season was pretty evened out.
Heh. Well I guess I should start off on a positive note. I like Rainbow Power as a concept, especially Rarity's design, and something about it in particular just feels quite special to me. And they did fix the tree of harmony to at least include the Mane 5's elements
The bad:
Everything else
Like I don't even know how to begin. Is it how foolish Celestia is? Like she seems on par with Snails in this episode. Tirek likely doesn't know of a 4th Princess when A) Discord is his buddy now and B) There are the stained glass windows of her. Does she really think that Tirek is somehow blind to this? Hell he's more likely to know more about Twilight than Cadence. And not allowing Twilight to tell her friends, and then having Twilight basically abandon them to themselves because of that "Fuck the Mane 5 ever being allowed to do anything significant in this show" basically leaves them as bait for Tirek. And that whole bit with Discord, I'm sorry, what the hell was McCarthy thinking, and now they just accept him back? What? I'm at a loss. Admittedly I didn't think so much of it before because I never actually finished this episode until this point, but wow. That was stupid. And I go back to this is really awful with continuing to put Twilight on a pedastal with a guise of still trying to make it look like it's about the Mane 6, but really it feels like they're shoved in the corner more and more. That atrocious "fight scene" is by far one of the worst moments of the show. If I wanted to watch Dragonball Z, I would. It was unnecessary, contributed nothing to the episode other than wasted time for no real purpose. And the blowing up of the Library, what the hell was that? Firstoff, Ponyville could recover from the nonsensical DBZ damage to it, but the treehouse goes because fuck it, we need Princess Twilight to live in a castle now I guess? What was wrong with keeping it, it wasn't even done in a meaningful way, just blown up like nothing. I could go on and on. This really is just such an awful finale, and one of the more poor episodes of the show.
Now onto my thoughts for S4. All in all this really was on par with S2, in terms of its high points and low points. First you get a Rarity Takes Manehattan, then It Ain't Easy Being Breezies. It was highly varied, and I think a big problem of it was how it really showed that they kind of had no idea what to do with Twilight being a Princess, and it would appear as if they were stuck in some limbo state because of it. One episode would put her seemingly on a pedastal, the next would act like that didn't. And while I may prefer the latter absolutely, some consistency would be nice. But it didn't quite seem like that at all, in fact almost as if most episodes were written without even knowing she was a Princess. It was odd. All in all, the season was pretty evened out.
![[Image: GnwyV8N.png]](http://i.imgur.com/GnwyV8N.png)