An episode a day

[Rares]

Considering this thread is going to be resurrected tomorrow, I think I should finish up my very late thoughts of the last episodes of S7. I'll cheat and put them both here.

S7E25 and E26: Shadow Play

I thought this was a very compelling story about what Orion Pax was like before becoming Optimus Prime. It shows a tremendous amount of intriguing corruption in the Cybetronian senate, and the shock of the plot twist at the end with Optimus Prime's close Senator friend really being- wait. Oh, not that Shadowplay? Well, I guess the MLP counterpart will have to do.

This finale was... okay. The first half felt good with all of the Mane 6 finally getting to do something in the end, but the second half felt like a whole lot of nothing. Not that it was bad, just that it lacked anything to it to make it stand out. Starswirl was a jerk, and it felt like just a big excuse to write the elements back into the story. Which, I felt was tremendously necessary and as a result I won't fault this too hard, but it just felt lacking in a lot of areas. Perhaps because it felt a bit weak coming out just after the movie, with drastically different stakes, and just sorta feeling like it happened.