MLP Season 5 Thoughts! (SPOILERY TALK)

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Hello!!

So I'm one of the late bloomers and finally caught up and saw the MLP finale and wanted to share some thoughts on it and the season overall!
I filmed my Blind reaction to the finale and will link that after!

As for the finale itself, it was right up my alley because I'm a sucker for time travel and alternate universe stories! (Dexters Lab: Ego Trip, Back To The Future etc)

So I was just eating up all of the various scenarios of each villain ruling Equestria! King Sombra's (lol who?) scenario was pretty wicked cool because they've shown actual war within the shows rating limits lmao. I was joking that "Fallout Equestria was canon" with friends upon the rewatch! XD

Plus Rainbow Dash looked fucking awesome with her prosthetic wing and her mane looked similar to Scootaloo!
I'm messed up and joked that Scoots died and Dash honored her with her mane being like that! (I'm horrible)

But yeah Dash looked fucking cool. As did Pinkie and Maud. When it came to the apple family I was thinking, "Hey where's Granny Smith? I don't think she made it." Which is pretty horrible, lmao. XD

Queen Chrysalis world was pretty cool too. I'm so glad Zecora was back and we got to see her again one more time. Hell she was bad ass too in this finale standing up to Queen Chrysalis in battle! There's also a huge amount of respect that goes to Zecora for being able to rhyme all that whole time, but that's just me.

I think this was also the first time in the whole show that they acknowledged Chrysalis' name because they never did that before!

Nightmare Moon was scary as fuck. I LOVED it. XD

Tirek's scenario, I love how Twilight was all NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE and got the hell out of there! His, I think was more destructive and would shed the most blood. Tirek was bent on revenge and wasn't the type to give anyone mercy so I assume he would slaughter tons of ponies and I can see that Twilight would want no part of that. Fuck, she had to assimilate all the powers of the alicorns just to stand even against him! And the Rainbow Power was unable to exist in that world since the Mane 6 weren't created and they STILL needed the keys and I doubt the Elements of Harmony would dent him! 

So yeah, Twilight would be fucked! XD

Flim and Flam? Eh, not really scary. Just scary in the sense of them polluting all of Equestria with their machines!

The barren wasteland is really cool because it opens up a lot of debate to what really happened. I'm juggling the idea of it being a possible Season 6 villain or the thought of all the villains coming together and fighting for Equestria leaving no winners behind and everyone was dead.

As for Starlight Glimmer, I have a few issues with her. Her introduction episodes were very good and definitely had the markings of a villain. For this finale, I personally feel she's the "weakest" of all the villains. The logic behind her motives is questionable because they aren't really strong or founded in the first place. She's against cutie marks all because her friend got hers and left her behind? That's really no reason to wage war on cutie marks! This was brought together just because Starlight's friend was being a horrible shitty friend. I mean, WHO THE FUCK ABANDONS A FRIEND LIKE THAT? That's just being a dick!

And if she is so against them in the first place, why does she even HAVE ONE?! I can just imagine the moment when she got it, and feeling so horrible about it or even before she got it, living in fear of the day when she gets it because anything she can do will trigger it coming. She never really shown that she hates her own cutie mark or hinted at it. 

And the climax of the finale? Twilight knocking sense to her by having an adult LECTURE and basically telling her to grow the fuck up and let ponies be her friend! It was just rushed as hell it's been done before with Sunset Shimmer, Moondancer, Princess Luna, we're getting the same damn story and it's getting repetitive. 

I would have loved to see Starlight stop the Rainboom and keep being nice to the fillies and have a trickle effect to the rest of Equestria. I wanna see Twilight and Spike return to the present and see that the whole world has changed to Starlight Glimmers ideals and got rid of cutie marks altogether! I think that would have made a more satisfying finale because it would get Starlight more involved and don't get me wrong, I LOVED the past villain scenarios but I just think they were fanservice and didn't develop Starlight as a villain or help at all. Plus when Starlight succeeded, what was she going to do with the changed futures? How was she going to deal with Sombra, Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis, or even fucking Tirek?! O_O

Just thinking of him scares me. XD

Go the Back To The Future 2 route!

She's just a basic unicorn. Also on that, she got nerfed the hell up, how can she even stand up against a fucking Alicorn?! She was just overpowered this episode unless she absorbed the powers of the tree on herself, but we would never know that or even tell! 

It rubbed me the wrong way!
She was just the weakest villain out of them all, had a cliche ending, had no serious foundation to her motives except take out her cutie mark aggression's and bully Twilight and her friends fucking up a beautiful friendship! She HAS a cutie mark! Hypocrite much?

Jeez! XD

Despite all that, I did enjoy the finale still, the fanservice kept me tuned in as did the various villain scenarios but I would have loved seeing an alternate Equeatria of Starlight's ideals effecting every single pony in Equestria when Twilight returns! I just think it would have made more sense and give Starlight more of a presence. She was just being a bully and a troll fucking things up on a grand scale! Would have made a much more satisfying two parter.

I have my BLIND react here if you wish to see it. Also Subscribe to my channel if you like. :)




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As for the rest of the season! This season stuck out to me as being unique because they had episodes on focused on characters you'd never think about! Princess Luna, Big Macintosh, Diamond Tiara, Moondancer, the background ponies in Ep100, the Pie Family and fleshed them out more and I loved it! 

They honored the fans with the 100 Episode, the CMC's got their cutie marks and listened to us giving them some well needed development. 

There were also horrible episodes too that stuck out to me. Princess Spike was fucking horrible and just makes Spike look bad as a character because he doesn't seem to change and we get to see him being a greedy little **** and it makes him look bad! Griffinstone was a letdown because they had so much potential to flesh out the Griffins but they live in a dump and are all assholes?

"What About Discord?" Well what about this episode?! They wasted a good potential Discord episode by giving us the run around, it was difficult to follow most of the time and nothing happened. You just wasted 22 minutes of my life! O.o

The whole Map plot of the season was weak too, we didn't see it be a theme throughout the season, just three episodes and it was just lacking. They should have done a lot more with it! I loved Made In Manehattan and Hooffields and Mccolts though, Griffonstone can suck eggs!

I just think that all the writers didn't really collaborate much on making this season consistent. They did that with Season 4 with the Keys and mystery box and even left hints about the box in slice of life episodes so that we can remember that the box is a thing. There was none of that for this season! Majority of my favorite episodes were just the standalone one and that is a bad thing. XD

I really hope they do more with Season 6 or incorporate the map more because Season 5 was good with it's standalone episodes, but weak with the overall arching plot of the map and the villain arc was fucking weak! That's just my opinion.

Non Ranked Episodes:
19. Canterlot Boutique
18. Bloom and Gloom
17. The Hooffields and McColts
16. HearthBreakers
15. Castle Sweet Castle
14. The Cutie Map Part 1 and 2
13. Tanks For The Memories
12. Make New Friends But Keep Discord
11. Party Pooped


AniRichie's Top 10 Favorite Season 5 Episodes!

10. Made In Manehattan: Rarity and Applejack episode?! Fuck yes! SO MUCH SHIPPING FODDER! Oh and Coco too I guess. XD
9. Brotherhooves Social: Crossdressing Big Mac. Yes, just YES! And Sibling bonding despite how weird it was. Also NOT TRANSPHOBIC SJW's, signed a trans girl.
8. Scare Master: APPLE LION!!!! OMFG! Fluttershy being strong and getting over her fear of Nightmare night. Scaring the others shitless!
7. Slice Of Life: Nod to the fans and giving us development to our loved BG characters! Derpy was adorable!
6. The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows: A true Pinkie Episode, gags that flowed right and I laughed the whole way through, also a Royal Baby!
5. The Cutie ReMark Parts 1 and 2: Weak overpowered villain, but being a sucker for alternate timelines, very good fanservice for me and I enjoyed it a lot.
4. Do Princesses Dream Of Magic Sheep: Princess Luna!! And a very dark development that we've learned from her punshing herself for years! Jeez. 
3. The Mane Attraction: RARA!!! AJ sticking to her roots and being an honest and dependable friend to Rara. Rara being true to herself and her song was so fucking beautiful!
2. Amending Fences: MOONDANCER!! I relate to her so much. She is my spirit animal. Very well tied to #1, but not quite. 
1. Crusaders Of The Lost Mark: Do I need any more explanation?! DIAMOND TIARA BEING REDEEMED!! Oh and three horses getting their cutie marks too. 

AniRichie's Top 5 Disliked Episodes!

5. Rarity Investigates: It was pretty boring to be honest! Don't overly hate it, but eh.
4. Appleloosa's Most Wanted: Another ep of the CMC's being useless (despite them helping someone out) but I was just overly tired of them at this point with the same played out thing.
3. The Lost Treasure Of Griffonstone: Wasted opportunity to world build and this Griffon's world was underwhelming and disappointing. They were all dicks!
2. What about Discord?: NOTHING HAPPENED! Wasted another good Discord episode! What the hell really happened! 
1. Princess Spike: Fuck this episode! Just hated it! XD

Feel free to talk, discuss, disagree etc. :) <3

- Trini | AniRichie
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mayorlight's avatar
Indeed, Starlight's "how I became a supervillain" origin story was very weak - almost like the Joker becoming the Joker just because nobody laughed at his standup routine. It might have been more believable if Starlight and those close to her suffered repeated misfortunes due to perceived "inequalities".