#my little pony season 9

[kittycat-92]

JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE LAST EPISODE OF MLP. i am feeling things i cannot express

[optimistic-tree]

Feelings

I hate it when a show gets worse and I can’t tell. It’s just like-I’m sure it’s just depression-NO, SWEETHEART it is made poorly.

Your joy isn’t being consumed by the void inside you, the writing’s just getting worse sometimes. Things do get worse. You can give up on things. You have the internet, you don’t have to treat everything like your elementary school classroom with 2 bins of books in the back you’ll have read all of by half-way through the year. Quality means something-and you can find it.

[veronikasweetart]

Happy 5th Anniversary to "The Last Problem"💫❤️

I can't believe it's been 5 years since my favorite show ended 🥺 So for this special day I decided to redraw a drawing I made 5 years ago when the series ended✨️

I want to say thank MLP:FIM again 💜 Without this show I wouldn't be who I am today 💗

[krystal-blossom]

Before watching the FiM finale, part of me really wanted me to see a twist in the end where Cozy Glow, Tirek, and Chrysalis are on the verge of being totally defeated, but the friendship they ironically made along the way protects them from being totally blasted (protecting them in a "friendship shield"), then they go "wait, what is this?! We don't need friendship!! We need to destroy Twilight Sparkle and her pathetic friends!!".

They revert back to their aggression and try to fight again, the good guys attempt to fire back, then the three get defensive towards one another (thus reminding themselves how much they mean to each other), friendship protects them again, and the cycle repeats multiple times.

The three villains go through all five stages of grief and eventually accept that friendship is the only thing protecting them.

Then, for their horrible actions, they receive the worst punishment of all:

being domesticated by society.

(Think that would've been better?)

[seaspaghetti]

RD and AJ

[xxxpinkrougexxx]

What even was this🫣

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

Another thing I hated from those last two seasons were the villains, especially cozy glow

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I really should stop talking about mlp. It's embarrassing 😅 I'm kind of embarrassed. I apologize to all my followers. But...

But again, 100% right.

Funny thing is, I can see a world where Chancellor Neighsay's character is written better. The problem with his character is that the terrible writers wrote him as the most stereotypical, strawman-y racist villain that I've ever seen in any piece of children's media, ever. 

If they wrote him more realistically, and actually gave the audience an explanation for why he feels that way about the other creatures...

For example, they could've showed that the reason he hated the other creatures is because of their past history with ponies:

The hippogriffs/seaponies refused to help when the Storm King attacked 

The Yaks were very picky when they came to visit for the first time

The dragons were usually very hostile towards ponies, to the point where ponies were afraid to approach them

The Changelings attacked Equestria twice

The griffins had a better relationship with ponies, but the majority of them were still very rude

Of course, the explanation for all of their behavior is the result of their environment, leadership, and upbringing. But it would still be an understandable reason.

And if they had him realistically realize the error of his ways, combined with writing him in a realistic way and giving an explanation for his mentality, then BOOM! Character fixed, problem solved :)

Now, as for Cozy Glow...

Idk what the writers were thinking when they came up with her character, but in terms of writing/character motivations she is 10,000 times worse than Neighsay. At least with him I understand what the writers were going for, and he can be more easily fixed.

But Cozy Glow…

She is a child. The same age as the CMC. Who is... inexplicable an evil sociopath who hates the other creatures, wants to get rid of magic, and... rule the world...

Absolutely no explanation given for how this child turned evil, racist, a sociopath, a master manipulator, and a megalomaniac. No backstory, no explanation. At all.

At least with Neighsay, you can logical see how he got there. But I have no idea what they were going for with Cozy Glow. 

The only thing I can figure out is this: Cozy Glow exists to prove one point that Neighsay made. He was afraid that the other creature students would use their friendship lessons and the school to secretly take over Equestria. He believed that they were sociopaths who were incapable of being changed, so instead of being improved by the school they would only learn how to better manipulate ponies. That's what sociopaths do in real life. 

But instead of it being the other creatures who did it, it was a pony. The point of Cozy Glow's character is to prove that ponies are capable of being the megalomaniac sociopaths that Neighsay thought the other creatures were. So in a way, I can see where the base concept for her character came from. 

The thing that makes it terrible is that there is absolutely no backstory or explanation given for why this child is evil, or how she got there. The writers just expected the audience to accept this incredibly bizarre, horribly written character. 

Lol, shrug

Grogar would've been a really cool villain, if he wasn't actually SPOILERS Discord in disguise the whole time.

The real Grogar does exist in their world. He could be dead, he could be alive. We don't know. But the writers lied to people, telling them that Grogar would be the final villain, hyping him up... only for it to be taken away with a terrible plot twist. That they (apparently) planned from the beginning:

But when Discord was impersonating Grogar, he was still a better villain than Cozy Glow and Neighsay. The plot twist was the real problem, not Grogar himself. 

I actually feel kinda bad for Grogar's character. They did him dirty. They did my sheep dirty :(

Anyway, my final thoughts on the season 8/9 villains:

Chancellor Neighsay: Terribly written, but can be easily fixed.

Cozy Glow: They were high on BATH SALTS or something and were watching Cats Don't Dance (or the episode of Batman the animated series with Babydoll) when they came up with her character, and didn't give a shit about anything else.

Grogar: I feel bad for my poor sheep :( You deserve better, you could've been great 🐏

[andresin-commissionsopen]

20% less cooler

[ultraericthered]

2019 VS 2024.

[ricky-toon]

Lyrabon appearances: MLP Season 9

The Beginning of the End - Part 2

Aww, even when they are brainwashed they are together. Cute.

A Trivial Pursuit

For once they are able to enjoy a date in peace.

The Summer Sun Setback

She Talks to Angel

Aww, cute picnic date

Dragon Dropped

Praise be to the animators for making them have those cute dates.

Growing Up is Hard to Do

The Big Mac Question

The moment when all Lyrabon shippers screamed (I knew these two were definitely dating but I was not expecting a canon confirmation. I wonder how the Lyrabon denier felt when this happened lol)

The Last Problem

AWWWWW

Having a double date with their fellow gays. wlw and mlm solidarity ftw!

It fills me with pure joy to see they stayed and grew old together. Happy wives! (also is it me or does the pony in the background look like a mix of both of them?)

My other Lyrabon Compilations: Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Season 8

[the-64th-gamer]

I FINISHED MLP YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

(Started December 3, 2022 - Ended January 1, 2024 - 413 Days)

Am absolutely mindblown to see such an amazing series go through 9 seasons and literally continuously keep getting better and better!!!!!!!

Its been very cool binging it so quickly compared to most old fandom members watching it through syndication. Similar to when I rewatched SU there's such a difference seeing ideas and characters evolve at normal pace than to sit there for years brewing in fandom content that makes you expect them to go a different path. Lots of what I've heard be controversial things like Slice of Life and Starlight in general were some of my favorite parts of the show!!

Fav episode is The Perfect Pear, I was spoiled William Shatner was gonna play someone in the series and was SO FUCKIGN EXCITED when I realized it was him and in such an amazing episode!!!!! The ending was so fucking sweet omg.

Second fav was Slice of Life cause I get it was fanservice but on its own it was a great change of pace in the season to focus on background and side characters!!! After that it feels like they focused on background characters way more and it was very rewarding.

Seeing ***every single shot of Derpy*** was the funnest part of the show, I have personal screenshots of every single time I spotted her and stopping in the middle of songs or big fights just to scream and snapshot them was such a fun scavenger hunt. It made me go NUTS to see them do actual stuff on screen (ESPECIALLY THE SCENE IN BEST GIFT EVER WHEN SHE FINALLY GOT TO SPEAK IN FOREVER). It was also hilarious to see all the error derpies with fucked up colors and hair!!!!! It stopped in the later seasons except a time where she had a purple eye in a single shot, and one where she had big mac's face???? I was having a blast.

Similarly I was also just watching every single background character all the time every time, got to figure out which ponies would be used for which locations, when they'd appear in other places, which special ones could show up anywhere, which ones would do funny stuff, seeing new super cute background characters come in like Sweet Biscuit and Rainbow Stars!!! As someone hyperfocused on stupid stuff this was so fun watching the background nonstop.

Favorite season was season 6 or 7. Starlight was a great link for the episodes and it was the most normal seasons while the writing had gotten really good. Season 8 and 9 are still super good and I love that they were so willing to be bold and change things up a ton to keep interest, but 6 and 7 are closer to the usual baseline episode stuff so they're the best to go back to if I wanna rewatch.

I think the early seasons were still looking for a longterm identity for the show but I think starting season 5 it became this really great constant escalation of things. I really expected the show to just linger around the same ol' topics but it it kept changing the characters lives, the plot, and circumstances a ton while developing old characters and introducing new ones! Out of everything I've watched so far it was like the most masterful way to run a longterm series I've seen. Never felt burnt out or that anything was dragging, but also never felt like it ever lost its core identity!

Season 9 also was just a masterclass on ending a series, every single episode focused on bringing back some side character to give them an interesting spin, or conclude some arcs left behind. There were maybe one or two normal episodes but even those didnt feel like filler! I think the show was at its best throwing new ideas out and then taking a break with a standard friendship problem episode in a normal location. After watching it I don't think there was any missing thread or interesting thing they didn't try out! (Though also the series is formatted well enough they definitely could have continued making tons of standard episodes)

I can't remember if it was season 2 or 3 but I think when they first started introducing like regular songs to non adventure/important episodes it was really off, didn't really mesh well having the show be so musical, but they definitely incorporated it better as they went along and its kinda crazy it worked out well.

BTW I've steered clear from almost all opinions on the show outside of what Ray tells me so I dont know what of my opinions are universal to the fandom, but holy shit the season 8-9 intro sucks so much ass, all of the timing is COMPLETELY lost, theres that stupid school zoom out shot thats just maud hitting a rock in the middle of the road as it slowwwwwly pans, the backgrounds are way too visually noisy in the classrooms and the castle and its just an absolutely horrible nightmare that was thrown together in a day.

But yeah great show favorite show best show!!!!! I now get to see a decade of fan content and reviews and discussions n such!!! I watched some that were time appropriate for the current season I was watching to avoid spoilers but nows time for the floodgates!!!!! I'm glad I'll be able to hold onto my opinions now though and seperate them from anything I'm gonna further see discussed by all the old fans. I'm sure there will be tons of complaints I never considered but as I see it now that was a perfect run of television that I love very dearly!!!! Its certainly changed my life going forward lol.

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

This is some Kingdom Hearts energy

Same character:

Different characters:

[wi-ktos]

OKAY NOW

NOW

I just knooow Blitzø had/has some feelings towards Fizzarolli

Bacause yeah, the letter, the "yo would it be weird if we made out"

The fact that these scenes are about to come

[danikoshi-doodles]

My phone died so I'm thinking about certain colorful horses again to distract myself

I hate the colors but whatchu gonna do when you're doodling filled with anxiety 🤩

[lesbianseaweed]

my friends want to do an hyperfixation PowerPoint night and idk if I should do mine about RWBY (a show that I love and has been a huge part of my life since I was 14, so much so that my friends have already heard a lot about it, and it also got me through a lot of though times during my teens, after mlp:fim ended and during covid) or My Little Pony (a franchise that I've been obsessed with since I was 4 years old, which I never really got to discuss with others out of embarrassment and who shaped a lot of my personality and interests)

[thatrainylife]

um i didn't think i would cry watching the last episode of mlp but hearing the theme song at the very end of "the magic of friendship grows" struck a chord with me. if i can describe finally accepting the reality of growing up with a smile without saying goodbye to the things that mean so much to you, it's that feeling. thank you for being my childhood show. i will go cry some more now.