#please enjoy my half baked ramblings on these candy colored horses that i love so much

[dragon-cookies]

So I was finally able to sit down and watch the finale of MLP! Check out my thoughts as we go under the cut below here! BEWARE OF SPOILERS and just me rambling about ponies (mostly Discord because I love that noodle horse). 

- Really kinda bummed out that they just retconned Grogar into being Discord tbh. He seemed like a really interesting villain who actually wanted to try a different tactic when it came to defeating Twilight and her friends. And man poor Discord, the writers really don’t want him to change too much it feels. I did like him being a bit irresponsible but well-intentioned to begin with, but even Applejack’s calling him out on it now and I cannot blame her. 

“For all the time you spent with us, you really haven’t picked up too much in the way of friendship lessons, huh?” THAT’S COMPLETELY FAIR TO SAY AND I’M SAYING THIS AS SOMEONE WHO LOVES DISCORD. The writers are really doing him dirty here oh man. 

- okay but this is also very good:

thank you hasbro for providing fuel for my little gremlin raricord shipping heart. Rarity loves to toy with his beard and no one can take that headcanon away from me

- OOH DISCORD YA DONE GOOFED NOW

“What do you MEAN you sent the baby to another dimension for a PLAYDATE.”

- “FLY YOU FOAL!” Okay painfully obvious LOTR reference aside, that’s the first time I’ve heard Discord sound genuinely terrified and I feel for him. For the first time he’s actually powerless to do anything and he can only hope that Twilight will know what to do. 

- Cozy Glow is also such an odd villain because I feel like I want to like her more than I actually do. Villains that are just absolutely balls-to-the-walls diabolical are usually a ton of fun to watch, but the fact that she’s got basically no backstory as to why she’s so evil just kind of makes her pretty uninteresting in my eyes. If she just likes being evil just because, she sort of just comes off as a spoiled brat. Like she sees having friends as  a way of manipulating people into doing what she wants, but why? Did she have a bad experience with friends when she was younger? Why did she want to get rid of all magic in Equestria? Why does she want total domination over Equestria? Where are her parents?  Why did they redeem a cult leader but send Cozy, an entire CHILD, to Tartarus. That one still just sends me reeling every time I think about it, but that’s neither here nor there. 

- Oh nooo Discord legitimately apologizing my heart. 

- And then the Mane 6 just glare him down OOF. I always have such complicated feelings towards how they treat him tbh because on one hand yes his behavior should be acknowledged and be made clear that its not okay but ON THE OTHER HAND they’ve definitely all given him some major stink eye every time he messes up and I don’t blame him for getting defensive at times. Like yeah he’s not perfect but the Mane 6 aren’t always the nicest to him either when he does make a genuine mistake. This is sort of something I’ve noticed ever since Keep Calm and Flutter On. It’s not that I think he should be coddled and forgiven every time he makes a mistake, but the way the Mane 6 treat him sometimes feels like they’re just more annoyed with him than wanting to actually help him become a better person. Tbh it’s no wonder he attached so strongly onto Fluttershy, she’s the only one who gives him an actual chance.

- So none of the villains know how to use Discord’s chaos magic? Tirek absorbed Discord’s chaos magic before and seemed to have no problem but eh I digress

- DISCORD CALLING OUT TIREK’S DADDY ISSUES OOP

-  Oh shit they’re actually threatening to rip Spikes wings out that’s INTENSE. 

- And of course friendship saves the day! Taste the rainbow motherfuckers

- Oh look my dorks are standing next to each other again. Nice

- Pinkie is the only pony who can somewhat wield discord’s magic. I am not surprised because Pinkie but now I can’t help but wonder if she’s got some distant, distant draconequus family genes somehow 

- Tia, Tia that face 

Scheming couples? Sign me up 

- Oof, I do feel a little bad for Cozy and Tirek. Just turned to stone while cowering in fear. Does Equestria just not have any sort of trial system at all? I could see turning enemies into stone as a good method of neutralizing them, but as far as I can tell these guys aren’t ever brought back for a trial. 

Also Discord YOU were turned into stone. You seem all too excited about making someone else suffer that same fate

- So we flash forward to several years later. I really love Canterlot seems to be way more integrated than it was before! 

Is that dragon giving that pony a flower. oh my GOODNESS THAT’S CUTE

- Oh god oh LORD I don’t like that adult Spike design. Why couldn’t he have stayed chunky 

- DANG Twilight you got TALL. Is the height just like a thing that you get when you become a royal or??? Either way it just looks odd to see Twilight looking like that imo

- OHHH THERE ARE THE GIRLS

- Aaaaaaaa Pinkie’s little daughter is so cute 

- Oh?? Rainbow and AJ seem to living together?? Not my personal ship but nice

- Tbh of all the ships that they could’ve made canon (besides Lyra and Bon Bon) I’m glad they went with Cheese and Pinkie. Those two were perfect for each other ever since they met 

- Okayy hasbro you got me that last song is really goooddddd. Overall, I think this was a good conclusion to the MLP series. Not perfect, but definitely solid. I’ll most likely be picking and choosing some stuff when it comes to my canon, but I’m overall happy with it