Season 9 Discussion Thread [NO SPOILERS, DF airings only]

@AC97  
ya, but we have seen that already in the “Cutie Re-Mark”.

@AWGear
 
That’s… my point.

So, is this the last major appearance of the show for Maud, Mudbriar, Terramar, Sunburst, and Trixie?

@cheezedoodle  
Unless we have an “Everyone is Here!” scene in the last episode

@cheezedoodle  
I don’t think so. I’d assume that Sunburst and Trixie will at least return for the finale (due to thier connection with Starlight).
 
For Maud and Mudbriar, I still hope we will get a relationship based episode with the main protagonists being Marble and Limestone. It has been mentoined that both of them want a special somepony and I hope that they won’t leave that story arc open.
 
As for Terramar, I couldn’t care less for him getting another appearance. He isn’t very interesting.

@E-123  
It would be a shame, I’m really enjoying Mudbriar’s development and the relationship with Maud.

I really think having Mud be aware that his “technically” shtick annoys people goes a titanic way in making him likeable.
 
Like, it’s a verbal tic of his. He clearly doesn’t have a filter and he says it automatically. But he’s coming to realize even in his second big appearance that it rubs people the wrong way, and he’s self conscious about it.

@cheezedoodle
 
I would expect at least one more.

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So Sunburst has still got pretty strong magic, but he just can’t focus it at will for most spells beyond the basics. It’s more of an unconscious thing?

@cheezedoodle
 
All he said is he wasn’t able to do any of the advanced magic he read about. So maybe it’s a matter of mental co-ordination.

I hope someone makes a gif of Starlight quickly ducking under Sunburst’s magic blast (which I’m wondering just how much conscious thought went into him doing that, if any).
 
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@AC97  
I’ll try to remember when I get the itunes copy.
 
 
@gingerninja666  
I dunno. He can’t even teleport and the not-so-great-or-powerful trixie can sort of teleport.
 

@cheezedoodle  
Trixie can teleport, she just can’t do it (and other more advanced magic) very consistently.

@gingerninja666  
Man if he did appear more often and that happened frequently, I might warm up to him.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Another casualty of introducedtoolateitis. He’s treated in the same ward as Ocellus and, to a lesser extent, new Trixie (who was always going to be too late).

@GenericArchangel  
I don’t think this is the last time we’re gonna see Trixie.

@ILoveMyoozik  
We’ve had new Trixie for six episodes, and that’s counting TWABA as two. Despite being infinitely more popular than most other secondary characters, she’s had so few episodes. Kind of a shame, really.

@GenericArchangel  
Either way, I’m still confident that she’s going to appear again.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Of course, but not as a lead. Sorta like how she showed up in “A Matter of Principals” as a bit part. She’s going to be a BP at some point too, or so help me god I will petty boycott Hasbro until the end of time.

@GenericArchangel  
That I agree. Probably not as a lead again, but I think she’s gonna appear again in one way or another.

You know this is happening. (Crossposted in both threads)
 
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maud x trixie shipper and wifuer must seething at this episode.
 
 
@cheezedoodle  
they doin’ some kinky shit in the…badroom? does maud’s cave have a bedroom?

New episode was mostly good though Starlight was in woe-is-me mode a bit too much for my liking at times, though to be fair she was at fault, not for being curt with Silverstream but for spreading herself too thin. Silverstream was at fault for going AWOL but at least she got a new pet cockatrice out of it.
 
There was some funny lines in this, especially from Maud.
 

The Beginning Of The End:8.8  
Uprooted:9.1  
Twilight’s Seven:9.2  
The Point of No Return:9.4  
Common Ground:9.3  
She’s All Yak:9.0  
Frenemies: 9.3  
Sweet and Smoky:8.2  
Going to Seed:7.0  
Student Counsel:9.3
 
 
 
 
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@cheezedoodle  
You make me want to see them again even more xD  
I think that Maud benefits greatly from having a boyfriend. They are so much more interesting now ^^