@Liggliluff  
I wasn’t to keen on them all being similar marks, (and I was kinda hoping each CMC would get their own individual “cutie-mark” episode) but regardless they grew on me a bit, and overall I loved the episode.

Yeah, the shield suck…  
So detailed compared to the other cutie marks as well. So off.  
They didn’t even have to get them at the same time.
 
Mane 6 is solving friendship problems, just like CMC solves cutie mark problems - but mane 6 still have different talents.
 
…this will take some time to get used to, I guess.

@Background Pony #996A  
It is quite touching. It seems to imply that the CMC are at last “equal” with the mane six. They’re no longer the bumbling trouble-making fillies of Season 1, they’ve really grown up over the years. It’s both heart-warming, happy and even a li’l saddening.

This also give me a warm fuzzy, and i like cabbage

@Keith Mowz  
very much this, the shield is there friendship it shows their talent as a whole. The ability to crusade under the ideal of helping others to find them self. But even more so the icon on there shields shows they have a talent unique to them self and they are a greater part of a over all whole.
 
The context might be missed by some but its a rather nice lesson. Even as a team each member has unique talents and working together with thos unique talents is what makes your team strong.

@CristopherOS  
The shield is the CMC logo, minus the horse.
 
The entire point of their marks is to symbolize their talent for helping others discover their mark’s meanings.
 
Without representing the crusaders, the marks don’t fit them.

The shields sucks, it’s only th excuse to make the 3 cutie marks the same.
 
Thier marks woudln’t have the shilds, they should be only the symbol in the shild :-/

This is my new wallpaper, and it gives me a warm fuzzy.