Season 9 Discussion Thread [Warning: SPOILERS!!!!!]

@GenericArchangel  
Not gonna happen.

@Vivace  
Of course not. But it’d be funny.

How likely do you think a spin-off is?

@Background Pony #43AF  
Unlikely.

@Background Pony #43AF  
Not counting G5? about 1%, and even then the absolute most we’d be getting is 3 specials max.

 

 
This has got to have been Rarity’s best moment in the episode.

Sparkle’s Seven was a treat. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

@Background Pony #08EB  

 
This

@Background Pony #43AF  
Which is why being callous to the writers isn’t a smart idea.

@Background Pony #B92E  
OH NO, I hope not. If it just ends “in the present” it’s easier to imagine that the characters’ lives still go on in parallel to ours, we just don’t see them anymore. With a time skip our time and their time get “disconnected” and that illusion or comfort is broken.  
I don’t know how others see it but at least to me it would be easier to say goodbye without a time skip. Even so it is still incredibly hard and sad to do.
 
@Dustcan  
Yes, the entire scene was grand. Making Dash do the things she usually does - charming dudes with her sexiness and flirting with them for her own profit - was outright hilarious :D

I’m hoping that the finale doesn’t skip either. I’m also hoping that gen 4 carries on as a successor series and/or comics or what have you.
 
But you know what is going to happen don’t you? It’s going to play that super sad, super serious version of the main theme before it ends for good and I’m gonna be all choked up something bad. :(

I’ve heard people say that new writers should have to watch the entire show before they get to write. I think people are thinking too small.
 
I would estimate that my analysis of Season One took between 80 and 100 hours to complete, between watching and deciding what I wanted to say. My analysis is just things that I picked up on.
 
I have enough experience as a Game Master to know that if you’re taking your continuity and worldbuilding seriously, you should have a carefully maintained design document; almost like a staff-only wiki. Every character has a page that details their character, what ongoing plot threads they’re involved in, what information has been established about them and in what episode, as well as what underlying assumptions should be taken into account when writing for them. Every episode, location, plot thread, unique object and whatever else should have its own page, and ideally everything should be cross-reference-able.
 
That’s a lot of bookkeeping. Upon watching Season One, it becomes pretty clear that they weren’t planning on being that rigorous. And if the original creators weren’t, it’s a safe bet that later showrunners wouldn’t be either.

Are we going to get a new synopsys each week after new episode?

I’ve made it to season 9. Hi!
 
Sombra’s voice is hilarious. I think they might have done this on purpose to parody how he formerly never spoke a coherent word.

@Fibriel  
third episode had negative reception and recent fourth episode had positive reception

This premier was kinda dumb, especially “let’s explicitly state that Discord could have stopped Sombra at any instant if he felt like it”. It drags on (especially part 2) because there isn’t really much complication to fill time and it forces the soap super super hard, which is especially jarring after so many episodes treating “serious” topics in a very lighthearted way.
 
Also, Sombra is (still) an inept klutzy maniac. He takes over Equestria and all he really does is prance around spawning random dark crystals all over the place like a little kid in a sandbox. He might have won if he’d added a floor to the cage he trapped the girls in.
 
If I ever made a Friendship is Magic Abridged, I’d want Sombra to sound as much like Levi Stubbs as possible.

UPROOTED: This episode is OK. Sure some concepts are a bit rehashed and the ending is another By The Will Of The Tree!! which doubles as another magical crystal playset but meh so what. They’re clearly setting up the Backup Rangers to have a more consistent role in the future and it fits the pattern. Boy I can’t wait for the Elements of Yona.
 

 
SPARKLE’S SEVEN: Didn’t really hold my interest overall, but the ending is Very Cute. Didn’t they say the winner needed to get back out to keep the crown, though?

You don’t see Hasbro making a spin-off for G4?

@Background Pony #43AF
 
I’m absolutely certain they will. There are tons of new concepts being introduced in these last few seasons - S9 won’t be enough for a compelling story about the New Rangers.

@Fibriel  
Discord and Fluttershy scenes and Villains scenes were the past part of the finale. Yeah the most boring aspect was Mane6 fighting the plants and Ponyville ponies

@Volcel  
*best part

@Background Pony #43AF  

 
They did.  
 
 
 
 

@Philweasel  
Out of all of them, only one is canon.

@Philweasel
 
I’m talking about like a Laverne and Shirley-style show starring Starlight and Trixie, or a spin-off starring the Student Six.

@Philweasel  
I forgot the comics also made a parody of Oceans 11. Maybe the comics writers saw the synopsys for S9?
 
 
@Shimmering Spectacle  
None of it is really canon. None of it influences FiM in any way or is acknowledged.