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

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So far would say pretty good. No big duds or even eps that left me indifferent (Uprooted could have been better, and while I liked them, I think that the season could have put aside eps like She’s All Yak and going To Seed in favor of something more important and engaging, but nothing of much annoying).
 
 
…. paradoxally… the only few moments of S9 I legitimately disliked…. came from Twilight, my favorite character of the series (more precisely when she freaked out for highlighters in Uprooted, and when she acted like an idiot in Between Dark and Dawn)… that kinda damages the season in my eyes. Call me biased but… be honest: who isn’t biased when it comes to things they like?
 
Again: the most important things of the season were handled right, so I’m still remaining confident on writers doing a great job with the series finale as well. But if they fail, you know what I’m gonna do…
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I feel like it was a necessary side-effect of starting the “power transition” so early in the season, which in turn seems like a small price to pay to avoid yet another case of a major change being shoved in our faces moments before the ending of the season. While S3 and S5 relied on the hiatus period to lessen the blow, there won’t be such a thing after S9 so it cannot rely on setting fire to the lore and fandom for shits and giggles.
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||Ok I rewatched the episode, and I admit that I was a bit too hard on Twilight. I think she was just misunderstood the whole thing about the swans celebration thing. She thought it was something simple, and when she initially refused Fancy Pants help, she thought that she would have letted Celestia and Luna down for something so small, but in actuality Luna and Celestia never did the thing by themself and always had some help from delegations (well in a certain sense she had a point, I mean, who would have thought that a mere swan celebration would have been hard as much as keeping the Everfree Forest in control? Plus it was the first time she even heard of the thing so).
 
Basically it was just more of a lack of knowledge and experience on the thing than idiocy. Still, maybe the princesses could have been more detailed than just giving them a simple list ||
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Bad news guys: episode 13 won’t be available in English anytime soon. Sky, the service from which Loonex extrapolated the English audio of the episodes, removed all the eps of S9 from the service, included the last one. In other words forget about getting the English version of ep 13 for the moment, you’ll have to wait the airing on DF… amen to that.
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Well, they’d have had to look at DF regardless around the end of June, after all, there’s a special the week right after episode 13.
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Do I have faulty memory or is Tirek a lot more goofy now than back in Twilight’s Kingdom  
It’s like Discord on steroids
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He’s definitely taken less seriously and allowed to be more humorous/the butt of jokes, but he’s not like Discord levels of non seriousness.  
Unless you mean he’s literally taking steroids for his muscles
 
 
And really that’s because he’s not the main threat, Grogar is. When a villain is in full power or the main threat, the show treats them seriously and they act serious. The exception to this is Discord, where the only time he took his conflict with the Mane 6 seriously was with Fluttershy, and that he ended almost instantly. In fact we rarely see Discord go all out with his powers
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I mean he even sounds less threatening and more high-pitched, I guess I’m thinking of his big ultimate form in which he clearly hasn’t yet.
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I always hated Tirek as a villain, because there’s literally nothing interesting about him at all. He’s not sexy, like the female villains or funny like Discord, so he was literally just nothing and I was pissed at the Season 4 finale for giving us him after it’d been so long since the last villain, with there being none in Season 3 finale or Season 4 premiere. He wasn’t quite as bad as Sombra, but with him coming after Sombra, he felt even worse for just having nothing interesting about him to me. I’m so glad that they’re doing things like having him get annoyed at Cozy in a funny way, trying to suck up Chrysalis’s power, imitating Twilight and talking about his “Gram-Gram”. That makes him such a better character to me!
 
His voice also sounds so much cooler when he’s in his smaller forms. He has sort of a cool accent or whatever when you can actually hear his more normal voice. When he’s in his ultimate form, he sounds like you just told a random person do do an “evil voice”.
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Gail Simone? Dang. Now I’m kind of hyped, beyond getting another C&L episode.
 
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even The Mean Six felt the need to shove that idiotic Mane 6 subplot to hog most of the screentime.
 
To be fair, that’s what the episode was more or less supposed to be about. Doppelgangers.
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