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

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Probably not a rare opinion, but I still really think season 8 and 9 should have been about the Studant six, but since the show ended at 9. They showed up and they saved the day that season. Like it’s very obvious Yona and Sandbar now work with Rarity, but what of the rest? Are they just teachers now as being seen around the friendship school.
 
I wish they could have made the “the last problem” an hour long to just Luster meeting not only the mane six, but the Students and give them a bit more closure and show what they’re not doing and through meeting them, she finds 5 others to be the her friends and which would really make the final song really pop with it’s message as she is making friends in stead of being alone.
 
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Yeah, probably.
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Luster Dawn just passed Spur overnight. I wonder how many pics they’ll have here by Christmas. My guesses are 345 for Luster Dawn and 109 for Spur. That’s a growth of 220 and 0 respectively.
 
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Too much of it was dedicated to flashbacks for the future to really be shown.
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Would this be the best place to share my alternative finale?
 
I guess it could technically be a season 10 wishlist item, the way it goes.
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Keep in mind it’s not a fully realized and constructed plot line, so just bear with me.
 
Okay, so like, the league is studying the book, so far they can’t control the bell but they know what it does and are pretty horrified at the pictures. They know how it was made and point out it was a special ritual when Grogar comes back. They scramble to hide the book and mostly succeed, what with Chrys and Cozy being master manipulators, but Tirek falters and sweats a little. Grogar seems to lose suspicion, they sigh with relief, only for him to magically punch the wall next to Tirek and get his bell from its hiding place. They’re all like, ‘NO’ and mistaken reveal the book at the same time. Grogar pins them to the wall again and talks trash to them, “You really thought you could hide your weak little plots from me?!” and incinerates the book. Now he warns that since they crave his secrets so much, they will get to experience its power firsthand.
 
Then we go back to the heroes, it’s mostly the same, except they meet a special guest, the son of scorpan, who is visiting for the equestrian change of command as his father was ‘too ill to make the journey at his age, but wanted to show his solidarity to the new ruler’.
 
Then we’re back to the villains, grogar leading them by magic chain through the forests, close to canterlot. He then activates the bell with some reverse black speech shit and hits some narwhal-ish creature, which bounces and hits cozy, which fuses the two and she’s an alicorn, with a functional horn. She’s confused before Grogar scoffs and says ‘narwhals are among the most magical of creatures, you stupid little girl’. She gets real offended and tries to zap him, but her power is forced back into her horn and she’s forced to kneel. Grogar reveals that the bell has not only the power to create monster through fusion, but also to command the creatures made by it. He then commands her to attack some such target and she buzzes off.
 
Chrysalis say she’ll never bow to Grogar, and he’s all like, ‘soon, you won’t have a choice’, and reveals some cages with a zapfly, star spider, and flyder, and fuses her with all of them, creating a horrible screaming monstrosity incapable of speech anymore. He sends her off.
 
And he rounds on Tirek, saying that if he knows what’s good for him, he’ll know his place and stand down. Tirek, actually looking scared, simply awaits his orders, which he gets.
 
And here’s where things get real fuzzy.
 
I do have a climax, but perhaps i should post separately from the setup.
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Okay, okay, climax time.
 
At this point, everyone is hiding from a rampaging Chrys and an army of griffons, whom come under control by the bell because they were made by it eons ago. Gallus would be destroying stuff, namely the school where everyone saw him go feral, but he’s currently being restrained by Yak hide.
 
Celestia and Luna show up, but Monster Chrys is worse than anything they’ve faced, as she seems to have no weakpoints and can’t even be lured off by stuff she hates(something Starlight is a little offended by). They managed to sedate her with an enchantment, but the spell is being fought tooth and nail by her apparent madness. searching for answers, someone gets the idea to enter her dream state and see what is going on with her.
 
Oh, Pharynx and Thor are here for this part, should mention all the ‘guests’ and continually showing up for the coronation.
 
They go inside with Luna, where we see Chrys huddled in pain swarmed by the bugs she’s fused with, flashes of grogar and the bewitching bell flashing in the sky.
 
This scene would be the payoff to Chry’s side of the ‘villain backstory’ episode that would come before this finale, but to make a long story short, Chrysalis is scared that all her battles, personal sacrifices and loss of innocence were for nothing and her hive would do away with her if she hadn’t run for not being the queen they needed.
 
The changed siblings reassure her that they never would have survived to see a new way without her and whatever she’s done before, she can make up for it by being the queen they need now. She’s scared, but so are they.
 
We wake up from this dream, to a now calm Monster-Lis. She explains the griffons cannot be helped as they are now. The only to stop the bell is to deactivate it. And the only people that know now are the league and Grogar himself.
 
Then we go to Tirek, let’s say this is right off a similar fight with the pillars.
 
He comes across Son of Scorpan(we’ll call him Sonpan), and looking alot like his brother, initially dismisses it as a stress-induced mirage, before Sonpan actually calls him his Legendary uncle. Tirek sarcastically asks how his dear brother is, and Sonpan basically answers, ‘not alot of time left on that clock’. Then Tirek tries to scare him away saying his dad probably told him all about his Uncle’s crimes, but Sonpan is adamant that his father still thought the world of his brother, even as all others in their homeland forgot him, listing off his positive qualities(some of which are almost certainly exaggerated) and includes ‘a brave heart deep down’. Tirek has an epiphany and resolves to be the uncle that kid has heard about. He sets off for where Chrys was directed.
 
This is where a chance at redemption would go for Cozy, but she legit has no story angles for me to spring her on. They really gave her nothing.
 
Rest assured, she’s convinced they can stop Grogar if they work together.
 
Last part in a bit.
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From what I gather, if the latest leaks are true, she may have been Cozy Glow after drinking Apple Bloom’s potion in an older version of her episode and was only used because the animators couldn’t bear to part with what they made without using it
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Okay, okay, okay, last one i swear. So the league is back together, but there’s still an army of griffons destroying everything, with monsters both new and old joining them from the forest. The league figures that must be where Grogar is.
 
They go in, they find him.
 
Grogar attempt to make Chrys attack, but she holds through long enough for Tirek, Cozy Glow and Chrys to deactivate the bell by reciting it’s original enchantment backwards, the force of the overworked bell shutting down leveling the forest, but returning Chrys and Cozy and several monsters back to normal. To explain it only separates those made by the bell, the original creations, not those descended from the originals, like all the griffons.
 
For the rest of the time we see her, Cozy is carrying around a narwhal.
 
Grogar is pissed, but exclaims that the bell was not the only great power he held, and with a ‘by the power of Greyskull Tambleon’ he summons some big ol skeleton goat behemoth.
 
So here’s where we have our big battle, kind of like the finale we got, Twilight gets to make her little speech and Harmony BigGoat and when the dust settles, there’s this little kid goat swearing vengeance for Tambleon and attempting to magic everyone to death. Fluttershy scoops him up immediately because he’s just so darn cute.
 
And that’s basically all there is to it, but i forgot all about Discord’s parts.
 
Eh, he was in a Jafar/Genie scenario and the last blast of the bell turns him back into a pony. COuld have been more detailed, but i forgot all about him. My bad.
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@Wiimeiser
Keep in mind it’s not a fully realized and constructed plot line, so just bear with me.
Okay, so like, the league is studying the book, so far they can’t control the bell but they know what it does and are pretty horrified at the pictures. They know how it was made and point out it was a special ritual when Grogar comes back. They scramble to hide the book and mostly succeed, what with Chrys and Cozy being master manipulators, but Tirek falters and sweats a little. Grogar seems to lose suspicion, they sigh with relief, only for him to magically punch the wall next to Tirek and get his bell from its hiding place. They’re all like, ‘NO’ and mistaken reveal the book at the same time. Grogar pins them to the wall again and talks trash to them, “You really thought you could hide your weak little plots from me?!” and incinerates the book. Now he warns that since they crave his secrets so much, they will get to experience its power firsthand.
 
Eh, I feel though this would double down the whole “Grogar was an idiot” point that some people pointed out in Frenemies and just annoy them further…
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