Not just because he clearly could have wiped out the pathetic Plundervines with a snap of his claws the whole time, but because he turns out to be responsible for it in the first place. He's barely a few episodes out, and already he's a massive civilization-wide liability. This two-parter really raises the question of why he was brought back at all, in-universe. Nothing really matters except that, for a few minutes in the middle, the entire Main Six come to the idiotic conclusion of splitting the Elements for a quest that clearly needs all six, and boy howdy could I go on about how stupid that whole scene is (for one thing, has no one been paying attention to what Princesses routinely do re: national security? In-universe, their decision makes no sense!).īut, to be different, I'm going to leave that to someone else and ding Discord's reveal at the end instead. And the sacrificing of the Elements feels a bit inconsequential, since "defeat the bad guy" is what the Elements do anyway, so what difference does it make to have the Tree do that? Besides, why can't they just take the Elements back as soon as the Plundervines were eliminated? really hasn't justified being released, however entertaining he is to us the audience. The flashbacks basically boil down to pointing to the Tree and maybe Discord's seeds, neither of which really justify throwing us so much Luna and Discord detail (let's put it this way: Sunset's backstory was genuinely new information, and that was relegated to a quick infodump). Twilight's worries about being princess are pretty much irrelevant, since it's no clearer now what difference it makes (other than that rubbish-for-too-many-reasons fake drama padding out the middle). Most of the problem is that the potential teased in the first half effectively has no real pay-off. Yeah, this second half is the weaker one, all right, though I think the Tree isn't that bad. Impossible Numbers 19 February 2021 at 11:05 It's also Josh Haber's writing debut, for better or for worse. I remember quite liking it, but finding some aspects mildly annoying and others just a bit odd. Next up is "Castle Mane-ia", an episode that wasn't really like anything before it. It's a top-end three with considerable ease, but in some ways I actually preferred part 1, which perhaps felt slightly more coherent than this arguably overstuffed second instalment.Ĭhoice quote: Discord: "Fine. rather to my surprise, I find that I can no longer quite justify a four-star rating. At the end, of course, we get the start of the show's most serious attempt at a season-long arc – a pretty good one all told, though now we know where it leads it's hard to have unmixed feelings about that, either. (Applejack, this really wasn't your best moment.) There are also maybe slightly too many conveniences, eg Spike happening to spot the castle and Pinkie happening to find the staircase. Discord himself is very good pretty much throughout, there's some real emotion in Twilight's scene with "dead" Celestia, and I rather like the argument in the Everfree – but it's perhaps stretching credulity for all five of the other ponies to be okay with sending Twilight home and to remain so until much later. However, the whole thing is rather bitty, and that irritates me a little bit more than it did in 2013. This is an interesting follow-up to part 1, and unlike some I do like the flashback sequences to Discord's rule and Luna's banishment. I never really warmed to it, even as a plot device, even way down the line in S9. Thoughts: I've always had an iffy relationship with the Tree of Harmony. S4E02: "Princess Twilight Sparkle, part 2" Nothing is ever made of it, but both princesses are clearly not entirely unscathed
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