MLP: FIM over - Oct 20

…And so, MLP: FIM has ended this year, at this time – autumn 2019. Hurray, or boo, or whatever you want to call it, the end. This incarnation of MLP is done and gone for good, (‘Equestria Girls’ might be a different matter – if anyone cares). What is left?

Firstly, the obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Considering that next week is the election week in Canada, this suckage will take on a new, political dimension: while Canada isn’t U.S., it had its’ share of ‘FLAWS!’ and ‘EXCITEMENT!’ regarding the election month loud and clear, and right now all of the political experts aren’t sure as to what will have once the elections are over, what kind of government that Canada will have. It might still be a better, more decorous and professional than whatever is going on south of the border, but at 2019-2020 it is a low bar to clear, sorry. Back to MLP?

Meh, the MLP: FIM ended on a predictable note, except for one element, (pun intended), and no, it’s not the dastardly trio get petrified at the series’ end. By now, the MLP: FIM franchise has had plenty of redeemed villains, such as Flim & Flam, or the speciest councillor from the penultimate season, as examples. Yes, having a designated irredeemable villain can be bad for the show, if handled incorrectly, as MCU’s AoS has handled Ward, and to a different extent – Palamas/agent 33, but here MLP: FIM is less reminiscent of AoS, and more of the ‘Avatar’ cartoon series. At the end of A: TLA, there were two of such irredeemable villains in the show: Ozai and Azula. Ozai had lost his bending, Azula became insane, (and you do not usually get such a detailed depiction of progressive insanity in cartoons, you know, as A: TLA did with Azula), and the cartoon series ended. Then there was A: TLK, and between them, the ‘Avatar’ franchise is releasing a series of comics/comic books that depict what happened between the two shows, (as well as some post A: TLK events). In them, Ozai is shown to be still a very formidable villain, bending or no bending, while Azula actually escapes and goes on to become a force to be reckoned with, complete with a legacy, that would surface in a roundabout way in A: TLK… so who’s to say that CG, LT and QC won’t resurface in some new way in the next variation of the MLP saga, the way that Ozai and Azula have in the world of the ‘Avatar’?

…Personally, I was more impressed by the sign of the united ponies/griffons/yaks/changelings/dragons/etc. as they moved against the villains as a single front at the end – Union of Equestrian Socialist Republics here we come!

…Yes, this probably won’t happen…and not just because by now the U.S. is admitting, however reluctantly, that its’ dream of a ‘global village’ is currently at an end and even if the Donald doesn’t run for the president at 2020, (if he gets impeached, for example), it doesn’t mean that the Democrats will win this election, (so far it isn’t even fully clear as to who their candidate will be on that year – everyone is so busy with the impeachment), which means that whatever that had went down at the MLP: FIM’s series’ finale, is a pure utopia that isn’t truly realistic at all. This brings us to the actual point: the show’s conclusion: Twilight Sparkle has become a proper alicorn ala Celestia and Luna, (and Cadance too, I guess), while the rest of the Mane 6 have aged and by now are more to Mayor Mare’s age when the show has started.

…When TS became an alicorn in the past season finales, the show’s crew promised that she would not outlive her friends, but now that the show is over, the finale has come and gone, and everything is said and done…TS probably will. The show’s crew broke their promise, but because the show is over, its’ main villains – and the Storm King, does anyone remember him by now – are finished, and no one really cares about the canon anymore. True, if a show goes on long enough – the current incarnation of ‘Supergirl’, for example – no one cares about the canon anymore, unless it throws a real twist, as the second and last season of AC had, but still. It is a statement broken, a lie. Ouch! Remind me not to believe what the people in TV-land say anymore, would you?

Anything else? Real life sucks and family always makes it worse; a new kind of apple – a Cosmic Crisp – is hitting grocery stores in real life soon from this date, (October 2019) – and this is it, really. Real life sucks, sometimes hatred is the only thing that can carry you through and, oh yeah, today is the international sloth day! (The animal, not the deadly sin). Enjoy!

…This is it for now. See you all soon!