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The final episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. This feels weird, considering how long the show has been around, it's weird that it's ending.

The story for the final episode is a lot similar to the set up of the very first episode. Twilight, who is now a fully grown Alicorn, talks with her best student about the importance of friendship. Her student is adamant about friendship since she believed that friendship fades over time. However, Twilight and the rest of the Mane 6 prove to her that no matter how much time passes, if you're willing to put in the work, friendship will endure through the ages.

The entire story is a simple one yet the episode operates as a vessel to look back on the entire series. It's a thank you letter to the fandom for such an amazing 9 years. The episode concludes with a montage of seeing all our favorite characters, foreground and background, years later in their own relationships and some with kids of their own. We even get a scene of seeing all the characters the Mane 6 have influenced through the years, from the main show, the movie, and even the Equestria Girls spin off series. It's ends with the Mane 6 looking on the next generation as the camera zooms out to the book from episode 1 closing on the final chapter.

This is a show that surpassed a lot of expectations. It was seen as just a show for little girls, yet it became something that both genders of all ages can enjoy. It was seen as just a way to advertise toys, yet it grew into a world of endless possibilities, sympathetic characters, and grand adventures. No expected it to make an impact, yet it grew the most unlikely fan base imaginable.

The journey of the fourth generation of MLP has been a wild and exciting one. I'm glad I got to be a part of it, and I look forward to see what the fifth generation has in store.

Well, here it is, the final episode of the biggest sleeper hit in pop culture history. This episode takes place in the future where Twilight is now a fully grown alicorn. She's greeted by a student named Luster Dawn, whom she has to teach friendship about. Most of the story is flashbacks to the day she became the leader of Equestria. Don't worry, it's not a clip show! Pinkie Pie has married Cheese Sandwich and they have a daughter!

As tradition with cartoon endings, this one's bittersweet. Twilight is now immortal and will outlive all of her friends! Rainbow Dash and Applejack might be married! They deliberately left vague details about the characters' romantic lives. For all we know, Rainbow Dash could have married Soarin! It was never about romance, but as the title suggests, friendship!

I will admit that I wish the main action could have been in the final episode. That's what they did for "Gravity Falls" and "Adventure Time"! Just make it an hour long episode like they did! The first few seconds of the first episode showed a book being opened and the last few seconds of the last episode show it being closed! For me, this marks the end of the Golden Era of the best animated kid's shows. This was the longest running and thank you Lauren Faust for giving us one of the most unbelievably good franchises of all time! ****

Thanks to the team of FiM, various FiM chat livestream and FiM forums come and gone and Bronies React I hope they soon come back to do a long awaited react to this long awaited leaked finale. I'm 45 now and the future glimpses fits us older Bronies. Future Mane Six, Gummy had litterary grown since Party of One and new students and teachers at the Friendship School. And now it's time to pay the price.

As someone who has been watching MLP from 2012, this was a beautiful finale but also a sad one. Seeing Twilight dealing with someone she once was is really heartwarming and sweet. Seeing her worry about not seeing her friends and them being busy was a little emotional. The final song was beautiful and really can shed tears to anyone who is watching this. I loved every bit of it, it may not be one of my favourites but it is still an excellent episode.

I'm not sure what I had expected before crossing the line and watching the last episode. Probably, somehow I felt that it had to end, it could not just go on forever. But, for sure, I did not expect it to end in the way it ended. I felt that I was cheated.

First of all, I did not like, that all the potential the "Main Six" had developed over the course of those nine years - was simply wasted. Probably it was not the case for Twilight Sparkle. Her character got the ending it deserved. It could have been better, but still, in my opinion, it turned out for her much better than for the others. After all those great adventures they had had, it ended nowhere.

Look, for instance, at Starlight Glimmer. Her potential was clearly wasted. I do not want to say that her ending was completely unrealistic and so on. But I expected more from her than just settling down with her old friend and getting old. And the preceding episodes carried the notion of her promising future. For me, it was super sad. Not completely unrealistic though. We have seen many stories like that in real life when promising people wasted their lives. But still, the creators did not give us any hope. They showed that for her it's the end, no more adventures, or development. I expected her path to be similar to Twilight's path.

The other big hit just right into my heart was seeing Applejack's development. She turned into a copy of Granny Smith. Yeah, I can accept that during the show it was made clear that all she wanted to do with her life is dedicate it to her family. But still, there was hope. I did want her to be somewhat special and wanting more. Plus - the story of her parents, I was hoping it would end somewhere. But it never did...

Spike and Rarity. It's not that I hoped them to become a couple. But after some point, Spike just forgot about her. So did the others. Her story stopped long before the final episode. It felt that she was getting nowhere. The string of grey hair and the tasteless closes on her in the finale hit me hard. No love interest, no incredible achievements... She appeared as an old miserable soul.

Another character I hoped would have been given a brighter future is Pinkie Pie. Honestly, it was never shown that she would get something extraordinary out of her life. It was just sad to see the confirmation of that. They gave her a family and she became a mother. But still, it was not all that I wanted her to achieve. She seemed deeper than that and not that simple.

Rainbow Dash is another disappointment. It felt like the biggest achievement in her life was that "Sonic Rainboom". I don't know what I had expected her to achieve. It was just heartbreaking to see her stuck in the role of one of the Wonderbolts...

I think - I'm just unhappy with the cutoff of all the other possibilities for the characters. I never asked the creators nor I wanted them to tell me how everything is going to end. Anyway, rather a positive note for me was the end of Fluttershy's story. Not 100% satisfying but still. She just gave up her life in favor of serving the others. I did not expect anything out of her story, but the fact that a twist in her fate never took place is unsatisfying.

Overall I can't give this episode a low mark. It did make me emotional and it seems to some extent logical. Some people may find it being a great finale to the story of six little ponies. But I feel that there is more to tell, in greater details. I can accept sometimes we need to let it go and it's not under our will to resist changes. Despite all that inevitability, for me, their story never ended. I still hope to see yet another movie or a TV special...

What can I honestly say about My Little Pony's 9th and final season? It's become arguably THE worst season in all of animation, much less TV in general, and unless you love the same tropes or ideas of a previous seasonal setting, ranting on this sorry excuse of a final season will never stop feeling satisfying. The redemptions suck. The rehashed morals (that were once good) suck. The newer characters themselves (besides Snap Shutter & Mane Allgood) suck (say for both Wind Sprint & Clear Sky in Common Ground). And the sendoff sucks! Yes, from all that wasted potential, The Last Problem is a horrendously catastrophic episode - hands down THE worst series finale in animation as well (let alone of My Little Pony). And you know what? I'm not surprised in the slightest at how atrocious it turned to be. It's totally incredible how a lot of writers like those of My Little Pony just keep on failing based on not bothering to hear out other fresher ideas us fans have to offer. (And yes, I will admit the end song's catchy - so much so that it's obviously best listened to as another standalone)

This finale is pretty much how Game of Thrones was often described given how pretty much the whole season in general is anti-climatic, whereas it shoehorns in more plot points than I myself would even consider listing in a whole season (if it'd had been me writing for it obviously), which ranges first off from flash-forwarding to too many years in advance that we're clearly not given a brief stamp at how long its been since their present time in Equestria since the series premiere. And another problem does include the plothole of how Twilight became as tall as Celestia as seen in the very beginning of this atrocity. Because this series finale has far too many changes that clearly haven't been told, we're given end results of each of the characters that, while they made sense since most of them were fleshed out in previous episodes, they aren't clearly given real detail in the episode before the newer time period of everypony in the episode, no thanks to tall Twilight only recapping to Luster Dawn the past events, instead of fleshing out the events of how everything in the present time came to the way it did, although it all likely wouldn't have worked in one big rush unlike Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for example which did give understandable supercut recaps of each character who wasn't newbie Spider-Man protagonist Miles Morales. And we have the untold occurrences of every other Mane Six member such as Pinkie with Cheese, and Rainbow Dash the new Wonderbolts leader. And let me tell you about characters who have either vanished into thin air or don't have explained end results; we're not even given a hint at what the former Wonderbolts leaders (like Spitfire and those Rainbow Dash HAS collaborated with) have moved on to in The Last Problem's present time period, nor are we given much detail at how SugarMac or CheesePie each had their own foals, not to mention how both Granny Smith & Grand Pear passed on, or even how Fluttershy's pet bunny Angel started his own family given that THEY TOO haven't been given a decent amount of depth - in other words: They! All! Make! No! SENSE!!!!

So really, looking at all of what I just mentioned, this is what happens when you give up on putting effort into ending a once remarkable series off just for the sake of putting it out of its misery. Even if other fans wanted a series to last for a few years longer, if not forever, so they could stick with the characters themselves and how they remain alive in pop culture and not just in television canon, literally every story that particular series already told will cause even critics and children's programming to turn against it to get it cancelled when the oldest of plots keep secretly repeating themselves onward so even anti-fans don't have to put up with its influence no thanks to the one major point (like a entire season in general) that made it go completely downhill even for the most naive fans. If My Little Pony's 9th season had a major arc that connects so many plot points together (like what it thankfully did with Season 4), its finale could've easily stood out as a more half decent way to end all of the characters' sealed fates on a high and completely logical note for the series itself.

I will admit that, by reading their plot descriptions, other live-action series finales like Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, or Game of Thrones are worse since the characters of those shows either don't get satisfied feelings for themselves (Dexter and Game of Thrones), while others show that while the characters themselves DO feel satisfied, they don't get it with a truly realistic arc (much like HIMYM and MLP in comparison) to end on a high note for fans, but I'll remind you; every cartoon finale is better than Friendship Is Magic's finale! And by what I've heard, a lot of other finales in 2019, like Star vs. the Forces of Evil have also ended on a very low note. So even if anyone can prove me wrong that there's a worse cartoon finale than this, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic's series finale The Last Problem would be a great example to show newbie script writers to show them how NOT to end wonderful television series. Because seriously, what else can you honestly say?

CheesePie, SugarMac, and Fluttershy's own pet bunny each having their own offspring? It makes no sense. Rainbow Dash listed as the new leader of the Wonderbolts? It makes no sense. The fully grown Crusaders becoming teachers of Twilight's old School of Friendship? It makes no sense. Lackluster Dawn's character? It (or SHE) makes no sense. Twilight becoming a Goliath-height alicorn in an untold time period of who knows how long it's been since she's taken over Celestia and Luna's duties in Canterlot as Equestria's new ruler? It makes no sense! The Last Problem?

Well, WHAT THE HECK DO YOU EVEN THINK?!

This was an amazing ending! I still can't believe the show managed to pull off a perfect finale. While the show wasn't as good in the last few seasons (in my opinion), it managed to pick up in season nine, and deliver an amazing send off for both the audience and characters.

While Twilight becoming the ruler of Equestria wasn't executed the best in the beginning (Celestia and Luna just announcing they were retiring without giving Twi much of a choice), I love how this finale focused on Twilight coming to terms with the big change and accepting it. Even though she has to move away from her friends, they will still see each other, and even though the coronation wasn't smooth, her friends were still there by her side. It's honestly beautiful.

And oh man, the end song gets me every time. I watch the final scene/song at least once a week, and I've cried every time. It's so beautiful to see all the characters that we met throughout the 9 seasons and how their lives were all changed for the better by meeting the mane 6 and experiencing friendship. The whole ending is full circle from season 1 when Twi went to Ponyville and made friends, and now her student is doing the very same thing.

I don't think there will ever be another show like MLP, and this finale was the perfect send off for the show. I started watching when season 1 was first airing and the finale came out my senior year of high school. It was a magical ride, and of course, friendship is magic.

Throughout the early seasons the ponies are fighting to make Equestria a safe and friendly place for the ponies of Equestria. What ends up happening in the end is they forsake their homeland and the lessons they learned in the early seasons and bully a little filly, I kid you not, to death. The series ends with a child character dying.

A horrible way to end the series. Hasbro should be ashamed.