Dethroning Moment of Suck (Darth Wiki)/Western Animation/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Difference between revisions

* I have to say, that I was a bit underwhelmed by the finale episode "A Canterlot Wedding: Part 1". I know [[Remember the New Guy?]] isn't a horrible trope, but I just couldn't feel anything towards Shining Armor. He's a cool guy and all, but establishing that he was pretty much Twilight's brother seemed like it was pushing it. Also the way Twilight accused Cadence seemed a bit uncharacteristic of her. After the previous episode, where she spent time not jumping to conclusions, she just decides to accuse her because she's meaner than usual. I empathized with her, but her methods just seem like Lesson Zero again. The thing that ticked me off the most was the shunning of Twilight. Yes, she was unreasonable, but just abandoning her doesn't solve much either. Especially Celestia's blatant lack of understanding.

*** I was concerned about how the second season finale would turn out, with it apparently introducing two new Mary Sue-ish characters with [[Remember the New Guy?|shoehorned life-long connections to Twilight]], but I had faith in the production team and hoped for the best. It seemed my fears had been quelled by the mid-point of part 2, with the introduction of a menacing new antagonist complete with villain song, and possibly one of the best action sequences of the whole series. What irked me about this episode, however, was the way in which the conflict was resolved; with Princess Celestia and the mane six captured and changelings running rampant around Canterlot, Cadence and Shining Armour use their love for one another to fuel a shockwave that sends all the changelings flying out of the city (Queen Chrysalis allows them to do this, scoffing at the concept despite [[What an Idiot!|using that same love moments ago to defeat Celestia]]). Now my problem isn't the use of the [[Power of Love]] in and of itself (as if the [[Power of Friendship]] as any less sappy), but with the Elements of Harmony, at least we got to see Twilight bond with each of her friends and learn about their virtues. Here, we're given two undeveloped characters, told they love each other because, um, they're both nice, and their love is powerful enough to set off the spell. I think the writers did their best with what they were given to work with, but this just feels like a really lame way to wrap things up.