Talk:Crusaders of the Lost Mark/@comment-10390252-20151010160858

Fillies and Gentlecolts, it's been a while. It's been a long time coming but here we are. The Crusade is the Talent. The one talent that few if any of us thought to look out for, even though it's been hinted at a lot. The marks even suit the talent - Knight-Champions of Harmony. I wonder if the Princess of Friendship has any special duty for them now in her Kingdom?

Well, what can I say. I saw it coming as far back as Apploosia's Most Wanted but didn't want to see it: The girls' True Talent is to help others find the True Talent. In fact, I would argue that it was signposted back in One Bad Apple! It was a nice little bit of lateral thinking from the scriptwriters and neatly side-stepped all the butthurt that would happen if someone in the fandom had been predicting it for years (leading to cries of "PANDA!"

This was a nice little musical episode that made Diamond Tiara a surprisingly sympathetic character with the show coming as close to admitting to the existence of parental emotional abuse as it is ever likely to get. Furthermore, it did a nice job at reminding us how subtle cutie marks can actually get.

BenRG's Rating - 9/10 - Let the Crusade go on forever!