Talk:The Last Crusade/@comment-1658827-20190617084605

This episode's heart was in the right place, and the ending was powerful and helped summarize the CMC's entire run up to this point, but this episode still ticked me off pretty badly. I finally got over Twilight having a brother after about a season or two of groaning about it, since at least there wasn't THAT much time of us not knowing about it. But almost nine entire seasons and just NOW we learn that Scootaloo actually has parents? But the reason we never heard about them is because their job just keeps them away? Yeah, sure. Your daughter gets mixed up with tons of horrible, evil villains, and helps save the world a few times, and you NEVER return home to check to see if she's alright? Your job is THAT important to you? Either you're the worst parents on the planet, or this is very contrived by the writers to make this nonsense fit into whatever story they want. Oh, and her parents? Give me a break. One of them is a blonde beauty, and the other is Australian. What a joke. That's about as believable as Mrs. Cake having a Pegasus and unicorn for children without cheating on Mr. Cake, which is a 0% chance. I was just waiting for this to all be another ploy, just like Sludge was to Spike. Did you SEE the looks that Mane Allgood was giving in the episode? Seriously, go back and watch her expressions. She gives such sinister, evil smirks and glares with her eyes that I honestly believed she was an unreformed Changeling in disguise, sent by Chrysalis to try and break up the Crusaders, as a small step towards slowly destroying Twilight's group of friends. But, nope! Instead it's the typical story of parents nobody has heard of showing up out of nowhere, a cliche storyline of everyone sobbing and throwing a fit, and then a typical ending of the kid character getting to stay with her friends and the parents realizing how wrong they were. I'm sorry, I can't like this episode. The ending was powerful and sweet, but everything else was just garbage. It's like the writers thought this was a good idea, so they pulled all this random stuff out of their rear-ends to cram into one episode and expect just to just buy into it. I'm not one of those.

SEASON 9 RANKINGS:

1. Frenemies (Adore)

2. Sparkle’s Seven (Love)

3. Student Counsel (Love)

4. Common Ground (Love)

5. Going To Seed (Like)

6. The Point Of No Return (Like)

7. Sweet & Smoky (Like)

8. The Beginning Of The End [Part 2] (Like)

9. The Beginning Of The End [Part 1] (Like)

10. She's All Yak (Like)

11. Uprooted (Neutral)

12. The Last Crusader (Dislike)