Talk:The Ending of the End - Part 1/@comment-36700661-20191013102227

This finale was incredibly disappointing, and contradictory. Grogar being Discord was an incredibly messed-up and disgusting idea for a twist that objectively never should have happened, and definitely shows how rubbish the writers are getting at arcs and that they don't care in the slightest how many characters they completely abuse. Discord seems to be their favourite subject, and I hate how this episode makes the entire Season 9 just pure smoke and mirrors for something that was never so. Plus, the thing with him causing trouble to test the Mane 6 is SO FREAKING OLD!! He's done that many times, when it was and wasn't appropriate, and to have Season 9's arc reduced to that was just so rubbish. As unsatisfying as Grogar was, at least the Legion of Doom was a really original plot, because we've never had villains be smart enough to realize that teamwork is powerful, and Grogar intending to use the Mane 6's own success strategy (teamwork) against them. That actually made a pretty good season arc. Then they revealed the whole dramatic arc to be one of Discord's stupid fake Season-4-level friendship tests, which he's supposed to have outgrown more than half the series ago, and everything just gets cancelled out. It's SO dumb and wasteful, not to mention OOC and flippin' boring! And I'm furious that they didn't reform Cozy Glow. Not that I wanted Chrysalis and Tirek to reform, but after all the friendship epiphanies they had, and how much they warmed up to teamwork, and we got to see their side of the story throughout Season 9, to have them be the main final villains and turn them all to stone at the end was just pitiful. At least if they'd reformed it would have been more natural. Or they should just have never have shown the Legion valuing friendship from the beginning. A few parts of the episode were kind of entertaining, but that's it.