Did I like the MLP Season 7 Finale?

Hey, everybody. Rainbine here and if you remember yesterday, I made a review on the finale of Season 7, but then I took it down. My reason for that was because I was not happy with what I said in the review because one, I was acting like a child when I raged at Starswirl and two, I felt like I was all over the place with the review. So, instead of doing a review for the Season 7 finale, I decided to ask myself this question, did I like the finale?

My answer to that is...Yes. I did like the finale. I thought it was pretty good. You got a lot of information about the ponies of legend and how they were the equivalent to the Elements of Harmony of today. Starlight Glimmer proving why she's one of my favorite characters by helping Twilight realize that Stygian needed help and that the situation they were in was a friendship problem. I had a good laugh out of it. We got a cool little montage of each Mane 6 member finding the artifacts. And there was actually a really cool Equestria Girls cameo that really surprised me. So, overall, I enjoyed the finale and if I were to give the whole thing a grade, it would be a 14 out of 20, which is basically a 7 out of 10. It was a Very Good Finale.

Now I ask myself this question, Do I think the Season 7 Finale is the best finale of MLP? Well, my answer to that is...no. Not at all. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is one of the weakest finales of MLP. And I have three reasons as to why I think that.

1. The Elements of Harmony's returned. I still want to know the answer to this. Why? Why did we need the crystals back? I feel like it was the writers trying to be like, 'Hey, remember these plot devices we got rid of in Season 4?' You know what I mean? Like, I don't get why these need to come back. We could've used the artifacts of the Legendary Ponies as their new source of Power. Also, what happened to the Rainbow Powers they used to defeat Tirek? Am I missing something with that? Anyway, it just adds a lot of confusion and I personally feel like it was forced in just to get the fans of the old seasons to go, Yay.

2. I don't like the villain. Stygian/Pony of Shadows is the worst villain in the entire series of MLP, because he never did anything threatening at all in this finale. All he did was talk and talk and talk and when he finally does something like shooting a beam of shadows at the barrier protecting the Mane 6, Starlight, Sunburst, Starswirl, and the other Pillars. So by that point, I thought, 'Okay, they're finally going to have a battle and we get to see how powerful this villain is.' Nope. After that barrier goes down and separating Stygian from the shadow, he gets sucked into a wormhole in the span of five minutes.

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...Really? And because he was defeated so easily, it took away all of the tension that he brought in the ending of the first part of the finale and I makes you ask, What was the point of this villain existing? At least with Chrysalis, she was actually somewhat of a threat, especially in the Season 6 finale.

3. Starswirl. I'm sorry I tried, dude. I tried not to hate on this character and I tried to see where you were coming from when you made your comment on my old review, but I still hate him. And a big reason why I hate him is because he such a fucking dick. He's a dick to the Mane 6 by not believing that they actually saved Equestria multiple times. He's a dick to Twilight because of her accidentally releasing the Pony of Shadows and saying that she was half assing the spell she came up with. He's a dick to Stygian because instead of listening to him and understanding that Stygian just wanted to make copies of the artifacts so that he can fight along side the Pillars, he assumed that he was stealing them and then drove him away, which in turn caused the darkness to consume him and turn him into the Pony of Shadows, basically confirming that all of the Pony of Shadow Stuff was his fucking fault.

But the one that really got to me. The one that pissed me the fuck off to no end was when he yelled at Starlight, basically telling her that her idea of actually trying to talk to the Pony of Shadows was stupid and said that there's no such thing as redeeming villains, which in turn made her cry. I was literally in rage when I saw that and I'm still angry with it, because I'm pretty sure you all know how much I absolutely love Starlight Glimmer. You also know that my favorite type of characters are reformed villains. So Starswirl saying something like that or something similar to that genuinely pisses me off.

And yes, I'm well aware that Starswirl is an old wizard. and that he's from a different time period, and that he apologized for not understanding friendship. However, none of that excuses his behavior in the second part of the finale. Common sense would tell you to not be a dick. *sigh* I've never felt more anger towards a character since Flash Sentry and you all know how much I absolutely DESPISE Flash Sentry and his character. But Starswirl might of just taken the mantle of hatred for me. I still stand my opinion that Starswirl is the worst character in the entire MLP Series.

So, to recap, Did I like the finale? Yes. Do I think it's the best finale? Absolutely not. But hey, if you think this is the best finale of MLP, I have no problem with that. That's your opinion, but...let me know why. I genuinely want to know your opinion on Shadow Play. So, I ask you the same question as I ask myself before. Did YOU like the MLP Season 7 Finale? Let me know in the comments and no fan wars please. I just want to see a discussion on this finale.

Anyway, stay tuned. I still have one more picture to find for the MLP Season 7 Scoreboard, so as soon as I find one, I will upload that as soon as possible as well as my top 5 best and worst episodes of Season 7 because I already have both of those all set up and ready to go. And I'm probably going to review the first two episodes of RWBY Volume Five tomorrow. I'm not sure on that yet. Anyway, thank you all so much for reading and I'll see you guys soon. Rainbine Away!