Season 9 Officially the Last Season of FiM (SPOILERS!)

[sd_dreamcrystal]

Kind of a cruel one, given that Celestia know Twilight is an anxious pony and has long doubts about her title.

I'm guessing it's a fakeout by King Sombra. Remember the nightmare dark magic vision from the Crystal Empire episodes? (The one where Twilight had a vision of Celestia being angry, cold and disappointed in her)

I doubt this will be a magic vision sort of thing. More like the creators following the Trolestia idea... I guess

[Ragamuffin]

Kind of a cruel one, given that Celestia know Twilight is an anxious pony and has long doubts about her title.

I'm guessing it's a fakeout by King Sombra. Remember the nightmare dark magic vision from the Crystal Empire episodes? (The one where Twilight had a vision of Celestia being angry, cold and disappointed in her)

I doubt this will be a magic vision sort of thing. More like the creators following the Trolestia idea... I guess

I thought maybe Chrysalis or some other changelings might be behind it. Everyone keeps saying they want her to come back. (Haven't watched the past couple finales, not sure what the big deal is with her...)

Some sort of bad guy.

Maybe... Bad Guy disguises as the Princesses (or hypnotizes them) to tell Twilight they're retiring, Twilight becomes leader and when she's vulnerable due to stress, the Bad Guys take over, and the Mane6 rise up and defeat them. Celestia and Luna congratulate Twilight for being such a good leader and she becomes the ruler of Equestria for Real... and the rest of the Mane6 become alicorns, of course.

[Ponyfan]

I can't realistically see Celestia and Luna permanently retiring and leaving Twilight and her friends to rule everything. I think Shining Armor and Cadence would be better rulers than Twilight since they actually rule the Crystal the Empire and Shining Armor was Captain of the Caterlot guard and also seems to be Captain of the Crystal Empire guards.


I have a feeling the season opener will end with Twilight not really being in charge of Equestria and Celestia and Luna staying in power.


Is anyone else slightly confused by the line about "the longest period of peace" How long of gap is supposed to be between the season 8 finale and Season 9?



Ponyfan

[sd_dreamcrystal]

I thought maybe Chrysalis or some other changelings might be behind it. Everyone keeps saying they want her to come back. (Haven't watched the past couple finales, not sure what the big deal is with her...)

Some sort of bad guy.

Maybe... Bad Guy disguises as the Princesses (or hypnotizes them) to tell Twilight they're retiring, Twilight becomes leader and when she's vulnerable due to stress, the Bad Guys take over, and the Mane6 rise up and defeat them. Celestia and Luna congratulate Twilight for being such a good leader and she becomes the ruler of Equestria for Real... and the rest of the Mane6 become alicorns, of course.

I still would not give the creators that much credit lol. But then again I haven't watched FiM for several seasons

Is anyone else slightly confused by the line about "the longest period of peace" How long of gap is supposed to be between the season 8 finale and Season 9?



Ponyfan

That's a good question actually... I think sometime after the first season there was speculation on how much time actually passed in the show. We don't have much to go by I think to really find out how much time has passed... and basically where this "longest period of peace" actually starts...

[Goanna]

Is anyone else slightly confused by the line about "the longest period of peace" How long of gap is supposed to be between the season 8 finale and Season 9?



Ponyfan

That's a good question actually... I think sometime after the first season there was speculation on how much time actually passed in the show. We don't have much to go by I think to really find out how much time has passed... and basically where this "longest period of peace" actually starts...

Lol that's so true! Has the 'longest period of peace' seriously only been like what... 1-10 years?
I can't remember which season it was, maybe 5 or 6, but there was an episode with them celebrating the Summer Sun Celebration and how it had been 1 year since Twilight arrived in Ponyville. So it really doesn't seem like it's been that long at all, not that I think the writers pay any attention to the timeline of the show...

I would like it to be that it's Chrysalis pretending to be Celestia but then- why would Luna be there going along with it? (Since Chrysalis no longer has any changeling followers). I also just don't think they would do that, they've never really hidden any kind of big twist like that before. E.g. before Season 3 started they pretty much started advertising that Twilight would become a princess.

[Lady Frostbite]

Chrysalis would certainly explain the change of expression on Celestia's face when she says's she's retiring; that expression change tells me this is some sort of hoax, troll or dream.

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It might be Chrysalis teaming up with someone else, if that is what it is. The comics have all sorts of villains that might do that, and I could see them bringing in a comic villain to spice things up.

All 6 becoming alicorns would be hilarious

[StarSwirl05]

Chrysalis would certainly explain the change of expression on Celestia's face when she says's she's retiring; that expression change tells me this is some sort of hoax, troll or dream.

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It might be Chrysalis teaming up with someone else, if that is what it is. The comics have all sorts of villains that might do that, and I could see them bringing in a comic villain to spice things up.

All 6 becoming alicorns would be hilarious

A dream would make more sense because if it's a hoax, Celestia's not hiding it well.

[Zapper]

I'm sorry but this just made me laugh. It's probably just gonna be the season starter double episode.

Notice the lack of Cadence and Flurrykins. I need new powerful queen Flurry to take control!

PS: From a casual fan point of view, the princesses are useless leaders considering the villains always managed to subdue them and Twilight and friends had to step in and save them. So it's kinda logical they would just piss off to Heaven one day and leave everything to Twilight 
Luna always had a thankless job that she didn't do for centuries. Like, who needs a dream guardian? At least Cadence was a princess who guarded a powerful magical artifact in her city/castle. She had a real kind of job.

PPS: When they were all building that castle first thought was "and here is the new playset"

[Ponyfan]

The reformed Changelings still have the power to shapeshift into other creatures but I don't see any of them leaving Thorax and joining Chrysalis since Thorax showed them that Chrysalis was basically starving them to keep them under her control.


I think Sombra has joined forces with Tirek, Cozy and Chrysalis  (and possible Grogar) and somehow they've either put Celesita and Luna under some type of spell or this Celestia and Luna aren't the real princesses.

From the first trailer it looks like Sombra is going to try to kidnapp Baby Flurry Heart so that the love for her that keeps the Crystal Heart engergized and protects the Empire will start to break down.


Did anyone else see the two ponies in the Sombra masks walking beside King Sombra?

Maybe that line about the "longest period of peace" is a clue that the Celestia we see isn't the real one?

Ponyfan

[Zapper]

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Gee, wonder why.

Probably because they couldn't delete the slurs and death threats fast enough. Good on them! It's a kids cartoon, not world politics.

[Lady Frostbite]

The reformed Changelings still have the power to shapeshift into other creatures but I don't see any of them leaving Thorax and joining Chrysalis since Thorax showed them that Chrysalis was basically starving them to keep them under her control.

This is why, despite not being a fan of the series, I kinda want to write a fanfic repainting that and pointing more towards Chrysalis not letting them reach Sparklebug form because there's a downside, for example their life psan is DRASTICALLY shortened in that form (similar to some male bugs that die fairly soon after adulthood/maturity). It's possible she has a secret second brood, we saw Pharynx was in his original form and had a lot of trouble adjusting to Thorax' regime before Fwendship showed him the way. Big villains have teamed up a few times in the comics, it would make sense that Chrysalis would team up with another to destroy STarlight, if no-one else.

... Wait, was Starlight in that trailer at all?

[Ponyfan]

The reformed Changelings still have the power to shapeshift into other creatures but I don't see any of them leaving Thorax and joining Chrysalis since Thorax showed them that Chrysalis was basically starving them to keep them under her control.

This is why, despite not being a fan of the series, I kinda want to write a fanfic repainting that and pointing more towards Chrysalis not letting them reach Sparklebug form because there's a downside, for example their life psan is DRASTICALLY shortened in that form (similar to some male bugs that die fairly soon after adulthood/maturity). It's possible she has a secret second brood, we saw Pharynx was in his original form and had a lot of trouble adjusting to Thorax' regime before Fwendship showed him the way. Big villains have teamed up a few times in the comics, it would make sense that Chrysalis would team up with another to destroy STarlight, if no-one else.

... Wait, was Starlight in that trailer at all?

I think it's possible that there are some Changelings that either weren't in the hive when Thorax and Starlight defeated Chrysalis or she might have infiltrated Thorax's kingdom and recruited some younger Changelings (same age as Ocellus) and made them loyal to her. In that episode where the Young Six faced their greatest fears Ocellus was a afraid of turning in to another Chrysalis.

I don't see Starlight in the trailer either.

Ponyfan

[TJgamer]

Perhaps the longest period of peace may be referring to the longest time ponykind and all the other creatures have lived in harmony? I don't know.

I am on the boat that the princesses retiring isn't too bad of an idea, given that they're pretty much useless at this point. Though I do wonder if Luna will no longer be helping ponies in their dreams. Is that magic that can be taught to Twilight?

As for the trailer as a whole, I can appreciate the show staff wanting this final season to take a more somber tone, as opposed to the more epic, action-packed advertising we've recently had in the past. I am glad this show is ending, but I still look back at my early years with this show and smile.   

[Zapper]

I like how we always have the same people in these threads saying they are no (longer) fans or that they don't watch FiM at all but at the same time seem to be still interested in it.
Will you guys hatewatch the final season?

I quit FiM when they announced Tirek and only came back to it 2-3 seasons later. I have now finally seen all episodes I missed and I have to say in each season there have been dumb ones and good ones. Don't understand why people say S4 was the last good one when in ended in a stupid Dragonball "check his powerlevel" fight

I have a hunch we'll be getting a few more "old" characters returning and a lot loose ends tied up in a hurry to appease as many fans as possible.
But we won't end with Queen Twilight. Come on, if they really want G5 to use the same core cast, why would they make her super powerful that rapidly just to turn her into an Earth pony one year later. That would cause backlash and not from adult whiners but the core audience of girls who remember Twilight as having powers and liking her that way. It would be like Disney suddenly saying Elsa got the mutant cure and was a regular woman from now on.

[JazzMatazz]

I'm sad to see it over but glad the drawn out plot broken by the movie is going to be over.