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*growls at No Second Prances's climax*


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I'm so not sorry here, 'cause I have a huge bone to pick with the climax in this mess of an episode.

 

Until No Second Prances, Princess Luna's admission to self-harm during Magic Sheep was the darkest scene in the show. A flawed princess couldn't figure out any way to forgive herself, so she created the Tantabus to torment her. To say it's creepy is an understatement.

 

That changed when No Second Prances aired. Just before her grand event, Starlight and Trixie fell out, and Trixie went into a state of hopelessness. She felt there was nowhere for her to go. Second chances. Third chances. Gone. She could've stopped her stunt, because she can't teleport, and being digested by a manticore meant certain death unless someone else was there to help. But she went ahead anyway knowing fully she can't escape by herself.

 

So why the hell didn't Starlight or Twilight try to stop her before she shot out of her cannon?!!

 

Her life was in danger. She was giving up! Trixie admitted to attempting suicide, and neither one of them bothered to get involved even though they can hear her. If Twilight didn't tell Starlight the moral, who knows if Starlight would've gotten involved in teleporting Trixie out of the manticore's stomach in the last minute.

 

What if Trixie successfully killed herself? Twilight and Starlight would've been consumed with guilt for the rest of their lives. Starlight won't deserve title of Princess Pupil, and Twilight the Princess of Friendship. Twilight would've been partially responsible for the suicide of someone who parted with her on good terms. Twilight forgave Trixie; there was no reason for her to not trust Trixie and sabotage Trixie's friendship with Starlight. She's the Princess of Friendship; it's her damn job to think about the implications of her actions. She didn't and almost cost Trixie her life. And she stood there and watched Trixie verbally quit.

 

Yesterday's climax is the worst scene of season six so far and the cherry on top of this terrible episode.

 

The hell with No Second Prances!

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The entire climax from the initial fallout to the resolution felt like forced chicanery. The episode could have done without it. It felt like the usual outburst you see between two leads in a buddy comedy. If you've seen enough of that kind of movie, you know exactly what it is.

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Yup, this episode sucked hard. Worse ep of Season 6 for me, no doubt. It ran straight into that Unfortunate Implications trap, and you'd think the writer of this episode would have known better.

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