So I watched the season 3 finale the infamous Twilight alicorn episode and I wanted to like it I really truly did as I have said before Twilight Sparkle is now tied with Applejack and Luna for best pony but it was the worst episode of not only this season but the entire series as a whole. While there has been the occasional episode that has disappointed me and the Chrystal Empire two parter is a good example of that largely because of the sad lack of character development for King Sombra who had the potential to be a truly great villain even my biggest disappointments with the exception of Griffon the Brush Off had at least enough redeeming factors to where I still enjoyed the episode but this seriously sucked. To say this was a god awful piece of crap is an insult to self respecting dung heaps everywhere.

The songs while they weren't by any means bad they were way too heavy handed and detracted from the main story instead of complimenting it. It made the episode feel like a random series of songs half hazardly thrown in with a little dialogue in between. The cutie mark switching idea was a good one but was poorly executed and should have been its own episode that lead up to Twilight becoming an alicorn which in and of itself should have been a two parter. It didn't surprise me that Twilight would have a final test before becoming an alicorn but the way the episode was set up made it feel more like some random friendship assignment as opposed to some all important test that would usher in the next phase of her training.

I also found that she was able to solve the cutie mark switching incident a little too easily though I think it may seem that way due to the general rushed nature of the episode as a whole. Twilight becoming an alicorn which was the most hyped up event in MLP history didn't even happen until the end of the episode giving the viewed virtually no time to adjust to it or address any of the numerous implications of such a major change making it feel like a mere afterthought instead of a cliffhanger/plot twist feel it should have had. The "explanation" Celestia gave if you can call it that didn't really help either as it rose far more questions than it answered. While I did not expect everything including the kitchen sink to thrown out there all at once I did expect a bit more than "hey guess what Twilight we are making you an alicorn princess just because you have been a good teachers pet."

Despite all this though this bastard child born of Hasbro's greed and short sightedness can still somehow work but only if Hasbro gets off the writers backs and lets them do their jobs. It is then and only then that Hasbro can avoid turning a truly great character into a Mare E Sue. Stayed tuned for my next blog where I give my thoughts on how this can still actually work.