DonMaguz

I hope so, because I know absolutely nothing about what could be a Lauren Faust reference. The only thing I had in mind was the Fausticorn, which we all know won't be happening at all.

Hopefully she would be a legend and not an actual character. Same goes for the rest of the mane 6.

Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and Maud, cannot choose between them... Big Mac and Scootaloo would be half a step down. Then we have Limestone Pie and Shining Armor tied. At the end, but in no way bad characters, Zephyr Breeze and Marble Pie. Zephyr is very funny but gets quickly annoying. Marble has some nice moments here and there, but she's mostly just there.

Apple Bloom and Zecora. It would be nice to have one last CMC episode doing the things they love but aren't cutie mark related. That would bring AB's potion making and hopefully a bit more of Zecora.

I hope I'm wrong about this, but to me the short felt like they hadn't planned on showing the Dazzlings again and suddenly put together something fast to please all the fans who asked for their return.

Yakkity Sax is the only one for me. But not because of the moral itself (supporting a friend who likes something she's not very skilled at), but because That's not how the problem was shown! They showed a problem about a friend being disrespectful of the rest of their friends by interrupting and sabotaging their jobs, and told us that the problem was her skills being poor??! No sir, the problem was her timing and disrespect! At the end, the moral, which is actually a good one, had nothing to do with what the episode showed.

Graduation from highschool and the portal closing, making Sunset to choose on staying with her friends or returning to her homeworld.

I never knew AJ needed this episode so much. She was hardened by life itself from a very young age, but is shown to be a very dreamy and playful pony on the inside. Watching her enjoy herself like a filly along with Apple Bloom over a hopeful illusion was very touching. It reminded me of people like my parents who had to work from an early age to support their families and couldn't enjoy their youth as much as they could have if not for the needs they had. Now, about Big Mac... I smell something fishy, there seems to be something hidden about him working day and night this harvesting season. Also about Big Mac, I absolutely love the lowkey rivalry he and AJ have, showing each other their skills at applebucking was an amazing sibling rivalry thing to witness! Overall I think it was a great episode, not as exciting but very heartfelt.

She's clearly over 30.

Nothing. It's true that these great characters have the potential for more serious stories, but the show itself was conceived as it is still: cutesy, childish, light-hearted and silly. If you take that from the show, it wouldn't have been as good in the first place to get to 9 seasons. Now, could a new and better show be made out of these great characters we love? That would be a very difficult challenge, but it would be possible because the characters can still be explored and developed under a more serious environment. The thing is it would be feeding on nostalgia just like the whole MCU did for Marvel.

I did a chart focusing on my shipping tastes just for the fun of it.

Everyone keeps arguing about age and species difference while there's something much more simple why the relationship would never get passed a close friendship (during the show's time). Rarity is a romantic dreamer (as seen during her crushes over Blueblood and Trenderhoof), she has known about Spike's crush since season 1 and never once has she showed feelings for Spike other than care and thankfulness. Not only that, but during Trenderhoof's incident she explicitly casted aside Spike's crush as if she had never even considered it to be important. These things tells us that she's simply not interested, not at all. Of course, one could argue that she could start to see him from a new perspective while he grows and start things from there. But that's just speculation and fanfiction as long as there's still no reference on the show. It's not impossible for something to grow there, but I think it's very unlikely that Rarity's perspective would change in whatever in-universe time we have left on the show.

Liked the 'music video' vibe. Hated the song.

Yes, 'Frenemies' doesn't tell me much about the villain trio. When I first saw the title (and I don't read synopsis to avoid spoilers), I thought this was going to be a Twilight/Trixie episode.