>>4987
>My problem was that it felt like the story was sacrificed for a great final.
>Yet I love it to death even when bringing up the faults
Frankly, though I'm maybe a bit more mixed mind, I think the final was trying to do everything that a final should do. Even stuff with the villians I can't really fault it heavily for simply because I'm not sure how ploting it another way would've worked without robing some spotlight from main characters and fan service though it still perhaps could've have been done a bit better.

>>4992
>so I didn't get to say goodbye to my friends, and once we got there I didn't make any new ones. Even more than a decade later, and now and adult, I'm still miserable about having moved.
Wow... I can relate to that. Not the moving part but my entire social group collapsed from rumors and lies. Though I wasn't a prime player in it I did lose most of my friends and still haven't recovered from it fully.
I can see how that would get to you. Though I'll cover it in detail later, yes, I fully agree it was a perfect parting message.

> It made sense to me at the time, feeling like a lot of the friendship issues has been resolved so having the world get wrecked accidentally by Twilight would re-introduce conflict.
You know? I get this. In thinking in terms of a children's show hitting it's syndication mark and it's hype. I mean they reformed Discord and ponies seemed at the height of their power, so I can see why someone would feel that all the problems are fixed, new ones have to be artificially introduced.

>I don't have a great memory, but I think it was sometime last year.
Wow, you've been here a bit longer than I thought.
Cool.