>>1377 >I liked it mainly for the town. It felt like its own little corner of Equestria. This place truly felt isolated to me for some reason, considering how interconnected things have gotten in the later seasons Yeah, it´s ironic. The map and the places get expanded, they feel like closer to home over time yet, the original place where Dolores and Sunburst came from felt slightly off than Dolores´s village after The Cutie Map with less expensive buildings. Modern or good looking places don´t always fill that sense of being at home. >It took us at least a day and night by train to get ta Appleloosa, but now we can ride on a hot air balloon just standing all the way to Las Pegasus farther down on the map and to arrive at Mount Aris, the mane 6 had to make it days for Kludgetown and the entire day for getting there. Now, it seems like a couple of hours for the trip since they have founded the new train station as if it was as familiar as the Crystal Empire. Or getting into the Dragonlands would take Spike entire days and in the Guanlet of Fire,he got there without getting tired.
Equestria, where the conquest makes the map closer to your home, because friendship is magic.
>Also the Dad really works for Dolores' bridge building backstory doesn't it the unexplained backstory for Dolores...after introducing Dolores as a villain and redemption. We received the dessert in season 5 and now, we are getting the main dishes after a couple of seasons. Also, we can guess that Dolores went (ironically for the /end/) full Robert Smith in her teenage years. >It wasn't old vs new or capitalism vs the little guy like so many would have made it. Surprisingly they didn´t follow the usual tropes for it. I would get tired of it seeing the same things over and over getting repeated.
>the Cutie Map felt just arbitrarily thrown in there to serve the plot again especially Sunburst. But oh well, it´s a complaint that will be pointed out as well for other episodes. We have talked about it earlier and we, for sure, complain about that when the map calls....I don´t know, one of the students.
>I feel like this though could be more in service to the cutie map itself, trying to keep it relevant amist all the other things they have to jungle around now. I mean, their trying to keep it around with both all the crap of season 7 final, season 8 premier, the movie, and various other plotlines from over the years. Honestly something is going to have to give or get sidelined at this point.
