Review/Scattered brain thoughts on the Last Crusade.
Where do I begin? I don't know how to put this because after seeing it twice now I cannot believe how much I am of a mixed mind on this. There is a lot of ways to look at this. Okay, the plot at it's most basic conceptional level I do not hate at all. A lot of the problems come from external factors both inuniverse and outside of it, though I'm ot sure how much of it you could hold against the episode. Scootaloo's aunts. I have absolutely no problem with as characters in the slightest. They seem, alright, even pretty likable and charming. The who Lesbian thing is being blow out of proportion for sure. It is a nonfactor to the story at all. That's the problem though, all the media yamering and people angry over it when the show staff have shipped Lyra and Bon Bon for years and way more explicitly. These characters being the first pairing officially cannon like that would certainly rub a lot of people the wrong way outside the Corporate pandering praise and people worried about "gay agendas". If they were going to do anything that was actually noteworthy with that it should've been with one of the other pairings. They didn't do anything noteworthy at all. They just appeared and the only way we know they are lesbian is because it was told to us. I can understand frustration with that on its own but I don't hold against th characters here. I and am extremely socially conservative in personal values, and I find all this whining about it, celebratory or against it a waste of time. Who cares, it's a complete nonfactor.
Now for the episode itself. It was okay... I think. I thought the CMC were fine here and enjoyed their anttics. I tried to picture myself with all the current factors what the writing staff would do if this was the last episode of the CMC or the last one focued one CMC itself, mayb not the last CMC as characters I can see the choices made with trying tie in Scootaloo's family question with one last cameo from all of them and in that sense it felt satisfactory. It felt kind of /comfy/ tbh.
