My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Page 695

I'm also quite torn about the latest MLP episode. The entire premise is nonsensical and makes no sense given the canon. Why would Celestia ever want to release Discord from stone? There's no context, she's essentially jeopardizing the safety all of Equestria for no adequately explained reason. Surely something this potentially dire needs context?? The ending makes zero sense with Discord's character. I don't fully agree that Discord should be completely unredeemable, but the way they approached it was simply too easy for my taste. He's been locked in stone for over a thousand years, and he's surely built up a great deal of resentment and other such feelings over that time, ESPECIALLY since he states that he's still sentient despite being encased in stone.

That being said, I feel that they did the best they could with the premise, and it ended up being a pretty good episode. Discord was hilarious, and the entire approach to the less than ideal premise was good. I liked the characterization of Fluttershy throughout the episode, especially with her outburst of frustration at the end ("I am NOT your friend!") which was great to show again that even though she's far more patient and accepting, there are limits even to her. I actually thought the episode was really great up until the last minute and a half or so (barring Celestia's lack of reason for releasing him). I felt like Discord's moment of realization was too much of a 180 for me. But even with all of it's pitfalls, I really enjoyed it, and I don't feel that it was a particularly weak episode.