Williver 
"[@AJ Aficionado":](/2067968#comment_8227149
[bq="AJ) Aficionado"]
> Then it ended on a high note I'd say.
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> Anyone else kinda glad the show is ending? The show's writers are mostly just using the show to push multicultural progressivism and corporate values at this point.
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"@TheBrianJ":](/2067968#comment_8224708
[bq="TheBrianJ"])
> If it turns out this is true, it's a great episode for the map to go out on.[/bq]
"@TheBrianJ":/2067968#comment_8224708
"Sounds of Silence" definitely is a good map episode to end map episodes on, considering how terrible the show has become overall. Well over half of S8 and 9 has been garbage. I've been just watching S8 and 9 out of morbid curiosity. Almost half of the episodes in S6 and 7 were crap, and the Movie could've been a decent way to end the series.
This post is gonna be nine paragraphs after this. But many of them are going to be one or two sentences long.
**1.** It felt like it could've been done in Season 6 or so. The "School of Friendship" wasn't an aspect in the episode. You could pretend it doesn't exist by getting rid of just like one shot in the episode. It was one of the only good episodes that season.
**2.** This website tends to give off a more establishment "no criticism allowed" Hasdrone-y vibe similar to Equestria Daily, (the actual word "homophobic" is used in the rules on this site and has been since 2015 or so. It's way too serious for a fandom with lesbo pony antics as a fundamental part) so I'm impressed that you are talking the way you are. It's why I refuse to have a faves gallery here and also why I only keep ending up on this site because other people link to it so often.
**3.** It's not just a "seasonal rot" thing nor a "jump the shark" thing, nor just "I don't like the School".
One of the things that has really screwed up the ratio of good-to-bad episodes since S5 ended has been Josh Haber, Michael Vogel, and Nicole Dubuc, with Haber being the first sign.
**4.** Haber's terrible episode Simple Ways in S4 was the first sign, and then he, Vogel, and Dubuc started getting leadership roles for the writing direction of the show, even tho they are the worst writers by far. "Every Little Thing She Does" where Starlight mind-controls the Mane 5 and is promptly forgiven, and useless fanservice crap episodes with forced memefaces and vague or pointless morals and subject matter tend to be written by these writers, and other newbie writers tend to write crap as well.
**5.** I've read that the Hasbro bigwigs mandated the school so that there could be new toys to sell, but I don't think it was necessary to play up the "diversity" and "everycreature" angle.
**6.** It really should've ended at the Movie, and even then, there were so many dud episodes from seasons 4-7 that at least thirteen of them shouldn't have ever been produced. Season 6 or 7 could've been a half-season, if we must have an episode count of either exactly 13 or 26 episodes per season.
**7.** The ancient Pillars have hardly been utilized since Season 7 ended and honestly I could take it or leave it with them. They are more amusing in the comics. When it comes to Nicole Dubuc, she wrote the Season 7 finale as her debut on the show even tho someone else probably could've done it better.
**8.** Getting the reveal of Starswirl the Bearded in that two-parter finale (even tho I don't exactly remember liking the S7 finale and really, Starswirl remaining never depicted in the show would've also been good),
or maybe just having the goofy Fame and Misfortune "We're Not Flawless" one-part episode be a casual episode of the entire Mane 6 end the series like how The Best Night Ever (it remains my favorite episode) ended Season 1, that would've been fine and dandy.
**9.** And then the Movie (imagine it takes place before the Pillars show up, or just imagine that this story somehow doesn't involve them. I headcanon that Discord is either unwilling to save the day because he's an agent of chaos and he doesn't believe in traditionally getting involved in straightforward good vs. evil conflicts, or that he was in his other dimension the entire duration of the Movie's events) caps it all off.
[bq="AJ
> Then it ended on a high note I'd say.
>
> Anyone else kinda glad the show is ending? The show's writers are mostly just using the show to push multicultural progressivism and corporate values at this point.
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[bq="TheBrianJ"]
> If it turns out this is true, it's a great episode for the map to go out on.
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This post is gonna be nine paragraphs after this. But many of them are going to be one or two sentences long.
**1.** It felt like it could've been done in Season 6 or so. The "School of Friendship" wasn't an aspect in the episode. You could pretend it doesn't exist by getting rid of just like one shot in the episode. It was one of the only good episodes that season.
**2.** This website tends to give off a more establishment "no criticism allowed" Hasdrone-y vibe similar to Equestria Daily, (the actual word "homophobic" is used in the rules on this site and has been since 2015 or so. It's way too serious for a fandom with lesbo pony antics as a fundamental part) so I'm impressed that you are talking the way you are. It's why I refuse to have a faves gallery here and also why I only keep ending up on this site because other people link to it so often.
**3.** It's not just a "seasonal rot" thing nor a "jump the shark" thing, nor just "I don't like the School".
One of the things that has really screwed up the ratio of good-to-bad episodes since S5 ended has been Josh Haber, Michael Vogel, and Nicole Dubuc, with Haber being the first sign.
**4.** Haber's terrible episode Simple Ways in S4 was the first sign, and then he, Vogel, and Dubuc started getting leadership roles for the writing direction of the show, even tho they are the worst writers by far. "Every Little Thing She Does" where Starlight mind-controls the Mane 5 and is promptly forgiven, and useless fanservice crap episodes with forced memefaces and vague or pointless morals and subject matter tend to be written by these writers, and other newbie writers tend to write crap as well.
**5.** I've read that the Hasbro bigwigs mandated the school so that there could be new toys to sell, but I don't think it was necessary to play up the "diversity" and "everycreature" angle.
**6.** It really should've ended at the Movie, and even then, there were so many dud episodes from seasons 4-7 that at least thirteen of them shouldn't have ever been produced. Season 6 or 7 could've been a half-season, if we must have an episode count of either exactly 13 or 26 episodes per season.
**7.** The ancient Pillars have hardly been utilized since Season 7 ended and honestly I could take it or leave it with them. They are more amusing in the comics. When it comes to Nicole Dubuc, she wrote the Season 7 finale as her debut on the show even tho someone else probably could've done it better.
**8.** Getting the reveal of Starswirl the Bearded in that two-parter finale (even tho I don't exactly remember liking the S7 finale and really, Starswirl remaining never depicted in the show would've also been good),
or maybe just having the goofy Fame and Misfortune "We're Not Flawless" one-part episode be a casual episode of the entire Mane 6 end the series like how The Best Night Ever (it remains my favorite episode) ended Season 1, that would've been fine and dandy.
**9.** And then the Movie (imagine it takes place before the Pillars show up, or just imagine that this story somehow doesn't involve them. I headcanon that Discord is either unwilling to save the day because he's an agent of chaos and he doesn't believe in traditionally getting involved in straightforward good vs. evil conflicts, or that he was in his other dimension the entire duration of the Movie's events) caps it all off.