sorry in advance for the lack of images, what are you gonna do when writing this
fourteen minutes after the episode airing...
Hello everypony and welcome to my review of the latest episode of Dragon Ball Z! ... Wait... WHAT? Twilight basically just went total super saiyan on Tirek there in part 2! This is literally the most violent episode in the history of Frienship is Magic! Before we get to that though... lets start at the beginning. Get ready because this is the big one!
So first we have some personal issues with Twi being unsure of her role as a princess. (that was only overdue for the last 24 episodes + movie that I know some of you would rather forget) I like that we FINALLY address this issue... I mean, up until now we've never even hinted at this, let alone deal with it. (unfortunately the livestream i was watching decided that the princess's song was the perfect time to air a commercial... thanks... thanks a lot...) After we get was seemed like a great song... (i only heard 1/4 of it...) we then meet our villain for this episode: Tirek! If you don't know, Tirek was originally from the very first episode of the original 80's My Little Pony. (brief overview here) So he escaped during It's About Time way back from the tail end of season 2? It took him two seasons then to regain his power... I guess that's reasonable, I mean, he's been in prison since gen 1, that's before even Celestia and Luna were in power which means he's been imprisoned for more than a thousand years at the very least.
Honestly, not much happens in the first part. It seems to be the weakness of every two-parter we've ever gotten: almost everything important happens in the second part, and the first is basically unmemorable. I do like that Discord FINALLY got something important to do! (showing up to ruin Twi and Cadence's day off in Three's a Crowd doesn't count!) I like that he ends up saying what everyone knew from Keep Calm and Flutter On: that he's not exactly very close with anypony except Fluttershy... Probably part of the reason why even a character as useless as Spike gets a chair in Twi's new castle before Discord... On that note, interestingly enough, my first thought when I saw the castle pop up where the tree-house used to be was that property values in ponyville are gonna be going up.
Discord betrays his friends for his freedom and then we get the most brilliant idea ever! The best way to stop tirek is to give up all your power! ... WHAT? Oh wait, they don't mean give it up, they mean hide it within Twilight. Well... seems kinda risky, but certainly better then just tossing your magic into oblivion. It was fun to see Twilight have to lower the moon and raise the sun! A nice little peek into the duties of the princess sisters' daily lives.
The conversations between Discord and Tirek are certainly interesting, villain to villain chats like this are things we usually don't get in mlp so it felt really nice and refreshing. And sure, we all saw Tirek's betrayal of Discord and the pendant being the final key coming form a mile away, but it still wasn't all that bad. And then... and then... Twi goes super saiyan! This is literally the most intense scene ever from fim (maybe even from all of mlp, but I never watched the previous gens, so I won't pretend to have knowledge I don't). If any of your friends still think MLP is for babies... just show them this and watch in wonder as their jaw drops!
The conversations between Discord and Tirek are certainly interesting, villain to villain chats like this are things we usually don't get in mlp so it felt really nice and refreshing. And sure, we all saw Tirek's betrayal of Discord and the pendant being the final key coming form a mile away, but it still wasn't all that bad. And then... and then... Twi goes super saiyan! This is literally the most intense scene ever from fim (maybe even from all of mlp, but I never watched the previous gens, so I won't pretend to have knowledge I don't). If any of your friends still think MLP is for babies... just show them this and watch in wonder as their jaw drops!
It was also kind of obvious that Twi would give up the princess' power and come back even stronger with... with whatever was in the box... I mean, besides an entire castle. (yay, everypony's going super saiyan!) Who else is just waiting for new toys to appear of the ponies in their super forms? If there's a chance to make money, Hasbro will go for it. I'm calling it: Super Saiyan Mane 6 on sale soon! And thus, our new Deus ex Machina of the series! (I so totally called it well okay, so maybe I was wrong about almost everything, but I really don't care.) So... now what? I'm guessing this means that the elements are basically within the mane 6 now and they don't need any magical gems to go rainbow power anymore... Not that I'm complaining. The opposite really. I'd much rather have the power present within the mane 6 rather than just sapping off some unexplained artifacts. It really feels like it has much more meaning when it's under their own power then just using the elements again. And what power it is, Tirek basically sapped the energy from thousands of ponies including four princess's power and Discord's, so basically this guy is over 9000 at this point. (Yes, I know, that was REALLY bad, but c'mon, I had to put it somewhere...) All that just to be instantly obliterated by these new super forms, you have to wonder just how much power they have. For all of this though, we literally get ZERO answers about the box's origin... S5E1&2 anyone? I sure hope so...
I didn't get the answers I was hoping for, but this was still the most epic episode ever, so I think i'll let it fly with an 8.5/10. Sure it could've been better, but I think they did a pretty good job wrapping up this season.
With that, we begin the long wait until season 5, in the mean time, expect lots of non-pony posts and also some downtime for me while I catch up on a lot of schoolwork. So, until next time, this is Luca, signing off for the season!