Spoilers, we still get no G1 interactions.
We meet the three new creatures that Grackle and Dyre made: Violet Shiver, Black Belle and Shadow Storm. They have successfully tricked the ponies into thinking that they are from Hayvard. But the two daughters don’t think their S'monies are doing enough. Mostly because they only told them to “make things weird”. So they told them things to teach the students which are not friendly. Thing is, the students really like it.
But Rarity is the first to notice those lessons sound mean and tells Starlight her worries. Starlight didn’t think it was the case but overheard a lesson just in case. Starlight does worry as the “summon scary objects and scare your roommates” is mean but Black Belle basically Gaslights Starlight to second guess herself. And despite this, the daughters think the S'monies should do more. So after school, they do like messing with the Wonderbolts, a restaurant vs a bowling alley, and messing with the harvest.
But the gaslighting is over as Starlight is seeing Black Belle’s lessons being more mean than she originally thought while the rest of Ponyville is getting more frustrated. And despite all that, the daughters STILL don’t think the S'monies are doing enough. Considering they don’t even oversee their creations, it is no wonder. And that’s where the issue ends with the S'monies promising to get worse.
Again, for a crossover with Generation 1, there is not a lot of Generation 1. Like imagine a crossover event where you don’t see elements of who they’re crossing over with for two episodes. Or a crossover episode where you’re almost half way and you still haven’t seen any crossover. But how is this story without those elements?
Well, Grackle and Dyre don’t really interest me. They’re still in the Volcano complaining and not doing anything themselves. The S'monies I think look interesting but so far they are interchangeable. Like when Black Belle slipped up, Shadow Storm covered for her. And then Shadow Storm slipped up where Violet Shiver covers for him. But with the students liking them despite the scary lessons, it does set up the ending.
Another thing I notice is the coloring mistakes. Twice I noticed Starlight Glimmer’s hair having different coloring than normal. Is this why they never added her into IDW comics before? Now Issue 3 is next and we’ll finally get some actual G1 Representation... For one panel.
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I'm not sure if lindwurm (lyndwurm? My memory is garbage) is one of your dedicated characters, I'm new here, but if he had an MLP ponysona, what would it be?
the 19th century fairy tale king lindworm is not my oc. however. here is his ponysona
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The Season 8 Finale and Cozy Glow’s true self shows.
The episode begins with Cozy Glow really showing just how much she integrated among the school. She helps Muffins getting the mail, a new student find her first class, Silverstream with a crossword puzzle and Twilight when she goes Twilynanas. But on a field trip to Cloudsdale, half the school decides to drop out of it. And by that I mean the spell that keeps them on the clouds stops working.
I’m going to save my Cozy Glow rants for later, but keep in mind the following: Five Ponies, Yona, Starlight, Sandbar and two other students, are falling to their deaths because the Spell Starlight cast suddenly stopped working. There are currently six winged creatures who have not fallen down. Each one catches another, with Gallus and Ocellus working together to get Yona. Imagine if there was one or more Non-Pegasi among them.
Back at the school, Dash and Starlight told Twilight but she dismissed it thinking it was a mistake in the spell she cast. That is until Twilight herself failed to pick up a book. With Rarity being another pony who lost her magic, they wonder how this could be happening. Cozy Glow suggests Tirek is behind this. And just in time as Celestia calls them to Canterlot to talk about this.
Pretty much there has been multiple reports of this all over Equestria, even they are having trouble moving the Sun and Moon. And Starswirl, via letter, figured out the problem. In three days, all magic will be gone. Starting with Unicorn Magic and Spells. Then creatures in general. And finally artifacts. So when the Sun Sets on the Third day (let’s ignore that for now), all Magic will be gone forever.
Twilight and Friends volunteered to go to Tartarus to see if Tirek is behind this. But as she leaves the School, she entrusts Starlight to run the school when she’s gone. Cozy Glow thought she was going to, but got super excited to help her. The next time we see her, apparently Starlight Glimmer decided to go with Twilight while Cozy Glow runs the school now. I’m pretty sure even new watchers are seeing this and thinking the same thing Smolder is.
After seeing our heroes move on, Cozy Glow seemed to have been winning over the majority of the students. The Student Six are doing a group study in the Library as they discuss the current situation. The Anti-Cozy group gets the leg up when they see her exiting the catacombs that we established had the Tree of Harmony in. They follow her to see Chancellor Neighsay in Twilight’s office.
After seeing Twilight and friends again entering Tartarus with no way out, we establish that the two are not working together. Neighsay is having a hostile takeover and his first action is to lock up the Student Six so they can be sent back to their homes. Sandbar lies saying he sees the truth but instead looking for help. He finds the Crusaders and they think Cozy Glow can help them save the school from Neighsay.
The first part ends and the second part begins with us discovering Cozy Glow is the pony behind the Magical Disappearance. She wants to rule Equestria as the Empress of Friendship. And thanks to Cozy Glow’s plan, Twilight and Crew are stuck in Tartarus with possibly a day remaining. So Twilight came up with a plan: convince Tirek to absorb the Magic that remains in the fusion creatures to open the door. Spoiler, it works but basically where they are it would have been too late.
Back with Sandbar and the Crusaders, they try but find out stepping on the Magic Symbol sucks anyone close up. So the plan is Sandbar gets their friends while the Crusaders try to distract Cozy Glow. This was their backup plan because their original plan of “convince Neighsay the truth” was already taken out when Cozy Glow manipulated the rest of the School to take him out.
The Students free him after this and he goes to the Princesses. After all, he saw first hoof that she was evil. And after finding out she was responsible, easy to believe. So while they wait and hopefully the Crusaders doing their job, they would go down to the catacombs to try to stop the spell. Sadly, Cozy Glow saw through this and got the School on her side. The Student Six gets sucked up and basically, Cozy Glow would have won.
The Main Six are too far away to stop her. The Princesses and the Guards are far away. And Cozy pretty much has the School eating out of her hoof. And with no magic, pretty much no more flying pegasi. No more controlled weather. No more proper food storages since they mostly use magic to maintain it. Maybe Eternal Night considering nobody is controlling the Sun and Moon.
Luckily Friendship is Magic and the Tree of Harmony decided to save them. They released the artifacts and luckily the school didn’t blow up. All the magic is back and Cozy Glow gets her comeuppance. Pretty much every Student, the Princesses, Chancellor Neighsay and the Royal Guard stop her. After some time, most likely the next day, Neighsay apologizes for pretty much everything as the Student Six try to graduate but don’t because it's only been a year.
Sometime after, we see Luna escorting Cozy Glow to Tartarus, who immediately plots to try to take over Equestria again. Overall, it is a very enjoyable episode with possibly the smartest villain to ever be on the show. She integrated with the entire school so she could earn their trust and set it up so pretty much she was in total control. She just didn’t take into account the Tree of Harmony, the Ultimate Uno Reverse Card.
My big issue is with people thinking Cozy Glow didn’t deserve her punishment. They question why she doesn’t get the Redemption Attempt when Discord and Starlight do. A future Research Bin is basically going to be me trying to convince you that she straight up deserved what she got. From Headcanons about her not being a child to actual facts that showed why Discord and Starlight got turned to good while others didn’t.
Click here for the original review and how it fits in GLAB canon.
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