Do you want to know what my favorite part of the show is? You'll probably be surprised, but it's the end of the season nine two-part finale.

It's just so perfectly awful, how can you not love it?

You have Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship, about to become the Princess of all Equestria. Her last enemies are in front of her, defeated and helpless. She's also surrounded by her friends, like 90% of whom were also once her enemies before she helped them.

This is her moment. This is when everything she's learned comes into play, when she reaches out to her enemies and offers them kindness, generosity, all of that. It's the moment for her biggest, best friendship speech in the entire series. It's the moment when she finally comes into her own, truly claims the title of Princess, and shows everyone why she deserves to be the ruler of Equestria and how she will rule moving forward.

Then Celestia pushes her aside.

And because the REAL Princess is talking, Twilight does nothing. She sits there like an inanimate .jpeg while Celestia, Luna and Discord murder three people, including a child—a child who was once Twilight's student. And Twilight has zero reaction to all of this.

Finally, Celestia is done spitting on everything Twilight believes in. She then speaks to Twilight, thus giving her permission to speak. And, naturally, Twilight replies with her catchphrase:

"Yes, Princess Celestia."

I mean, it's incredible, right? I've never seen a better bit of character assassination. They managed to ruin all of these characters, turn them into monsters, in the space of about fifteen seconds.

Twilight is the most impressive thing in all of this. In all the books and comics I've read, in all the movies and shows I've watched, in all the video games I've played, I think this is the first time I've ever seen a protagonist who has a character arc that arcs so much it becomes a full circle and they end up right back where they started.

The show starts with Celestia ordering Twilight to go from Canterlot to Ponyville to do her job for her, and it ends with Celestia ordering Twilight to go from Ponyville to Canterlot to do her job for her.

It's like poetry, in that most poetry sucks.

And here's the real cherry on top of this… well, I'll just say 'sundae' without adding any colorful metaphors.

The show is called Friendship is Magic. At the very end, the villains say "You can't stop us with friendship!" And then the 'good' guys go "Yeah, you're right," and just murder them in cold blood.

It's even better when you consider that these three villains were left completely unharmed by the big friendship beam. The Magic of Friendship explicitly didn't want this to happen, it gave Twilight and everyone a chance to help them. But the real villains felt like getting some revenge, and took matters into their own hands.

Again, I've never seen a piece of media that so thoroughly trashes it's own main concept.

The entire show is pointless; friendship isn't Magic, it's just… magic. Just a tool, just another weapon you use to beat down your enemies, and then when it can't finish them off you have to do it yourself. What an amazing way to end the show, by making it all irrelevant.

And that's why I love it. It's so completely disgusting, so irredeemable, such a parody of itself and everything it represents, that it gets elevated to greatness. I can't hate something like that.

To quote Anchorman: "I'm not even mad, I'm impressed." To completely destroy your legacy like that takes dedication and effort, and an ability to despise your own work that's almost admirable. It's hard to watch the people who made the show just throw the entire thing out the window and into a dumpster, and not somehow respect the sheer gall that took, you know?

I mean….

It's almost like there was supposed to be a completely different story for season nine, right?

Like, they sat down and put all their effort into creating the absolute best story for the end of the show that they possibly could. And they made something amazing and wonderful, something that would have made everyone happy in some way, something that had events and concepts in it people had been speculating about and anticipating for pretty much the entire run of the show.

And then when it was all done, someone else took that story and twisted it to create a story that was the exact opposite, and that's what we got instead.

Haha, but that would be ridiculous, right? Ha ha ha.