Let's rank the Season Premieres and Finales of MLP:https://tiermaker.com/create/mlp-season-premieres-and-finales-16350260I have sorted them from leftmost being the most quality and rightmost being the least quality in a tier.S Tier: Cutie Re-Mark, School Raze, Twilight's KingdomJust perfect episodes, no glaring mistakes, and VERY enjoyable characters: I love Starlight Glimmer and Cozy Glow in their finales. They just have an epic and awesome feel to them (especially Cutie Re-Mark and Twilight's Kingdom). I love everything about Cutie Re-Mark and its concept about exploring different timelines where the Mane Six didn't stop the villains. Great pacing etc. And Twilight speech in the end is so goose bump-inducing - and the visuals as the Rainboom explodes as Twilight and Starlight hold each other. So fucking great. School Raze is also so enjoyable. I love how they tried to implement every relevant character to the story and how their plot intertwine with each other. Cozy Glow and Neighsay's interaction is so enjoyable to watch for example. Twilight's Kingdom is probably the most epic of all episodes. It just has that despondent feel to it in the end, as Tirek is about to destroy everything Twilight loves: Her treebrary, having her friends captured, having all the Alicorn magic... But then the reveal with the last key and how it all connects with what was set up during the entire 4th season.A Tier: A Canterlot Wedding, The Ending of the End, The Return of Harmony, The Cutie Map, The Best Night EverJust overall very enjoyable and solid, though with some not so entertaining parts or contrivances - just some few problems that makes them not be fit for S Tier. Nothing much to say for this one or the next few following tiers (especially because character limit). Discord good, Chrysalis good, Starlight good, Legion of Doom good, and The Best Night Ever is such a great ending for all the buildup of the gala during Season 1.B Tier: The Crystal Empire, To Where and Back Again, Friendship is MagicSolid episodes overall. The Crystal Empire has some parts that are just not really anything and the other two have some stupid contrivances that aren't... ideal. But the character interactions are the focus of both and not the plot, and they do it in a pretty good way!C Tier: Princess Twilight Sparkle, The Crystalling, Celestial Advice, Magical Mystery CureYeah, okay to good episodes, sometimes. Wouldn't want to rewatch them over and over. Sometimes kind of boring: Princess Twilight Sparkle and Celestial Advice are just kind of bridgings to really start the season off; just kind of lore dumps, I guess. Magical Mystery Cure is okay, though pretty contrived and/or confusing with the Cutie Mark shenanigans and lore and with Star Swirl's spell. And of course, its pacing lays at neck-breaking speeds because they didn't make it a two-parter for whatever reason. Twilight is kind of bipolar in that episode, lol - like going from despondent to hyper, lol.(1/2)
>>41848677D Tier: The Beginning of the End, Shadow PlayJust very frustrating episodes that could have worked so much better if they didn't fuck it up so much. ESPECIALLY The Beginning of the End is so, so frustrating, because I see potential for it to be an A Tier! But I already made an immense breakdown of that episode some days ago: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/41816428/#41816444. And Shadow Play... I so damn stupid at times: They make Starlight Glimmer a mary sue-like character in that episode for whatever reason and for whatever reason they find the artefacts so easily - like, what the fuck, how did Flash Magnus' shield conveniently end up in the Dragon Land and was conveniently found by Garble at that convenient moment. Also, what the hell is Somnambula's artefact?? A fucking blind? Okay... but if I remember correctly: Couldn't they have just made her artefact the emerald necklace she was gifted by the pharaoh as shown in Daring Done? Bruh... Also, the pillars are just not very important for the rest of the show and Stygian is relevant... NEVER EVER AGAIN in the show. I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER HIM HELPING THE MAIN CAST IN THE ENDING OF THE END IN THAT AVENGERS SCENE! IS HE THERE?? Also-also, unlike Twilight's Kingdom it just feels 'forced epic'. But at least they are pretty entertaining whereas most episodes of C Tier sometimes kind of lacked that; so they got that going for them, right, haha?F Tier: School DazeShit, poopy, almost nothing good. Starlight is kinda cool here. Rarity is kinda hot here. I don't fucking care for the Student Six. And for whatever reason, Daniel Ingram had a stroke while writing those songs...?? Literally no reason for me to watch it.(2/2)
>>41848677>Twilight's Kingdom>S-tierOpinion discarded immediately.
>>41848691ok
I judge based on character growth, challenged values, and coolness. Also the plot that builds new characters.
>>41848700Wow, I cannot fathom someone liking Shadow Play that much and not liking School Raze so much, but the rest I can see as well.And future tier posters should probably use the same tier system as me in the OP so they are more comparable, because yours now lacks the D-Tier.
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>>41848677Here, I made it.Celestial Advice is not an adventure episode and doesn't cover any major event so it doesn't belong here.Half of the two-parters are around the same level of imperfect and not exactly stand-out but largely inoffensive and good in many places.A few are stand-outs with great adventures and no obvious bad elements that I wish the rest of the two-parters resembled more. And a few are bad/really bad. The ones in D could work but have a ton of annoying contrivances, the ones in F are fundamentally dull and boring in concept.Both entries in C-tier were good until the end, where they both dropped the ball in execution.
>>41848677nothing will ever be worse than Princess Twilight Sparkle for me.>important events like Luna's banishment and Discord's initial defeat being shown in the most generic ways possible that add nothing to what we already knew of them>Celestia jobbing worse than she ever has before>Mane 5 deciding to leave behind their most powerful member because "idk she has princess things to do I guess?">Twilight proving them right by being a complete jobber anyway>retconning the nature of the elements of harmony>Twilight trying and failing to fly away from timberwolves while LEAVING SPIKE BEHIND WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU CUNT WERE YOU ACTUALLY JUST GOING TO LEAVE HIM THERE TO BE EATEN GOD FUCK YOU YOU WORTHLESS PURPLE PIECE OF SHITA Canterlot Wedding is also complete trash tier but I think everyone knows why. Chrysalis is retarded, Twilight's friends fuck her over for no reason, and Shining Armor is such a gigantic Gary Stu it's actually insane that his character got approved.>here is my OC he's the never-revealed older brother of the MC and she completely adores him and he's a magical prodigy as well and his special talent is doing a super powerful city-wide instant-win shield that nopony else can do and also he's getting married to a literal sex goddess that loves him unconditionallyhe got better in the later seasons but still. what the actual fuck were they thinking?
>>41848895They were thinking that the show is for little girls who will get crushes on the prince charming character rather than compare themselves to him and get insecure.Also for all we know, Twilight wanted to get up into the air to blast the Timberwolves from there and save Spike that way.
>>41848772>Celestial Advice is not an adventure episode and doesn't cover any major event so it doesn't belong here.Technically my nigger, the tier list says season premieres and finales. Celestial Advice is a season opener nerd
>>41848677>Re-mark in S and not below Crystal Empire, Cutie Map, or even MMCWhat the fuck are you doing?
>>41848691this, I honestly think they're the worst episodes in the entire series.
>>41848677The premieres and finales are generally the most fun episodes of the show for me, I like them all.
>>41848691Mfer says no while best villian gets introduced
>>41850266>Tirek>best villainWhat is his motive? What does he plan to achieve?
>>41848691It's obviously le intentional logical fallacies
>>41848700>I judge based on character growth, challenged values, and coolness.Clearly not.
Unfortunately the show would've been improved by just removing all the finales and openers. Nearly all of them made the show worse.
