MLQ: The Lonely Hill
Dec. 5th, 2018 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)




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“Sometimes not everyone gets a happy ending.
Sometimes the goods guys cannot save everyone, no matter how hard they try.
Sometimes friendship is only the memory.”
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It was bad enough to sob through the last fifteen minutes of the episode, from Green Willow’s last stand, to King Greycloak’s desperate foe-tossing charge only to arrive too late, but then the writers have in the last five minutes King Greycloak tells his little nephews, Shining Tree and Silver Tree, that they were now orphans. The last scene was a flashback showing how happy the Grey Ponies were to be reunited with new friends in the Green Forest Ponies.
…I think this show’s writer is a sadist.