Sombra was pretty flat as a character, the other villains were much more live.

Maybe having dialogue helped.

edited 10th Nov '12 8:04:26 AM by DavidtheMouse14

Well, this is what I get for having my hopes up in terms of villains.

IIRC, the history book had a brown cover, while Luna's book had a black cover.

Oh. Luna has a Chekov's Grimoire for some reason.

However, the villain this ep was completely disappointing/boring.

To be honest, I don't really care about Sombra at all. This episode was solidly Twilight's show :)

Well, that was certainly something. It was a good episode, although I don't think it was quite as amazing as the season 2 premiere and finale. Sombra really needed a bit more characterization, and I felt like there was too much of a disconnect between what Twilight was doing and what the rest of the cast was up to. It would have helped a lot of Sombra would have actually had some sort of personality past "generically evil".

That said, the humor was good as always, and it was sweet to see Spike finally do something important. And in the last few minutes when Sombra actually did something other than being ominous it was pretty cool. And the animation was awesome.

edited 10th Nov '12 8:05:10 AM by JapaneseTeeth

Sombra is just a shadow of his former self.

Then again, he had to beat Discord.

Yeah, that's going to be interesting. What is it going to be? The obvious guess would be Twalicorn, but I doubt that that's going to be the case...

Sombra certainly didn't have much personality, but he made up for it with some pretty awesome traps and planning. Not to mention that his powers were really awesome. The real meat of the episode was in the character development, anyway. Season-spanning arc, ho!

@storyyeller - *throws Tom*

edited 10th Nov '12 8:05:41 AM by dRoy

I hate you dad.

Eurgh, now to wait for you tube to get to work.

So Japanese teeth, going to do those awesome long reviews again.

edited 10th Nov '12 8:06:18 AM by DavidtheMouse14

Yeah, I have to give him some props for his abilities and foresight, but it would have been a lot stronger if he had felt like a person rather than just a vague "force".

I wish I could but I just do not have time for that now. I might do an abbreviated version, but doing the full 5K word things isn't gonna happen.

edited 10th Nov '12 8:06:29 AM by JapaneseTeeth

Well you got it half right.

It's nice to see they enjoyed the Crystal Buff.

Yeah, I feel like he was quite the intimidating villain before he was turned into a blob.

Yeah Sombra wasn't the best, but still cool, and competent given all the stuff he set up

also He's not gone, you clearly saw his intact horn flying away after the explosion. he'll regenerate and be back throughout the season.

Yay! I hope you continue your reviews Japanese Teeth!

I wonder if this series will have any real villain that lasts more than two episodes.

Nah.

Still, that leaves a lot of room for fanfiction writers. How many Start of Darkness stories about Sombra are going to appear now?

edited 10th Nov '12 8:07:29 AM by Carciofus

I didn't think you'd have the stones.

Rarity liked it the most. Yeah, I think the point is to get Twi to a different place. It wasn't necessarily about beating a villain.

Oh, and you know what else? The "Previously on" bit for the second part is now the perfect thing to show someone to convince them that FIM isn't just a little kids show.

It's like 100% High Fantasy adventure.

@Carciofus - Roughly [Dragonball reference omitted for being too easy]