>THIS SUMMER
>an anon will learn...
*sigh*
I'll never reach closure with this franchise, will I?
I remember being autistically invested in this show from the end of 2013 to the start of 2015 (I can't explain why I feel I have memories from 2012 tho), then I've stopped caring for a while and in 2019 I discovered it had ended based on a few tweets on my timeline. Then I got a nostalgic attack around 2022 that I wanted to wash away, so I binge-watched the entire show to see if seeing what I've missed would let it out of my system, but it didn't. None of the ways G4 concluded (Magical Mystery Cure, The Last Problem and whatever G5 implies about the M6's future) left me satisfied. I thought that participating in the antithology and giving to the fandom something in return for what it gave to me would help, but it didn't do much.
There's something about MLP and how Hasbro handled it that makes me feel stuck with it in a manner that other franchises I hold dear haven't. The only way I can imagine getting a satisfying conclusion that would easily allow me to move on with my life without intrusive thoughts would either be Faust getting a final season to end what she started as she wanted, or a series of movies with a meta-narrative diving into what the show, the fandom and its cultural impact actually meant (like what the Evangelion movies do to some extent) but this is very unlikely given how Hasbro manages their IPs.
I'll watch the live-action non-sense anyway, either streamed by anons or at the movie theater, to see if it can at least laugh at the train-wreck this movie will be.