My Little Pony - Crusaders of the Lost Mark - 5x18

She looks delighted too!

Windwalker57

I love how Celestia almost instantly shows the letter to Luna since she spent more time with the Crusaders.

OH AND PIPSQUEAK! He is no doubt going to be the next mayor of Ponyville or something! He is such a good leader! It never happens in the show, but it's theorized and I am convinced, that Pipsqueak's Cutie Mark is a Compass pointing North. The meaning being Leader and that his moral compass is pointing the right direction! Pipsqueak is the embodiment of good intentions, good morals, and overall goodness. For the question of the day. I think I am getting closer to finding where I am meant to be in life. Still on the path, though. I'm seriously considering moving to Colorado and living with friends. They will help me get on my feet, get a handle on life and learn to drive. So, we'll see.

Squeebers

Silver Spoon standing up to Diamond Tiara is amazing! It shows that she also isn't just mean. She was following Diamond Tiara to get some of the perks of being her friend. She was finally fed up and decided to tell Diamond what she deserved to hear. Diamond Tiara already had the note to her father asking him to donate the money written up. I believe that she was gonna do it anyway. But because of the Crusaders she did it for the right reasons. If you'll recall back to the show stoppers, the Crusaders (Specifically Sweetie Belle) write a song and one of the lyrics goes "We'll never stop the journey, not until we have our Cutie Marks." In *We'll make our mark* at the end of this episode, the line that Sweetie Belle uses is "And our journey here is never really done." I just like the progression there. Diamond Tiara standing up to her mom is nothing short of breathtaking. Then, she calls the CMCs her friends! SO GOOD! She will never bully them, or anyone else again. The CMCs helped her to see the true nature of her Cutie Mark and the path to becoming the pony she wants to be. It's just icing on the cake that what led the Crusaders to realize their talents was to reform Diamond Tiara! This episodes ending rivals other episodes for having the best ending in the series! Truly amazing!

Squeebers

The dad doesn't stop the mom from doing this either. So, no I resend my previous statement that the dad isn't the problem. He is just as bad.

Squeebers

I weirdly relate to Diamond Tiara when she says in her song that she doesn't know how to be the pony she wants to be. I am currently struggling with my identity and where I wanna live, what I wanna do with my life. I understand Diamond Tiara a lot more upon viewing this episode the first time. But especially now that I am currently going through similar issues. Diamond Tiara's mom Spoiled Rich (Spoiled Milk before she married Mr. Rich) is the problem. She never taught her daughter to think for herself. Only that this is the way. Follow my way or else! You know. But her dad Filthy Rich is ok. In Family Appreciation day at the end of that episode he made her humiliate herself and hop over water in a circle wearing a bunny costume. He isn't the problem at all. The mom is.

Squeebers

I never thought that anything they wrote into the script would ever make me like Diamond Tiara, let alone love her. But this...I love her! AAAAAAAAAAaaaaannnnddd she's gone from the series forever. aside from a few background appearances. She never talks again, though. I wish she did. More comment coming after I watch your reaction.

Squeebers

I was playing the last song of this episode on repeat for a month or so without even seeing the episode. The song got me emotional, and I understand why the CMC finally getting what they were searching for had that effect on you. The CMC are adorable (are Pipsqueak! Dah!). There's actually another part of the song where Diamond sings too, but they cut it out. As for your question, I'm not really. Idk. I've recently realised how little I know about the real world and providing for myself. With nothing but a person or two across the world and youtube videos and books, I don't have that much support and it's daunting and kind of isolating knowing that it's 100% my path to make, and "following my dreams/my purpose" has taken a backseat. But I also know that if I keep putting off my desires, when "the time is right", my passion would've have been nourished and cultivated, so I suppose it's finding a balance.

TheWitoftheFro

This episode hit me really hard because, honestly, I'm a Cutie Mark Crusader myself in a way. I've spent years trying one thing and the other, going in and out of school trying to find the one thing that felt right, and in the end, what feels right to help is helping others realize what makes them feel right. The Crusader's story is my story, but in the stress of life, having to figure out how to make ends meet, juggling healthcare, school being so expensive and time-consuming, I lost track of my calling. That calling is why my username is what it is. Watching you react to this episode inspired me to reach out for my dreams again, the ones that are deeply rooted in my heart that I had sadly forgotten

Sharing Heart

Honestly, thinking about it, Diamond Tiara's parents are quite the awful combination for raising kids. I mean, obviously you saw how Spoiled Rich treated her daughter and how much she pushed competition and remembering she's "better" than anyone else. Filthy Rich, on the other hand, is very kind and generous, but he just gives his daughter whatever she wants, almost always free of consequences, so in his niceness, he failed to impose any discipline and instead became an enabler for all her bad behavior and her mother's awfulness. Honestly, how Filthy fell for Spoiled Rich is beyond me.

Sharing Heart

Oh, and might I add how much Rarity talking about inspiration touched me? That hits *hard* "You've inspired everypony around you And you've inspired me too" Inspiration runs deep around Rarity, you'll see that in season 7, and then you can look back on this moment and really *feel* that But, on a personal level, Rarity is *my* hero. She's inspired me to be generous, thoughtful, and hard working. Taught me how to live a professional life, and succeed, without having to drop your morals like a lot of people do as a bit of a shortcut. But maybe, most importantly, Rarity inspires me to be proud of who I am, to stick my chin out high, and be comfortable in my own skin "Time to bring what's on the inside out Into the light" "Take all the good inside Make it beautiful" (lyrics from Life is a Runway (EQG)) So, Rarity is *my* inspiration She's Coco Pommel's inspiration She's Sweetie Bell's inspiration She's Sassy Saddles' inspiration If we want to get into the chapter books, she's Charity's inspiration So, when Rarity says something like "You've inspired everypony around you, and you've inspired me too" She's basically saying "Yeah, I inspired you, and I know that, but now you're an inspiration all of your own, go and inspire your own group of people now" Anywho, beautiful stuff And it only gets better with the context you'll get later lol

Ice Crystal

Hmm.. First we saw Moondancer, Twilight without friendship Then we saw Wind Rider, Rainbow without loyalty (or integrity at any rate) Now it's Diamond Tiara, who was basically Rarity without generosity Is season 5 just a collection of reflections of the mane 6 and the elements of harmony? And have I missed anypony else who's gotten this treatment so far? Very different comment than the others lol On *that* note, the CMC getting their cutiemarks never really hit me hard like it did most fans. It was just kinda like.. "ok? Makes sense, you've been doing that for awhile, you're good at it, and it makes you happy" And then I moved on. This episode was always about Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon for me. Silver Spoon grows a spine, puts her hoof down, and says "aight, you're a sucky friend, you've been all I've had for a long time now, but I'll take my chances finding someone else" And Diamond Tiara finally sticks up to her parents (mostly her mom, Filthy Rich is actually kinda decent, though seemingly not very involved in his daughters life (which is another friendship/life lesson, love finding the hidden ones!)) And she figures out what her cutie mark *really* means. She's good at getting other ponies to do what she wants (kinda like Rarity) But she doesn't have to be an asshole about it, and she can use that skill as an organizer rather than a dictator. She can use it to make the world a better place for all At the end of the day, this episode is all about noticing what you're good at, figuring out what you want, and how to make the two work together, even if it doesn't make sense at first

Ice Crystal

This episode always hits me hard because I feel very strongly for Diamond Tiara in it. A lot of people underestimate how much influence their parents have on younger children, and even adults. My father always encouraged me to be a good man. Based on his definitions. And this left scars that took into my mid 20s to even realize existed, and longer to work past and try to fix. I spent my whole childhood convinced we were better than other people (although in our family it was "intelligence" instead of money). But I was taught from childhood that anybody who wasn't our immediate family or my father's few approved friends (who cycled out every year or two) were less than us. We were taught to treat them like semi-autonomous machines without *real* feelings. And I didn't spend much time at all with others so I had no reason to think that wasn't true. The problem with a bad childhood though, is since most people only have one you don't realize that yours wasn't normal. Pony I Want To Be was a sad song when I first watched it when the episode originally aired. But after making these discoveries about my childhood (and getting therapy) when I watched the series a second time this song really broke me because of how many old repressed memories it dragged out. There is so much about how she acts that reminds me of being younger. "What my family would think / If I ever failed at anything." That line still makes me uncomfortable. Remembering back to my childhood and how my parents were always so proud to remind us of their unconditional love they would always show - unless we were gay. Or liberals. Or did badly in school. Or got the wrong jobs. Or...you know what? Let me get the list. And that love was incredibly important to me. I think trying to explain that level of emotional manipulation to somebody from a good family is like trying to explain the concept of abject poverty and going to bed hungry weeks on end to somebody who's always had money and just has no frame of reference for it. What it's like growing up with that complete lack of emotional support or encouragement to show empathy. It's easy to say "you should just know better. " But how? Why? Emotional intelligence is as hard to teach as mathematics, and a lot more alien to a lot of people. "You know you're being cruel." Except - you don't. Or at least you don't recognize it as such. If you just "get" something, it's hard to appreciate what it's like for people who don't. I was lucky that I met some people who were a lot better than I was. Than I am now. I was lucky to get help to get out of that hole. Who helped me "find my place" as it were. And I don't know if I could do the same to somebody else who was as much of an ass as I was.

Lord451