Man, this is it. Looking back . . . 11 months of waiting and what's more . . . of imagining the episodes we're about to see. Many of us have been imagining the premiere for months, ever since the animatic premiered for some of us; visualizing it, mythologizing it in our heads, imagining the themes, how the story goes or where it will go, the villain. We've already drawn a bunch of S5 fan art. And tomorrow . . . all that mental mythos, that headcanon will collide with reality. It will probably be different than we imagined. Will it be disappointing? Going up against several months of hype it just couldn't quite live up to? Will it be better? Doing things we didn't think of that improves upon our own inferior ideas of how it would go?
In less than 24 hours it will be Saturday. And than when we wake up from a good, possibly for some, anxious night of sleep, we will find out, and many months of hype, months of visualizing and imagining the premiere, will be condensed into just 44 minutes. Just 44 little minutes. And than it will be over.
And than we will explode. We will take those 44 minutes and stretch into a week . . . into many weeks . . . into months . . . into years. In 2020 there will be bronies making reviews and having discussions involving this episode, like this is for every 2 parter, like this is for many episodes period. We will go over it, scene by scene in blind commentaries, analyzing it in articles and analysis videos, as if it were a classic movie.
It will inspire thousands of pieces of art, thousands of pages of stories, hours of video and music.
We will inject into every minute of this episode, this season . . . so much life. Just as we've done for every other season. We will give it a long life, a life of both thought and emotion, of style and substance, of love and of hate.
And it'll be so deliciously nuts.
Especially when you stop and consider the culmination that lead up to, and the future impact of, a single 44 minutes of a cartoon . . .
And the fact that I'm writing this as if I were leading a sports team into the big game or an army into a battle . . .
It's so deliciously nuts.
And I love it