While Twilight and the rest of the Mane 6 try to escape Tartarus, Cozy Glow furthers her plan to take over the School of Friendship with only Twilight's students to stop her.While Twilight and the rest of the Mane 6 try to escape Tartarus, Cozy Glow furthers her plan to take over the School of Friendship with only Twilight's students to stop her.While Twilight and the rest of the Mane 6 try to escape Tartarus, Cozy Glow furthers her plan to take over the School of Friendship with only Twilight's students to stop her.
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- Cozy Glow
- (voice)
- Twilight Sparkle
- (voice)
- Sandbar
- (voice)
- Pinkie Pie
- (voice)
- …
- Lord Tirek
- (voice)
- Apple Bloom
- (voice)
- Ocellus
- (voice)
- Gallus
- (voice)
- Silverstream
- (voice)
- Scootaloo
- (voice)
- Smolder
- (voice)
- Yona
- (voice)
- Applejack
- (voice)
- …
- Rarity
- (voice)
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- Spike
- (voice)
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- Directors
- Writers
- Lauren Faust
- Josh Haber
- Bonnie Zacherle(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaFriendship Report: Neighsay learned that friendship can be taught to other creatures, not just ponies.
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Cozy Glow: [cursing the Young Six] You've ruined everything! Now Twilight and her ridiculous friends can escape from Tartarus!
[she begins to march toward them, but suddenly the Mane Six and Spike teleport onto the scene. They angrily glare at Cozy Glow for everything she's done to them]
Cozy Glow: [nervously] I mean... Yay! All my friends are safe!
Applejack: [angrily] You can drop the act, Cozy Glow! Your pen pal Tirek told us all about how he helped you suck up all that magic!
Twilight Sparkle: [walks up to Cozy Glow] But I still don't understand why.
Cozy Glow: [growls] Why? Because friendship is power! You might be the Princess of Friendship, but as headmare of this school, I can collect even more friends than *you*!
Twilight Sparkle: *You're* the one who doesn't get it, Cozy. Friendship is powerful, but power isn't why you make friends. I'm sorry I couldn't teach you that.
Gallus: Well, you taught us.
[the Young Six walk up to Twilight]
Silverstream: You can't let one bad apple make you think you failed.
Sandbar: And we never could've stopped her if we hadn't learned what you taught us about friendship.
Cozy Glow: Honesty? Loyalty? Generosity? Blah-blah-blah! I can make more friends without using any of them! And if I can't do it here, I'll do it somewhere else!
[she flies off, but the other students block her path]
Patty Peppermint: [angrily glaring at Cozy Glow] Yeah, I don't think so!
[Cozy Glow flies in another direction, but Princesses Celestia and Luna along with Chancellor Neighsay block her path. She flies off again, but the royal guards surround her and arrest her]
Following on from where the quite well executed if not particularly shocking reveal that ended the first part, "School Raze" builds upon what was set up before but executes it somewhat unevenly. It is definitely the better of the two parts, there is more going on plot wise (both a good thing and an undoing), one character really shines and it is not as reliant on exposition. A few of the same problems present in the first part still remain though.
"School Raze Part 2" has quite a number of good things. All the episodes in the season, including the misfires, were beautifully animated and it is no exception here, with the vibrant atmospheric colours and richly detailed backgrounds the animation is great and is at times some of the season's most ambitious. The music has groove and also a lot of atmosphere, fitting beautifully. Have no issues with the voice work, Sunni Westbrook absolutely knocking it out of the park as Cozy Glow.
It is an episode worth seeing for Cozy Glow alone, that's how good she is as a character here and she boosts "School Raze Part 2" significantly. Absolutely love her Darla Dimple-like personality, cute as a button and hilarious at times but also very malevolent. The Student Six also make a big impression, their personalities are well defined and very varied from each other while the chemistry is great. The writing is not as exposition heavy and is more thought-provoking and the pacing is tighter.
Unfortunately, the storytelling is far from perfect. There is more progression and more happening but there could have been a lot more drama, tension and emotion. Not enough of either, and the lack of surprises makes it feel predictable too. Sometimes that it is more eventful is an undoing, as it did feel at times like there was too much going on and that another part was needed.
There still is a sense of too many characters and while everybody has more screen time and in some cases more purpose, too few of them accomplish much and only Cozy Glow doesn't feel underwritten. Personally find the dumbing down of Tirek in both parts pretty unforgivable, especially considering how much of an impression he made when he was introduced in the superb "Twilight's Kingdom" (the best of the show's season finales by far for me).
Concluding, superior second part that could have been great but ended up being a semi-whimper for a very inconsistent season. 6/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Nov 24, 2021
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- Runtime22 minutes
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