Happy belated Nightmare Night everypony.
Its a good day on the moon...at least I...I think its day.
Kind of hard to tell when your on the celestial body that typically tells you it's night.
Calm down Text!
I think I have a way back.
I'm going to attempt to cast the chromakey spell without a surface to cast it on.
In theory the same chaotic side effect should happen...sending us home.
But I'm going to wait until the story takes the ponies back to earth.
"OH COME ON!"
(laughter) Cue "Spoiler Alert."
(singing) Spoiling the "Nightmare Rarity Arc"
(singing) My Little Pony Comic.
(singing) You've been warned so if you still watch,
(singing) You'll be spoiled soon!
And at long last, we reach the final part of...
"THE NIGHTMARE RARITY ARC!"
NOW I CAN FINALLY REST MY ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE!
By now you should probably already know who the writer and artist are for this arc.
So I'm gonna jump right into the story...I hope you don't mind
This part picks up with Luna leaving the moon.
And feeling kind of weak for letting herself flee away while the others are getting captured.
She then returns to Ponyville and tells her sister what happened on the moon.
Back on the moon, Twilight manages to find faith in friendship again.
And then this happens...
Its not really explained what exactly what's going on, but I get the feeling this is going to be used later on...
Meanwhile, Spike uses the camo moon slugs to sneak away again.
Which for some reason works a lot better than the last time he tried this.
"Convenient"
He actually manages to get to the ponies in the dudgeon and free them.
Well, I mean with help from Pinkie Pie who somehow got the key in an earlier panel.
They then use this newly discovered power of pure friendship on the guard to assist in their escape.
Back in Ponyville, the battle is in full swing.
and during the course of the battle Luna is struck down by Nightmare Rarity
and so she throws herself a pity party.
But with the kindness shown to her by the residents of Ponyville,
completely messing with the "we are terrified of Nightmare moon" vibe from the beginning of "Luna Eclipsed"
She is able to forgive herself for her past transgressions
and congratulations, your series pilot Luna has evolved into authorial maned Luna.
This would be where I'd show a fan animation relating to what I just said...
"IF I HAD ONE!"
Then the prodigal ponies return!
Thus that is our cue to return to earth!
Don't worry I got this...
Come on, I can do this!
Come on, just focus the magic...onto the space directly behind me
Doesn't have to be a surface there...just project it...COME ON!
AHHH!
Comic: Uhg, ouch! Who are you?
Unknown pony: Name's Jet, Jet Fever.
Comic: Ok, where did you come from?
Jet: You see when a goat and a bat love each other very much...
Comic: Dear Celestia! No! I mean, why did you tackle me?
Jet: I've been on the moon for literally tens of sevens of minutes and I just wanted to leave.
Jet: So I traced the magic signature from your wall back to you.
Comic: Can Demon Ponies even do that?
Jet: I dunno, but I did.
Jet: I can do whatever the fuck I feel like. See watch, I'm your script editor now. DEAL WITH IT!
Comic: OK...
Comic: huh, guess i'm gonna need a new wall...
Jet: Ya know I'mma do you a solid.
Jet: as thanks for unwittingly freeing this dark magic, tartarus spawn from his banishment to the moon
Jet: I'mma build you a bad ass mother fucking wall. It's gonna have laser beams and shit. Bitches love laser beams.
Comic: (awkward laughter) its good to be home.
But I should really get back to the review.
And then the re-mane 5...and Spike, manage to use the power of pure friendship
to break the hold the Nightmare Forces have on Rarity.
Returning her to her marshmallow colored, fashionable self.
So luna parts ways with the reunited mane 6, Spike and Celestia to tend to her moon dwelling subjects.
The End.
I would give this comic, 5 moon castle dungeon keys out of 10.
It was actually paced very well.
I mean, the battle was actually a reasonable length.
The only major issue I had with it was how they resolved it.
It wasn't exactly a Deus Ex Machina, because they showed it being discovered,
They showed that it could be used to turn an evil person back to good,
But it just didn't make sense.
I mean, if they're gonna pull an ending out of their ass
They might as well've used the Elements of Harmony
Sure that would mean a few extra panels showing them putting on the Elements of Harmony
Maybe forcing the Element of Generosity onto Nightmare Rarity
And the use the power of friendship to break the Nightmare Forces hold.
That way on some level it was grounded in the shows actual lore.
not some bullshit.
Because if all you needed was really strong friendship to break the hold the Nightmare forces has on somepony.
Why did Celestia have to banish her sister to the moon in the first place?
What? Were they just not close friends back then?
Like I said, it makes no sense.
As a whole this arc scored a 35%.
That technically doesn't even place anywhere on the grading that I use.
But pretty much, that's an F.
The sad fact is in order to stretch the story across 4 comics
the author had to resort to needless and sometimes repeated plot points.
Personally, I liked this arcs premise more than the previous arcs premise
But that being said, I wouldn't reread this arc.
This arc may have gotten a better overall grade if
parts 2 and 3 were combined into 1 part
Or if part 2 was part of part 1 and part 3 was part of part 4.
Also the villains in this arc, the Nightmare Forces, were not menacing in the slightest.
And their goal was very weak
All they wanted was what Luna promised them long ago: Endless Night...
and a kingdom of darkness to rule over as their own.
Which, sure that made sense when they had a super charged, evil, Alicorn under their control.
But...Nightmare Rarity is just a super charged, evil unicorn
I think 2 Alicorns can easily take care of that
King Sombra's plan had a better chances of succeeding.
King Sombra was 10 times more menacing!
You know there is a problem in your creative process if you create a villain who is worse than worst villain.
Not to mention the numerous continuity errors
that conflict with events that happened before this comic and events will happen after this comic in the timeline of the series.
But as always, that is just My 2 Bits on the matter.
Tell me what you thought of this comic or the arc as a whole in the comments below.
You can also suggest a possible future "spoiler alert."
Comic: Anyways, I'm Comic Sans
Jet: Don't forget me, I'm Jet Fever
and I'll see you next time for the review of the Rarity Micro Series titled "How Rarity Got her Groovey Back."
Because there hasn't been enough Rarity in the past 4 reviews.
Comic: OUCH!
Comic: I thought you were joking about the lasers!
Jet: I never joke about lasers.