>>226786
The plot is inane dribble of EXACTLY the kind of shit faust wanted to do away with in cartoons for female audiences.
Its essentially a G3.5 episode as a comic.
And it seems to revolve around one of the most glaring and idiotic plotholes from the first season the one that gave us a country where ponies micromanaged all weather, plants and animals, raising questions of not only what happens if ponies didn't manage weather patterns, but also who does so, since large stretches of the country are seemingly wild country ala that desert the buffalos live in. Do pegasi fly all the way from cloudsdale to handle all the buffelos weather too? Do pony game rangers take care of the dangerous monsters that would eat ponies in a heartbeat if given the chance, like that hydra from foggy bottom bog or those moray's from the canyon RD races through? Do those game rangers teach those monsters their natural behavior too? Like hunting and eating ponies. The implications are mindblowing if you put your mind to it…
So the entire plot hinges on Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns as a random entrance exam having made twily hatch a dragon egg. Seing as dragons are rare, feared and largely avoided by ponykind in general as we are told in episodes like dragon quest and the spikezilla one yet an egg from such a beast, with sentient parents as far as we know, is just randomly handed out to some school kid? And don't give me any bullshit about Celestia having planed it because of twilights special talent and all that hogwash. This was before she got her cutiemark, she was no more special than any other potential student of the school. What if some other kid had gotten that test that day? Or if twily hadn't gotten that one specific test? Why would a school even use a non standardised test for an entrance exam? The exam seemed less like a test of the students skill than it did a talent show like America's Got Talent or some shit like that. What kind of school would use shit like to find the most gifted students?
Secondly, after having hatched this baby monster, Celestia hands the responsibility of educating, rearing, parenting and all round bring up this thing that will one day have the power to turn whole cities to ash on a whim, to the same school kid? WHY? Kids that age who are already friends can barely lead conversations without resorting to physical violence over disagreements and you want to give her the responsibility to the upbringing of something with as much destructive ability as a dragon. And with no guide books or any other such information on dragons being available no less or advice from adult dragons for that matter.
How can anyone realistically expect spike to turn into anything but a sociopathic monster before he even hits his teenage years? Or a neurotic maladjusted mess, which is really not a good thing when he is going to become the size of a building and has a build in flamethrower…
And then there's all the little dumb details that where shoehorned in to get more established characters into the story for no other reason than CAMEO's. Like Trixie being in Twilights class, yet neither of them somehow ever knew each other until boastbusters? And a graduate of Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns made a career as a traveling show pony? Isn't that a school for teaching child prodigies? The rest of twilights friends from school had important government jobs with positions of power and shit due to their talents. And why is Celestia herself wasting her time in this school? Isn't she supposed to be running the country or something? Does she really have the time to be moonlighting as a general teacher and attending parrent/teacher nights?
TL:DR, dumb, inane, shallow and insipid drivel with the kind of plot you'd expect in a Teletubies episode and plotholes you could drive a truck through and a strict requirement that the reader never puts any thought into what it tells you, or you'd realise the implications are horrible and only serve to highlight how poorly thought out the entire story is.
1/10 Par for the course for the comics.