Man... Crusaders of the Lost Mark is such a good episode...
Not only is it a musical with a total of 6 WHOLE SONGS which is crazy, even for MLP, and all of the songs are good, although 2 stand out from the rest.
Then we havethe fact it's such a deep episode, with how Diamond Tiara saw her cutie mark (basically herself).
The Pony I Wanna Be is a is a fantastic song, and honestly i don't even have to explain why, again, such a deep song, and let me remind you this is sung by a CHILD, which only makes it even more sad.
"I know that diamonds were hard, though i feel i could break"
Also i couldn't help but notice just how pretty the visuals are, like, fr, wallpaper material.
Here Diamond Tiara says something nice even before being redeemed, because of how it resonates with her.
And then we get an even BETTER song, honestly i don't know why people don't talk about Light of your Cutie Mark more often, i genuinely believe this song deserves to be talked alongside with This Day Aria, maybe not on the same level, but pretty damn close.
"What my parents would think if i ever failed at anything"
Like shit, that cuts deep man... And again, it's a child singing this...
"I'm a diamond, which means you never break"
Going completely opposite with the line she said in the earlier song, which is a great detail.
Like, seriously, everything about this episode is just great, i haven't even mentioned the fact the crusaders get their cutie marks in this episode, and that's because that fact is just meh compared to the rest of the stuff on the episode, imma be real.
"Non-binary didn't exist before, they just made it up"
Now explain this, gender variance has existed in humanity in different cultures essentially for as long as the concept of gender has, and will continue existing, i don't come from a place that has had a specific name for a third gender, but it's obvious seeing so many different names for it in so many different places that it's just a normal part of humanity and it's just another layer on the complexity of humans as a whole and that's amazing.
I will always love listening to people talk about stuff like these in history in different cultures, the main proof that we have always existed and will keep existing, regardless of the fact in various places it might seem out of place.