Episode 116 Appearance

As of November 28, 2015, season 5 of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is now concluded. Though there were a high amount of bad episodes, there were certainly some gems, too, like "Amending Fences" and that pretty fantastic run of "The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows", "Hearthbreakers", and "Scare Master". When I was watching the episode "The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 1" -- the first of the two-part finale -- I was starting to get pretty excited about the plot. Long story short, an ordeal with time travel was going to let us see the mane six as they'd be if they never got their cutie marks the way they did. Besides just sounding like a fun, creative plot, I was hoping we'd see Pinkie Pie still on the rock farm with Maud, complete with the rest of the Pie family and her deflated mane. Unfortunately the plot got a lot more convoluted than that, but we did still did get to see Maud, sure enough.

With the past changed as I've said, a snowball effect impacts the present leaving King Sombra forcing the crystal ponies into a war against Equestria. During one of the war's battles, we see two of King Sombra's soldiers pushing a large boulder off a cliff down towards where Rainbow Dash, in battle gear, is standing. This is where Maud comes in, when she and Pinkie Pie (also in battle gear) jump in and intercept the rock, annihilating it in the same jack-hammer manner Maud did to save Pinkie in the episode "Maud Pie". Besides being decked-out in the brownish-grayish full body suit with shoulder pads and a belt and such, her mane is also different -- the back is short and spiky, directed in an upward fashion much like Limestone Pie's mane, though the front seemed to remain the same. Her tail was also cut shorter, and due to the dire circumstances, I suppose, her eyes actually visually expressed more emotion this time around, making it where her purple eyelids weren't as immediately noticeable. After their deed, the two salute and go back off-screen. From here I kept an eye out for her, but I never saw her return later in either two parts [EDIT: Oh wait, read the next post...]

This marks Maud's fifth show appearance, correct? Wow, the number's starting to get up there. We'll have to wait who knows how long until the show comes back for season 6, but let's hope for some more rock farm glory.