TwistedGear

Okay, I feel I need to talk about some more of my issues with the later half of season 5 so I better start with the big one. Yeah. This episode. An episode with Discord, the character that got me hooked on MLP. This is the worst episode i have ever seen of any series I enjoyed. This it the first episode in MLP that is permanently at the bottom of my favorite to least favorite episodes, First of all, the opening, okay, the Twlight spending an entire weekend re-shelving to cut down 3 secs in finding a book would have been funny in season 1 but at this point it flies in the face of all the lessons she's learned and making spike suffer through it is even less funny. Second, the premise of this episode is twilight not getting a joke? Call the presses, the spock of the show doesn't get a joke. Also when you present jokes out of context to be not funny, they're not funny. Also, thanks for having discord make friends with the remaining 4 of the main 6 OFF SCREEN. they could have at-least have used another pony for this besides twilight but... actually thats exactly what they should have done, why wasn't this a Pinkie pie and Discord episode? Pinkie Pie not getting a joke could be played for more laughs while also being something I can feel more invested in, Twilight's placement in this just feels odd. and her whole "Princess's don't get jealous" thing felt completely out of place, what does she think she's going to become the new nightmare moon if she feels the slightest bit of envy? And then the ending where everyone turns the inside joke plot against discord, I suddenly find it much funnier, not because "I was there" but because discords reaction was the first bit of real humor since the episode began, because unlike twilight, he wasn't in denial for 2 thirds of the episode. I'd vent more but I want to hear why I'm wrong about those points in some hope of saving this episode.

It's weird, the second half of season 5 has just felt off for me. And this finale is no different. While I enjoyed the episode while I watched it a few minutes later I felt like I was just played for a sucker. All that spectical, all that awesomness, and they didn't expand on the lore of cutiemarks. Infact they completely skirted around the issue by having every alternate future mane 6 wear more clothes. We never saw if the timeline changed what their cutie mark became, we never learned if cutiemarks can be altered in a good way, and the entire plot had nothing to do with cutiemarks despite begining with a speech about them, featuring a villian centered around them and being named after them. I enjoyed the alternate timelines, yes. But even those were very vague and only held implications. You could write entire seasons based on each one and we only got a fleating few minutes of each, we never even learned what would have happened in half those timelines and it didn't even make all that much sense that changing how rainbow dash DIDN'T preform the rainboom would radically alter the timelines. And in the end whats our new status quo change? Starlight glimmer is reformed, sure it's implied that she's going to be a main character now. But even if that is the case, thats a pretty weak change to what could have happened. There is no intrigue in how Starlight will change the status quo. We've already seen all that already with Sunset, Trixie, Moon Dancer and Even twilight herself. They could have ended the finale with something so much bigger and if the next season premire doesn't follow up with something bigger this finale wasted so much story potential that they'll never get a second chance at using. Then again the per season status quo shift itself might be the problem, maybe what I really want is something that changes everything at once, like a 5 year time skip, or shifting the focus to the pie family or just starting fresh in a place we haven't seen as much of. I just saw all those alternate timelines and felt like those would be more interesting. It's just so weird that this is the point in the seires that I have to start using the excuses of "This is a kids show," "This is a show made to sell toys" when I never felt like I needed to back in seasons 1-4. I don't want to dislike this episode, but I do. And I don't know if its because it's different from what I love about this show or not different enough.

Not much a fan of rarity episodes however these two: Made it worth it to me. I think Midnight Gloom And Daylight Bloom could work as names for them, since they're Day and Night themed and they were introduced in the same season as Bloom and Gloom(Aliright, so I picked the names to rhyme and they just coincidentally came out like that) pretty sure that they're already named something at this point. They also might just be Maud and Pinkie PIe in disguise. Not much a fan of rarity episodes however these two: Made it worth it to me. I think Midnight Gloom And Daylight Bloom could work as names for them, since they're Day and Night themed and they were introduced in the same season as Bloom and Gloom(Aliright, so I picked the names to rhyme and they just coincidentally came out like that) pretty sure that they're already named something at this point. They also might just be Maud and Pinkie PIe in disguise.

Been wanting an episode like this since season 4 started. Twilights life before ponyville always seemed ripe for potential, and know we get to see what that was like. And Colgate gets some screen time (it is really hard to not call her that) Kindof odd that her house was also cobwebbed, she seemed perfectly fine with twilight never talking with her. I love the visual gag with moondancer being a twilight pallete swap, the original six (can we call them that?) was six backround unicorns with two of each mane style, kindof want an alternate universe where they became the elements of harmony (moondancer seems like she could pull of generosit). Starlights cameo was pretty funny, though i wonder if it's forshadowing to what she might do when she comes back. So are eyebrows a sign of poor grooming now? Like five o'clock shadow but for girls?

Tara strong? Not have range? You're funny. I think it's more that all of tara strongs voices are pretty easy to accociate whit the rolls she used them for, particullarly to a fan of the dc super hero cartoons. And there goes my headcannon of him being a sea pony...

I did, I had read that comic the day before so that was at the front of my mind at the time.

I refer you to discords first line ever.

"Whonicorns didn´t die of squeal."? I beg to differ.