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Flash Sentry: A Critique of His Character

Author's Note: Credit goes to critiques from Tommy_Oliver, Silver-Quill, and VoiceOfReason for this critique of Flash Sentry. One of the biggest elephants in not only Equestria Girls, but FIM altogether. Both movies have a host of problems, and one of them is Flash Sentry. If there's one point where you can narrow down the laziness of the entire alternate world, it's him. Poor writing, lazy direction, character derailment, playing clichés to the letter. Flash Sentry is a lot like the charac
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"MLP: Equestria Girls" Is a Developmental Nightmare

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls has been the center of controversy over the last few months off and on, starting in February and boiling over with the trailer and again with the prototype dolls. If you've followed it, I don't think I need to remind you of the drama, so I won't write it again.   For a while, I actually kept myself rather mum about it. If you wanted me to give my viewpoint for Equestria Girls, I probably would've said nothing, because I didn't have much out there except the pret
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IDW's Equestria Girls Holiday Special 2014 Review

If you wanna read the comic online, watch the video. Be careful, the RR music that plays in the background can get loud, so mind the volume in your earphones. Like what I wrote here, FIM's IDW comics are an innate source of controversy. One of the latest to the pile — The Good, the Bad, and the Ponies — competes with Reflections as the worst of the worst. Ted Anderson is no stranger himself, yet if just reading his proverbial résumé, he's usually one of the best writers for the series. The
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DQ's letter grades for various FIM media

One of my biggest peeves in reviewing is giving something a calculated score, because it's very difficult if not impossible to reduce the quality to such a mark. Plus, whenever many people see a score, they tend to not read the review at all and rely on the score/grade itself as proof for purchase. Nonetheless, if I were to grade the following based on the following items below, they would be the followings below the first rule. The grades are respective and separated to the following categ
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"My Little Pony: Equestria Girls" Review/Analysis (Revised)

Author's Note: This review has been edited and published in the main thread. If you wish to see the old review (now locked for commenting), click here. ——— My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is the semi-blockbuster for the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic franchise. The fourth generation has garnered hype and popularity since its inception on October 10, 2010, with the help of the target audience (families), market audience (families and families of little girls), and periphery demogra
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"Slice of Life" Analysis (Second Revision)

Author's Note: This analysis has been revised a second time — published on June 15, 2015 — with a new addition about the layout of the audience during the wedding ceremony and overall moral. Credit goes to Reflective Vagrant on YouTube for noticing it.   This is what I wrote here, and I'll write a bit more.  If you're not into the core fandom, then chances are you won't get many of the in-fandom jokes. Bon Bon's "secret agent" angle is a very subtle joke at her two names: Bon Bon and Swe
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Excuse me while I rant about Nickelodeon's Breadwinners (again)

If I'm allowed to put a swearword in a title, I would, because it needs it.   After re-reading and rewatching angry reviews of Breadwinners, I had the itch to bitch about it again because once isn't enough. I'd stop, but I might've lost a few years of my life, so whatever.   Nickelodeon's Breadwinners really pisses me off! If you think modern Spongebob and Sanjay & Craig are at the bottom of the barrel, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Because Breadwinners is much, MUCH worse!   How bad? T
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The Living Tombstone's "Discord (The Living Tombstone's Remix)" Review

Back when the brony community was still relatively new and still growing into one of the bigger creative powerhouses, one of the growing areas was the brony musicians. Slowly but surely, many of them were getting their names known, sending a message to unknown passersby that their dedication to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was genuine. Creativity is one of the clearest and best examples to show why, and music was one of them. But it was relatively slow back them. The one who really sent t
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MLP:FIM Season 3 Review (Revised)

Author's Note: This is a more thorough, revised review for season three of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Head here to read the previous version.   —   Season three was like a haphazard dinner at a restaurant. You have a decent appetizer, then a scrumptious entrée, followed by an awful desert.   1 & 2. The Crystal Empire: Part one gave the season a great start. There were layers of great characterization amongst the Mane Six, notably Twilight Sparkle and Spike. The backstory of b
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MLP:FIM fanfic AU idea: Adaptation of Thomas & Friends/The Railway Series (Two New Ideas.)

For most of my twenty-six-year life, I've been an extremely big fan of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Initially debuted in the U.K. in 1984, it was introduced alongside the popular PBS series, Shining Time Station, in 1989. Like most American viewers during my time, Shining Time Station was the gateway to TTTE&F. For nearly thirty years, Thomas & Friends has grown from generation to generation, from the old-school, die-hard classic and newcomer fans alike.   However, the United
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"It's for kids/little girls!" is a STUPID excuse!

Have you ever seen a half-assed excuse used so much, it drives you crazy? Way too many drive me nuts, and one of them is "it's for kids" — specifically "it's for little girls" in and out of the fandom — as an excuse for shortcomings. As far as FIM (and this message board) is concerned, when making an in-depth analysis or review of something, the most common response I get and see is the "FIM is for kids/little girls" excuse. Friendship Is Magic's show and IDW comics are for all ages, enjoyable b
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Poniverse Logo Review

After seeing Feld0 at BronyCon, he wondered when I was going to post my review for the Poniverse logo (both the original and revision) that I promised to publish. The following is my review.   Overview This logo's intended purpose is to integrate multiple networks into one supercommunity. "Poniverse" is a portmanteau of "pony" and "universe," so a theme of "universe" follows in the signature (the term to describe the trademark-wordmark combination). The trademark is a stylized "P" in the abst
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Starlight's Redemption Is Better and More Satisfying Than Sunset's

The worst written scene in all of FIM is Vice Principal Luna interrogating Twilight in her office. Luna bought into "evidence" of photos that were clearly cut out and glued together. The whole scene has no tension, because it lasted barely over a minute. Flash's moment of intervention could've been removed in favor of the Mane Six or Luna not falling for that stupid trick. It's so broken, it turned the first film into a colossal failure, and nothing after would save it.   But my most hated par
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"Rainbow Falls" Review/Analysis

Following two grand episodes in Rarity Takes Manehattan and Pinkie Apple Pie, Corey Powell was challenged to write the official script for Rainbow Falls. This is the second time Rainbow Dash is the central character this season (Flight to the Finish doesn't count, for she was secondary). Along with Fluttershy and Snowflake (Bulk Biceps officially), Rainbow Dash's trials to qualify for the Equestria Games with her team hits a grinding halt via a very lazy mess. Strengths: Derpy returns
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The ten best AND worst FIM episodes (Part 2 of 3)

Author’s Note: This is Part 2 (#6-3) of DQ's list of best and worst FIM episodes (#6-3). Click here for Part 1 (#10-7). Click here for Part 3 (#2-1).   Sixth-worst: Putting Your Hoof Down   Is it one of the best episodes? Not even close.   Is it bad? Damn right it’s bad.   Is it the worst Fluttershy episode? Hell, yeah!   But is it actually among the three worst episodes in the series? Don’t even try me, because it’s not. There are five worse episodes than this.   So what did it do
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The Railway Series's (Thomas & Friends's) Small Railway

Last year, HiT Entertainment's Railway Consultant, Sam Wilkinson, uploaded a revised Thomas & Friends map of the Island of Sodor to the Sodor Island Forums.   If you look at the upper-left hand corner, one of the more interesting railways is the Small Railway, which is connected to Duck's branchline. Starting in Arlesburgh West, a trio of miniature engines would roll along a short little railway that the standard and narrow gauge engines can't get to.   In TRWS, there are three (and late
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"Twilight's Kingdom" Review/Analysis

Do you wish for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic to end with a great, big bang? It already happened once before in Meghan McCarthy’s A Canterlot Wedding via its sentimental BBBFF, the fantastical comparison and contrast between the real and fake Cadance in This Day Aria, and its action-packed hilarity between the Mane Six and changelings. McCarthy’s résumé of two-parters is extended this season with Princess Twilight Sparkle (the premiere) and Twilight’s Kingdom (the finale). Discounting Test
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MLP:FIM Returns the Franchise Where It Belongs: Back to Its Roots (Revised)

Author's Note: This essay has been revised April 10, 2013. ——— The third season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is over, and the passionate brony community is out there displaying their dedication to the show, characters, worldbuilding, and so on. Artwork, music, customs, and plushies are being published a lot over the past several months since The Crystal Empire, and it bloomed further with several dedications to the Babs Seed song; A True, True Friend; and What My Cutie Mark I
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DQ's Final Season 4 Episode Rankings

Author's Note: Initially, this was just a ranking for the first half of Season 4. But as of March 3, it's a personal ranking for Season 4 at large. With Twilight's Kingdom now officially aired, I compiled my final rankings and will link this list back to a review of the entire season.   ———   Like my MLP Micro-Series ranking, I'm ranking the Season 4 episodes as we go along. Here, I'm ranking them from most favorite to least favorite. Unlike my mega-sandwiches, these aren't critiqued objecti
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Why I Do NOT Respect Opinions Unconditionally

Opinions are like fingerprints. Everyone has at least one, and they tend to be unique. They can be popular, unpopular, or controversial. That I don't care about.   But if there is one thing that royally gets my goat is this perception that he or she is entitled to his opinion, especially when this said person is saying something poorly informed or ignorant (i.e., homophobia) as a means of being free from persecution. To echo the quote from my signature:   Just because you express an opinion
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"Not So Slow Coaches" Review/Analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvoENvK14N4   Like what I wrote in my review for Old Reliable Edward, UK users might not be able to watch it.   Ever wish to see Thomas's coaches, Annie and Clarabel, become a very central role in an episode? Last season, Brenner presented them as motherly figures in Thomas' Shortcut as they warn him of his carelessness along his branchline and worry along the way. On the morning of August 26, 2014 (British time), Thomas's most faithful coaches take part in Pau
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DQ's episode order from best to worst

After I failed Fake It 'Til You Make It, I decided to put all 28 failed episodes in order from worst F- minus to least worst F+. That list eventually expanded into a complete list of episodes I graded, from the best letter-plus episode to the worst letter-minus, . The statuses can be found here: A episodes, B episodes, C episodes, D episodes, and F episodes. With each list compiled, I'm taking every episode in the show and arranged it in order from the best to the worst. The list is always
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