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My thoughts on The Scare Master (S05E21) (SPOILERS)

Mesme Rize

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I am kinda dissapointed that from all the episodes this was leaked. Now i won't have a proper Halloween Episode on that day. Oh well...

 

Scare Master is about Fluttershy on Nightmare Night, which we all know since Season 2, she is scared of it with a passion. At first, you could mistake it for another "Fluttershy needs to overcome her fears" episode. But it's actually about something different.

 

She needs to go out to get Angel some carrots and at first, she is kinda frightend, but the fact that she is going out in the first place, is a sign that she overcame her fears from last Nightmare Night. After getting scared by some of the ponies, she approaches Twilights castle and i swear to god, that scene reminds me of Beauty and the Beast, where Belles father Maurice is entering the castle of the beast.

 

Fluttershy greets her friends, who where telling each other Ghost stories and she asked them if she maybe can celebrate with them.

 

Now before i go any further, i want to say that Rainbow Dash was my biggest issue with the Episode. Instead of encouraging her friend, she just laughs at her and is constantly annoyed by her. It kinda reminds me of Dragonshy. How are they friends again?

 

Anyway, after Twilight and the others told Rainbow to shut up, they went to Raritys botique to get themselves some costumes.

 

Rarity is a mermaid, Applejack is the Lion from Wizard of Oz, Rainbow Dash is an Astronaut (space canon,) And Twilight is...Peter Gabriel.

 

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Kidding, she is a Centurion. Don't know what Pinkie is supposed to be though and Fluttershy is just blank.

 

Fluttershy tries to participate in certain Nightmare Night activities, but even with the encouragement of her friends, she just can't get in the mood for it, until Twilight suggests that "What about you do the scares?"

 

They all get invited to Fluttershy to a "Scare Tea party" (which actually sounds scarier for me, then you might think. XD) Fluttershy fails though, as she thinks upsetting someone is the most scary thing for her. Flutters decides that Nightmare Night isn't for her and so her friends leave her, dissapointed.

 

Without Flutters, they went to the hay Labirynth, which was set up by Granny Smith and Big Mac (who is dressed as a mummy.) They have a good time there, getting scared by different things, until they fall down a hole. They find a Granny Smith skeleton, a giant green monster and when they got out they find...Flutterbat?

 

At that point, they where all shaking to the bone and Fluttershy, who was just dressed as Flutterbat, felt very guilty about it, while the others applauded her for her efforts. Fluttershy then said that she has only done it so she wouldn't upset her friends and that Nightmare Night isn't for her, because she dosen't like to see her friends in danger, even if they are not, so she stays away for Nightmare Night. We get warm grouphug and that's that.

 

Although Rainbow annoyed me a bit, i have to say that this a fantastic episode. All Mane 6 members interacted well together and none of them felt out of place. The moral was nice, which is about understanding that your friends are not always going to like the same things as you do.

 

Too bad none of the ponies in the background had a Lamia outfit. :(

 

Either way, i give this episode a thumbs up and certainly belongs on the great tier list of episodes.

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Megas

 

 

Now before i go any further, i want to say that Rainbow Dash was my biggest issue with the Episode. Instead of encouraging her friend, she just laughs at her and is constantly annoyed by her. It kinda reminds me of Dragonshy. How are they friends again?

 This kind of bugged me too. Aside from Dragonshy(which was an early S1 episode), she's normally quick to help FS. Seeing her go back to DS was pretty jarring

 

Overall, first half was meh, but the second half more than made up for it. I'd still say it's better than Luna Eclipsed(which I didn't care much for) personally

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Jeric
  • That moral ... that it is OK to not like something ... was well played.

 

  • References to Filli Vanilli and Bats were nice.

 

  • 4chan is cannon

 

  • I saw Goody Fluttershy compacting with the Devil (bunny).

 

  • The haunted tea party has some really insightful peeks into Fluttershy's psychology and can be read a few different ways. She actually did spend time thinking up things she knew would frighten or trouble her friends and based it around something that gives herself some comfort.

 

  • Rarity and Pinkies subtle reactions were nice too.

 

  • Angel is a bastard. You know it was him that thought up the Granny scare!

 

  • Episode was fun, I approve.
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Mesme Rize

The haunted tea party has some really insightful peeks into Fluttershy's psychology and can be read a few different ways. She actually did spend time thinking up things she knew would frighten or trouble her friends and based it around something that gives herself some comfort.

 

I think this scene is more clever, then some people might actually believe. Fluttershy always looks out for her friends first, instead for herself. It's an absolute nightmare for Fluttershy to not show kindness to her friends, no matter how small the unkindness might be.

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Lambdadelta

This episode is really fun, i love it. The moral is nothing really outstanding but i dont care much, just the reason i like Castle mane ia. 

 

The Granny skull is AMAZING, truly horrify.

 

The tea party scene is really a nice setting for horrors but failed by Fluttershy's Narration.

 

The Castle in the night is beautiful :D

 

Eyeballs of horror!?

 

Wait, anime drawing? EVANGELIONNNNN fuck yeahhhhhhhhhh im so HAPPY!!!!

 

Animation in this episode is great.

 

OK, 9/10. Lack of good morals doesnt ruin this episode for me.  

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Moved to Elsewhere
I won't review this episode now since I'm waiting till it airs so more people are willing to watch it, but this episode was pretty well done. My only issue was Rainbow's behavior. I find it weird that the same pony who has shown to have helped bullied foals would be acting rude to her friends. But other than that, the visials in this episode are brilliant, every character interacted nicely and this is another episode giving a nice leap in Fluttershy's development. I think I may like this one better than Luna Eclipsed.
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Mesme Rize

Wait, wtf!? The new episode got leaked? lol maybe I'll actually do a review this week :lol:

 

Biggest screw up i have seen in my 4 years in the fandom. This episode was supposed to come on Halloween, which is barely 6 weeks from now.

I remember hearts and hooves day being leaked 2 days early and wonderbolts academy being leaked a week early, but this beats everything. :lol:

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Eyeballs of horror!?
 

 

Shades of Hurricane Fluttershy ... I assume that shot was intentional. 

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Hazy Skies

I loved this episode :D It was entertaining, had heaps of references, and the plot idea was brilliant..

 

Come to think of it.. that's been happening a lot lately.. tying a character to a plot which opposes them or their values..

Like the "The one where Pinkie Pie knows" episode where Pinkie had to keep a secret.. That was awesome, yet still has that "opposing plot"...

Same is true with this episode.. Fluttershy scaring ponies? That's about as opposite as you can get xD

 

I can't wait to see the next one.. ESPECIALLY if it's written as well as the last few have been ;)

 

But this episode is of course the most spookie of them all..

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Also.. that Derpy costume xD

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