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S4E17: "Somepony to Watch Over Me"


PrymeStriker

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Ah, right, so...why wasn't there a review last week.......hmmmmmmm.....

 

...College applications? Yeah, that's a good excuse. I'll go with that. College applications.

 

Right, so, let's take a look at my opinions on this episode back when it first aired:

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The fuck?

 

...............I didn't post anything about "Somepony to Watch Over Me" when it aired?

 

.......................................................................Oooooh boy.

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So this episode opens up with the Cutie Mark Crusaders waiting outside a door in the Apple Family Household, on the verge of hearing a "decision" from the other Apples that will change Apple Bloom's life "forever". Ah, yes, I remember waiting outside the doors of my parents bedroom at the ripe age of four, desperately awaiting their decision as to whether they were going to cut my dick off and feed it to my brothers and sisters. It was an unpleasant meal, but vengeance is sweet. Luckily, Apple Bloom does not have to endure a spay and instead receives the okay from her superiors to...le gasp...stay home alone! Yipeehoorraaayadoodle! After the "Skip Intro" button cures cancer, we see Applejack and Big Mac filling a cart full of apple pies for delivery, which makes me hungry for a pizza. I must resist the urge of delicious anchovies and minced rectum plasma in a stuffed crust. Before they all head off, Applejack hands Apple Bloom a list of instructions for when she's human basically doing any little small task that an infant learns before being pushed out of the womb. As Applejack heads off on her quest, she worries about Apple Bloom's ability to take care of herself on her own. Right....because letting her roam around Ponyville and through the Everfree Forest is perfectly safe, but staying home is a life-threatening experience. Blow me. 

 

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Big Mac had no time for any of Applejack's crap.

 

Alas, Applejack goes back to check on Apple Bloom, who's just finished all of Applejack's inane chores. When Applejack gives Apple Bloom a jumpscare and causes her to make a small mess in the kitchen, Applejack decides that she's not going anywhere! You know what I just realized? I kinda hate Applejack in this episode. Like, I'm not going to criticize her for taking the Twilight approach to over-obsessive panic, although that's a legitimate complaint this episode has earned, but rather for two much simpler reasons: 1) Applejack's behavior is imbecilic given all the things Apple Bloom is allowed to do as I've mentioned before. Not only for the "continuity errors" if you can even call them that, but for the fact that she's abandoning her delivery and therefore her paycheck for aimless indulgence. 2) This is the same plotline from "Bridle Gossip", a much shittier episode. It's with season four that we start seeing these rehashed storylines that involve the main characters learning the same lessons they did in the previous three seasons. We saw this in "Rainbow Falls", "Filli Vanilli", and we're also seeing it here. Applejack learned in "Bridle Gossip" not to treat her little sister like a vegetable that can't take care of herself, and we're retreading the same grounds except now it's even moreso the main focus of the episode. Anyways, point is, because Applejack's had to go through this bullshit arc before, her revamping it here is tired and adds to the dis-likability (if that's even a fucking word) of her portrayal. So, as you might imagine, big sister is watching.

 

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"The New World Order is soon upon us."

 

Applejack's manic-obsessive protectiveness goes to intense extremes, like having Apple Bloom wear a helmet, putting pillows over anything that's sharp, making Apple Bloom wear a helmet, putting plastic clingwrap on everything, and forcing Apple Bloom to wear two helmets. My tolerance of Applejack has graduated from hate to pure annoyance. My advice to Apple Bloom is to find the nearest turret and let a rip on her ass. In times of desperation, Apple Bloom calls upon her Cutie Mark Crusader pals to help her figure a way out of this mess. Scootaloo cracks the code: she and Sweetie Belle take turns pretending to be Apple Bloom in bed sleeping, while the real Bapple Loom goes out and delivers that cart of pies to their destination. That way, she can prove to Applejack that she doesn't need her watching over her. It's so brilliant, they start to break out into SONG!

 

 

............Alright, this is one of the funniest things in the fourth season.

 

Hence, the escape plan is hatched, and all goes according to plot for a little while. But when Scootaloo blows their cover by shouting in glee when Applejack admits maybe she's going overboard, the latter retard goes into full down syndrome mode and runs around the room in panic searching for Apple Bloom. This panic, in fact, is warranted, since the delivery route includes wandering through a forest with a dangerous...tiger...snake...thing....in it. Is there not a safer route to this fucking location? I mean, even Happytown Hell has a scenic route. It's a scenic route of mangled brains hanging off of chains, but a scenic route nonetheless. As this tigersnakegoat thing attempts to eat Apple Bloom...she realizes she's in over her head and tries to escape this deadly forest. However, she turns around to go back for the pie cart. Apple Bloom is a retard confirmed. Therefore, she eventually gets cornered by the superhappyfuntimetigersnakegoat, and on the verge of death, is saved by Applejack just in time. Applejack swoops in with fire-retardant boots and weapons of mass destruction like a chair and a snake charmer. 

 

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Brings a whole new meaning to being sentenced to the chair. HUEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEHE

 

At the end of it all, Applejack lectures her sister about not being able to handle shit herself, until Apple Bloom shows her that she kept the cart safe. And only now does Applejack realize, "maybe I should stop babying other living creatures?" If only she'd also realized "maybe I should kill myself?". That would make my Christmas. Right, so after all this shit, we finally get to the very predictable conclusion that, yeah, Apple Bloom can take care of herself........for the second time. Admitting that she got "a little carried away" with annoying the hell out of me for 22 minutes, the two sisters make up and descend into fanfic territory. In the end, they make the delivery to the swamp hillbillies (which is also pretty amusing), and the rest is history. There's not even time for a journal entry in this episode. Whoopty-fucking-do.

 

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Not pictured: cup with Applejack's shit in it.

 

So concludes "Somepony to Watch Over Me".

 

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That song section was funny as all Hell and I'm glad that it's a thing that exists in this show...

...but the rest of this episode was pretty crap.

 

Now, I say pretty crap because I don't necessarily hate this episode like I'm sure some other people do. It's still, however, a poorly written spectacle. First of all, the plot of this episode has already been done before with "Bridle Gossip", with Applejack being overprotective of Apple Bloom. The circumstances were slightly different, but the story is essentially the same, right down to Apple Bloom's repetitive dialogue such as "I can take care of myself". Therefore, the plot's already been done before and Applejack had already supposedly learned her lesson. Secondly, Applejack herself is an unlikable annoying prick in this story. The way she incessantly smiles and does those kiddish chuckles every time Apple Bloom tries to do something for herself or one of her baby-proof contraptions is pointed out is irritating. It's honestly like watching someone lose brain cells. In fact, I'm sure I've lost a few myself from watching Applejack's imbecilic performance. Finally, I think these episodes by nature kind of get on my nerves anyway considering, "real talk" warning, most of my childhood has been rather tarnished by my parents keeping me stuffed in the bubble of their household, not allowing me to engage in much activity on my own or with many of my peers without their close supervision or without knowing where I was at any given second of the day. I compensate for it nowadays, but given that I went through that kind of overprotective crap and resent it, I'm not exactly geared to enjoy a TV show reminding me of the idiocy of at least one of my parents. Henceforth, while this episode might have been doomed from the getgo for a relatively low rating from me, there are still serious writing flaws that do prevent it from earning any positive score. I'm giving "Somepony to Watch Over Me" a 4/10

 

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Genocide is so mainstream. 

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Damn it, you didnt bash this episode hard enough :blink:  I WANT MOAR :proud:

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On 5/6/2017 at 1:32 PM, Lambdadelta said:

Damn it, you didnt bash this episode hard enough :blink:  I WANT MOAR :proud:

Not to worry, you can count on me to destroy future fuckmonger shitazoid episodes hopefully cooked to your order! But if I must...

 

*ahem*

 

"FUCK APPLEJACK AND HER TARDCAKE PORTRAYAL IN THIS PIECE OF ASSMUNCHING DICKSLICING INFECTED PUBE OF AN EPISODE!!!"

 

Better? :adorkable:

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9 hours ago, PrymeStriker said:

Not to worry, you can count on me to destroy future fuckmonger shitazoid episodes hopefully cooked to your order! But if I must...

Ok, ok, that's enough :ooh: lol. That bold texts thou... ...anyway,  thanks, that ep deserved it. :orly: 

Anyway, have you watched S6 yet? 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Lambdadelta said:

Ok, ok, that's enough :ooh: lol. That bold texts thou... ...anyway,  thanks, that ep deserved it. :orly: 

Anyway, have you watched S6 yet? 

 

 

 

I haven't as of right now, but as luck may have it, I intend on catching up on a few episodes tonight.

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