-
Posts
1,636 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Character Archive
Frequently Asked Questions
Equestrian Empire Character Archive
Golden Oaks Memorial Library
Pony Roleplay Characters
Events
Blogs
Blog Comments posted by SilverStarApple
-
-
@BasementLuna, are you really sure you read all of my post? I gave plenty of reasons. It's ok to disagree with my beliefs, grown ups do that sometimes. You disagree, but my REVIEW being something other than glowing praise doesn't automatically make it a "Cynical and angry rant", nor does that make it invalid.
I like Maud. She's a funny character. Or rather, I liked her before this episode. ...Nah, that's not fair. I like her, and this was just a weak episode. A really weak and stupid filler episode.
Pinkie being super excited over a gift to Maud is in character. Pinkie needing to learn how gifts function is the writer dropping the ball. Especially since they've implied Pinkie is rich earlier in the series. Or at least, that she knows how to bargain and how money works! Remember the duck season two bits gag in Fluttershy Episode? Also, on a minor note, Rarity pulling off a Pinkie impression implies that it's something all ponies can inherently do, not something unique to Pinkie, party ponies, or Earth ponies willing to use that much internal magic. -
...for real, though, I have NO idea what you said after "1v1 me"... <_<
He's telling you to fight him, one on one, in Counter Strike.
- 4
-
It's funny because it's wrong.
-
He looks so sad!
S6Ep3: Maud Pandering And Nothing More
in The Silver Stream
A blog by SilverStarApple in General
Posted
Oh. Uh... Thank you for understanding.
The problem I have with this episode is that it's a tired old Stock Plot. Some executive demanded "Make Maud episode to make bronies happy, or you fired!". And so, some writer, entirely out of ideas, opened up a catalogue of Stock Plots and said "Let's do the 'They shrink themselves to fit inside someone's body and retrieve something' plot!", and another slapped him and said "NO! We are NOT THAT DESPERATE! Let's try... 'Two friends or lovers or whatever give up something they like to get their friend a gift they can only enjoy if they have whatever they just gave up, which they don't".
And then the executive said "This story amazing and originals! But too sad. Make happy end. Moral no matter. Just want see Maud. Me love Maud most of all. Make episode Maud episode. OR ME FIRE YOU!"
And so, we got this episode. And let's be real here, if it was "Offensive", I wouldn't care. If there was an episode about racist old Earth Ponies as a metahpor for old jerks, or Unicorns as a metaphor for classist idiots that think killing all the poor is a good idea because it'd shut them up and stop them complaining, it'd be ok. If there was an episode where gay-hating old folks kicked out their gay colt and he had to live with the Mane Six until they found him a new home, that'd be ok. Even if they had him live with Twilight, he developed a crush on Spike, and they went with a stupid "Gay guy likes straight guy. They can never be together. omgffff so trajik!" plot. And if they put Derpy back into the series and let her be her Patrick-voiced clumsy, idiotic self AND brought her to the secondary character level, appearing in many episodes, I'd cheer.
But here's the thing... At least the crappy Breezies episode tried to World-Build. At least Boast Busters tried to tell a story and introduce a Rival to Twilight, though Trixie wasn't really hate-able or much of a villain or rival in that episode. At least Lightning Dust was kind of a villain, even though the balloon shouldn't have been there in the first place and any non-BF military commander that didn't have a huge crush on Rainbow Dash would have said the same thing. At least those episodes TRIED to be original. This... This is phoning it in, being lazy, not even bothering to try to be good. It damaged my faith in the show because I thought it was above this. It picked a Stock Plot, went for it, mangled it, and spat the remains onto a table like a cat trying to feed its owner. And just like that cat, it failed, except even that cat managed to have more love for those it feeds than the writers of this episode. The average human puts more effort into defecating than the writers put into this episode, and you typically get a more palatable product at the end of it, too. The Writers. Just. Didn't. Care. They put zero effort into this episode, and made it nothing more than cheap pandering to Maud fans. It's not just a terrible episode, it doesn't deserve to be called an episode.