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Ah that's an interesting thought, that AJ and Rarity had previously run into each other at business meetings. I realized something else that's within the show. "Griffin Brushoff" showed that Pinkie and RD didn't know each other very well. I think it's pretty obvious that everypony else was aware of who Pinkie was, that crazy party pony who comes around every now and then. I doubt anyone knew her on a more personal level.

I was thinking about how the other 5 met before Twilight came to town. As far what we have to go on within the show there's only a few tidbits of information 1. We know that Rainbow and Fluttershy knew each other when they were kids in flight school. 2. Based on the fact that Applebloom and Sweetie Bell didn't know each other until they met at a party, I think it's telling that Applejack and Rarity didn't have much of a friendship, if any at all. 3. We know that Applejack and Rainbow are BBFs, as are Fluttershy and Rarity. Though we don't know 100% if that was prior to when they met Twilight. Other then that there's not much to go on. I have a few ideas. 1. Maybe Applejack knew Fluttershy early on, as they both have animals to deal with. If this is the case then AJ and RD may have met through Fluttershy. 2. AJ and RD became friends, while Fluttershy and Rarity became friends. The four may have crossed paths a few times based on RD and Fluttershy knowing each other but were mostly acquaintances. 3. Pinkie Pie is friends with everyone and naturally knew all of them. Perhaps she was responsibile for introducing them to each other initially. Anyone have more ideas?

I'd like to see an episode that deals with having a friendship for the wrong reason. For example, we take at look at Silver Spoon, We find out the reason she hangs out with Diamond Tiara is because she has trouble making friends, and Diamond allows them to be friends as long as Silver Spoon does what she's told. Silver Spoon puts up with it because she doesn't want to be along again. Two possible endings. Silver Spoon sticks up for herself and leaves Diamond, probably becoming friends with the CMC. Or Diamond learns a lesson in how to treat other ponies and the two renew their friendship.

I can think of two plots I'd like to have for a MLP movie. First I'd like to see how the other mane 5 met before Twilight came to town. What were their lives like when they were growing up? How did they meet each other? Did they hang out on a regular basis before the elements of harmony brought them together? Second I'd like to see the showdown that happened long ago between Discord and Celestia and Luna. Maybe even a life story for the two sisters. We've been speculating like mad about it, and it would be the perfect subject for an extended episode.

Celestia vs Discord: Let's see what these two Demi-Gods are really capable of! Pinkamena vs Psyco Twilight: Which psychotic breakdown is the strongest! Enraged Fluttershy vs Rainbow Dash: Rainbow may be the #1 flyer, but is it enough to take on Fluttershy's deep seated rage! Steven Magnet vs The Big Red Dragon: Which will win, fire or water!

I've actually been afraid of this happening for some time. My guess was that there would eventually be an anime spin off, a la Powerpuff Girls Z. I was certainly not expecting this to happen so soon. It's scary because it's so easy to imagine this going horribly wrong. If this project gets passed to a group of crappy writers, then we're going to end up with another stupid teen drama show. All the usual crap: The girls will be stripped down to one dimensional characters. We'll be seeing episodes dealing with "real teen issues," which will be about boy problems, popularity problems, keeping up with fashion, and so on. Everything that MLP has managed to avoid so far. But there's still a possibility that it won't be a trainwreck. If they use the same writers we could end up with the same quality. Though for me the problem here is that this feels like it's going to be a major rehash. We already have a show about the six girls going through life and learning about friendship, why do we need another one? What will being human add to the table? Isn't it basically just going to be the same thing with a face lift? Either way we have no idea what's going on at the moment. If this is going to be a series, or some weird special, or whatever. Gonna have to wait until more info comes along.

I really loved Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000. The towns amusing obsession with cider, the rumor that it's alcholic, Flim and Flam being a montage to "The Music Man" along with their kickass song. Lot of crazy fun. I also like that Applejack remembered her lesson from Applebuck Season and wasn't afriad to ask her friends for help. I also like that even though they won, Flim and Flam got driven out of town as a result of their cheap methods. And for all you guys who wonder about why people don't like Mare-Do-Well, it's not Rainbow Dash that most people critisize, it's the other girls. Instead of doing something logical like having an intervention for Rainbow, they create this persona and repeatedly humiliate her in front of the public. Kind of a messed up way to "help" her.

I'm surprised so many people liked this fan episode. Personally I found it to be very hallow. A serious lack of any real substance. There was such a huge amount of filler. Way too much time spent watching Rainbow fly around and looking at background ponies. There's a reason they're called "background" ponies. They should be hanging out in the background while the plot is moving forward. Instead precious time is spent just...looking at them. Not that they had anything to do with what was going on, it was an unfortunant case of "Hey look, this is a thing. It exists. No joke or point, it's just here to be here." The big problem here was that there were two major plot elements going on, and neither one was fully explored. First we have this potion that Twilight has made. It's some kind enchancment that pushes ponies to their limits, based on their special talent. This right here is enough of a concept to explore for an episode. Instead it's only used as a set up for the other part. Second is the crossover with the PPG's. What really upset me about this was the credits. We see a bunch of characters from both shows having humerous interactions with each other. This is what the episode should have been focused on if the whole point was to have a crossover. Instead we only have RD get chased by the girls for a little bit. Overall there really isn't much substance to this. The whole thing makes me feel really bad. This guy managed to get a group of people to help him and they successfully created a 25 or so minute animation. Dispite all the work that was put into it, it's held back so much by bad writing. There's no theming, no subtlety, no meaningful character interaction, no development, no world building, and a half assed moral lesson stuck in at the end. I can't believe this guy, Zachary, considers this to be on par with the show. It lacks pretty much everything that makes MLP a stand out show in the first place. The animation is fine, but what good is that if the story, the very substance, is so weak? If he would have just hired a decent writer to help out. I'm a writer myself, and I could easily make a great episode based on that potion alone. Such a shame, so much work for such a disappointment.

Because Luna looks cooler. Physical appearance counts for quite a bit, and being a black, dark blue, shadowy, mare of the night is all she really needs to gander a huge fanbase.

An interesting observation. I imagine that the crew knew that Discord was going to be popular and had hopes that he would appear in later episodes. Not sure if by that point they had already started thinking about having Fluttershy be the one to help reform him, though. It might have actually been forshadowing Discord's forced brainwashing of Fluttershy later in the episode.

The only couple I've ever really considered is Rainbow/Applejack They've got a lot in common.They're both althletic, and honesty and loyalty are their main, defining traits (Although with Rainbow it's more about brutal honesty). I could see their key differences balancing each other out. Applejack could get Rainbow to stop napping so much and get some work done, While RD can help Applejack take a break once in a while and have some fun. It's a double-edge sword though, those differences could just as easily cause major strife between them. Doesn't help that they're both pretty stubborn too. Still though, if the two of them learned to trust one another and work together, I bet it would lead to a healthy relationship. I also think Celestia/Discord is an interesting idea. That they were involved with each other but had a falling out. I do enjoy some Foe Yay.

IMHO, I think a lot of people are bothered by Babs not "paying" in some way for the bad things she did. It's such a standard in cartoons and storytelling in general that Karma has to be followed. Someone did something bad, they must be punished for it somehow. And it's so widespread and common that when it doesn't happen, it can really throw people for a loop. It's weird, because while they avoided punishing Babs, they played it straight with Diamond and Silver Spoon. Those two were punished in the end by falling in the mud, even though they had to shove it in at the last second. A good thought here on Diamond and Sliver. I think it would have made a much better ending if the CMC's had started to wonder why those two are bullies. Would have been a great way to set up a future episode where that idea is explored.

Managed to snag the 3 promos that Enterplay had up today. This will save me lots of money. Maybe someday I'll even manage to get that Rarity card

I like to think there was something shady going on behind the scenes. Cheerilee knew what was going on, and when the Gabby Gums articles got popular she started selling the paper. Made a ton of money, shut it down once the CMC quit, and blames everything on Diamond T.

Someone pointed out to me the other day that when the CCC are looking for the perfect stallion, all the possible candidates are earth ponies. Can't help but wonder, was that was intentional?

Great episode. I usually get annoyed when a plot is too predictible, and I immediately knew what was going on and how the episode was going to end. Dispite that, I love this episode. I may have known what was going to happen, but it was a ton of fun the whole time. I also like that Pinkie was well written in this episode. A character like Pinkie can be hard to write well. The idea is that she's thoughtful and clever, but naive. A lot of times writers simply go with, "Make her say or do something stupid, it will be funny." I remember Dee Dee in Dexter's Lab had this same problem.

Applejack has been growing on me lately. She gets a lot of flack from the fanbase for being boring and there's that joke about her now being a background pony. But there's a lot of little things that make her the most kind hearted out of the mane 6. She's often motivated to help her family, like when she went to the rodeo and the gala. She was also the only one to patiently put up with Fluttershy when they all had to climb the mountain to see the dragon, even carried her most of the way. Yes she's mostly a support character, but think about that for a minute. She always takes the time to help out her friends and family no matter what it is they need, never complains about it and is happy to help. She doesn't have wings, magic, or 4th wall breaking powers, but that doesn't get her down. She keeps up with everypony else just fine and goes about her work running the farm. Now we've found out that she lost her parents at an early age and despite that she remains strong and looks after her little sister. And even with all this, she's the only one who hasn't had a psychotic breakdown. Applejack is a very strong, caring, considerate girl and now I think she's one of the best ponies.

I wouldn't mind if a male character was added. Not that he has to become the wilder of the secret 7th element of harmony or anything, but become a main reoccuring character. Some of my favorite cartoons, like Hey Arnold and Tiny Toons, have a decent male to female ratio and I always enjoyed that aspect. I think it helps to show that gender only means so much. Or can't we just have Discord hang out with the mane 6 from time to time?

This is my second favorite episode of season 3. I really love episodes like this where we explore the relationship between two characters, and this was the only one in the whole season to fall into that category. I too was annoyed at Spike suddenly becoming a major klutz. It would have made sense if he had been screwing up while doing farmwork, which he isn't accustomed to. If I had been the one writing this episode I would have made it more of a Spike/Twilight episode then a Spike/AJ episode. We would have seen Spike messing things up at the farm, and not realizing that his help was not required. During the scene where AJ visits Twilight, I would have had the place starting to fall apart with Twilight barely even noticing. They go through with their plan which gets wrecked by the giant timberwolf, but AJ ends up saving Spike again, completely backfiring. So then AJ explains to Spike that she doesn't need his help, but there's someone else who does and she relies on him much more then he knows. Also I really wish the ended had been more like this http://thunderhawk03.deviantart.com/art/The-True-Lifesaver-357372706

Still one of my favorite episodes in the whole series. Whenever I tell anyone to try watching the show I specifically tell them to start with episode 4. To seal the deal I say "It's the episode where one of the ponies get's drunk and disturbs the peace." I especially love the scene with AJ and Pinkie baking. Love the disorted voice Pinkie has when we hear her from AJ's perspective. I also love that Pinkie doesn't notice all the mistakes Applejack is making. This one was written by Amy Rogers. She also did "Fall Weather Friends" and "The Last Roundup." I think she did a good job with these Applejack episodes. I realize that Applejack is one of the harder characters to write about as she's the normal one of the group. I think it would have been better if they had aired this episode further down the line. That way the show would have had more time to establish Applejack as the one who has her head together, thus improving the impact of seeing her so distorted. I don't like the idea that Applejack reached her peak here so the writers ran out of material for her. This one, as well as the two I mentioned above, all center around AJ's pride which is her biggest flaw. There's certainly potential to give her a few more flaws to explore. There's her short temper, and her tendancy to get easily offended. One thing I noticed in Season one was that AJ and Twilight could be seen hanging out often. I was thinking that a good plot for an episode would be where both of them share a "control freak" problem that could be addressed at the same time. Anyway I think this is the best Applejack episode and one fo the best episodes period.