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S05:E05 - Tanks for the Memories
~StatesTheOblivious~ replied to Jeric's topic in Season 5 Discussion
Direct quote from Wikipedia: Now, we all know that the show will most likely never deal with death and its emotional and physical consequences in a straight forward way, so all we’ll ever get will be hints and allegories like this very episode here. But that’s the problem: What this episode delivered was - ignoring the continuity breaking by having it aired way after Hearth’s Warming Eve or the actually quite differed way of integrating the five stages and forms of mourn in it - still not a good approach, mostly because of two reasons. 1) It simplifies the Kübler-Ross model. Not by simplifying the model itself, but its very scope. Yes, losing a companion, an emotionally close individual, is a hard thing to take. But Rainbow should’ve known from the very beginning that this “loss” was going to be a temporary one. She knew what hibernation was. She reacted like something really traumatic already happened. Her reaction might have been a totally emotional one, so you can only blame her for not controlling herself, but it was still a very childish one. She overdid it. And that leads to the second reason. 2) She might have not caused any irreversible damage by sabotaging the Winter Lab, but she still did something that wasn’t right. Now, while there is a lesson in the end, it’s just a half one. It was to accept loss and let go when it’s time, but she didn’t learn that doing what she did to prevent tank from hibernating while going through the five stages was wrong, no matter the outcome. Don’t get me wrong, there are still things about this episode that were great. Honorable mentions go to the song and the comedic parts. I’ll Fly is probably one of the best songs from the show on my list and was the Rainbow Dash song the fans have been waiting for. While it’s not as great as it could have been – mostly because of the context it was presented in and not because of its quality – it still is a very good piece of music. And the way some of the 5-stages-scenes were done was done quite well, especially her getting angry (and her angry face) and the little scene with a more or less puzzled Spike. Not to forget about the scene with Open Skies, Clear Skies and Fluffy Clouds. That one was a really good laugh. So my final rating of this episode is “Meh”, but probably in a more positive way than my rating of last week’s episode. Tanks for the Memories had a good idea, but failed a bit because of the show’s limits. -
Great, now I got two glorious RD faces from today's epsiode to choose from as my new avatar ... Decisions, decisions ... Hm ...
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S05:E05 - Tanks for the Memories
~StatesTheOblivious~ replied to Jeric's topic in Season 5 Discussion
Uh ... Uh huh ... huh-wha-? I, um ... huh? Huh?! Maybe it's because I've been watching this episode at 11:30pm, but I think I need some time to think about it and to watch it again after a good night's sleep. This was so right and so wrong on so many levels. Right now I'd say it was better than last week's episode, but for the wrong reasons. Hm ... Gonna write more tomorrow. -
Okay, I'll simply put this episode aside as tis season's Messed Up Mediocre... and wait for next week's episode. Wait, that one will be The Tearjerker, right? Dammit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P92z22hA7Tk ... The hell am I watching? xD
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Okay, I’ve watched it again … but my opinion doesn’t change. In fact, I see it as one of the most mixed feelings-inducing episodes on my list. There are two things I have to talk about in this matter. First, there’s the writing itself. There are good episodes in other TV shows and even entire movies about “time loops” and repeating dream sequences, but this here is just too simple to actually be anything but predictable. It felt very repetitive. At least there were some of the show’s funniest moments mixed in there. Then there’s also the pacing. Right in the middle of the second dream sequence, I thought “Dammit, get to the point!” But it didn’t. Ironically, after all this time and after so many episodes that could’ve needed more than just twenty two minutes of usable screen time, there’s finally an episode that could’ve been much shorter without losing any of its message. (This way most of the gags felt like fillers. Fillers were the thing I liked the most about an episode from a show that has proven to live from no-filler moments! Boy!)* The latter brings me to the second point; the message. Right in the second dream sequence, we have something that could be considered the rough lesson to learn that simple differences shouldn’t get in the way of friendship and that you can still be friends even if you change. Nothing to complain here, but after all the time being, the CMC might have been more of the “Getting our CM’s for the sake of getting our CM’s!”-kind all along, but I hoped that the writers would actually implement that the CMC are more about helping each other to receive one’s and their CM’s instead of nearly excluding anyone who got it, despite the possibility of them still helping the ones who didn’t get them yet, even though they don’t end the friendship between them. This feels like a step backwards. But my personal most “disturbing” thing about this episode is not the writing, nor is it the Matrix/Inception mashup or the ending, no – it’s Babs’ Cutie Mark. Why? Just let me put it this way … If you give a tomboy a scissor as the symbol of their special talent … Get it? I hope not. *In addition, there’s also Luna’s part. It’s nice to see her as a benevolent ruler who’s guiding her subjects. But this felt so forced after having it already seen in the same way in two earlier episodes, so even the episode itself was kinda repetitive within the show’s continuity. AFTERWORD: I do not hate this episode. It’s just easier to exactly point out the things one doesn’t like. It’s a “meh” on my scale. Not fantastic, but far from terrible. -
This was ... pretty much the incarnation of "meh" to me. :/
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Okay, okay ... This one was the worst out of the four aired episodes yet. Don't get me wrong. It wasn't bad, especially because it had this entire Inception and Matrix mashup and some of the most funny moments in the show, but it was less fleshed out in execution than the previous three were. The very predictable outcome and the extremely repetitive plot weren't able to do it for me. Not as much as the rest of the season has so far. Okay, Flapplejack (Ha-ha!) and actually good, but lazily implemented lesson aside, it was still enjoyable but kinda ... well, off. Didn't actually feel like a MLP epsiode to me, I don't know. I will probably write a longer review later, or at least more of my thoughts down, after rewatching it.
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Good evening. ... Oh boy, epsiode 7 of the new season hasn't even been aired yet and it's already shipping fuel. xD
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Does this look like the face of mercy?!
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That awkward moment when you write messages to several online friends on Skype and you only get one reply ... :/
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"In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie. Free yourself from your cutie mark. Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best." - Starlight Glimmer
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Oh, Castle Sweet Castle ... where did that plushie come from?!
~StatesTheOblivious~ posted a blog entry in STO's Pony Blog
WHERE DID IT COME FROM!? So, as I already said in the episode’s discussion thread, I ask myself that question. And so I thought about it. Okay, there are actually just a few variations of explanations that I can think of … but each of them leads to a few further, and sometimes rather, interesting thoughts. 1a) Spike bought it himself. If so, where did he buy it? Well, considering the Mane 6/7 have saved the world (or at least Equestria or just the day) numerous times already, it’d be weird if no one in Equestria ever considered their deeds to be something worth more than just a little attention. I mean, even Scootaloo founded a Rainbow Dash fan club as seen in The Mysterious Mare Do Well, so it’s perfectly within possibility if someone founded a Mane6/7 fan club. So, this group of … Manesixnies … Harmobros … uh, you get what I’m trying to say – so these fans would, of course, want merchandise. And someone sure would make it to earn some money. Ha! Possible source of Spike’s Rarity plushie found! Still kind of weird, though … Would he consider buying himself? Would Scootaloo buy one just to let it be signed by RD? Would any of the Mane 6 be ultimately be okay with this? Hmmm … 1b) Someone bought it for Spike. So, this one is still consistent with the prior “fandom theory”, but adds something to it. Who would buy it for him? Twilight? Someone else? Rarity even, for whatever weird reason? (Well, not for me, I ship them.) But it’d have to be someone who not just knows about his crush, but also to be okay with it. And I mean “okay to the level where they actually buy a plushie of his crush for him”-weird kind of way. Uh, this train of thought leads to a dead end for me. Um, probably the worst explanation for how he got it, but, oh wait, there’s more … 2a) Someone made it for him. Okay, this one is even weirder, unless it was a commissioned work. Because it’d mean that someone actually put in the effort to make it and that that someone would, if it wasn’t a commissioned work by someone who’s not close to the Mane6/7, definitely think something like this: “Dude, a plushie? What’s this supposed to mean?” Again, it could be a Mane 6/7 fan, but if not … Well, here come the imaginations of ponies looking in a weirded out way at Spike. So, this is still not really a satisfying explanation, but I’ve still got one left … 2b) Spike made it himself. Easy as that. He wants one (or anything to remind him of her, or to appreciate her … even more) so he grabs a few things and makes one. Not even contradicting canon, given it is hinted several times that he’s skilled in many things. Forget about Spike at Your Service here. Best explanation for me. Yeah, I think I’m satisfied now. Are you? Other thoughts or answers? Post them below in the comments! -
Okay, after watching the episode again, now in HD and without commercial breaks, I can see a few flaws, a few problems, but they're all nothing compared to the one probing, important, mind blowing question that's now stuck in my mind ...
