Legendary Emerald

My favorite song used to be "Art of the Dress", but I think "Smile Smile Smile" might overtake it now. Least favorite would be "Winter Wrap Up". For me, at least, it was just very forgetable. Actually, now that I think about it, the episode as a whole was pretty forgettable.

Before FiM, ponies were still My Little Pony to me. My sister used to have DVDs of the 1980 pony show, and I'd see her watching them. I remember one of the movies she had featured Kath Soucie* voicing a pony named (according to wikipedia) Princess Tiffany/Starburst. I watched the rest of the movie with her just to hear that voice come out of a pony. I find this hilarious nowadays, because Kath Soucie's voice is a lot like Tara Strong's. I used to confuse the two's voices quite a bit when I first started paying attention to the voices in cartoons, until I learned to recognize the difference in pitch that was usually present. *Voice of Sally Acorn in Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), Lola Bunny in the Space Jam , Phil. Lil, and Betty DeVille in Rugrats, and many more.

Before I'd actually watched the show, I'd told my mother about how My Little Pony had become a huge thing on the internet among people my age. She called all bronies a bunch of perverts, and I had to tell her that it wasn't quite what she was thinking. My mother is pretty cool though; she and I used to watch Tenchi Universe and Tenchi Muyo when it was still airing on Cartoon Network. My father is mostly ambivalent towards my love of cartoons so, I doubt he'd care much. The only reason I haven't bothered to tell either of them is that it hasn't ever come up in conversation. I'm away at college, so I don't talk to them all that much.

I was going to try out this game just now, but instead I ended up just idling on the title screen, listening to the song loop over and over again. So this is what insanity feels like...

My sister is around 11 years old. She laughed at me when I told her I watched FiM. She said that the My Little Pony she used to watch on DVD and VHS looked better than it. > ? ...nope. My sis is insane.

I saw the episode yesterday, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The intro sequence was a bit confusing for me, as I haven't seen many season 2 episodes yet and don't know the story between the two baby dragons. But that didn't matter too much, because next up was an extended musical scene! One of the better ones in the series too; I'm still surprised by the fact that there are still cartoons today that have musical numbers that aren't absolute trash! In fact, I'm now going to listen to the song from this episode again while writing the rest of this post. ... Awesome! Okay, so, the rest of the episode. To be honest, the song number sort of overshadowed everything else for me. That's not to say there weren't some hilarious moments, though. The line, "this donkey is really, really, bald!" had me laughing out loud in particular. A large chunk of the episode's run-time was dedicated to Loony-Toon style antics, and it was fun to watch the animators try to out-do themselves in getting across the manic nature of the enigma which is Pinkie. I guess my only problem with the episode was the pacing. It officially starts with a 3 and a half minute song, and the rest focuses almost exclusively on two characters and their butting heads; despite the chase scenes, quick editing, and inclusion of even more song, its very slow paced, and perhaps a bit uneven as well. The episode felt padded, as if there wasn't enough time to tell the intended story, there wasn't enough story for the required time. I'm sure the plethora of songs included in the episode had something to do with it either way. To me, the episode felt less like a TV show and more like a short stage-play, right down to the musical numbers. Which isn't a bad thing, really, but its not what I prefer, I guess. Other than that though, it was a solid episode. I just don't think it'll end up being one of my personal favorites. Except the song. That's definately going into my mp3 player.