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LZRD decides to be a Cat from now on

Think I wouldn't notice this cheeky little edit Hypno?

Anyway, the episode itself was really good and i had little to complain about, except for maybe the ways of the Mane 6 how to capture Flurry Heart, just so the comedy can go on. (A net? Really Rarity? O_o)

Yeah this was pretty LAME and oh my god Rarity's character is pretty much ruined now!!! SO UNCHARACTERISTIC!!!!!! But yeah, obligatory baby catching scene was unnecessary. Aside from that, Flurry Heart was booked about as well as you could book such an unwanted character. WWE ought to take notes for: 

Flurry Heart is an example of how using a character as a plot device can work well. The main reason it works out is because no character development was sacrificed for it, unlike with Spike. As long as integrity and balance is maintained, there's really no issue with it.

Nailed it! In fact her actions facilitate character development, so as long as she keeps getting written into good roles she should be just fine!

2019

 

Congressman Ryan, can you expound on 10/20 proposal your campaign developed.

 

 

I miss campaigning for politicians. Great experience overall.

If only Milton was alive today. Maybe he would make America great again

I still don't know what I want with Starlight Glimmer, I mostly want her gone, but since I feel they will bring her back for S6, all I want is for them to either salvage what they can with her or just keep her far, far, far away from the spotlight

I don't think she's going anywhere, so the best thing to do is make the best of her I suppose. I'm interested to see where the writers go with her.

"2. Make Starlight Glimmer a member of the main cast" 

 

*sighs*  

 

*skips ahead to number three* 

 

 

YES!!! YES!!! That would please me!!!

 

Seriously, though, it's not as though Starlight reverting back to evil would prove that the magic of friendship doesn't work. It would simply prove that it isn't the "be all, end all" solution that it's constantly being portrayed to be. 

 

Plus, not everyone can be saved. That's just a fact of life. And I just feel that Starlight has far too many ingrained beliefs to simply be turned 100% good after a brief, minute-long speech from Twilight. She is clearly mentally unstable, and I strongly believe that she has serious problems that cannot simply be fixed by her embracing friendship again.  

100% agree

What!? RR 2015 wasn't good enough to make your top 5???

Damn, I never knew you could sing songs like this! Pretty good/10

It's funny, because not watching Raw just shows me how much free time i have.

 

It also shows in the ratings of the last few weeks, which have been some of the worst of the last 20 years. The audience is just sick and tired of the product. It dosen't matter if the in wrestling action is decent, you need to give a shit about the guys in the ring and most of the guys just don't do it for me.

 

I watched TLC last night and people where chanting for CM Punk, Ric Flair and even John Cena in the Sheamus vs. Reigns Title Match. That just shows how little the audience cared if they even want to see Cena.

 

I just hope that the next Raw still has shit ratings and that the WWE creatives see it as a wake up call.

At least Reigns isn't champ still

WWE's been unwatchable for me lately (and not just because Seth got hurt )

The story lines just haven't been engaging and even when they start to do something good (Undertaker+Kane promo on Wyatt family), it goes on way too long. They waste and job all the best wrestlers (aka Wade Barrett ) and let boring old guys like Kane get screen time. Wrestling can be cool, but they refuse to let it happen. As it is, I can't bring myself to watch it.

I think the issue for Twilight's character issues lies in how forced the conflict was. While I can see her getting neurotic and worried if she's not sure what's up or how it works like we've seen in the past, and I did liked the touch of how she can get jealous of her friends even as a princess of friendship, I felt the conflict was forced as alot of Twilight's issues were more self inflicted than anything else.

I'd agree that the whole thing seemed forced. I was constantly thinking to myself throughout the episode: "Is this really something season 5 Twilight would get worked up over?" I wouldn't have cared had it been more entertaining, but as I said, the episode is twice as long as it needed to be.

You really are Bizzaro LZRD right? Because i thought this was probably the weakest episode of the second half.

 

Discord, like you said, was pretty much the best thing about this episode with it's gag and references and you know how much i love my references.

 

Besides that, there is not alot. I couldn't get myself into the conflict and the gags, while funny, where just there. This was just an episode where the writers said "hey look? Even Twilight can be wrong." Well duh. Just because a few bronies say she is all perfect, dosen't mean it's true.

 

Oh and i thought Twilight was really weak in this episode.

 

Make an edit for the gags and that's it. You won't miss anything else in this episode.

Yep, I especially agree with the last sentence. For me, the reason I liked this episode more than others was because there wasn't too much weighing it down. But yeah, there wasn't a whole lot to it and honestly I wasn't a fan of how Twilight was written in it. I can't quite put my finger on why I didn't like her here, but it just didn't quite click with me.

Ohhhhhhh snap!!! that diss tho

Care to cite specifics, or is this an exercise in generalization from someone who's heart isn't in it anymore? I get that you didn't like it, but this review reads no differently than a political analyst on CNN using buzz words and soundbites instead of examples to validate their point.

 

As far as 'tell don't show' ... I have one word for you and other analysts who use that picked up buzz word without doing the actual work of studying narrative development ... Fitzgerald.

 

Wow Jeric, way to take the high road and slander me for daring to not go into detail in a reaction blog. I did provide examples thank you very much, but if you'd like me to be extra specific here's the actual lyrics from the first song I referred to:

"We've been searchin' for our cutie marks

For a while now

Tryin' to find out how we fit in

So many ways we've tried before

But we keep on tryin' more"

Unless you've never seen the show before, this dialogue is painfully redundant and it doesn't even sound good on top of that.

And believe it or not, I don't parrot "show, don't tell" from other analysts. It's something that a.) I've been taught in school by teachers and college professors and b.) is something that I myself can determine seems artificial and superfluous in most dialogue, especially in this case. It's not a dogmatic commandment and when I've used that I've explained why it's a bad thing (see my original post).

I'm not really sure what you mean by "Fitzgerald" as you didn't bother to cite any examples, so I'll refrain from comment. I'm not some idiot who spouts "show, don't tell" whenever a character begins explaining things, but when they state what we already know in place of real, interesting dialogue, don't expect me to be impressed.

Anyway, I'm not sure why you're attacking me, especially since unlike some political analyst, I'm not pushing an agenda. I'm sharing my thoughts and you're free to disagree with me. Funny how you don't go into the episode thread and chastise other members for saying "OMG best episode ever!!!" who don't give specific examples for why that's the case. This is not an in-depth review or analysis, simply a place to share my general thoughts (hence the title). I'm glad it's generating discussion, but please refrain from attacking me and my motivations when responding to my points in the future. Thanks.

Musicals handle showing vs telling in a completely different way.  If you're not extremely familiar with musicals it probably would feel like there's over the top telling, but it's really appropriate for a musical episode.

 

Thing is, take a famous musical like West Side Story.  In any normal movie if they wanted to tell you that there's two gangs who are rivals, they'd show them have a fight or kill someone or something to make you understand that.  In West Side Story you got a choreographed fight scene with them singing about their gang war in the intro.

 

Musicals rely heavily on telling to tell the basic plot of a story.  The showing that happens is done through the music... you get the basic plot through the lyrics and understand the emotions and motives of the characters involved through the music and style.

 

A great example of that sort of showing in this episode is in The Pony I Want to Be.  The song DT sings about her life and the song during the playground building at the end are actually both the same song (you can check the credits, the playground is credited as a reprise).  By changing a couple lyrics and moving it from minor to major, Ingram completely changed the emotions and meanings behind the song to tell a different part of the story, and used the similarities in the two versions of the song to demonstrate the growth DT went through.

 

Musicals just handle showing and telling differently... Ingram and AKR actually did a phenomenal job in their storytelling in here IMO.

I understand how what you're saying, but some of the songs were redundant imo, since they recapped exactly what had just been said or shown. If a song isn't going to tell me anything new, then it better be a damn good one. And for me, all of the songs were really forgettable and seemed superfluous.

Sure, you can believe that if you want Spencer. I just sit here, and keep having fun.

Hey, I'm not stoping ya man. Go crazy.

I"m still on a emotional high but the turn around was fast but hey they only had 22 minuttes so youhave to admit thye didn't have time to write out much. I mean it not a fanfic that not under time restraint.  the songs at least sped up the narrativs and the ellection was of course only 5 minutes.  The slver spoon part was very good. still what Silver's talen then..

See, I didn't think the songs sped up the narrative at all. They were just restating what had just been conveyed in dialogue immediately beforehand. They're redundant and even worse, they're bad (imo ). I do agree the Silver Spoon part was great, but that was like a fraction of the episode. It's not really that impressive to have a character say exactly what the audience has wanted her to say for 5 season. Not saying it's bad obviously, just way to little to salvage the episode for me.

Talking of a guy who just a few months ago defended Princess Spike.

 

Princess Spike wasn't filled with awful songs or condescending dialogue. At least it was a natural progression for Spike's character. This episode is about as G1 as I've ever seen the show.

I think the lower level of the conflict worked to the episode's advantage. Sure all these Crusader episodes were leading up to something, but I don't think we were led to reasonably believe this was going to be that one. It's great for this moment to have struck them when they least expected it, and for the conflict not to be contrived into something absolutely huge just because. They didn't intend for this to be that moment, and it turned out to be.

 

It didn't have to be epic, because it's the Crusaders, doing Crusader things, and finding out they were so good at something they just began to realize they were amazing at. It's fitting an episode that starts so typical and innocuous ends up with such an epic finale. They're not the Mane 6. Let their moment be different.

Honestly, I hardly care about that aspect of the episode. I just thought it was poorly written. Dialogue, as usual, is little more than a plot recap or a way to drive how characters feel into your head. But nobody seems to notice since the animators throw in at least one "meme face" into every conversation. This is not how you make memorable scenes, it's how you get a goldfish's attention.

This thread will be a rant thread about this episode? It will be interesting to read.

I like this episode. Fun and touching. The part that bothers me much is the old dude obsessed with Big Mac in drag. He looks like some creepy pervert old man ).

Funny enough that was my favorite part

Brotherhooves Social was shall I say, the worst episode in my life. This is an episode that I won't be watching again. The story for this episode was badly planned out and I did not watch halfway through the end of it, except I did watch the end bit and the scene made things a bit better. But it was the only good scene of the episode because Big Mac talked. And I agree that the rest of the characters were a bit OOCish too, except for Applejack, Granny Smith and Big Mac (kind of.)

I can't believe how bad this episode was honestly. It actually felt like a show made for little girls. I've never felt that way before. We need that movie ASAP so we can get some quality MLP

No one to say anything about this?

Proof that MLP analysis is dead. Oh well, it was a fun run while it lasted

Wait, wtf!? The new episode got leaked? lol maybe I'll actually do a review this week

We spent 2 hours bitching about the Hunger Games, Star Wars, and Wrestling afterwards, so it's not like this ruined either of us. Nothing really changed here

I liked your review but I don't really like when you say certain things about the world. I have aspbergers whenever I hear those things, I tend to feel... unhinged. Just letting you know that I'm super sensitive.

What did I say?

I remember watching this G1 episode as a kid. The only reason I watched it though is because there was a dog in it. But it could be worse... at least it wasn't Newborn Cuties. xP

 

Really good video, by the way! It has made me laugh quite hard. Then again many of your analysis videos are fun and hilarious.

As someone who watched all of The Land Before Time sequels countless times as a kid simply because there were dinosaurs in them, there's no shame in that

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'll do my best to keep 'em funny and interesting