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  1. VitalSpark
    This is a list of my favourite MLP scenes, which I created for this thread. Unlike the post in that thread, I'll try to keep this blog article updated when scene 5 starts airing.
     
    It was very difficult to narrow it down to such a tiny selection of scenes.
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Friendship is MagicTwilight Sparkle and Nightmare Moon charging at each other, as mentioned above. (Category: Kick-Ass)
    Princess Luna cowering after Twilight has destroyed the Nightmare Moon ponysona. (Category: Cute)

    [*]Dragonshy
    Fluttershy telling off the dragon. (Category: Kick-Ass/Feels)

    [*]Winter Wrap-Up
    The reprise of the Winter Wrap-Up song, with Twilight Sparkle managing the wrap-up. (Category: Feels)

    [*]Stare Master
    Sweetie Belle singing a lullaby. (Category: Cute/Funny)

    [*]The Show Stoppers
    Sweetie Belle singing while she sweeps. (Category: Cute)

    [*]Over a Barrel
    The Sheriff and Chief agreeing that Pinkie's song was the worst performance they'd ever seen. (Category: Funny)

    [*]The Cutie Mark Chronicles
    Fluttershy's song. (Category: Cute)
    Twilight going super-magic before earning her cutie mark. (Category: Kick-Ass)
    Twilight bouncing about saying "yes! yes! yes! yes!". (Category: Cute)
    Rarity looking bored while her horn drags her around. (Category: Cute)

    [*]Party of One
    Sad, but not yet disturbed Pinkie. (Category: Cute/Feels)

    [*]The Return of Harmony
    "Spike, you're the new Rainbow Dash". (Category: Funny)
    Twilight pinning Applejack to the ground. (Category: Ummm... let's be honest.... Hot)
    Twilight teleporting into the middle of her group of friends leading up to Discord's defeat. (Category: Kick-Ass)

    [*]Luna Eclipsed
    Nobody knowing who Twilight is dressed up as. (Category: Funny)

    [*]Sisterhooves Social
    Sweetie Belle trying to cook. (Category: Cute/Funny)
    Rarity revealing that she'd run the obstacle course. (Category: Feels)

    [*]Cutie Pox
    Apple Bloom discovering she had a cutie mark. (Category: Cute)
    Apple Bloom's hula hoop demonstration. (Category: Cute)
    Apple Bloom speaking French. (Category: Cute/Funny)

    [*]May The Best Pet Win
    "Whoa! That was truly awesome! But... I'm afraid this is the radicalness competition, so I'm gonna have to take some points off." (Category: Funny)
    Tank saving Rainbow Dash, and Rainbow Dash realising that he has the qualities she needs in a pet. (Category: Feels)

    [*]Secret of My Excess
    Spike remembering how much he cares about Rarity. (Category: Feels)

    [*]Family Appreciation Day
    Apple Bloom in a bunny suit. (Category: Cute)

    [*]Baby Cakes
    The twins trying to cheer Pinkie up. (Category: Cute/Feels)
    Pinkie Pie, despite the difficulty looking after the twins, agreeing to foalsit again. (Category: Feels)

    [*]The Last Roundup
    Derpy speaks. (Category: Background pony in foreground)
    Pinkie and Rarity returning to Ponyville the hard way. (Category: Funny)

    [*]Hearts and Hooves Day
    CMCs make a card for Cheerilee. (Category: Funny/Cute)
    "Um, girls, can you explain why it looks like I'm getting married at the bottom of a pit?" (Category: Funny)

    [*]A Friend In Deed
    Pinkie's workout. (Category: Cute/Funny)
    Smile song. (Category: Cute/Feels)

    [*]It's About Twilight
    Future Twilight. (Category: Kick-Ass)

    [*]Hurricane Fluttershy
    Lots of scenes with background pegasi, especially Cloudchaser and Flitter, even if they're portrayed as being a bit mean. (Category: Background pony in foreground)
    Fluttershy joins in. (Category: Kick-Ass)

    [*]Ponyville Confidential
    Diamond Tiara in charge of the paper. (Category: Background pony in foreground)

    [*]A Canterlot Wedding
    "Sunshine, sunshine..." (Category: Cute)
    Cadence and Twilight escape the caverns. (Category: Kick-Ass)
    Mane 6 battle the changelings. (Category: Kick-Ass)
    Cadence and Shining Armor defeat Chrysalis. (Category: Kick-Ass/Feels)
    Twilight sings at wedding reception. (Category: Cute)

    [*]The Crystal Empire
    Spike saves the day. (Category: Kick-Ass)
    Cadence saves Spike. (Category: Kick-Ass)

    [*]Too Many Pinkie Pies
    The real Pinkie bonding with Rainbow Dash at the lake. (Category: Cute/RainbowPie)
    It turns out Pinkie is able to hover. (Category: Kick-Ass)
    Sad Pinkie. (Category: Cute)
    Pinkie loves her friends so much that she'll even watch paint dry for them. (Category: Feels)

    [*]One Bad Apple
    The thinking spot. (Category: Cute/Funny)
    Bad Seed song. (Category: Cute/Funny)
    Rarity's emergency edible boots. (Category: Cute/Funny)

    [*]Magic Duel
    Everyone helping Twilight with her magic show. (Category: Feels)
    The Great and Apologetic Trixie. (Category: Cute/Feels)
    Pinkie Pie breaks fourth wall. (Category: Funny)

    [*]Sleepless in Ponyville
    Scootalove. (Category: Cute/Feels)

    [*]Wonderbolts Academy
    Pinkie Pie misses Rainbow Dash. (Category: Cute/RainbowPie)
    Rainbow Dash prepared to give up her dreams for her friends. (Category: Feels)

    [*]Apple Family Reunion
    Glimpses of Apple Fritter throughout the episode. (Category: I dunno...)
    The stars. (Category: Feels)

    [*]Games Ponies Play
    Cadence's Hair Style. (Category: Funny)

    [*]Magical Mystery Cure
    Twilight Sparkle's table-top tap dance. (Category: Cute)
    Pinkie trying to run the farm. (Category: Cute)
    "Lookie here at what I made. I think that it's a dress." (Category: Funny)
    Sad Twilight becoming determined and then inspired. (Category: Kick-Ass/Cute)
    A True, True Friend (Category: Feels)
    Oh, my. (Category: Hot)
    Twilicorn. (Category: Kick-Ass)

    [*]Equestria Girls
    Sunset Shimmer is introduced. (Category: Kick-Ass)
    "The Great and Powerful Trixie needs some peanut butter crackers." (Category: Cute/Funny)
    Cafeteria Song, especially the outfits. (Category: Cute/Hot)
    Girls go anthro. (Category: Kick-Ass/Hot)

    [*]Daring Don't
    "Have I mentioned yet that I work alone?"/"Have I mentioned yet that you're lucky I don't?" (Category: Feels)

    [*]Flight to the Finish
    "But how? We already called them blank flanks." (Category: Funny)
    Sad Scootaloo gets pep talk from her friends and surrogate sister. (Category: Cute/Feels)

    [*]Pinkie Apple Pie
    Pinkie's "You guys are the best family ever" speech. (Category: Feels)
    AJ's "It's obvious you're an Apple to the core". (Category: Feels)

    [*]Pinkie Pride
    Why do I like ponies pinning down other ponies so much? What is wrong with me? (Category: Hot/RainbowPie)
    "I have a Pinkie Sense"/"Yes, I sensed you did". (Category: Funny)
    Sad Pinkie resolves to reclaim her position. (Category: Feels/Cute)
    Pinkie giving up on goof off, Rainbow Dash persuading her to stay. (Category: Feels/RainbowPie)
    Pinkie and Cheese Sandwich working together. (Category: Feels/Cute)

    [*]Simple Ways
    Apple Jewel. (Category: Hot)

    [*]Filli Vanilli
    Fluttershy's song at the beginning. (Category: Cute)
    Cheerilee swooning over Big Mac. (Category: Cute)
    Applejack interrogating Big Mac. (Category: Funny)
    Pony Tones as a quintet. (Category: Cute)

    [*]Twilight Time
    Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara fangirling. (Category: Cute)
    CMCs apologise to Twilight. (Category: Cute/Feels)

    [*]Somepony to Watch over Me
    Oh, my, again. (Category: Cute/Hot)
    Apple Bloom is actually competent. (Category: Feels)

    [*]Maud Pie
    "It's crunchy." (Category: Funny)
    "He was hiding in my pocket." (Category: Funny)
    "I threw it." (Category: Funny)
    Maud Pie saving her sister's life. (Category: Kick-Ass/Feels)
    "I don't really like candy. But I do love Pinkie Pie." (Category: Feels)

    [*]Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3
    Pinkie's rap. (Category: Funny)
    All the ponies helping Rainbow Dash learn without her knowing it. (Category: Feels)

    [*]Equestria Games
    Spike melting the cloud. (Category: Kick-Ass)

    [*]Twilight's Kingdom
    You'll Play Your Part. (Category: Feels/Cute)
    Super-powered Twilight Sparkle learning to cope with ludicrous amounts of magic. (Category: Funny/Cute)
    Epic pony death battle. (Category: Kick-Ass)
    Fuck you, Tirek. (Category: Kick-Ass)

    [*]Rainbow Rocks
    Sunset Shimmer listening to the Rainbooms. (Category: Cute)
    "What do you know about good fruit punch?" (Category: Cute/Funny)
    Sleepover. (Category: Hot)
    Under Our Spell. (Category: Kick-Ass)
    Welcome to the Show/Rainbooms Battle, especially where Rarity, Fluttershy and Twilight send swarms of diamonds, butterflies and stars at the Dazzlings, and where Sunset takes the mic and ascends to greatness.



  2. VitalSpark
    I enjoyed this episode. I don't think it's the strongest season opener we've had, but it was a better than average episode.
     
    A few random observations:
    The original princesses are barely even mentioned. I think the only mention was when one pony (it might have been Sugar Belle) asks Twilight if she's met Celestia. Normally season openers and finales seem to revolve around the princesses or prominently feature them. This episode broke with that.
    On a related note, in season 4 the letters to Princess Celestia were replaced by journal entries, but in this episode we didn't have a journal entry either. Maybe they'll return next episode?
    It is one of very few episodes where the Mane 6 don't entirely save the day. (Canterlot Wedding, The Crystal Empire, and Equestria Games are the others.) Instead a ragtag collection of friends from the village do — Sugar Belle, Double Diamond, Night Glider, and Party Favor — I wonder if we see them again? (I hope so.)
    Starlight Gimmer escaped. Just saying.

  3. VitalSpark
    So I've just finished reading Rainbow Dash and the Daring Do Double Dare to the kids, and thought I'd do a mini-review of it.
     
    It's reasonably long - 14 chapters, each about eight pages of fairly solid text. This is good. The stories in the My Little Pony magazine are taken from episodes, but abbreviated down to such short pieces of text that they miss out the charming dialogue and details from the original show. With over a hundred pages of story, there's scope for a lot more cuteness.
     
    Lots of background ponies get name checked, including Lyra and Bon Bon. Some of them actually have spoken parts.
     
    There are some black and white line drawings, though they seem to be stock images. Not necessarily very related to the storyline. If there's a scene where Pinkie Pie is happy because Rainbow Dash has complemented her cupcakes, there might be a generic picture of a happy Pinkie Pie, but it won't be a picture of that specific scene.
     
    Without wishing to reveal too many spoilers: everypony in Ponyville is reading the new Daring Do book, but when ponies start to criticise parts as being unrealistic, Rainbow attempts to prove them wrong by accepting any dares that ponies can come up with. When Zecora has a real problem, Rainbow decides that it's up to her, the most daring pony in Ponyville, to solve it alone.
     
    The book also introduces a new zebra antagonist called Braze.
     
    One minor annoyance is that Berrow keeps referring to Rainbow Dash as living in Cloudsdale, though we know from the series that although she grew up in Cloudsdale, she's lived in Ponyville for at least as long as Twilight Sparkle has. G. M. Berrow has written chapter books for all six mane 6 ponies, and has written several Daring Do books (under the pen name of A. K. Yearling), and has even written an episode for season 5, so you'd expect him to be fully immersed in the characters, and not make a mistake like this.
     
    Overall, I enjoyed the book a lot, and the kids did too. The language was perhaps a bit too complex for them, and I did have to explain some of the big words. The book seems to be aimed at older children, perhaps 8 years plus.
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