Foliha

I'm a little confused. Some here say that there will be a hiatus starting now, but I've seen a couple of sites, including this one: http://www.sidereel.com/my_little_pony_friendship_is_magic/season-5/episode-14 that say that Episode 14, "Rotten Applejack" airs on July 18. Where does the notion of the hiatus starting now come from? Wearing my "I'm a Princess, are you a Princess too?" T-shirt. FABULOUS EPISODE! ... Oh, well. On the other hand, that gives me more time to watch Game of Thrones, which I just bought. Unlike most people on the planet, I've never seen it. Got the 1st disc on Netflix and was totally taken with it.

BEST BIG MACINTOSH ! And now we see what I've always known. Angel is a MONSTER!

I dunno, it seems to me that Moondancer and Twilight were color-variations of each other for a reason. Twilight is a solipsistic creature, she lives in her own world, and has since she was quite young. Being an "egg-head" as Rainbow Dash would say, often means that the world, with all its drama and emotional frustration, can go by without making much of an impression. While some creatures who are more social will roll their eyes and the egg-head's seeming cluelessness & callousness, the egg-head will often shrug and feel, "What's the big deal?" This was certainly true of Twilight. But having had an intensive course in the concept of friendship, and all that it implies, Twilight is now aware that there is more to life that a fascinating data-set. Minuette and Co. probably grew up with lots of siblings, or just talented parents. They learned not to take other people's drama too seriously. They roll with it. But perhaps Moondancer is a much more sensitive creature. Perhaps she saw Twilight as a sort of role-model. Maybe she had a school-girl crush on her. I that case,Twilight's disinterest in entering into a deep, heartfelt relationship with her could be pretty devastating. Crazier things have happened. Twilight's sudden realization that she grew up without deeply-bonded friendships - at least not on her end - might have been a source of hurt to others. So of course, being Twilly, she goes into an OCD meltdown, and wants to make it right. Spike, the realist, just lets her go and get on with it. (The remark about Minuette's friends maybe not being traumatized was hilarious. Who says there's no humor in this episode?) In the meantime, Moondancer has become a scholarly recluse, just as she perceived Twilight to have been. (If I can't be close to Twilight, I'll become Twilight.) When Twilight reappears, Moondancer tries to keep her at arm's length. After all, she's found a way to be, and she's used to it. Why chance an emotional upheaval and possible 2nd abandonment? But Twilight is in Lancelot mode, and will not be gainsaid. Pursuit and attempts at atonement ensue and eventually Moondancer caves in and wails out her frustration and abandonment issues. What I want to know is how will all this affect Moondancer in the future? We see her playing ball with her friends at the end of the episode. That bodes well, but seems too much of a right-about to be entirely believable. On the other hand, she's still young. Maybe she'll be fine...

It totally does. I watched the Kiara Cutie upload and it had a big, fat AD in the middle of it. I love Twilight in the book. Twilight Twinkle Moondancer with the tape-mended glasses. I kept waiting for Twilight to do a Hermione on them. Pinkie-copter This episode was fabulous, but hard to watch for me. When I turned 21 I reserved 1/3 of a Chinese restaurant fro a party, and ordered a ton of food, sent out invitations to all my friends. Nobody showed. Nobody. I pink-slipped them all and set about making new friends. This was a 4-hankie episode for me.

I love it! Snowbutt Mc Twinkles. Foliha want T-Shirt!

OK, what you have to answer for is making my morning smoothie come out of my nose! Bwhahahahahahaha!

Perhaps they came from the town where the ponies surrendered their cutie marks - before the mane 6 came and liberated the cutie marks. Maybe there a lots of them roaming about Equestria. I think someone may have mentioned this already - or something like it. But it kinda seems to me that there's a tacit agreement among "they who create the pony show" to suspend normal physics and logic in a Pinkie Pie episode. It's a romp. It's totally 'toon physics and timelines. Things don't have to make sense - they just have to be funny. For linear thinkers this will be hard to take. But it opens up some fun options. Battleships can fall from a clear sky. Bugs Bunny can have a lit stick of dynamite in his pocket which blasts his nemesis's facial features off - but only for a minute. Or Ringo can pick up a hole in the Sea of Holes, put it in his pocket and say, "I've got a hole in me pocket. If things making real-world, real-time sense is important to a person, then they may not find this sort of thing funny. But I personally - being a veteran of Owsley and windowpane - lots of Owsley and windowpane - have no problem with this. In fact, I find it hilarious.

The whole Beatles thing Gummy kisses Gummy note Twilight's stress face Rainbow bondage Pinkie sliding up the slide the yak's look Pinkie cursing sheep

Geeze. Anyone with half a brain is afraid of WAR.

You're not. I want to know more about him. Especially his history before ponies.

I just want to see Spike start growing up. I know dragons live a long time, but sheesh. When will his wings start to sprout? Or his fangs? Even Crackles had wings - albeit, they were about the size - proportionately - of Bulk Biceps's. When are we going to find out why he was an orphan? He has to do more about coming to terms with his dragon-ness, and that alone would be worth a few episodes. He's not a pony, and never will be, so... Couldn't Celestia arrange for him to be mentored by some dragon ambassador or something?

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I just wish Spike's character arc was more apparent - (existent?) I liked Dragon Quest, (especially Crackles!) and hoped Spike might start to mature. I think we need a Spike episode where we find out why his egg ended up in pony hooves - maybe tie it in with the stealing of the Phoenix egg - and let Spike grow up a little. Loved the "Put the hay in the apple and eat the candle." The Fargo reference was fun, and the bird sequence was amusing. Didn't think much of the statue. Partly because the episode was at pains to be sure you were aware of the Griffon contingency, so wouldn't the statue need to reflect that?

I think Cranky is different than he used to be. Yeah, he's still cranky, but it's more like that's just his personality habit. I think he really feels good about Ponyville and the ponies now, and I think he's definitely an integrated member of the community. I also think Ponyville is a lot smaller than 12,000 ponies. More like 1,200 (maximum). I've lived in the country - miles from anybody, a couple of towns of less than a thousand, and Los Angeles, for 20 years (Hollywood, Echo Park, & Silverlake) and they are definitely different paradigms. In a truly small town every body knows everybody - often more than is entirely comfortable - but it seems to be the "pony way." They are a close-knit community. Remember Raritie's "Manehattan" song? In a small kingdom - Equestria - the rulers use big social events to make appearances that bond them with their subjects. And of course, the Princesses would have been invited by Pinkie Pie. Cranky's wedding would be a logical time for them to turn up. Noblesse oblige, if you will. The whole town will be there, so they can "kiss a lot of babies" and stand around looking regal. As for Gummy - I never meant that he himself was paralyzed or a quadraplegic. But he's an alligator. Have you ever been around alligators? Talk about low-affect. Unless they're snatching a dead chicken out of your hands, they are kind of like a bunch of rocks. (ETA. Hey! Maybe that's why Pinkie Pie has a pet Alligator. He sits around like a rock most of the time, and she grew up on a rock farm!) They just sit there. But who knows what's going on inside of their craniums? That's why Gummy's existential musings were so funny. Gummy didn't bake a cake, but who's to say why? He could have been lost in quantum physics or just unmotivated. Or maybe the reason alligators just sit around gazing off into space so much of the time is because they don't experience the passage of time the way ponies do. To Gummy, it might seem like Pinkie was gone for the blink of an eye. Or maybe their synapses don't fire unless they are activated by fast motion in front of their face. Like waving a dead chicken at them. They're like, sit. sit. sit. SNAP! sit. sit. sit. sit.

Right on. I think what it means to me is that we are way past the whole thing of "This is a show for little girls, and a few marginal types with self-image issues." We are on the table with this as a show for everybody who loves it, and we hear you, fandom, Bronies, and let's do this! Come on in, little girls, come on in, adults who appreciate good animation, good writing and good fun, and let's party! It's now acknowledged beyond a shadow of a doubt that the fandom affects the show, just as the show affects the fandom. It's a symbiosis, and I for one see that as a good thing.

Methinks the Brony, oops, community member doth protest too much... What are you afraid of/ offended by? Bronies (mostly) have lives outside of MLP FIM. We don't shut down like C3PO when we aren't doing pony stuff. Relax... You have a pony persona (see avatar pic on your posts.) You like the show. (or not, as in the case of this ep.) You come here and engage in discussion. But you get a tad huffy if someone calls you a Brony. Brony, Brony, Brony! There. Are you diminished in any way? Heck. I'm a 63-year-old lady and I'm definitely a Brony. I don't care much for the term "Pegasister," but hay! It's all good. Call me a Pegasister. I'm here, I'm female. It fits... "Community Member Envy" sounds so tedious. Plus it's a pain to type. And people won't know what CME stands for. You're among friends. Smile. Be happy.

I think it's Discord. He probably lures Cerebus off with a tennis ball. (3 tennis balls?) Just for the sheer chaos it produces. He's not all that reformed that he can resist all trouble-making... That's probably why he didn't show up for the wedding. He knew Flutters would be cross with him.

You've never lived in a small town, have you.... Cranky is friends with Pinkie Pie, ergo, everyone knows him. =) A quadriplegic can have deep existential thoughts, but would be incapable of baking a cake. Or maybe Gummy was deep in a philosophical reverie when Pinkie went out, and the time just slipped by as he crouched there parsing some obscure conundrum.