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  1. On Your Marks, Get Set, Brace Yourselves...

  2. The cast returns, with a lot to say about their favorite parts of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (and their least favorite parts about each other).
  3. It's The Second Opinion on second opinions (and Spice Up Your Life):

  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNhHgIMv_pU It's time for The Second Opinion to give the second opinion on second opinions. This is My Little Pony: Spice Up Your Life.
  5. 3 friends try to make sense of Fluttershy's brother:

  6. As far as Applejack goes, I didn't really even take it as much of a reflection on her. Even in the moment, it just felt like an exaggerated example to get the point across, like a sketch in which Sherlock Holmes does everything like Sherlock Holmes, except notice that the next clue is right behind him, just so the audience can feel smart about seeing it first. In spite of the episode being drawn out, pedestrian, and dull, yeah, I'll still give it the moral itself. If Neal Dusedau really is to blame, I'll point out that he seemed to try to lay out a relatable moral in a step by step process in his last two episodes as well. He just doesn't seem to have the energy or the inspiration to make it as palpable (or interesting) as the shows better examples of that.
  7. Also the My Little Pony creative team's day off:

  8. Let's react to the review:

  9. Glad you liked it! By "world's were not invested in" I mean the "tales" that were the predominant narrative in 2 out of 3 of these, and the Pie's "traditional" rock farm, to a lesser extent. In new worlds with new characters, they have to build our investment from the ground up, for a one-time thing. It's hard for that to reach the same level as the top-tier episodes that utilize the characters we know we're following long-term. They always do something to tie it back to the main cast, as well as create a nice moral in general and some of their good trademark entertainment, but hardly enough for me to call them great episodes. (Or in Hearthbreaker's case, that slapdash Confalone storytelling just didn't do the greatest job geting us beind either the Pie's traditions or Applejack's attempts to improve them.) With Starlight, I think they could've, say, made Sunburst the "sister Fan" and gone into detail about Snowfall's growing hatred for holidays and recreation, in ways last season didn't go into detail on Starlight's growing hatred for cutie marks and differences. They could've made it seem like both characters forgot how things like that allow for real emotional connections, and the story inspiring Starlight to want to try it would've felt more meaningful. As for Starlight having more overly "heartless" goals, that kind of makes her more Scrooge-lite to me, not less. What people forget about Scrooge is that he's actually a pretty dimensional character, which is why the story works so well. He's over-the-top, but he's what someone really would look like if time, fate, and lifestyle made them that bitter, so seeing it all reversed really is a journey's worth. With Snowfall, they're kinda trying to get too much from too little, so it seems like a pale imitation. Anyway, with my like/hate relationship with Sweetie Belle Toils, I'd probably have a tough time picking the episode I like better. Other than Pinkie Pie's scene, Toils probably had higher highs and lower lows. But yeah, when it comes to this episode, it looks like we liked it about the same. Oddly enough, this show seems to do just about EVERY holiday (so far) better than Christmas.
  10. Time to melt Starlight's heart, with fables and lots of singing:

  11. Newbie episode, from a newbie writer, about a newbie Wonderbolt:

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