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    Does Double Rainboom live down to the hype? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhZAZi4F7ls

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    I finally watch the most infamous - I mean "first" - fan made episode of My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. Does it live down to the hype? To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    Godzilla crossover review!

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    Can two oddballs on the internet reach a consensus about Godzilla's first foray into animation? And why does this show seem so familiar? Omni Viewer's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6tr05eQv1H8IfO2xGYxBQ/videos Second Opinion's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvEK5J0VoizavCTutkA-lpg
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    Trixie returns for a fan video on My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. Can she impress someone who's largely indifferent?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbG4ZABMESg

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    Trixie returns for a fan video on My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. Can she impress someone who's largely indifferent? To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    It could've at least helped.
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    While power hungry villains are common, I found Tirek to be a clever, intimidating, and suitably venomous character, who more than held up his part of the story. And what he "did" was drain everyone's power, leaving them tired and crippled, strain/break friendships, and take total control of the ponies' world entirely. I don't see how testing his power on some trees is a point against him. Not that the designs of rainbow power and the castle weren't weak, but those are offhand sights, not significant plot points. Starlight Glimmer's face turn also makes more sense than the baby in Son of the Mask. That's still doesn't make it any better. (Actually, the more I think about Starlight's redemption, the more I start to wonder if I was really way too easy on it.) I'm not quite sure I understand your point with Discord (who I believe most fans agreed usually made some of the best episodes, even though his last one was botched by the newbie writer who wrote Princess Spike), but I think it's that he has less potential than Starlight Glimmer. I'd have to say Discord has proven himself to be a good character and however well he does is up to the writers now. As for Starlight, I actually thought she was a good villain in her first appearance. She had potential as a villain, and I agree with you that she has potential as a hero, but that won't make me more positive towards her very weak redemption story. Anyway, on my card, this would probably have to be the 2nd best Josh Haber episode. I'd say 8/10 or maybe 7.5
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    Actually, that is kinda clever. I could've been happy with that. As for reasons why each villain come out on top, one possibility I remember coming up with is that Celestia could've not lost control of the elements at the time she did in the show, with no main 6 to replace her, so she could've defeated some of the villains with them before it happened. (Discord never would've been freed without the posession change, for one.)
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    Glad you liked it. I had some of the same thoughts on Starlight Glimmer, hence the "and then...?" part. If that's really the only thing that went wrong in this scenario, there should've been parents encouraging her to get back out there, and life should've kept going until it didn't seem like that big a deal anymore. It wouldn't have been much trouble to show how something else wrong with Starlight's life prevented her from coping with that properly, which makes me especially cynical towards this. You're not the first one I've heard wondering how some of the alternate futures were possible, actually. While I get that the point was to have fun with the butterfly effect, I do agree that exploring what led to what could have been interesting. And I definitely agree that doing it with Starlight would've added some much-needed time to convince us of her redemption.
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    Yeah, it seems we pretty much agree across the board. I do think that both the time jump story and Starlight's backstory could have worked better (though they would've had to acknowledge that Starlight reacting like that to losing a childhood friend makes her a borderline sociopath), but it just seemed more concerned with making these apocalyptic futures seem cool. I'd probably would've scored it a little higher than that - though I'm starting to wonder if I was actually too easy on the ending - but like I said, it's still quite possibly the weakest 2 parter.
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    Final episode, final opinion (except not):

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    Final episode, final opinion. Does Twilight's showdown with Starlight live up to the hype? To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    Agreed. You can just tell that she's practically on a whole other level (at least, when it comes to the types of songs she's singing). I only hope most of the things it says are good XD But yeah, productivity and personal investment can be a tricky think to balance. One can often make you lose sight of the other. I'm definitely curious as to what they'll do with Rara after this. She could just go the way of Cheese Sandwich, but while Weird Al was certainly game, Lena Hall definitely sounded more enthusiastic, of the two. I could see an episode about the difficulty in maintaining long distance friendships, especially when one of you is a celebrity with more prestigious figures in your life. There might, say, come a point where they'd have to crack and admit that they worry about the other one feeling awkward about on the whole thing. As long as Meghan McCarthy's the director, the direction and tone of the series will probably not change too much (unless she starts really feeling the pressure to come up with new things for the gang to do). We might get a few new, slightly different styles in there, but I think it's more just the general quality of the episodes hinging on this. Although, if we have Amy Keating Rogers on her way out and Neal Dusedau, Nick Confalone, and Gillian Berrow on their way in, I might be just a tad nervous...
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    Amy Keating Rogers' last episode, reviewed and paid tribute to:

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    Amy Keating Rogers' last episode of My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. Does she finish with the magic of her heart staying truUUUuuuwooooahooohwoooaaaahoooooohohoh...? To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    Can Nick Confalone do ANY better than his first episode?

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    The holidays in My Little Pony are brought to you this time by Nick Confalone. Can he do ANY better than his first episode? To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    Perhaps, but I do think the execution matters. Castle Sweet Castle was kinda wooden in how it went out of it's way to linger on the parts where the friends all want to contribute and add (wait for it) too much, before trying to back peddle and taking out everything - which, in case you don't get it yet, means there's not enough. And Rarity Investigates seemed like it was going through the motions a lot with its noir parody, with some scenes that didn't do any thing all that funny, clever, or interesting, as though just resembling a noir scene was supposed to be oh-so entertaining. Despite a familiar plot layout, this one felt like it was having fun with almost all of its scenes, and it didn't dedicate great lengths of time to hammering in the obvious. Still not a great one, but I would argue that it's a case of having to see the forest through the trees.
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    Well, at least you had the maturity to see it as a bad decision and that your friends should've been calm about it. Sometimes seeing how things go wrong really is the best way to learn how to work past them. (Heck, I used to barely be able to talk to anyone at all, let alone rant to an opinionated fanbase.)
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    Twilight finally gets her own Cutie Map adventure! Does it build on all that time she spent longing? ...No.

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    Twilight finally gets her own Cutie Map adventure! Does it build on all that time she spent longing? ...No. (My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic) To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    I might disagree with you on two of those. I thought Made in Manehattan was refreshingly understated, after all the episodes that tried to dramatize plots like this more than they deserved, and in addition to the moral, I thought it managed to shine in many of the "little" moments, like the facial expression punch lines and Rarity's attempt to borrow from The Peanuts. And I liked Brotherhooves Social even more. Seeing Big Mac finally break out of his shell was a blast, and having it happen through the opportunity to play an entirely different character (which is indeed known to be liberating for many shy actors) was absolutely brilliant. But otherwise, unfortunately, I have to agree almost entirely. Altogether, this half almost feels deflated. It's is like a reverse Season 4, starting strong and getting weaker, instead of the other way around. Except season 4 showed signs of stepping it up before it was even done with the first ten episodes. There were signs that this was going to happen to season 5 before we even before we got to this half...
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    No arguments here.
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    In that case, I guess it was successful on me, anyway. I've had a few people tell me that they were more bored or annoyed by this episode than any other this season, but I spent way too much time scratching my head to get to that point. It seemed a little too awkward for me personally to be glad I was along for the trip, but I never thought about jumping ship, at least. Zecora was probably overdue for another turn in the spotlight, and the scene was perfectly fine, but there wasn't really much to talk about, so I didn't. And thank you. I had to film each rant a couple times over before I was satisfied XD
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