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  1. The Second Opinion
    My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Friendship Games is here, so let's see how good it is.
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    While I do agree with the complaint that the solution with the smaller theater happened too fast and didn't build up to that sweet resolution nearly as well as it could have, I'm at a loss for how people think that equals less than the last two episodes. Rarity Investigates wasn't any better at building us up for the finale, leaving Rarity's method of solving the case almost entirely unaddressed and unfollowable until the big reveal, which was obvious anyway. And Canterlot Boutique was just preaching to the choir in the first place, so the finale was just a 1-dimensional spiel of "focusing on sales and marketing = bad" and "focusing on whatever you feel like = get everything you want, exactly as you want it, and suffer no consquences whatsoever." This episode had some great laughs in the characters' mometary reactions (Twilight discovering she's bored, Rarity's "isn't this exciting?!" Applejack raising an eyebrow at her hat solution, Rarity cut of in the middle of "WHY?!" etc.), with enough variaty to at least match Investigates, which ran out of new gags for it's noir parody halfway through - unless that bit with the ducks was supposed to count. And it's moral was better told and more applicable than most of the episodes this season. Not a great one, true enough, but it'll be a downright shame if the "underwhelming" label in this Rarity trilogy goes to its most intelligent entry.
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    My first viewing of Rarity Investigates. I particularly like my first reaction to Wind Rider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ZT3Y3cDfU

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    My first viewing of Rarity Investigates. I particularly like my first reaction to Wind Rider. To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    Rarity for the 2nd week in a row, paired with Rainbow Dash for... the first time ever:

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    Rarity for the 2nd week in a row, paired with Rainbow Dash for... the first time ever. To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
  7. The Second Opinion
    My Little Pony is back, with an episode about Rarity achieving her dream boutique in Canterlot! ...So is it any good?
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    My Little Pony is back! And so are my reviews of it:

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    Sorry to hear it didn't work out like you wanted. Here's wishing both of you the best.
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    Thanks, it's been awhile since I threw in one of those. (I'm sure it's hard to tell why )
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    And now, the 300 subscriber special:

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      The Second Opinion

      @SunsetMaster XD Glad it worked out. Thank you! And yeah, it would've been hard to take jabs at a comic that's already funny on purpose all the way through.

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      The Second Opinion

      @Jonny Music

      Thanks a lot! And it looks like that video went up just after I finished my weekly YouTube binge, so thanks for the heads up ^_^ You did a nice job.

    4. Jonny Music

      Jonny Music

      Thanks. :)

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    Which My Little Pony character did we not know was born to be a star? Big Mac. No, I'm serious. To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    Hasbro thinks EG: Friendship Games is SO GOOD that it can sell us on it ahead of time?

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    Hasbro thinks EG: Friendship Games is SO GOOD that it can sell us on it ahead of time? Let's just see about that. To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    That's pretty funny, to be sure. "You just projectile scienced all over my chorus" is almost too easy, so I wouldn't be surprised if people pass on it.
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    Flash Sentry the star of the new short? This, I gotta see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8I6sQ5rsfU

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    Flash Sentry the star of the newest Equestria Girls: Friendship Games short? Oh, this I have to see To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    Part 2 of the Nightmare Rarity review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnDfbnehoY8

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    2. Jeremiah

      Jeremiah

      so, NM could have done this to anypony, but... she goes for Rarity because easiest prey

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      The Second Opinion

      Easiest of the elements of harmony, anyway, so she doesn't have to worry about being hit with them again. (There's at least a grain of a good idea in there.) I go on an entire rant in the video about how dumb it kind of is.

    4. Jeremiah

      Jeremiah

      oh ok

  19. The Second Opinion
    With the arrival of Nightmare Rarity herself, the entire My Little Pony cast joining the battle, and another 50+ subscribers, this special just got a whole lot bigger. To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    Come to think of it, all of them were kind of going for Looney Tunes silliness or slapstick on one level or another. These last two just did the best job of it. It seems like they're starting to see new possibilities in that direction that they can explore with the Equestria Girls concept, so more power to them, as long as they can make it work.
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    Photo Finish returns in the newest Equestria Girls: Friendship Games short. How does she compare to her My Little Pony counterpart? To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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    As the little brother of the group who's simultaneously sweet, mischievous, and needy for a chance to prove himself, I think he works pretty well. As the backlash to him goes, I think many people are looking for an overly complicated explanation on the simple fact that the writers just haven't done a very good job on his episodes. Granted, a lot of them seem to fall into the same trap, trying to differentiate him from the "real" heroes and ultimately making him too much of a chump for the episode to hit as hard as we're used to. But yeah, most of them were less funny than usual, less heartfelt, less exciting, all things that could have pushed them into perfectly passable territory. What he needs is simply a writer who's as excited/inspired to work with him and the qualities that set him apart as the other characters usually get. In fact, I do think some of his episodes (mostly in season 4) did just that and really got people behind the little guy, but Princess Spike seems to have returned us to the losing streak.
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    I will say that, generally, whatever manages to make an impact tends to gets exploited and reused afterwards, until it starts to wear out its welcome.
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    So Pinkie Pie turned out to be a dud. How about Lyra and Bon Bon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxjOLdAfqV8

    1. Jeremiah

      Jeremiah

      Pinkie Pie is a dude? everything i know is now wrong

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      The Second Opinion

      Come on now, does proper spelling count for nothing anymore?! (Granted, there's a good chance she's that as well, but even so!)

    3. Jeremiah

      Jeremiah

      yes, indeed

  25. The Second Opinion
    Can best friends Lyra and Bon Bon improve over last week's Equestria Girls: Friendship Games short? Only one way to find out. To subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheSecondOpinion11
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