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Applebloom and BlackGryph0n.

Yeah, she'll probably end up using the map to change events from the past, notably around the sonic rainboom incident I would imagine, as hinted at from the SDC animatic. Should be interesting.

Well no shit, all the vectors they use are from the show. They usually use the older vectors from the initial run of the series, the ones created before season one even aired. The fact that they're using newer vectors, and seemingly forgot to include Twilights wings, along side the fact that the background in the album art is Twilights castle is a little bit suspicious. It's quite an oversight.

And in the album art, Twilight has no wings. These are not your typical vectors that they like to reuse on many different 3rd party licensed products. Perhaps Twilight loses her wings in the finale? something interesting to speculate on I suppose. Looking forward to the album.

It was probably the most concise and cohesive product of the Equestria Girls trilogy. I certainly enjoyed it, more-so as a story than the previous movies, but less as an eye candy spectacle. The biggest problem I had with friendship games was the contrived way the concept of magic is handled by the inhabitants of that world. The people tend to be completely willing to believe in the concept, and are completely accepting of it when the script requires them to, and alternatively, not so willing when the script requires it. Magic is much more difficult to deal with in this world, because our inhabitants and setting more closely resemble human beings and our own world, so suspension of disbelief becomes more difficult to expect from the audience going in. We know magic isn't a thing that exists, and the people in EQG hold a similar belief, this is clearly shown in the first movie. Hell, it's even showcased beautifully by SciTwi in Friendship Games, her reaction to magic in general, and her dog being able to talk is clearly reminiscent of a world where magic is not a governing force, but science and logic is. Magic is then used as leverage at the end of Friendship Games but comes off as silly because The Crystal Prep students seem to buy it at the end of the movie, and are never shown to question what just went down. Does the whole town know about magic? Is the government aware? The police? Surely they must have seen the beam of light at the end of the first movie and Rainbow Rocks, was there no investigation? Are all of these students really keeping quiet about the whole ordeal? You would think they are because nobody seems to be batting and eyelid. I'm sure you can see how contrived and silly the whole thematic element is. Even in the DVD commentary of Friendship Games, writer Josh Haber jokes that he just couldn't figure out how to write magic into the story that made sense with context from the previous movies. At least with the first EQG and Rainbow Rocks, the students seem to fall under spells, that at least can explain away them retaining memories, but here no such plot device is used, it becomes more and more difficult to believe that these students aren't consciously aware of what's going on, and that these situations should be inducing panic or communication to people outside of the school. In sort, it's a mess. All in all though, the movie was extremely enjoyable, I especially loved the juxtaposition between SciTwi and Sunsets character during the whole movie, and how we finally got to close Sunsets three movie long arc. This show has always been character driven, and luckily the "character" parts of this movie are for the most part well put together. Minus the mane six and their often boring, one dimensional dialogue, but at least the jokes worked, and they did have a reason to be in all of the scenes they were presented in. There's defiantly some enjoyment to be had here. Hasbro and DHX did a great job, I was expecting a disaster of a movie, but what I got was a humble, delightful treat that I'm sure none of us were expecting. Looking forward to the 4th movie.

I'll be a horsefu...I mean brony 5ever m8.

Uhuh, yeah sure, "cuddle" with them. Yeah, I'd "cuddle" with a pony, sure.

Not a big fan of the condensed TV version, but the full version is pretty varied and has a well defined arc. I love the pop punk influenced Rhythm section, notably the drums. It's kind of rad in a weird way, considering the overall tone of the song.

I don't think that FiM should really tackle more complicated political themes, or anything simply striving for social progression. If there was an oppurtunity to introduce a character with the traits you mention that only serves the story being told, or perhaps serves as a gag, and isn't just there to soap box a message, it would be fine I suppose. The problem really isn't with the theme, but the way that theme is handeled within the story, and how fluid it's addition would be incorporated.

I really enjoyed Pinkie Pride, one of my favorite season 4 episodes. I'm not much of a Werid Al fan, but Pinkie is my favorite character, and what really struck me about this episode was how well we transitioned between musical numbers and dialouge, keeping the pacing fast, while giving the audience enough information to emote and give a shit as to what was happening in the episode. I feel like Pinkie Pride was handled much better than MMC, from a technical writing perspective anyways. In MMC we where thrown in a nonsensicle direction (From the perspective this show usually has to offer), and not really given time to care about what was happening. Whether or not you like MMC usually comes down to how much you liked the songs, rather than the story being told, and I feel like Pinkie Pride did a much better job at handeling this sort of structure. The plot is simple and easy to follow, and doesn't need more time to be fleshed out and exposeted upon, which was MMC's biggest short coming for sure. Pinkies entire life is predicated on the happiness of others, and to see somebody come in and do her passion as she percived as better (When in reality it was simply different) was a really smart move on the writers part. Every single artist has gone through what Pinkie experienced, and have had to learn that same lesson at some point in their careers. That really resonated with me becuase I'm a musican, and I know the feeling when somebody comes along and does everything better than you can. It's completely soul crushing ,and makes you feel like all your hard work and time was for nothing. Realizing that everybody is different, and that one persons way of doing things is not nessisarily better or worse, but simply different is a fantastic moral. The RD line never bothered me, when somebody comes into town and offers a new way of doing something you've done a million times before, and he's clearly a charming, likeable person, it's easy to get swept up in the moment and say things you don't really mean. I love how we expounded on Cheese Sandwichs character in the third act, fleshing out his backstory to give his presence and the resolution to our conflict more of a meaning. Visual gags resonated with me, I didn't feel like this episode was too ridiculous, my expectation was already there knowing previous announcments, and obviously I expect a Pinkie Pie episode to be a bit zanier than usual. Actually in general my expectations for this show don't really exceed "Fun and Cute", so as long as this is acheived, I have a hard time disliking an episode. I am heavily biased of course, bias is inherent, based on the fact that I love Pinkie, I love musicals, and I love that sort of zany random humor.

Absolutly, the only reason I still make content in this community is becuase I still love the show. I never understood these people who are more fans of the fandom rather than the show. The fandom is like, about the show, so if you don't like the show, why are you here? I originally fell in love with the show, then wanted to branch out socially after wanting to share thoughts and feelings. Like I know people who have only seen a few episodes of season one, and make music or whatever, and only stick around for the community aspect. It's like they know, or are too afraid to make their own original stuff not grounded by the mlp fandom, and choose to use it as a starting point, which I guess if fine, but it comes off as so inauthentic to me.

I wasn't, mostly becuase I've always been into kids shows, mostly on the anime spectrum, so it wasn't really something that stood out to me. I actually didn't even really know about the subculture until I sat down and watched a documentry on the whole thing. A day later I marathoned the first season, kek.

Not at all, I inherintly know why I like the show at a basic level, and it's becuase it makes me feel good, or it's fun to watch. I think this becuase I love the shows visual aesthetic, and I find the character interactions to be entertaining. I've always put good character interactions and visuals over top of like, cohesive, tight nit narratives, or large over-arching plot lines, so this kind of show already appealed to me long before I had even seen it. It's just good clean fun.

Your question is very contextual, it depends on what aspect of the show you think should be taken more or less seriously. I've noticed that out of the people who do episode reviews and analysis, the ones that take the show less seriously (They're not completely obsessed, and have the ability to laugh at themselves are the ones who tend to have points that I find to be more insightful and interesting. Analysis in itself is also very contextual, as is any form of "art", and I could really care less about how seriously you take the fandom or the show, and am more interested in the substance of your content. I find most of the community doesn't actually do analysis videos, but more commentary and opinion pieces. I find those to be extremely boring. I myself do actual analysis on the fandom and the show, which can be found on the channel in my signature if you care. As for wether or not I think people need to take this show more seriously or not, regardless of what they're making or not making, I think it's healthy to not take the show and fandom too seriously, but obviously to participate in a possitive way, you must at least care a little bit. It's more about a balancing act, have the ability to laugh at the fact that we all love a show about colorful talking horses, that it's a little kids show, but also take pride in what you like about the show and fandom, and don't be afriad to wear that on your sleeve.