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With Season 3 coming to a close tomorrow, I thought it'd be nice to have a thread where we could share all of our reviews, opinions, and thoughts about the whole of Season 3. So go ahead everypony and post your Season 3 reviews in the comments below; what were your favorite episodes, which characters did you think had the best season and development, what were your favorite and least favorite things about Season 3, etc.? Whatever thoughts you have about the season in general, just share them below! Also, if you'd prefer to simply provide links to your own reviews in your own personal blogs instead, go right ahead! It's been a great season everypony, and I've had a wonderful time going through my first ever live season of MLP with each and every one of you on these forums! I look forward to a fun off season with all ya'll, along with plenty of great discussions, debates, speculation, and lots of new fan content to look forward to while we pass the months together waiting for what should hopefully prove to be a fantastic fourth season. Brony on, everypony, brony on! Edit: Well, here it is everypony, my incredibly long review of Season 3! This turned out to be a lot longer than I thought it would be, but it was well worth the time it took to write; if you decide to check it out, I hope ya'll enjoy it!

Well, beginning of the dry season through May is going to be hectic for me, since I'm finishing up college, but I hope in this dry season to continue to spend plenty of time on the forums with my brony friends, finding some great pony art and vids, read some good fan fictions, and hopefully make some more progress on my first fan fic, "Batmare Begins". Should be a fun off season, especially with a 26 episode season to look forward to next fall!

Yeah, some of those vids that have been posted of the blast were pretty sick, and that shockwave, hot dang, that was legit!!! Best wishes and God's blessings to any Russians injured from the blast; hope ya'll heal up quickly and aren't too grievously injured!

Dude, AtomicBassCannon, that was awesome! Seriously, that right there was a legit post in every sense of the word!!! I tip my hat to you sir! Keep calm and brony on everypony!!!

Very nice, awesome drawing bro! For some strange reason, the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this was, "Highway to the Rainbow Zone!!!" Keep up the great work, and hope to see more pics from you in the future!

Ya know, I really do hope that at least one of the CMC gets her cutie mark next season, because if it takes them much longer to get their cutie marks, they're going to run out of stuff to be good at, and then, well, something like THIS will probably happen... <_< Yeah, that'd be lame.

Oh I was just kidding about that! I know that we'd never be able to convince the writers to actually do something like this! It may be a bit out-of-season, but this is a really cute Applejack pic, so I'm posting it anyway. And here's a fantastic pic of Twilight reading. *sniff* Well, if this alicorn and princess thing proves to be permanent, we might not get to see Twiley in her tree house much longer. It's OK, I'll be OK, just... gotta keep it together, man! She'll still be the same Twilight no matter what!

Eh, just kinda indifferent on the whole matter. I don't think they're dangerous or anything, even after this most recent debacle; just never been on one, and if I ever travel abroad, I probably won't do so by going on a cruise ship, even though honestly Transatlantic/Transpacific flights are probably more dangerous. Ocean travel's just never been my cup of tea or particularly interested me, so, like I said, it's mostly that I'm just indifferent to cruise travel in general.

Hipster Concord: "I was wearin' scarves before it was cool." <_<

Oh gosh... ALL... MY... FEELS!!! Like I said... ALL... MY... FEELS!!!!!!!!!!!! Hmmm... eeyup, my heart just officially exploded from all the cuteness contained in this single comic... twice. Wow, now I'm really excited for Twilicorn, if only because it means that THIS ^^^ could, unlikely as it sounds, potentially be a new episode in the future!!!!! Somepony, flood Studio B producers' email boxes with this comic!!!!!!!!! DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

You're a fan now, that's all that matters, especially if your cousin knows! Welcome to the forums!

A little late for Hearts and Hooves Day, but here you go everypony, enjoy!!! OK, when THIS happens in the show everypony, then, and only THEN, may you gouge out your eyeballs!

First of all, I couldn't help but laugh when I realized that nopony's actually ever started a thread about this until now! Kudos! Second, I do actually think that friendship is actual magic in the show, and I'll provide an explanation as to why in the space below with a response from an earlier thread I'd made that focused more on the importance of friendship in Equestria's history. Explanation: This realization in turn led me to re-evaluate the importance of friendship in the show itself, and develop a second point that made me realize even more than I had previously that "MLP" is a fantastically well-written and very smart show. As I previously stated, "Hearth's Warming Eve" teaches the ponies and, in turn, the audience, that the foundation upon which all order and harmony in Equestria rests is friendship. This, although maybe not apparent at first glance, considering the first 1 1/2 seasons had already dwelt upon the magic of friendship extensively, lifts the importance of friendship in the show itself to a whole new level!!! Before, we'd seen that friendship was simply the binding element between the Mane Six, and while certainly a powerful element, in that through its power they were able to wield the Elements of Harmony, its relevance was relegated to the present. "Hearth's Warming Eve," however, showed that throughout history and in all times, past, present, and future, friendship had been, is, and always will be the binding element upon which all harmony and order in Equestrian society is established! Friendship, essentially, allows Equestria to be what Plato in his "Republic" calls the "best city". First of all, in "The Republic," Socrates defines justice as people minding their own business, literally, each person sticking to doing what they do best, to the benefit of themselves and society. Prior to Equestria's founding, while the three races of ponies certainly stuck to their tasks, they only did it for themselves, and only cooperated with each other at the bare minimum out of the utmost necessity. It could not be said that they had one "city" even (i.e. one society); they all had their own distinct cultures and societies. The pegasi were essentially timocrats in that they placed the greatest value on honor and martial glory, the unicorns were more or less oligarchs with their love of wealth, riches, and gems, despite their access to great knowledge as well, and the earth ponies were basically (degenerated) democrats (in the sense of the classical definition of democracy) in that they placed a great deal of value on equality (more so than freedom, and as such were all equally poor) and clearly had elected representatives (i.e. Chancellor Puddinghead... like I said, degenerated democracy. HA! ). However, after the events of the first Hearth's Warming Eve, all three races, due to friendship, truly united and established one society in Equestria, a society where each and everypony does whatever they are best at, mind's their own business, and as a result, both the individual and society are benefitted. This is justice according to Plato and Socrates! Furthermore, it can also be said that in many ways Celestia and Luna are essentially the guardians, or philosopher kings (rather philosopher queens), that Socrates speaks of in "The Republic" as well, for while they certainly allow each and everypony to mind their own business, their own business appears to be ruling the state on account of their wisdom, for they have made their business knowing truth and knowledge, which is the business of the philosopher. In Equestria, logically, the highest knowledge and truth must surely be that which has to do with the magic of friendship, since that is the very foundation of Equestrian society, and who other than Celestia and Luna have been shown to have greater knowledge of the magic of friendship? Therefore, it can be accurately stated that, due to knowledge of friendship, along with all other things, Celestia and Luna are Equestria's philosopher queens, and in conclusion, friendship as the theme of "MLP: FiM" is even more important to this show than I even previously thought it was!!! Seriously, when I came to these conclusions, my mind was blown away!!!

What's up ya'll, hope everypony had a Happy Hearts and Hooves Day! Now, don't go spreading this around, but a certain unicorn *cough* Shining Armor *cough* may have told me that a certain Crystal Princess *cough* Cadance *cough* has been hitting the cider a bit too hard today! Oh those crazy royals, but like I said, don't go spreading it- wait, what's that? Oh buck... INCOMING!!!!!!!!!!! Uhhhhh, Cadance, you OK? Who- *hiccup* who put th- who put that castle there, huh? *hiccup* It's... it's always been there Cadance. Oh. *hiccup* Have a Happy Hearts and Hooves Day everypony!!! Shhhhh *hiccup* hhhhh... I'm trying to sleep!!! Oh, I'm gonna have such a bad hangover in the morning! Oh yeah, and remember everypony, don't drink and fly, lest you want to crash into castles. -_-

Don't worry about it friend, level heads will prevail in the end; things will quiet down drastically once the season ends and as we get some more concrete info on the future of MLP. From what I can tell when I joined last year, a somewhat similar wave of bitterness swept through the fandom in anticipation of the "Wedding" episode, since a whole lot of bronies thought it was going to crash and burn, and I think we all quite clearly remember the awesome season finale we got instead! Just keep calm and brony on everypony, and welcome to the forums Harvan!

Well, there's a new YouTube phenomenon sweeping the Internet, so of course you know what that means? That's right, there's already a ponified version of it! Enjoy MLP meets Harlem Shake everypony! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmUsZikYdg Applejack is evidently not amused; I must say, though, impressive work on Apple Bloom's part organizing that little shindig in the middle of the night! And is it just me, or are the strangest things this season going down at Sweet Apple Acres? Seriously, that place has become a magnet for the weirdest things!

Well, might as well jump on the "RD's Dad" bandwagon before it gets old! RD's dad: the most swaggin' stallion around!