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*Rarity observing the school ponies in their natural habitat*

She must've taken lessons from Twilight Sparkle.

Ponies

Because the show likes to do fun things with them sometimes?

An episode without the main characters would be interesting.

The recent episodes featuring them (has Cadance gotten anything, btw?) might have worked better if they weren't previously fed so much

And if they weren't, those recent episodes would've turned out differently.

Well, I'm not complaining. 

They expect an ancient one-thousand-year-old creature to be the wisest because she lives that long. 

Ok but that’s boring

I saw a review for "Loving Vincent" & I thought the idea was unique but also silly at the same time. 

They put rotoscoped actors against animated versions of Van Gogh paintings. I'm not a fan of the effect, but it's certainly interesting. 

It's just something I thought was interesting, because I see a lot of people on this forum who have clearly watched a lot of cartoons. 

I can't speak for everyone, but I have mostly watched cartoons as well. I'd like to watch some live-action shows, but there are a bunch of cartoons out there whether they are being made right now or that have aired in the past that I'm curious about.

I mean, it makes sense that people who like cartoons would watch a cartoon. 

https://mlpforums.com/profile/25990-jeric/?status=905608&type=status

This guy.

We can have tea at least!

@FlareGun45 I'm honestly surprised the tea thing stuck around so long. 

Yep, plenty of Badass Adorables in that franchise.

Maybe Fluttershy too, but not for lack of interest.

Applejack could just say she's a cowmare. 

You make a number of great points about the new EQG format. Well put on the charm they seem to possess (I was never a huge fan of EQG from its conception waaay back when, but some of the recent shorts are actually more similar to early-season FiM tonally than season 8 is, although I am in no way a season 8 detractor) - it's neat to see the series finally come into its own after a long string of repetitive films (although I liked "Rainbow Rocks", the others range from okay to awful ("Legend of Everfree" was one of the least watchable installments G4 has output to date, and that's despite the existence of "Hard to Say Anything")) and a trio of bizarre specials.  

I think if they can fit in some 22-minute entries and sort out the problems with the 45-minute ones, they might really have something. Those chose-your-ending shorts in particular were way different than I was expecting - in a good way. 

I think I'd find Legend of Everfree way more watchable if it were half as long. As is, the combination of murky metaphors and mild humour made that thing just go on forever and ever. I still hold "Mirror Magic" as worse, simply because it seems completely vapid to me, but at least that one's short and quick. 

I like Spike episodes but not all of them.

My main problem with it is actually that I don't find it very funny at all, and in particular I find the impressions part difficult to watch. I think it might have been nice to have some indication that the Wonderbolts would have stopped calling her that if she was still upset, but I don't know what the right way to suggest that would be. 

What I mostly like about it is that Rainbow becoming a Wonderbolt makes me happy, and the fact that she reclaimed the "Rainbow Crash" nickname reminds me how far she's come. She acts bad in this episode because she's anxious and insecure, and that's sympathetic to me. 

This episode is honestly not as bad as the majority of the fandom's viewpoints indicate. The moral is kind of clunky and the lack of humour contributes no means of lessening the impact of the episode's structural inadequacies, but it's mostly an okay watch (and certainly better than a number of S6's other episodes).

I can see how people come to the conclusion they do regarding the moral, but it's never really been my main takeaway. 

I have to agree with you on that. If it turns out they're alive, it could make them look like deadbeats and ruin the point of how the parents lives affected several ponies' lives for the better as well as (the following spoiler box is just my head fanon, so don't take it too seriously)

I'm also concerned for the bittersweet feeling of the Apples bonding with people over filling an absence in their lives, as well as for the tragedy of Grand Pear screwing up his last ever interaction with his daughter. The sad stuff in that episode is just so poignant. 

That remind me of the credit of Kung Fu Panda 2, the parents turn out alive ruined that movie for me.

Rainbow Dash would faint if she had to sit still for more than an hour. She has to show everyone just how awesome she is, and she can't do that by standing still! Unless you gave her a video game. so overall, you make a really good point.

Plus I just don’t think rainbow is the colour she would go for.

This season? “Sounds of Silence.” Last season, “Rock Solid Friendship” was the one which really bugged me.

My complaint in “Sounds of Silence” was that it didn’t fit the rest of the tone; with “What Lies Beneath” was that it basically forced character development to happen; with “Molt Down” was that it made Rarity and Zecora damsels in distress. 

Only real peril in SoS was that the two ponies would be forced into the stream - given at that point we already knew the process was reversable, that isn't much of a peril (but gave Autumn Blaze a chance to be the heroine anyhow)

I don't mind a bit of excitement to help the plot along, provided an 11 year old wouldn't be genuinely upset by it. In that, I think WLB went too far, and could give young children nightmares (while by contrast, the other dangers characters have faced are sufficiently unrelatable that viewers are going to just be waiting to see how they get out of it, rather than actually scared)

you might see it differently of course.

I just didn’t feel that sudden spike in intensity was necessary there, and it also annoyed me that the Kirin would just force them in against their will. It was just very jarring to me.