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Maybe you should just ask why they feel that way? Perhaps they think its a little girl show and that by joining in fandom you are trying to chase such fans? That would obviously worry a parent! Maybe they still look at you as a young 'un and think there are all those big bad perverted bronies out there trying to get at you? If they just think its "inappropriate" are they worried it will make you gay or something? There has to be some subverted reason in their thinking. If its not manly enough for them, you sound like you have a load of other manly stuff to show them, eg fencing. As for your friend, sounds like you might be the one making too big a deal of it. I learnt at that age, don't trust your peers with something that might be sensitive.

Well, this episode started off bad and got worse. All that boot camp crap is just evil, and the whole philosophy behind it is one of the most negative aspects of American culture. The disgusting bullying culture is counter to all lessons the ponies are supposed to teach us. All this "Yes Ma'am!" shit is so militaristic, and authoritarian. It is the opposite of everything I watch MLP for. Pinkie Pie is a pain in the arse in this episode, with her hyper moronic aspect in full flow. Rainbow at least shows some redeeming features, in not liking to beat up on the other ponies to get ahead. Spitfire's response to her walking out is the moralistic bollocks, but the end where Rainbow gets the other ponies to salute her, it all just feels so wrong for a pony episode. I won't be watching this one again.

I was right - this episode is REALLY good on rewatching. I think that is because you know what KIND of episode it is then, and aren't expecting something that never happens. I was also able to spend more time looking at the drawing/animation of the characters which was fun, especially RD and Scootaloo! Applejack answering back about the headless horse was also more obviously funny too.

I thought this was going to be Sleepless in Seattle for ponies, but I guess I missed a horror reference somewhere along! It was interesting, and a focus on Scootaloo was quite well done. I do wonder though about the CMC - at first with the cutie mark = puberty thing I assumed they were equivalent to 12 year olds, but now they seem more like ten year olds. One can only assume that in America, their 12 year olds are like our 10 year olds, and their 10 year olds are like our 12 year olds. Or something... I guess it just means that the writers have developed in their minds the idea of what a younger pony should be, whilst at the same time forgetting that they should all have two years of character development. Maybe its like the Simpsons - the kids never grow up and sometimes they are defined downwards But this is a very intriguing episode - apart from Scootaloo trying to meet Fandom's desire of having Rainbow take her under her wing, this is on the one hand a sisterhood episode, and on the other a most unexpexted Luna episode. If you view it out of context, and without any worries about CMC relative ages and previous appearances, then Scootaloo's predicament is easy to understand. She is a wow pony, cool and determined, self-reliant (we never see any relatives), and very prettily drawn (who would know that orange and purple were so cool!). But she is weak - she is alone, she has nobody to rely on, her hero believes her bluster, whereas both Applejack and Rarity understand that their brave little sisters often need support, and comfort. The tall tales of dark deeds were an interesting route into Scootaloo's dreams, but at the same time they were a powerful way to bring Luna into the story. The end was hilarious. This episode is better looking back on it and knowing what is going to happen than it is looking forward, This does not necessarily weaken it - it makes it better the second time around. You just have to get through it the first time In the ened this episode is kinda cute, Luna makes it worth watching, and knowing what's going to happen it becomes more than it does when it is an unknown. Go Scootaloo! Rating 7 out of 10

If its not against the rules, I wrote a review of this episode on my website http://alternate-history-fiction.com/mlp-fim-one-bad-apple.html While the link on that page is to EQD, I've a link to this forum on the MLP reviews main page My website is for fun, not profit, and all I gain from publicising it is (I hope!) readers

I could understand how the show showed her motivation, and Applejack's view of things, but the actual on-screen portrayal of Babs didn't leave me particularly liking her. She had a very odd voice too, really almost male in its deepness, but I could have looked past that if I'd seen any real warmth in her. I thought the episode was fantastic for the three main CMCs and Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo's exchanges in the clubhouse during the swearing in. But Babs never really moved on from protagonist other than to be ex-protagonist who was misunderstood...

Well, the Baby Cakes episode was one of the worst I've ever seen, but the idea that Chrysalis wants to steal the royal baby has a bit more going for it. The idea that Shining Armour was having premarital sex with fake cadence and made a baby changeling out of it has LOTS of epic, but not much "family values" so I doubt Hasbro would go for that!

No, I actually found out about the show at AlternateHistory.com where someone created a thread for it, then I saw John de Lancie tweeting about it, and thought I'd watch a couple of episodes and see what it was all about, and rather to my surprise I loved it, and stated so at AlternateHistory.com which has since seen several rounds of Pony Wars erupt, and where I'm currently on a sulky self-imposed exile from. But this is the only place I really DISCUSS the show.

I've always loved Applejack, but Twilight is a strong second. Don't really think I've changed or wavered on that. What I have done is have the others go up and down for third place, and that depends on the episodes - Rarity with the rock went up in my estimation, Pinkie in A Matter of Time rose up until some more silly episodes sank her back down, Fluttershy can rise or fall depending on whether I find her cute or nauseating, and Rainbow too depending on whether I see her as cool or as a pain in the ass.

I dreamt I was in a writing class and we had to deconstruct an MLP episode where two of the ponies came flying out of a cave in a cliff on the back of a dinosaur, but it was out of a different cliff than everyone had expected, and the one they'd expected suddenly blew up

Well now, I was sure I was going to hate this episode from all the descriptions of it, and I was sure I was going to be in for a piece of moralising clap-trap... ...but it was great! I'd forgotten that the CMC were now being portrayed in a fun way, and their interaction was done really well. When Babs first appeared I thought she was sweet and could see why she thought all this clubhouse malarky was strange, but then she went all weird on us and I wanted to kick her ass Pinkie wasn't annoying, even tho her only role was to be annoying, which was funny in this case. And I LOVED the song!