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My top 3 tied pony songs are Better Than Ever, Shine Like Rainbows, and We'll Make Our Mark. But if I had to pick just one, it would probably be Rainbows. Like you say, it has a deep feeling that I think represents the true magic of friendship and the spirit of the brony fandom, which I hope new people in the far future will still be able to feel by listening to it. The other one like it is Smile.

That was pretty awesome. Love that they brought Trixie back again. Twilight's tolerance at being rejected was admirable I hope we see her around more often in season 7, creating friction between Twilight and Starlight, but ultimately getting along since she finally beat Twilight at something (and it's friendship!) Starlight's fear of social situations is very relatable to me. Go through all sorts of mental simulations worrying about what will happen, then decide you're being ridiculous and go to the event, and then it really does go badly but in a way you didn't plan for. Discord was great in this episode as well. The bug jokes were highly amusing, and the room of Fluttershys was more irresistible than succubi. It's great to look back on what he was in season 2, and see that he's grown to be one of the heroes now The ending felt rather abrupt, but I can think of a few explanations. 1. No changeling ever tried giving love before because Chrysalis was mind controlling them to her way of thinking. 2. The love nuke that Chrysalis sucked out of Thorax, plus ponies giving speeches, provided them with some love that they could give back. 3. As soon as Thorax made his transformation, he gained an equal amount of influence over the hive mind to counter Chrysalis, and that gave the others the opportunity to think and feel differently. I hope we get one more non-finale Chrysalis episode, where she's built a new small hive and makes one last failed attempt at love-stealing. I think that could finally break her down and give her a heartwarming, non-rushed redemption. I feel sorry for Celestia. She's really living up to her title of princess, getting captured and rescued every season. Must have Celestia-centered episode next season! I've been waiting for years and it still hasn't happened Oh, and Flurry Heart can stand up now! But Cadance was carrying her afterward, so she may not be able to walk yet.

At long last we have Derp mail! Praise Celestia!

Ever since Twilight's castle appeared, I've been puzzled by the fact that it's covered in 8 pointed stars, while Twilight's cutie mark is all 6 pointed. The mystery box had 8 points, despite being 6 sided, which looks a bit odd. And the castle has 8 points on top, as well as on the floor before the map appeared. But while watching Every Little Thing She Does, I noticed Starlight Glimmer's shield has an 8 pointed star. And in fact her cutie mark does as well. So does this mean that the castle is destined to belong to Starlight in the end?

I do miss them. It's strange because I don't actually like them that much, but it just adds an element of fun to the show that seems like it's been missing lately. I wouldn't want to sacrifice any full length songs in exchange for them, but why can't we have both?

Finally got around to watching this episode, and I loved it! I wasn't really expecting much since I don't usually like Las Vegas style, but that was a fun story. Flam's "how dare you" reminded me of this funny skit from Conan O'Brien back in the day (jump to 45 seconds if you don't want to watch the whole thing) And I loved Fluttershy's description of Gladmane's crime: "It's just mean!" If only real life were that straightforward It was nice to see Flim and Flam again, and not being antagonists this time. It was a wise choice for Applejack and Fluttershy to recruit them rather than trying to trick a confession out of Gladmane themselves. Their scheme was great, and Gladmane was totally right to be worried that they'd end up running the place if they worked together. But it's kind of funny that Applejack and Fluttershy just left them to it, since they might end up being just as bad as Gladmane was. I hope we get to see the real Impossibly Rich in a future episode. She seems like a character with potential, since she can push around Diamond Tiara's parents. And with Diamond trying to be nice now, there's plenty of potential drama there to work with.

Yay. I was afraid 6 was going to be the last, followed by the movie, but glad to hear that they're still going. They better do a Celestia episode this time. I've been waiting for it since the beginning.

Today's episode and movie were both great, so watch 'em

That was highly amusing Especially Applejack's interpretation of Rarity, saying "darling" every other word. But Rarity had the best line: "The boat sank, obviously." The deadpan delivery was just perfect Pirate Applejack was great too. I love the bunyip. Such a random answer to the whole thing, there's no real mystery solving aspect to the episode, but it was funny. I wonder if the crab in Rarity's hair was a reference to the "Rarity fighting a giant crab" meme. I think this episode is going to have high rewatch value in the long run. It's just plain enjoyable.

This. Also, I'm not sure if this is true but I've heard that it had something to do with legal issues. Either someone else had copyrighted the name Princess Cadence or they couldn't copyright it because it's a regular word. Since she does have a full name, I think all spellings of shortened versions are technically valid. Maybe Cadance is her personally preferred short name spelling, even though it doesn't make logical sense?

Yeah, the final cart was a phoenix, but she did try to put a chicken head on Dash's fast cart, was was almost certainly a reference to the meme (which was spawned by Stare Master when Apple Bloom calls her a chicken)

Yeah, it was just kind of frustrating the whole time. If the sisters were going to actually steal the show, they should have succeeded and then felt guilty about it. Seeing them fail was no fun. And the "responsible adult" roles at the end were no fun either. Of course adults should still want to race carts! And if the sisters had listened sooner, then they could have switched partners so they could actually work as teams. Would have been cool to have some bonding time between different pairs than usual. Yes it's better for adults to give up their fun in favor of the kids rather than taking it all for themselves, but it's better still to manipulate the situation to where everypony is doing what they really want to do. And then there's Derpy... why why why not have her work with Dinky? I would have been so happy Rarity's swan cart was the best part of the episode.

I think these fillies need to do a sister swap for the day.

Unlike present day humanity? Yes. Unrealistic? Not entirely. And that's what I really like about it. It shows how the world could be, and encourages each of us to make little changes in the way we interact with people to push society in that direction. As for making friends everywhere you go, I think that's totally practical. Sure some closed-minded people who have heard bad stereotypes or associate your country's government's wrongdoings with you personally will reject you outright, but a lot will judge you on an individual basis. Especially if you read up on the customs of the place you're going so you can avoid offending people by accident. But of course that doesn't mean it's going to be without effort, since making friends in your home territory isn't always easy either.

Yep. It's a term specifically designed to prevent the construction of a detailed timeline. A show as big as MLP could easily afford to hire a continuity expert to maintain a coherent timeline and fill in these placeholders with units that actually mean something.

Sparity. Spike has waited long enough, and is a great personality match for Rarity. I don't think mental maturity is an issue, and he could physically grow if it helps viewers accept it. Maybe owning Rarity's heart counts as a dragon hoard Or possibly Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. This depends on whether lesbian relationships are so common in Equestria that it's completely normal, or if some ponies are still surprised by it like people in real life. If the latter, then it would make a good episode to have Apple Bloom or one of the other crusaders catch them kissing, get freaked out, and ultimately come to understand and accept it.

Both of those pictures are very nice, and I'd certainly love to watch a show animated at such quality, even if done at low framerate like a lot of anime series. But I wouldn't have ever been drawn to the show if it was done in typical Flash style, with thick black lines, sharp corners, lots of geometric shapes like circles/ellipses, pieces being rotated and scaled all the time instead of actually drawing new frames for most motions. Obviously a lot of things like walk cycles are reused frequently, but that's fine. The colored outlines really help keep things looking good at any scale, and all the characters and trees and things have nice organic shapes that can be visualized in 3D, rather than only making sense from certain angles. Definitely the best Flash animation I've seen

My favorite explanation:

lol, so I'm not the only one who remembered that. This episode had some great lessons in it. 1. Beware positive feedback cycles. 2. Remember why you started doing something, so you can stop doing it if the original reason has gone away. 3. Batch processing is usually more efficient than doing things one by one. The water pipes were an interesting one since there was no explanation of how that came about. But it seems most likely that originally there wasn't enough water pressure to get them to spray a decent distance from the pipes all at once. So most likely the Ponyville water department has added a water tower to boost the whole town's pressure since then, and Applejack didn't notice that it eliminated her former problem.

She's just trying to sound fancy, pronouncing it the British way.

Crusaders of the Lost Mark has by far the most emotional impact on me. I love every song from it, and cried a lot the first couple times I watched it. The episode itself is my favorite of the series as well, and It's been long enough now to confirm that it will never get old. Doesn't seem rushed at all to me, especially compared to MMC. I think Canterlot Wedding has enough songs to qualify, and it's second place for me. The closest thing to the feel of the classic Disney animated movies since the turn of the millennium Don't forget to listen to the background music during Shining and Cadence's changeling launcher spell. Simply beautiful. MMC is next. I don't like Twilight's sad song, but the cutie mark song and True True Friend are both top notch, and the rest are good too. Pinkie Pride is decent, but I don't tend to listen to its songs that often. The first and last are my favorites. I'll have to listen to the HWT songs again sometime. I didn't especially like any of them the first time. Too soon to judge it.

I would have been sort of ok with it if it had been an isolated incident, and fully ok if it ended with Dash telling them her story and them apologizing for accidentally stepping on an old wound. But all previous Wonderbolt episodes have shown them to be jerks, so I kind of doubt they'd be remorseful, and may actually be glad to have discovered such an effective way to punish Rainbow anytime she makes a mistake. This thread https://mlpforums.com/topic/151938-why-starlight-glimmer-and-villain-reform-is-genius-a-criminal-justice-view/ is a great example of what I like about MLP. It's a fairly realistic take on the utopia concept. The world is far from perfect, but the prevailing attitude of forgiveness and empathy goes a long way toward making it better than the real world. And that's something that we can each change within ourselves to influence the real world toward that direction. Rather than exacting revenge on criminals, try to understand why they did what they did and either help them understand why it was wrong, or help them get back on their feet so they can make amends if they did it out of necessity. And in the case of Newbie Dash, Rainbow should have helped the Wonderbolts understand the concept of "two wrongs don't make a right". Just because they all have mean nicknames to call eachother doesn't make it ok.

That was unpleasant to watch. I feel so bad for Rainbow. After all her hard work and dreams of being a Wonderbolt, they seem to be a bunch of jerks once you get to know them. I'd hoped we'd finally get a Wonderbolt episode where they work as a team to solve a problem together, but instead it's just them against Dash again. Seriously, she should either use her rank as a national hero to take over and reform the group into something worthy of respect, or ditch them and form her own crew. Maybe get in touch with Luna about those Shadow Bolts from episode 2

Did we seriously need another Christmas episode? And one based on the most overused story of all time? DHX, I am disappoint. Such a waste of a musical episode. I actually skipped the season 2 HWE episode on my first watch-through of the show, expecting that it would be like this one. But when I did finally watch it, I loved that it was an original story that expanded the lore of the show. But now here we are, with the overused story that doesn't expand the lore at all It's quite ironic now that I think about it. Starlight was tired of hearing the founding of Equestria story over and over, so Twilight told her this one which was refreshing and new to her. Whereas I'm tired of this one, but the founding of Equestria story was refreshing and new to me

Nope. There are plenty of fictional and real life stories that cover such "logic over emotion" life planning, and comparatively few that show how you can still achieve your dreams without having to ditch your BFFs. Back between season 3 and 4, they had the opportunity to move the whole group to Canterlot, and I do think that would have been a good thing. But I don't want to see the group split up.