S07:E06 - Forever Filly

[qwerE 96]

This was such a sweet episode. It felt like seeing a old slice-of-life type of episode from the past. I was also impressed by the insights of the comments in this thread. That Sweetie Belle actually grew from season 1 and the idea that this episode's moral could've been targeted at the parents was interesting.

Edited November 20, 2018 by qwerE

[Moony the Cat 3,707]

This is one of those Episodes of fim that could be easily solved if the ponys would just talk to each other. I find a bit unbelievable that Rarity didnt noticed that Sweetie Belle got a bit older, but at least it had a good emotional ending, even though it was a bit cliche.

This Episode is just okay i guess.

[Senko 459]

1 hour ago, Nanotek said:

This is one of those Episodes of fim that could be easily solved if the ponys would just talk to each other. I find a bit unbelievable that Rarity didnt noticed that Sweetie Belle got a bit older, but at least it had a good emotional ending, even though it was a bit cliche.

This Episode is just okay i guess.

They have a weird relationship on the one hand Sweetie Belle is apparently living with their parents and only visiting Rarity occasionally yet on the other when she gets her cutie mark she say's she doesn't think Rarity would let her travel looking for cutie mark problems and its Rarity who praises her for it not their parents. I know we have episodes with her at her parents house but I swear I can't shake the feeling they just went buck it, handed their youngest daughter off to her older sister to look after and spend most of their time travelling on hoilday.

That said it is easy to miss someone is growing up with changing tastes especially at that age if your occupied with work and your own interests.

[bigbertha 417]

Another really boring episode. It takes a cliche story and plays it completely straight. Of course Rarity is going to learn that she needs to stop treating Sweetie Belle like a child. It's obvious by the end of the first act yet it goes on and on. I kinda like the parallel between the main plot and sub plot, but that doesn't make either plot less boring. The story being cliche and predictable wouldn't be such a big problem if the episode was funny or interesting in some other way, but nope. Just mediocrity.

Score: 5/10

[ZiggWheelsManning 12,962]

Laughed at those pictures of a ticked off Sweetie Belle next to Rarity.  As for the subplot, what was with Scootaloo picking up that ball with her teeth?  Brian Griffin did it better with three tennis balls in his mouth in that Family Guy episode "Peter's Lost Youth" which aired that same year.  She and Apple Bloom could have called up another dog to help them out.  

[MichaelWFX 35]

Feels like another reused concept, like the episode with Apple Bloom and Big Mac, Season 7 feels boring so far

[Gale Wind 83]

Nothing spectacular but I’m another who she’d a tear or two at the line about the “last times”. People come to realize in retrospect that they treasure the moments more. 

[GloryForShame 29]

On 2017-05-06 at 2:12 PM, __________ said:

This was......a fairly hard-hitting episode for me honestly. The entire subject matter is something that hits very close to home for me, as I remember all the good times I once had with my family and friends and how we have grown so distant, but unlike Rarity and Belle, I have no connection with most of them now. I don't feel like I can connect with most of my family now and even friends, well, I barely have any left. I remember those better times and how they probably won't happen again.

The episode itself was pretty good I thought, the CMC's really are a a success and seeing Rarity's love for Sweetie Belle is wonderful. In the end though, the concept of the episode depressed me and that is my own problem. I just wish I didn't have that problem. Now I am not too sure what to think.

gosh you made the episode actually hits even harder for me...i have the same problem between old friends and my family now, i miss my old childhood friends, i miss when i would spend more time with my mother or father, it's something we all suffer at life, and i've been feeling this pain for so much time.

that is why i'm afraid when i make new friends aswell, i actually lost a friend days ago, and it was my fault....

[Astralshy 29,088]

I rewatched this episode a couple of weeks ago. Me and some friend had a lot of good time and we enjoyed this episode. Maybe not the best FiM episode ever produced, but really enjoyable with a good morale and sweet moments.

For me personally noteworthy is the reappearance of  Zipporwhill with her dog. Since Filli Vanilli was my ever first watched FiM episode, she's also one the MLP characters Ive met first.

[Iforgotmybrain 6,773]

This is a cute but pretty unremarkable episode. Rarity reminiscing about memories with her sister was sweet. Rarity does seem a bit obsessive about spending time with Sweetie Belle, like calm down sister. Dress up scene was funny. Overall moral was good. Not much else to add.

[Night Sky 804]

If you look at my commentary on each and every single FIM episode prior to this one, you will see that my feedback for FIM is "overwhelmingly positive" generally speaking.

I don't go hard on FIM most of the time, I don't go hard on the characters, I don't go hard on the show writers...once in awhile I might point something out, but I always make a point of trying to receive this show in the spirit it's being offered in.

That said, this isn't even my least favorite episode...there is nothing about this episode that I like. 

Much like Fluttershy Leans In directly before it, this episode is slow, the dialogue is simplistic, hardly anything happens. 

It's just annoying and boring, like watching incense smoke dissipate.

I don't really like any of the episodes about Sweetie Belle and Rarity. 

Rarity is this sensitive but generous soul who more or less wants to do right by every pony, while also juggling a busy career.

Apparently, the show writers just felt they had to torture her for some reason now and then.

To be sure, the difference in Rarity's and Sweetie Belle's ages was certain to cause some issues.

Also, it must be said that the lack of understanding and communication is very much mutual, and Rarity can often be clumsy and slow to take a hint.

Sweetie Belle is impatient, ungrateful, indignant, always scanning for offenses that Rarity might be committing, and she never hesitates to swing first or strike home.

So, how is it that Rarity hasn't had enough practice at being a more perceptive older sister?

How is it that Sweetie Belle has come to nurture this smoldering resentment?

Based on their one appearance in the series so far, this time it's okay, we really can blame this one on the parents.

They struck me as useless sleaze bags when they ditched Sweetie Belle on Rarity, all those years ago, so they could go on a vacation.

We've never seen them again, but we have seen a lot of pain and difficulties arise between the sisters since.

Parents have a duty to see to it that siblings don't end up like Rarity and Sweetie Belle.

Not my fault or not my job aren't phrases for a parent's play book. 

Clearly something skipped a generation in that family. 

Sweetie Belle also values helping out other ponies, and she uses her creativity to make the world a better place, just like Rarity does. 

Those parents have never shown up, not for any of either of the sisters' triumphs or tragedies, where the heck are they?

A lot has happened in both Rarity's and Sweetie Belle's lives, those parents have seemingly been around for none of it.  

Rarity and Sweetie Belle love each other and are trying to figure each other out, obviously, but the problems they've encountered and continue to encounter reflect DISMALLY upon their parents.

Any episode that has focused on Sweetie Belle and Rarity just depresses and saddens me, and this one was also just really tedious and annoying as well.   

 

Edited June 9 by Night Sky

[Midnight Insight 334]

Even though it isn't the best episode, I liked it. I like relaxed and simple episodes.

The nostalgic Rarity at the start is sweet, and I can relate to that feeling, but it's kinda strange that Rarity feels that way since Seetie Belle is suposed to live with her... I think...