S08:E07 - Horse Play

[Dark Qiviut 22,379]

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Title: Horse Play

Air Date (U.S./Disc. Family): April 28 at 11:30am

Writer: Kaita Mpambara

Summary: "Twilight Sparkle casts Princess Celestia in her play, only to discover Celestia's talents lie elsewhere."

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[Drunkfrank 1,125]

*sigh* I am all for another Celestia episode, giving her some more development is great and I am sure this will be a great episode overall, but Celestia needs an "epic" episode like Luna had in Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep.

[Dark Qiviut 22,379]

Two of the leaked episodes revealed the alleged writer(s). This was one of them. OP edited (with writer(s) spoiler'd) accordingly.

[heavens-champion 1,905]

I saw the leaked version of this. I won't spoil anything.

[Lambdadelta 1,462]

I just watched the prologue of this episode and I fucking love it already but......... I hope the rest of it will not suck  Still have to wait for the official release. All I have to do is replay the first 1 minute of this ep, it's just too lovely.

On ‎3‎/‎1‎/‎2018 at 6:01 AM, Ryanmahaffe said:

*sigh* I am all for another Celestia episode, giving her some more development is great and I am sure this will be a great episode overall, but Celestia needs an "epic" episode like Luna had in Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep.

Slice of life is this show's specialty.

[Buttonmash1973 1,026]

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Edited April 28, 2018 by Buttonmash1973

[NathanW200 306]

horse play i hope there isn't violence in this episode because that's what horse play means playing rough

[DanTheBrony 121]

It's about time we get to see more Celestia :)

[The Nth Doctor 661]

Hoo boy, this episode...

Spoiler

Twilight once again gets smacked with the Idiot Stick and grabs the Idiot Ball for a resounding slam dunk

On the bright side, we get a ballpark for Celestia's age in that it's been 1,111 years since she first raised the sun, which shatters about a million headcanons about her age and wraps the timeline into some unrecognizable mess

It's a typical princess episode, at least

[RDDash 19,163]

When this episode is going to air, this going to be one of the best episodes of the season, I still think some people are going to be disappointed with Twilight.

[MystMane 6]

So how is Celestia a bad actress?

Doesn't she secretly loathe galas and parties and have to smile through it all?

I mean she did invite Twilight and the others and Discord just to make a mess of things on two separate occasions.

Edited April 23, 2018 by MystMane

[YoshiAngemon 223]

On 4/23/2018 at 6:17 AM, MystMane said:

So how is Celestia a bad actress?

Doesn't she secretly loathe galas and parties and have to smile through it all?

I mean she did invite Twilight and the others and Discord just to make a mess of things on two separate occasions.

My guess is that she ACTS interested in a party, but on the inside, she is bored to tears, so she invited Twilight, and Discord, to mix it up, make it look interesting. Also to make it worse for Prince Blueblood and the EEA, who likes BORING By-the-book parties.

[heavens-champion 1,905]

50 minutes ago, YoshiAngemon said:

My guess is that she ACTS interested in a party, but on the inside, she is bored to tears, so she invited Twilight, and Discord, to mix it up, make it look interesting. Also to make it worse for Prince Blueblood and the EEA, who likes BORING By-the-book parties.

Which makes one wonder why Twilight was so upset about Discord messing up the gala if she hated the gala the first time she came.

[Batbrony 16,051]

OK, this premise sounds like it could lead to a positively hilarious episode.  The idea of Princess Celestia performing badly in a play just tickles me silly in all kinds of ways, so here's hoping we get a fun episode with a solid lesson while we're at it. 

[PoisonClaw 8,164]

Hooray for more Celestia episodes!

Ten seconds in, and I already love this episode. I need a ten-hour loop of prancing Celestia in my life now.

Edited April 28, 2018 by PoisonClaw

[Will Guide 21,360]

Her Once-aversery? Celestia’s been doing the Sun raising job for 1,111 years. And a thousand of them she had to do without Luna to raise the moon.

Plus a Regal Pony Prancing around like a filly is humorously silly!!

[Batbrony 16,051]

When I hear Twilight wrote a play...

When Celestia prances around...

When Twilight casts Celestia in her play...

[Dark Qiviut 22,379]

Celestia galloping around the renovated Throne Room like a little filly is just ADORABLE! <3

[Will Guide 21,360]

Pinkie has a giant Party Cannon named Big Bertha?

And Rainbow Dash did a Sonic Rainboom we've haven't seen in a while!

Edited April 28, 2018 by SwitchGuy2018

[Dark Qiviut 22,379]

Quote

Twilight: Even better. Princess Celestia is gonna be our star.

All: *gasp*

Spike *deadpan*: Yeah, that's how I felt, too.

[PoisonClaw 8,164]

You just haaaddd to jinx it, didn't you, AJ?

Oh, Celestia is beyond adorable in this episode.

 

[Dark Qiviut 22,379]

>Dash says "huge" and "amazing."

How refreshing to her her say words of excitement BESIDES "awesome"!

[Batbrony 16,051]

OMG WE FINALLY GOT TO HEAR CELESTIA'S ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE!!! 

Also, is it just me or is Spike cosplaying as Zack Snyder?

At this point, I'm pretty sure Spike is just going along with this because he wants to see how badly this all blows up in Twilight's face for his own amusement.  I'm also kinda hoping AJ gets a BRUTALLY honest moment with Celestia.   Overall, this episode so far is as funny as I'd hoped it'd be.

[Will Guide 21,360]

In the defictionialized version of the “Journal of the Two Sisters” by Amy Keating Rogers from 2014, they actually mentioned the downside to the Unicorns moving the Sun and Moon. In a young, Pre-Cutie Mark Celestia’s words, “As Luna and I had seen, six Unicorns are required for the task of raising the lowering the sun and moon every day and night. Star Swirl was always one of the six for both the rising and the setting. But it takes a powerful amount of magic, and what nopony told us was that the Unicorns who volunteer for the job can only withstand the task for a short period of time before their magic is completely depleted..forever. (p.106)”

This particular piece of information wasn’t brought up in the Season 2’s episode “Heartwarming Eve” as it was more focused on the founding of Equestria than anything else. Still, it’s nice to see a tidbit of expanded universe info made canon. Corspe

Also, please no corpsing as the unicorn sororcers please, Gallus and Sliverstream.

Edited April 28, 2018 by SwitchGuy2018

[PoisonClaw 8,164]

Twilight is still the reigning princess of Best Faces.