S04:E06 - Power Ponies

[Castle Bleck 19,167]

Mane-iac > Ahuizotl.

Mane-iac tries to make sure her enemies STAY trapped; Ahuizotl needs to get his head out of his @$$ the next time he traps Daring.

Edited March 11, 2014 by Anti-Villain

[RainbowCottoncandy 14]

I would have enjoyed it more if the show focused more on the castle reconstruction. The ancient castle does seem more relevant to the story and so much awesome content can potentially thrive from the new setting of the castle, and further character growth. Anyone else slightly let down by how the main plot is being bypassed?

[Mylittleponynerd 0]

HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA OMG LOVED THIS EPISODE!!!!! Man, Lauren, don't copy marvel....dats just wrong. I tottally loved it tho... but seriously, I couldnt stop laughing at that.

 

 

[silver quest 15]

Love how spike described himself.

So the comic just ate the ponies... Well that happened

So going to make a couple prediction of what I've seen so far for the series... First twilight is so moving into the castle after its finished being rebuilt. Second the season final is going to resolve around the games in the crystal empire. No idea on the vilian since it seems randomized.

[Bluelight 3]

I loved the part where flutershyhulk smashed the mane-i-ac's machine, that was rofl.

 

Its funny how Spike was Mr.know-it-all in this episode. Usually its twilight (not in a bad way)

[Pinkie_Pie6 1]

I loved when pinkie said, "We had a good half second before the portal closed and the bakery was only 65 blocks away!" Or something like that.

[Pixel Stick 927]

I watched this episode again after having been away from it for a while.  Still not my favorite of the season, but I like it more now than when I first watched it.  Mainly because I realized that nobody was taking it too seriously, except possibly Spike.   It was a good diversion.

 

I do agree, though, that especially now that we're more than halfway through it, the season does seem to have an awful lot of diversions from what we thought was going to be the main plot.  The rainbow keys seem to be the only thing really holding together any sense of continuity.

[Venomous 18,813]

I was excited to see this episode after watching the rough storyboard.

 

I was... disappointed to say the least.

I don't have much else to say than it was underwhelming.

 

But I thoroughly enjoyed the Maneiac.

I love psychotic characters.

[Commander Hurricane 170]

Now we have a Flutterhulk to add to all the other Flutternames. xD

[True Rarity 1,239]

Although I didn't enjoy this episode as thoroughly as I did for some of the others, it was a very nice Spike episode - I was hoping for one of those!

My favorite Power Ponies, in order:

 

1. Radiance

2. Masked Matter-Horn

3. Saddle Rager

4. Mistress Marevelous

5. Zap

6. Fili-Second

 

Favorite part: Flutterhulk's debut

Favorite line: "Well, we had a good half-second before we got sucked back to Equestria, and the Maretropolis bakery was only 65 blocks away!"

[Kulstor 254]

So @,

 

So that's what Pinkie said.  I could only understand about the first half of that.  I understood "Well, we had a good half-second before we got sucked back to Equestria  and the ??? bakery was only ?? blocks away."

[Pastel 7,627]

Out of the mane 6, Pinkie Pie and Rarity had the best powers.

Flutterhulk was maybe too exaggerated... But it was a good idea.

Good episode overall.

[NightGlade13 120]

Overall I thought this episode was pretty cool. The power's somewhat resembled there personalities I really can't wait to see how the Castro's gonna look. I really wanna see the episode rebuilt a little bit more than what they showed in just this episode yahoo know?

[Ellie 36]

They're really overusing that whole "Fluttershy becomes not so shy anymore" trend.  It's been happening to much.  The latest one was the Ponytones I think.  New joke would be cool and less repetitive.

Edited April 1, 2014 by Ellie

[Pixel Stick 927]

They're really overusing that whole "Fluttershy becomes not so shy anymore" trend.  It's been happening to much.  The latest one was the Ponytones I think.  New joke would be cool and less repetitive.

 

Dealing with aspects of her shyness is at the core of Fluttershy's character.  I don't really see how they can continue to write for her without continuing to have her work on that.  For her to fully overcome her shyness and not have any more to do there would be to completely change her character.  IMO, she wouldn't be Fluttershy anymore.

[Ellie 36]

Dealing with aspects of her shyness is at the core of Fluttershy's character.  I don't really see how they can continue to write for her without continuing to have her work on that.  For her to fully overcome her shyness and not have any more to do there would be to completely change her character.  IMO, she wouldn't be Fluttershy anymore.

That is true but out of 4 seasons, it doesn't seem like Fluttershy has made any progress on her shyness.  There's not character development.  It's almost as if she's stuck in time while everyone else is moving on because the creators have boxed themselves in with a character that has no no room for more creativity.

[Pixel Stick 927]

That is true but out of 4 seasons, it doesn't seem like Fluttershy has made any progress on her shyness.  There's not character development.  It's almost as if she's stuck in time while everyone else is moving on because the creators have boxed themselves in with a character that has no no room for more creativity.

 

Not so sure I agree.  All of the characters have had strides forward and steps back, in dealing with their major character flaws.

 

Rainbow Dash has always had conflicts between her self-worship, her personal dreams, and her sense of loyalty.  In some episodes, she's a fantastically loyal friend, and in other episodes, she could power a whole city with her ego.

 

Pinkie Pie has gone back and forth since day one between being one of the sweetest and most endearing ponies around, and being a complete and utter moron.  Season 4 has been especially hard on that latter bit for her.

 

I could go on, but I don't really have time.  It's true that Fluttershy has seemed to totally forget some of her lessons, but she has managed to keep a few of them as well.  But I think that's happened to all the characters to some extent over the course of the show, so I wouldn't single out Fluttershy for that.

[Dark Diamond 21]

This was a great episode! I liked how all the main characters were involved, and Spike was a hero! Fluttershy was AWESOME!

[pinkieguy 4]

Oh my god, I loved to see the opening scene of this episode. I wish there were an episode where Spike accidentally called Twilight "mom". And then they can just stick with it.

[Allen 1,371]

Oh, where Spike has his comic book that where the mane six has gone into to stop the Mane-iac!

[Maud Pie Rocker 81]

 Yeah, It was cool. Also the Mane-iac reminded me of the Pony Medusa.

 Yeah, It was cool. Also the Mane-iac reminded me of the Pony Medusa.

I mean a pony version of Medusa.

[Ayvid_Reader 77]

Just finished this episode (I know I'm way behind). OMG! That book literally sucked them in! I'm a massive reader and I loved it! I've always wanted to be a part of some of the books I've read and this episode was just perfect at it. I loved the message that everyone is important in their own way regardless of what you can and can't do. 

 

I felt bad for Spike. I can't wait to see how the castle turns out though. Super excited for that!

[Pixel Stick 927]

Interesting trivia note: Netflix just got Season 4 in, which is cool. But I couldn't help but notice they got the title of this episode wrong. They have it listed as "Super Ponies". I thought at first there might have been some sort of copyright issue and the studio might have needed to redub the episode, but the stream still has "Power Ponies" as the title and the characters. So, Netflix just plain has it wrong.

 

Wouldn't be the first time, I'm sure.

[Ianpiersonjdavis 512]

Now that the season has ended; what was the point of restoring the castle?

[BlueEyedPegasus 59]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zzh8h_power-ponies-20-cooler_shortfilms

 

Check out this version that I created myself. It contains some fairly well-known music tracks that I'm sure y'all will recognize! 

Edited June 22, 2014 by BlueEyedPegasus