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Hearth's Warming Eve~
So for the past few weeks I tried to post things but I could not. They would go unfinished, a mess of indistinguishable text either ranting or analysing about ANYTHING. This is usually due to a short attention span or too many things happening at once. So...have some spoilers instead! No cut as the Dreamwidth code appears to be equally as buggy as Livejournal and I want to punch something.
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Episode 14 is called The Last Roundup. An Applejack episode where she disappears. OooOOOoOoOooooo~
I am actually incredibly excited for this episode. The title is ambiguous but could possibly imply sad undertones, and the episode itself appears to be an adventure one where the group tries to find her. I personally hope there are flashbacks (new ones that is, not some stupid clip show) each of the remaining mane six which exemplify the awesomeness of Applejack, and how it would be awful if they'd never find her. It would be an incredibly heartwarming episode and shoot AJ up my favourites.
That is of course what I HOPE. And I know I'm hyping up this episode, after all there are two others before it I never mentioned. One about Apple Bloom I'm not all that excited for and a Pinkie Pie episode which is awesome except the synopsis doesn't leave my brain with anything exciting that could happen. (Of course that's what I thought of Sweet and Elite and it turned out pretty eventful and not just full of Rarity, so...) Plus it's a Pinkie episode, and PINKIE makes things pretty cool. The Last Roundup though is the one I'm especially excited for. I'm well aware what I hope is likely not to happen, considering my predictions for Mare-Do-Well. (IT STILL SHOULD'VE BEEN ONLY APPLEJACK DAMNIT!)
As for episodes we just had a few weeks beforehand? I quite enjoyed both Secret of my Excess and Hearth's Warming Eve. Nothing much to say about them both besides the obvious. At the time of Secret of my Excess' airing I was a little overwhelmed with the amount of Rarity we had been getting. Luckily Spike's growth (he became a pretty badass dragon) and the usual Pinkieisms kept the episode very entertaining. I never was expecting an episode that took Spike's crush on Rarity seriously. I mostly thought that part of Spike would be kept as a comedy-only thing forever, so it was cute though unlike many others not particularly my favourite bit of the episode.
This was my favourite.
Hearth's Warming Eve was pretty good as well! There is one improvement I would've liked. A poster on Ponychan pointed out how stronger the episode could've been if it was the assistants who were frozen, and the leaders finally realized the err of their ways once they saw what was happening and stopped arguing. As it is now it feels a little quick and even a little cheap for the leaders to suddenly be cool with each other after melting. Also it is imperative that Pinkie Pie and Chancellor Puddinghead be kept apart, in the sense that Pinkie is not the Chancellor and visa versa, so anything she did or any other role for that matter that seemed a bit too obnoxious is not of the actor playing, but the character. As entertaining as the Chancellor was she was an idiot, as were the other leaders though in other ways. I did hype up this episode a LITTLE too much so it was slightly underwhelming considering it aired on my birthday, but nonetheless I enjoyed it!
Anyway back to my little AJ point. I have always liked Applejack since beginning to watch MLP. However she got little to no spotlight besides being a supporting character and really added nothing dynamic to the group, instead being the strong foundation for the rest to lean on. I really thought she would be my favourite actually, but it never happened. Nonetheless despite her shortcomings within the canon she still managed a very respectable third place in my favourites, even if she is temporarily replaced whenever an episode about another character aired. (After Sweet and Elite, Twilight temporarily replaced her because I really thought Twilight was very awesome in it) Or Rainbow Dash after May the Best Pet Win/Mare-Do-Well, or even Rarity after...oh wait she's never take the spot olololol. (I still like her though P: )
tl;dr: Applejacks taste good
That is one of the reasons I am so excited for The Last Roundup. The summary is mysterious and sounds adventure-like which is unlike any other AJ episode we've had so far. (None of which are my favourites sadly, though I could say the same for Fluttershy episodes and half of the Pinkie ones! WHY ARE THEY MY FAVOURITES AGAIN!?) And in terms of which type of pony I support the most it is always the Earth Ponies, who are actually quite adept despite their lack of cool wings or nifty horns. (In a completely irrelevant point, I may annoy some people by admitting my favourite unicorn is Lyra, ohohohoho) There are plenty of other cool earth ponies anyway, such as Big Macintosh and the rest of the Apple family, or Octavia, or Cheerilee! If I were to ever ponify myself I'd either be an earth pony or a pegasi! SO YEAH.
Oh wait I did.
TINYPIC DECIDED TO REPLACE THIS IMAGE WITH AN IMAGE OF TWO RANDOM GIRLS AT SOME BAR. THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT TINYPIC, FOR REPLACING PEOPLE'S IMAGES EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE AN ACCOUNT ON TINYPIC AND STILL VIEW THE IMAGE REGULARLY. YOU ARE BY FAR THE BEST IMAGE HOSTING SERVICE EVER.
It's BAMBI with HAAARRRRRRRRR.
Okay I'll stop being silly.
--
So what occurred on my birthday that was last week!? Well I turned the tender age of twenty-one. 21. Agh. Well I find 21 to be the kind-of last "young" age you can be in. 20 feels old because you are suddenly in the twenties, and 19/18/17 feel old because your teenager years are ending/over, 21 feels like a new adventure. The true forage into adulthood! Then your naive years dwindle away when you turn 22, and it is not until you are around 24/25 do you feel young again as at that point you are full-fledged adult! 26 is the beginning of the end. I feel like I had a similar discussion on age when I turned 17 here. Better look back in the entries.
I need to grab a cupcake some time and eat one due to MLP. Haven't had one for YEARS.
Disregarding that previous rather pointless point, according to my seventeen-year-old self, I am the BIG BANG. Anyway what did I do/get for my birthday this year? Unlike every other year that had cake (why didn't I get cake @_@) this year I had wires. WIRES! What wires you say? Why, setting up home theatre wires, with the subwoofers and speakers, and the AV Receivers, the karaoke players, the DVD players, the cable box, the brand new 55'' inch Samsung LED TV...
Oh right, my dad bought a TV. I knew he had wanted one for a while, but buying one a day before my birthday was still quite sudden. I thought we didn't have money for one! So I spent both the 16th and 17th unplugging and plugging and remote controlling pretty much. We also had dinner out but I barely remember it. (There was lobster? Jellyfish?) And then pizza the next day. (Finally satisfied my Dominos craving!) and then my friend took me out to a Japanese Noodle House for lunch on the 18th, along with MORE wires.
In fact there were so many wires I had a nightmare about wires...and Fluttershy. I have no idea why there was Fluttershy, especially in a nightmare. That isn't really supposed to happen. That means each of the mane six has appeared in my dreams in some way....except Pinkie Pie.
SUBCONSCIOUS, WHY DO YOU DO THIS.
Oh right, the TV came with a free smartphone deal and since my parents couldn't even hook up a home theatre system they obviously didn't know how to operate a phone more complicated than merely pressing buttons to call people (nor did they need one) so I got the free phone. I'm not entirely sure if that even counts as a present or anything (the dinner was the present) since if we had gotten the TV any other time of the year that phone still would've been mine. It felt like a bonus more than anything. So I now have a Samsung Galaxy Gio, some sort of budget smartphone and I'm pretty happy with it. I've got some cool apps on it and the like. I have Fluttershy as the background, perhaps that's why she showed up in my nightmare about wires. If I wasn't plugging in wires I was staring at my Android.
Suffice to say, MLP looks BLOODY FANTASTIC on a 55' inch TV. Holy crap it's beautiful. This plus the recent take downs of popular pony-download sites and youtube channels has led me to grab every episode either in 720p or 1080p. Watch how pretty it is and ignore my dorky attempts at singing with them.
Besides supporting Hasbro which I've been doing since my Beyblade days...what else is up with the Spottos?
-
POWERPUFF GIRLS!
I should definitely watch the Christmas Special. Until then, have some negative opinions of PPG. Yes, I said negative.
...so, went through all six discs I got.
Or at least, I tried to.
It's just...ugh. I can see why it got cancelled at the end there. Once the show started using Flash and basically the moment Craig left it just went downhill, seasons five and six were unbearable to watch. Some episodes were good, but the proportion of good to bad episodes just dropped off since the earlier seasons. PPG was made to be shorts, 11 minute shorts and thus two episodes per airing. Whenever they try to stretch the episode to 20 minutes like season four, they really went and stretched it.
You know how I often say MLP ends waaay too fast? Because it's filled with content, and sometimes it has to rush the ending just to fit it in the timeframe. Most of the time though, the episode is just so good and paced well, you wish it went longer, but that's all you get for the week. That never happens in PPG. There are twenty-minute episodes that are indeed paced well, such as the ones during season one (yes this includes The Rowdyruff Boys) but many of the ones in season four consist of a really long and drawn out scene. It is not entertaining nor funny or even cute. Maybe that one scene in Powerprof was cute, but most of the time it's WHY CAN'T THIS SCENE JUST END!? It's goddamn FILLER that is what it is.
I liked you better when you were crudely animated!!11!1!1!!
Though Season Four wasn't THAT bad about it, a lot of my favourite episodes are in season four, particularly the first half. Him Diddle Riddle certainly wouldn't have worked in 11 minutes that's for sure. It got really bad during season five and six though. The animators seem to be overjoyed with their new toy called Flash that they spend ten minutes of the episode showing off random and frankly poorly thought out attacks for the PPG to perform, which often don't work and never show up again. Furious Flaming Feline I liked because it was used more than once, and looked like their signature group attack. Then they started getting more random group attacks they never use again, and outrageous attacks they individually use we never saw again. THEY CAN DO THE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!? They can SHRINK!? Bubbles can BLARE OUT FIRE!? I also would've preferred if their signature attacks remained their signature attacks. Even if Bubbles' sonic scream thing isn't a unique attack Buttercup would've obviously known she can use it already so why the hell did she try to see if it was her special ability? :\
Did you know, that episode about feminism with the Femme Fatale? Lauren Faust wrote that one. Who would've known! I didn't really like that episode all that much though, even if the girls are young enough to be impressionable like that, why would they ever listen to a bad guy no matter the gender, and wouldn't they see themselves going a bit too far with how they were treating the guys? The aesop was right though, but I found the PPG held the idiot ball too tightly.
Ah, and Powerpuff Girls' Rule...rewatched that one on the Extras. I liked it when I first saw it, but now... wow, that was terrible. They didn't even use the same type of animation they did for seasons five and six, and the PPG especially looked crappy because of it. (Especially when they opened their mouths very wide) It did have two songs...but they gave it to Mojo Jojo, who cannot sing. I think that's the main problem that occurred between seasons four and five/six. Despite the creator leaving or the animation becoming Flash, the focus switched from the girls to the villains. The girls merely became the heroes and the villains were the ones given the spotlight, the ones causing the problems, the ones usually fleshed out. The girls just reacted. This is further evidenced with the return of the Rowdyruff Boys. They didn't even attempt to make them interesting, maybe a few dumb boy jokes here and there, but I feel they really wasted Rob Paulsen's voice talent with them. They were just stereotypically stupid! There were a few episodes that gave the girls some light but a majority was given to the villains.
Never mind go back to better animated!!1!1!!!11!
Case in point, let us summarize a few episodes in season 5 with few words.
Monstra City - The Mayor is an idiot, more than usual. Ridiculously more than usual.
Shut the Pup Up - The Talking Dog is incredibly obnoxious.
Octi-Gone - Bubbles and Mojo are flanderized/OOC.
Shotgun Wedding - Fuzzy is outrageously dumb.
The Boys are Back in Town - 20 minutes of non-witty and frankly disgusting innuendo.
Pee Pee G's - OOC Mojo and cheap pee jokes
Boy Toys - Princess being a dumbfuck
City of Clipsville - A failed attempt at offending shippers
Curses - What the hell kind of monster was that?
Or Season 6
Makes Zen to Me - Buttercup learns something...and proceeds to forget it the very next episode.
Reeking Havoc - Are you fucking serious
Live & Let Dynamo - The Mayor. The Mayor somehow got into the Utonium Household and into a giant mecha and destroyed everything. Really. People who compare Pinkie Pie to the Mayor really need their brains checked.
Mo' Linguish - Aren't we glad milking Mojo's tongue can fill ten minutes? And that we did it before already?
Sun Scream AND City of Frownsville - A CAT CAN WRITE BETTER THAN THIS. IN FACT WATCHING A CAT DO NOTHING FOR 20 MINUTES IS BETTER THAN THIS
What's the Big Idea - And then it was cancelled.
Season 5/6 was filled with gimmicks. Oh look the PPG are cavemen. Oh look the PPG are living in 1864. Oh look the PPG are giants. Oh look everyone is crying. It was either villains or gimmicks, and if it wasn't it was actually a good episode! Little Miss Interprets was quite good, despite thinking everyone around you wants to kill you, eat you, and replace you being a little far-fetched, the scenes were funny. I did not like their "this is our random attack the animators made so they can animate pretty colours and explosions" at the end. So unnecessary. Eyebeams would've worked. ANYTHING would've worked, they destroy Townsville on a daily basis! Bubble Boy was the sole instance of throwing some depth to the RRB, like Boomer being the only constantly picked on. Sadly they never really went anywhere beyond that, and hearing Bubbles talk like Timmy Turner is amusing. Alas, the status quo does not allow anything important to ever change. Documentary was an interesting take on an episode, but eh. Substitute Creature was highly amusing as well, etc. Not all the episodes were bad, but the episodes that were bad....were bad.
WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WROTE THIS
I'll try naming the bad episodes of the first four seasons....
Season 1 - None
Season 2
Daylight Savings
Mojo Jonesin'
Season 3
Fallen Arches
Monkey See, Doggy Two
Hot Air Buffoon
Season 4 - None
I already named a whole bunch from Seasons 5-6 up there and that's not even all the bad ones, it still outnumbers this tiny list. I think the PPG prime came in Season 4. The first half is chock-full of quality, and there are many really good episodes in the second half as well. Then it suddenly plummets like a roller coaster after such a high peak in Season 5. How sad, so sad. Anyway I will likely do some combined super-post with Seasons 3, 4, The Christmas Special, AND the Movie. I will not be touching on Seasons 5 and 6, unless you want me to whine/complain for a thousand words.
I suppose I could sum up all that text with Applejack:
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And my other failed post! Whee!
I have decided to do some episode tier list. They seem kind of fun to do. OPINIONS! I HAVE THEM!
CELESTIA TIER
The Cutie Mark Chronicles
Luna Eclipsed
Episode 14 is called The Last Roundup. An Applejack episode where she disappears. OooOOOoOoOooooo~
I am actually incredibly excited for this episode. The title is ambiguous but could possibly imply sad undertones, and the episode itself appears to be an adventure one where the group tries to find her. I personally hope there are flashbacks (new ones that is, not some stupid clip show) each of the remaining mane six which exemplify the awesomeness of Applejack, and how it would be awful if they'd never find her. It would be an incredibly heartwarming episode and shoot AJ up my favourites.
That is of course what I HOPE. And I know I'm hyping up this episode, after all there are two others before it I never mentioned. One about Apple Bloom I'm not all that excited for and a Pinkie Pie episode which is awesome except the synopsis doesn't leave my brain with anything exciting that could happen. (Of course that's what I thought of Sweet and Elite and it turned out pretty eventful and not just full of Rarity, so...) Plus it's a Pinkie episode, and PINKIE makes things pretty cool. The Last Roundup though is the one I'm especially excited for. I'm well aware what I hope is likely not to happen, considering my predictions for Mare-Do-Well. (IT STILL SHOULD'VE BEEN ONLY APPLEJACK DAMNIT!)
As for episodes we just had a few weeks beforehand? I quite enjoyed both Secret of my Excess and Hearth's Warming Eve. Nothing much to say about them both besides the obvious. At the time of Secret of my Excess' airing I was a little overwhelmed with the amount of Rarity we had been getting. Luckily Spike's growth (he became a pretty badass dragon) and the usual Pinkieisms kept the episode very entertaining. I never was expecting an episode that took Spike's crush on Rarity seriously. I mostly thought that part of Spike would be kept as a comedy-only thing forever, so it was cute though unlike many others not particularly my favourite bit of the episode.
This was my favourite.
Hearth's Warming Eve was pretty good as well! There is one improvement I would've liked. A poster on Ponychan pointed out how stronger the episode could've been if it was the assistants who were frozen, and the leaders finally realized the err of their ways once they saw what was happening and stopped arguing. As it is now it feels a little quick and even a little cheap for the leaders to suddenly be cool with each other after melting. Also it is imperative that Pinkie Pie and Chancellor Puddinghead be kept apart, in the sense that Pinkie is not the Chancellor and visa versa, so anything she did or any other role for that matter that seemed a bit too obnoxious is not of the actor playing, but the character. As entertaining as the Chancellor was she was an idiot, as were the other leaders though in other ways. I did hype up this episode a LITTLE too much so it was slightly underwhelming considering it aired on my birthday, but nonetheless I enjoyed it!
Anyway back to my little AJ point. I have always liked Applejack since beginning to watch MLP. However she got little to no spotlight besides being a supporting character and really added nothing dynamic to the group, instead being the strong foundation for the rest to lean on. I really thought she would be my favourite actually, but it never happened. Nonetheless despite her shortcomings within the canon she still managed a very respectable third place in my favourites, even if she is temporarily replaced whenever an episode about another character aired. (After Sweet and Elite, Twilight temporarily replaced her because I really thought Twilight was very awesome in it) Or Rainbow Dash after May the Best Pet Win/Mare-Do-Well, or even Rarity after...oh wait she's never take the spot olololol. (I still like her though P: )
Oh wait I did.
It's BAMBI with HAAARRRRRRRRR.
Okay I'll stop being silly.
--
So what occurred on my birthday that was last week!? Well I turned the tender age of twenty-one. 21. Agh. Well I find 21 to be the kind-of last "young" age you can be in. 20 feels old because you are suddenly in the twenties, and 19/18/17 feel old because your teenager years are ending/over, 21 feels like a new adventure. The true forage into adulthood! Then your naive years dwindle away when you turn 22, and it is not until you are around 24/25 do you feel young again as at that point you are full-fledged adult! 26 is the beginning of the end. I feel like I had a similar discussion on age when I turned 17 here. Better look back in the entries.
BUT THERE WAS CAKE.NOOOOO THERE WASN'T CAKE THIS YEAR I LIEEEED
THERE SHALL ALWAYS BE CAKE.
YUMMY ICE CREAM CAKE.
Anyway, age 17 is old. OLD. 18 is ANCIENT. 19 is DINOSAURS. 20 is the BEGINNING of the WORLD. 21 is the BIG BANG. Anything beyond? Why the hell are you still alive!? THAT'S INSANE AGING!
What I'm saying is that now I have moved onto the older teen category, which means I must be more mature and responsible. And when we die we become adults. Yes I do not like aging at all, but life moves on...literally.
I need to grab a cupcake some time and eat one due to MLP. Haven't had one for YEARS.
Disregarding that previous rather pointless point, according to my seventeen-year-old self, I am the BIG BANG. Anyway what did I do/get for my birthday this year? Unlike every other year that had cake (why didn't I get cake @_@) this year I had wires. WIRES! What wires you say? Why, setting up home theatre wires, with the subwoofers and speakers, and the AV Receivers, the karaoke players, the DVD players, the cable box, the brand new 55'' inch Samsung LED TV...
Oh right, my dad bought a TV. I knew he had wanted one for a while, but buying one a day before my birthday was still quite sudden. I thought we didn't have money for one! So I spent both the 16th and 17th unplugging and plugging and remote controlling pretty much. We also had dinner out but I barely remember it. (There was lobster? Jellyfish?) And then pizza the next day. (Finally satisfied my Dominos craving!) and then my friend took me out to a Japanese Noodle House for lunch on the 18th, along with MORE wires.
In fact there were so many wires I had a nightmare about wires...and Fluttershy. I have no idea why there was Fluttershy, especially in a nightmare. That isn't really supposed to happen. That means each of the mane six has appeared in my dreams in some way....except Pinkie Pie.
SUBCONSCIOUS, WHY DO YOU DO THIS.
Oh right, the TV came with a free smartphone deal and since my parents couldn't even hook up a home theatre system they obviously didn't know how to operate a phone more complicated than merely pressing buttons to call people (nor did they need one) so I got the free phone. I'm not entirely sure if that even counts as a present or anything (the dinner was the present) since if we had gotten the TV any other time of the year that phone still would've been mine. It felt like a bonus more than anything. So I now have a Samsung Galaxy Gio, some sort of budget smartphone and I'm pretty happy with it. I've got some cool apps on it and the like. I have Fluttershy as the background, perhaps that's why she showed up in my nightmare about wires. If I wasn't plugging in wires I was staring at my Android.
Suffice to say, MLP looks BLOODY FANTASTIC on a 55' inch TV. Holy crap it's beautiful. This plus the recent take downs of popular pony-download sites and youtube channels has led me to grab every episode either in 720p or 1080p. Watch how pretty it is and ignore my dorky attempts at singing with them.
Besides supporting Hasbro which I've been doing since my Beyblade days...what else is up with the Spottos?
-
POWERPUFF GIRLS!
I should definitely watch the Christmas Special. Until then, have some negative opinions of PPG. Yes, I said negative.
...so, went through all six discs I got.
Or at least, I tried to.
It's just...ugh. I can see why it got cancelled at the end there. Once the show started using Flash and basically the moment Craig left it just went downhill, seasons five and six were unbearable to watch. Some episodes were good, but the proportion of good to bad episodes just dropped off since the earlier seasons. PPG was made to be shorts, 11 minute shorts and thus two episodes per airing. Whenever they try to stretch the episode to 20 minutes like season four, they really went and stretched it.
You know how I often say MLP ends waaay too fast? Because it's filled with content, and sometimes it has to rush the ending just to fit it in the timeframe. Most of the time though, the episode is just so good and paced well, you wish it went longer, but that's all you get for the week. That never happens in PPG. There are twenty-minute episodes that are indeed paced well, such as the ones during season one (yes this includes The Rowdyruff Boys) but many of the ones in season four consist of a really long and drawn out scene. It is not entertaining nor funny or even cute. Maybe that one scene in Powerprof was cute, but most of the time it's WHY CAN'T THIS SCENE JUST END!? It's goddamn FILLER that is what it is.
I liked you better when you were crudely animated!!11!1!1!!
Though Season Four wasn't THAT bad about it, a lot of my favourite episodes are in season four, particularly the first half. Him Diddle Riddle certainly wouldn't have worked in 11 minutes that's for sure. It got really bad during season five and six though. The animators seem to be overjoyed with their new toy called Flash that they spend ten minutes of the episode showing off random and frankly poorly thought out attacks for the PPG to perform, which often don't work and never show up again. Furious Flaming Feline I liked because it was used more than once, and looked like their signature group attack. Then they started getting more random group attacks they never use again, and outrageous attacks they individually use we never saw again. THEY CAN DO THE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!? They can SHRINK!? Bubbles can BLARE OUT FIRE!? I also would've preferred if their signature attacks remained their signature attacks. Even if Bubbles' sonic scream thing isn't a unique attack Buttercup would've obviously known she can use it already so why the hell did she try to see if it was her special ability? :\
Did you know, that episode about feminism with the Femme Fatale? Lauren Faust wrote that one. Who would've known! I didn't really like that episode all that much though, even if the girls are young enough to be impressionable like that, why would they ever listen to a bad guy no matter the gender, and wouldn't they see themselves going a bit too far with how they were treating the guys? The aesop was right though, but I found the PPG held the idiot ball too tightly.
Ah, and Powerpuff Girls' Rule...rewatched that one on the Extras. I liked it when I first saw it, but now... wow, that was terrible. They didn't even use the same type of animation they did for seasons five and six, and the PPG especially looked crappy because of it. (Especially when they opened their mouths very wide) It did have two songs...but they gave it to Mojo Jojo, who cannot sing. I think that's the main problem that occurred between seasons four and five/six. Despite the creator leaving or the animation becoming Flash, the focus switched from the girls to the villains. The girls merely became the heroes and the villains were the ones given the spotlight, the ones causing the problems, the ones usually fleshed out. The girls just reacted. This is further evidenced with the return of the Rowdyruff Boys. They didn't even attempt to make them interesting, maybe a few dumb boy jokes here and there, but I feel they really wasted Rob Paulsen's voice talent with them. They were just stereotypically stupid! There were a few episodes that gave the girls some light but a majority was given to the villains.
Never mind go back to better animated!!1!1!!!11!
Case in point, let us summarize a few episodes in season 5 with few words.
Monstra City - The Mayor is an idiot, more than usual. Ridiculously more than usual.
Shut the Pup Up - The Talking Dog is incredibly obnoxious.
Octi-Gone - Bubbles and Mojo are flanderized/OOC.
Shotgun Wedding - Fuzzy is outrageously dumb.
The Boys are Back in Town - 20 minutes of non-witty and frankly disgusting innuendo.
Pee Pee G's - OOC Mojo and cheap pee jokes
Boy Toys - Princess being a dumbfuck
City of Clipsville - A failed attempt at offending shippers
Curses - What the hell kind of monster was that?
Or Season 6
Makes Zen to Me - Buttercup learns something...and proceeds to forget it the very next episode.
Reeking Havoc - Are you fucking serious
Live & Let Dynamo - The Mayor. The Mayor somehow got into the Utonium Household and into a giant mecha and destroyed everything. Really. People who compare Pinkie Pie to the Mayor really need their brains checked.
Mo' Linguish - Aren't we glad milking Mojo's tongue can fill ten minutes? And that we did it before already?
Sun Scream AND City of Frownsville - A CAT CAN WRITE BETTER THAN THIS. IN FACT WATCHING A CAT DO NOTHING FOR 20 MINUTES IS BETTER THAN THIS
What's the Big Idea - And then it was cancelled.
Season 5/6 was filled with gimmicks. Oh look the PPG are cavemen. Oh look the PPG are living in 1864. Oh look the PPG are giants. Oh look everyone is crying. It was either villains or gimmicks, and if it wasn't it was actually a good episode! Little Miss Interprets was quite good, despite thinking everyone around you wants to kill you, eat you, and replace you being a little far-fetched, the scenes were funny. I did not like their "this is our random attack the animators made so they can animate pretty colours and explosions" at the end. So unnecessary. Eyebeams would've worked. ANYTHING would've worked, they destroy Townsville on a daily basis! Bubble Boy was the sole instance of throwing some depth to the RRB, like Boomer being the only constantly picked on. Sadly they never really went anywhere beyond that, and hearing Bubbles talk like Timmy Turner is amusing. Alas, the status quo does not allow anything important to ever change. Documentary was an interesting take on an episode, but eh. Substitute Creature was highly amusing as well, etc. Not all the episodes were bad, but the episodes that were bad....were bad.
WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WROTE THIS
I'll try naming the bad episodes of the first four seasons....
Season 1 - None
Season 2
Daylight Savings
Mojo Jonesin'
Season 3
Fallen Arches
Monkey See, Doggy Two
Hot Air Buffoon
Season 4 - None
I already named a whole bunch from Seasons 5-6 up there and that's not even all the bad ones, it still outnumbers this tiny list. I think the PPG prime came in Season 4. The first half is chock-full of quality, and there are many really good episodes in the second half as well. Then it suddenly plummets like a roller coaster after such a high peak in Season 5. How sad, so sad. Anyway I will likely do some combined super-post with Seasons 3, 4, The Christmas Special, AND the Movie. I will not be touching on Seasons 5 and 6, unless you want me to whine/complain for a thousand words.
I suppose I could sum up all that text with Applejack:
--
And my other failed post! Whee!
I have decided to do some episode tier list. They seem kind of fun to do. OPINIONS! I HAVE THEM!
CELESTIA TIER
The Cutie Mark Chronicles
Luna Eclipsed
Party of One
May the Best Pet Win
Yes, this gif deserved to be posted again.
May the Best Pet Win
TOP TIER
Bridle Gossip
Swarm of the Century
Griffon the Brush Off
Griffon the Brush Off
Suited for Success
Sonic Rainboom
Green Isn't Your Colour
The Best Night Ever
Secret of my Excess
Hearth's Warming Eve
Hearth's Warming Eve
HIGH TIER
The Ticket Master
Applebuck Season
Dragonshy
Winter Wrap Up
Stare Master
A Dog and Pony Show
Over a Barrel
A Bird in the Hoof
The Return of Harmony, Part 1
The Return of Harmony, Part 2
Lesson Zero
The Mysterious Mare Do Well
Sweet and Elite
Sweet and Elite
MID TIER
Friendship is Magic, Part 1
Friendship is Magic, Part 2
Boast Busters
Look Before You Sleep
Call of the Cutie
Fall Weather Friends
Feeling Pinkie Keen
The Show Stoppers
Sisterhooves Social
The Cutie Pox
BOTTOM TIER
Owl's Well That Ends Well
Well people's lists usually have three or so tiers, but I generally like every single episode. If I don't, it's in bottom tier. P: But there are episodes that are truly outstanding, episodes that are super awesome, and plain good episodes! So I figured to categorize like so. You can also tell who my favourite character is from the list, 8D Well anywho, I'm going to spend this part of the post explaining certain reasons for why a few episodes are where they are, starting with Griffon the Brush-Off. (I assume the rest of them in that tier are pretty obvious)
I feel that particular episode is underrated. Yes the "villain" of the episode is reprimanded and leaves the episode still as a villain, learning no moral. Yes, I suppose it could've ended better because dumping friends, even those that need an attitude adjustment isn't the best way to end an episode in a show titled "Friendship is Magic" but this episode cemented me as a fan of MLP. Bridle Gossip hammered the nail in, but this episode was the first where I was genuinely surprised at what I saw. It wasn't as predictable as usual cartoons today were, and the characters weren't cardboard cut-outs as today are either. I suppose those are the biggest reasons. I don't actually think if the episode was episode five of season two it'd have had as much impact, and therefore probably would've been bumped down.
I feel that particular episode is underrated. Yes the "villain" of the episode is reprimanded and leaves the episode still as a villain, learning no moral. Yes, I suppose it could've ended better because dumping friends, even those that need an attitude adjustment isn't the best way to end an episode in a show titled "Friendship is Magic" but this episode cemented me as a fan of MLP. Bridle Gossip hammered the nail in, but this episode was the first where I was genuinely surprised at what I saw. It wasn't as predictable as usual cartoons today were, and the characters weren't cardboard cut-outs as today are either. I suppose those are the biggest reasons. I don't actually think if the episode was episode five of season two it'd have had as much impact, and therefore probably would've been bumped down.
Yes, that Fluttershy scene in Luna Eclipsed was that good, and so was the rest of the episode, but damn. One of my very favourite scenes.
All the episodes in top tier have really awesome Fluttershy moments mostly. I usually don't put episodes that actually focus on her that high, rather she has some of her best moments as a side character for some reason. CMC episodes usually are pretty low, but they're not bad episodes. CMC episodes just tend to not have as many mane six ponies as I'd like, and since I like them quite a bit, it pretty much lowers the rating. Owl's Well that Ends Well was an owl that COULD DO ANYTHING stealing the spotlight. How droll.
The only other potential unpopular opinion is how Lesson Zero, Mare-Do-Well and Sweet and Elite are right next to each other on the same tier! OHOHOHO. I will stop talking about MMDW, getting quite tired of defending it throughout all the hate. I'll just say that I strongly believe Rainbow Dash was always that way, she just never got much chance to show that side of her in season one. (Like the Ticket Master or Fall Weather Friends, etc.) And though perhaps there should have been a scene where they attempted to talk to Dash about her oversized ego I imagine her friends already know how she's not one to listen and thus had to show the error of her ways. (If they weren't there, those ponies would be dead! She either wasn't able to save them or was too busy patting herself on the back to save them properly) But I really wish it was just AJ as Mare-Do-Well. That would've been so much better and made AJ super awesome. I suppose MLP doesn't have to go the South Park way to make an otherwise underdeveloped character awesome.
Anyway I'm probably forgetting to say something here besides the grimdark post I scrapped. (Well it IS christmas after all...)
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year if you haven't already. This has been Spotto, signing off!
All the episodes in top tier have really awesome Fluttershy moments mostly. I usually don't put episodes that actually focus on her that high, rather she has some of her best moments as a side character for some reason. CMC episodes usually are pretty low, but they're not bad episodes. CMC episodes just tend to not have as many mane six ponies as I'd like, and since I like them quite a bit, it pretty much lowers the rating. Owl's Well that Ends Well was an owl that COULD DO ANYTHING stealing the spotlight. How droll.
The only other potential unpopular opinion is how Lesson Zero, Mare-Do-Well and Sweet and Elite are right next to each other on the same tier! OHOHOHO. I will stop talking about MMDW, getting quite tired of defending it throughout all the hate. I'll just say that I strongly believe Rainbow Dash was always that way, she just never got much chance to show that side of her in season one. (Like the Ticket Master or Fall Weather Friends, etc.) And though perhaps there should have been a scene where they attempted to talk to Dash about her oversized ego I imagine her friends already know how she's not one to listen and thus had to show the error of her ways. (If they weren't there, those ponies would be dead! She either wasn't able to save them or was too busy patting herself on the back to save them properly) But I really wish it was just AJ as Mare-Do-Well. That would've been so much better and made AJ super awesome. I suppose MLP doesn't have to go the South Park way to make an otherwise underdeveloped character awesome.
Anyway I'm probably forgetting to say something here besides the grimdark post I scrapped. (Well it IS christmas after all...)
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year if you haven't already. This has been Spotto, signing off!
Gah I ruined Fluttershy's pretty hair. CURSE MY HUMAN FINGERS.
SCOOTALOO IS BEST PONY