CLUE! (MMMystery on the Friendship Express)

[spotto]

Pinkie is on the case! SOURCE by PDPie
Anyway, the episode is mid-to-high tier for me. In terms of expectations it shattered nothing, in fact my expectations were kind of high this episode and episode 24 failed to actually meet them! I usually find this to be due to the preview clips they release throughout the week, which make the episode a much lesser impact when I see them beforehand, especially if it's a particularly good scene. In It's About Time, they released the clip where Twilight goes back in time, and so I watched it several times and by the time the episode rolled around they showed it twice in there was well! So I had pretty much seen at least 15% percent of the episode and they were the same thing twice. Here, one of my favourite parts was when Pinkie was guarding...which was in the clip. I actually avoided watching the second clip but I ran into a screenshot of it so that bubble in Twi's face wasn't as good as it could've been.

I mean look at A Friend In Deed! No clips whatsoever, marvellous episode. Even if there is a clip, if it's part of a relatively unimportant scene like the one for Hurricane Fluttershy it would've had little effect, but this one was quite long. Anyway due to all this I've decided to stop watching preview clips, lol. A bit late for the wedding episodes but I should be prepared for season three. The other problem I had was...well, factoring in the commercials acting as breaks, you pretty much get three acts per episode. You have the cold opening, the theme song, a commercial and then three parts of the episode separated with two more ads. The cold open was great, what with Mr. Cake fainting constantly and it being far too heavy for Big Mac to hold (and Pinkie's hat, lol). The first act was great too, with the others salivating at the cake and the introduction of the minor characters with funny accents, plus the preview clip. The second act was good as well though not as great as the first one. I found myself rather amused and surprised by Pinkie's imagination for how the griffon sabotaged the cake, but then she applied it for the other two as well which I thought was pushing the joke a little far and as I knew, eating time.

Quite possibly the best scene of the episode! Oh Rarity.

The third act was what disappointed me, the actual proper sleuthing part. They retraced their steps and it turns out it was Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity. I did like how Rarity's mane-style changed to hide her missing eyelash (by the way why is everyone surprised that she wears fake eyelashes? It's been canon for an entire season and detracts nothing from Rarity for me...I don't get it), which was quite clever however I found it a bit...concerning that three of Pinkie's friends would take such giant bites out of a cake the Cakes worked so very hard making and they worked so very hard taking to the competition. Not only that but attempt to hide their guilt as if they didn't do it! You'd think after RD took the bite and flew off, whoever was next would see that giant bite and probably leave it alone, but the next pony to touch was...Fluttershy of all ponies.

See for Rarity at least the lights were out, so she didn't really see if it had been tampered before, but Fluttershy not only likely saw the bite taken out before, but took her own, then escaped and hid from Pinkie by pretending to be a conductor. ...REALLY, Fluttershy? My theory of Fluttershy secretly pulling off the greatest heist of Cloudsdale ever known, thus why she lives on the ground to escape questioning and suspect has actually been given a boost!

Not only that but the minor chef characters sabotaged each other's stuff as well...hmm, I know ponies aren't meant to be perfect, but I find it hard to believe the food is so good you couldn't wait a single bloody night to try it at the competition. (Maybe they already knew Pinkie would gobble it up for herself and therefore this was the only possibility of getting a taste? Lol) And while Applejack isn't at fault because she's the honest of all ponies, (plus it'd be somewhat OOC if she did do it, but it was already OOC for everypony else!) I was disappointed she didn't have a larger role, or somehow (perhaps accidentally) sabotaging it herself. I remember the Mare-Do-Well episode and hoped the entire episode it was AJ. When I was watching this episode I was like "IT WAS APPLEJACK! IT WAS APPLEJACK THAT DASTARDLY MARE!"


Ref! Ref ref ref ref ref ref! Ref ref! *pant pant*
I remember Look Before You Sleep AJ, or Fall Weather Friends AJ...AJ has been really boring this season. She isn't my third favourite randomly. She was a mighty entertaining pony in the early episodes of season one. I still believe if the MDW plot was altered so that AJ was the only one who was the hero, and if somehow this plot was altered as well to accommodate her, they'd be so much better. She is so flawless (and yet still not very entertaining) that it's ridiculous. That's one of the many reasons I love The Last Roundup so much. AJ actually had a flaw and caused a lot of events because of it. She didn't even learn anything in TSSCS6K even if that dismantling of the letter to Celestia was hilarious. I want to see AJ argue with RD again and not just RD but Rarity. Just because they reconciled their differences in LBYS doesn't mean they can't argue at all! RD isn't the only antagonizing friend of their's!

So yeah, the episode was very cartoony, surprisingly, and hilarious but in terms of character it reminded me of Putting Your Hoof Down-lite, sacrificing consistency and morality of character for jokes. I guess with Baby Cakes and A Friend In Deed being super awesome character-developing episodes for Pinkie this one was likely a less serious one, but I always have high expectations from AKR. (And when is Meghan McCarthy ever writing an episode? I expected her to write this one...perhaps the finale? AKR already had a Pinkie episode this season...) This was why I wasn't all that excited when I heard this episode was to be a Pinkie episode...she's had two really good ones and APPLEJACK having a third would've been nice (without her damn family)

Well, that's all from me and my silly polarizing opinions...today I learned Pinkie Pie's descriptions of mouthwatering food is so mesmerizing it hypnotizes ponies to commit petty crimes!


Applejack now leaves on an M10 Wolverine, the true mastermind of this erroneously-closed crime.     SOURCE by MrLolcats17