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spottoI'm starting to post here a lot especially about ponies and I can give you a few concrete reasons as to why.
I got into MLP initially way back in 2011 not only because it was recommended to me and I found the ponified Touhou characters to be interesting, but I knew it to be a very happy uplifting show. The moment my hockey team fell to another in game seven during the Stanley Cup finals I went and marathon'd all of MLP at the time, that being the entire first season. Almost three years later and that same hockey team has had one of the most disastrous seasons I've ever witnessed so what better to do than to distract myself with more ponies? Season four hasn't been bad at all even though I've found the earlier seasons to be better, but nowadays I've been watching the show with someone at the same time and that usually means the experience is far more enjoyable. :D
So what is this post about? Why, MORE PONIES OF COURSE. But I want to bring up a point I may have several times before, but not elaborated. My favourites of the Mane Six as everyone who reads this blog knows, is Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. To the point that I sometimes ship the two, but contrary to the nature of this blog which is very pro-shipping, I don't really consider myself that much of a shipper anymore. (or at the very least, quite the hardcore shipper I was back in my adolescence) And ironically enough (I've no clue if that is proper use of the word) it was RWBY that made me realise this. The Tumblr community for RWBY is extremely pro-shipping. Rarely there will be shipping wars as everyone is very open to literally every ship imaginable. But RWBY in its essence isn't especially developed or deep, only two hours of footage having been released so far so it actually makes sense that shipping is very rampant. We don't know much about the lore or world beyond the bits we're told and so we're really just left with the characters and the songs that explain these characters.
When all you have are characters, shipping is going to follow. Yang for example isn't much of a character so far. We know she takes no shits from other people and is pretty damn strong. She also seems to be quite casual and easily sociable, so we have that. Yang is also very close to her sister. Since we have little to glean off of Yang's character, exploring her potential chemistry with others is our best option at fleshing Yang out. Until season two comes about and reveals more about Yang, shipping is one of the few mediums we have to expand on what we know about her. Blake is one of the most developed characters so far (which isn't saying too much) because we know more about her backstory than anyone else and know of her motives and conflicts throughout season one (particularly the last two episodes) where her existence gives us more info about human-faunus relations. That plus Blake is cool and is a very relatable character allows her to be the perfect anchor to expand upon all the other characters. This is why Blake is at the moment the fandom bicycle. Thus results Bumblebee, the most popular ship of RWBY. Of course personally I have little investment in Blake and prefer the juicy interactions that results with Weiss as the harem lead. P:
The whole point here is that while I enjoy the shipping in RWBY, I ship because it's a method to flesh out characters. But because pretty much every character needs to be given more depth, you can ship any character with any other character and it doesn't seem odd. This is a little too all-over-the place tor me to the point that I can't pinpoint an OTP. So far it's just enjoying how Weiss is portrayed in literally all her ships, but nothing that is clear-cut "the best pairing" for me, and so I'm not as into the shipping culture as I usually would be. MLP does not have this problem. The series has existed for over three years now and so far there's over 80 episodes out as well as numerous comics, movies, and a gigantic fandom. In fact I hardly ever ship in MLP at all.
But occasionally I'll read a PinkieShy, why? The pairing isn't very popular at all and its greatest appeal to most audiences is probably the utter innocence and heart-stopping cuteness of it all, but that's a rather shallow reason to like a pairing. That's why the couple is usually a side-pairing people prefer while they're shipping some other pair that compliments them, like TwiDash or AppleDash. (I would name the rest but they aren't nearly as popular >_>) And y'know my reason could be simply "they're my two favourites" or "I like the potential chemistry between them" but the first is weak and the second, while makes sense, very rarely occurs in the series itself. Despite that, those two are my primary reasons of shipping them.
Still, even if interactions between the two are rare or, if they do occur, surprisingly negative, I do want to point out what potential there is of the two. And to do so I must tear down the ship itself. There is one fact that repeats in my head all the damn time whenever I think about these two: They're the only characters who have directly made each other cry. I've probably repeated that several times during my non-stop enraged rants about Filli Vanilli, but it's true! On the other hand, in a way it makes sense. As the series progresses Pinkie has been increasingly portrayed as being terribly insensitive and socially inept, while Fluttershy has consistently been hinted at as a someone who is just waiting to blow up because she has blown up several times. The two of them are also the most frequent crybabies of the cast, but at first glance you wouldn't expect these two over others to have done such a feat.
Before Twilight showed up, what was the status of everyone's friendships? Were they even friends at the time or merely acquaintances? Equestria Girls leads us to believe, since their human counterparts were supposedly friends before Twilight showed up, that it might be the case in the pony world. But it's a questionable source because the movie states the five were friends as kids while the comic establishes the five of them became friends the moment they hit high school. While I can see why they wouldn't be friends until Twilight shows up so that she can show them that friendship is magic, there's really no reason they had to have been friends at some point before she arrived. Frankly this aspect of the movie was very poorly thought-out, and it's only even more evident when the comic and movie don't even have consistent continuity in that regard. So it's safe to say at least in Equestria, the five were not friends before Twilight came about.
Or at least, not all of them. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy knew each other (and may have been friends, though not especially close ones) due to flight camp. Rainbow Dash was very noble to defend Fluttershy during the events of the first Sonic Rainboom, but aside from that they do have little in common and it doesn't seem like they're very close at the start of the series. Rarity and Applejack are the only two who seem to have been in Ponyville their whole lives, but again they have little in common and thanks to Look Before You Sleep, weren't even very close of friends until that episode. Pinkie is supposedly friends with the entire town, but before Twilight arrived I doubt she had any close friends. Now we don't know if Rarity and Fluttershy became good friends because and after of the events of Nightmare Moon's return or were friends beforehand, but there may have been a bit of a hint when the cliff fell out under them in the second episode. Fluttershy immediately went to save Rarity, while Rainbow Dash saved Pinkie. Obviously this had to be like so, so that Applejack could demonstrate her amazing honesty when saving Twilight, but that scene was a pretty terrible method of showing off her honesty, honestly. But if we look far too deep into this scene, while the four are falling Pinkie seems to be the one closest to being splat, so Rainbow saving her first makes sense. Rarity is a bit behind, so perhaps Fluttershy wanted to make sure her friend wasn't dead over two ponies she barely knows.
Twilight she barely knows? Sure, but Applejack? Well considering how often they interact (even less than Pinkie and Fluttershy!) until they finally had that Bats episode (and they were arguing in that one, so uh) I'm pretty confident they barely knew one another. Anyway it's a very small and inconsequential scene, but it's enough to suggest the two were friends, perhaps not especially close until the Elements of Harmony showed up, but close enough. After all they do have interests in common. Maybe they both are often at the spa and thus see one another, and thus socialize? If any of them were friends these two make the most sense.
Of course what the hell does that have to do with Pinkie and Fluttershy? Well, I'm going to argue that maybe Fluttershy had the most friends out of all of them before the series began! What a twist! A potential 2/4 is already more than anyone else, but what if she also knew Pinkie too and beyond just Pinkie being friends with the whole town? Seems unlikely? Well, that's why I have evidence. We can't even use the falling example to debunk this because Pinkie was already saved by Rainbow! Speaking of the two, in episode five it seems to suggest at the very least Pinkie knows a lot about Fluttershy's mannerisms. How even the most harmless of pranks can hurt her feelings? Perhaps she knows this due to prior experience! You can always chalk that up to, since Pinkie is friends with EVERYONE the first time she tried to befriend Fluttershy may not have been a particularly smooth befriending. Then Gilda roars at Fluttershy and Pinkie takes it personally. It may imply they know each other a little more than others. Of course using only episode five as evidence is a bit too little, so...in Dragonshy, it is Pinkie's song that finally encourages Fluttershy to leap over to the other side of the mountain. Rainbow Dash may be a shitty motivator, but Pinkie can get Fluttershy to move over her childhood friend? Well, it's either that or Pinkie being the sole pony responsible for Ponyville's continued happiness, knows exactly how to cheer her up just like with anybody else. (This is very debunked especially in season two)
Then there's Bridle Gossip, where Pinkie cannot speak but somehow Fluttershy understands what she wants to do. Rarity and Twilight have no clue what Pinkie's trying to say or do (well somehow they know she claims Zecora stole her song), but Fluttershy manages to decipher her motives and even goes with it. Again, this is for the sake of comedy so Fluttershy can sing in her lovely new baritone voice, but it also unwittingly implies just like the two or three previous scenes in the earlier episodes they may have been friends before Twilight arrived. I could point out more small scenes that may imply things/I'm looking far too into this, such as the very next episode where Fluttershy immediately heads off to Sugarcube Corner to show off the parasprite she found. Again, it's for the matter of convenience, the Princess is visiting and Twilight is inspecting the food, but why would Fluttershy go to Twilight first? She just met her nine episodes ago, and if she did want to see her she'd have to really want to see her, that is ask around where Twilight is (unless she knows Twilight's schedule and that she'd be there instead of checking on the flowers or the banners or something) instead of say, showing Rarity first or Rainbow who are both people she's supposedly known longer than the rest. The most likely explanation is that she wanted to show Pinkie first. ;)
And even if every single one of those pieces of evidence is completely asinine or far too mundane of examples to really clearly reveal anything, it's the only explanation I have for the scene in Over a Barrel, where Fluttershy of all people was most concerned about Pinkie's safety, to the point she jump-tackles her when she finally sees her. JUMP-TACKLE, that is very out-of-character for the normally demure and soft-spoken Fluttershy! I found it utterly adorable and cute, but it also came out of complete-fucking-nowhere! And them being friends before the show began is the best explanation I can think of. It's not like Pinkie is super-close friends with Rarity at this point, so I don't know why else she's hanging around Fluttershy, Rarity, and Twilight in Green Isn't Your Colour (at this point she's probably closer to Twilight now so maybe that too), and Fluttershy's season two episode where she explodes has both Rarity (we already know they're close) and Pinkie as the supporting cast.
Basically I feel the two were meant to be friends, or closer initially but at some point throughout all the positions being bounced around (Faust leaving, new editors/directors, new writers, etc.) this subtle but apparent fact about the two was lost, and so we end up with an episode like Filli Vanilli, where it seems Pinkie knows nothing about Fluttershy at all and just makes everything worse. Even though Pinkie's very rough handling of Rainbow Dash seems insensitive and mean, we at least know she's always been like that towards Rainbow Dash since the beginning of season one, but it's not so for Fluttershy. While Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash's friendship improved over the course of the series, Fluttershy and Pinkie's seems to have disappeared entirely. (Beyond that crucial episode five, Griffon the Brush-Off, it doesn't seem like Pinkie and Rainbow's friendship has really gone anywhere either) The best way for this is for the two of them to have an episode devoted to just their friendship. Either an inevitable fight because again, Pinkie's insensitivity and Fluttershy's bottled-up emotions, or just anything to imply that they actually are friends and understand each other because holy crap like I just said last rant, I can complain about Filli Vanilli FOREVER.
Besides I watch MLP for the friendships. Twilight Sparkle is my least favourite of the Mane Six because her episodes, especially the two-parters, are all about her ascension to a princess, which means more lore about Equestria. While that's interesting that really isn't the reason I watch the show, so I'm usually not fond of any of the two-parters unless they feature the rest of the Mane Six very prominently. The last two premières do not. In fact I watched Ponies the Anthology III, and it had a Paper Mario 2 parody-opening, with Twilight facing each villain. The first two she had all her friends, then Chrysalis appeared, which her friends had no part in defeating. After that? Sombra, which was just Twilight and Spike. The final scene was Magical Mystery Cure, where it was all about Twilight becoming an alicorn princess. I actually really do love that episode. The songs were all great and the cutie-mark switch was super interesting, but they only have one episode to cover it as well as turn Twilight into a princess, so it became a rather wasted plot more than anything. Now we have season four's opening and it was all about Twilight AGAIN (and the lore) but nothing about her friends. As far as I can tell the finale will continue this pattern and I can't give less of a fuck about it. I prefer Twilight in Testing, Testing, 1, 2 ,3 where she's arguing with Rainbow Dash. That's interesting! Twilight becoming a princess and having princess duties? I don't care. I miss the big adventure episodes where her friends all played a part. Okay granted, the pilot episodes weren't very good, but Discord's episodes being our only good and proper episode involving all the Mane Six is kind of sad. Especially since the other big episode with their prominence ALSO has the other five being fucked up (Magical Mystery Cure). Why not just a normal two-parter with the five of them being themselves playing off one another while they go save Equestria? Why does Twilight always have to make sure her friends aren't corrupted or messed up?? Why not a way better version of the pilot??
But well, at the very least the meat of the season is the slice-of-life friendship stuff I've come to adore. This has been Spotto and you've read yet another rant that is no different from others besides the wording. Hohoho.
I got into MLP initially way back in 2011 not only because it was recommended to me and I found the ponified Touhou characters to be interesting, but I knew it to be a very happy uplifting show. The moment my hockey team fell to another in game seven during the Stanley Cup finals I went and marathon'd all of MLP at the time, that being the entire first season. Almost three years later and that same hockey team has had one of the most disastrous seasons I've ever witnessed so what better to do than to distract myself with more ponies? Season four hasn't been bad at all even though I've found the earlier seasons to be better, but nowadays I've been watching the show with someone at the same time and that usually means the experience is far more enjoyable. :D
So what is this post about? Why, MORE PONIES OF COURSE. But I want to bring up a point I may have several times before, but not elaborated. My favourites of the Mane Six as everyone who reads this blog knows, is Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. To the point that I sometimes ship the two, but contrary to the nature of this blog which is very pro-shipping, I don't really consider myself that much of a shipper anymore. (or at the very least, quite the hardcore shipper I was back in my adolescence) And ironically enough (I've no clue if that is proper use of the word) it was RWBY that made me realise this. The Tumblr community for RWBY is extremely pro-shipping. Rarely there will be shipping wars as everyone is very open to literally every ship imaginable. But RWBY in its essence isn't especially developed or deep, only two hours of footage having been released so far so it actually makes sense that shipping is very rampant. We don't know much about the lore or world beyond the bits we're told and so we're really just left with the characters and the songs that explain these characters.
When all you have are characters, shipping is going to follow. Yang for example isn't much of a character so far. We know she takes no shits from other people and is pretty damn strong. She also seems to be quite casual and easily sociable, so we have that. Yang is also very close to her sister. Since we have little to glean off of Yang's character, exploring her potential chemistry with others is our best option at fleshing Yang out. Until season two comes about and reveals more about Yang, shipping is one of the few mediums we have to expand on what we know about her. Blake is one of the most developed characters so far (which isn't saying too much) because we know more about her backstory than anyone else and know of her motives and conflicts throughout season one (particularly the last two episodes) where her existence gives us more info about human-faunus relations. That plus Blake is cool and is a very relatable character allows her to be the perfect anchor to expand upon all the other characters. This is why Blake is at the moment the fandom bicycle. Thus results Bumblebee, the most popular ship of RWBY. Of course personally I have little investment in Blake and prefer the juicy interactions that results with Weiss as the harem lead. P:
The whole point here is that while I enjoy the shipping in RWBY, I ship because it's a method to flesh out characters. But because pretty much every character needs to be given more depth, you can ship any character with any other character and it doesn't seem odd. This is a little too all-over-the place tor me to the point that I can't pinpoint an OTP. So far it's just enjoying how Weiss is portrayed in literally all her ships, but nothing that is clear-cut "the best pairing" for me, and so I'm not as into the shipping culture as I usually would be. MLP does not have this problem. The series has existed for over three years now and so far there's over 80 episodes out as well as numerous comics, movies, and a gigantic fandom. In fact I hardly ever ship in MLP at all.
But occasionally I'll read a PinkieShy, why? The pairing isn't very popular at all and its greatest appeal to most audiences is probably the utter innocence and heart-stopping cuteness of it all, but that's a rather shallow reason to like a pairing. That's why the couple is usually a side-pairing people prefer while they're shipping some other pair that compliments them, like TwiDash or AppleDash. (I would name the rest but they aren't nearly as popular >_>) And y'know my reason could be simply "they're my two favourites" or "I like the potential chemistry between them" but the first is weak and the second, while makes sense, very rarely occurs in the series itself. Despite that, those two are my primary reasons of shipping them.
Still, even if interactions between the two are rare or, if they do occur, surprisingly negative, I do want to point out what potential there is of the two. And to do so I must tear down the ship itself. There is one fact that repeats in my head all the damn time whenever I think about these two: They're the only characters who have directly made each other cry. I've probably repeated that several times during my non-stop enraged rants about Filli Vanilli, but it's true! On the other hand, in a way it makes sense. As the series progresses Pinkie has been increasingly portrayed as being terribly insensitive and socially inept, while Fluttershy has consistently been hinted at as a someone who is just waiting to blow up because she has blown up several times. The two of them are also the most frequent crybabies of the cast, but at first glance you wouldn't expect these two over others to have done such a feat.
Before Twilight showed up, what was the status of everyone's friendships? Were they even friends at the time or merely acquaintances? Equestria Girls leads us to believe, since their human counterparts were supposedly friends before Twilight showed up, that it might be the case in the pony world. But it's a questionable source because the movie states the five were friends as kids while the comic establishes the five of them became friends the moment they hit high school. While I can see why they wouldn't be friends until Twilight shows up so that she can show them that friendship is magic, there's really no reason they had to have been friends at some point before she arrived. Frankly this aspect of the movie was very poorly thought-out, and it's only even more evident when the comic and movie don't even have consistent continuity in that regard. So it's safe to say at least in Equestria, the five were not friends before Twilight came about.
Or at least, not all of them. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy knew each other (and may have been friends, though not especially close ones) due to flight camp. Rainbow Dash was very noble to defend Fluttershy during the events of the first Sonic Rainboom, but aside from that they do have little in common and it doesn't seem like they're very close at the start of the series. Rarity and Applejack are the only two who seem to have been in Ponyville their whole lives, but again they have little in common and thanks to Look Before You Sleep, weren't even very close of friends until that episode. Pinkie is supposedly friends with the entire town, but before Twilight arrived I doubt she had any close friends. Now we don't know if Rarity and Fluttershy became good friends because and after of the events of Nightmare Moon's return or were friends beforehand, but there may have been a bit of a hint when the cliff fell out under them in the second episode. Fluttershy immediately went to save Rarity, while Rainbow Dash saved Pinkie. Obviously this had to be like so, so that Applejack could demonstrate her amazing honesty when saving Twilight, but that scene was a pretty terrible method of showing off her honesty, honestly. But if we look far too deep into this scene, while the four are falling Pinkie seems to be the one closest to being splat, so Rainbow saving her first makes sense. Rarity is a bit behind, so perhaps Fluttershy wanted to make sure her friend wasn't dead over two ponies she barely knows.
Twilight she barely knows? Sure, but Applejack? Well considering how often they interact (even less than Pinkie and Fluttershy!) until they finally had that Bats episode (and they were arguing in that one, so uh) I'm pretty confident they barely knew one another. Anyway it's a very small and inconsequential scene, but it's enough to suggest the two were friends, perhaps not especially close until the Elements of Harmony showed up, but close enough. After all they do have interests in common. Maybe they both are often at the spa and thus see one another, and thus socialize? If any of them were friends these two make the most sense.
Of course what the hell does that have to do with Pinkie and Fluttershy? Well, I'm going to argue that maybe Fluttershy had the most friends out of all of them before the series began! What a twist! A potential 2/4 is already more than anyone else, but what if she also knew Pinkie too and beyond just Pinkie being friends with the whole town? Seems unlikely? Well, that's why I have evidence. We can't even use the falling example to debunk this because Pinkie was already saved by Rainbow! Speaking of the two, in episode five it seems to suggest at the very least Pinkie knows a lot about Fluttershy's mannerisms. How even the most harmless of pranks can hurt her feelings? Perhaps she knows this due to prior experience! You can always chalk that up to, since Pinkie is friends with EVERYONE the first time she tried to befriend Fluttershy may not have been a particularly smooth befriending. Then Gilda roars at Fluttershy and Pinkie takes it personally. It may imply they know each other a little more than others. Of course using only episode five as evidence is a bit too little, so...in Dragonshy, it is Pinkie's song that finally encourages Fluttershy to leap over to the other side of the mountain. Rainbow Dash may be a shitty motivator, but Pinkie can get Fluttershy to move over her childhood friend? Well, it's either that or Pinkie being the sole pony responsible for Ponyville's continued happiness, knows exactly how to cheer her up just like with anybody else. (This is very debunked especially in season two)
Then there's Bridle Gossip, where Pinkie cannot speak but somehow Fluttershy understands what she wants to do. Rarity and Twilight have no clue what Pinkie's trying to say or do (well somehow they know she claims Zecora stole her song), but Fluttershy manages to decipher her motives and even goes with it. Again, this is for the sake of comedy so Fluttershy can sing in her lovely new baritone voice, but it also unwittingly implies just like the two or three previous scenes in the earlier episodes they may have been friends before Twilight arrived. I could point out more small scenes that may imply things/I'm looking far too into this, such as the very next episode where Fluttershy immediately heads off to Sugarcube Corner to show off the parasprite she found. Again, it's for the matter of convenience, the Princess is visiting and Twilight is inspecting the food, but why would Fluttershy go to Twilight first? She just met her nine episodes ago, and if she did want to see her she'd have to really want to see her, that is ask around where Twilight is (unless she knows Twilight's schedule and that she'd be there instead of checking on the flowers or the banners or something) instead of say, showing Rarity first or Rainbow who are both people she's supposedly known longer than the rest. The most likely explanation is that she wanted to show Pinkie first. ;)
And even if every single one of those pieces of evidence is completely asinine or far too mundane of examples to really clearly reveal anything, it's the only explanation I have for the scene in Over a Barrel, where Fluttershy of all people was most concerned about Pinkie's safety, to the point she jump-tackles her when she finally sees her. JUMP-TACKLE, that is very out-of-character for the normally demure and soft-spoken Fluttershy! I found it utterly adorable and cute, but it also came out of complete-fucking-nowhere! And them being friends before the show began is the best explanation I can think of. It's not like Pinkie is super-close friends with Rarity at this point, so I don't know why else she's hanging around Fluttershy, Rarity, and Twilight in Green Isn't Your Colour (at this point she's probably closer to Twilight now so maybe that too), and Fluttershy's season two episode where she explodes has both Rarity (we already know they're close) and Pinkie as the supporting cast.
Basically I feel the two were meant to be friends, or closer initially but at some point throughout all the positions being bounced around (Faust leaving, new editors/directors, new writers, etc.) this subtle but apparent fact about the two was lost, and so we end up with an episode like Filli Vanilli, where it seems Pinkie knows nothing about Fluttershy at all and just makes everything worse. Even though Pinkie's very rough handling of Rainbow Dash seems insensitive and mean, we at least know she's always been like that towards Rainbow Dash since the beginning of season one, but it's not so for Fluttershy. While Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash's friendship improved over the course of the series, Fluttershy and Pinkie's seems to have disappeared entirely. (Beyond that crucial episode five, Griffon the Brush-Off, it doesn't seem like Pinkie and Rainbow's friendship has really gone anywhere either) The best way for this is for the two of them to have an episode devoted to just their friendship. Either an inevitable fight because again, Pinkie's insensitivity and Fluttershy's bottled-up emotions, or just anything to imply that they actually are friends and understand each other because holy crap like I just said last rant, I can complain about Filli Vanilli FOREVER.
Besides I watch MLP for the friendships. Twilight Sparkle is my least favourite of the Mane Six because her episodes, especially the two-parters, are all about her ascension to a princess, which means more lore about Equestria. While that's interesting that really isn't the reason I watch the show, so I'm usually not fond of any of the two-parters unless they feature the rest of the Mane Six very prominently. The last two premières do not. In fact I watched Ponies the Anthology III, and it had a Paper Mario 2 parody-opening, with Twilight facing each villain. The first two she had all her friends, then Chrysalis appeared, which her friends had no part in defeating. After that? Sombra, which was just Twilight and Spike. The final scene was Magical Mystery Cure, where it was all about Twilight becoming an alicorn princess. I actually really do love that episode. The songs were all great and the cutie-mark switch was super interesting, but they only have one episode to cover it as well as turn Twilight into a princess, so it became a rather wasted plot more than anything. Now we have season four's opening and it was all about Twilight AGAIN (and the lore) but nothing about her friends. As far as I can tell the finale will continue this pattern and I can't give less of a fuck about it. I prefer Twilight in Testing, Testing, 1, 2 ,3 where she's arguing with Rainbow Dash. That's interesting! Twilight becoming a princess and having princess duties? I don't care. I miss the big adventure episodes where her friends all played a part. Okay granted, the pilot episodes weren't very good, but Discord's episodes being our only good and proper episode involving all the Mane Six is kind of sad. Especially since the other big episode with their prominence ALSO has the other five being fucked up (Magical Mystery Cure). Why not just a normal two-parter with the five of them being themselves playing off one another while they go save Equestria? Why does Twilight always have to make sure her friends aren't corrupted or messed up?? Why not a way better version of the pilot??
But well, at the very least the meat of the season is the slice-of-life friendship stuff I've come to adore. This has been Spotto and you've read yet another rant that is no different from others besides the wording. Hohoho.
