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Ye. I can still access this place. Ye I have not forgotten. I wonder if anyone still reads these aside from myself. Back in the day of the ol' LJ times I had a few friends who would occasionally read my nonsensical longwinded and pointless rants, but those were the olden days... They were the days of yore, when the internet was not centralized to few mega social media websites owned by terrible right-wing billionaires. So often when I fall into a fandom or whatever I search a discussion forum on Google, and I can't figure out if I can't find any because Google search sucks now, or if it merely just doesn't exist. Everything is relegated to Twitter or Reddit or even Tumblr still, depending on the popularity of the media. A lot of things are even gatekept onto Discord, which I could never really get into as a fandom space. The discussion topics are locked in these communities, in these chat logs that aren't organized in ways that I would like. If I wanted to read discourse on some controversy of some episode two years ago, I'd have to rely on a terrible search function or just scroll back on some general discussion channel for a thousand years. It's a system meant for things happening in the now, where you can discuss yesterday's episode and if you want to look through an archive, tough luck, fomo'd.

For me in the present though, I have been into a few things. Those few things I would discuss in... a locked private Discord community of myself and a friend , and therein it lays, forever untouched by the eyes of the public internet. I have a whole Pokemon Special liveblog there, discussion of GTA RP and its inherent toxicity, and my Wordle scores. I do Wordle and Connections and Strands and Worldle and Quordle and... well ye. I have a fitbit and have been more aware of my exercise routines and sleep schedule, and it has mildly increased my strength and endurance. So these things where your mind and body are being worked regularly are not an issue. But the rare occasion where I want to rant and discuss in a less enclosed space, I come here, and here I am... for yet another tierlist.

THAT IS RIGHT, IT'S TIERLIST TIME, BAY-BEE.



What is this you might ask? Actually I dunno why anyone would ask, it is quite obvious. Yes I watched all 154 episodes of Bluey in the year 2024. You might be wondering why, well since I have a pretty well maintained MLP tierlist on this blog, it's not surprising. You see, my beloved Canucks lost in the playoffs this year after not having been in it for about four or so years, and right after a pretty decisive game 5 when it looked like everything was locked down and they would defeat the Oilers in 6 or 7. Then they just ran out of steam rather suddenly, and my hated rival team went onto the finals. Thankfully they did not win (barely, whew!) but when such devastating losses happen I seek wholesome media to consume, to distract myself from the disappointment of sportsball. (They did very much overachieve this year though and assuming we don't lose too many players to FA should be primed for another playoff run next year I am hoping) Bluey just seemed like the right thing to watch.

I am not going to discuss all 154 episodes though, that is insane. I will touch upon some favourites and unfavourites though. This image above is only season one, because attempting to fit all 154 eps in one tierlist was also a failed endeavour. I had too many tiers as well, and there's just only so many different levels of mid you can put 7 minute dog episodes onto. Bottom tier is not really like, I hated the episode, why does it exist? kind of level. It is moreso the episode was dull, or just run-of-the-mill kids show fodder, so I wasn't particularly negative. A lot of the eps I came away expressing that it was cute, and it was! This show is 90% of the time just very cute, and there's nothing wrong with that. I definitely liked seasons two and three more than one, but I will def touch upon some episodes.

So Bluey is a preschooler cartoon about a family of dogs. The parents are both amazing parents, and also flawed parents. I notice the internet community likes to compare them to adult cartoon or sitcom parents, which seems like a weird comparison when so many of those parents are like deadbeat parents, or typical exasperated mom reacting to toxic idiot dad kind of tropes. Whereas in cartoons aimed at younger audiences the parents are more like omnipresent Gods who can do no wrong and are perfect in every way. (Or simply aren't present at all) There are exceptions of course, but I think Bluey does a great job balancing both, being a great role model to aspiring and current parents, but also being relatable to them as well. I will say this opinion is not a very informed one though as I am not at all a parent, and the closest I could compare is taking care of a very needy cat, but I digress.

Anyway as for the episodes, my top four or so are either hilarious episodes or very heartwarming, deep episodes that resonate with my soul. The Sleepover depicted the kids' very rambunctious and sleep-deprived cousin, Muffin, as very drunk. (She was just very sleep-deprived, but she was driving a toy car and crashing into things) Also the younger sibling Bingo was roleplaying a hilarious husband character as they dined out at a restaurant, so that was a great bit. This entire show feels like a parenting show for theatre kids, with the parents (especially Bandit the dad) just committing to the bit and yes-anding any game the kids want to play. Asparagus is similar but with the whole family depicting some unhinged animals, etc. Huh the more I discuss these eps the less I have to say. I just think they're neat!

For a more negative spin on things, Camping is a highly regarded episode, but I got a bit spoiled reading some discussion with people heaping ludicrous amounts of praise onto the episode. It was like only my second or third ep I watched ever, so I went into it with high expectations, and while I liked it a lot it did not meet my crazy standards. It also was a gateway into some shipping wars (IN BLUEY OF ALL PLACES???) between who eventually marries Bluey in the future, the Camping dog or her childhood friend Mackenzie, and I could just not give less of a shit. Like, I just came from a toxic fandom with some of the most absurd and awful shipping wars possible, and toxicity everywhere (tbf, its community only really existing on Twitter did not help whatsoever) and I am just not here for it anymore. Like if these past few years have changed me in any way fandom-wise, it's that I'm done with shipping. I hate it. I would rather read fluffy family or friendship-oriented stories than argue with people about who gets with what. Egads.

As for the bottom-tier episodes, I found myself not super engaged with any episode that took place in the classroom. All I can find anywhere is heaps of praise for the teacher character Calypso, and while I think for a preschool cartoon the teacher being flawless makes sense, when comparing her with the parent characters it felt rather off. Now I may not know anything about the Australian education system, I do know Bluey and friends go to a type of private school called Steiner, and it's meant to encourage imaginary play? She seems to have heaps of that at home already, but also throughout all 154 eps I did not see the alphabet or math or whatever being taught. They were just prancing around playing house or some games in their whimsical paradise, and Calypso was around to supervise or say something wise occasionally. We see the parents being flawed all the time, the kids being a lot of work and testing their patience. It's not even just Bandit and Chilli, the other kids' parents are flawed. Lucky's Dad forcing the pass the parcel rules, Chloe's dad not being as imaginative in play like Bandit, Trixie eating all the chips in the self-restraint episode, etc. Calypso needs to teach and watch a whole classroom of kids and she just seems like, she was born to do this. You know that trope where it's weird to see your teacher outside the school setting? I genuinely believe Calypso does not exist or have a life outside being the best teacher possible, and just powers down for the night like a robot. That's the vibes I get.

But anyways season 2!



Ye I definitely loved this season more than the first. This time I do not have some popular crazy beloved episode lower than expected, and the bottom-tier is still mostly classroom eps, some eps I didn't really vibe with or care for the message, etc. Again, not bad and still enjoyable but other episodes were better. The theme this time around is I really developed a love for Chilli as a character. Yeah, I am again not a mom, but my god she's really relatable what the heck. I think the biggest part in it, is how her side of the family is smaller and has more issues than Bandit's huge family, and I really like that a preschool show is not afraid to show less idealized families and the hardships they go through. I have a friend for instance who really wants a cat, and is jealous that I have a cat, but I am jealous she has a huge presumably well-functioning family. Of course I can't speak of what her family really is like as it isn't mine, but surface level that's the feeling.

However I DO  want to talk about Hammerbarn. It may be my all time favourite episode. It is not at all some deep episode about some poignant lesson. It's just the kids going to Home Depot or Bunnings or whatever Australia's is called, and Bandit being jealous of his neighbour's new pizza oven, and also Chilli actually yelling at Bluey (this is like the one time ever?) when they're being especially bratty in the store. It's fucking hilarious! I love Hecuba, RIP Hecuba. I love Bluey's new better husband, I love that her new better husband was stolen by another lady. I love that all the paint samples are free. It's probably a different Bluey that Bandit heard. I am spoiling every single joke mfg.

Also Dad Baby while not a super favourite was actually the first episode I ever watched. It was like the first thing available on Youtube because it is banned on Disney Plus. I even have Disney Plus already, but went out of my way to watch on Youtube and buy the DVDs because the amount of censoring they do is stupid. So yeah my first impression of Bluey outside of random clips was a male dog pretending to give birth, and his neighbour he was jealous bought a pizza oven the other episode was his pretend midwife. Wild, really. I actually love Lucky's dad. A few other early episodes I watched was Asparagus where Chilli and Bingo attacked him randomly as lions, and he just blamed himself for not being on his guard, def one of my favourite adult characters. Speaking of DVDs why on earth is this show not on Bluray? I went out of my way to buy a used PS3 to play Blurays because I had a collection of Blurays I could do nothing with, and the first thing I buy that isn't Saints Row 2 is a DVD because somehow Bluey doesn't have Blurays???

Sleepytime, by far the highest rated episode and a glorious visual and audio treat would have been amazing on Bluray. Sleepytime is also another Camping sort of ep for me because everyone was raving so highly over it, and while I loved it still, the expectations were sky-high. It's a low S for me, but still up there. Some Bluey fans are treating the show like it's the second coming of Jesus or something, sheesh. A majority of the series is just very cute to me, but I guess a lot of shows especially those aimed at younger children are brainrot these days so Bluey is like a blessing or something. It does subtly hint at some more mature themes parents experience without becoming too edgy or dark, like the episode that hints at a miscarriage and was tastefully confirmed of its intent on a book specifically about miscarriages and how parents or parents to be or aspiring parents can get through such a tragedy, which is great and I'm glad Bluey does well. `

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Bro it is three days later and my friend asked me to do a RWBY music tierlist, so I will do so after quickly summarizing the rest of this even though I love seasons 2 and 3 lots.


 

Huh seeing this three days later and my mind is already confused by some placements on this list. I liked Whale Watching that much?? To that degree??? I guess I can't be bothered to move it down, so eh. Rain is good but also a tad high. I think I was influenced by the general Bluey community who love certain episodes quite a bit, and I don't like to be the contrarian even though I often am a contrarian. It is hard to explain. As there are over 150+ episodes, I wanted to talk about my absolute favourites. Dragon is by far my favourite, though it may be tied with the humour of Hammerbarn, but I love the message about art and those who are encouraged vs discouraged, the episode itself artshifting to each characters' artstyles, and their own artstyles influenced by their skill level, Chilli with copic markers, Bingo with crayons, Bandit with sharpies, etc. But the message and imagery near the end really got me in the feels.

An episode I might have pretty high that most won't is Driving. I just relate to Chilli a lot. The fact that she has a co-worker literally named MADGE calling her on her off-day about the most miniscule of bullshit, is such a relatable situation. It's not just her family situation I relate to, but everyday things like annoyances with work and such, and her introversion as well. Also my cat would threaten to pee on a curtain, and the game they were playing going down a Grand Theft Auto route was not on my radar either lol. Episodes like Fairytale I got really spoiled on, and Granny Mobile seemed a tad overrated. I was expecting to hoot and holler at Muffin's shenanigans, and left the episode mildly amused instead. I did wonder if the crochety old pug was potentially being racist though and the implications of that, but it's best to not think too hard on such things. Unicorse annoyed me more than amused me as well, and Stories felt a bit too random and surreal.

It actually kinda looks like I enjoyed season 2 more, but I did like The Sign quite a bit! It took me a while to watch all 151 or so episodes, and everyone and their pug grandmas were raving about The Sign. I think even though there are more happy endings than I wanted, such as revealing Brandy being pregnant after the heavy implication in an earlier episode she couldn't carry, the Sign was an ideal 28 minute episode. If they did not have Calypso's infinite wisdom in the first act of the episode I would not have liked it as much, She taught Bluey how there are happy endings in stories all the time because life gives us enough sad ones. And I agree! When I was younger and life was more carefree and blissful, and we were all ignorant of the woes of reality, I would seek out angsty and tragic stories to read more often, but as I grew older and experienced life in general more I felt less need to seek those stories out and would just read fluff pieces or hurt/comfort stuff instead. Maybe it would have been nice to teach kids that accepting a move and saying goodbye to your childhood home is necessary, but people go through that all the time. Let us have the fantasy that Bluey got to stay.

This lesson reminded me of a movie I recently watched, Inside Out 2. SPOILERS AS WELL, if this whole post isn't spoilerrific enough, but a particularly poignant line Joy said at her darkest hour really resonated with me, and was also the highlight of the movie. I'm not gonna pull up the exact quote so some words might be wrong, but her line was:

"I...don't know how to stop anxiety. Maybe as we grow up... we feel less joy."

Which isn't to say we should give up because we will not feel as happy as we grow older,  but that though the waves of joy will be less frequent, the size of those waves would be stronger when they do come. Or at least that's how I interpreted it. Riley developed a ton more emotions who will need to share the console, and they aren't especially positive ones, but still necessary to mould Riley to the person she will come to be as she grows up. That doesn't mean Joy is less relevant, but she will have to balance her placement with the other emotions.

Anyway I am avoiding the true topic at hand that a friend requested! A RWBY music tierlist! I heard they got acquired by VIZ Media today, so good on them. As for my opinion on the music, I feel like it started off real strong in the first few volumes, but they sort of played it safe in the same sort of style of music and everything later on just sounds samey. I heard the initial artist of these songs Jeff Williams did retire and leave his daughter to create (not just sing) the rest of the volumes' music, but I'm not sure when that happened or if it's particularly noteworthy in terms of my opinion. One reason it sounds samey is it's the same kind of rambling sort of lyrics and singing about always depressing and death sorta things, in a very edgy way too mind you. Now the show is pretty devastating sometimes so it fits, but it's just like, I can only hear ALL THINGS MUST DIE!!! So many times. I do not care if the title or chorus of the song is meant to be cheeky or something and some other verses counteract the chorus, leading to deeper meaning or w/e. It doesn't damper the part where ALL THINGS MUST DIE!!! is being yelled into my ear.

Plus a lot of the less metal sounding songs that are more emotional are also depressing. Bro it's been nine volumes please other genres of music.


 
Fun fact I had to screenshot this one because I noticed too late tiermaker's save function destroys the image quality, as you see in the Bluey ones above.

As for comments, uhhh. Early songs good, late songs bad? Idk. Volume 9 I noticed had less samey metal so I liked some songs more. Also as a Weiss enthusiast it seems odd she got at least one song every volume (once even twice!!) and then after volume 4 never got a song ever again, just like her relevance in the show! Unless there is some volume 7 song that is meant to be for her that I just do not know about. A lot of the later songs I heard recently for the purpose of this list and only once, too. This Life of Mine is absolute fire, but I only love it so much because this cover of the song is the hardest I have ever heard a song be sung. Like, my god. That cover is the real song in my head, and not the original. Caleb Hyles is a real gem. I know he sang Hero because RWBY likes to elevate their fans, but it just doesn't hit as hard as This Life is Mine. And as far as favourite song of them all? It's a bit of a cop out but Red Like Roses Part II is just, like. No song can even touch it. Red Like Roses Part II might be in my top ten or even top five all time favourite songs in general, it is that good.

I also tried to relisten to some Ice Queendom music to compare, but outside of the OP (Beyond Selves) and Unbound they'd just be at C tier at best. Unbound and Beyond Selves would be A or even S though. Also I really wanted to keep Home in S, but then I heard it again and it just gives such an air of nostalgia! When it was played in the Volume 5 ep where Weiss reunited with Yang I was just melting in my chair with wholesomeness and relief. So happy for Weiss in that situation (Yang I would too but it seemed to have affected her less, and she kind of just got worse in terms of demeanour as time went on? So I dunno) I used to sing Gold all the time in the shower, knew all the lyrics. And of course Mirror Mirror Pt. 1 is part of the White Trailer that made me fall in love with the show in the first place. Those were the days. The days when RWBY piqued.

Anywho this post is long enough, and is really just about tierlists which is the lowest denominator of stuff I could discuss anyway. See you in maybe 2025? Maybe sooner? Maybe never? Probably not never, but infrequency is likely the key. P:

 Okay I just need to vent.

I disliked Pinkie's behaviour this episode. But there is ongoing debate on whether or not she was in-character or what have you doing this. Yeah, Pinkie can be insensitive and misses social cues often. People also point out examples of her behaving in such ways before and I'd be all fine with this. Pinkie isn't some perfect super best friend with zero flaws after all.

The problem is...as insensitive and oblivious she can be, it just seems far too overboard to act that way more than once in a single episode to a friend Pinkie herself pointed out was super sensitive a million episodes ago, who was visibly upset with tears bubbling down her face. The first time when Rarity twapped her on the head? Sure, why not. But Pinkie doing this more than once on Fluttershy who was actually trying to RUN AWAY from her friends just seems like way more than just "innocent insensitivity". She tried to fix it by repeating that she was great, but it was like Pinkie was replaced by one of her clones today. THIS is the same Pinkie who defended her in Griffon the Brush Off? THIS is the same Pinkie who sang a song to encourage Fluttershy over the chasm when others like Rainbow Dash were vocally frustrated and impatient with her? THIS is the same Pinkie from Too Many Pinkie Pies who grew upset when her clones were making her friends miserable? THIS is the same Pinkie from Pinkie Pride, only two episodes ago who realized Rainbow Dash wasn't having fun at her own birthday party!? If she can tell her friends were unhappy in those situations how did she not tell that a sobbing wreck of a mess that is FLUTTERSHY, was unhappy!? That her behaviour was only making everything worse!?

I can see Pinkie being insufferable and unsympathetic in situations like Luna Eclipsed, when she was merely having fun and wasn't there to witness Luna's discontent (or even if she did, that Luna's emotions weren't obvious and outward like flowing tears and so she didn't know how to read that Luna was upset with her behaviour) or in A Friend In Deed, when Cranky is also running off from her but he only ever yells at her and responds in dry, sarcastic wit which Pinkie can't even understand anyway. (Though I still thought Pinkie in that episode was a bit much, I can accept it) But when your friend you yourself point out is extra sensitive is bawling her eyes off right under/in front of/staring straight at you, PERHAPS YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.

Pinkie isn't THAT obtuse, Jesus.

But I think it isn't so much they overlooked Pinkie's character or what have you this episode. Even if they exaggerated Pinkie's behaviour for comedic effect, the problem wasn't so much Pinkie being exaggerated but FACES and REACTIONS being exaggerated. The animators are having tons of fun with extra-goofy faces this season, so they probably thought giving Fluttershy the most crushed and despairing of all expressions would be HIRARIOUS and make their cartoon more appealing for a wider audience, like that large periphery demographic they have. Unfortunately they sacrificed a bit of character/realism/continuity/idk with their attempt at producing more comedy. If Fluttershy just reacted uneasily then Pinkie not understanding what she was doing was hurting her would've made so much more sense. This entire thing is just a rehash of a joke from Green Isn't Your Colour anyway, when Photo Finish also described the judging, seething eyes of the audience as Fluttershy stepped out on stage.

Also one more thing, even though Fluttershy has stage fright and you can whisk the obvious discontinuity away by claiming all the musical segments are just musicals, and the few times she did perform as having friends with her there (in the Hearth's Warming Eve play she did display anxiety beforehand), how do you even explain that time Fluttershy was a model!?! She was known by EVERYONE and was walking on stages constantly, marketing drinks and being stuck on covers. I guess she isn't technically singing but that is a LOT of attention in front of many crowds, and she isn't even next to her friends while doing this! Fluttershy must really care about Rarity's opinions and feelings to do all that shit, like holy crap.

I hope at the very least, since apparently we are getting more ponies for a while there will be a Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy episode, where Pinkie acts like herself as always but hurts Fluttershy's feelings in the process. Then Pinkie will learn a lesson about being insensitive and no one will ever have an excuse to write Pinkie in this fashion again. And no, it would be far too bloody obvious to make this a Rainbow Dash episode. It MUST be Pinkie. She shouldn't be allowed to get away with her behaviour scott-free all the time. It also MUST be Fluttershy. The Mane Six improving their own friendship is always a plus, and while Cranky is cool I thought they missed an opportunity by using him and not any of Pinkie's existing friends, then perhaps using Cranky in a "you can't be friends with everyone" lesson. Sometimes I feel certain writers treat Pinkie like an entity who can do no wrong no matter how annoying she can get. It doesn't work that way either.

But she's still my favourite. Otherwise this episode was kind of weird and structured oddly. I don't have much opinion about stuff like Flutterguy and such, so there you go.

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What's that you say? An episode review? WHY YES. Magic Duel was awesome enough for me to actually put some effort into MLP, which I haven't done so in a while. This episode was written by a writer I am very glad to not have departed from the show like so many others. Though his episodes aren't always my favourite, they are without a doubt always high in quality. So here we have Magic Duel! In comparison to the rest of season three so far this would be in that "CELESTIA-TIER" category, but my rankings are a bit rusty at the moment so I'm not entirely sure where this episode is supposed to land. What I DO know, is that it's definitely higher than just "good". There were boatloads of references, which is decent in itself, but every episode this season has had boatloads of references. What this episode has that others so far don't, is the intelligent writing I've come to expect with pastel multicoloured ponies! I guess after the enormity that was Canterlot Wedding, the quality isn't expected to continue soaring high right into the very next season. (this is all of course, my own personal opinion)


So! This Fluttershy episode...er I mean, Twilight episode deals with the return of somehow fan-favourite "Trixie". Now, I never expected her to ever come back, especially when season two was airing, but from what I've seen of season three so far I'm expecting lots of shoutouts and plots that bronies would eat up because they just love to turn minor characters and antagonists into ensemble darkhorses. Personally I was not a big fan of Boast Busters. I found it an overly ordinary episode for Twilight, which makes sense as it was an early episode and MLP was still searching for its ground. However, both Pinkie and Fluttershy were not overly involved (or involved at all) in Boast Busters, so their appearance and significance this time around (especially Fluttershy) was refreshing and just what I needed! Luckily M.A. Larson didn't write the episode just so Twilight could show off and increase her magical abilities preposterously further. So far in season 3 (well, mostly just the premiere) I found Twilight's progress with magic going far too quickly.


Another great relief comes from Trixie shutting Pinkie up for the entire episode. I'm still reeling from the effects of "Too Many Pinkie Pies". Granted the clones were just one-dimensional ear splitting clones of Pinkie and not Pinkie herself. After all, the episode did bring in some decent character development for my favourite character, but I could not see through the copious amounts of "FUN~!" to really appreciate the episode. Also I found season three so far to have some really...odd animation. The animation hasn't been getting worse in quality per say, but it feels like the animators are drawing the ponies far more loosely this time around? No longer are they restricted to the ever perfect "anatomical" designs of the ponies when they first started? I've grown used to it in this episode at least, but the last few have seriously been messing with my mind. Sad!Pinkie in episode three for example wasn't so much a serious image of her depressed, rather she was flopped forward like a hilarious ragdoll. It felt misplaced. In the Babs Seed episode, I think it was toned down a bit more (or else it's slightly harder to do that style with the younger fillies) but in this one it felt like it came back full force!

Are Snips and Snails always prominent in Trixie episodes?

Anyway, more specifically to this episode itself and why I liked it. When I first heard Spike's line at the beginning of the episode "Aw. don't worry Fluttershy. Twilight's magic has gotten a lot better since she's accidentally crushed me and Applejack with a giant snowball" I already knew it would be great. It's one thing to reference past events perhaps as a funny background event or even acknowledging it with some sort of visual aid, but casually mentioning something like that isn't expected at all! Of course there's the shameless amounts of Fluttershy in this too, if you haven't already noticed from my totally unbiased GIFs and screenshots. I almost wanted to make this entire review Fluttershy-focused without touching on Twilight or Trixie at all, but then I realized I didn't actually have that much to say about her. She was just especially adorable, that's all...technically this episode is the Trixie comeback episode, so...

They call this old buck, "Uncle Frogurt"

I don't really have too much to say about Trixie herself. The plot and her motivation were pretty standard, just as one would expect. What pleases me is how everything was resolved, which I won't say. But Trixie apologizing and basically no longer being a horrible pony at the end was a bit abrupt. She definitely wasn't as horrible and evil in the episode as she usually is supposed to, but I didn't think she'd become so humble all that fast either. Perhaps the Rock Farming and being corrupted by the amulet has done something for her because all her previous hardships were off-screen and explained for only a few minutes anyway. Her return I felt was less for her character and more for the fans, especially the owner of that one site I won't mention. He is a huge Trixie fan. Also Trixie running off towards the distance similar to the ending of Boast Busters, but with her tripping was cute, I can't lie. Damnit, writers! Don't make me start liking Trixie! Anywho, I wonder if she will ever return after this. I believe a season four of MLP is confirmed, but I'm not entirely sure why she would return. Her character has been resolved after all.


Oh Rainbow Dash, you card.

Also a fan pointed this out about Rainbow Dash yesterday. She basically body-slams Twilight in the beginning because Trixie is back, and when Twilight is out of commission, as soon as she is able to Rainbow Dash throws Fluttershy into the spotlight to save everyone. When I was watching I was like "SONIC RAINBOOM THE GLASS!" but considering Dash never attempted to land after her wing was morphed far larger than it should be, perhaps Rainbow Dash's heroism and, well, smarts wasn't up to par today. After all only Twilight is allowed to take down the crazy-with-power vengeance-seeking mare. The other one I noticed myself, is how Fluttershy's animals are obviously copy-and-pasted. It's one thing to do this with background ponies, but when the animals are what we're focusing on...there's some sort of strange oddness with having two of the exact same animal, isn't there? There were even two Angels! I thought Angel, being such an important pet, would be able to retain a sense of uniqueness, but alas, alas. Maybe Twilight's strange entertainment ritual using animals requires such synergy as having two of the same animal being flung in the air, I don't know.

This doesn't look familiar at all...
Like I mentioned before (I think) there was plenty of eyecandy and fanservice for the fans this episode beyond just Trixie. Again, there were references, like Pinkie's Rock Farm (It's canon! yay!), parasprites, magic mustaches, FOREVEEEEER!!, Twilight's Owl (I can't spell name halp) and ones outside of MLP as well, like the Star Wars references...as well as fanservice shots like age-changing spells, gender-changing spells, duplication spells, having Pinkie play ten instruments "spell" and once again the closing oval gag at the end. Was quite amusing Trixie reverted everyone else except Pinkie, ha! But again the difference is it wasn't just references and fanservice...which honestly is what I felt Season 3 was like until recently.

So, let's see how this episode falls onto the rankings (gonna shoehorn them in anyway) ...I might change its position later, however season three turns out.

Celestia Tier	Awesome Tier	High Tier	Mid Tier	Meh Tier
The Cutie Mark Chronicles Party of One Luna Eclipsed The Last Roundup A Friend In Deed Hurricane Fluttershy A Canterlot Wedding P.2 Magic Duel	Dragonshy Bridle Gossip Swarm of the Century Suited for Success Feeling Pinkie Keen Sonic Rainboom Green Isn't Your Colour May the Best Pet Win Baby Cakes Sweet and Elite Secret of my Excess A Canterlot Wedding P.1	Applebuck Season Griffon the Brush Off Winter Wrap Up A Dog and Pony Show Over a Barrel The Best Night Ever The Return of Harmony P.1 The Return of Harmony P.2 Lesson Zero Sisterhooves Social The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 It's About Time MMMMystery on the Friendship Express One Bad Apple	Friendship is Magic P.1 Friendship is Magic P.2 The Ticket Master Look Before You Sleep Fall Weather Friends Stare Master A Bird in the Hoof Hearth's Warming Eve Family Appreciation Day Read it and Weep Hearts and Hooves Day Dragon Quest Ponyville Confidential Too Many Pinkie Pies	Boast Busters Call of the Cutie The Show Stoppers Owl's Well That Ends Well The Cutie Pox The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well Putting Your Hoof Down The Crystal Empire P.1 The Crystal Empire P.2

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

Putting The Hoof Down...or whatever it's called!
NEW FLUTTERSHY DEMANDS SPOTTO ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THE TITLE OF HER EPISODE IS!!!!!
Uh, I mean PUTTING YOUR HOOF DOWN.EDIT: Wait what am I doing

Nice to know I can sit back and have a pitcher with the best ponies.
A week or so ago I heard that not only were the Sedin twins picked to go to the All Stars game (obv.) but Edler was invited this year as well! It made me actually excited for this year's All Star's for once, but he didn't get to do anything during the show. I was very much anticipating Edler showing off his hard shot, which is easily over 100 mph, but no. All he got to do was pass for one of the events (and no it wasn't the passing event) so yeah... :\ Not to mention being the last defensemen picked, but eh...he's always been underrated.

So once again having even a small amount of excitement for a completely pointless event was unnecessary! :X

In other news I made a website. No it's not one of those "Spotto felt like web designing randomly again", I just thought to gather up everything of my clan into one place. Here it is. Besides if I feel like web designing again it'd likely be an actual layout for this blog, lol.

Finally...my thoughts on the latest pony! The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000!


This was the episode. You can go home now.
If you want the abridged version, I thought it was okay.

The episode was well-received by many pony fans and I suppose it has to do with the new villains who reminded many of that swindler from the Simpsons promoting his MONORAIL. I don't know why I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. I guess it has to do with many factors, including but probably not limited to my incredibly high praise of The Last Roundup (hard to match that awesomeness) or that I actually didn't like the villains themselves. I found it very jarring that they had different pony anatomy to the whole town. Everyone else had the same body type and these guys were much taller and ganglier, which also made their song-dance number all the more off-putting. I didn't find the song all that catchy by the way unlike many others besides the "cider" chanting part from the audience. I even tried to watch the original where the song was heavily inspired from and didn't find it all that catchy either, maybe this type of song isn't my thing? Near the end of the song I was mostly muttering to myself "Wow, this song is REALLY long..." ...and why do one-off villains I don't give jack-all about get such a freakin' long song before AJ even gets one for herself!? I thought since they were singing AJ might get a rebuttal song later on, but their song went on for WAY too long so it was impossible for AJ to get a song later else have little of anything in the episode itself. Blah.

Rainbow Dash not being able to get a drop of cider was rather amusing though and I loved the intro of the episode. Seeing Fluttershy's cottage again is very welcome, but the episode isn't about her. (She's been put with Rainbow Dash A LOT this season...this is just a really silly theory, but I think the writers are putting these two together for a purpose, like they don't know how to write them as well as last season so try to play them off one another. It would explain Rainbow's slightly exaggerated personality this season and Fluttershy's MIA-ness. I've only seen them play off one another for on-screen gags, similar to Pinkie before she got her Baby Cakes episode and brilliant Last Roundup showing)


Their faces are so weird from this angle. :\
Applejack was pretty awesome this episode. I did love her letter to Celestia, very much surprised me. I didn't think she could be so smug, so it gave her a little bit of jump in character :D. I think I've had an Apple Family overdose this month though. They've been everywhere this season and I don't know why. I can't say it's a bad thing necessarily, but I wonder why they decided to give them so much more screentime over other minor characters. I mean yeah, Spike got his own episode but he's been missing in a few episodes this season and is hardly ever a supporting cast member in the vein of the Mane Six, so I'd see him getting more episodes than the Apple Family. Plus it'd give Twilight more screentime after losing her letter to Celestia excuse to appear in every episode last season. I also want to see more of AJ WITHOUT her family, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen very often this season. Plus with the Apple Family being so prominent, Apple Bloom is getting far more showing than her own friends who IMO are much more entertaining. (WHERE IS THAT SCOOTALOO EPISODE, HUH!?)

In terms of this episode, I give it an A-OK. Not one of my favourites and I wouldn't watch it multiple times, but it wasn't bad. The episode DOES have the greatest title AND acronym of all episode titles: TSSCS6K! Lol. Next up is another Rainbow Dash episode, after that the Valentine's Day one with the CMC and a Pinkie one...I do hope a Fluttershy episode comes about soon. Again, NEED SOME FLUTTERSHY!!


I don't mean that kind of Fluttershy, Dash.
With that above gif, only Pinkie and kind-of Dash haven't been seen asleep in bed. (I'm thinking since Dash can sleep on anything, be it a cloud or a tree, she doesn't have her own bed P:) With Pinkie however, her room seems to have been ret-conned to be much smaller since the babies were born. Simple explanation really, when Spike destroyed her house in Secret of my Excess it was rebuilt with more rooms so there's one for the babies now and Pinkie's room is a lot smaller. That doesn't explain where the hell the Cakes were staying in Party of One, but maybe they sold their house to rebuild the bakery and now live above with Pinkie?? Who knows.

That has all, Spotto out.

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.

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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.
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.

NOOOOO THERE WASN'T CAKE THIS YEAR I LIEEEED
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.

I also got ponies and soap for my birthday. SOAAAP! THIS SOAP IS AMAZING IT SMELLS SO NICE AND IT MAKES MY HANDS CLEAN AND BUBBLY AND HOLY SHIT SOOOOAP! Or rather the ponies. You see I only had half the main six + Spike and an oddly coloured pink Celestia. So I wanted the other three I did not have, especially Fluttershy. I am still miffed that the blind bags Fluttershy is just an RD recolour, and that besides the toys where you can comb the hair Fluttershy toys are especially rare. So.....here!


Besides supporting Hasbro which I've been doing since my Beyblade days...what else is up with the Spottos?

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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!