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Post by Al1701 on Dec 9, 2013 15:24:54 GMT -8
Watching this episode and thinking about it, I have to agree with those making Daring Do and her adventures real was a massive contrivance to swallow.
I then thought what if they played this a bit different. What if A.K. Yearling was actually an archeologist, but in a more typical sense. Her life it's adventure finding magical artifacts, but digging in the dirt hoping to find a shard of something. She started writing the Daring Do novels while she's on her sabbaticals as a form of release as it let her fantasize about archeology being a more glamorous career than it really is. The lesson that embracing fantasy can be healthy so long as you don't lose your sense of reality.
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Post by weirdraptor on Dec 9, 2013 15:55:34 GMT -8
I disagree. Given the nature of the show, I found it quite fitting.
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Post by Al1701 on Dec 14, 2013 8:23:21 GMT -8
New episode is out, and the show punts on Scootaloo's ability to fly. The explanation for her being grounded is her wings are underdeveloped. Granted, we have pegasus the size of a VW bus with wings just as tiny, and Scootaloo's wings are strong enough to propel her on her scooter while towing a wagon with Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and PINKIE PIE in it, but her wings can't lift very well. She CAN hover some, but that's about it. There's no suggestion this is a permanent disability, it's just more of what I don't like about handling the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They're stuck in place with nothing being definite.
Otherwise, the episode was okay. It was kind of light on the humor which puts it worlds ahead of One Bad Apple as this was not an episode that needed humor for humor's sake.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are also the worse sapient beings Hasbro has ever created. Even Megatron would think their sick and twisted.
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Post by darkabomination on Dec 14, 2013 9:19:47 GMT -8
I thought it was kind of meh. The song was honestly a bit weak, though Corlete, Peters, and Creber all gave good performances and Rainbow's bit at the end was sweet. But in the end it just felt a bit lacking for some reason.
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Post by sunstar on Dec 14, 2013 19:47:33 GMT -8
I would have liked to see the routine Diamond and Silver came up with. You knew it was going to be the CMC from the start. I would have liked to have been pleasantly surprised. For those of you saying DT and SS were too harsh, I have been on the receiving end of far worse, worse enough by a teacher no less that I was almost driven to suicide. If my cat had not come into my room when he did, I would not be here today. Bullying kills. Kids and adults have died because of bullying.
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Post by weirdraptor on Dec 14, 2013 21:05:18 GMT -8
Tell me about it. As far as bullying goes, Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara are nasty, but I've had to share a room with room full of worse than them.
You know, you'd think that with Hasbro demanding new toys that they'd be asking for new designs of Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo with their Cutie Marks by now.
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Post by sunstar on Dec 16, 2013 0:25:10 GMT -8
Scoots was supposed to get her cutie mark in this episode, but Hub asked that it be removed.
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Post by Al1701 on Dec 16, 2013 1:07:21 GMT -8
Scoots was supposed to get her cutie mark in this episode, but Hub asked that it be removed. Why? Seriously, why? Why can't they be allowed to advance? Why string us along? Whoever asked this should have been told to screw off and be fired.
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Post by weirdraptor on Dec 16, 2013 2:37:47 GMT -8
...They DO realize that absolutely NO ONE watches FiM for the Cutie Mark Crusaders, right? Don't get me wrong. I like them, but they are not enough to keep me watching. Nowhere near. They HAVE to know that the target demographic AND older fans alike have pretty much had it with the Cutie Mark subplot. Everyone (well, every fan, anyway) I have ever spoken to just wants them to get their Cutie Marks.
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Post by darkabomination on Dec 16, 2013 5:59:04 GMT -8
Can we verify that Scoots was indeed supposed to get her Mark? In either case, the show has downplayed the issue, the CMC rarely mention it anymore, in contrast to the cutiemarkscutiemarkscutiemarks we got in season 1.
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Post by djlamar2 on Dec 21, 2013 13:18:41 GMT -8
Power ponies and all I have to say is "Don't hurt creatures or Flutterhulk smash". Also who was waiting for the part where she was going to say "Flutterhulk smash"
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Post by Al1701 on Dec 22, 2013 3:15:33 GMT -8
Flutterhulk was the best gag of the episode.
Unfortunately, the Mane-i-ac dragged the whole thing down for me. Her always being in maniacal crazy mode got annoying. It's like they didn't want to go either too dark or too campy with her and she was instead just full on crazy which gets old rather fast.
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Post by darkabomination on Dec 22, 2013 9:14:21 GMT -8
I do find it amusing that her VA, Ellen Kennedy did Daffidazey in G3, another hairdressing pony.
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Post by weirdraptor on Dec 22, 2013 12:28:12 GMT -8
And as always, I loved it!
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Post by djlamar2 on Dec 22, 2013 18:48:49 GMT -8
I love how Spike became Humdrum in the comic because just like him he always finds a way to bumble things up. You know the best part is that they fit each pony to their superhero selves. Especially Fluttershy. She's so timid like David Banner is before he gets mad. When I heard they were gonna have Fluttershy become like the Incredible Hulk I was like "No way." And had to scream when I saw that. I knew when Spike said "You have to power up" I knew she'd find some reason to get mad and then I thought "Wait. What if Mane-i-ac hurts an animal?" And what happens she? She does and Fluttershy gets angry and powers up.
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