Sometimes I really really hate the internet.
Gotta work on that man. While it's ok to intensely hate the internet periodically, it's much more efficient to hate it moderately more frequently - experts develop a low level of hate that serves as a constant undercurrent through their day.
There are exercises you can practice if you're interested in increasing your hate efficiency.
It may not be easy, but it is possible, so don't lose hope.
Christmas, season 2, episode 11: I knew it. I fucking called it during season 1 that there was a subjugation of the powerless Earth ponies by the unicorns.
About the closest the creator could come to a high-and-tight. *grins*
figmentPez
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I gotta agree. The voice was too much. If they bring her back, they need to tone it down a bit and make her a bit more charming. They should have went klutzy but cute, with a bit of cloud-cuckoolander.
Agreed. The only time she sounded okay to me was when she was shouting down to Rainbow Dash. Otherwise she sounded too much like Mugsy's goon from Looney Tunes.
I don't think people expected her to be all "Durr, which way did he go, George, which way did he go?" I kind of liked her as just this in-joke off to the side as opposed to something needing to be touted. But I suppose it doesn't matter; I just don't care for the voice.
figmentPez
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Saw this. Made me laugh.
When I saw the title of the video, I was so hoping it was gonna be a play on the Stephen King story.
MLP:FiM really needed an episode like that. I'm all for character-centered stories, but sometimes you need a real antagonist beyond "snooty older girl in class got her period first".
... A Music Man reference in MLP? Very impressive. Loved the straw hats.
I'd also like to add that those two brothers clearly produced a quality cider and would have won if they hadn't been stupid and let Twilight and Co. help out Applejack... and they'd have deserved it. Basically what I'm saying is that they were jerks, but they weren't the ones who bet the fucking farm over a pissing contest. If anything, the lesson of the episode should have been "Don't write checks with your mouth that you can't cash."
Also, isn't the entire point of cider to use up the apples you can't sell to people or use as feed?
I'd also like to add that those two brothers clearly produced a quality cider and would have won if they hadn't been stupid and let Twilight and Co. help out Applejack... and they'd have deserved it. Basically what I'm saying is that they were jerks, but they weren't the ones who bet the fucking farm over a pissing contest. If anything, the lesson of the episode should have been "Don't write checks with your mouth that you can't cash."
Also, isn't the entire point of cider to use up the apples you can't sell to people or use as feed?
I liked the part when Applejack didn't learn a damn thing.
I'm perplexed as to why the farm is always hurting for money. Every two or three episodes, they're trying to raise money through some new product or sales location, and yet they're always on the verge of losing the place due to payments or structural damage. It was just established that the only reason Ponyville exists is because of that fucking apple farm three generations back. Not to mention, it seems like it's always apple season. But they're always going broke and they need cider proceeds to make it through the winter. Someone is mismanaging something.
For that matter, where the fuck where all the rest of the Apple Family? There were like 20 of them introduced in the first episode. Why the fuck weren't they making cider? They'd have easily won with that many people.
This episode makes NO sense.
This episode makes NO sense.
The following is probably the dorkiest thing I've ever said...and I argue about comic books regularly:
It was established in Season 1, Episode 4 " Applebuck Season" that the extended Apple Family had gathered at Sweet Apple Acres in Season 1, Episode 1 "Friendship is Magic, Part 1" for the Apple Family Reunion and that they all had their own farms to tend to. They come to town for special events, like Apple Jack's homecoming from the Rodeo, but they're the extended family with their lands to tend.
OK, that makes a bit more sense.
figmentPez
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That better be used in Fighting is Magic.
figmentPez
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Reviews are Magic: The Mysterious Mare-D0-Well
Excellent analysis of the episode, but the best part is the faux-Twilight at the end explaining the lesson that was really learned.
Excellent analysis of the episode, but the best part is the faux-Twilight at the end explaining the lesson that was really learned.
The person doing the Twilight voice was very impressive.
figmentPez
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LittleKagsin should enjoy this one:
Well, ya! And for the purposes of the bet, why didn't they make quality a factor?
And as for the "deal" which was bad originally, why didn't they just renegotiate? Say "sure we'll sell you apples, and you can sell cider just like us, since the market is obviously not saturated." There are 6 tonnes of ways to make money off that deal BESIDES what the Bros. were offering originally. Heck, the Bros. are screwed without the family selling apples to them, so they can just set whatever price they want at that point. If the Bros. don't buy, they're in exactly the same position they were in the day before, which obviously is an OK one.
I agree that the message of the episode was... well really not there very much at all.
And that Zelda thing is done really really well.