S05E19: Hearthbreakers

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Re: S05E19: Hearthbreakers

Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:01 pm

The Pies are hilarious. Cute episode.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:03 pm

Not so bad of a Pie and Apple family ep. So, I was both Maud and Pinkie abot this episode.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:05 pm

That was really, really weird. Fun, unpredictable, but weird, and not in a wonderful "Slice of Life" "feeling of discovery" way. It wasn't bad.

Pinkie's other two sisters were pretty cool though.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:05 pm

Twilight gives books...who would have thunk it :-I

This was an okay holiday episode...it was nice to see Maud again, but also interesting to see the rest of Pinkie's family in a larger role.

Applebloom gets a smile out of Maud. :sweet:

The AJ/Pinkie mirror gag was funny the first time, but I don't know if it needed to be repeated in the mine scene.

:bluh: Maud, we saw ya dig into a rock with yer bare hooves and toss a boulder into the stratosphere...ain't it a little easier for ya to move that big rock?

:maud: Continuity is a foreign word on this farm.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:07 pm

:excite: :"Happy Hearthswarming everypony!"
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:hilarious: :"But there's a pumpkin in the corner! We haven't even had Nightmare-night, yet."

:yikes: :"Hearthswarming-season starts earlier every year."
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:12 pm

This is another one that I really ended up liking for how real it felt. Sometimes families really are just that dysfunctional, enough to where things can look tragic like what we got during most of the third act of this episode. For as ridiculous as the Pie traditions are, they actually start to seem a bit reasonable once you consider things from their viewpoint, just as these things work in real life. I'm glad we eventually had a happy ending, though, as I very nearly shed a tear there.

I saw a couple folks on IRC saying they felt like Applejack was taking too much of the blame for this. I can't really agree with that being a problem, seeing as how she's always been one to put the blame on herself. (Look back at The Last Roundup, for instance.) Her behavior isn't especially reasonable by the standards of most others, but it's what she does.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:24 pm

I'm having a hard time coming up with a solid feeling on this one.

-I did like how everypony did warm up to each other, to an acceptable extent, except stubborn old Applejack. Lesser shows would have had the whole family at odds which seemed to be starting at the rock soup dinner.
-To an extent, the plot was kinda dumb - none of the Apples considering the HWE traditions ON A ROCK FARM would be completely different broke my suspension of disbelief, honestly.
-I really disliked Limestone's schtick. How am I supposed to be endeared to a new character when her only trait is "abrasive"?
-I wanted Marble to speak actual words just once so badly.
-To that end, there's 4x6-5 possible character interactions as Pinkie eloquently puts it, and since as usual there's not enough time, most of them feel underbaked. MarbleMac is an extension of the running gag. Maud/AB bonding was kinda out of nowhere and just said. The only good one IMO was the "team of three" oldies with that hunk of apple farm line.
-Maud was still great every time she showed up, though.
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Postby Rainbow Crash (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:24 pm

The Pie family was great. I liked this episode a lot more than Hearth's Warming Eve

So did they just claim that Marble and Pinkie are twins?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:38 pm

Peter new voiced "Pa Pie" this time, and Andrea Libman was "Ma Pie."

Why are they the "Pie" family again?

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One thing that bugged me during the episode: How did Granny get the magic book of Pie family lore that explained why AJ was wrong to try to have fun?
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:41 pm

Cute episode. I like the dysfunctional family pairup.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:43 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:One thing that bugged me during the episode: How did Granny get the magic book of Pie family lore that explained why AJ was wrong to try to have fun?

I think it's safe to say that Igneous/Cloudy probably gave it to her offscreen
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:49 pm

One detail I appreciated is that the show actually threw in traditions for this holiday that made it way less obviously like Christmas with a different name. Stuff like the ceremonial raising of the Equestrian flag or putting up dolls (or doll-like figures, in the case of the Pie family) representative of each family member.

Rainbow Crash wrote:So did they just claim that Marble and Pinkie are twins?

That's the impression I got. They sure ain't identical twins, though. :v:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:50 pm

:amazing: Subtlety!

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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:50 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Why are they the "Pie" family again?


:maud: :"Pie is a corruption of Pahoehoe, from our Hawaiian ancestors. It is a type of lava."

:party: :"See?"

:maud: :"Any relation to the dough and fruit confection is coincidental."
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:13 pm

This is one of those episodes, I'll have to watch again to make up my mind up about. Wasn't bowled over by it, though I found it fairly amusing that Pinkie Pie had a sister that was both sour and salty.

… and with a cutie mark to match.
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Postby JaneCV (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:31 pm

Yay more Pinkie :amazing:

I love Limestone Pie, such a hardass.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:40 pm

:maud: Twilight, this is a private family celebration. We can't allow any outsiders.

:shock: But I bought a present...a book!

:maud: I'm sorry.

:-/ It's The Big, Big Picture Book Of Granite.

:maud: Come in.
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Postby Wildfire (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:48 pm

The Doctor wrote::amazing: Subtlety!

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Marble is so cute. And needless to say a new ship has been christened. :gotcha:

Overall it was a good episode with some cute, and feels. And of course you can never have enough of :geno:
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:56 pm

Now give me a Marble Pie + Fluttershy + Coco Pommel episode, and then you can wrap up this show; it's not like it could ever get any cuter. :modesty:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:59 pm

The Doctor wrote: :amazing: Subtlety!

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It'd never work. They live miles and miles away from each other and are very possibly related.

Now, him and Cheerilee...
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:03 pm

:maud: If you thought quartz was high on the Mohs hardness scale, wait'll I tell you about corundum.

:aghast: What about hot rolls? And mulled cider? :chug:

:granny: Y'want to know why Holder's Boulder's so danged important? Now, their great-great-great-great-grandfather, Holder Cobblestone, he found that boulder in a dragon's nest, older than time itself. They built the family farm around it, even though it was just an ordinary rock. It's always brought them good luck.

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he found it

in a dragon's nest

Holder's Boulder is a dragon egg. :starity:

"Gaze into the eyes of Limestone Pie!"
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The castle looks a little less imposing when you wrap up the Crystal Death Beam.
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:ohgawd: What in th'...
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A lime. And some rock... salt.
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Never take bottom bunk below Big Mac.
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Maud...?
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Pony dentures.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:14 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:A lime. And some rock... salt.
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"Lime"stone. :rimshot:

Though if her cutie mark is of a lime and two rocks that look like they could be salt, a part of me now expects to see art of Limestone Pie drinking tequila.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:18 pm

I found a major fault with this episode.

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:gotcha:
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Postby The Ghost Of Ember (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:20 pm

The Doctor wrote::amazing: Subtlety!

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Kissing cousins :-I
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:22 pm

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Lemon Drops is not amused.

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Anyone else think Limestone sounded like a raspy Gilda? Kinda annoyed me.

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There's a lot of untapped potential between these two, I feel.

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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:31 pm

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:cheese: :"Okie-dokie Captain Grumpy! No one's gonna mess with your precious mine! It's all yours!"

That's right! That mine's mine!

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And tell them to stay away from Holder's Boulder!

:plonk: :"You heard her, Apples. Stay away from Mulder's Folders!"

:anticipation: :"But Pinkie! X-Files hasn't been on in years!"
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:42 pm

Limestone's surliness kind of wore thin by the end of the episode for me. :bluh:

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Cute Twi/Spike screencaps are cute. :-I
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:59 pm

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Pinkie Pie the road runner matchmaker strikes again.

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More anachronistic elements, my favorite. (There's HWE lights around the house, so...)

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:applejargh: : I darn be stubborn again, deal with it!

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Pinkie Road Runner Matchmaker Interrupter Pie is here. :maud:

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This was the only way it could end. :maud:

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Happy early Halloweemas, from Discovery Family. :-I
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Postby Wildfire (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 7:09 pm

Wayoshi wrote:

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Pinkie Pie the road runner matchmaker strikes again.



Augh :twonk: where's my nitro pills? There's going to be so much cute fanart of her.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:12 pm

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I like Maud's smile here. I know she also smiled at Pinkie in MP, but it just seems more natural in this scene. :maud:
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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:30 pm

It was a cute bit of fun. That rock I expected to hatch into a dragon though.
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Postby PictishBeast (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:37 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:Limestone's surliness kind of wore thin by the end of the episode for me. :bluh:


Several people have said this so far but to me this seems so bizarro. I loved the Pie family.

It would have been easy to make them all variations of Maud, but instead each was established with their own quirks and you can see how their family dynamic works. They even found time to give them individual moments of nuance. Mom & dad's story of how they got married started weird and turned cute. Limestone's attitide is because she basically runs the farm on her own and has no time for your shenanigans. Maud had that bit with Applebloom where she talked about wanting to turn into something else. Even Pinkie had that realistic family dynamic thing going on when Limestone yells at her for climbing the boulder and she gets down while muttering "all right all right, yeesh."

Loved this ep so much :awesomedash:

Pie family > Apple family
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Postby PictishBeast (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:55 pm

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This bit was solid gold. :plonk:

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This was great too. The others seem genuinely unaware, like " it's rock soup, what else would it be," but Limestone KNOWS the Apples are going to hate it and can't wait to see shit go down.
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Postby Daring Do (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 9:55 pm

Soft Snow wrote:I can understand everything Apple Bloom is saying clearly. C'mon, I can't be the only one who can understand her, right? Guys, you're messing with me, right? Tell me you're joking. I don't want to be the weird one here. :nnngh:

In case you are not joshing with me I will translate everything she is saying...

:sweet: "Have you tried the Equestria flake crepes? The blue is blueberry! And don't tell granny I saw but her trunk is full of presents."

Her voice sounds off, like it is a bit deeper.

Maybe I gained this talent from having to talk with people who have poor English skills at work? :ponder:


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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 10:13 pm

I enjoyed this one. The characterisation of the Pies was great; Ma and Pa as the Amish couple was pleasantly expected, but the two other kids were great surprises for me. I really liked what they did with the farm visually too, especially in that pan-down shot of the mine.

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Plot was fairly straightforward, but I thought it worked. I liked hearing about all the Hearthswarming traditions, too.

Wayoshi wrote:-To an extent, the plot was kinda dumb - none of the Apples considering the HWE traditions ON A ROCK FARM would be completely different broke my suspension of disbelief, honestly.


Really? I mean, I know things are pretty different in our world, but Christmas traditions here remain pretty similar across entire continents; the Pie family farm is just a train-ride away! It probably didn't help that Pinkie gave a pretty skewed impression to AJ about how similar things were going to be.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 10:16 pm

You'd think Earth Pony rock farmers would have discovered ropes and pulleys by now...
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 10:34 pm

The Doctor wrote:You'd think Earth Pony rock farmers would have discovered ropes and pulleys by now...


Those are for the english
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Postby SneakHorse (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 11:10 pm

Yeah, this was a cute episode; nothing groundbreaking but still pretty enjoyable. It's always good getting to see Maude, and Pinkie's Amish parents were a nice touch.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat Oct 24, 2015 11:17 pm

I thought it was way better than the other Hearth's Warming episode :3:
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Sun Oct 25, 2015 12:01 am

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I legit teared up here.
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