S04E17: Somepony to Watch Over Me

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Re: S04E17: Somepony to Watch Over Me

Postby Veradox (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:40 am

I'm not really looking forward to this episode very much. Seems like it'll be very bland. :nngh:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:31 am

Oh, the full CMC are around? That might help things.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:35 am

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I'm a little surprised Granny Smith is saying this. Considering the theme of the episode, it seems like Apple Bloom would be speaking on behalf of the CMC, especially considering that she's the one with her mouth open here. Maybe it'll be some sort of "... that you three are now old enough to XXXXXXXXX" speech or something.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:41 am

Interesting how the Apples are all smiling and Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo are somber looking. :ponder:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:16 am

Was thinking this, should have called it.

It's possible Sonneborn has another ep, but I get the feeling this is just a one-shot needed to fill in the season.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:25 am

I expect 3 Apple Bloom emotes from this episode.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:09 am

PonyHag714 wrote:Interesting how the Apples are all smiling and Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo are somber looking. :ponder:


Maybe it's because the screenshot might have been taken from the end of the episode, where Applebloom learns her lesson. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Applepie (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:31 am

There's still the possibility that Twilight key gets resolved in finale, in which case i really wouldn't be too surprised if E24 is sort of a mini-finale where CMC get their cutie marks


The CMC might bet their CM right before the last episode, Twilight will find the last key to open the box, a villain might return, the Equestrian Games and the Rainbow Kingdom.

What a Season Finale we will have! :yay:
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:01 am

Wayoshi wrote:Was thinking this, should have called it.

It's possible Sonneborn has another ep, but I get the feeling this is just a one-shot needed to fill in the season.

His imdb profile

He wrote on "Beavis and Butt-head", "Celebrity Deathmatch", and something called "Naughty Amateur Home Videos".
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:14 am

Well, that's... probably the most colorful career of a writer for this show so far. Image
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:22 am

Wow, I wonder how well he'll do with this episode. Most of the new writers have done well so far....
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Postby Tears (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:30 am

Is his CV more incongruous than Polsky or Savino's?

Most of the new writers have been aces for me, to the extent that I really hope Valentine or Haber get another episode this season.

If this episode is good, I will call him Scott Cinnabon :allright:

If it is bad then the same, but with more of a :roll: inflection
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Postby Applepie (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:44 pm

So that Scott was behind all these nostalgic shows mentioned on IMDB.

This will be interesting.
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Postby Wylie (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:05 pm

Mr. Big wrote:His imdb profile

He wrote on "Beavis and Butt-head", "Celebrity Deathmatch", and something called "Naughty Amateur Home Videos".


How in the hell do you write amateur home videos? :-/
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:47 pm

He also did some work on Generator Rex. I loved that show!

But yea it'll be interesting to see how he writes pony.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:49 pm

Here's hoping we get a preview today. Though with the way things have been going over the past couple of months, I am almost expecting no preview to come up at all before Saturday.
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Postby Corpy (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:50 pm

Wylie wrote:
How in the hell do you write amateur home videos? :-/


Did you read the imdb description for that show?

I'm not linking it :-I

Clearly this episode is going to involve Apple Bloom starting fires, drinking too much coffee and developing a hyper alt-personality :anticipation:
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 6:22 pm

I probably shouldn't have said that. :v:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:13 pm

Preview up. Over protective AJ is hilarious!

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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:18 pm

This looks like AJ's Lesson Zero. :liarjack:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:27 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:This looks like AJ's Lesson Zero. :liarjack:



Obviously AJ has been taking freak out/Drama Queen lessons from Twiligt & Rarity.
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Postby MochaBean (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:29 pm

I just now for the first time realized that AJ and Scoots are the exact same color. :areyousure:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:30 pm

MochaBean wrote:I just now for the first time realized that AJ and Scoots are the exact same color. :areyousure:



Scoots parents are never seen, AJs are presumed dead...OMG, Scoots is the long lost 4th Apple child!!! :twonk:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:33 pm

Welp, that about wraps it up for Apple Bloom. She had one thing going for her, and that was the adorable bow.

:gotcha: And now Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle look more adorable with the bow.

MochaBean wrote:I just now for the first time realized that AJ and Scoots are the exact same color. :areyousure:


If it makes you feel better, it didn't dawn on me until Pinkie Apple Pie that the Apple siblings are basically a mix of the same three colors (Red, Yellow, Orange)
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Postby WandereringPony (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:34 pm

Smarty Pants cameo! (Now why is it in there and not Big Mac's room...)
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:41 pm

All those AB bows, and the CMC wearing them, at least made me chuckle.

That looked like the end of Act II to me. I hope for some nice unique plot, but it probably won't happen.

MochaBean wrote:I just now for the first time realized that AJ and Scoots are the exact same color. :areyousure:


Uh... no? :pinkieshrug:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:50 pm

:pcstare: Applejack!

:shock: Whoa, Nelly...

:pcstare: Meet me in the barn.

:-( So long, y'all...If yuh care to visit, Ah'll be in the apple orchard...buckin' apples.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:51 pm

The Doctor wrote:Welp, that about wraps it up for Apple Bloom. She had one thing going for her, and that was the adorable bow.

:gotcha: And now Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle look more adorable with the bow.

To me it looks really silly. Scootaloo just doesn't have the right hairstyle for it (Apple Bloom's hair is droopy and flows with the curves of her head and neck, causing the usual perkiness of the bow to provide good visual contrast, but it clashes with Scootaloo's shorter, spikier hair) and Sweetie Belle lacks the right colors (the bow serves as a transition from Apple Bloom's red hair to a lighter pink-red, but Sweetie Belle's pink-and-purple hair calls for an entirely different color as far as accessories go).

Going full Kefka on a visual joke like this is beside the point, though. Why would Applejack get this worked up? It's hard to think that this is how she normally is toward Apple Bloom, given how many adventures the CMC have already gone on. I want to think that Applejack is still struggling with the death of her parents after all these years and that her grief flared up just now in the form of protectionism, but the chance of the show addressing her parents is always going to be very low.
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Postby Killing Vector (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:58 pm

SoundMonkey44 wrote:Scoots parents are never seen, AJs are presumed dead...OMG, Scoots is the long lost 4th Apple child!!! :twonk:

Given up for adoption just because she was born a pegasus. :fluttersmith:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:01 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:To me it looks really silly. Scootaloo just doesn't have the right hairstyle for it (Apple Bloom's hair is droopy and flows with the curves of her head and neck, causing the usual perkiness of the bow to provide good visual contrast, but it clashes with Scootaloo's shorter, spikier hair) and Sweetie Belle lacks the right colors (the bow serves as a transition from Apple Bloom's red hair to a lighter pink-red, but Sweetie Belle's pink-and-purple hair calls for an entirely different color as far as accessories go).

Going full Kefka on a visual joke like this is beside the point, though. Why would Applejack get this worked up? It's hard to think that this is how she normally is toward Apple Bloom, given how many adventures the CMC have already gone on. I want to think that Applejack is still struggling with the death of her parents after all these years and that her grief flared up just now in the form of protectionism, but the chance of the show addressing her parents is always going to be very low.



Well there was that whole thing about A dangerous pie delivery. I'm sure the scene will come off as more powerful in the actual context of the episode.
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Postby Frith (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:03 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:To me it looks really silly. Scootaloo just doesn't have the right hairstyle for it (Apple Bloom's hair is droopy and flows with the curves of her head and neck, causing the usual perkiness of the bow to provide good visual contrast, but it clashes with Scootaloo's shorter, spikier hair) and Sweetie Belle lacks the right colors (the bow serves as a transition from Apple Bloom's red hair to a lighter pink-red, but Sweetie Belle's pink-and-purple hair calls for an entirely different color as far as accessories go).

Going full Kefka on a visual joke like this is beside the point, though. Why would Applejack get this worked up? It's hard to think that this is how she normally is toward Apple Bloom, given how many adventures the CMC have already gone on. I want to think that Applejack is still struggling with the death of her parents after all these years and that her grief flared up just now in the form of protectionism, but the chance of the show addressing her parents is always going to be very low.


I think she's just over protective towards AB because of the accidents that are mentioned in the synopsis.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:07 pm

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Well there was that whole thing about A dangerous pie delivery. I'm sure the scene will come off as more powerful in the actual context of the episode.

I'm assuming that the pie delivery is something harmless and innocent, to someone in Ponyville. Hell, even if it's to another city where Apple Bloom would have to take the train, it wouldn't be the first time she's gone on such a trip without adult supervision. She's also been to visit Zecora on her own in the past (even after the events of Bridle Gossip), so she has trips in the Everfree Forest under her belt as well.
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Postby The Outlander (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:16 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Why would Applejack get this worked up? It's hard to think that this is how she normally is toward Apple Bloom, given how many adventures the CMC have already gone on. I want to think that Applejack is still struggling with the death of her parents after all these years and that her grief flared up just now in the form of protectionism, but the chance of the show addressing her parents is always going to be very low.


Have you ever been worked up over a sibling being missing before? I remember several instances where I had lost my little brother and felt a need to protect him, so I thought it was a perfectly natural reaction. Her voice sounded off, though, and I thought the clip was weirdly paced, so here's to hoping it isn't another Rainbow Falls.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:17 pm

The dialogue suggests it's literally dangerous. Could provide some worldbuilding late in the episode, and if it does, this is going to have a lot in common with Stare Master.
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Postby InsertAuthorHere (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:19 pm

Wayoshi wrote:I hope for some nice unique plot, but it probably won't happen.


This isn't the show for a nice unique plot, especially at this point. Very few shows can stay fresh after four years on the air. You're going to get a recycled script with a formulaic ending and forced aesop, and you will like it.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:19 pm

She's delivering a pie to Pinkie, who eats so fast that the Apples have already had seven Delivery Pony legs bitten off.... :fluttersmith:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:24 pm

Wayoshi wrote:The dialogue suggests it's literally dangerous. Could provide some worldbuilding late in the episode, and if it does, this is going to have a lot in common with Stare Master.

How much of that is actual danger and how much is just hyperbole on Applejack's part? Without knowing where Apple Bloom is going we can't really tell, but as I said earlier, she's already been both to one of Equestria's most dangerous places and also on trips that an overprotective family member might find dangerous (though Applejack presumably still doesn't know the true events of JFS).
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Postby Tears (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:25 pm

[quote="InsertAuthorHere"

This isn't the show for a nice unique plot, especially at this point. Very few shows can stay fresh after four years on the air. You're going to get a recycled script with a formulaic ending and forced aesop, and you will like it.[/quote]

Yay! :-D

Wait- :serious:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:25 pm

Anyone else notice ABs Bed got turned into/ replaced with A crib.

Good Lord AJ's gone all Overprotectivd soccor mom. Dis gonna be gewd. :gotcha:

@ Insert: Very seldom do any shows have "unique" plots. The key is executing whatever plot you do use well.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:28 pm

InsertAuthorHere wrote:This isn't the show for a nice unique plot, especially at this point. Very few shows can stay fresh after four years on the air. You're going to get a recycled script with a formulaic ending and forced aesop, and you will like it.

Perhaps, but the three best episodes this season (PPride, FV, RTM) felt pretty fresh.

I'm all for a Stare Master II here by the way, SM is a good episode.

Fizz - if AJ ends up being totally paranoid here, I can't see the episode being that good. Just like last week, let's see both sides be somewhat in the wrong.
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