S04E16: It Ain't Easy Being Breezies

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Re: S04E16: It Ain't Easy Being Breezies

Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:55 pm

...Oh my God. I was NOT expecting this to be...that type of episode. Neat.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:57 pm

HORRIFYING TRANSFORMATION!
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:57 pm

Holy shit...that just blew my mind. I had no idea they would go in this direction.
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Postby The Outlander (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:58 pm

The mane six appearing as Breezies in the episode was a Hasbro mandate. Calling it. :v:
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Postby Corpy (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:58 pm

THAT just happened :gonkity: :gonkity: :gonkity: :gonkity: :gonkity: :gonkity:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:58 pm

...Does the city remind anyone of Rivendell?
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:59 pm

ARE YOU BUYING OUR TOYS YET?

Also, who didn't see that coming? :v:
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Postby TheNegaverser (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:59 pm

Squeaky-voice Rarity. I am dead. I have now died.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:00 pm

Holy fuck, Dash. Best ending line ever. :ponydrugs:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:00 pm

...They did a dragon transformation joke. 10/10!

But seriously, I thought the episode was pretty good.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:01 pm

Yeah, I didn't expect that ending. Hasbro mandate. Calling it.

(squeaky voiced Fluttershy was great)
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Postby MochaBean (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:02 pm

Janimals: Because someone saw the bunny suit from a Christmas Story and said, "What a great idea!" :amazing:

I'm kinda hmmm on this episode. It was really weird.
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Postby TheNegaverser (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:02 pm

I quite enjoyed that. I certainly wasn't expecting the transformation thing. To be honest, it felt a little bit too blatant as a toy tie-in. Nevertheless, the episode as a whole was a lot of fun, with plenty of sweet moments!
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Postby The great M (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:03 pm

Pretty mediocre episode :pinkieshrug: Not bad overall, just not very stand out.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:04 pm

Decent episode. Not as good as Pinkie or Rarity's key episode though.

I'm still not sold on the breezie design, but the voice was what made it work for me despite the design.

Mane 6 breezies were horrifying.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:05 pm

It was oddly heartwarming for me.

Good to see they got back with their families. :flutterunsmith: I really, really related to Sea Breeze. :cry:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:05 pm

Sooooooo, why did the other Breezies want to stay with Fluts when they had families to return to? Just plain stupidity? I think there's a bit of a plot hole here.

The "Fluts has to let go of cute creature" angle that wasn't fully used in 122 (originally was going to be) sort of returned here, which I liked. Mane 6 Breezie insert... well, it got us to see the Breezie kingdom some I guess. I don't see how 6 more Breezies in the group stabilized everything - I'll look over the dialogue again, but that seemed to be a weak justification for it.

Kind of conflicted on this one. I liked a lot of stuff (including how kindness was handled, that was probably the best aspect of the episode), but I would have preferred zero talking from the Breezies...
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Postby The Outlander (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:06 pm

Weird Episode.

Most of it, as some people around here feared, felt like a retread of A Bird in the Hoof, but I felt the episode wrapped up very nicely, even with the silly Mane Six Breezies.
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Postby Wildfire (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:07 pm

The beetus was strong in this episode. 9/10


Mane 6 breezies...


And we have another key episode. You should've seen Bronystate's chat. Everyone (including me) thought that one was female. Then Fluts called her a he, and everyone shat a loaf. :gotcha:

To think the hate was flowing in the EqD article comments on the episode. I think that changed by the end of it.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:07 pm

A very odd and cute episode. Sea Breeze stole the show. Dat squeaky Rarity. :allears:
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:07 pm

When they talked about the dangers out there and how they'd be safer back home I half-expected their world to be a horrifying nightmare dimension :v:

That was cute. Not amazing or anything, but entertaining. Buy our toys.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:07 pm

I thought the Mane 6 Breezies were cute enough and was a nice unexpected ending.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:08 pm

I was enjoying the episode, but I'll admit that the transformation kinda ruined it for me. The show always do toy tie-ins, but this was way too obvious and forced for me.
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Postby Mir (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:08 pm

Okay, that was actually a REALLY interesting episode. :allears:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:08 pm

I definitely wasn't expecting Breezified Mane 6...I'll give it points for being different.

Spike messed up, no doubt...but he was only doing what he could with the ponies in his way, so I have to cut him a little slack. :yikes:

I thought maybe Flutterkey was coming, and so it was. :modesty:

That Swedish accent on Seabreeze was different too.

Oh, and I loved Flutterbee. :allears:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:09 pm

Maybe only the Breezies curse.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:09 pm

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I am dead. :gonkity:


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Postby Wonkadoo (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:09 pm

Wayoshi wrote:Sooooooo, why did the other Breezies want to stay with Fluts when they had families to return to? Just plain stupidity? I think there's a bit of a plot hole here.


They were having a hard time on the trip, and Sea Breeze was being an ass. It wasn't that they didn't want to go home, it was that they didn't want to leave.
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Postby The Outlander (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:10 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:That Swedish accent on Seabreeze was different too...and it looks like cussin' is canon. :bluh:


They pulled the same joke with Mr. Beaverton Beaverteeth in KCaFO.
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Postby Discord (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:10 pm

I thought it was pretty good. The dilemma was a strong one, that hadn't really felt explored before. Fluttershy really got to shine, and Sea Breeze was awesome. It was cool how they got to learn from one another. And though I wasn't the biggest fan on the design, the voices of the breezies were pretty awesome.

That ending transformation was a bit weird, in an "eh" kind of way. But seeing Sea Breeze re-united with his family made up for it. :allears:

Sooooooo, why did the other Breezies want to stay with Fluts when they had families to return to? Just plain stupidity? I think there's a bit of a plot hole here.


They were enjoying themselves too much in exploiting Fluttershy's kindness and weren't really thinking about the full ramifications of their actions. :pinkieshrug:

I'd call it incompetence and lethargy, as opposed to them being stupid or plot hole. Sea Breeze calls out their character flaws in doing this.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:11 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Maybe only the Breezies curse.


Fair enough. :awkward:
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Postby MochaBean (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:11 pm

So aside from marketing, what was the point of turning the mane six into Breezies again? Did they achieve, like, some kind Breezy Critical Mass or something? Image
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:11 pm

Amusing episode, obvious toy mandate was thankfully not too obtrusive and sort of worked with episode; lots of cuteness, but not quite as engaging as normal pony, so yea, 6/10 seems around right. It's a 'B-' episode for me, I think.

Canon callbacks were great, and confirmation Fluttershy knows all the languages :sbahj:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:12 pm

Anyone catch who voiced Sea Breeze?
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:12 pm

Man, what is it with this season and great one-shot characters? Like, if Sea Breeze wasn't a tiny squeaky Swedish fairy horse, he'd probably be one of the most mature and realistic characters the show has given us so far. He's surrounded by people that get on his nerves, and their procrastination almost destroys his chance to get home and return to his wife and child. Despite him learning about kindness, his anger and harshness was completely understandable given the situation, as was his attempt to get home alone despite the great risk to his life.
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Postby LardLad3545 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:13 pm

I can't be the only one who's eternally amused by the fact that a cute and harmless little leaf gently blowing free ended up being a trainwreck disaster for the breezie migration. :gotcha:

Sweedish accents are fantastic, breezie simlish is... interesting, Flut's lesson was wonderful. Mane 6 transformation. :starity: What else... Not a whole lot. Didn't feel like a retread episode to me, so that's good. So, overall, it's good. Very odd and probably not god-tier, but good and enjoyable. I give it a :smug: / :-D
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:14 pm

Wonkadoo wrote:They were having a hard time on the trip, and Sea Breeze was being an ass. It wasn't that they didn't want to go home, it was that they didn't want to leave.

You make a good point that they gravitated towards Fluts over Sea Breeze, I guess though with the "not a lot of time left until portal closes!!" angle, I felt like something should have gave - the Breezies wouldn't have kept doing this until it was too late, would have they? Maybe it wasn't as dire as I thought. But all in all, the core kindness plot was really solid.

Mocha: I think the dialogue said something about there not being enough Breezies in the group to effectively ride the current or something. I'll check ASAP

Discord wrote:They were enjoying themselves too much in exploiting Fluttershy's kindness and weren't really thinking about the full ramifications of their actions. :pinkieshrug:

I'd call it incompetence and lethargy, as opposed to them being stupid or plot hole. Sea Breeze calls out their character flaws in doing this.

Stupidity / incompetence is kind of a weak justification...
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Postby acksed (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:15 pm

What do I think? This was 'Shy's "Twilight Time" i.e. an inoffensive snippet of her life accompanied by some worldbuilding. But maybe I'm being unfair; there was a bit more meat to it than the last episode. The breezies were cute (who else was reminded of Smurfs?), Yellow Kind Pony had a lesson on tough love and we got some phenomenal cosmic power ancient alicorn magic from Twilight to let them visit the Faerie realm.
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Postby LardLad3545 (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:15 pm

MochaBean wrote:So aside from marketing, what was the point of turning the mane six into Breezies again? Did they achieve, like, some kind Breezy Critical Mass or something? Image

That's how I understood it. Something about the breeze being too strong with so few of them migrating the second time. Then again it makes me wonder why six more of them would make a significant difference, but meh. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:15 pm

I liked how Flutters checked unerneath her hoof so nonchalantly when Seabreeze was missing. :amazing:

Anyone catch who voiced Sea Breeze?


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