Re: S04E21: Leap of Faith
Dexanth wrote:This episode -really- played up the Mane-6 patterned objects. They're littering the background everywhere in this episode. I imagine there's a point to it - likely a toy tie-in - but the sudden presence of them everywhere seemed a bit odd. Previously it's been somewhat more muted.
By my count so far:
-The flag
-The tiny pan Granny kamikazed into before AJ pulled off a cartoonish save
-The little bobby things in the pool (which I just noticed when you made this a complaint, and I thought two things wasn't so bad)
Anything else?
EDIT: Star Platinum - I bought it since it's family-related and Granny was showing a side that was new to everyone else in the family, and I'm sure AJ was interested in keeping that going as well. "Make family member sad" is a legitimate blackmailing tactic on AJ.
By the way, I have and always am trying to primarily judge episodes on how well the target audience gets the message. That's why I maintain Breezies is still decent, it did that part pretty well. It's a critical part of the show because it's what ultimately makes this show so unique. In this case, before the ep, I was feeling like FF losing some of their uniqueness as characters would be a shame and might lead to some boring shenanigans that would ultimately hamper the episode. But that ended up being made up by their core manipulative natures being fleshed out more that led to a fairly interesting take on the placebo effect stock plot.


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