Re: S04E14: Filli Vanilli

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Mr. Big
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Wylie wrote:So much good in this episode. Go back and look at Cheerilee swooning at Big Mac's performance, then glancing back up at him to make sure he saw her do it.
This is textbook Pony: take a by-the-numbers plot, play it pretty much straight, and add so much adorableness in the margins that it just shines.
Great job all around, I say. It's not the best episode ever, but it's not trying to be, either.
Also, Torch Song is a perfect name for her. Torch singers usually have a strong alto range, and that's exactly the part she filled in the group. Yay musical accuracy!
Wayoshi wrote:Also thanks to chat for helping me figure out the reference on this name.
Orange Fluffy Sheep wrote:i am not ready for the transhumanist revolution to begin with my butt
ROBOT B9 wrote:I hope that doesn't make either of them Charlie Sheen...
HuffyTheMagicDragon wrote:The whole episode was really funny. Yes, including Pinkie playing the part of S1 Rainbow Dash. I almost feel like they need a character who just "says it like it is", and since they've sort of developed Dash beyond that (since episodes like Dragonshy), they have to fall back on Pinkie. The fact that she got called out on it made it work, IMO.
Everypony staring at you, judging you, jealously noting how they could be way better than you? Why wasn't it them? Why wasn't it them? And then, when you choke, they'll turn on you, becoming a seething, angry mob, and you'll be horribly humiliated, never able to show your face in Ponyville again!
Wayoshi wrote:(Watching the path & surrounding grass slide on by here is another fresh piece of animation)
Wayoshi wrote:^ But Pinkie HAS been shown to understand, as Davy just stated. And look at this:
The last sentence is not "haha brutal honesty", it's Pinkie getting crazy at a terrible time where her character should be restrained there.
Kamek wrote:Though that brings up another thing... the sudden reveal that "Oh yeah Rarity and Big Mac are part of a pony quartet and always have been, and also Twilight's always had an older brother". It's making me wonder what else these ponies are up to when the "camera" isn't on them
shotgunbadger wrote:I had zero faith in this episode being anything but a wank but holy shit if this isn't amazing.
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