by Weird Autumn (?) » Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:16 pm
It took me a little while to see this one but, eh, whatever. I felt kind of lousy this weekend and the forums were down anyway.
-Gee, Applebloom, isn't it kind of dangerous for your blind cousin to be playing with scissors?
-"What happens if you get stuck with a cutie mark you don't like?" What, indeed? I mean it's pretty well established that a cutie mark is some kind of magical destiny that always fits you even if you don't realize it at first, but I've always thought magical destinies were a little too easy.
-This seems like more of an existential fear than a "quake in terror" fear.
-Applebloom might have too many questions to answer in one night, but couldn't you at least try to answer some of them in one night?
-Existential dread isn't repelled by sunlight, Applejack.
-I approve of Parasprite callback.
-Oh no, Twittermites! They're going to bury us in semi-coherent rage, 140 characters at a time!
-"Metal Gear?"
-You got the touch! You got the power! YEAH!
-On the plus side, if she dodges 100 more lightning bolts in a row she'll unlock her ultimate weapon.
-She doesn't even have to stun them with her flashlight first. Applebloom's got it easy.
-Whenever you need a friend, you can just go out and catch one. Like Pokemon.
-You know I'm tired as hell right now because all I can think of are references.
-"My cutie mark isn't the worst, you two are!" She's not wrong.
-Is it just me or is this spooky ghost voice just Scootaloo with reverb?
-Why did that shock wake her up and not any of the other, more intense-seeming ones?
-Oh no, she's trapped in a dream-loop!
-I know people have been expecting some kind of "what happens if one of them gets their cutie mark before the others?" episode for ages so I'm glad they're finally covering that ground, even in a dream montage.
-"Now there's all kinds of trouble" actually I think there's just the one kind right now.
-Now we've moved away from looping dreams into a Rose's Room "artificial reality is breaking down" scenario.
-Goofy dolphin cutie mark is pretty good but I was kind of hoping it'd be a pear.
-I wonder why Big Mac's voice features so prominently in Applebloom's fears. Maybe in the absence of parents he's taken on the role of family disciplinarian? I think I'm reading too much into it.
-Spooky ghost voice didn't turn up for that loop. Hm.
-Can we count the Applebloom's face cutie mark as another FiW prediction?
-"I don't want to see another cutie mark as long as I live" seems like kind of an odd sentiment considering a cutie mark could theoretically be just about any image imaginable.
-There's spooky ghost voice! I was starting to get worried.
-Now it's a Luna episode.
-Cutie marks are an expression of the inner self yadda yadda, I guess that's kind of the theme for this season. Still a little too magical destiny for me.
-Sweetie Belle didn't even get to audition before they disqualified her based on her cutie mark! Fursecution is real.
-Flying is one of the all-time classic dream abilities but it takes on a certain tragic quality when it's Scootaloo's dream. Actually, now that I think about it, did Scootaloo's wings get bigger in the scene where she and Sweetie Belle were like "actually we got our cutie marks?" Something seemed off about them but I couldn't put my finger on it at the time.
-They're not going to spy on Babs' dreams to find out if she's anxious? I don't know whether I'm proud of the CMC's integrity or disappointed by their lack of ambition.
-The flippant pan smack contrasts with the gentle lullaby in a way I'm really into.
-An exhausting night's sleep? Yeah, I've been having some of those myself these last few days.
This was a solid episode. I'm always into weird dream logic stuff and they have some fun with it. I've been and will likely continue to be just a little bit cynical/down on their explanations of cutie marks, but that's just because the concept's always kind of rubbed me the wrong way for irrelevant philosophical reasons. I'm glad that they've started exploring this stuff a bit more, even if the answers they're giving aren't exactly the ones I would want.
Last edited by Weird Autumn on Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.