S04E18: Maud Pie

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Re: S04E18: Maud Pie

Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:01 pm

That was really good, good ending, Maude was fun, realistic lesson (well aside from needing magic pony power rock smashing to get there), all in all A+ poni.
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Postby Quanta (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:01 pm

That was great. I enjoyed it. :|
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:02 pm

That was great. Maud's my new favorite character, and I like that the two Pie sisters do genuinely love each-other in spite of their different personalities. "I don't know if you noticed, but I don't show my enthusiasm the way my sister does"

She finally smiled in the end, too :allears:

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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:02 pm

That was really great. *hugs everyone*
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:02 pm

Not what I expected, but a solid episode none the less. Maud is BEST big sister!!! :party:


Also the moral seems to be: EVERYBODY LOVES PINKIE PIE. I am good with this. XD
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Postby Skipper (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:02 pm

This episode was absolutely AMAZING. Wow!
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:03 pm

Wow, she actually smiled.


Anyway...
THIS EPISODE WAS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE SEASON, NOT AS GOOD AS PINKIE PRIDE OR PINKIE APPLE PIE BUT IT WAS STILL AMAZING! :amazing:

New crazy theory time:

Maud is a robot. Not a cool robot like Tom Servo or Crow or Gypsy or B9 from Lost In Space or Optimius Prime. She seems a lot like HAL 9000 to me, to the extent where I can see Dr. Dave Bowman pulling out her sockets.
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Postby Dilbert As Fuck (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:03 pm

Wow I hate pinkie pie but this episode was great.
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Postby MochaBean (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:03 pm

This episode was really sweet and I loved it to pieces. It's already rocketed to the top of my charts.

Mr. Big wrote:Maud doesn't smile :rainbert:


Oh doesn't she now? :smirk:

Also:

MochaBean wrote:Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Underneath her low-key and Daria-esque exterior, Maude is an otherwise well adjusted pony and Pinkie loves her for who she is. She meant all the things she said when she was bragging on her, it's the others who have the overblown expectations and want her to be something she's not.


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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:04 pm

:spike101: guess who didn't get an invite to the welcome picnic.

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Postby Mordja (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:04 pm

Random thought: RD was written flawlessly this episode and reminded me why she is best pone. :3:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:04 pm

SoundMonkey44 wrote:Also the moral seems to be: EVERYBODY LOVES PINKIE PIE. I am good with this. XD


I thought that was every moral of every episode... :-P
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Postby Quanta (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:04 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Maud is a robot. Not a cool robot like Tom Servo or Crow or Gypsy or B9 from Lost In Space or Optimius Prime. She seems a lot like HAL 9000 to me, to the extent where I can see Dr. Dave Bowman pulling out her sockets.


Daisy...Daisy...give me your answer, doo... :|
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:04 pm

So, is being super-fast a trait in the Pie family? Maud can be really fast if she has to.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:05 pm

Maud is awesome. I'm glad they didn't change her personality, but she still expressed her feelings for Pinkie at the end. And I love her poetry. :v:

She's giving Harshie some competition for my favorite background pony. :-I
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Postby Skipper (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:08 pm

Mordja wrote:Random thought: RD was written flawlessly this episode and reminded me why she is best pone. :3:

She was (and she is)!

Poor RD, losing from someone who doesn't even want to win. :colbert:

That right there must be her worst nightmare x2.
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Postby Pretorius (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:09 pm

Really liked that episode. I could relate to it a lot, since my sister is totally different from me, and I appreciate all the things she's good at that I'm not so good at, and so on. And Maude was just great.

Plus, hey, good moral for kids. You may not be friends with everyone you meet, but it's important to put in the effort, because the surface is not everything.
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Postby Star Platinum (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:11 pm

Ah yes, daylight savings. I was wondering why the thread had so many pages 20 minutes before the episode started. :shepspike:


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:rant: %@&!¤# DAYLIGHT SAVINGS :applejargh:
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Postby Discord (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:12 pm

Pretty enjoyable episode. It's structure was a bit strange, but the dilemma was solid and it was legitimately really touching and funny at times.

Favourite bits were crayon drawing (So much :3:), sad Pinkie feels, and General Maud vs. The Boulder.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:13 pm

Pretorius wrote:Plus, hey, good moral for kids. You may not be friends with everyone you meet, but it's important to put in the effort, because the surface is not everything.

And that deep things like love for Pinkie as a sister and as a friend are in every pony, and despite the extreme different outlooks on life there is something there. :3:

I'm having trouble thinking of any flaws in this one. I loved seeing all the pets for at least a bit and the humor felt very fresh (probably because they really haven't done this much concentrated dry before) with only a couple misses.

By the way, it's totally my headcanon that Pinkie used to do crazy things with rocks while bored in her childhood, and Maud had to use THE DRILL HOOVES OF POWER to save her every time. :3:
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Postby Ransom (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:14 pm

Great stuff. I want to see the rest of the Pie family though.

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:16 pm

Why was there a third Pie Sister? Someone on the show didn't want to decanonize Slice of Pony Life, where Marble and Lime work at the farm.

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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:16 pm

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Daisy...Daisy...give me your answer, doo... :|


Greetings, gentlemen. My name is Maud Pie. I became operational at the P.I.E. plant in Equestria on the 12th of January. My instructor was Pinkie Pie and she taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it, I can sing it for you. :|

...Yes. I would like to hear it, Maud.
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Postby Discord (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:18 pm

Wayoshi wrote:And that deep things like love for Pinkie as a sister and as a friend are in every pony, and despite the extreme different outlooks on life there is something there. :3:

I'm having trouble thinking of any flaws in this one. I loved seeing all the pets for at least a bit and the humor felt very fresh (probably because they really haven't done this much concentrated dry before) with only a couple misses.


I'd say it may have been a bit guilty of laundry-listing too much. Like going through all the mane 6, then all their pets, then Maud doing each individual thing the mane 6 liked, then Pinkie making an obstacle course listing each as part of the mane 6. It wasn't too detrimental, but it felt a bit weird to me, particularly by the obstacle course (though the ending of that scene really brings it up).
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:20 pm

Maud is awesome. I love how she's just as offbeat and strange as Pinkie Pie, but with a different passion and a complete lack of enthusiasm. They even managed to foreshadow her amazing anime rock-smashing abilities with her chucking that boulder over the horizon earlier in the episode, so the scene didn't come out of nowhere. It was also really nice that even with such a dry personality, she was still able to show affection in her own low-key way.

Why is every new character this season so awesome? :allears:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:20 pm

Maud: I've just picked up a fault in my sister's Pinkie sense. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours.

:shock: What do we do?

Maud: I didn't use the word "we".
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:20 pm

Discord wrote:I'd say it may have been a bit guilty of laundry-listing too much. Like going through all the mane 6, then all their pets, then Maud doing each individual thing the mane 6 liked, then Pinkie making an obstacle course listing each as part of the mane 6. It wasn't too detrimental, but it felt a bit weird and forced to me.

Well I mean, they're meeting a new pony, have to get all those interactions in. And I totally loved a slow romp of Maud being :maud: with the Mane 6, especially R.D.'s.

And the obstacle course was out of left field and amazing, especially Fluts' part. :-D
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Postby Kronos (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:20 pm

Wayoshi wrote:THE DRILL HOOVES OF POWER to save her


Goddamnit, you know what the fandom is going to do now?

(Not from the show, but the only ones I could find were too lengthy or all the depressing ones where Kamina dies)
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Postby Cthulhu Inc (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:21 pm

I like the different style of humour in this episode. Much more intellectual and erudite. :snobtavia:
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Postby Discord (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:23 pm

Wayoshi wrote:Well I mean, they're meeting a new pony, have to get all those interactions in. And I totally loved a slow romp of Maud being :maud: with the Mane 6, especially R.D.'s.

And the obstacle course was out of left field and amazing, especially Fluts' part. :-D


Eh, it just got a bit too repetitive for me personally. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby LardLad3545 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:26 pm

It was wonderful and I loved it to pieces. Perfect writing, perfect pacing, perfect moral, perfect everything. Not a single complaint. Favorite bits were Pinkie slamming the door on Dash in the beginning then opening it back up and yanking her inside anyway, the nuclear rocksplosion, and Maud's box of rock candy necklaces. She doesn't like candy very much, but she still kept every necklace. Also, it's really hard to tell if some of the things Maud said were intentional jokes made by her, or if she legit didn't understand like saying dresses don't speak. Knowing Maud is actually well adjusted and sane, it could be either. Interesting. Meh, anyway, episode gets an A+. I'll have to watch it again a few times to determine whether it's a god tier episode, but it gets a perfect in all categories.

As a side note, I'll have to go back and watch it again, but I noticed a pretty obvious animation error during a scene where we see Dash hovering and talking about something. I can't remember what she was saying because I was looking at the error. Basically the outline of her head was in front of her left ear (well, ok, HER right, but it was on our left). I dunno, just thought that was funny.

Aramek wrote:That was really great. *hugs everyone*

:twonk: RAAAAAAGH! *hug*
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:26 pm

The Doctor wrote::spike101: guess who didn't get an invite to the welcome picnic.

:ngh: This is no longer a series coincidences. Someone at the show has made this a thing.



Spike was busy sneaking into Sugar Cube Corner to eat all the Rock Candy!
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:29 pm

I wish somehow at the end, Maud's cape came off so we could see the cutie mark... of a rock.
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Postby SpaceHowitzer (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:30 pm

I liked the episode, I think it teally did a good job of showing off a different personality with maude interacting with the main 6.

The rock farm with rock train station and the half dead tree strikes me as the kind of place that'd turn out introverts.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:33 pm

I sort of liked how her cutie mark stayed hidden, it adds to her enigmatic image. :ponder:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:34 pm

The dry humor with Maud was dragged on a bit much for me, but there were some great gags there. I would have liked the episode to be a bit more than one long build up to "Oh, I might not share her interests, but I do love my sister".

5/10 (with 5 being a totally acceptable average episode).
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:38 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:Maud: I've just picked up a fault in my sister's Pinkie sense. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours.

:shock: What do we do?

Maud: I didn't use the word "we".


:-/ There was no failure at all.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:47 pm

Loving Rainbow Dash's attitude this week. She calls 'em as she sees 'em, even when she has no idea what she just saw.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:53 pm

One thing that really hit me in the feels in this episode when the rest of the ponies confront pinkie and tell her they don't think they can be friends with maud, not only does her hair deflate, but she's making a face like she's physically in pain, poor gal got stabbed right in the heart *emotionally that is*
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:55 pm

I think PixelKitties just nailed this episode.

This is such a great show. :yay:
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