by Weird Autumn (?) » Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:55 am
Oh yeah pony show happened
-Twilight's a jerk to Angel. I approve.
-Something about the end of the cold open feels a little weird. It might be that I'm kind of getting mixed signals from the setup/normal expectations for a scene like this, which make me expect Angel's reaction to the bath to be something of a punchline, and the actual execution, where Angel just looks slightly grumpy and we get a foreboding musical sting and then we fade to black.
-twilight take a bath
-"The surprise is I lost the measuring spoon in the batter" made me laugh.
-twilight you're still covered in mud stop putting this off
-twilight you're getting mud on the pancakes now this isn't okay
-"Hello my name is Pancake Sparkle"
-pinkie that pancake is covered in twilight's facemud even you should be having second thoughts
-"Nopony knows me better than you." Except Spike. Plus he has to live there too. Doesn't he get a say in this process?
-I guess not. But it's cute that he enjoys sleeping in cavern-esque conditions.
-Dash you're sounding a bit autotuney there. Am I the only one hearing that? The end of "togethe-er" specifically.
-Congratulations Rarity, you got Dash and Applejack to sing the word "divine."
-You guys realize you're just renovating Twilight's house to look like your own, right? I mean I realize that's probably the point of the episode but c'mon.
-Dash hanging up a picture of herself is pretty funny.
-I like Spike's head poking into the corner of that picture.
-I feel like somebody should've pointed out that stuffing the castle full of animals was a bad idea for this exact reason.
-Bold Bigflank is an A+ background character.
-Are they all gonna get snippy and start down a dark road of vindictive decoration removal? Because if the goal is to get stuff uncluttered that's honestly a good way to make sure it gets done.
-Have we ever heard it called "the Golden Oak Library" before?
-I like that Twilight's thinking about Spike. I'm not the only one!
-"Everypony knows babies are terrible sleepers." It's true!
-See? I was right about getting rid of that clutter.
-But wait, doesn't this mean there's now a giant pile of rejected decorations sitting outside that room?
-"If we can't do this, Twilight will be stuck living in a castle that makes her feel sad!" Was that supposed to make the stakes seem higher?
-Pinkie Pie: zero to worry in one commercial break.
-"Maybe we should think about what Twilight would want instead of just filling this room with the stuff we like!" Yes, good. Next they're going to realize they need to decorate more than one room.
-"That's it! Twilight's defining character trait! Why didn't we think of this earlier?"
-Man, a song and a refrain? How indulgent!
-I'm glad Twilight also noticed the lack of work on anything other than that one room.
-Picture gems? Yeah, okay. But I still feel like this one ornament isn't really addressing the problem.
-Okay, so they did do more work.
Episode's a bit on the predictable side, to the point where it feels just a little bit uninspired, especially because I could swear they've done this exact moral before. "Twilight feels kind of lonely in this big empty castle and it could use some decoration" is the kind of continuity/worldbuilding/character-based premise I like to see, though, and it's nice that the writers are thinking about these kind of more nuanced, down-to-earth consequences to stuff like the treehouse blowing up.
Last edited by Weird Autumn on Sun Apr 12, 2015 7:26 am, edited 1 time in total.