S06E07: Newbie Dash

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Re: S06E07: Newbie Dash

Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:34 pm

Future Chicago Ponygoon meetup at Golden Corral confirmed.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:41 pm

Wayoshi wrote:It's really going to be Rainbow Crash again? :-/

And out of context, it looks like she just sucks suddenly for plot reasons... I'll wait for judgment on that.



OK... minimal IMDB info too.


:fluttersmith: So far, this is pretty much how it's gone.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:42 pm

Rainbow Dash, stop acting like Rainbow Dash.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:43 pm

rudecyrus wrote:Rainbow Dash, stop acting like Rainbow Dash.

I'd be mad at this if it wasn't so accurate! :seethe:
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Your MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue.

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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:44 pm

Discovery Family has some pretty good new bumpers. It took a while for the quick snare-drum riff and "Let's go!" chant to grow on me, but I'm digging the new ones already.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:49 pm

rudecyrus wrote:Rainbow Dash, stop acting like Rainbow Dash.


Congrats, you got your wish.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:50 pm

what the fuck just happened
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:50 pm

OK I laffed a lot
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:51 pm

Putting her "mocking Twilight" from Griffonstone to good use. Great sequence.
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Your MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue.

"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:51 pm

Anyone notice that Rainbow didn't change her mane to look like Twilight's? Because she already did that in "The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone"
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Postby Cthulhu Inc (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:51 pm

So fucking cringey
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:51 pm

The hair/personality scene was hilariously great, even if it went on a bit long.

[frequent use of slow motion and freeze frames]
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Postby Lorce (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:52 pm

Must've been pretty difficult for Ashleigh Ball to do Dash doing AJ's voice :awkward:
Still sounded similar and distinct ^^
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:53 pm

Adelor Lyon wrote:The hair/personality scene was hilariously great, even if it went on a bit long.

[frequent use of slow motion and freeze frames]

"And now, for my next impression...Jesse Owens! *rainbooms out*
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"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:57 pm

dammit rainbow dash
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Postby drunkill (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:59 pm

RD: Tower, this is RainbowDash requesting a flyby.
Spitfitre:Negative, RainbowDash, the pattern is full.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:00 pm

That was great and honest and heartwarming.

Wanna hug you all.
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Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:01 pm

I really liked this one.

RD's grin in the cold opening was immortal. :awesomedash:

I enjoyed the scene where she imitated the rest of the Mane 6.

The episode did a good job of resolving the Bolts calling RD Rainbow Crash by explaining about thier own nicknames, although they might have said something sooner. I can see them making her clean the compound, etc. as just what any rookie in any established group has to do.

I was expecting the big ego trip from RD, I'm liked how it was dealt with and how she learned to be a team player. Nice to see Spitfire being all business, but turning out nice in the end.

Well played, Rainbow Dash...well played. But now I'd like to know Spitfire's nickname...maybe she crashed into the ground and acquired the name Spitdirt or something. Image

The poster like picture at the end was nice too.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:02 pm

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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:03 pm

And it ended with a nice little Dashism. :3:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:04 pm

Kind of meh episode.

Making Dash such a klutz for the sake of the plot didn't really work for me. She should know a simple safety rule like "watch the runway, given that she had to give Spitfire a dressing down for the horrible safety conditions at the Academy.

Could have just made the problem been her not knowing the routine. It's set up that she doesn't know the routine (which doesn't make much sense if she's supposed to be a reserve. It's like not giving the understudy the script). Instead she's stupid for the sake of being stupid.

And I can't see anything but S1 dash being arrogant enough to showboat on the precision flight team she's been working for years to join. She knows better.

There were some nice moments of the episode, but overall the story was kind of a mess.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:05 pm

This episode gave me flashbacks to college. Going from being top dog in high school music performance to being in the bottom of the pack as a freshman at music school was really humbling.

I liked the episode a lot though. :3:
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Postby Mordja (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:05 pm

Episode owned bones. Probably one of my fav RD ones, especially when it comes to the Wonderbolts.
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Postby Factory Factory (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:05 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:Well played, Rainbow Dash...well played. But now I'd like to know Spitfire's nickname...maybe she crashed into the ground and acquired the name Spitdirt or something. Image


The night before her first flight, she overindulged in Chipotle. That's where she earned her nickname, Shitfire.
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Postby Sidotsy (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:08 pm

A good episode, made me laugh a lot.
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Postby SneakHorse (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:08 pm

Solid episode. Dash impersonating her friends was far and away the highlight but it was pretty enjoyable even beyond that.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:08 pm

Adelor Lyon wrote:Image
Good stuff.




:seethe: Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle get to be Wonderbolts but not Scootaloo. That's harsh.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:09 pm

The Doctor wrote:Making Dash such a klutz for the sake of the plot didn't really work for me. She should know a simple safety rule like "watch the runway, given that she had to give Spitfire a dressing down for the horrible safety conditions at the Academy.

Could have just made the problem been her not knowing the routine. It's set up that she doesn't know the routine (which doesn't make much sense if she's supposed to be a reserve. It's like not giving the understudy the script). Instead she's stupid for the sake of being stupid.

And I can't see anything but S1 dash being arrogant enough to showboat on the precision flight team she's been working for years to join. She knows better.

There were some nice moments of the episode, but overall the story was kind of a mess.


As for crossing the runway, she did know the rule. The episode just set her up as so excited she forgot. Mistakes happen, and I appreciate they lampshaded this specifically as an honest and believable mistake. The rest of the mistakes were clearly set up as the nickname messing with her.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:10 pm

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I like when Pony slips in those little references.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:10 pm

None of that was Dash being a klutz/stupid, she just got excited/prideful and showed how one tiny little mistake can really blow up in your face.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:11 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:Reading Rainbow Image

I like when Pony slips in those little references.

Rainboom :awkward:
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Postby Kiith Soban (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:12 pm

Octavia wrote:This episode gave me flashbacks to college. Going from being top dog in high school music performance to being in the bottom of the pack as a freshman at music school was really humbling.

I liked the episode a lot though. :3:


Same. Somehow, though, when I stopped caring about being good at everything, I started improving a lot.

Ep had some weird parts, but overall, I really like it. It was really relatable.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:14 pm

I liked it a lot, but I can understand why some people don't.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:20 pm

Adelor Lyon wrote:Image
Good stuff.

Whoa, is this the first time Claire Corlett and Michelle Creber voiced adult ponies?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:28 pm

Pretty decent effort for a first-time writer. Those... impressions may have run a bit long, but good execution on the message and characters. And managing to not make the Wonderbolts totally unreasonable jerks for the first time in forever is also an accomplishment.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:32 pm

This episode was alright. The RD split personality section will probably be polarizing, but I like Literal Dash.

The moral was a good idea but execution felt middle-of-the-road. I mean, demeaning nicknames are a huge deal for some people (Fluts certainly knows) and shrugging them off doesn't ring entirely true to me.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:36 pm

Factory Factory wrote:The night before her first flight, she overindulged in Chipotle. That's where she earned her nickname, Shitfire.

This is now my headcanon.

I liked this one. Just as 'Shy will be shy, Dash will be brash. Some people, no matter how long they live or what they experiece, will never outgrow particular self-destructive patterns of behavior even if they otherwise do very well professionally/socially. As long as Rainbow can perform, (and during the Ponyville show, she did perform because she had learned the routines and followed them until the end) she'll do okay for herself as long as she can learn to focus on the task at hand when she needs to.

I'm really glad this episode showed Dash's flaws in a new way and wasn't a rehash of "Dash acts dumb" episodes like Daring Don't or Mare Do Well. I want to love adventure episodes the most but my favorites almost always end up being slice of life episodes, and as long as the writing staff remain this creative making learning experiences off characters' flaws (for the viewer, at least) the show still has pretty long legs and will succeed for quite a few more seasons.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:38 pm

Another Dash episode well done.

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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:41 pm

Wayoshi wrote:The moral was a good idea but execution felt middle-of-the-road. I mean, demeaning nicknames are a huge deal for some people (Fluts certainly knows) and shrugging them off doesn't ring entirely true to me.

If they had really been digging into her without cause, I'd understand all the "hazing" comments, but they only did it when she was too full of herself to follow the rules. Teamwork is super-important for the Wonderbolts, and Rainbow had to learn the hard way that she's not the star of the show. Yes, she's sensitive about that nickname, but she also escalated the situation every time and became a danger to the rest of the team.

I was actually surprised the whole team gave her that pep talk at the end instead of just dressing her down until she broke.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 4:59 pm

They could have told her up front the most talented thing while teasing her, but then I guess the episode doesn't happen. :pinkieshrug:
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