S06E09: The Fault in Our Cutie Marks

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Re: S06E09: The Fault in Our Cutie Marks

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:48 pm

the "way too advanced math" joke has grown a new life lately.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:49 pm

"Everything I'm good at doing needs hands."

Lyra's going to be SO JEALOUS.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:51 pm

Wayoshi wrote:the "way too advanced math" joke has grown a new life lately.

It was clearly trig and not precalculus :twiright:
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:51 pm

Gabby is Jack of All Trades, Master of None, it seems.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:51 pm

"Wow...ponies are incompetent fuckups compared to any griffon it seems..."
Gabby is Jack of All Trades, Master of None, it seems.

Master of ALL from the look of things.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:54 pm

"Man we need to go and rub this in Twilight's face about how wrong she is"
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:59 pm

I think Ed set a challenge for himself to see how many times he could make Apple Bloom say something in apple-slang.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:59 pm

I feel like this conclusion isn't as strong as it could be. I can't really explain why, it just felt a bit... hamfisted? Straightforward? Too low-key / barely any conflict? Probably just me. :pinkieshrug:

Song was ok.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:00 pm

That episode was super adorable :3:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:00 pm

Utterly adorable. :3:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:02 pm

I'm glad she didn't get a Cutie Mark in the end. Makes the episode work a lot better.



And yeah, the episode was adorable.


Polish Gabby had a nicer voice though
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:03 pm

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Y'know, I think I liked Polish Gabby more. Watching this in Polish the first time was quite a trip. Watching it, I was like "I think I know what to expect from the characters based on their expressions and how the voice actor sounds, but it's only my best guess." Out of many of the non-English episodes I've watched, the Polish VAs are really, really good and possibly my favorites.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:03 pm

This was a nice slice of life type episode. I thought Gabby was a little over the top at first, but she grew on me as the episode went on.

I was hoping Gilda would appear in the episode, aside from the flashback scene, but I enjoyed the cameos we had. The song was decent, too.

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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:03 pm

So are the CMCs getting paid for their services? Also I see they've already gotten the art of merchandising down.

So yeah Gabby was cute but surprisingly Twilight was cuter this episode. Song was alright, and I thought the tone of the episode was alright.

So it's a positive.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:05 pm

Wayoshi wrote:I feel like this conclusion isn't as strong as it could be. I can't really explain why, it just felt a bit... hamfisted? Straightforward? Too low-key / barely any conflict? Probably just me. :pinkieshrug:

I think it made for a great lesson to the kids watching this show, that you can still find purpose in life even if you aren't a magical cartoon horse with a piece of your soul displayed on your flank. At the very least, I think it would've come off rather strangely if Gabby had somehow been able to get a cutie mark.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:09 pm

Adelor Lyon wrote:"Everything I'm good at doing needs hands."

Lyra's going to be SO JEALOUS.

Can you imagine how many times the animators have gone "well, we wanted to do [thing] but it would've looked too weird if we hoofhanded it"? When there's an episode featuring Spike, Discord, or a griffon, that's when they go hog wild. Especially for someone as wild as Gabby.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:10 pm

This needs to be a smiley

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Postby Rainbow Crash (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:11 pm

Gabby :allears:
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Postby Bremen (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:13 pm

Gabby was pretty awesome, as was this episode.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:15 pm

Gabby was the definition of a Mary Sue: instantly loved by everyone, best at everything, and everyone threw a party for her at the end.

I liked Gabby's design, her voice was alright, but her personality was an extreme version of Pinkie Pie on 100 cups of coffee. It was a bit too extreme for me.
Being good at a lot of things was part of the morale that it's about what makes her happy to give purpose in life and not what she's good at.
It rubbed me somewhat the wrong way in addition to the over-the-top character.

It'd be cooler if Gabby wasn't good at one thing and it was what makes her happy, not catastrophically bad but bad enough that it didn't worked straight away (and the cuteciñera party was cut, which felt very forced and out-of-place).

I want to like it more but I can't see past these flaws in the story.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:18 pm

adiwan wrote:I liked Gabby's design, her voice was alright, but her personality was an extreme version of Pinkie Pie on 100 cups of coffee. It was a bit too extreme for me.

This is one of the reasons I liked the Polish voice better. It was still enthusiastic but a lot less shrill than the English actor.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:18 pm

I don't get the Mary Sue complaints, because she wasn't annoying, she was cool and good at everything like I am IRL.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:18 pm

All in all, a really cute episode.

I wonder why it took so long for this to air. It was the 9th produced this season, but the 19th to air.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:19 pm

Also best pony sport confirmed.

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:22 pm

For those that skipped the leak, here was the song in Polish.




Mr. Big wrote:All in all, a really cute episode.

I wonder why it took so long for this to air. It was the 9th produced this season, but the 19th to air.


I asked Jim Miller on Twitter, and he said it was to have a CMC presence in the 2nd half of the season.

Aramek wrote:I don't get the Mary Sue complaints, because she wasn't annoying, she was cool and good at everything like I am IRL.


Mary Sue doesn't have to be annoying. You can even like the Mary Sue.

But she was totally a Mary Sue.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:28 pm

A good old classic.

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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:28 pm

Adelor Lyon wrote:This is one of the reasons I liked the Polish voice better. It was still enthusiastic but a lot less shrill than the English actor.


I don't know about you but I understand Polish, which is a huge detriment to enjoying it. I avoided to watch the early-released Polish dub (although I could watch it with subtitles and no audio). My first experience with the Polish dub resulted in metaphorically bleeding ears. Thus I don't dare to experience it another time.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:32 pm

The Doctor wrote:I asked Jim Miller on Twitter, and he said it was to have a CMC presence in the 2nd half of the season.

Huh. That's actually understandable, particularly vs. the other times episodes have been shuffled in past seasons. :solved:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:33 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:I think it made for a great lesson to the kids watching this show, that you can still find purpose in life even if you aren't a magical cartoon horse with a piece of your soul displayed on your flank. At the very least, I think it would've come off rather strangely if Gabby had somehow been able to get a cutie mark.

Certainly I was hoping Gabby didn't get her mark either, that would have been a big negative.

Like the episode got to where it should have, but it did it in kind of a boring way, I guess?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:38 pm

What could have made it better, in your opinion? I don't think every episode necessarily has to have a big action scene or a shocking twist or a world-changing revelation or similar, if that's what you were looking for.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:39 pm

Before I forget: My highlight was the bit in the cold open with the pony with bones on her cutie mark. Strangely I liked that the show tried to hint murder but they double-dodged it with archeology and pirates.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:39 pm

Wayoshi wrote:Certainly I was hoping Gabby didn't get her mark either, that would have been a big negative.

Like the episode got to where it should have, but it did it in kind of a boring way, I guess?


The reveal, to me, wasn't that Gabby couldn't get a cutie mark, it was that she had faked it to try to make the CMC feel better. That was a great way to reveal her true talent of helping others, and show that it wasn't about getting a cutie mark.

The part after that was really just the epilogue, to me.
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Postby Adelor Lyon (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:42 pm

adiwan wrote:I don't know about you but I understand Polish, which is a huge detriment to enjoying it. I avoided to watch the early-released Polish dub (although I could watch it with subtitles and no audio). My first experience with the Polish dub resulted in metaphorically bleeding ears. Thus I don't dare to experience it another time.

Like I mentioned before, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the episode a few days ago in Polish just by watching the characters and the inflection of their voices and trying to figure out what's going on. I also enjoy listening to music in languages other than English because not needing to focus on lyrics leaves the vocals as just another musical instrument in the song. For what it's worth, I thought the Polish voice delivery was great in this episode.

Octavia wrote:Also best pony sport confirmed.

Remember back when a scene like this would've been row upon row of duplicate pony?

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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:44 pm

The Doctor wrote:I asked Jim Miller on Twitter, and he said it was to have a CMC presence in the 2nd half of the season.

Huh, interesting.

There were times where episodes focusing on a character aired back-to-back (Season 1's "Stare Master" and "The Show Stoppers", for example), so I guess they learned not to do that too much.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:44 pm

Swing Gabby Gabby Swiiiiing.

Can'thititcan'thititcan'thitit swiiiingaahhhh Gabby.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:45 pm

Lol if it had been the first season we'd have like five Lyras, two Time Turners, a female Time Turner, twelve Caramels, one girl caramel.
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:47 pm

Highly enjoyable episode.

I admit that I had not seen a bubbly griffon coming, but Gabby was enjoyable, once the initial shock had passed.

I found it funny to see the name Gabby resurrected in a CMC episode, and it was very satisfying to see just how squishy the CMC are in a firm hug.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:53 pm

Niels Olof wrote:Highly enjoyable episode.

I admit that I had not seen a bubbly griffon coming, but Gabby was enjoyable, once the initial shock had passed.

I found it funny to see the name Gabby resurrected in a CMC episode, and it was very satisfying to see just how squishy the CMC are in a firm hug.


I thought about it too. Make Gabby deliver the official CMC club pamphlet named "Gabby Gums".
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:56 pm

Adelor Lyon wrote:Remember back when a scene like this would've been row upon row of duplicate pony?

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They're still not entirely above swapping a background pony's cutie mark as it fits the situation, though, judging by Time Turner the catcher.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2016 5:06 pm

Way to say all ponies look alike. :roll:
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