S07E18: Daring Done

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S07E18: Daring Done

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:54 pm

When Rainbow Dash's favorite author, A.K. Yearling, announces her retirement, Dash convinces Pinkie Pie to go on a quest to find out if the book on Daring Do really will be closed forever.


This thread is for discussion of the episode. This episode airs at 11:30 Eastern / 8:30 Pacific on Saturday, September 9!

Official preview clips and images are okay to post, as is speculation about the episode.

(Leak thread: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=16101)
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:10 pm

I'm only hoping it's half as good as the night fall ep of Little Witch Academia.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:58 pm

I wonder why she's taking Pinkie and not Twilight.

Also I hope the episode title is accurate because even though I tend to like the Daring Do episodes, I'm ready for them to be done. :v:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:38 am

I didn't watch the leak, so I'm excited to see Dash being super spazzy.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:13 am

:saddash: "What? A.K. Yearling is retiring..."

:-P "Yeah, I hear she is going to finish the series by killing off Daring Do."

:terrified: "But she is Daring Do!"

:sbahj: "I know."
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 7:04 am

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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:10 am

Was a bit of good fun. Another harmless but amusing episode.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:45 pm

Above average.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:02 pm

Ending was rushed, but otherwise harmless.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:05 pm

The Good:

Pinkie and Dash interactions were a lot of fun
Loved the Sonambula story and the pony designs from the new village.

The Bad

The story was kind of bad. Daring Do gives up way to easily and the villagers are idiots.

The Ugly

Dash cowering in fear at the sight of a few thugs. She should have gone down fighting rather than just sit there.




:pinkieshrug: So, all in all, meh. I didn't care for the episode as a whole, but there were a few things I likes a lot.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:09 pm

I guess I'd hoped for a bit more of a lesson in responsibility. Something I've always appreciated are stories that actually bother to look at least a little bit at the collateral damage caused by the heroes and villains, so it was nice that this one went into that a bit (even to the point of her setting things right in the end), though the main conflict here seemed more that Dr. Caballeron was deliberately smearing Daring Do. I'll definitely have to watch this one again at some point. This episode had lots of details and I'll have to keep closer track of them all.

I also do still love the fact that Equestria is a world both fantastic enough to where Daring Do's adventures are very much real and cosmopolitan enough to where the books about her adventures are popular enough to where they inspire fans to put on conventions regarding them.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:15 pm

I liked this one! Silly adventure story, and G.M. Berrow is good at the banter.

I got a Mythical Creature and a G1 Cameo out of this one! :excite:

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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:16 pm

Adorabe.

Wanna hug that bad bad kitty monster.
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:58 pm

The Egyptian story was pretty neat, as was its faux-Egyptian animation style. The Equestrain mega (giga?) fauna is spectacular.

Daring Do really needs a better class of opponent, tho.


I look forward to eventually see the episode where we follow the hapless ponies whose job it is to maintain traps in ancient temples and relics. The associated service contracts must be quite something. Could be a significant part of the local economy... :ponder:
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:21 pm

So are we finally Daring Done with Daring Do episodes? Only one of them was okay, and that was the one that had her in it the least.
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Postby King Sombra (?) » Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:42 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:I liked this one! Silly adventure story, and G.M. Berrow is good at the banter.

I got a Mythical Creature and a G1 Cameo out of this one! :excite:



Do you think the last episode might count as a villain redemption? Pharynx was a villain at some point. He was still mostly bad at the start of the episode.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:59 am

B-but what will Quibble Pants have to hatewatch? :flutterdear: Oh who am I kidding, he'll always have something.

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• That dude's shady and foreign-looking, he's totally evil. :racis:
• Ooh, pretty evening desert landscape.
• Sphinx!
• Wait, weren't the bad guys like 10 feet away? How did they lose them in the desert? Was there a missing scene?
• Caballeron is a jerk. But luckily, he's a terrible villain.

SUMMARY: That was ... not particularly great. :pinkieshrug: There's so little to say, I might even fail to finish this senten
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Sep 10, 2017 1:39 am

King Sombra wrote:Do you think the last episode might count as a villain redemption? Pharynx was a villain at some point. He was still mostly bad at the start of the episode.

I'm not counting it because he's not technically a known villain.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:25 pm

Octavia wrote:I wonder why she's taking Pinkie and not Twilight.

And now we know why: because Pinkie was there. :v: :-P

I think I've worked out my main issue with these A.K. Yearling episodes: A.K. Yearling just isn't much of a character. Daring Do the book character is a flat, stock Indy ripoff, and that's fun because she's just a fictional character. But making her a real pony hasn't added much. We don't know why she does what she does, her A.K. Yearling persona is dull and passive, and despite the fact that she's an adventurer leading a double life, I never really feel like she's a person with a life of her own. She's mostly a passive object for RD to work out her issues against, when she needs to be a foil for RD with a strong personality of her own. She doesn't have a lot of charisma.

Yearling/Daring should be a scene-chewer, the way Photo Finish or Trixie just dominate the place whenever they're around. And I also want to know why she risks her life to collect treasures and save the world, but also avoids the spotlight, but then goes through this elaborate ruse to publicize herself anyway.

I want to know A.K. Yearling's deal. She has traits but no deal. Which makes it hard for me to care about her, because I don't know what she cares about.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:07 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:And now we know why: because Pinkie was there. :v: :-P

I think I've worked out my main issue with these A.K. Yearling episodes: A.K. Yearling just isn't much of a character. Daring Do the book character is a flat, stock Indy ripoff, and that's fun because she's just a fictional character. But making her a real pony hasn't added much. We don't know why she does what she does, her A.K. Yearling persona is dull and passive, and despite the fact that she's an adventurer leading a double life, I never really feel like she's a person with a life of her own. She's mostly a passive object for RD to work out her issues against, when she needs to be a foil for RD with a strong personality of her own. She doesn't have a lot of charisma.

Yearling/Daring should be a scene-chewer, the way Photo Finish or Trixie just dominate the place whenever they're around. And I also want to know why she risks her life to collect treasures and save the world, but also avoids the spotlight, but then goes through this elaborate ruse to publicize herself anyway.

I want to know A.K. Yearling's deal. She has traits but no deal. Which makes it hard for me to care about her, because I don't know what she cares about.


This is a great post. Her episodes can be fun but yeah, she kinda falls flat. I mean she's literally an RD self-insert that became canon, she's only there as an excuse to come up with an RD adventure episode every once in a while. I'd even say she makes RD less interesting cause her "egghead" side was never explored. There's a lot of potentially fun Reading Rainbow episodes they could make, but she never reads any other books, she's just obsessed with Daring Do and that obsession is validated because she's real and they hang out together :v:

That said, I did enjoy this episode (and the convention one). But I wouldn't mind if she retired for real :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:13 pm

On the bright side, this episode demonstrated that RD makes for an excellent Damsel in Distress...
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:09 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:We don't know why she does what she does, her A.K. Yearling persona is dull and passive, and despite the fact that she's an adventurer leading a double life, I never really feel like she's a person with a life of her own. She's mostly a passive object for RD to work out her issues against, when she needs to be a foil for RD with a strong personality of her own. She doesn't have a lot of charisma.


She had that type of personality in her first episode -- people didn't like it because she was kinda self-centered and had no time for weird fans like RD, even if she really needed to ask for help. I see what you mean about that being absent in later episodes, though.

Niels Olof wrote:On the bright side, this episode demonstrated that RD makes for an excellent Damsel in Distress...

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Postby Frith (?) » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:34 pm

I have never been a fan of Daring Do episodes and this episode continued the trend.

"Daring Do is real" plot point has always been very odd but now I'm really confused. So it seems that in southern Equestria ponies know Daring Do is real but don't know A. K. Yearling's books and in northern Equestria ponies believe Daring Do is a fictional character in A. K. yearling's books. And no one has figured out the truth about Daring Do? :rariwhat:

Otherwise, Caballeron was pretty pointless character here. I think the story with this message could have been told without a clear villain. The lesson was actually rather good and the Sphinx story was the best part of the episode.
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