Re: S04E17: Somepony to Watch Over Me
Wayoshi wrote:I understand the sentiment, but she didn't let AB make her case at all and it jumped to :doublehelmet: in a matter of a couple of minutes of screentime.
^^ I'm not arguing anything about the fire swamp or whatever. Look, the Idiot Ball is a thing and the writing has taken a couple steps back since S3 in a good chunk of eps, so it popped up this episode - it happens.
At the point of :doublehelmet:, you're well aware that even the writers knew they were taking it to 12. Never mind 11. And they know you know it, too.
It's the weekly reminder that it's a children's cartoon and we really should relax. Me, thee, and anyone taking pony to a certain overzealous level of Serious Business.
I do get the feeling that there's a few things that will drive Applejack to insanity. Losing farm and/or family (and it's tough at times to see where one ends and the other begins, the land pretty much IS family to AJ) is a direct path to massive, instant SAN point loss- which oddly enough everyone else in the family seems to handle better because AJ apparently fell on that sword when "MAH PARENTS ARE (probably) DEAD" occurred.
Being big sister, Mom, and head of the household is more than one intelligent being should bear when it becomes absolutely required you do all three at once. The cracks just don't show in Miss Reliable until she thinks she's failed or will fail at keeping one of the plates in the air at once.
And think about it. For a pony who lost their parents at just the wrong age (Apple Bloom was too young to really process it, Big Mac wasn't the next in line), the idea of doing that in reverse to Apple Bloom must have been utterly terrifying to Applejack. Temporary insanity level of terrified. Parents go away, little filly left to face cruel world. Pony leaves, sister ends up facing cruel world alone and perishes? *KER-SNAPPITY* goes this branch of the apple tree. Worse, you know Big Mac knows it- when he looks at AJ going back, it's basically the "There she goes again..." face.
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