S06E18: Dungeons & Discords

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Re: S06E18: Dungeons & Discords

Postby drunkill (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:42 pm

Kefka now has to rename the forums again (slightly)
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:43 pm

Wayoshi wrote:Wasn't Ogres & Oubilettes also the name from the SA/Cadance high school comic?

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Yes. Yes it was!
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:44 pm

Ogres & Oubliettes :toot:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:45 pm

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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 Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:46 pm

"Look nerds, let's go to a bar."
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"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:48 pm

"NOPE, NOPE, NOPE!"
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"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:49 pm

I'm 100% in love with this jazz club and everything in the background.
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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 The Doctor (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:51 pm

BINGO!

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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:51 pm

THE CARDBOARD CUTOUTS! AUUUGH!!!
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:52 pm

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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:53 pm

This Gorilla Gym commercial has the worst acting I've ever seen in a commercial.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:54 pm

The skeletons are too adorable.
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"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:56 pm

Spike dropping Atomic truth Bombs Up In Here
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:00 pm

That felt like the fastest 22 minutes in the history of this entire show.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:00 pm

I need more! I need more badly!
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:02 pm

That was a pretty good episode. I find any Discord episode to be a good time. I always like seeing Big Mac as well. :eeyup:

Discord got some pretty good shots in at Spike. I liked his Celestia impersonation too. :pcstare:
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:06 pm

My episode summary: wasted potential.

The whole part that the girls are going away could be left all in the cold open.
The first act should be that Discord is kind of an ass.
The beginning of the second act should have been what in this episode happened and then
the rest should have been a snappy Adventure Time episode in length in their Ogres and Oubliettes holodeck simulation until the girls arrive and join in.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:09 pm

Not really my type of episode.

I don't have much to say beyond that. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:09 pm

I'm torn on whether to count this episode for my "Home Alone" bingo square.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:13 pm

Discord himself is super cool and we all wish we had a friend like him.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:19 pm

I actually really appreciated the pacing here. I mean, it would've been super easy for the episode to spend most or all its time in the game world, but then it'd have to fill out that time with tons of jokes about the goofy setting and it wouldn't have much substance. There also wouldn't be the mystery of whether Discord was doing this just because it was part of the game or because he was angry with Spike and Big Mac for not doing what he wanted to do. Without that, we wouldn't have gotten the big climax with Discord storming out and then having to swallow his pride and actually apologize for what he did.

Much like 28 Pranks Later followed some of MMDW's themes but was better overall, I think this episode was like a revisit to Keep Calm and Flutter On. Back then was his first realization that friendship was worthwhile and that he couldn't be self-serving all the time, but I think that lesson came off much more clearly and more heartfelt here.
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Postby Daring Do (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:24 pm

Soft Snow wrote:I want to imagine their fantasy role-playing is something completely opposite of what we normally think of it as.

:here: "We are playing a fantasy game. It is a world completely different from our own, were no magic or dragons exist."
:notgonnadoit: "Right now I'm a level 12 clerk. Once I get to level 20 I can be promoted to an accountant and spec into office management skills."
:dearcelestia: "I just got an epic folder that allows me to hold up to twelve forms and a rare coffee mug that gives me plus three to energy."
:notgonnadoit: "Wait, your supervisor skill isn't high enough for your filing cabinets to hold that epic folder. You need to submit a report to corporate first. Have you been cheating this whole time?"
:eep: "..."


This would've been amazing. D: Darn you, MLP! Darn you for not being as clever as Gravity Falls. >:(

Speaking of which, I think Gravity Falls did it better here (like they did with DT. And a third thing, I think, that I can't remember right now due to being sick and exhausted). Some online commenter summed it up nicely (wish I could remember where I'd seen it), how that show didn't go the "nerd wish fulfillment" route, with the characters feeling it wasn't for them even after experiencing it.

Also happy they used the comics' name for the D&D expy (not sure if someone else has already pointed this out).
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Postby Applepie (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:35 pm

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Finally I got some Discord jazz, and more 1980's pop culture.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:44 pm

Daring Do wrote:Darn you for not being as clever as Gravity Falls. >:(

In my opinion Gravity Falls did it a little bit better but they totally goofed up the game principle, especially at the end with "I say whatever I want and it totally works no matter how bizarre it is!". There was a hint of that in this episode too when Discord tried to do magic with an archer character and got turnip fingers. But here it worked because it was in the game.

How can they goof up such a simple concept? Star Trek TNG did it better with Q's Robin Hood adventure where everyone had to play along to end Q's game.

This could be a great episode if they just played the game, Discord tried to sabotage Spike's game within the game's world because he wants to end the game as quickly as possible to do anything else, Spike literally rolls with Discord's shenanigans and creates awesome situations (hilarity ensues), and Discord learns that he had a great time playing with them despite his initial doubts.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:52 pm

adiwan wrote:This could be a great episode if they just played the game, Discord tried to sabotage Spike's game within the game's world because he wants to end the game as quickly as possible to do anything else, Spike literally rolls with Discord's shenanigans and creates awesome situations (hilarity ensues), and Discord learns that he had a great time playing with them despite his initial doubts.

I don't think it would've worked quite so well had we not seen Discord trying to do things his way first. What you describe would've been funny, but I don't think it would've had quite as much dramatic weight to it.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 5:11 pm

- Sassy Fluttershy is best Fluttershy.

- Cute winter outfits. :3:

- I loved how all Big Mac whispered to Spike was "Nope. Yep."

- "Shmerity"

- "Imagination!" *waves claws*

- Big Mac's laugh is the best.

- "NOPE NOPE NOPE"

- Ha, cardboard cutouts.

All in all, pretty good episode.
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Postby Marimo (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 5:12 pm

I think you could've hit all the same story beats and still had more time to show off Discord's game. What needed to be cut down was Discord's shtick. You know, his bits, like where he's pretending to look at his schedule and then talk to his scretary about playing with Spike and Big Mac. Those kinds of scenes just sort of drag on, which also kind of hurts the joke too. You could accomplish the same thing but without sacrificing as much time if he just pulled out his props and said one or two lines like, "Oh well it seems there just happens to be an opening in my schedule".

It's like if you've ever seen the Nostalgia Critic's review of Bebe's Kids, there's a part in the review where the main character/narrator Robin meets his ex-wife and starts going on a tangent about her, Critic's reaction is "Losing the story and going into stand-up. Come on, bring it back, bring it back, come on, here we are! Back to the plot."
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 5:19 pm

I really like Discord's [disgusted noises]. :3:
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Postby Perinerd (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 5:47 pm

Really disappointed that the main image used to promote this episode that got everyone (myself included) hyped with Big Mac, Discord, and Spike in the game world really only lasted 2 minutes and it took us 13 minutes to get there anyway. It wasn't a bad episode itself but it had so much potential only to just be another 'discord is an asshole' (after 3 seasons) episode. Gravity Falls's 'Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons' takes a similar amount of time to get to the characters inside the game world but it actually has things going on before that as opposed to just 12 minutes of Dipper and Ford rolling the die. Remember way back in Seasons 1-3 when Fluttershy had the problem where she would never learn from her experiences of being a pushover or being too assertive and would always just go back to being 'im shy'? Discord is having this problem now, and I really hope he gets over it and learns to treat people as equals like he's learnt so many times before. When we finally get to see Spike and Mac accepting that the game world was kinda cool, we don't even get to see it other than the clip at the end. Even Rainbow Dash and Pinkie admit it looks pretty awesome.

tl;dr there was a lot of potential here and I hope they come back to it with an actual episode IN the game world (maybe with pinkie and dash)
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 6:43 pm

Thinking about it now, I feel like Discord's idea of a good time is what a lot of kids think cool people do every night, going out to bars and clubs and partying in a kinda stodgy but still cool way. In that sense, I can relate to Spike and Big Mac. When I was young I was always interested in reading or playing video games or other mostly solitary leisures, not in going out like that. 6-to-12-year-old me would've appreciated this episode for sure.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 6:49 pm

I think that's part of why Discord was so taken aback by Spike calling him a weirdo. "I wanna go to a bar, dance, and mack on chicks with banana cutie marks, and I'm the weirdo?!"

"Yeah, sitting around a table using our imaginations is way more normal, Discord."

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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 6:58 pm

It was good and fun. But I actually play and run RPGs so yeah. The cut outs moving was kinda rad.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 7:50 pm

Fluttershy is knocking it out of the park with faces this season. I especially liked her eyebrow raise in this one. :allears:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 9:17 pm

:shepspike: "Oh Gary Gygax, take me away to a realm of imagination where I'm still a magic dragon, just one who doesn't have to scrub the crapper on Tuesdays."

• Discord, stop making Fluttershy mean with magic! That never works out in your favor.
• "Consider it considered" is now my new catchphrase IRL.
• Hey, Twilight gets to go on a fun trip this season! :excite: Let's all be happy for her while the moment lasts.
• Although she totally wishes she could join the nerd club activities.
• If you'd told me at the start of Season 2 that Discord would one day be reduced to silently praying Spike and Big Mac don't invite him to their roleplaying game night, half of me wouldn't believe you. But the other half would be super stoked.
• I bet John De Lancie would rock a zoot suit.
• Celestia is "KK"? What am I not getting?
• I would love to learn about the rowdiest establishments in Ponyville. :lol:
• Why is Discord's rec room full of owl pictures?
• I bet Discord would be super into Betrayal at House on the Hill!
• Even though we know where it's headed, Act 1 is really fun just because of all the gags and voice work. Everyone's on their game today.
• Schmarity :gotcha:
• I can't even take notes, this is too surreal. :ponydrugs:
• The nerds think he is a weirdo. :scootatrue:
• And everyone working together is super adorable.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:05 pm

Rewatched the episode, and yeah, they should have gotten to the Guys Night faster. Still a great ride once they get there.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:30 pm

Fluttershy was murdering me with her cute facial expressions. Could this be the season of Fluttershy emotions?
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The mane six go off on an adventure on their own while the others stay at home and get into their own kind of mischief. I seem to recall an episode similar to this one only it involved more pets.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:45 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:Discord, stop making Fluttershy mean with magic! That never works out in your favor.

The best part of that scene is that we're really not sure if Fluttershy was doing that because Discord's effect actually changed her behavior or because she was just going along with his joke and was shocked at how peeved she could be.
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Postby VGAddict (?) » Sun Aug 28, 2016 12:06 am

How is it that Spike is finally getting good episodes?
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sun Aug 28, 2016 12:11 am

Spike, Discord, Big Mac, D&D, this could have been a perfect storm of Bad :-I

It was ok though. I like the way Big Mac had some character instead of being yep/nope guy :v:
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sun Aug 28, 2016 12:13 am

Discord keeps feeling underwhelming though. If we're going with Chaos God as a wacky sidekick I want to see more volcanoes, less confetti basketballs :v: Even the way he announced himself was underwhelming, maybe draw some wacky looking chaos minion instead of just a mini-Discord? They could come up with some funny designs for that :rariwhat:

What I'm saying is just have some fun with the character or send him back to his home planet for god's sake.
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