S05E21: Scare Master

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Re: S05E21: Scare Master

Postby Pocket (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:30 pm

So I guess everyone else had the same idea as me, and watched the leaked copy in one go at the regular time, because nobody left comments during the commercials.

Rarity passing on the bat costume made me laugh out loud. Reminds me of that moment from DMC with the mop.

I was expecting Fluttershy's first attempt at being scary would turn out to be either cringingly lame or surprisingly effective, especially after the scene at Sugarcube Corner, but they actually did a good job of making it funny and showing that she did put some thought into it. When she asked Pinkie Pie to "ask your best friend to pass the cucumber sandwiches", I thought the hook was going to be that Pinkie Pie doesn't have a "best" friend, or at least doesn't want her friends to think she does, and she would be too nervous to ask anyone in particular for fear of upsetting the others. Possibly a missed opportunity, but it would have undermined the point of the scene if one of Fluttershy's tricks had been effective.

Did anyone else notice that the colors in that scene weren't just dark, but desaturated? That was a nice touch — in the dark, people actually are worse at seeing colors. (Funny thing is, I was just rewatching Monsters University and noticed the same thing during the scene where they're trapped at the summer camp.) And then afterwards, everything got a bit of a pinkish(?) tint, appropriate for sunset.

Fake dead Granny Smith was a shocker. This episode already went further than I expected from this show with the morbid talk of ponies dying in the maze and all, but holy crap. Remember when Hasbro was reluctant to give Luna an episode because she was "too dark"? How far we've come. And Pinkie asking "How'd that get down here?" when harry showed up in his... swamp monster? ...costume, I was like "Do you know this creature, Pinkie?"

Anyway, I like the resolution. We've had plenty of episodes devoted to shy Fluttershy and timid Fluttershy, but sensitive Fluttershy is something we haven't seen much of. The idea that she cares more about her friends' feelings than they care about their own... that's an interesting new angle.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:39 pm

Copying my reactions from the leak discussion thread:

Great Nightmare Night episode. As usual, it lends itself to great visual work. Fluttershy's cottage tends to get some of the best subtle color/lighting work in the show, and it was no exception here.

Also, good costume work:
  • In Wayoshi's first screenshot -- a dragon, a griffon, a changeling, and a timberwolf.
  • The CMC are :scootawoo: a Wonderbolt, :anticipation: a platypus, and :ohboy: Marie Antoinette.
  • Derpy :lol:

Headless Horse wrote:The character work is just top-notch. Pinkie especially; the physical comedy bits like rolling around everywhere on skates,

...and just being pushed along by Rarity on the way to Fluttershy's cottage.

Also, that shot of it all full of candy BAAAHAHA :lol:

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- The Nightmare Moon poster with her tongue sticking out

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"Pin the horn on the alicorn" is a fun twist.

Oh, I forgot to add: I can't decide whether AJ is supposed to be a lion or a manticore. The braided tail could go either way. No wings, though, so I guess lion is more likely.

"Just... bear."
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:42 pm

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Pinkie's mane is so adorable. :allears:
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Postby Master_Twig (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:44 pm

The Doctor wrote:Image

Pinkie's mane is so adorable. :allears:


I just looked at the pictures on those bags. They're great. She drew Rainbow Dash looking so mean.

And I guess that makes two instances of a Derpy Twilight in the episode. :gotcha:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:47 pm

The Doctor wrote:Pinkie's mane is so adorable. :allears:

And, as usual, it's not just a mane:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:59 pm

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Postby Pocket (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:01 pm

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This is the best face.

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Is this the first time the horse mask has been seen on this show? Either way, it will never not be an excellent gag. Especially since I've come to associate it so heavily with this community.

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I spotted the Twilight costume, but it didn't register who was wearing it.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:15 pm

Gotta love that horse mask heh.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:16 pm

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This needs to be an emote yesterday.
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Postby DaBatGuy (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:42 pm

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Despite these intentionally looking like jank ponifications straight off DeviantArt I love the attention to detail in the faces. It's not just gangly horse with anime eyes in X-character's outfit, whoever drew this gave them each unique head, snout, and eye shapes to match the style of the original mangaka's, I definitely wouldn't have recognized the Bulma pony without Toriyama's eyes.
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Postby Jill (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:43 pm

Watching now even though I skipped the last ~10 episodes. :v:

  • Having to go out on some dumb holiday scares me too. Maybe for different reasons.
  • Old people, the most insensitive of assholes.
  • Okay so it's pretty clear by now that this is going to contain an unrelatable message about reclusiveness.
  • "DAAH! ...Fluttershy?" wrap it up folks, she's done it.
  • Vampire fruit bat. VAMPIRE FRUIT BAT :twonk:
  • Fluts blushes when being tail-slapped by Rarity. OTP confirmed
  • "Ooo yeeees" Tabitha has still got it :vogue:
  • Furry spotted.
  • These excuses. Fluttershy is an expert at this.
  • "Just like 90 per--" :consternation:
  • Goodness RD, could you be any more shit.
  • I take it back. Fluttershy, I don't think your insecurities are going to work here. Could you be any more shit at this.
  • Fluttershy draws manga ponies. That makes a weird amount of sense.
  • Yes, I'm sure Angel knows exactly what to do. Listen to him.
  • Pretty sure I know what's going on. The cold open kinda foreshadowed it. :-I
  • GAME OVER - RETURN OF FLUTTERBAT
  • Yeep. Fluts has this shit figured out now. I guess Angel really did know exactly what to do.
  • I was wrong about something else though. "This just isn't my cup of tea" is actually not the kind of resolution I was expecting at all. :allears:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:47 pm

Image Hay Fluttershy! Want to try my new Nightmare Night treat...bloody ice cream?

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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:49 pm

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Postby Jill (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:50 pm

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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 6:30 pm

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Where's his bowtie?
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:02 pm

Fluttershy spooked by rubber spiders when she's best friends with a real one is a great gag. :lol: Also the "scary" zoom on the friendliest-looking Jack-o-lantern in the world.

Another great Fluttershy episode. The show understands how to present her timidness as a thing that is not necessarily a problem to be solved. She's able to set reasonable boundaries while remaining herself. :allears:
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Postby PictishBeast (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:05 pm

That was cute. I liked how Dash was increasingly annoyed by Fluttershy's shenanigans. Also how Fluts appeared to be sniping at the others during the tea party--oh you think it's fun to be scared, well guess what Rarity you're shallow & superficial oh and by the way Pinkie nopony really likes you.

The ending is interesting. Basically Fluts tried it, didn't like it, isn't going to do it again, and that's okay. Not what I was expecting from the setup.
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Postby PictishBeast (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:27 pm

"And what's that crunching sound beneath your hooves? Maybe it's the bones of ponies that didn't make it out alive! And are those peeled grapes or a thousand slimy eyeballs staring at you from beyond the grave?"

This seemed like surprisingly gruesome dialogue for this show. I mean I guess we know that ponies die and are buried and rot away, but it's weird to see it actually acknowledged in a cartoon fantasy world.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:38 pm

To those of you who hadn't been expecting this ending, what did you think it was going to be? In earlier seasons I might've expected the show to have her realize that this sort of thing is fun and isn't something to necessarily be afraid of, without showing regard to what Fluttershy personally thought of it.
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This seemed like surprisingly gruesome dialogue for this show. I mean I guess we know that ponies die and are buried and rot away, but it's weird to see it actually acknowledged in a cartoon fantasy world.

Between that and the fake skeleton of Granny Smith, I actually had the same feeling. I suppose the show just really hasn't had much reason to try to push that particular envelope before.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:12 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:To those of you who hadn't been expecting this ending, what did you think it was going to be? In earlier seasons I might've expected the show to have her realize that this sort of thing is fun and isn't something to necessarily be afraid of, without showing regard to what Fluttershy personally thought of it.

I assume some people don't like when Fluttershy is talked into doing something more daring by her friends, and then they argue that she should keep being more assertive that way, which suggests that all her anxiety is silly and wrong.

That said, episodes like Filli Vanilli show that, while she does need to confront her fears, she's capable of deciding how much she wants to deal with those issues at one time. Plus, having her back off at the end, not because she's scared of the whole concept, but because she cares too much about her friends' feelings, was a pleasant surprise.
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Postby Marimo (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:20 pm

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AJ fails at being the honest farmer pony or whatever

How does not having sugar and not being a good host for a tea party relate to honesty or being a farmer?

And also, how was any of that really passive-aggressive behavior? That implies some sort of desire to be aggressive in an indirect way. Like sure there's how she's trying to scare her friends, but we don't call other people's attempts to scare others aggressive or passive-aggressive.
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Postby PictishBeast (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:40 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:To those of you who hadn't been expecting this ending, what did you think it was going to be?


That Fluttershy would be pulled out of her shell, realize how much fun it is to socialize with her friends, and essentially join the kids who are watching the show IRL on the "Halloween is awesome!" team. To end with her going "hahaha nope" instead was kinda surprising.

Marimo wrote:And also, how was any of that really passive-aggressive behavior? That implies some sort of desire to be aggressive in an indirect way. Like sure there's how she's trying to scare her friends, but we don't call other people's attempts to scare others aggressive or passive-aggressive.


It's interpretation, definitely. But considering how deeply Fluttershy dug the knives into Rarity and Pinkie in Putting Your Hoof Down, the fact that she seemed to be zeroing in on those insecurities again here stood out to me.

I like Fluttershy better when she has a mean streak.
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Postby BurningBright (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:49 pm

This was a great episode all around. I liked how Fluttershy went hardcore scary after the 'lame' cottage tea party.

The ending was a surprise, too. Her character has a lot of depth.
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Postby Marimo (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:52 pm

PictishBeast wrote:It's interpretation, definitely. But considering how deeply Fluttershy dug the knives into Rarity and Pinkie in Putting Your Hoof Down, the fact that she seemed to be zeroing in on those insecurities again here stood out to me.

Seemed to me like Fluttershy was just using her own fears and insecurities she would have and trying to use them on the others. Some may apply more to others better, like Rarity and using something someone self-conscious would fret over like no one noticing their dress (plus she was the only one with a costume that could also be considered a dress), but Pinkie's could just as easily be applied to Twilight (because friends) or Rainbow Dash (because friend not being loyal). That one was probably just dependent on who took a seat next to an empty chair.
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Postby Jill (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:33 pm

PictishBeast wrote:
That Fluttershy would be pulled out of her shell, realize how much fun it is to socialize with her friends, and essentially join the kids who are watching the show IRL on the "Halloween is awesome!" team. To end with her going "hahaha nope" instead was kinda surprising.

Basically this. It would have been very easy for this episode to portray Fluttershy's inability to have fun on Nightmare Night as problematic. When she finally succeeded at bringing on the scares, I thought for sure that was going to be the episode's resolution in itself. That you are capable of anything as long as you find the method that works for you.

But then Fluttershy's own feelings come into play. As if to say that even when you happen to find that method that works for you, and it makes you good at something, that something still may not be what's right for you in the first place.
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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:39 pm

It's a nice little episode with some fun shout outs. It's clear this team are about my age given how the anime ponies were all from mid 90s era. And I have watched multiple episodes of every show referenced. Oh for the times before anime became the full bad kind of creepy it is nowadays... :fluttersmith:

I like the ending though. Fluts gave it a fair shot but it's not for her and that's cool. It's how things ought to be as opposed to most folks who either refuse to give something a fair try because of idiotic reasons or those who just can't understand not everyone likes or cares about the same thing.

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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:52 pm

BurningBright wrote:This was a great episode all around. I liked how Fluttershy went hardcore scary after the 'lame' cottage tea party.

I wonder how much of the maze scheme was Fluttershy's idea and how much was Angel's. We may never know :iiam:

As for the ending, it's very consistent with the ending of Filli Vanilli, where we too see Fluttershy gently but firmly setting boundaries. But where in FV she was "I may be comfortable with public singing one day, but not yet", here it was simply "Nope, this isn't for me." Two slightly different shades of response; both entirely valid and accepted by her friends. The important thing in both cases is, Fluttershy tried a new thing, and then was able to make a decision about that thing based on real experience and not imagined terrors.

Scare Master's ending also recalled, and is consistent with, the pranking scene from Griffon the Brush Off. Fluttershy doesn't like it when bad stuff happens to ponies, even harmless bad stuff in jest.

The only thing that really surprised me was that the ending didn't go out of its way to make Rainbow Dash more frightened than the others, as a bit of comeuppance (like the final gag in Dragonshy). Oh, and I'm also surprised Spike wasn't more upset about his costume getting ripped.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:56 pm

The Doctor wrote:Image

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They missed an opportunity to bring back the unused Princess Luna costume from the first nightmare night episode, but whatever.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:32 pm

Captain Rufus wrote:It's a nice little episode with some fun shout outs. It's clear this team are about my age given how the anime ponies were all from mid 90s era. And I have watched multiple episodes of every show referenced. :

They're also old enough to be institutions in their own right, so they're super recognizable. Ranma's ponytail(heh) immediately jumped out at me. I don't recognize the one in the center.

:modesty: :"This Nightmare Night, I think just I'll make myself a pot of cocoa and put on some Sailor Moon."
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:35 pm

:allears: Fluttershy put Utena pony front and center. She clearly has excellent taste in anime.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:38 pm

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote:They're also old enough to be institutions in their own right, so they're super recognizable. Ranma's ponytail(heh) immediately jumped out at me. I don't recognize the one in the center.

Tenjou Utena, from Revolutionary Girl Utena, a bizarre staple of '90s anime fandom.
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Pearl from Steven Universe also clearly draws inspiration from Utena.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:44 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Tenjou Utena, from Revolutionary Girl Utena, a bizarre staple of '90s anime fandom.
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Pearl from Steven Universe also clearly draws inspiration from Utena.


Utena in general seems to have had a very big influence on Steven Universe.

it's also an absolutely fantastic show and I'd recommend it to anyone.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:48 pm

Andew Ryan's Fursona wrote:Is this the first time the horse mask has been seen on this show? Either way, it will never not be an excellent gag. Especially since I've come to associate it so heavily with this community.


Yeah, unless you count the split-second shot of the show staff wearing horse masks in Slice of Life. :v:


I've heard a lot of people talking (at least online) about dressing up as BoJack Horseman tonight; all they need is a horsemask and a bit of hair dye, and appropriate clothes.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:51 pm

Also, c/p my original reaction post:

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Holy crap that was a good episode :twonk:

I think after so many story-heavy eps lately I've kind of forgotten how funny this show can be.

The character work is just top-notch. Pinkie especially; the physical comedy bits like rolling around everywhere on skates, and bouncing on her tail like it's a medicine ball, but particularly the way she reacts to Fluttershy during the first group party (slooowly sliding the bag of candy off the table) and later at the spoooky tea party ("What?!"). I haven't seen Pinkie written this well in I don't know how fuckin' long.

Story-wise it's also very well put together. I've seen story structures like this before, where someone puts their mind to something and ends up being wildly successful beyond all plausibility, and there's clues all along the way as to what's going on that you can pick up on if you're really trying, and in this case it wasn't exactly a huge challenge... but it was all in service of a nice message that played well on prior milestones in Fluttershy's development like "baby steps", which is neatly in keeping with the show's original premise as a sort of self-help primer for kids. Fluttershy is actively working on changing how she interacts with the world; sometimes she makes progress, and sometimes she overreaches her aim and has to scuttle back into her cave to recuperate. But this is an honest-to-goodness arc for her, and it will figure into her future stories, if past ones showing up here is any indication.

But it's the sight gags and background details that make this a goddamn laugh riot:

- I love that they're playing up Twilight's castle being big and dark and cold and spooky with hardly anyone living in it

- Spike continues his tradition of great costume choices :lol:

- I don't know what the fuck kind of ghost story would have ended with the bit we heard from Pinkie, but it sounds perfect for something you just pick up right in the middle

- :ohrarity: "I just told you. The mannequin comes to life and haunts all the dresses."

- I guess Equestria has a space program if RD's space helmet is anything but the realm of in-universe sci-fi. Also, that shot of it all full of candy BAAAHAHA :lol:

- The Nightmare Moon poster with her tongue sticking out

- Also a neat bit of unspoken continuity: RD can regain her attitude in seconds after being spun around a bunch, like on the dizz-mo-tron in Wonderbolts Academy. Never expected to see that bit ever show up again, but I'll be damned if it wasn't the perfect way to callback to it.

- Granny Smith as a cackling Warner Bros. witch made me LOL. But seeing her skull fall off her body was like :gonkity: —gave me the same vibes as the snail on the stone Twilight in Stare Master.

- Horsemask :horse:

- Derpy, fuckin' perfect

- Just all the random dishing between the characters, like Applejack rationalizing whatever is going on in the pit, and Rarity trying costumes on Fluttershy, and pretty much everything they all say to each other throughout the episode. In fact, I just have to give special credit to Fluttershy's spooooky tea party narration, and the way it's handled: all the stuff she says and the "mistake existential horror and psychoterrorism for jump-scares" gags are great on one level, like Bender trying to scare Fry ("There is no god and your idiotic human ideals are laughable!"); but even better is that none of the other ponies even know how to begin to react. They could have had AJ and Rarity and Pinkie flip out at this little manifestation of PYHD Fluttershy twisting the knife into their deepest darkest psychological fears, but honestly that's been done, and it would have turned the scene into slapstick. Instead it was really quite poignant, as we see Fluttershy trying to recap her PYHD performance and having it backfire horribly (even if the worst reaction she got out of them was just confusion, like, realistic human confusion, like the way you or I would react if we found ourselves in exactly that position). That was a scene that started out a certain way, telegraphing to me that it was going to go in a certain direction comedically and dramatically, and then it went off at a 90-degree angle from that, and left me with one of the most rich and human scenes this show has ever done.

Oh, and—

- "Harry" is now confirmed for official retcon as the bear's name, rather than just being a thing Fluttershy came up with off the top of her head trying to put Pinkie off the scent of her surprise party plans


Moral: sometimes you need baby steps, sometimes "no steps" is the answer. Even if stepping outside your element is really goddamn funny.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 12:14 am

I wonder if on Nightmare Night, there's a squadron of pegasi assigned to keep it cloudy and lightning-y. They are paid in candy.


:offendash: "Ugh, I can't go to the party with you guys this year. They drew my name and I'm on mood duty."
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Postby Daring Do (?) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 1:09 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:Oh, yeah, that's something else I should've mentioned. I've seen a few different folks who imagined Fluttershy as being some sort of a geek when she was younger, and I never really bought into that idea until now, but maybe she was the closest thing you can get to a weeaboo in Equestria. Like, if they had computers and the Internet, maybe she'd be the sort who would've registered on DeviantArt as soon as she turned 13.



For anyone who might've missed the episode today and also did not watch the leak, here is the DailyMotion upload: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37g37x


That's a thing? Sounds like some bronies are projecting onto their waifu... :ponder:

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote:They're also old enough to be institutions in their own right, so they're super recognizable. Ranma's ponytail(heh) immediately jumped out at me. I don't recognize the one in the center.

:modesty: :"This Nightmare Night, I think just I'll make myself a pot of cocoa and put on some Sailor Moon."
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:beggarshy: :"What's that? You don't like the subtitles?"
:glare: :"Dubbing is the Quitter's way out, Angel."


Oh my gosh, I don't even watch anime (most of the time, anyhow) but I read that in Fluttershy's voice and it was so perfect.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 1:21 am

Well, geeky interests are stereotypically ostracized by most of the rest of society, so maybe some folks saw it as a way of explaining why she grew up being so shy. Nothing about her really felt that way to me (compare her to Twilight Sparkle or Shining Armor, and especially what we've seen of them in the comics), but if she got into anime and manga when she was young then that's perhaps what her knowledge of arts and crafts and fashion developed from.
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Postby WandereringPony (?) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 1:25 am

BurningBright wrote:This was a great episode all around. I liked how Fluttershy went hardcore scary after the 'lame' cottage tea party.

The ending was a surprise, too. Her character has a lot of depth.


The one fear Fluttershy has above all others is herself.

I think she'd rather be "afraid" of the world than doing what, to her, is the instinctive and "rational" thing to do- what she restrains with her morality. Natural Fluttershy is closer to the beasts than you'd find comfortable in a kid's show.

Think about it. Assertiveness course with Iron Will? Monstershy. "You should be the one scaring ponies." Absolutely terrifies them all. State your opinion? If it was any sharper wit, it'd have left them with punctured organs.

All wrapped up in an adorable shell. Don't let it crack, Fluttershy.

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Now, as for the rest of the episode?

Pinkie Pie basically channeling her EqG Friendships Game self for the costume. Not a bad touch.

Twilight going very retro, again. First Star Swirl, now the pegasi version of Athena? There's gotta be a story there.

If we have another Halloween episode in S6, it's a 50/50 chance that Applejack does the Tin Man or Dorothy (with Winona-Toto). She's gotten the Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion down.

Twilight herself is officially a costume. Wonder if anyone does Cadence?

Rainbow Dash doesn't bother unwrapping her candy before pouring it in. Then again, rice paper is a nice edible way to wrap your candy up in many parts of the world.

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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 3:21 am

This episode was scarier then I was expecting. First a scary jack-o-lantern then a spooky skeleton then an even spookier skeleton as if such a thing were even possible! On a plus side I only had to pause it four times because of how spooky it was. :crushed:

I think they down graded their hoof drawing skills to make them look more authentic. I don't remember them being that bad at drawing before.

Ponies showed their impressions of how they view anime. Cardboard cutout characters dangling from lose strings. :-P
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 3:28 am

Soft Snow wrote:I think they down graded their hoof drawing skills to make them look more authentic. I don't remember them being that bad at drawing before.

For Fluttershy's art, it could be that she was trying to be anime as hell. None of the rest of them are particularly good artists save for Rarity. (Twilight Sparkle is good at reproducing historical drawings, I'm sure, but she doesn't seem like the sort who would be very good at drawing anything original.)

But yeah, only unicorns are going to be able to have any degree of dexterity, and even then that's if they specifically learn to write with magic instead of their mouths or a fumbling grasp in their hooves.
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