S07E15: Triple Threat

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Re: S07E15: Triple Threat

Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:12 am

:shepspike: "Wait for the ramp, Ember. They love the slow ramp. Really gets their wings hard when they see this ramp, just slowly extending down."

:here: "GREETINGS!"

:yikes: "Ember you have to flip the ponies off, I told them it means "peace between countries"
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:06 am

The Doctor wrote::shepspike: "Wait for the ramp, Ember. They love the slow ramp. Really gets their wings hard when they see this ramp, just slowly extending down."

:here: "GREETINGS!"

:yikes: "Ember you have to flip the ponies off, I told them it means "peace between countries"

I see what you did there, Rick.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:34 am

When Ember couldn't tell Twilight and Starlight apart, I wonder which pony felt more insulted. :hilarious:
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Postby VGAddict (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:30 am

Has Spike had any good episodes?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 12:10 pm

VGAddict wrote:Has Spike had any good episodes?

Have you actually watched this one? Because I loved it, at least.

Maybe I sympathize with Spike a lot more than most, as he reminds me a whole lot of myself when I was younger (and still kind of am today): someone who more often than not ended up doing the right thing, but who also frequently has trouble recognizing it, to the point of catastrophizing over the worst imaginable outcome. As such, maybe his thought that Thorax and Ember would hate each other seems far too ridiculous to some folks watching this, but I can see how he could come to such an irrational conclusion, causing the problem in the process since he so doubted in his friends.

I also appreciate Thorax and Ember for both being adorable here; Thorax for still being an utter dweeb and Ember for resorting to her feats of strength not just because she was upset, but because that was all she knew in terms of conflict resolution. It makes me hope for an episode where they get to meet Prince Rutherford and help convince him of ways other than force to solve problems.
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Postby VGAddict (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:26 pm

I thought the episode was fine. Not as good as Spike's S6 outings, but not as bad as Princess Spike or SaYS.

Would you say the episode undid Spike's development in S6?
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:34 pm

Yeah
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 4:15 pm

Ember not being able to tell them apart was delicious meta-commentary :gotcha:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:19 pm

I wonder how Twilight must feel, considering how she thought Ember would recognize Starlight right away (admittedly with a chest bump that didn't happen at all, but still).
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:49 pm

Who can say no to this smile? :hilarious:

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And then he complains about his indigestion and stress and how he's not sleeping well and


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He might have the body of an adult changeling, but he's a pimple faced teen underneath :lol:

Interesting how they'd adapted a lot of the little pony animations/gestures/etc for him.

Ember - fabulous as ever - is probably all original animation, so it's neat seeing her just as expressive as the rest of the characters.
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Dexanth wrote:Ember not being able to tell them apart was delicious meta-commentary :gotcha:

If the writers aren't careful Starlight's going to wind up as something of a more grounded version of Twilight.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 7:45 pm

I mentally blocked that it had happened until I rewatched it again

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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:32 pm

^ What was the point of this scene? How is squishing a muffin on the wall funny or make much sense in how Ember would have ever seen that? :ponder:
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:57 pm

Wayoshi wrote:^ What was the point of this scene? How is squishing a muffin on the wall funny or make much sense in how Ember would have ever seen that? :ponder:


She was eating the crystal walls of Twilight's castle, so she assumed it was pony tradition to coat the walls with food.
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:04 am

I actually really liked that gag. Most callback jokes in children's media have the characters involved spell out exactly what they're calling back to, but that one just rolls with it with no words to muddle the comedic timing/effect. Of course, given that I've seen several people around the internet who didn't get the joke, maybe some explanation needed after all. :v:
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Postby VGAddict (?) » Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:41 pm

Now that Spike FINALLY has a role in the show (Friendship ambassador), where does he go from here?
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon Aug 21, 2017 4:59 pm

He could minister to the damned in Tartarus.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Tue Aug 22, 2017 3:28 am

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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Tue Aug 22, 2017 5:00 am

Perpetual Lurker wrote:I actually really liked that gag. Most callback jokes in children's media have the characters involved spell out exactly what they're calling back to, but that one just rolls with it with no words to muddle the comedic timing/effect. Of course, given that I've seen several people around the internet who didn't get the joke, maybe some explanation needed after all. :v:

You say this but Octavia's explanation doesn't make the parallel all that clear to me. She wasn't smearing anything in the castle, after all. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Tue Aug 22, 2017 5:20 am

At one point, Ember straight up says to Twilight "I had no idea it was polite to decorate your walls in your friends' favorite foods!", and Twilight just laughs awkwardly rather than correcting her. That sets up the muffin on the wall gag, because Ember thinks it's something that pony friends do.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:53 am

Octavia wrote:Image

Auuugh! I wanna pick him up!
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:50 pm

Octavia wrote:Image



:bwuh: why does he have a butt wing?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:22 pm

Hasbro saw all the hype generated by the buttwinged Twilight pictures and figured a character needed at least one of them canonically.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Tue Aug 22, 2017 4:54 pm

Real answer, it's his tail. His bug wings are also under the magenta part.
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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 Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue Aug 22, 2017 5:45 pm

Old Changelings had it too, it was just less noticeable and full of holes.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Aug 22, 2017 10:58 pm

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Postby Frith (?) » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:22 am

Mixed feelings about this episode. Ember and Thorax were great but the story felt a bit forced. Spike's over-reacting assumptions about Ember and Thorax didn't make much sense (at least for me).
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:32 am

Frith wrote:Mixed feelings about this episode. Ember and Thorax were great but the story felt a bit forced. Spike's over-reacting assumptions about Ember and Thorax didn't make much sense (at least for me).

It made sense to me, because I tend to work myself into the same mindset. :v:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:12 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Image

Starlight did end up liking her, at least. :P
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:33 am

Who wouldn't?

She's literally perfect.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:04 am

Aramek wrote:She's literally perfect.

Starlight, or Ember? :squintyjack:
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