Do you really think it would be a good a idea for a show aimed at pre-pubescent girls to have have a main character with body image issues obsessed with dieting?
Last episode was “Made in Manhattan”, which is a Cutie Map episode bringing Applejack and Rarity to Manehattan to help Coco Pommel, whom they met the last time they came to Manhattan, revive a neighborhood theater event.
Noticeable points:
-Applejack actually puts her head down, paws her front hoof, and snorts like a real horse when trying to muster enough nerve to cross a busy Manehattan street.
-Coco Pommel is awfully meek and timid for a pony raised in Manehattan (as seen in her filly photos).
-With the overwhlemed-by-the-big city way Applejack acts in this episode, you might forget that she used to live in Manehattan as a filly.
-Good Grief! Several Peanuts references, especially Rarity’s friendship advice booth.
-Applejack gives Rarity the mother of all eyebrow arches when Rarity suggests maybe the Cutie Map sent them to solve a fashion emergency.
-Having to stay home while the Cutie Map sends her friends out on missions is really starting to bug Twilight.
-Just to recall how much the show has changed since the first season: Rarity and Applejack used to barely be able to be under the same roof together and now they are touchy-feely and work like a well-oiled machine.
Re: Brotherhooves Social
Big Mac? Do you have something you want to tell us?
So many tears at the end from me and my kid, when Big Mac shared his feelings. That was almost as bad as the end of Toy Story 3. Heartbreaking.
I thought they were going to make a lot of “haha it’s a boy in a dress” kind of jokes, but they were really respectful there, especially with the line that was like “We have a loose definition of sister.” To me, it wasn’t weird, the “boy in a dress” stuff, but that Mac was just so dang chatty.
And “Brotherhooves Social” is the most recent episode, and it takes place at the same time as “Made in Manehattan”, showing what happens at the Sisterhooves Social that Applejack and Rarity missed. The only Mane Six characters that appear are Applejack (before she is summoned by the Cutie Map) and Rainbow Dash, but this is mostly Apple Bloom and Big Mac’s episode.
Our story starts with Applejack and Apple Bloom practicing their routines for the Sisterhooves Social while Big Mac helps Granny Smith clean out some crates in the barn. Big Mac finds what was once Apple Bloom’s favorite toy that they used to play with together. He tries to show her, but Apple Bloom is wrapped up in talking about how she is going to win lots of blue ribbons with her AWESOME big sister, who is not only the most AWESOME big sister ever, but also the most AWESOME member of the Apple family, that she gives him the brushoff. Applejack senses something is wrong, but before she can get words of more than one syllable out of Big Mac, she is summoned off on her mission.
Since Applejack and Rarity won’t be at the social, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle will have to compete vicariously through Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash. Sweetie Belle is OK with that, but Apple Bloom gets a terminal case of the mopes. Big Mac has a plan to get Apple Bloom into the Sisterhooves Social, so enter “Cousin Orchard Blossom”, I do declare.
Given his recent turn as a dream Princess, and Orchard Blossom’s loquacious contrast to Big Mac’s laconic, and the way Orchard Blossom came off as a Little Britain style “I am a Lady” kind of broad comedy trope, I enjoyed the episode but felt it would have been better if I had had access to a dozen or so transvestite and transgender people to explain if it was okay for me to be laughing or concerned about the things I was laughing at or concerned about. That’s a hell of a lot of overthinking to pack into a 22 minute cartoon about talking ponies. Nicely done.
By the way, did anyone see Equestria Girls: Friendship Games? I missed the broadcast and it doesn’t look like ABC Family is re-broadcasting it soon. I guess I will just have to wait until it shows up on Netflix.
Friendship Games wasn’t that good. It had some interesting bits (no horse pun intended) but it’s so awkwardly paced and we have to start at the beginning of people meeting people again.
Disc Family is the channel, not abc family, in case you looked up the wrong one. It’ll probably be on Netflix soon.
A fourth one is confirmed.
I liked Friendship Games. I just wish it had more humor in it.
They got them! They really got them!!
I so did NOT want that spoiled. :mad:
“Would you like to help me become student president?”
…and that’s how Pip became emperor of the universe…
I truly believed it would never happen.
Not only did they reconcile with Diamond Tiara. They got their cutie marks.
They got their cutie marks!
By the way I predicted that they would become cutie mark councillors.
I was having trouble with my Chromecast and had to do it semi-old school on regular On Demand today, several days late. I don’t think I’ve ever been so late on an ep since we started watching in S1.
I was not spoiled.
I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT. I CRIED SO HARD. KID CRIED SO HARD. MANY TEARS ALL AROUND.
From a storytelling point of view, I’m kind of disappointed. Their desperate antics were so relatable to a kid. I hope their crusade to help others keeps their level of insanity high.
The moral of this weeks episode “The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows” : Never tell Pinkie Pie a secret.
“The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows”
“Friends” reference?
I assume it was a Friends reference. If only someone had said “We were on a break”…
Well, I actually saw Crusaders of the Lost Mark the day after the initial airing. Spoilers for this show usually don’t bother me, because nothing momentous happens outside of the opening and closing episodes of a season. Obviously not the case here, though. Even though I knew it was coming, it was still one of the more powerfully emotional episodes of the entire series. Lost of liquid pride. And to think I disliked the CMC in their first appearances…
Notable Things:
-The past few eps have certainly made up for the lack of songs in the first half of the season.
-Cherilee is once again the Useless Authority Figure, although Diamond Tiara probably plays the “My Mom is President of the School Board” on a regular basis
-It’s amazing this show could make me sympathetic towards Diamond Tiara, who has been the most consistently nasty character in the series.
-Since Filthy Rich has been shown to be a pretty nice guy, a lot of people figured that DT gets her nastiness from her mother. Confirmed. With a name like Spoiled Rich, what else could she be but nasty?
-It was worth it to see Silver Spoon tell DT off, even if she’s not saint herself.
-A lot of parallels to “Magical Mystery Cure”, with a lot of songs pushing the narrative along, a false conclusion with about five minutes left, and then the big reveal.
-The cutie marks were a little busy. I was wondering about the odd color scheme on the stripes, but on 2nd viewing, the stripes are the CMC’s mane colors
-Cutie marks have meanings beyond their obvious visuals, but ponies can always misunderstand them.
With all the cutie mark-themed eps this season, I suspected the CMC would get theirs, but I didn’t think it would be done in a random mid-season episode. I also thought it would involve Princess Luna in some way.
I’m wondering, where this show will be going next season, as more and more of the cast seem to be achieving their life’s goals. What are the CMC to do without madcap stunts to get their marks and without Diamond Tiara as an antagonist?
And on to “The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows”…This reminded me of an old sitcom ep, with Pinkie constantly being reminded of babies, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The animators certainly went to town on this one with Pinkie’s body language and facial expressions. Some people were apparently mad that the secret was revealed to the audience at the start of the ep. Kind of silly, IMHO, that any other secret revealed by Cadance and Shining Armor besides the one revealed would be a “gotcha”.
Re: “Hearthbreaker”
Applejack is beginning to think like Pinkie Pie. Be afraid, be very afraid.
“Hearthbreakers” is bascically “Maud Pie” writ large, with Pinkie Pie once again stressing the similarities between the Apples’ and the Pies’ Hearthwarming Eve traditions that she absolutely refuses to see how their differences could pose problems. Applejack isn’t much better, with her stubborn belief that Apple family ways are the best.
Memorable Things:
-I knew Applejack would be a problem with her reaction to Twilight and Spike opening their presents on Hearthwarming Eve.
-Confirmed that Limestone and Marble aren’t the twins, but Pinkie and Marble are.
-Shippers ahoy for Big Mac and Marble Pie!
-“Stay off of Houlder’s Boulder!”
-Limestone’s cutie mark is a lime and stones.
-Granny Smith’s looking for an apple-farmin’ hunk.
-Maud Pie bonds with Apple Bloom, of all people.