If the writers don't care, then why should I care?
Because if the writers actually did take advantage of the change in the status quo, people, and possibly you, would still be complaining.
So even the writers silently acknowledge that the change was useless and serves no narrative purpose? And now they are forced to draw the wings on her because.
(The wings still honestly bother me a lot. They somehow just don't look right. I don't know if it's the fact that she didn't have the wings for 3 entire seasons or what, but they just don't seem to fit. The wings on RD and Fluttershy look natural, but they stick out as a sore thumb on Twilight. I thought that I would get used to them as the season progresses, but that hasn't happened.)
So, okay, that episode wasn't terrible, just stupid. The general plot was just a rehash of Swarm of the Century with references to some other episodes thrown in.
Pinkie's mane for best character.
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So, okay, that episode wasn't terrible, just stupid. The general plot was just a rehash of Swarm of the Century with references to some other episodes thrown in.
If you didn't love vampire Fluttershy, then you lose all credibility in my eyes... ;)
I might have had I not been busy reflecting over how fucking little sense the whole thing made.
One thing I did note was that her cutie mark changed from butterflies to bats.
This raises questions.
Even though the more things I notice about cutie marks the less I think they actually mean.
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I might have had I not been busy reflecting over how fucking little sense the whole thing made.
You have seen the season 3 finale and you complain that this episode doesn't make any sense? This episode was awesome in comparison. (And it didn't really have anything nonsensical in my opinion. The only thing that seems slightly nonsensical is that Twilight doesn't seem to have learned anything from the two or three previous times that her careless use of magic has backfired.)
Maybe you should just learn to relax and take them for what they are: Fun little episodes. No need to stress so much over them.
Btw, this is the third time this season there has been an episode-ending gag or other curious detail. I don't remember them ever using this trope before. I wonder if there's some deeper meaning to this change, or if it's just that they are trying something different.
You have seen the season 3 finale and you complain that this episode doesn't make any sense? This episode was awesome in comparison. (And it didn't really have anything nonsensical in my opinion. The only thing that seems slightly nonsensical is that Twilight doesn't seem to have learned anything from the two or three previous times that her careless use of magic has backfired.)
Specifically Fluttershy's transformation. The "explanation" just made me go... huh? Fluttershy's stare isn't magical in nature. The spell Twilight cast shouldn't even have been able to DO that.
And the episode was really too much of a Swarm of the Century rehash for me to consider it all that great. Fluttershy cares about little critters that eat things, Twilight tries to solve it with magic, but that just ends up causing further problems. Then throw in some references to Dash being obsessed with cider and there you go.
It was also really predictable, though a lot of episodes kind of are...
In other news, I noticed that comic issue 14 and micro-series issue 10 were out. Issue 14 concludes the pirate chapter which honestly wasn't all that great (but seaponies! Or, as they call them here, mermares), but micro-series 10 was a Cook, Price & Breckel thing and that always means quality. Story about Luna, was quite amusing. Second best micro-series.
The cane was actually in an episode? Okay, that explains it. I found Discord to be the only noteworthy part about the season opener so I guess I never really noticed the cane.
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KennyMan666 wrote:
Fluttershy's stare isn't magical in nature. The spell Twilight cast shouldn't even have been able to DO that.
To be fair, we have no idea if the stare is magical or not. A lot of things the ponies (and not only unicorns) do seem to work on magic in some way. Like pegasus flight, there is no way those wings are providing lift as we know it. Either that or ponies weigh next to nothing.
And we don't even know if the stare was the cause of the spell mishap, Twilight fails her spells all the goddamn time. Which sort of makes me wonder why ANY of them would think using magic to alter the behaviour of an animal a good idea.
Even the best player is limited by the speed of his fingers, or his mind's ability to control them. But what happens when speed is not a factor, when theory becomes reality?
Specifically Fluttershy's transformation. The "explanation" just made me go... huh? Fluttershy's stare isn't magical in nature. The spell Twilight cast shouldn't even have been able to DO that.
I find that to be misplaced criticism from your part. How magic should work in this setting has not been clearly established, and moreover, Twilight's magic backfiring in unintended and semi-random ways has been used several times before. This particular case isn't even a complete ass-pull either, as there's at least some logical connection.
I find your criticism misplaced in that, if anything is to be criticized about this whole scenario, it's that Twilight still doesn't understand the consequences and side-effects that her spells can have even though she supposedly became an alicorn princess precisely because she supposedly mastered magic. Her magic backfiring once again goes in contradiction with this whole notion. She clearly still hasn't fully mastered her magic.
Someone commented on youtube (not on this exact subject, but something similar) that it's possible that these episodes were actually originally intended for the 3rd season (before the finale), but since the 3rd season was cut short, they never got the opportunity to use them there. And this is why there's such a big disconnect between Twilight's alicorniness and the plots of these "light" episodes in this season. Either way, it still creates somewhat of a plot hole.
But considering the episode all on its own, without connecting it too much to the major overall plot, I liked it.
It was also really predictable, though a lot of episodes kind of are...
I'm not sure what exactly was so predictable about this. Sure, it didn't have a downer ending (that kind of goes hand-in-hand with the genre and primary target audience), but other than that, at least I couldn't have predicted most of the events.
Why do they insist in having such an overly long opening theme? Along with the stupid ending live-action segment, they then have to start cutting the episode proper. It makes no sense.
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Warp wrote:
Why do they insist in having such an overly long opening theme? Along with the stupid ending live-action segment, they then have to start cutting the episode proper. It makes no sense.
Japan. That's why. It's not meant to make sense. Like me.
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+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
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