My Little Pony FIM & The New Generation

[HarleyQuinn]

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This weekend is the 100th Episode. So psyched. Apparently it's gonna have background ponies galore!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRcRF3kOiw

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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OH.MY.GOD Ponified version of Buffy's The Zeppo with focus on all the background ponies. Episode was a total fan's wetdream and I gotta admit, it really worked and was a lot of fun even for characters I didn't really care about in the past.

- Derpy spoke and was adorable throughout the entire ep!
- Dr. Whooves was all Doctory and Whoey!
- Vinyl Scratch! All techno music through the headphones and pinkish tint through the goggles!
- THE DUDE PONY! Big Lebowski references!
- Octavia spoke with an upper class accent all upper classy and partially snooty!
- Lyra and Bon Bon together, practically doing everything short of saying, "We're lesbians together." The ep utilizing "Sweetie Drops" as Bon Bon's secret special agent name + her whole undercover monster hunting act, hilarious stuff.
- Roommates exist in Ponyville with Vinyl Scratch and Octavia! Vinyl being mute is a wonderfully weird character trait.
- Gummy's Thoughts!
- Celestia and Luna squabbling all sisterly was fun to see.
- Lyra sitting up right All human wannabe pony.
- *snicker* The main 6 getting locked out of the wedding, hah.

 

[Czech]

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Consider it kind of ironic that people are lambasting male fans for being fans of the show precisely because it's "aimed at little girls" when that was the initial goal of creator Lauren Faust in the first place (granted the age demographic was intended to be much lower but blame the usually solid writing for that). Then ignore when male shows gain a heavy unintended female demographic.

What was Lauren Faust's goal? A show aimed at little girls, or a show aimed at everyone everywhere? Because I was under the impression that it was aimed at girls in grade school. People ignore male-targeted shows gaining women as fans because with the wealth of television targeted toward 18-49 males, it's not as if males are having anything encroached upon if girls decide they like Breaking Bad or football. I can't think of any case where any program of merit has been spoiled by attracting an unforeseen female demographic. I liked Gilmore Girls a lot (and I'll still watch an episode here and there), but I never felt like I had to lord it over people that I got the show on some higher level than the teen/twentysomething girls who mostly watched it, probably because I didn't really get it on any higher level. It was just scenery porn and people making witty cultural allusions -- HOLY SHIT, GILMORE GIRLS IS MY LITTLE PONY

Why can't young girls have a TV show of their own without a bunch of deviants ruining it for them? Of course, fundamentally speaking, we're talking about a cartoon meant to sell toys, itself a remake of a prior cartoon meant to sell toys, now running on a network partly owned by a toy company. So it's not really art we're talking about, but still, I wish today's kids could have an oasis of kid stuff for the sake of kid stuff before being exposed to a world where everything is commodified and sexualized. I'm not saying that you're one of the people expressly ruining the show for little girls by putting such terrible things into the cultural bloodstream, but you did, after all, assign sexuality to characters and compare a particularly enjoyable episode of a children's show to ejaculating in your sleep.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

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I liked Gilmore Girls a lot (and I'll still watch an episode here and there), but I never felt like I had to lord it over people that I got the show on some higher level than the teen/twentysomething girls who mostly watched it, probably because I didn't really get it on any higher level. It was just scenery porn and people making witty cultural allusions

Buddy, there was so much more to it than that

It is precisely the inability of viewership to match the speed and fecundity of allusion as such in the series that makes it so that we will never catch up, just as the daughter who comes after cannot catch up. Neither she nor we will make up the ground. The mother is the form of the future death that the daughter—by sheer virtue of her temporal position—will have to watch take place. This is the mother-daughter contract, and it is also the visual, ethical, and temporal contract that governs Gilmore Girls. If televisual intertextelasticity formally suggests a model of plenitude, in-finitude, and renewable play, this is always, in this series, set against the stilling of all that generation in the fundamentally brute, sad, small reality that the mother is a form of a gap in history that no daughter, no viewer, can close, a temporal rend that cannot be sutured but only ever mourned.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Czech's made 11 posts this year and 5 of them are in the MLP thread. So he needs to stfu.

 

[Czech]

Re: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 5)

I liked Gilmore Girls a lot (and I'll still watch an episode here and there), but I never felt like I had to lord it over people that I got the show on some higher level than the teen/twentysomething girls who mostly watched it, probably because I didn't really get it on any higher level. It was just scenery porn and people making witty cultural allusions

Buddy, there was so much more to it than that

It is precisely the inability of viewership to match the speed and fecundity of allusion as such in the series that makes it so that we will never catch up, just as the daughter who comes after cannot catch up. Neither she nor we will make up the ground. The mother is the form of the future death that the daughter—by sheer virtue of her temporal position—will have to watch take place. This is the mother-daughter contract, and it is also the visual, ethical, and temporal contract that governs Gilmore Girls. If televisual intertextelasticity formally suggests a model of plenitude, in-finitude, and renewable play, this is always, in this series, set against the stilling of all that generation in the fundamentally brute, sad, small reality that the mother is a form of a gap in history that no daughter, no viewer, can close, a temporal rend that cannot be sutured but only ever mourned.

TSM posts were so good five or six years ago...

 

[Mickey Massuco]

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I liked Gilmore Girls a lot (and I'll still watch an episode here and there), but I never felt like I had to lord it over people that I got the show on some higher level than the teen/twentysomething girls who mostly watched it, probably because I didn't really get it on any higher level. It was just scenery porn and people making witty cultural allusions

Buddy, there was so much more to it than that

It is precisely the inability of viewership to match the speed and fecundity of allusion as such in the series that makes it so that we will never catch up, just as the daughter who comes after cannot catch up. Neither she nor we will make up the ground. The mother is the form of the future death that the daughter—by sheer virtue of her temporal position—will have to watch take place. This is the mother-daughter contract, and it is also the visual, ethical, and temporal contract that governs Gilmore Girls. If televisual intertextelasticity formally suggests a model of plenitude, in-finitude, and renewable play, this is always, in this series, set against the stilling of all that generation in the fundamentally brute, sad, small reality that the mother is a form of a gap in history that no daughter, no viewer, can close, a temporal rend that cannot be sutured but only ever mourned.

TSM posts were so good five or six years ago...

wow how did kreese not win POTY that year

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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100th Ep fun... GIF Fest!

Viny Scratch and Octavia Killing It Musically
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyVpBXPerg8

Derpy Being Cute and Goofing Off

Vinyl Scratch Head Bopping to the Music, Ignoring Dr. Whooves

Big Lebowski Ponies

Bon Bon aka Special Agent Sweetie Drops Being Awesome!

Dr. Whooves and Rose at the Wedding

Lyra and Bon Bon Hug, "Best Friends" Indeed

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Slice of Life, the 100th episode, scored a very solid 0.22 with 431,000 viewers considering it was coming off a 2 week hiatus.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x10 Princess Spike
Lame overall, which is a shame as I'm a fan of Spike as a character but he's mostly been miss when doing general standalone character episodes and this continued that trend. The lesson was one note too with Spike taking advantage of his friendship with Twilight to fulfill "requests" and basically answer for her while she slept (almost the entire episode).

Also didn't help that none of the other main 6 characters were around at all so the interaction was solely Spike & background ponies or Spike & Cadance. Her role was limited to, "Are you sure you're doing this for Twilight? Okay..." in that knowing manner of somebody who should be helping the main character instead letting them fall flat on their face and suffer the consequences until they come to their own realization of why they were wrong.

Weakest of the season and something I'll likely never re-watch.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Princess Spike scored a low 0.20 and just 260,000 viewers. I wasn't grabbed by the teaser and the actual episode disappointed so I'm not too surprised.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x11 Party Pooped
Fun little episode centered mostly around Pinkie Pie and how hard she works to achieve her parties (including detailed lists for catering to specific likes of party's central subject). Some amusing gags including riffs on The Beatles and each main 6 character got some decent scene time. Also nice to see Twilight and Pinkie both stressed out. Didn't much care for the Yaks but they served their purpose.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Big jump for Party Pooped with a 0.22 and 369,000 viewers.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x12 Amending Fences
Another pretty blah episode about Twilight going back to Canterlot and basically apologizing to her older friends for her abrupt disappearance and treatment of them. Only one of them is really surly and confrontational due to Twilight's missing a special party set up by said 'old friend' when they were all younger leading to said friend swearing off friendship forever or some such.

Shame since last week's Pinkie Pie-centric episode was more fun and more interesting to watch.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x12 Amending Fences scored a 0.17 and 289,000 viewers.

So here's an early breakdown for roughly the 1st half of Season 5... US #s only.
5x05: 649,000
5x08: 594,000
5x02: 574,000
5x04: 539,000
5x01: 510,000
5x06: 496,000
5x09: 431,000
5x03: 418,000
5x11: 369,000
5x07: 307,000
5x12: 283,000
5x10: 260,000
Totals: 5,430,000

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x13 Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?
Fun nightmare based episode with Princess Luna's guilt creating a 'being' after giving herself the same nightmare to punish herself over what she did as Nightmare Moon. Simple message about being able to forgive yourself rather than constantly punishing.

Clear that the animators were having a lot of fun turning things into creatures and having fun altering characters thanks to 'dream' abilities.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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My Little Pony comes back on September 12th and unofficially kicks off Rarity is Best Pony Month!

9/12: 5x14 Canterlot Boutique Rarity's dream of owning a boutique in Canterlot coming true but at a price she may not be willing to pay.
9/19: 5x15 Rarity Investigates Rarity must prove that Rainbow Dash is innocent when accused of a crime she did not commit.
9/26: 5x16 Made in Manehattan Rarity and Applejack team up to help Coco Pommell with a major project in her neighborhood in Manehattan but soon find out they may have bitten off more than they can chew.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x14 Canterlot Boutique
Solid enough episode although I wasn't too enamored with Sassy Saddles as her assistant for the new boutique (and Sassy's overtaking everything worked well for the most part) but just seeing Rarity expand her business was a nice touch and keeping it open adds some 'growth' to her character as a true business pony. Also enjoyed the song although the one from Suited For Success was stronger.

Bonus points for the "Goth" Pony voiced by Andrea Libman causing me brief flashbacks to Tara Strong voicing it as Raven from Teen Titans. Already being named either Crescent Heart or Moonlight Raven too because fandom.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Canterlot Boutique scored a 0.13 with an impressive 430,000 viewers. Fun Fact: Miami (Ohio) vs. Wisconsin scored a 0.16 and 444,000 viewers for comparison's sake.

5x05: 649,000
5x08: 594,000
5x02: 574,000
5x04: 539,000
5x01: 510,000
5x06: 496,000
5x09: 431,000
5x13: 430,000
5x03: 418,000
5x11: 369,000
5x07: 307,000
5x12: 283,000
5x10: 260,000
Totals: 5,860,000

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Good news coming as Season 6 is confirmed with an impressive 26 episodes slated.

5x15 Rarity Investigates
I loved this episode! Rarity + Noir = Fabulous! Lots of cute little touches including Rarity's voice overs in classic black/white Noir intermingling with "real time" colorization when it pushed back to the reality of the moment. Also really nice to see a friendship episode centered around the very rare (heh) Rarity/Rainbow Dash relationship and Rarity's getting to also model her fashion line while sleuthing out who tried to frame Dash to keep her out of the Wonderbolts performance. Also great pacing to the story and direction of the episode too.

Kudos to the use of jazz music for the score along with utilization of it in the end credits and Jan Rabson does a solid job as the "living legend" in Wonderbolts history with the character of Wind Rider invoking a bit of an Adam West as Gray Ghost vibe for me. Bonus Fun Fact? He was the voice of Wall-E!

The whodunnit result was somewhat obvious but still fun to see the lead up to it anyway. Also Peter New was the voice of one of the castle guards who is normally the voice of Big Mac.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Rarity Investigates scored a 0.08 and 307,000 viewers.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x16 Made In Manehattan
Fun episode with a great message that just doing a little thing can make a big impact. Coco Pommel being back was fun as was running her own neighborhood stage performance show. Rarity was a blast to watch, freaking out over customers making awful fashion choices and being all proud of trying to find the task that needed to be performed while Applejack was fun being a country pony stuck in the big city.

A lot of credit to DHX Media who continue to go above and beyond with their graphic work and abilities including some fantastic shots of beads of sweat trickling down Rarity's face when confronted by an angry street salespony and her body contortions when overacting or reacting to situations. Also facial expressions continue to be improved and altered including cute expressions for Coco and Applejack.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Made In Manehattan scored a 0.09 and 337,000 viewers.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x17 Brotherhooves Social
Kind of a disappointing episode with Big Mac dressing up as a Southern Belle to help Applebloom in the Sisterhood Social events when Applejack gets called away (for the Made in Manehattan episode). Pretty obvious stuff all the way through although it was nice having Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo seeing right away that it's Big Mac.

Big Mac wanting to be a "hero" in Applebloom's eyes again like he was when she was younger is a decent foundation but the episode didn't work at all for me. Too many cliche stock moments from the "man dresses as woman, botches stuff, eventually gets exposed and found out publicly" concept.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Brotherhooves Social scored a 0.08 and 314,000 viewers.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x18 Crusaders of the Lost Mark
This episode was really about two things: The CMC getting to turn Diamond Tiara face and getting their own cutie marks which worked for me in that they all got similar cutie marks to keep the trio a team.

The main plot of the student pony president was what it was but getting to see Diamond Tiara stand up to her mother (and the unfortunate racism/classism parallels that came with it) was great stuff and it was nice to see Diamond Tiara actually change mostly on her own by seeing the error of her ways. Also neat to see the pressures of having to be perfect and living up to the expectations of your parents and what they've taught you played with from Tiara's perspective.

Not sure how I feel about the CMC no longer having any real antagonists to play off of though coupled with the fact they finally have their cutie marks so some of the reasoning behind their future plots have been taken away but the "act" of finally turning their biggest nemesis into a good pony makes the obtaining of their cutie marks worth the payoff.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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Crusaders of the Lost Mark scored a 0.13 and 299,000 viewers.

By Viewership
5x05: 649,000
5x08: 594,000
5x02: 574,000
5x04: 539,000
5x01: 510,000
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5x06: 496,000
5x09: 431,000
5x14: 430,000
5x03: 418,000
5x13: 418,000
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5x20: 382,000
5x11: 369,000
5x16: 337,000
5x19: 328,000
5x17: 314,000
5x07: 307,000
5x15: 307,000
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5x18: 299,000
5x12: 283,000
5x10: 260,000

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x19 The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows
Animators managed to get their Ren & Stimpy on with Pinkie's animation scenes. Some decent stuff with Pinkie struggling to keep a big surprise secret to herself around her friends (Princess Cadance and Shining Armor having a baby) but managing to pull it off despite the sheer struggle of it all. Not really a memorable episode though in the long run, probably won't watch this one again.

Felt like the concept/struggle could have been used for a better character moral at the end then just a "joke" about it being a piece of cake for Pinkie to handle after being given a slice of cake.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

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5x20 Hearthbreakers
Apple Family meets Pinkie's family who are straight out of Puritan style times(!) Limestone Pie's a total jerkass while Marble Pie is adorable in her Fluttershy-ness. So Puritan/Traditional that the sisters sleep in the same bed and the parents sleep in separate beds.

Fun seeing Applejack have to deal with celebrating Hearth's Warming and try to force her traditions onto the Pies while Pinkie Pie's forced to decide between her family's traditions and being friends with the Apples and including their traditions/them into Pinkie's family.

Also a solid lesson at the end with Applejack deciding she should've respected their traditions and learned them before sharing the Apples' rather than trying to have it all be the same immediately.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Re: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 5)

The One Where Pinkie Knows scored 328,000 viewers and Hearthbreakers scored 382,000 viewers.