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OH GOD Why am I writing a ponyfic?
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That there was some GODDAMN LUNA
2 min read
Nice to see her back. I especially liked the nod to her earlier awkward self by having her bashfully say she's sorry she's not a cool monster. It was a nice setup with her appearing for a second through the trees, earlier, too, since it reads as just a "horror" gag, but then you just have to wonder...
But dang - Those Princesses are just too adorable. Celestia with the cake, and Luna just bein' all... Luna. But I think that's true of pretty much every character in the show - They all seem to be able to go from awesome to adorable at the flip of a switch, though I think it's most dramatic with the two sky deities.
Did anyone else think some of the voices sounded kinda weird this time? Did they have a different director? Was everyone sick, or just kinda off their game, or are they just comfortable enough with the characters now to start experimenting with delivery? Didn't think it sounded bad, necessarily, but I didn't recognize the writer's name and got the impression several of the actors didn't quite know how to read their lines in character.
But dang - Those Princesses are just too adorable. Celestia with the cake, and Luna just bein' all... Luna. But I think that's true of pretty much every character in the show - They all seem to be able to go from awesome to adorable at the flip of a switch, though I think it's most dramatic with the two sky deities.
Did anyone else think some of the voices sounded kinda weird this time? Did they have a different director? Was everyone sick, or just kinda off their game, or are they just comfortable enough with the characters now to start experimenting with delivery? Didn't think it sounded bad, necessarily, but I didn't recognize the writer's name and got the impression several of the actors didn't quite know how to read their lines in character.
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Ponies vs. Mushrooms
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Just watched the season 3 premier - Good stuff. I wanna say what I thought about it.
I thought it was witty, well-paced, looked *great*, and was filled with lots of clever little incidentals that made it a lot more fun to watch. The variety of the designs was nice as well, especially the dark pit vs. the light tower, which was then flipped over to once more become a pit.
Twilight and Spike got a chance to display a wide range of emotion, Applejack was especially sharp this time around - Normally she's mostly reactive, but here she had a kind of "ironist's" point of view and took the initiative more often - and Pinkie's gags were especially imaginative. Celestia got a chance to be badass, too, with her hologram show in the beginning, and then outright meanness in Twilight's vision - It was satisfying because it *was* the Celestia that they've always feared every time one of them fucked up. The one who really would banish you and then throw you in a dungeon there. They expect her to be angry at them, but each time she's above that and forgiving instead, but now that they've established that for the audience, she turns it around once again by being angry and pitiless, even if it was just a hallucination of their continued awe and fear of her.
The writer of this episode, Meghan McCarthy, seems to have a harsher sensibility than the others - Which I actually like - and it made for a sharper outing this time around. I think she overdid it a little on Rainbow Dash, though: I liked how wound up she was, but she didn't stray from that one key. I'd have liked to see her hit a few softer notes, like, say, when she concusses Fluttershy it woulda been a richer scene if instead of chewing her out she just walked over, smiled, helped her up and as before promised to go easy on her, but not too easy.
Of course the biggest oversight was with the villain - As visually interesting as he was, he never got a chance to be KING Sombra, making his case the way a villain needs to do in order to be grounded in something. Nightmare Moon wanted revenge and adoration, Discord wanted to have fun, Chrysalis wanted food and glory, but what did Sombra want, exactly? I was looking forward to seeing a pony dictator, tormenting his subjects with capricious totalitarian laws and pouring over maps to expand his empire, but he ended up being more like a kind of fungus. Less a Crystal than a Mycopony.
If I could change one thing, I'd have had him appear as a hologram to Twilight while she was in that little prison, either live or as a recorded message, telling her, oh let's say, how the world needs ponies like him because harmony needs to be renewed in order for them to not stagnate and to appreciate it, or because he mistakes perfect conformity for capital-T True harmony and wants an Orwellian world, or have him try to tempt Twilight with forbidden magic and knowledge Celestia is supposedly keeping from her. Granted, none of that has to be *true* about him - He can still just be in it for glory and self-aggrandizement, but as it is he seemed barely sentient.
Now, maybe that was intentional - I find it hard to believe they wouldn't have at least sketched out a scene like that, but maybe they were more interested in testing the waters to see what the reaction would be if they killed him at the end there, in the interest of expanding what they can show in future episodes, and giving him a personality before Cadence disintegrates him might have been too much at once. Oh, that's one more little thing: I loved Shining Armor's game of Wife Toss at the end there, but we needed to see Cadence at least finally collapse into unconsciousness, or convalescing later, otherwise her sacrificial effort is kind of trivialized because the anticipated consequences are just waved away.
Can't really guess what destiny is in store for Twilight, but it made me a little sad because it felt like an arrow pointing towards the end of the show, or at least this "section" of it: Maybe it'll turn into more of an adventure story where Twilight is some kind of "Harmony Cop," dispatched by Celestia along with some of her friends, righting wrongs and leaving Friendship in her wake. Hm, I suppose that *was* a guess about what's in store for Twilight. That'd make it fundamentally the same show, just on a larger scale, evolving from "Learn to be more generous in Ponyville" to "go to Manehatten and turn some greedy pony around." I'd be cool with that. Frankly I thought that's what the show was going to be like before I started watching it.
I'd give this one a letter grade but I don't really think that'd be helpful. I liked it a lot and hope it's an indication of where the series is going...Well, it's *explicitly* an indication of where the series is going, but I meant in tone and design.
I thought it was witty, well-paced, looked *great*, and was filled with lots of clever little incidentals that made it a lot more fun to watch. The variety of the designs was nice as well, especially the dark pit vs. the light tower, which was then flipped over to once more become a pit.
Twilight and Spike got a chance to display a wide range of emotion, Applejack was especially sharp this time around - Normally she's mostly reactive, but here she had a kind of "ironist's" point of view and took the initiative more often - and Pinkie's gags were especially imaginative. Celestia got a chance to be badass, too, with her hologram show in the beginning, and then outright meanness in Twilight's vision - It was satisfying because it *was* the Celestia that they've always feared every time one of them fucked up. The one who really would banish you and then throw you in a dungeon there. They expect her to be angry at them, but each time she's above that and forgiving instead, but now that they've established that for the audience, she turns it around once again by being angry and pitiless, even if it was just a hallucination of their continued awe and fear of her.
The writer of this episode, Meghan McCarthy, seems to have a harsher sensibility than the others - Which I actually like - and it made for a sharper outing this time around. I think she overdid it a little on Rainbow Dash, though: I liked how wound up she was, but she didn't stray from that one key. I'd have liked to see her hit a few softer notes, like, say, when she concusses Fluttershy it woulda been a richer scene if instead of chewing her out she just walked over, smiled, helped her up and as before promised to go easy on her, but not too easy.
Of course the biggest oversight was with the villain - As visually interesting as he was, he never got a chance to be KING Sombra, making his case the way a villain needs to do in order to be grounded in something. Nightmare Moon wanted revenge and adoration, Discord wanted to have fun, Chrysalis wanted food and glory, but what did Sombra want, exactly? I was looking forward to seeing a pony dictator, tormenting his subjects with capricious totalitarian laws and pouring over maps to expand his empire, but he ended up being more like a kind of fungus. Less a Crystal than a Mycopony.
If I could change one thing, I'd have had him appear as a hologram to Twilight while she was in that little prison, either live or as a recorded message, telling her, oh let's say, how the world needs ponies like him because harmony needs to be renewed in order for them to not stagnate and to appreciate it, or because he mistakes perfect conformity for capital-T True harmony and wants an Orwellian world, or have him try to tempt Twilight with forbidden magic and knowledge Celestia is supposedly keeping from her. Granted, none of that has to be *true* about him - He can still just be in it for glory and self-aggrandizement, but as it is he seemed barely sentient.
Now, maybe that was intentional - I find it hard to believe they wouldn't have at least sketched out a scene like that, but maybe they were more interested in testing the waters to see what the reaction would be if they killed him at the end there, in the interest of expanding what they can show in future episodes, and giving him a personality before Cadence disintegrates him might have been too much at once. Oh, that's one more little thing: I loved Shining Armor's game of Wife Toss at the end there, but we needed to see Cadence at least finally collapse into unconsciousness, or convalescing later, otherwise her sacrificial effort is kind of trivialized because the anticipated consequences are just waved away.
Can't really guess what destiny is in store for Twilight, but it made me a little sad because it felt like an arrow pointing towards the end of the show, or at least this "section" of it: Maybe it'll turn into more of an adventure story where Twilight is some kind of "Harmony Cop," dispatched by Celestia along with some of her friends, righting wrongs and leaving Friendship in her wake. Hm, I suppose that *was* a guess about what's in store for Twilight. That'd make it fundamentally the same show, just on a larger scale, evolving from "Learn to be more generous in Ponyville" to "go to Manehatten and turn some greedy pony around." I'd be cool with that. Frankly I thought that's what the show was going to be like before I started watching it.
I'd give this one a letter grade but I don't really think that'd be helpful. I liked it a lot and hope it's an indication of where the series is going...Well, it's *explicitly* an indication of where the series is going, but I meant in tone and design.
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Personalized Pony Productions!
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YOU WANT PONY? I TAKE COMMISSION & GIVE YOU PONY.
"I like you face, I make you deal. You can tell I am honest by my tracksuit and medallions, yes?"
I can make for you~~
A B&W drawing for $30
(Think about like this: fav.me/d4rgv09)
A Color drawing for $40~$50, depending on the detail and style.
(This-ish: fav.me/d4qu5in), and
A Digital painting for $60~$100, again depending on the level of finishing you want and how elaborate it is.
(Gonna go a little sumthin like fav.me/d4r9297)
Whatever your little heart desires: OC, canon, fighting, shipping, saucy, grimdark, or r34 if you can talk me into it!
Send me a message and we'll jawbone for a while, I'll ask how the wife is doing, maybe we'll play a quick nine holes, drink Colt 45 under the overpass and light off fireworks, then we'll get down to business.
What are you waiting for!? Operators are standing by!
Order now and you'll get one extra day of life. Prove me wrong!
"I like you face, I make you deal. You can tell I am honest by my tracksuit and medallions, yes?"
I can make for you~~
A B&W drawing for $30
(Think about like this: fav.me/d4rgv09)
A Color drawing for $40~$50, depending on the detail and style.
(This-ish: fav.me/d4qu5in), and
A Digital painting for $60~$100, again depending on the level of finishing you want and how elaborate it is.
(Gonna go a little sumthin like fav.me/d4r9297)
Whatever your little heart desires: OC, canon, fighting, shipping, saucy, grimdark, or r34 if you can talk me into it!
Send me a message and we'll jawbone for a while, I'll ask how the wife is doing, maybe we'll play a quick nine holes, drink Colt 45 under the overpass and light off fireworks, then we'll get down to business.
What are you waiting for!? Operators are standing by!
Order now and you'll get one extra day of life. Prove me wrong!
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UH OH
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I's on a pony kick again! Drew some Celestia and an irradiated Twilight. Check it.
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