Real talk? I thought it was the worst one in the season so far. The writers really expect us to believe that Applejack, the element of fucking honesty, would spend all that time leading Spike on and not just tell him straight up that she doesn't need his help? Dude... what the fuck.
And then, at the end, when she actually gets her leg trapped? This is APPLE PONE we're talking about here... The one who kicks apple trees all god damn day, and has (no doubt) the strongest back legs in all Ponyville! Yet one tiny little cluster of rocks and she's legitimately helpless and unable to escape?
Hell, I don't even like Applejack that much and I'm disgusted by the level of character assassination that episode contained... Wtf Dave Polsky!
Oh, and don't even get me started on those fucking lame 3D Timber Wolves! Fuck that shit to the deepest circle of hell...
Anonymous3(1): @Roflcakes: Agreed with everything. As if AJ already didn't have much going on for her, they made her dependant on a useless bipedal lizard where she SHOULD be able to help herself just fine. Very uncreative and inconsiderate handling of the character.
And now they gave me even more reasons to hate Spike. He doesn't deserve the stained glass he got in the Canterlot castle.
This one was co-written by Merriwether, so Dave wasn't the only culprit. Character destroying is her forte after all.
Roflcakes: @Gomenasai: I just can't overlook that man... It breaks her Element of Harmony ffs.
Oh, something I forgot to mention before: since when was Spike ever that clumsy? Hell, he's pretty good helping Twilight out around the library, why did he suddenly turn into a fucking stoner tier klutz? It's not as if he didn't mean well! He just needed a gentle push in the right direction... Why wasn't that the moral? Instead we got "Don't be honest to your friends, just don't put their lives into danger while you string them along with your bullshit."
Merriwether is credited as writing the "teleplay" whatever the fuck that means, while Polsky is credited for the story, so I assumed he was in charge of the plot. Regardless, both of them suck for producing this shit episode and should be fired for the greater good of the writing.
Anonymous4(1): @Roflcakes: Indeed.
Worse yet, Spike doesn't even aknowledge of the mess he's making and at no point apologizes for anything he does. If he did, he would naturally try to be more careful, but he just came off as an incredibly annoying nuissance.. They literally degraded him to the level of an autistic child.
What a terrible ep to end the year with. And now there's almost a whole month till the next one. Uhh.
Anonymous5(1): @Roflcakes: Well, the synopsis for the next one promises the return of a certain someone a lot of people wanted to see again, so there's certainly some hype going on for it. At the same time it gives off some uncertainity with the vagueness. it all depends on how well the writer(s) approached it, we'll just have to see. The waiting game starts.
Anonymous6(1): @Roflcakes: Yeah. I heard that rumor but I haven't seen it stated in any credible sources. Maybe there's still hope?
And given the returning character, Polsky doesn't seem like that bad of a choice, I think. He made so many Pinkie episodes so he's got experience in the right field.
Faptacular: Wasn't sure I should do this but... This is the review I put on my own tumblr after I watched the Ep. And Rofl already covered a lot of it.
Thing is while I like Spike just fine I prefer him in a minor role. Specifically adding color commentary to the weirdness going on around him. As of yet I’ve really not enjoyed the eps where he takes center stage as often the aforementioned sarcasm usually gets pushed to the side.
It didn’t really help that I’ve seen the “life-debt” premise in cartoons so often that as soon as it was established I knew beat for beat how the rest of the episode was going to go.
I didn’t particularly care for how Spike was written here either. Usually whenever he’s helping Twilight he’s perfectly capable but for some reason when helping AJ he was an utter klutz. Even though it was most likely done to raise the “annoy AJ factor” it was too OoC to take.
Then there was the Scooby-Doo scheme. *Sigh* Life-debt ep cliché fulfilled but AJ’s supposed to the the Element of Honesty. As awkward as those kinds of conversations are she should have just sat him down and told him straight out why she was uncomfortable with his “help” and tried to figure out a way around it with him.
I did like the return of the timber wolves though, as well as a little more lore added to them. Are they golems? Wandering spirit energy possessing wood? In either case they’re a pretty cool threat and a fun/bad pun rolled into one.
On a related note: Spike, dude, you breathe fire, they’re made of wood. Seriously?
Anonymous7(1): Outright burning them down, effectively rendering them killed, would be too brutal for a kids show. Unfortunately logic, sense and consistence are pushed back in favor of age ratings and plot convenience.. This has always been the case but lately the lazy writers have been doing this with the grace of a bull in china shop.
PinkBallons: @Faptacular: True, considering they used random pieces of wood to make the large version, it probably wouldn't matter if their bodies were destroyed.
deathstriker: @Faptacular: Or just make them retreat in fear from Spike's fire?
It certainly worked for G1 Spike.
(I am reffering to the episode "The Magic Coins")
Roflcakes: I mean... think about how the Timberwolf died! Choking to death is fine but burning to death isn't? It's all about the execution imo; If they did it in a comical way, it would have worked.
Seriously though, the less I think about the timber wolves, the better.
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Who is this by and what did he do to the real Hallogreen?
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Real talk? I thought it was the worst one in the season so far. The writers really expect us to believe that Applejack, the element of fucking honesty, would
spend all that time leading Spike on and not just tell him straight up that she doesn't need his help?Dude... what the fuck.And then, at the end,
when she actually gets her leg trapped?This is APPLE PONE we're talking about here... The one who kicks apple trees all god damn day, and has (no doubt) the strongest back legs in all Ponyville! Yet onetiny little cluster of rocks and she's legitimately helpless and unable to escape?Hell, I don't even like Applejack that much and I'm disgusted by the level of character assassination that episode contained... Wtf Dave Polsky!
Oh, and don't even get me started on those fucking lame 3D Timber Wolves! Fuck that shit to the deepest circle of hell...
And now they gave me even more reasons to hate Spike. He doesn't deserve the stained glass he got in the Canterlot castle.
This one was co-written by Merriwether, so Dave wasn't the only culprit. Character destroying is her forte after all.
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Oh, something I forgot to mention before: since when was Spike ever that clumsy? Hell, he's pretty good helping Twilight out around the library, why did he suddenly turn into a fucking stoner tier klutz? It's not as if he didn't mean well! He just needed a gentle push in the right direction... Why wasn't that the moral? Instead we got "Don't be honest to your friends, just don't put their lives into danger while you string them along with your bullshit."
Merriwether is credited as writing the "teleplay" whatever the fuck that means, while Polsky is credited for the story, so I assumed he was in charge of the plot. Regardless, both of them suck for producing this shit episode and should be fired for the greater good of the writing.
Worse yet, Spike doesn't even aknowledge of the mess he's making and at no point apologizes for anything he does. If he did, he would naturally try to be more careful, but he just came off as an incredibly annoying nuissance.. They literally degraded him to the level of an autistic child.
What a terrible ep to end the year with. And now there's almost a whole month till the next one. Uhh.
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Oh? A whole month wait? well, it's not like I've even been looking forward to the episodes.
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...Polsky.
And given the returning character, Polsky doesn't seem like that bad of a choice, I think. He made so many Pinkie episodes so he's got experience in the right field.
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But yeah, we'll see how it turns out, but if they ruin the character in question... That's it. I'm done.
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Thing is while I like Spike just fine I prefer him in a minor role. Specifically adding color commentary to the weirdness going on around him. As of yet I’ve really not enjoyed the eps where he takes center stage as often the aforementioned sarcasm usually gets pushed to the side.
It didn’t really help that I’ve seen the “life-debt” premise in cartoons so often that as soon as it was established I knew beat for beat how the rest of the episode was going to go.
I didn’t particularly care for how Spike was written here either. Usually whenever he’s helping Twilight he’s perfectly capable but for some reason when helping AJ he was an utter klutz. Even though it was most likely done to raise the “annoy AJ factor” it was too OoC to take.
Then there was the Scooby-Doo scheme. *Sigh* Life-debt ep cliché fulfilled but AJ’s supposed to the the Element of Honesty. As awkward as those kinds of conversations are she should have just sat him down and told him straight out why she was uncomfortable with his “help” and tried to figure out a way around it with him.
I did like the return of the timber wolves though, as well as a little more lore added to them. Are they golems? Wandering spirit energy possessing wood? In either case they’re a pretty cool threat and a fun/bad pun rolled into one.
On a related note: Spike, dude, you breathe fire, they’re made of wood. Seriously?
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I feel like that's something they didn't even bother to consider. Like... not even once.
Ugh.
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That episode bummed me out.
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It certainly worked for G1 Spike.
(I am reffering to the episode "The Magic Coins")
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Seriously though, the less I think about the timber wolves, the better.
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That is, unless all you'd like to ever read in them is "O murr bb I want to fuck X so badly".
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