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Adorkable Twilight & Friends - “Solved By Lyra.”

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Adorkable Twilight & Friends - “Fight And Flight.”

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Adorkable Twilight & Friends - “Spooky Company.”

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I suppose “flaming mucus” is the punchline to a different joke.

Artwork by AniRichie Background by MLP-Vector-Collabs Script #1918

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Quickly sketch before getting on the bed.

Always want to have a nice sleep after a whole day work.💤

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Adorkable Twilight & Friends – “Outcomes”

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The moral of A Canterlot Wedding is that if you suspect that your sibling’s fiancée is evil, try as hard as you can to break up the wedding. Sure, you’ll get a lot of backlash from your family, but everything will work out in the end.

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You're not the same person you were yesterday. At least you don't have to be.

-Sprocket

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Bridle Gossip

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We’ve all marveled at how far these ponies have come as characters since the beginning - how far the show has come. I know that, for the first couple weeks after the finale, when I first started working on this rewatching/reviewing project, so many of my posts were simple expressions of awe. “How far these characters have come. What a long, strange trip it’s been.”

Bridle Gossip stands out in hindsight because it illustrates that Ponyville itself has come a long way. They went from a town that shut down in terror at the appearance of a zebra to a multicultural haven.

Think about that. The town’s reaction to Zecora in Bridle Gossip is extreme. Blind xenophobia. Blind zebraphobia. By Season 8 however, they’ve got creatures from faraway lands living there. By The Last Problem, Ponyville is a giant melting pot - a quaint small town version of Queens, NY where changelings and yaks and ponies sit side-by-side and nocreature thinks anything of it.

Discuss.

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MMMystery

MMMystery on the Friendship Express is an episode that doesn’t come up a lot in analyses or reviews, but I feel it’s deserving of praise because it manages to go completely off the wall with its humor, pushing the boundaries of the show’s silliness, and at the same time, remaining grounded.

In this episode, Pinkie Pie is charged with being the courier of Mr. and Mrs. Cake’s entry to a National Dessert Competition in Canterlot.  She and the Mane Six take the Marzipan Mascarpone Merengue Madness cake onto the Friendship Express, where they meet Donut Joe, Mulia Mild, and Gustave le Grand, (a Griffon coded as a Frenchman) - all competitors in the same competition.  In the middle of the night, someone takes several large bites out of the MMMM cake, and Pinkie Pie spends the rest of the episode concocting wild fantasy stories accusing the other bakers of sabotage.

Twilight eventually takes up the investigation, and proves that every creature on the train had taken a bite, not only of the MMMM cake, but also of the other contestants’ entries.

This story is the perfect balance of the respective energies that Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle each bring to the table, and stands out as the only episode in the whole series that features a TwiPie-based personality conflict that, in the end, vindicates Twilight Sparkle instead of Pinkie Pie.

It also keeps with the early seasons’ tradition of paying homage to tropes created by classic works of literature.  This show was many kids’ first exposure to the concept of the pied piper (Swarm of the Century), the thorn in the lion’s paw (Friendship is Magic, Part 2), the flight of Icarus (Sonic Rainboom), the legend of the Phoenix (Bird in the Hoof), and in this episode, the classic story of “Murder on the Orient Express” by Agatha Christie.

MMMystery manages to be down to earth, larger than life, and just plain ridiculous at the same time.  It truly is a delight.  However, this episode stands out most of all for its prophetic friendship lesson - one that is far more relevant now than when it first aired.  The moral of this story, ultimately, is that we all have a civic responsibility to examine actual facts, and to recognize that just because a particular narrative feels true does not necessarily make it true.

A lesson for our times.

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Sonic Rainboom.

Sonic Rainboom is a perfect episode.

That’s it.  That’s the essay.

-Sprocket

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Fall Weather Friends

I’m not much for shipping, but after the finale, Appledash is pretty much canon. Having recently re-watched Fall Weather Friends, it’s obvious that this is where it all started - (or at least where the fandom got the idea that they would make a cute couple).

I don’t ascribe romantic qualities to ponies’ friendship dynamics, but Applejack and Rainbow Dash really did grow to function as a unit fairly early on in the series. This lends a certain poetry to the fact that they eventually end up building a life together (regardless of how you choose to interpret that life). Their cohesion as friends is omnipresent, and their exploits enumerable, but we do get to see just how much AJ means to Rainbow Dash as early as The Last Roundup. When Applejack ran away, Rainbow Dash took it as a personal insult - a personal abandonment - more than anypony else did. When they all made up, Rainbow Dash actually flew above them to shed tears in quiet dignity.

Think about that for a second. Rainbow Dash is obsessed with being cool - especially in the early seasons. This tiny moment tells us so very much, and is actually quite powerful if you think about it!

To think that the bond those two share started with ruthless competition.

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Adorkable Twilight & Friends – “Glim Glam Redemption”

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Adorkable Twilight & Friends – “Holey Socks”

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Adorkable Twilight & Friends – “The Great Reveal”

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Adorkable Twilight & Friends – “Glimmer Justice”

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