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"[@TexasUberAlles":](/1788317#comment_7339719
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> Her realization that she’d been an ass was real and unforced[/bq]
She literally went from furious enough to physically confront Mare Do Well to apologetic within a minute or two.
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> And that Wacky Scheme™! That was vintage Twilight Sporkhole! Her go-to solution for any situation she can’t solve by quoting trivia at it is to concoct a wildly inappropriate caper[/bq]
An explainable decision does not indicate it was a good decision. For instance, Starlight's motivations as a villain can be explained in part by her past, but I think we can all agree the inception of Our Town was a bad idea.
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> The storyboarding and directing were just aces from top to bottom, with fast-paced action scenes and seriously thrilling and exciting calamities; the collapsing building was like a nerve-wracking level from a video game, and the whitewater log ride was a whiteknuckle seat-of-the-couch ride that looked exactly like actual Black Diamond rafting footage. The music throughout was also top work, going full Elfman/Walker during all the MDW scenes.[/bq]
Nice rose-tinted glasses you have there. Because while those aspects certainly weren't bad, I've yet to meet anyone else who thinks they were the pinnacle of perfection that you believe they are. Not even other individuals who liked the episode have made claims as audacious as yours. More importantly, though, none of that serves as an excuse to handwave the story, which at best has confusing logic and at worse makes a mockery of the remane 5.
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> Bucky McGillicutty and Kicks McGee was one of the funniest gorram things the show has ever done, it was just so dumb and funny and total Applejack, and the way Cherry Berry tried to get back at Dash for almost letting her get gibbed in the busted balloon by "accidentally" dropping a rainbow-seeking potted plant out of an upstairs window was subtly brilliant. That was the second occurrence of Pinkie Sense in the episode, marking one of the earliest S1 callback continuity moments.[/bq]
I agree those small details are nice touches, but they're supposed to complement the story, not make up for it.
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> MMDW had everything that makes a great episode— action, drama, pathos, growth and development, continuity, goofy gags and subtle comedy, great design and animation— and for a new writer, was a brilliantly insightful look at the inner workings of a character who’s very easy to get wrong.[/bq]
Again, you really should take off those rose-tinted glasses. Right now you're ignoring all the not so stellar elements of the episode. Need I remind you they taunted Dash after they had accused her of being jealous when she was already visibly upset? Or that they nearly destroyed her self-confidence just to teach her a lesson about humility? Look, if you honestly enjoy MMDW, all the more power to you. But that episode is hardly a "masterpiece".
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[@TexasUberAlles":](/1788317#comment_7339809
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I'm not a fan MMDW, and I'm neither an RD fanboy nor someone who's never watched the episode.
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> [@Durabiznik":](/1788317#comment_7339798
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> Rainbow Dash was the best thing in MMDW. The episode just had a really botched moral in how they decided to tell it.[/bq]
My thoughts exactly.
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> Her realization that she’d been an ass was real and unforced
She literally went from furious enough to physically confront Mare Do Well to apologetic within a minute or two.
[bq]
> And that Wacky Scheme™! That was vintage Twilight Sporkhole! Her go-to solution for any situation she can’t solve by quoting trivia at it is to concoct a wildly inappropriate caper
An explainable decision does not indicate it was a good decision. For instance, Starlight's motivations as a villain can be explained in part by her past, but I think we can all agree the inception of Our Town was a bad idea.
[bq]
> The storyboarding and directing were just aces from top to bottom, with fast-paced action scenes and seriously thrilling and exciting calamities; the collapsing building was like a nerve-wracking level from a video game, and the whitewater log ride was a whiteknuckle seat-of-the-couch ride that looked exactly like actual Black Diamond rafting footage. The music throughout was also top work, going full Elfman/Walker during all the MDW scenes.
Nice rose-tinted glasses you have there. Because while those aspects certainly weren't bad, I've yet to meet anyone else who thinks they were the pinnacle of perfection that you believe they are. Not even other individuals who liked the episode have made claims as audacious as yours. More importantly, though, none of that serves as an excuse to handwave the story, which at best has confusing logic and at worse makes a mockery of the remane 5.
[bq]
> Bucky McGillicutty and Kicks McGee was one of the funniest gorram things the show has ever done, it was just so dumb and funny and total Applejack, and the way Cherry Berry tried to get back at Dash for almost letting her get gibbed in the busted balloon by "accidentally" dropping a rainbow-seeking potted plant out of an upstairs window was subtly brilliant. That was the second occurrence of Pinkie Sense in the episode, marking one of the earliest S1 callback continuity moments.
I agree those small details are nice touches, but they're supposed to complement the story, not make up for it.
[bq]
> MMDW had everything that makes a great episode— action, drama, pathos, growth and development, continuity, goofy gags and subtle comedy, great design and animation— and for a new writer, was a brilliantly insightful look at the inner workings of a character who’s very easy to get wrong.
Again, you really should take off those rose-tinted glasses. Right now you're ignoring all the not so stellar elements of the episode. Need I remind you they taunted Dash after they had accused her of being jealous when she was already visibly upset? Or that they nearly destroyed her self-confidence just to teach her a lesson about humility? Look, if you honestly enjoy MMDW, all the more power to you. But that episode is hardly a "masterpiece".
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[@Durabiznik
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[@TexasUberAlles
I'm not a fan MMDW, and I'm neither an RD fanboy nor someone who's never watched the episode.
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> [@Durabiznik
> Rainbow Dash was the best thing in MMDW. The episode just had a really botched moral in how they decided to tell it.
My thoughts exactly.