G5: Winter Wishday. · 8:18am Nov 22nd, 2022
I'll be brief about this one and not avoid spoilers, because there's nothing to avoid spoilers about. It's a slice of life piece with nothing much to show story-wise for the 45m runtime. It's kinda equivalent to Rainbow Roadtrip but with en even flatter plot and no Kerfuffle. A trip, forced problems and conflict.
Still, it's worth a watch, because TLDR is - what was bad before is still bad, what was good is still good.
So, here goes the positives and negatives:
+ Pegasus guard makes the funniest face in the whole special and possibly so far
+ Pogo Sparky is funny.
+ Reindeer Izzy.
++ Queen Haven remains pure milf material.
+ Hitch's problem for once actually makes sense, or at least is a realistic psychological case.
+++ living broccoli is back.
+ unicorns cause nuclear winter
+ unicorns balance out nuclear winter with global warming
++++++++++ GOOD plot resolution, holy fk break out the champaigne! (It does seem deus exy at first glance, but ritualitsic behavior is actually a well-known phenomenon)
- No Misty
- Hitch still exists, worse with each episode. Why did they throw movie Hitch into the crusher?
- Sunny is gaining the meme background pony status of Applejack.
- They didn't go with TYT resolution of the flying machine, instead it gets poofed by rainbows. Entire use of the main plot device is becoming worse and worse. Entirely unnecessary. If you want a new toys sales pitch, work it into a story, goddamnit!
*finally catched up* I can add that songs are actually good - especially first one in sky bus XD. And random pony emotions still XD
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The animators are definitely getting better with meme faces and expressions overall in this style.