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Writer/Developer for the official MLP trading cards and collectible card game, EQD columnist, retired founding staff of BronyCon and the Humble Brony Bundle, and generally an okay sorta guy!

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Dec
23rd
2012

My Little Pony: Genuine-ness is Magic! · 8:39pm Dec 23rd, 2012

There's all sorts of things about the show I love, but one of the hardest to explain in just a few words is the utter genuineness FIM sometimes exhibits.

Apple Family Reunion had a great example of this: the way Granny Smith, Auntie Applesauce, and Apple Rose interacted. The teasing, the excessive indignation, the chuckling... It reeked of a lengthy familial relationship that seemed so wonderfully genuine with very little set-up! We'd never really seen or heard of "Applesauce" or Apple Rose before this episode, but who didn't believe they were family after just one or two scenes with them interacting with Granny Smith? NO ONE. EVER. :|

Two other examples that come immediately to mind:
-Scootaloo in Sleepless in Ponyville, with her back to the wagon, scared senseless by the dark forest, just wanting to grab a couple branches and bring them back for firewood. "On the count of three, I get those branches. One... two... three!" ... Nope. Didn't move. Cute and a little funny and a lot genuine.
-The "are you asleep yet?" scene on the train at the beginning of Over a Barrel. The way Dash's sarcasm escalated into a cute, silly misunderstanding, ending with everyone having a giggle fit over Fluttershy's painful "huffy the magic dragon" joke. If you never had the chance to have a sleepover with friends and get all giggly about a really dumb joke because everything is funnier when it's 2 in the morning and you should have been asleep three hours ago... then I lament your lost childhood. D:

Whether they realize it or not, I bet there are a lot of people who wouldn't like the slice-of-life episodes as much as they do if there wasn't so much genuinenessness nestled into the show, making you care about the characters and suspend disbelief that you're watching periwinkle pones and not "people!" And maybe it's also part of why there's so much fanfiction and interpretations of personalities and yada yada... we care because they're almost real to us, and the genuinenessnessness goes a long way to establishing that.

... genuinenessnessnessnessness.

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That's true. Sadly, that was really the only part of the episode that was great. The rest was pretty meh.

642130 Aww, really? That's too bad! I pretty much enjoyed it as a whole. Applejack learned a realistic lesson for her character (though still centered on her being a workaholic as practically her only character flaw >.>), the fruit bats were cool, Apple Bloom's, "Seriously?" made me chuckle aloud, Granny Smith's incredible inward squishface... I got lots of small laughs from it, and I vaguely remember one big one beside the "Seriously" that I can't remember... Eh. I thought it was better-than-decent slice-of-life, m'self!

Did you have any problems with the episode, or was it just that nothing really grabbed you and gave you reason to like it?

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Chalk this up to another reason why I hate SOL fics. Authors can't do it! :V

642186 Hay! I resemble that remark. :|

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642214
And then I went and read this story and it's just chock full of genuineness. Well played.

Too bad the rest of Over a Barrel was pretty bad.
Well the parts that weren't
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And
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It's so sad that PinkieDash's second bg ep was otherwise so meh.

642412 That and the song. THE SONG. SO GOOD. :pinkiecrazy:

We seem to think alike, sir. :twilightsmile: Over the last couple of episodes, this one was definitely one of my favorites. [And Wonderbolts Academy totally sucked, but you already know that.] :rainbowwild: Personal bias and all that. :pinkiehappy:

Also, genuinenessnessnessnessnessness. :rainbowlaugh:

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