Twilight Time review! · 1:31am Mar 4th, 2014
Okay, I'm still drained, so let's dive right into this.
This seemed like a good idea to me. I always like episodes of shows where characters who don't normally interact end up interacting (Adventure Time is king of this, BTW - No spoilers, I'm only up to "In Your Footsteps"), so I was looking forward to this. The result... isn't particularly inspiring.
It opens with the Cutie Mark Crusaders taking "Twilight Time"... a time when Twilight helps the trio learn. Then we get the playground, where Diamond Tiara takes credit for what her butler does so transparently it makes me wonder if Cheerilee is really a competent teacher if her foals were that stupid. Diamond and Silver rub the fact that they hang out with celebrities in the trio's faces, and they shout that they know Princess Twilight. They're impressed by this.
...Wait...
(Skip to 00:18, I can't figure out how to make it start there.)
...Is... is this allowed? Is the rest of Equestria actually allowed to acknowledge that the Mane Six are heroes? What? How? What?
Anyway, instead of just visiting the public library, they kiss up to the trio to get invited to Twilight Time to see the Princess that lives in a small town of a few hundred ponies... so when fame finally kicks in, it makes ponies stupid, apparently.
So then, after the success, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon actually sell tickets to Twilight Time. The trio responds by inviting Twilight to a diner, where she... eats like Jabba... huh?
So... yeah, this is a typical story. Cutie Mark Crusaders learn to love Twilight and not use her as a tool for popularity. There's really only two things I can comment on. One, it was nice to see Pip. Two, it's good that Twilight so quickly forgives them, after what happens in ACW. Yeah. Goodbye.
Eh?
Would you say this episode was better then Filli Vanilli or worse?
...It seems weird to me that you ended at about halfway through the episode, but I guess nothing really happens, except the ending... Which you didn't comment on either. Was there really nothing to say about it?
It was still better than this last episode.
Anyway, off to read that newest update.
A Canterlot Wedding?
Not sure what that has to do with this episode, other than the betrayal kinda even though it didn't really center on the CMC, of course (they were involved, but in a minor role). Wouldn't it rather be Ponyville Confidential? Since that was a CMC episode where they wronged everypony, including Twilight before her ascension. Though in that one, she did forgive them as well, in addition to everypony else.
Anyway, I agree it wasn't much better than most of the season to date has been imo, as my interest has been kinda waning in some of the more recent eps since Simple Ways (though it doesn't help that I write notes while watching the eps for the first time, for my own hopefully sometime soon reviews before S4 ends, but I was able to laugh and enjoy stuff at most of the season before Simple Ways), but I still wanna see more!
And I hope you get to see more of Adventure Time soon. Lots has happened since the season that took place during, and I'm curious to see if there's plans for certain things that've happened in this season even!
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Worse
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Not really. I had nothing to say
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I meant it looked like Twilight had royally messed up for a while. After being in that position, she should know what it's like to want forgiveness.
The TV Tropes Fridge Brilliance page had an interesting take on Twilight's forgiving the CMC. Namely, that she very likely has been in a similar position due to her status as Celestia's student (in fact, she WAS in a similar predicament back in The Ticket Master back in season 1), so she was more inclined to forgive when she confirmed the CMC were sincere and not just using her themselves.
I liked the episode myself, since it showed genuine development of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, despite the fact canon now interferes with my idea of a Sweetie Belle stage fright story. That just means time to get creative though. On that note my main thought throughout was "Stop listening to Sweetie Belle!"
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Ah, perhaps. Though it probably didn't seem like that for long, given how the episodes aired one right after the other. And how before Part 1 ended, "Cadence" sent Twilight through the ground in a ring of magic fire. But yeah, I see why you said ACW now, then.
Also, I forgot to add that it was funny/nice to actually see Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon be nice to the Cutie Mark Crusaders; despite yeah, it seeming odd how they go gaga over them knowing/hanging around Twilight, now that she's a PRINCESS, when they should recall that she already knows/hangs around them from previous episodes sorta (even if Twi was only near the CMC on-screen back in Call of the Cutie, around Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, but they probably have been around Twi at other times for other things). But I guess it was a plot point that had to be ignored for the episode to make sense, such as it was. Not that I realized this until now, as it's not part of why I was unable to enjoy the episode as much as most of the other episodes so far, like I said. And I had almost expected them to be setting the CMC up for a big fall, like they always do or a new attempt to be mean to them. Anyway, I digress.
Except all they actually acknowledged was that Twilight is a princess. The CMC didn't even bring up that their sisters are (or at least should be) national heroes. But it's definitely a step in the right direction.
Well I was wondering if ponies fallow under the herd category even worse then humans are sheep. If the pony is more powerful/richer, they fallow them no matter what despite short comming. Which is why when someone says it is Princess Twilight, they go over gaush for she is one of four currently known (could be more, we don't know). They also ignore Twilight if she tries to act like she is the same pony but listen when she applies her power.
It would actually explain so much as how they are flip flop when it comes to actions and who they gush over.