Friends Forever #7 review! · 1:12am Sep 12th, 2014
Direction will update tomorrow. My editor simply get it early enough today, and I don't want to post a chapter this late.
Anyway, review time!
We open to Twilight proving she’s a bad librarian. Seriously, everything by publication date? And she’s being mean to Spike. This issue does not get off to a good start. Thankfully, it’s not about Twilight.
Luna shows up and asks Twilight to help her be funny. I actually like the reasoning behind this: Twilight helped her with social interaction before, and even though that logic it should be the blind leading the blind, it worked. So now she has a new problem. After her defeat, Celestia started a yearly Chuckle-Lot, which was a huge success despite sounding like it was named by a toddler. Maybe because Celestia acting like Gallagher is funny no matter who you are.
As Twilight tries to help Luna, the Princess realizes something: Twilight is crazy. So she decides to find a different teacher, who is also crazy, but in a more active way. Pinkie agrees to help, but demands to know why she wants to learn. Luna simply says that she wants to be loved. Pinkie agrees.
Pinkie sets up a training area, which has, as trainers... Rocky, Mr. Turnip, Madame La Flour, and Sir Lintsalot. So Pinkie really is crazy. And Luna, though clearly disturbed, doesn’t have her committed, but plays along.
It turns out, inanimate objects aren’t the best demonstrators, and Luna doesn’t get the jokes. She ends up falling into them until they make Pinkie laugh. Luna gets angry, but Pinkie just says she needs to get over that. Hey Pinkie, weren’t you saying in season one that you shouldn’t prank ponies who don’t like it?
At the palace, Luna is now active during the day usually, because reasons. They play pranks, including one at a meeting that I’m sure ruined something important.
In Luna’s room, TIBBLES! ...Sorry. Luna tries to think of a prank all her own. Pinkie suggests the routine from earlier, but Luna refuses because she doesn’t want to laughed at. When Pinkie presses, Luna accidentally insults her. Pinkie says she needs to stop worrying about showing up her sister and just try to have fun before walking out, leaving them both sad... It’s... actually really effective.
The night of the Chuckle-Lot, Twilight and Pinkie show up and find a present to Pinkie from Luna, and decides not to open it until the party, because plot.
Celestia starts the event, but Luna interrupts to give her a present: a pie in the face, which Celestia laughs. Pinkie opens her present, which is another pie... and one for Twilight. Then Luna slips on stage and ends up just as goofy. Luna learns that you have to be able laugh at yourself.
That was... okay.
Next review: The Rainbow Rocks shorts, the novelization of the first movie, and the prequel novel to the second movie. Yeah, big one.
Finally, they return!
I expected more out of this issue, not a rehash of "Luna Eclipsed". And that Twilight scene at the beginning was a terrible way to include her character. I'm seriously sick of the writers thinking that because Pinkie Pie appears, they need to have her bounce dialouge off of Twilight. As Season 4 showed, it's not hard to write a Pinkie Pie episode where Twilight isn't heavily featured.
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Their return wasn't that great, sadly.
Darth Link is right. The issue is kind of... well, it is an issue. That much can be said about it.
Though given my love for Luna, maybe it was just my own expectations not being lived up to.
2447802 Such a shame indeed.
2447868 Yeah, and it's really a shame because of what they did with characters like Trixie and Discord. So there's really no reason why they shouldn't have been able to make Princess Luna and Pinkie Pie work.