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I'm an old-school MLP fan, glad the new show is doing great.

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Sep
8th
2015

MLP Episode Review: Read it and Weep · 3:48pm Sep 8th, 2015

So, let's see... Rainbow Dash and reading. Gee, this is gonna be fun!

Read it and Weep
Pegasi in the sky, Dashie goes twice as high... Rarity and Pinkie watch her, with Pinkie's neck doing a corkscrew that has me wincing in pain. Twilight joins her, but... pull up! Pull up! No, Dash crashes. And in a clever bit, they don't show us what happened. The imagination takes us places, after all... "So much for dazzling." No, they're in the second movie, Pinkie.

After the credits, Dash's eyes open with the stock 'fuzzy into focus' effect of people regaining consciousness. "Is her face gonna stay that way?" *Striker smacks Pinkie* NOT. FUNNY! The doc says she'll be okay, and we see an X-ray photo of her wing bones. Fascinating. She'll be there a few days minimum. She'll climb the walls... which she can do already, being a pegasus. Pinkie asks if the crash gave her amazing spider powers. Dash, you do not want the Parker Luck. No on that, or amazing healing powers. that's Wolverine's job! Applejack and Rarity try to cheer her up, but good wishes for good grub and fashion able gowns don't make up for it. There's even a roommate, a pony in a full-body cast. I... hah, hah? Luckily, a book cart wheels by. Twilight floats over...

"Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone!" If adventure had a name... it would be Indiana Jones, but Daring Do would be a close second! Twilight owns all of them. But Dash doesn't read. It's for eggheads like Twilight. "No offense." "It's undeniably, unquestionably, uncool."

...


Dash, those are the last eight books I read, along with the one I'm currently reading. So no offense, but fuck you.

Everyone rightfully laughs at her. Applejack is more literary than Dash is! Pinkie has a tangent about how fruit-shaped her head is. Twilight leaves the book with her and says Daring is undeniably, unquestionably, unstoppable. But you don't have to take her word for it! Dash is bouncing a ball against the wall, gets her muzzle stuck inside a glass and begins EPIC LIGHT SWITCHING! She's bored, so she eventually tries the book. We fade into the action, with Daring, who is pretty clearly a Dash recolor. I won't really go into the action much. When this came out, I had the idea that this book was enchanted, so that whatever type of pony was reading it, that'd be Daring. So if it was a unicorn, Daring would be a unicorn with a damaged horn, earth pony and sprained ankle or something. Also, Dash is really getting into it! She loves it!

"I'm an egghead!" Complete with musical sting. Ugh.

More reading, more action. She needs a whip, or a revolver to shoot the guy with the sword. She even does an Indy slide with her hat. Suddenly, Twilight and Fluttershy come to cheer her up! They brought some Battleship-expy. Dash throws the game. I honestly wonder if anyone's tried to come up with rules for it, actually. There's a Daring slip and Dash does fake-snoring. Because Zacherle forbid she admits she likes reading. Back to the book! More Indy references. Except no bag of sand! Throw me the idol! Then Pinkie, Applejack and Rarity come in to cheer her up. Then the nurse with lunch. They tell het to go ehad to eat and she's... a complete pig about it, to get them out of there. Back to the book. I feel unclean.

Then the doc interrupts, and we see a lantern lit with fireflies. Clever! the doc says she's being checked out. Right now right now! He says to stay off the wing for a week. Dash doesn't know what'll happen to Daring Do! She remembers Twilight has a copy... but also remembers the nasty stuff she said. Karma gets you, Dashie. She tries her best Doctor Smith impression to get back into the hospital, but she messes up the check by faking pain to the wrong wing. It's a severe case of lazy-itis! Well... she does have that. :p So in her infinite wisdom, she... breaks into the hospital to get the book.

Hello, desk, my head said. It's been a while! Anyway, there's a bald pony in her bed, but she finds the book underneath! The pony wakes up and shouts burglar! But no, she's not trying to steal his slippers. She's trying to steal the book. Okay, I chuckled. Still wrong and this is adding up, but funny. The hospital staff, including some cute filly for some reason, snap into action! Dash flies off... and her wing snaps. Alarms blaze, guards rush forward and Pinkie's angry. No one invited her! Dash comes to a riverbank, and swings across! the pursuers... cross the bridge.

Excellent. :D

Others wake up as the chase goes around. It stops at Golden Oaks... and it turns out the barking dog is actually a patient. That is REALLY dark. The mess gets straightened out as Dash confesses to being an egghead. Oh, the ponyity. And Twilight outright states this is petty theft. Also, breaking and entering and causing a disturbance. Twilight, in a legit heartwarming moment, says she can borrow any of the books any time. And says just because you're athletic, doesn't mean you can't enjoy reading. The Greek ideal of the sound mind and sound body, but you don't have to take her word for it! Spike shows off for some reason. I don't get it, either. We also get the lesson of "Don't knock it until you try it." It's a great lesson... that Dash fobs off onto Spike to write to Celestia. For the love of Mike...

She finishes the book, and loves it. And we'll see you next time!

Thoughts
This episode is... kinda mixed for me. The lessons about reading and trying something first are great lessons that should be taught to everyone. I love Daring Do... as a fictional character. She expands that world and is really cool.

However... Dash is an asshole. I dunno. Maybe it's because I used to get bullied a lot back in school, but her entire attitude just really set me off. she took it past Eleven and to about seventeen or eighteen. The thing is, any of the Mane Six beyond Twilight could've been used for this... and might've been better used, especially since we've had Dash-centric episodes or ones where she's a strong side-character already. Maybe Pinkie Pie or Applejack would've been better for this? I dunno.

EDIT: This also completely destroys the TwiDash ship for me. I mean torpedoes the ammo room, sends it to the bottom of the ocean.


Headcanon
In the Hasbroverse, AK Yearling was a former archaeologist who... embellished her exploits a bit in the Daring Do series, but was more Professor Jones than Indiana. Also, Dash did thirty days community service for her actions.


Yes, that is the unabridged version. Yes, I read it. Victor, as much as I loved this... did we really need the digressions into Waterloo and the Parisian Sewer System?!

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did we really need the digressions into Waterloo and the Parisian Sewer System?!

The what? Why was there...Why did we need...How?

Anyway, still loved the eppie. I always do love watching things like a hero imagining a story and the lesson was well done.

Dash is... well she Rainbow Dash, the loyal and at time dumb jerk jock.

And despite a certain later episode I do keep with my Daring developed from here

I don't know. You may say the ship was scuttled, but I think the net result of Dash embracing the Daring Do series leads to a new one being built. Though to be honest, I'm not big on that ship in general.

As for the episode itself... yeah, there are some dark undertones here, what with the asylum escapee and a possible chemotherapy patient. Though I suppose it would also make his coat fall out...

Oh my gosh! You're reviewing episodes again! :pinkiegasp:

Anywho, this episode was always a favorite of mine. In a weird way, this episode reminds me of the story of St. Ignatius of Loyola. (I attended a Jesuit university. :scootangel::applejackunsure:) It has led me to believe that someone on MLP's writing staff was Jesuit-educated. Maybe also because I was also like dead-set against reading books of considerable length, without pictures and stuff. You know, real books. That was until I started reading Harry Potter when I was like thirteen.

I've read a good chunk of David McCullough's book on Harry Truman for a college course many years ago. I've also read three of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle four Sherlock Holmes novels. I can't tell which one that is pictured.

I've also read Moby Dick. It was most unpleasant. :flutterrage:

I've always assumed that the scenes with Daring Do was Dash imagining the adventure in the book. And she imagines Daring Do looking like herself because she's just that narcissistic.

I used to assume that either a) Daring Dash really is a fictional character, or b) she was real but lived many years ago before the series.

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