No Second Prances Review: Everyone else seems to be raging about it, so I think I'll place my two bits in too · 6:18pm May 1st, 2016
What did I think about this episode? It doesn't matter. Frankly, who cares what I think about it?
Was this episode good, though? That's the question.
The premise, and subsequently the setup, were... promising. So promising, in fact, that I was ready to call this as a 'contender for the best MLP episode ever' by the six-minute mark. Why? It's simple.
It looked as though the episode was going to become superbly morally ambiguous. It was teasing a parallel between Starlight and Trixie-- both ponies with a haunting past. One had been forgiven but the other... not so much. And that idea right there, I thought, was superb. It had the potential to drive Twilight into both external conflict, it had the potential to show Starlight's ugly side once again, it had the potential to... TRIXIE!.
And in all honesty, in the end, it did begin to utilize that. But such is the way with a 22 minute kids show, things were... rushed. The show attempted a powerful climax and attempted a heartfelt resolution. But it was just not enough. It felt cringe-worthy. Pathetic.
Actually, I will say what I thought about this episode in my own biased subjective opinion. I thought that this episode was in principle brilliant, but was just a few minutes too short. It was going to be amazing, and accomplished a fair portion of that ambition, but just wasn't convincing in the end. Also, Celestia scared me.
So was this episode good? Yes. It had a complex plot line and introduced some interesting conflicts and ideas. Was the episode amazing?
There are so many people that are on an extreme. They either love the episode, or hate it. I personally think that it was somewhere in between. 8.8/10
I don't know what everyone's raging about.
There was no episode yesterday...
The episode was shit because second twilight sparkle made friends with fourth twilight sparkle to make first twilight sparkle jealous
3910477 There was an episode last Saturday.
I feel like a lot of the raving around episodes nowdays is simply just the hype that comes along with watching something new. If you wait a while after an episode comes out, you'll often be able to get a much more balanced perspective on things. It's as though half the brony fandom says that every episode is the best episode ever right after watching it.
3910557 Hold on.
So Sunset Shimmer made friends with Trixie to make Twilight Sparkle jealous? Twilight = 1, Sunset Shimmer = 2, Starlight = 3, Trixie = 4, right?
But seriously, you've missed one of the crowning achievements of this episode. Yes, Trixie originally made friends with Starlight to make Twilight jealous (well, at least partially), but in the end she begins to realized that she genuinely liked having her as a friend. One of the main reasons the episode got away with that was because that transition took place over a fair amount of time (unlike TWILIGHT at the end of the blood episode).
Comp, you're deliberately simplifying an entire narrative into one singular causation. Real stories are more nuanced than that. It's like saying the movie Titanic was a movie about some idiots who drove a big ship into an iceberg, or saying that Interstellar is just about some guy who didn't like farming. It's certainly a factor, but it doesn't represent the story as a whole.
Next you'll be saying that First Sunset Shimmer only wanted to become friends with Second Sunset Shimmer because Alpha Sunset Shimmer got mad at her for not being like 12th Sunset Shimmer. But then 69th Minty Bubblegum had an affair with the 42nd Muffins, which caused 18th Spike to get jealous.
Edgy Princess Luna is not amused.
3911562 no i fixed the order, Sunset is third twilight, starlight is fourth twilight, trixie is second twilight