My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Season 6 Episode 22: "P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View)" (SPOILERS) · 4:03pm Oct 1st, 2016
Remember how we thought Saddle Row & Rec was gonna be the Rashomon ep?
Well, here's the Rashomon ep.
(Before I get into this week's episode: I watched Legend of Everfree first thing this morning. I'm...not 100% sure what to think of it yet. It didn't really live up to my expectations. Full review to come later.)
We open with Twilight being goofy and excited because Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie are getting back from a boat trip. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are at their flight school reunion in Cloudsdale.
Twilight is sure the girls had a great time and will be so excited they'll talk over each other and has Spike prepped to take notes about all the fun they had...but when they get off the train, the three mares are filthy, covered in seaweed, visibly angry, and as soon as they're off the train, they go their separate ways without a word.
Twilight invites the girls to tea, but receives declination letters via pet from her friends. After reading their "sorry, don't wanna have tea with THEM" letters, Twilight decides to go to the girls and get the story.
First up is Rarity. Who has a crab in her mane. MEME ASCENDED!
According to Rarity, she came prepared for a luxury cruise, but the boat was a run-down piece of shit, Applejack showed up being all Captain Ahab, and Pinkie had nothing on the brain but candy and pinatas. A huge storm kicked up, Applejack steered the ship right into the heart of it, and the three of them fighting over the map led to the ship capsizing and sinking. The way her story ends doesn't make sense and Twi and Spike call her out on it, but she refuses to change her story.
Next, Twi and Spike go to see Pinkie. According to Pinkie, it was Rarity who sank the boat, not Applejack. In Pinkie's version, the boat isn't as run-down, AJ is more reasonable and perky and herself, and Rarity came with an army of porters and massively overdressed and overpacked. The only thing that matches up between the two stories is the food Rarity and Pinkie brought and it all going overboard, and Pinkie's pinata. Oh, and the storm and the tug-of-war over the map. Pinkie claims Rarity is the cause of the boat sinking.
Spike once again asks the question: "how did you all get back to Equestria if the boat sank?" Pinkie doesn't answer.
Next, they go to talk to Applejack. Applejack blames both Pinkie AND Rarity for what happened. In her version, Rarity is...excessively Rarity, while Pinkie is...the most extreme full retard version of Pinkie. In AJ's version, Pinkie and Rarity screwing around while she's trying to steer the ship is why they sank. And once again, there's no explanation for how they survived and got back to Equestria.
Back at the castle, Twilight is frantic about how to get her friends to start talking to each other again. Going over Spike's notes, she pieces together the parts of the story that match up, then figures out how to get her friends talking again. She calls her friends out to the docks to help with a "friendship emergency". WHen they start yelling at each other, Spike angrily demands to know how they got back from the middle of the ocean.
It turns out they pretty much never made it out of port. 
Twilight convinces the three mares to board a boat with her so she can prove to them that they're fighting over nothing. How it breaks down:
1. The boat capsized because of a friendly sea monster that swam into the shallows to eat the cucumber sandwiches the girls threw overboard. That part was just an accident, and Twilight proves it.
2. The girls were so busy trying to get each other out of their element that they failed to notice the other two were doing the same thing. All three of them were trying to do something nice for the other two, and it just sort of...collided.
Once everypony realizes this, friendship repaired, and the five of them have fun on the water with the sea monster towing their little boat.
Solid episode, giving it an 8/10.
Legend of Everfree complete review coming later today!
Oh my god don't eat ice-cream out of those you literally just found them on the sea floor!
As an aside, am I just projecting my perversion, or did anybody else hear "pinata cock" in Rarity's version?
Darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling!
Can we talk about how Ponyville suddenly became a port town.
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I literally thought, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING RARITY!?"
Ahabjack is best Applejack
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Wasn't Ponyville. Didn't you notice the train?
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Ooh darling!
The crabs return!
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No, they took a train to get to wherever the port was.
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The three did get off a train at the start. Presumably, they took one to get to the unspecified port.
Which I will now call Port Ambiguous until informed otherwise.Scratch that. Given the Bittish Columbian flag on the ship, they were sailing out of Vanhoover.
Oh, my. All this time and they still don't really know one another that well.
I think the big problem is, we never actually see the full story of what really happened. And compared to other episodes that do this kind of story, it wasn't that the girls misunderstood what they saw, it was that they refused to acknowledge the role each of them may have played. It's not bad, but considering "The Saddle Row Review" showed the writers willing to experiment with new story telling structures, this one felt more like a test than an actual attempt.
Good episode. Ending was amazingly dumb. That loch-ness dog came out of nowhere and had no purpose in the story, other than deux-ex-machina.
The bunyip is usually found in Australian myth as a desert predator that lurks in wait at watering holes, like a lovecraftian ant lion or landshark. Given the cucumbers, I would have thought that an oceanic kappa would have worked better for their purposes.
Well this was a nice slice of life episode.
It was pretty much the "Arabian phone" conundrum they were facing. Some were really obvious with how much they exaggerate another, though the AJ Captain Ahab was a nice cameo.
Also, Rarity's drama couch is back.
The fact they barely left the port in reality deserve a facehoof, but it was funny.
In the end, the misunderstand has been clear and ,what do you know, a new life form has been added to the world of mlp.
I really like this episode, funny and simple.
4235154 I agree, it really would've made more sense if thye were ALL to blame for sinking the ship.
I, don't get it.
4235033 you'd be surprised how often this actually happens with close friends.
4235004 Darling. Darling everywhere.
I thought it was funny when Pinkie wanted to storm off like the others did, and just climbed up the train to do it.
For all of the hair care Rarity does, her mane can still support marine life.
Interesting thought with the sea dog monster thing loving cucumber sandwiches. All of their versions of what happened were something interesting.
4235217 Google "rarity fights a crab".
This is the first time since "Slice of Life" that I've actually wanted to watch the show again.
I think ...
This was a really fun episode.
Not in my top 5 of the season, but definitely in the top ten.
Now i want to read a pirate applejack fic, any good suggestion?
This kind of sums the episode up.
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