Special Birthday PPOV Review and Spoilers · 4:15pm Oct 1st, 2016
Well, not only it's my birthday but I got as a present what is probably the strongest episode of the second half of the season! We'll have to start on the fact that the episode had actually four writers and it showed, but not in a bad way: It's rare to have a sort of anthology episode with strong itnernal continuity and I had a blast in figuring out the common element (I was right, by the way) of the stories. I appreciated the fact that the pony telling the story didn't go too much voerboard with their own portayal. Sure, they had a grudge towards each other and this explains the exaggerated portrayal of the others (Seriously, Applejack? You made them both look like fools?) but the ending clarifies it in an heartwarming way. All the girls see each other as too much in their own element and that's why they came across as a parody, Applejack with her rough, rustic upbringing, Rarity and her high life and Pinkie Pie does whatever Pinkie Pie does. All in all, a nice episode with nice Rashomon paralles. Just like the movie, it did reveal the crux but the smaller details are lost in the interpretation. Applejack's story sounded like the woodcutter's that showed everyone else in a much more pitiful light than the others did but that wasn't the truth either. If anything, with all her ego, Rarity was the Tajoumarou of the situation.
My Birthday hasn't fell on a Saturday in a while. I don't feel older nor wiser because right now I feel silly to evaluate all the changes I experienced in just one day every day every year. Still, in the end, if we do feel wiser and we act wiser than that's what we are
To avoid spoilers I didn't read the actual review, but let me just say HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
