Tumbleweed vs. Common Ground! · 2:30pm May 5th, 2019

Gonna tell you right off the bat, I loved this one. Then again, it's pretty hard to go wrong when Patton Oswalt is guest-starring. Plus, the whole background with Oswalt's daughter playing Windy Sprint and all is super sweet. And again, we have an ep that you could easily slot into an earlier season (well, as long as that season was later than the obvious continuity nods, of course).

Still, I kind of find it funny that the show's getting a little more nuanced in its morals. Like "What to do when your slacker-ass brother comes home and can't hold a job" or "how to navigate between your parents when they're divorced." And in this one, we get: "Get out of the house and watch a baseball game once in awhile or else you'll never get laid, you fucking nerd."

I kid. Mostly.

But yeah. If you've read, like, any of my stories (which is why I'm assuming you're reading this blog right now), you should know I'm a terrible shipper. Not to mention "Rainbow Dash giving terrible relationship advice" is a foolproof recipe for comedy.

Also, while the show danced around it, it sounds like Clear Skies' dad is straight-up dead, referred to in the past tense. Which, well ... dang. I'm going to assume he got eaten by something nasty in the Everfree forest, or something.

But yeah! This episode was a whole lot of fun, and if I get reeeeeally ambitious, I might even write up a short and silly follow-up fic to this ep. Which ... may be a little bit derivative, but still. Better than nothing, right? Though these days I continue to slowly plug away at original fiction of dubious quality. Which I should go work on a little bit right now, come to think of it.

See you next week! Or maybe sooner.

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