A Sneak Peek #3 · 7:33pm Dec 6th, 2018
(WIP)
Guards, and friends, and Diamond Dogs, oh my!
(WIP)
Guards, and friends, and Diamond Dogs, oh my!
This episode hit all the right chords with me. All of them. It deals with a lesson for life that is important, but underestimated by many in this world, in a society where people are quick with throwing old things away:
Preservation is important to retain the remembrance on those we have lost.
By all fillies in Equestria..... Rainbow Dash was a MASSIVE douche today. I mean, it's not exactly surprising. We've seen her like this in the past. Rainbow Dash always had a douchebag attitude in certain moments. She even used to be a douche to Fluttershy (!) and to Scootaloo (!!) way back in the past. That is her. That is Rainbow Dash. That is one part of her and we all know that some things never change.
And with this week it finally happened again, the thing the show needs these days: A Student Six episode! :D Nine months Seven weeks they left us waiting, but now they have given us another episode focused on the sextet of awesomeness! :D
And what an episode it was! Silverstream and Ocellus were heroes, Yona delivered another one of her punchlines and..... But let's start at the beginning.
Season 8 is finally back and it's already off to an excellent start, with another Friendship School episode! A Friendship School episode in which we see Starlight Glimmer losing it and killing Discord..... What? No, I'm not kidding. This actually happened!
“Why do you have to be so annoying?”
“Hey! I’m just trying to explain it to you! The history of the language is-”
“Long and boring. Also, unnecessary to learn.”
“...Fascinating and intriguing.”
“‘Fascinating’ and ‘intriguing’ mean the same thing!”
(I have not watched the finale. No spoilers!)
I know there's been speculation over the Young Six being the next Bearers of Harmony, partly from this:
Ponies have speculated that the aura colors indicate which Element each of the Six hold, but...
A few days ago, I was rewatching "School Daze" to give the episode some more thoughts, because there is quite a lot to see in it and a lot that invites you to deeply think about it. One sentence in particular stuck out to me:
"Everypony should be prepared to defend our way of life."
So, seeing as there was a lot of interest in What's your problem?, I've decided to use the sequel as an opportunity to play out a few ideas that have been tumbling around in my mind ever since Twilight first introduced the exchange students.
Here are some afterthoughts on "School Daze", the Opener of Season 8. I'm publishing this after my general review of the episode, which I won't copy over here to not postpone this blog entry, but you can find it on Deviantart if you want to read it.
I waited for this episode and looked forward to it for a while now. And I was wrong with all of my theories and thoughts about it. The party seen in the trailer was not a party for Starlight Glimmer, but instead the pony dance we heard about, we did not just see
This is it! The kind of episode I have waited for! Finally, for the first time ever since "School Daze", we got a proper, 100% Student Six episode again! And it delivered in the best way possible!
Not only is it another Hearth's Warming Eve episode, something Season 7 did not offer to us, we also learn a lot about the lives of Sandbar, Gallus, Yona, Smolder, Ocellus and Silverstream and about the culture and traditions of their homelands!
It finally happened. It was a long time prevented, but now it finally happened, my first fic for Silverstream is written and released!
I have written a story for Lemon Crumble! The Season 9 Finale and her unexpected speaking role and heroic deed have overjoyed me and soon after I've seen the Finale for the first time, before I could finally find sleep, I had this idea for a Lemon Crumble fic and knew I had to write this.
- I already loved the first few moments of the episode, because we finally saw the Crystal Empire again! It's a place we unfortunately get to see rarely, the last time where there was a real focus on it was during Season 6 in "The Times They Are a Changeling"!