Wonderbolt Academy Review/New editor chosen · 4:01pm Dec 15th, 2012
Ever since most of her episodes in season 2, I've been wary when it comes to Rainbow Dash based episodes. Well now that we have our first one as well as the return of the Wonderbolts, the question is whether or not it was any good.
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Well I was happy with the results of this episode. Rainbow Dash isn't a complete jerk like she was in her season 2 episodes and she wasn't OOC like she was throughout most of that season as well. The new pegasus, Lightning Dust, reminds me of Gilda for some reason. I don't know what it is, but Lightning seems to be almost like Gilda. She's almost got the same attitude as her and the competitive nature of Rainbow rolled into one pony. I was also happy to see Snowflake, Thunderlane, and Cloudchaser all appear again in this episode.
Spitfire, I have mixed feelings for in this episode. I know she's training the cadets, but the way she acts kind of rubs me the wrong way. She isn't bad or anything, it's just she's a little too different to me. Not to mention her voice is a little off. She barely sounds like herself in Best Night Ever and Hurricane Fluttershy. I don't know whether the VA for her wasn't available or not. And I guess you can argue they were going for a commanding military type voice, but she still sounds a little masculine to me.
The jokes were kind of played down in this episode, but the few that were in it like Pinkie waiting for Rainbow Dash's letter(there's going to be a LOT of RainbowPie pictures and stories coming out of this episode as well as SpitDash and LightningDash) were pretty funny.
My other complaint with this episode, aside from how Spitfire sounded, was that Soarin wasn't in this episode at all. Why? A Wonderbolts episode wouldn't have been complete without him after all. This was a golden opportunity and they never being him in at all. It's sad to see that he was left out of the episode. I guess the VA wasn't available or something, but it's still sad to see he wasn't in it.
Now what surprised me the most was who the writer of this episode is.
Merriwether Williams
She's got a very bad reputation when it comes to writing Rainbow Dash, whether she's the main character or not. She always writes her as a jerk to everypony and makes her unbearable. I was surprised that not only was Merriwether given another Rainbow Dash episode, but this time she writes Rainbow Dash in a very good way. She doesn't make her a jerk this time, or a stuck up pony who becomes irritating. No, this time she's not written badly. Which makes me wonder why she didn't do this in The Mysterious Mare Do Well, an episode we all know as one of the most infamous episodes ever made. So I have to give props to Merriwether for actually making a good Rainbow Dash episode.
Overall, some good jokes, a good moral, and the return of the Wonderbolts makes this episode really great. Aside from some flaws, I enjoyed this episode a lot and it's one of my favorite Rainbow based episodes.
FINAL SCORE: 9/10
Now that this matter is out of the way, it's time to choose my editor. I did get a pretty good amount of requests, but there can be only one. So without further ado, the new editor is:
Arby Works
He'll be my editor for my Sparity story since he's given me some ideas on what to do for it in the new chapter of his story, The Romantic Experiments of Spike and Rarity. Now I mean no offense to the others I turned down. It wasn't easy to choose to be honest. But his latest chapter has given me some ideas on what to do in the story.
So there you all have it. What did you think of today's episode?
I thought you would give it a mixed review, like 7/10 after reading that. But that's cool.
To me, I think it was very awesome to see all the other background ponies who were from Hurricane Fluttershy.
614325 Well I did like it a lot. I just found Spitfire's voice and the lack of Soarin to be my biggest gripes.
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Well, the lack of Soarin' was a big flaw there, I admit. From the way I see it, it's like Spitfire has two sides. When outside the facility, she seems kinda casual. But when in the academy, she's the leader and she's gotta be responsible for the cadets.
614356 I see it this way. Rainbow didn't get into trouble since she not only informed Spitfire of what Lightning did, but told her she lost sight of what it means to be a Wonderbolt.
As for MDW, it's bad for almost every reason. It shows the worse of the Mane 6 in this episode. Everypony is WAY OOC and acts insane. There were little funny moments. The moral is taught in a very bad way and Twilight and the others' way of teaching Rainbow a lesson was just mean spirited in practically every way.
614358 I understand she has to be responsible. It's just her voice sounds off.
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Mare-Do Well? It's probably the first episode to feature a superhero pony. I think the Pinkie Pie jokes were to make them link to the main story. And how the tornado incident came about.
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Well, I can accept that. So the build up is probably like sheer irony?
614392 Well what I mean is that the way the lesson is taught is OOC for Twilight and the others. They haven't done this in past episodes and usually they don't go out of their way to hurt a friend when they try to tell them about the lesson.
614485 Not to mention Twilight and the others were being hypocrites. They've boasted and bragged before, but they don't do what they did to Rainbow.
For some reason I expected to see Gilda in this new episode and was a bit disappointed not to see my third favorite viallian (DAMN IT! Keep spelling that wrong!) and not see my favorite pony, Derpy as well but on the bright side we met a new enemy of Rainbow Dash, Lighting Dust and will now have loads of Pinkie Dash, clop or not....also a few other pairings as well. also got to see Thunderlane and Snowflake, was happy about that and I did not even know who Cloudkicker was untill this episode
I for one like Spitfire's way of speaking, she does not sugar coat her wordfs, it's a new look and it's a cool way to tell others to not buck around on a very serious moment.
All in all 9/10