Nnnt.

Okay, I've just watched Fall Weather Friends, Art of The Dress, and Feeling Pinkie Keen. FWF and AoTD were great, but... I didn't like FPK. It was funny, but... I don't like the way Pinkie 'taught' Twilight how to believe in her Pinkie Sense. The entire episode is about Twilight getting seriously hurt, not because of Pinkie's Pinkie Sense, but because of karma. Why is Twilight getting hurt? Because she doesn't believe. She's getting physically punished for not believing in the Pinkie Sense- in the most hilarious way possible. And I really hate that. The ending was terrible. Just...terrible. Twilight is thoroughly abused, being stung, falling down, breaking bones, and having her head crushed multiple times by a variety of things, and then nearly being eaten by a hydra, and finally, the last straw, the one that breaks the pony's back, is when she becomes enraged that the mysterious Pinkie Sense, that made her go out and get hurt by karma- and then she gives up. Just like that. She gives up- which is made worse when it turns out that was the 'doozy'. That's- that's just not fair. It's as if the living embodiment of karma got up and influence the universe to give a crapton of bad-luck to Twilight, just 'cause she doesn't believe. It's even worse in the very end, with Twilight blithely believing Pinkie Pie's Pinkie Sense- even though, if you listen carefully, Twilight doesn't actually say she believes. You know, thinking of this episode makes me dread The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well, Mmmystery On The Friendship Express, Spike At Your Service, and Magical Mystery Cure. But I do want to see The Best Night Ever, The Return of Harmony, Luna Eclipsed, and A Canterlot Wedding.

P.S. Did I forget to mention that Pinkie's statement that she just predicts things to happen, not cause them to happen, can be contradicted by every time she does something Looney Tune-ish while everpony doesn't do anything exaggeratedly cartoonish?

Comments

[aceotaku]

do keep in mind thatthis is one of the mroe infamously loathed episodes, mainly due to the clunky and demeaning nature of the moral. Lauren Faust herself actually apologised for this one.

I feel like how it should've ended was that twilight should have learned to, while still be sceptical, not be so obsessed with finding an explanation for everything, rather than just blindly accept it. you know, a compromise between the two viewpoints. also maybe make twilight's injuries more self inflicted rather than contrivance, to show how dangerous this unhealthy obsession is while also making her punishment her own fault.