Update - New Followers and Featured! Also, Rainbow Rocks Review!

Wow, first of all, a major thank you to everyone who hopped on board thanks to "Letters He Will Never Read." Which made the feature box on 10/24 into 10/25. You guys are awesome! Thank you so much. I can hardily believe that I've recently cracked 400 followers.

I'm hard at work on the finale for my horror story, One Night At Anon's. My hope is that it will be out before Halloween. In fact, if I'm lucky, I'll be able to get up and finish it tomorrow. I have a feeling it will be around 8,000 words.

So then, Since that's about all I have for an update, let's talk about something FUN!

Why am I here? Oh, don't mind me, I'll just wait.

I recently watched Rainbow Rocks. With a group of friends who really isn't into colored horse cartoon program no less. I was able to pitch it to them in a very simple form.

A Drinking Game.

We all assembled the rules. I knew very, very little about the movie ahead of time, since I like to keep myself away from spoilers of episodes and movies. Here were our rules:

1. If the power of friendship or music is used as a solution to a problem, or is used as a major plot point, drink.
2. If a rainbow other than Rainbow Dash's hair was on screen, drink.
3. If a rainbow other than Rainbow Dash's hair was covering a majority (80% or more) of the screen, finish your drink.
4. If the characters grew wings, pony ears or pony tails, drink.

Now then. If you ever watched the opening credits sequence, you will know that before we even began, we were already 2 beers deep each.

Overall, the movie wasn't terrible, but I found there was a lot about it not to like. Keep in mind that I am a musician as well as a writer, and I was extremely curious to hear how everyone was so attuned to their instruments.

Nothing. I'm assuming this was what the trailers were for. The ones I missed. So it's totally my bad. I missed that.

I did not like the way a lot of the side-characters that the fandom has come to know and love was portrayed in the movie. I think Trixie was fine. I like the clever nod to Lyra and Bonnie, however I did not like how Octavia was used, and much less how Vinyl was used in the final section of the movie.

However, throwing out the things I didn't like about the movie right away, I'll mention what I did like that I remembered in my drunken stupor. So let's stop beating up on the movie.

Movie: I may be beaten up, but I'm okay guys. I swear.

I think that, given the premise, the movie did what it needed to do. Hasbro wanted to sell more EQG toys and they easily will. The concept of 'Let's start a rock band,' sells like crazy. My only grievance as a fan is that the whole movie felt forced as a result. I felt that the writers were given this request by Has bro and...

Well shit. I'm a writer, gimme a second.

The writers of My Little Pony all sit in a dark room. They had been called earlier that day by the Producers and knew that a new movie was on the horizon. This was their chance. The animators had been working on refining their puppets for months. Everything would be perfect. Maybe now there could be an in depth look into the characters. Maybe they could use the new Twilight they briefly mentioned from the first movie as a joke. Maybe, if they were really lucky, they would let the barriers cross and let OTHER MAIN CHARACTERS over to the other side too.

Finally, the producers walk in, a smug smile adorned on their faces as they hand out memos to all of them.

"We need them to start a rock band." They say.

"WHAT?" A writer cries. "A Rock Band?!"

"Yes. A rock band. Market Research shows that little girls-"

"To hell with market research!" The writers answer. "This show has become much more than just a show for little girls. This is a phenomenon. This has a near CULT following for the show. We need to handle this with finesse. With grace. With-"

"Guards, show him the door please," An executive interrupts.

"Hey! HEY! You can't take me!" The writer cries, as he's being escorted out of the building. "I've devoted countless hours to this show! Maud was my idea!!! Hey. HEY!"

The door closed behind him, silencing his protest.

"Does anyone else have any objections?" The producer asks with a smile. The room remains silent. "Good. Now then. Make them form a rock band and use the power of friendship. Make the ponies have an appearance too, and use that new rainbow power. OH! and people loved the little ears. Do more of that. You can do anything else on top of that, but make it work. We need to sell more toys."

The producer walks out without a second word and the writers are left alone.

"How are we going to do this?" One writer says. "This is going to seem so forced."

"I agree. This can't be done correctly. Nothing in here hasn't been done before..." says another.

"True... but I have an idea," Another writer keenly says.

So, there wasn't really much else to speak about. I have two last points, so bear with me.

There was one other little thing I simply could not get over with Rainbow Rocks.

If you like these characters, you may want to skip down.

I could NOT get over this. Maybe the alcohol was a major leading factor, but I couldn't take these characters seriously.

It wasn't their backstory, personalities, voices, animations or anything. In fact, most of /mlp/ has taken Sonata as their waifu, and you know what, that's fine. Let them.

I simply cannot get over that for most of the movie, it looks like they are sniffing farts.

You can double check that line. I SCOURED the internet for a gif that had them smelling the 'conflict gas' or whatever. But the animators HAD TO MAKE THE CONFLICT GAS GREEN. I mean seriously, it could have been any color, but they chose dark, forest green.

What? Doesn't everyone do it?

It was almost rediculous how much it happened. We didn't even know what to say. We were speechless. Why writers? Why animators? Why Hasbro? Why green?

Now then. Onto my last point.

Is it my turn now?

If there is one thing I think this movie did right. Did absolutely perfectly. It would be miss Baconface. Actually, no. I'm done calling her that.

This is Sunset, and this is my third favorite character in this universe. Right next to Fluttershy and Cadance.

Everything about her in this movie was perfect. She got more depth. She got repercussions for her previous actions. She fought her inner demons. (In a sense, literally.) The result was a really fleshed out character that I found myself rooting for MUCH more than the mane six.

I mean, much more. In fact, I'd dare to say that the main character of this movie SHOULD have been Sunset, or at least more predominantly. Everything about her work in this was perfect and... At this point I'm just ranting on. Bear in mind, I thought she was okay before this movie, but afterward. Shit man. She's coo.

I wanted an excuse to use another picture. So I used one.

Overall, it was okay, but I consider it worse than the first one. In a sense of pure content. Overall, I think it was a 'cooler' movie, but I feel like other writers on this website might have better storylines than what was presented in the movie.

Just my two cents, for whatever it's worth.

ONAA Finale coming soon. Thank you everyone for reading my ridiculous review of a movie that most people probably loved.

PS: If someone finds a gif of the main antagonists breathing in 'conflict gas', please comment it. I need it for scientific reasons.

Also, I drank six beers as a result of that drinking game, and it made my morning an absolute nightmare.

Comments

[Peacekeeper]

thanks for making a review! i probably wont watch it anyways but im glad to hear it wasnt so bad. and about letter he wont read....can we get a reward for making the story reach the feature box maybe an ending or a proper story about it?

also glad to see youre getting many followers! i knew you had the stuff, keep it comin'!

[Krazy Stargazer]

I watched the movie recently. And yea m response is pretty much similar to everyone else.

[Pon de Don]

6 beers got you plastered?...... ya need to work on that