Spoiler Alert: Rainbow Rocks, Part Three · 7:41pm Dec 24th, 2014
: Aww! So no Giant, Rainbow, Friendship-Macguffin Magic Laser........of Doooooooom?
: Er, no. At least, not yet. And even worse, the students continued to argue, and the Dazzlings continued to suck up their negative emotions.
: Which still looked like a fart cloud. Anyway, the Rainbooms then realized that the Elements work differently on Earth than they do on Equus. They had to use the Element of Magic to defeat Sunset when she was using the Element, so now they had to use a musical attack to stop the Dazzlings' musical spell. Hey, I know it's a bit silly, but let's see you think of a good reason for the Rainbooms to not just rainbow-nuke the Dazzlings at the beginning of the movie. Twilight then joined the band, since her expertise would be needed to make the spell, and the best place to play the spell would be at the Battle of the Bands.
: Unfortunately, Twilight didn't know any musical counter spells and had to make up a new one before the next day. Really, darling? Your special talent is magic and you never learned a single music spell? For that matter, why didn't you just go back through the mirror to pick up a music spell?
: Hey!! Musical spells are really rare in Equestria. Most creatures who use magic in our world do so naturally, so any spells generated by vocal incantation are fairly rare. It was simply more efficient to make a new spell than track down an appropriate one that already existed. Anyway, this time, since my friends all knew I didn't live in this world, we all slept over at Pinkie's house. Er, human Pinkie's house. Still, even after working on it all night, I couldn't get the counterspell right.
: Forget that! Look at what a jerk I am in this universe!! You don't stop a video game mid-match, or take another player's controller just because you're losing! That's not cool.
Unfortunately, not only was Twi having problems with the counterspell, but the band was beginning to fall apart. Not only was human me alienating everypony, but Rarity and AJ were arguing over whether band costumes were important, Flutters felt unappreciated, and Pinkie was just bored.
: U-unfortunately, when the Rainbooms reached the C-C-Competition, some of the other bands took advantage of things like Rarity's outfit, Pinkie's party cannon, and o-other m-me's stage fright to, um, sabotage them. The Rainbooms still made it to the next round, but it made a r-real m-m-mess. Usually I'd think that nopony would be so cr-cruel over a simple band competition, but I suppose these pon-er, people were under m-m-mind control, so I guess it makes sense.
: Oh, an' then Flash Sentry decided ta be a jerk ta Twilight fer competin' against 'im in the Battle 'a the Bands. What's wrong wit' this universe?: It. Was. MIND CONTROL!! Ugh.
: R-regardless, the next band to perform was the Dazzlings, and their song is used rather effectively as a medium to briefly show a lot of the individual band match-ups. It's also a POWERFUL visual to see bands literally blasting each other away with sound.
: B-but, is it just me, or are some of the results of the competition a bit o-odd? I mean, why are people with musical cutie marks like Octavia, Lyra, and the H-Hard Rock band losing to non-musicians? I-I mean, why would people who's purpose in life is to create music lose a music competition to athletes, farmers, and stage magicians? Isn't that a little, I don't know, insulting?
: Hmm, you're right. Maybe the Dazzlings were rigging the results more than I thought....? Anyway, during the semifinals, Rainbow Dash decided to play "Awesome as I Want to Be," which emphasized HER so much, it threatened to transform her and only her into her magical form, revealing our plan to the Sirens before we were ready. : ....wow. Just...wow. Human me really is a...
: Hold it right there, sugah cube. Let's keep this here review as foal-friendly as possible, a'right? Sunset hadda tackle human Rainbow ta stop the transformation, ruinin' the performance an makin' Sunset look bad in fronta the entire school. Again. Howevah, the Rainbooms still managed ta make it ta the finals?! Wait, what? Why?
: Ah. Right. See, the Dazzlings mind controlled the Principals to put us in the finals, even though, in all fairness, Trixie's band should've beaten us in the semifinals. That way, the Dazzlings could manipulate Trixie to sabotage us between the semifinals and the finals. When that happened, we couldn't even attend the finals and would have no way to stop the Dazzlings from singing.
Can I just say that during this whole thing? Flash Sentry was almost Eric Cartman levels of rude and paranoid? Seriously throw in a few f-bombs and he's a taller and skinnier Cartman.
And that makes me want this to happen more now for some reason
On that note.... I am SHOCKED South Park has not made a Brony episode yet.
2675978 Yeah, the general consensus I've heard among most people is that Flash was massively mishandled in this film. If you have a character who's already a bit of a Base Breaker, you really shouldn't aggravate that by making him act like a
. Particularly if you're still trying to ship him with one of your main characters.
As for South Park, I don't really know enough about the show to know why it would/wouldn't do something.
2675997 It's almost like character's with a yellow and blue color scheme and who have Sentry in their name are destined to fail....
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South Park is not for everyone. They use shock humor with INCREDIBLY touchy subjects, not unlike modern Family Guy.... Difference being is that South Park is GOOD at it. South Park uses shock humor for commentary and actually it DOES make some level of sense in what they're saying.
2676040 Yeah, poor Sentry. At least he turned out better than his DC counterpart, Triumph, did.
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Yeah, I've never been a fan of South Park; shock humor and vulgar humor have never been my style. I will say, though, that most people seem to agree that South Park is one of the better shows that use that these days.
2677052 Now to be fair, Sentry's original Marvel Knights mini was a GREAT introduction and END to his character. Set him up as this great hero we never saw before, a SUPERMAN for the Marvel Universe and then? Ended him in a heroic sacrifice...... It was a GREAT story, full of pathos, and is bar none the BEST comic to feature The Sentry to date... Second best being The Age of The Sentry which is a GREAT callback to the Silver Age and a good take on The Sentry too as a goofier, yet still cool, Silver Age Superman-like character
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I'll say it's not always MY cup of tea either, but there are some episodes that make me laugh
2677075 Yeah, ultimately the Sentry seems to have suffered from the curse of a lot of great characters: overstaying their welcome.
2677091 And the fact he was put in the hands of a writer when he was brought back with NO experience writing Superman level characters and ended up coming up with the unstable mentality weakness for him so he had a reason why he didn't just end fights in a split second since he was writing a team that BARELY went up against things they'd NEED Sentry for.
2677184 Which writer was that?
2677219 Brian Michael Bendis
2677226 Ah. Yeah, putting Sentry on the New Avengers didn't make a ton of sense, but in all fairness, there wasn't any other Avengers team to put him on at the time.
2677231 Yeah, but still the Avengers have had THOR on their team before and dealt with non-end of the world stuff and made him work! Just make it so Sentry holds back because he's afraid of KILLING someone like Superman, since that's who he's CLEARLY meant to be, or make him a pacifist and only tries HITTING something when there's no alternative! Not because he's afraid of even going outside!
I can think of any number of different ways for Sentry to have been handled so he worked... Mostly because I HATE it, no I DESPISE it, when good characters get the shaft as bad as Sentry did.
2677239 I guess they were trying to add something different and new to the Superman archetype. Just didn't turn out that well. The pacifist idea would've been pretty cool, though. It's kind of amazing how few pacifists show up in comic books. I mean, even Dove punches people!