24 Reasons Why "The Crystal Empire" and "The Return of Tambelon" Are The Same · 6:07am Sep 4th, 2015
24 Reasons
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1. It starts off as an ordinary day with everypony doing their ordinary pony things; playing hide-and-go-seek, doing mountains of paperwork, that sort of thing.
2. But, trouble must be brewing somewhere, because one of the characters gets an sudden urgent message.
3. The relevant parties get called together, and for the sake of the audience as much as the characters, it’s story time.
4. So apparently, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was this whole other kingdom place.
5. Some evil guy is in control of this kingdom. He may have been in charge all along or just recently taken power, but the point is that he runs the show now.
6. He also has a really gruffy-sounding voice, and would seem an awful lot more threatening if he just didn’t speak.
7. Evil guy goes and gets himself defeated…
8. …and then the kingdom just up and vanishes into thin air.
9. Some order-of-magnitude number of years go by, and most of the land forgets about the place.
10. Suddenly, though, the kingdom’s reappeared…
11. …and the bad guy starts trying to take over the world again.
12. In his conquest, he makes use of some crazy power that no one can seem to counter.
13. It looks like resistance is futile, but naturally, our heroes say “no way”, and go try to stop him.
14. Along the way, they encounter a few obstacles of some description…
15. …involving one or more of our heroes getting trapped somewhere…
16. …and there’s at least one cliffhanger where it totally looks like the bad guy is winning.
17. We soon find out that the bad dude has this evil scheme cooking that means it would be bad if he’s not stopped in a certain amount of time, so tick tock.
18. If it wasn’t obvious enough already, a lot of the guys under the evil dude’s rule don’t really like him.
19. The citizens don’t really have the chance to think about that, though, because someone is forcing them to have fun.
20. But it turns out that there’s this other part to the legend about this ancient MacGuffin thing that can stop the evil dude hands down…
21. …and, surprise surprise, it’s conveniently hidden somewhere in the kingdom.
22. Good guys find it…
23. …activate it at the last possible second for maximum dramatic effect…
24. …and the bad guy goes bye-bye with a skyward scream.
That’s 24 reasons why these two are the same story. Do you agree with these reasons? Yes, no, maybe so? Let me know in the comments below. And be sure to go subscribe to Couch Tomato on YouTube for more “24 Reasons” videos.
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(“Ha-ha-ha-ha!—Hee-hee-hee-hee!”)
(“Best elevator music I’ve ever heard.”)
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