S5E17: Brotherhooves Social · 7:38pm Oct 3rd, 2015
Time is short (because of UK PonyCon looming), so this will be a short one, and I'll leave the spoilery waffle for Louder Yay in a day or two's time. This was a pretty weird episode, but in the end it was well worth it. It was great to see an Apple Family ep that (mostly) didn't involve Applejack; not that I have anything against AJ, but she's not everything. Big Mac got to talk a whole lot (in a way...) and we got a really interesting look at his character for the first time. There was also plenty of humour, though not exactly humour of the subtle sort. The episode really shone, though, in its last few minutes. In those, Dave Polsky created something wonderful. It almost pushed this up to a four, and it may be re-rated in post-season, but right now it's a high three. Even if Apple Bloom was an absolute brat for most of it. Edit: in fact, I'm upgrading it to a four now. It's only just there, but Peter New deserves it. ★★★★
