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Nov
7th
2015

''What About Discord?'' Capsuled · 5:32pm Nov 7th, 2015

I once saw a film called Repossessed! (Dir: Bob Nolan; USA 1990) Repossessed! was this horrible excuse for a comedy about an adult who gets repossessed by demons and must be fought by an ex-Exorcist. None of the subject matter in the latter film was intended to be (or is) funny, but I point the finger at the really tacky stitching and abuse of various figures from the time frame in which the film came out - ESPECIALLY THE POPE, OF ALL THINGS - He was (and still is) too sacred to be convincingly mocked and Repossessed! mocked Him. I never watched Repossessed! ever ever again; I screened it with my mum, who took to the same kind of loathing I did toward the film.

Then, all of a sudden, it happens. ''What About Discord?'' is the latest episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and is the all-time stupidest excuse for a comedy that was offered by them at latest.

The story here - before it unfortunately became the subject of a burial - was to be about Twilight Sparkle going to Canterlot, and finding that all of her friends are essentially going wild, simply wild, over Discord.

What really turned me off about the episode was that essentially it was an excuse to waste the talents of the Mane 6, especially to waste that of poor Pinkie Pie. My blame here is not on the great entertainer's placement; she can do spectacularly if the material that suitably accommodates her character is handed to her. However, the script, probably much unlike its source material, is breathtakingly humorless in many scenes. It makes me very sad to see Pinkie Pie trying to make it out of this unmitigated disaster area as a surviving pony.

And then there is the tendency to recycle old, tired cliches from earlier episodes - specifically a scene in which Discord invites Pinkie Pie to do cloud formations or the lifeguard shot with Mrs. Pie - if you want to pay tribute to one of my favourite films, Back To The Future, at that point, you could've just submitted us a simple telephone call.

In short this thing consists of six little ponies without a lick of a thing to do other than have their talent wasted in an never-before-mitigated way. Some people might say, the pooch is screwed - in this case, the pooch is the Brony.

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