AJBS: Friendship Games Excerpt: Major Points · 8:51pm Apr 17th, 2017
Just a little bit of a scene from the FG chapters in the future. Enjoy!
Anyway, while they're having a conversation so dull the Garbage Pail Kids would scream in sheer agony, let's address the good things about this film. You know, get them all out of the way.
What little there are...
Yes, indeed. Now, ironically, some major positives about this snorefest are things that are not in the flick.
One: Discord wasn't ruined.
No, Cadence and Shining were ruined for being pointlessly shoehorned into this mess, the latter most particularly. But they're no Discord. It'd been easy to have a human Discord running around, looking more of an abomination than his Equestrian counterpart, making pranks and just being there for the sake of forced comedic possibilities. And befriending Fluttershy for the sake of throwing more callbacks to the superior show.
Two: No King Sombra.
Damn right.
Of all villians that should maintain some dignity, it'd have to be even the guy who corrupted my mind and almost made me his puppet for world domination. Despite everything this [BEEP] has done, not even he should be ruined like everyone else by having a human version just standing around like a tool and contributing nothing to the overall story.
I'd have prayed for self-eradication long ago had that been the case. Even those fools which created this world knew better than to wound a King's pride otherwise.
If they knew better they wouldn't have made-
Legends of Everfree?
Beat me to it. Now back to the good points.
Three: Almost no Flash Sentry.
After three films Hasbro finally understood; we only see that loathesome [BEEP] for but a brief scene or so. Yet despite his role as a forced love interest for Twilight is officially over, he's still around the school doing stuff! Why isn't he working as a backstage concert janitor or something? That thing he did for Twilight happened like months ago, you'd think the novelty would've [BEEP]ing worn off by now...
Four: Nearly no kids.
The first EQG has kids in it, kids that made me want to enthunize the human race. The second one had kids in it that sung and rapped too. And I LIKE kids. Thankfully in this one they barely do anything, seen only probably once at the very start.
This is a positive change.
You're just going to reword Plinkett's reviews the entire time you're here, aren't you?
Absolutely.
Figures...
Five: No stupid [BEEP] [BEEP]ded love story.
Thank God there's no terrible love story in this one. No that's saved for the most dreaded one of all next time. But that's not today. No instead we're subjected to people acting like idiots with no regard for logic and common sense.
Essentially, ALL the flicks thus far.
And finally, the only good things about that film, that are IN the film.
Six: Twilight and Sunset.
While their characters were essentially ruined by being in such horrible schlock, and doing some pretty dumb things themselves, those two are just so wonderful anyway that it doesn't. A breath of fresh air from the [BEEP] stench that was Friendship Games. Those two are the only identifiable and relatable characters because they have human personalities, goals and motivations that are realistic and easy to empathize with.
And even though Legends of Everfree desecrates their characters so much they become unrecognizable, right now you can't hate them. They have passions and goals which drives them. Hence why I'm opting to assist both in any way I can.
But mostly, at this moment, Twilight, whom I refuse to call 'Sci Twi.'
Man these chapter are never gonna be not terrible it seems, oh well as long as the plot isn't phoned in with a plot hole filled climax it should be okay.
Also lets not pretend that Sombra wasn't a lame villain. He's cool in theory but the problem is he never did anything he just made a lot of noise and then got promptly defeated. Even in this story with all the buildup it got he still only made a lot of noise but ultimately did nothing before being promptly defeated.
Don't get me wrong I like his overall addition to this story but that just goes to show that he's a cool supporting character but a lame villain overall.
I doubt we ever see Human Discord. While most people would probably believe him to be a mismatched human version of his counter part. I honestly believe with how Discord's character was first presented for the show and how much Johnathan De Lancie has put alot of his Q personality from startrek into Discord, I'd wager the Human Discord would look more like Q then his pony world version. Basically I believe Human Discord would be an actual cartoon animated Q.