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Episode Re-Review: Marks for Effort (And Important Update!)

Before we get into the re-review, I have some important and unfortunate news to share with you all. Don't worry, I'm not leaving this site or deactivating my account if that's what you're thinking. Despite not having any new pony content to indulge on given that "Tell Your Tale" seems to have no interest in building on anything from "Make Your Mark" (Allura and Twitch have done nothing of
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Happy Birthday, Kelly Sheridan

Today is Kelly Sheridan's birthday. She is the talented woman who voiced Starlight Glimmer from Seasons 5 through 9, and was also the voice of characters such as Sassy Saddles, Misty Fly, and Vapor Trail's mother. She has also been the voice of Barbie in several direct to home media movies, Scarlet Witch in X-Men: Evolution, and many other roles.
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Episode Re-Review: Non-Compete Clause

Well, the next several episodes to be re-reviewed are going to be tough to get through, many of them contain some of Season 8's worst missteps or otherwise blunders. But I gotta get through them. This episode marked the debut of yet another new writer in the form of Kim Beyer-Johnson, who among her previous writing credits wrote for Transformers: Rescue Bots, which aired on The Hub and
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Episode Re-Review: Horse Play

Season 8 finally had an episode that made use of its changes to the status quo with "Surf and/or Turf", which many said was FiM tackling the trickly subject of divorce (though I personally don't see it). However, the episode also felt at times like it was more of a belated commercial for the 2017 movie rather than an actual episode, and the School of Friendship itself was only sort of relevant to
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Episode Re-Review: Grannies Gone Wild

Well, Tell Your Tale finally decided to try to do something interesting, because the last episode showed Sunny's mom in a flashback. But they didn't even give her a name, let alone elaborate on what happened to her. And given the way Tell Your Tale progresses, I'm not expecting any follow-up anytime soon. Getting back to G4, Season 8 hit its first stumbling block only four episodes in, and the
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Jun

5th

2017

R.I.P Peter Sallis · 7:54pm Jun 5th, 2017

Peter Sallis, the voice of Wallace in Wallace and Gromit up until recently, passed away on Friday, June 2, he was 96 years old.

Though most famous for the role of Norman “Cleggy” Clegg in the British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine (the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes of the show between 1973 and 2010), Peter attracted a lot of attention and a whole new generation of fans when he agreed to be the voice of Wallace in Nick Park’s clay motion shorts Wallace and Gromit, starting with 1989’s A Grand Day Out. Sallis also voiced Wallace in Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2007 (distributed by Dreamworks), and the two spin-off short series centered on the pair Cracking Contraptions and World of Invention.

Though Sallis stepped away from the role of Wallace following declining health and has been succeeded in the role for many years, it is still sad to see him go. In his memory, I dedicate the Wallace and Gromit theme.