A brief retrospective · 7:44am Aug 30th, 2017

So yeah, after work, me and my roommate sat down and watched the first seven episodes of FiM over wine coolers, and he pointed out some things that I never noticed before, namely in the ones the featured Gilda and Trixie. Before that, he noted how the first three episodes were directly written by Lauren Faust herself, meaning that was how the creator envisioned her characters. In Ticket Master, at one point it seems like Twilight views her friends as an array of boxes yelling at her into utter annoyance, and how they just vex her for selfish favors. Probably an observation made in jest on my pal's part, but nothing jest-worthy for what would follow. In the Gilda episode, it's apparent how Pinkie is obnoxious and intrusive on Rainbow wanting to spend time with her friend who doesn't live there and hadn't seen in a long while. Gilda wasn't a very nice person, yet Pinkie's response to this was, in my friend's words, invite her to a party just to humiliate her. Like yeah, that's kinda messed up. Not so much friendship happening there, burning the bridges of an old friendship instead of connecting them with the new ones.

Though more messed up was in the following episode where the biggest realization came to my lightly inebriated mind (as made obvious by my more salient pal): Trixie really did nothing to deserve what happened to her. She came to town to put on a magic show. To entertain and make some money to support herself. However, Twilight's friends immediately heckle her for being a phony and not as good as their awesome pal Twilight. But the thing is Trixie is an entertainer. She doesn't lash out and antagonize her audience in an egregious fashion. In fact, what she did to Applejack and the others who confront her was simply out of defense to their heckling. At one point Trixie does call out Twilight to prove her stuff without any appropriate provocation to do so, but before that we had through several minutes of the Elements of Harmony, the agents of friendship and tolerance, s****ing on someone just doing their job and doing their darnedest to disrupt her work. Sure, Trixie's boastful and makes up a tall tale, but she openly admits to lying. And she does this, mind you, when trouble comes to town thanks to two idiot fanboys who had been goaded by Spike. You know, the best authority on knowing what actual awesome magic is and what sham magic not worth anyone's attention is. The frickin' nine year old who's supposedly at ground zero of the friendship zone, yet he and most of the not-yet-alicorn's merry troupe get all defensive for her sake, even when she isn't feeling little bit defensive herself!

Oh, and that lesson: be proud of your talents. Oh, you mean how Trixie was proud of her tricks of amazement? No, that's different: she wasn't being sincere, she was too proud. She totally deserved having her home destroyed. Only raw natural talent is allowed here, and not the kind a stage magician spends years learning and practicing for the purposes of entertainment just to earn a living. I mean wow, some of these early golden era episodes kinda sucked at delivering a proper message when the lesson goes against everything that's been happening in the episode. Like a reverse of what Weird Al did with his short-lived TV show: start each episode telling a lesson, then spend the rest of air time utterly dismantling it. Only there he did it on purpose as a big "screw you" to the network enforcing that caveat. As for this, well... can only say it's just the starting episodes. Plenty of things to work out, which they mostly do. But questionable quality wasn't just limited to "Feeling Pinkie Keen".

Right, just felt like sputtering my thoughts on this enlightening information. Most definitely unrefined, and again most of it is stuff pointed out by my roomie that I'm transcribing sloppily, but it's 3 in the morning and head's still a bit ruddy from the Seagrams. What do you guys think? Agree, disagree, don't care, yes no, maybe? Can you repeat that question?

Till next time, good night, everyone.

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