Starlight Glimmer is not a lucky pony · 1:05am Oct 23rd, 2017
I have nothing clever to open this with. Spoilers below the break.
Seriously, you lose your best friend for years because you somehow didn't qualify for magic school, despite being an equal/occasional superior to a goddamn princess, and you dropped out of contact because, in the middle of your angst-driven breakdown, you forgot that the postal system existed. But now that the two of you have been reunited, made up after all those past mistakes, and are ready for a weekend of fun, you find that the guy has not only had the audacity to develop new interests that don't match with yours, but gets along better with your mentor and other friends than you do. No wonder you keep clinging to the past - it's about the one time your life wasn't garbage of 98% your own making.
This episode was...okay. Starlight jumped straight across into creepy once again, albeit without the brainwashing, and the obsession with a pony version of Fireball Island only serves to remind me how crappy the board games of my childhood were, but the story was still amusing and the solution is appropriately silly and sweet at the same time. Plus, Trixie and Maud return, which is always welcome. Not certain exposing Maud to the Mirror Pool is a good idea, but we can always have Twilight go on another killing spree if need be.
But seriously, Trixie seems to get more adorable every time she appears these days.
Gotta say, she's handling finding out her creator's an accused sexual predator pretty well. Card tricks can fix everything.
And once again, age magic is shown to exist. Starlight can use it. Twilight, as far as we know, had to fake it...although she probably had to be able to use it in some way to fix Snips and Snails back in Magic Duel. Seriously, I can remember little tidbits about episodes that old. This show is seven years old now. What have I been doing with my life?!
I'm sorry... what?
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Boast Busters was written by Chris Savino, creator of Loud House, who was recently fired from Nickelodeon for sexual harassment.
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--arcum42
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Yeah what they said. Did I miss something?
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Thank you for the link.
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No problem. I'd previously read about it, and while the article doesn't mention mlp, I tend to remember writer names. The other episode he wrote was "Stare Master".
Given that a director of Bojack Horseman has come forward saying that he harrassed her as well 15 years ago, it sounds like it's been going on for quite a while.
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See above.
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It's no wonder Sunburst jumps into hanging with all those cute mares who like things he likes and enjoy his company. Because his life has sucked pretty hard too, and unlike Starlight, it was nothing he had any real control over. Just imagine the kind of ridicule and bullying he probably experienced during those years at magic school, being a genius scholar but a totally inept mage. He moved all the way to the Crystal Empire to hide away his shame and pain.
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Jesus fucking Christ
Trixie has always been adorablest pony. <.< No change has occurred.
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Wow, fuck. :O Thanks for the fact-finding!
4705596 Does this make Trixie like Roman Polanski films?
For me, the joke in the Trixie sequence is how laughably inept Sunburst and Trixie were with all the tricks and yet how rampagingly positive and optimistic they remained as each new fail trundled past. I think that poor Starlight's reaction was partly disbelief that neither of them seemed to notice that none of it was working.
That said, yeah Starlight could make dear Dr Wolf rich for life if she was referred to him, wouldn't she?