Common Ground S9E6 Review · 3:58pm May 4th, 2019
Buckball is back, yay! And so is Quibble Pants, yaaay...
Did the opening of this episode send anyone else into Korra flashbacks?
The most interesting part of the episode is that Clear Sky (who has a fantastic design) is a single mom raising a daughter and Quibble wants to win the daughter over by pretending he's super into buckball but he has no clue what he's doing. But it's only that - interesting, like "oh, that's an unusual thing for pony to tackle." I couldn't stand Quibble Pants in his original episode, so I didn't care to see him back, but he's so radically different here he may as well be a new character. Apparently Clear Sky and Wind Sprint are voiced by Patton Oswalt's real wife and daughter... so? Why? It's neat but like, so what? I don't know who Patton Oswalt is, and I don't say that to be disrespectful to him, but I don't know who he is, so I don't care if he's here voicing a character, I'm just gonna take that character on their own merits. And that's worked before, I loved Autumn Blaze and Coloratura despite having no idea who their VAs were. But Quibble and his family are just... boring.
Frankly this whole episode bored me. It isn't funny, the plot is stock cliche movie tropes we've had since the 80s, and the growth of buckball is a b-plot when it's far more interesting than the main plot.
This felt like a script from the Patton Oswalt Show recycled into a MLP script. Another dud from Season 9.
Well actually, not that it changes anything, but this is Patton's second wife. His first one died unexpectedly in 2016 and he devoted himself to publishing her unfinished novel. He remarried a year later.
Man, I neither liked Quibble Pants nor really know who Patton Oswalt is, but I thought this was fantastic, a real-world issues episode of the sort we need more of. c.c
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I welcome any sort of episode if they can make them funny and interesting. They did not.
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I thought the episode was really funny and interesting overall, so I can forgive some of the more cliche, uninteresting scenes in the middle.