Very quick, non-spoilery review: I really liked it. Okay, not the most original idea for an episode, but done very nicely and with much better pacing than some eps I could name. A couple of relatively minor faults, but it was good enough to overcome the weirdness of being shown in May. This might be my favourite ep of the season, and it's close enough to a five that it stands a chance (a small one, admittedly) of being upgraded on re-watching. Edit: it was indeed upgraded! This is a

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Greetings, Everybrony!

As you all should already know, the hiatus is now over! Episode 14 came out on Saturday! I know I’m probably behind on the curve when it comes to analyzing, but I was busy!

I must admit, it was hard to avoid spoilers, but I’ve managed to restrain myself from looking at Wikipedia and YouTube Bronies until I actually watched this episode and posted this. Whew, I'm glad that this over. I've been dying to get back to Dr Wolf's videos.

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I haven't forgotten about my liveblog! I've just been horribly busy recently. It will be back, though, within a week I hope.

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Lena Hall? No clue who she is, but let's go!

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So, much as I am sympathetic to the plight of the trans fans who weren't, shall we say, keen on Brotherhooves Social, I really can't help liking the episode. Big Mac is just so into being Orchard Blossom. (I'm surprised more people haven't gotten hung up on the anti-stallion sentiment suffusing the episode. Finally, confirmation of headcanon!) Also, that song totally reminds me of the one MandoPony did for the original

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Other than the sad lack of a Looney Tunes joke to go with the title, I don't have many complaints about this one. This is the sort of old-season stuff I really like, and for the most part I thought it worked very well. Fluttershy was great, Pinkie was great... and Snails(!) was great too. Rainbow and Applejack were a tad more uneven, but mostly they got away with it. Another filler episode, I suppose, but in my view a very good filler episode. I'll definitely be rewatching this one.

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Yes, I've seen the finale. Of course I have! Review coming after the US airing, however. As for episode 23, which was dropped from Tiny Pop because of cider referenes, I really enjoyed it. More than quite a few other people, so it seems from initial reactions. There are a few obvious plot holes, but it was another of the "could almost have been S2" episodes that this season has done quite a bit now. Three stars on first viewing, but a high three. Has potential to be a four if I really

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Hmm. I appreciate the innovation, but it's not as successful in that regard as "The Saddle Row Review" was. There are some great bits, and Applejack has a fantastic episode, but they don't quite add up to a great whole. Part of this is because the resolution is colossally stupid. Unfortunately, I'll know it's coming now, and it'll irritate me every time. As a mystery, "Rarity Investigates!" blows this -- ahem -- out of the water. ★★/★★★

Hard to believe this season is winding down already, it's been quite a ride but for the most part it's actually been pretty smooth (we've only really had one terrible episode and one lackluster episode, everything else has at least offered something that had promise it's just that some episodes had the potential and didn't take it). It's also worth mentioning that, for some reason, the last few episodes of the show are going to be airing super early in the U.K., with the finale

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My friends from Baltimore drove in yesterday, so I didn't get to watch the episode and may be rather incommunicado all week. :B

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Great fun, at least as long as you don't hate Starlight Glimmer being central. Has some obvious plot holes (the changeling!Mane Six are really obvious, so how did they take over so easily?) but it's one of those episodes that's best watched for entertainment. Trixie and Discord are a brilliant double act. Chrysalis's appearance from behind the cocoons is tremendously creepy, too. I'm glad they didn't reform her -- I suspect she'll be back, and not alone either. Still uncertain about

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I feel justified in talking about this, since it's a special and not an episode. I mean, it's not even two episodes. Whoever labeled it "Season 9 Episode 0" on Youtube is a silly filly. :V

Yeah, i didn't watch it until today. It aired at a dumb time yesterday and I had more important things to do. And the one question on my mind, the one that has yet to be answered: Why are we getting a Christmas special mere days before Halloween?

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This episode was written by the same team who did "Rarity Investigates", so I had high hopes. It wasn't quite up to those standards, but it was still better than last week's instalment. Some of that was due to the cold open, which had Fluttershy in Maximum Adorableness Mode -- which, as everyone knows, I'm a sucker for. She didn't do much in the episode proper until near the end, though. Twilight was interesting: she seems increasingly confident about her royal status these days; I wonder

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Busy today so Imma watch a leaked version and get this up early.

PS - the episode title is "Counsel", not "Council", counsel means to give advice or be someone who gives advise, as lawyers are called "counsel" in court. That's the episode pun.

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Why I didn't like The Saddle Row Review that much? I think it comes down to expectations. And I'm not talking about the preexisting sort, either. I mean that the whole first act of this episode is the characters freaking out about how terrible everything was, how much they fucked it up, how bad Rarity's ideas were. So the episode barrels onward towards this inevitable disastrous ending... Which never comes. So I spent all that time worrying, anticipating "oh, it's another episode

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Like my new temporary avatar? :V I'm really not into Halloween, but after seeing the newest Horse Wife, I just had to.

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Good ep. I was worried it wouldl turn out to be trite and cliché, but it was actually pretty heartwarming and fun, with some cute charachterisation for the friends Twilight left behind. We got more clues about the layout of Canterlot, the position of Twilight's old tower relative to the city and so on. And we got to see Moondancer!

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This was pretty good fun. Yes, there was a whole heap of fanservice in those dreams -- and a Luna episode is basically fanservice already -- but unlike "Slice of Life", there was an actual story in there as well -- and one which included a genuine, and apparently major, threat to Equestria as a whole. A reminder, if any were needed, that this is not a safe land. The ep'll stomp all over quite a few headcanons, but there's nothing wrong with that. I do wonder about that final

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I did some soul-searching, and I realize the problem with The Mane Attraction is Coloratura. She's got Princess Cadence Syndrome. Here, let me show you what I mean.

A Canterlot Wedding

Me: "Hey, who's this Princess Cadence supposed to be? Why should I care about her?"

Show: "She's an alicorn princess!"

Me: "Um, excuse you, there are only two alicorn princesses, I do not want another. Also, she's a bitch."

Show: "That's not really her, though!"

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Here are some thoughts on the Season Five finale that I wrote while watching, including my immediate reactions as the episode was ongoing and a summary of my reaction to the episode as a whole.

Spoilers below the break:

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