Friendship is Card Games: What About Discord? · 12:28pm Nov 8th, 2015
Well, I can definitely say that I wasn't expecting a Discord episode to be like this. Though given that this was written by the guy who did "Princess Spike," maybe I should have.
Well, I can definitely say that I wasn't expecting a Discord episode to be like this. Though given that this was written by the guy who did "Princess Spike," maybe I should have.
This week, we return to Trailblazer’s adventures, and this leg of the journey of the saga has so much going on, I’m taking it in halves.
Strictly speaking, the Daring Do trilogy came out before this, but I’d like to close out the Mane Six’s novels before moving on to Yearling’s semi-defictionalized adventures. So, let’s see how Fluttershy rounds out this part of the Berrow canon.
You ever notice how many flowers factor into the plot of FiM episodes? Poison joke, swampfever flowers, the wishblossom…
What I’m saying is that this episode’s MacGuffin, much like its main foci, has a long and storied pedigree.
Ah, Dia de los Muertos. When better to remember bygone plotlines, or ponder questions of the soul? (Of course, this would’ve gone up earlier, but I spent much of Monday flying back home from Magic 30. I was too busy with card games for my card blog. )
This week, we have the long awaited return of a beloved character who hasn’t been seen in far too long. It’s been a long and terrible drought without her, spanning all of five episodes, but Derpy’s back!
Oh, and Trixie showed up too, I guess. Given how she’s showed up in Seasons 1, 3, and 6, I can conclude that we’ll next see her in Season 10.
Bit of an amusing note on “P.P.O.V.” Given all the talk of getting ponies out of their element, I think it’s appropriate that the three had very little laughter, honesty, or generosity among them upon their return.
And on that note, let’s look at a time when Applejack was a long cry from exemplifying Honesty…
This week, we return to the Berrow catalogue. While the previous entry offers the closest thing we have to Cadence’s canonical backstory, this one has actually been referenced in the show. Ponypalooza’s mentioned in “The Mane Attraction,” among other details. Let’s begin.
IDW never stopped being a thing, but there was a brief pause in their pony comics as the generations shifted. My pause had to be much longer, since I wasn’t sure how long the initial arc would be. But issue #3 is out and only tangentially related to the first two, so let’s what those two entail.
This week, it’s back to the Moon for more play-by-post fun with Woona.
I’m half-tempted to just post this link to Atop the Fourth Wall and move straight to the card designs. I’m not going to, but Linkara does do a very good of breaking down many of the comic’s failings. That said, he does it from the perspective of an outsider looking in. He’s tried Friendship is Magic and it isn’t to his taste. I respect his opinion, but there are aspects of it that elude him.
In this penultimate week of Season 8—going by the US release schedule, anyway—we get the closest thing we may get to an answer to one of the series’s biggest questions.
I really hope it doesn’t turn out to be the closest thing we get.
Depending on who you ask, two of the people we’re looking at today could be seen as the worst thing to ever happen to Equestria: King Sombra and Jay Fosgitt.
Well, the Equestrian Department of Plausible Deniability got back to me, and I’ve been cleared to release the following classified information on the condition that it not be disseminated to any ponies of interest. I think we’ll be able to handle that much.
I've long since expanded, my sis has her mark.
I just saw her walking in the park.
I said, “I’d like to do stuff if you don't mind.”
She said, “I’d love to, sis, if I could find the time.
“You see, my new job's a hassle, and this colt needs a stone
“But you’re always my favorite pone, Rare.
“You’ve been ever my favorite pone.”
And as I walked to my home, it occurred to me
She'd grown up just like me.
My sis was just like me.
It’s time to deal with the Opaline situation.
Yes, in the middle of the chapter.
No, I’m not kidding.
Tell Your Tale hasn’t quite told all the tales for this year, so we’re dipping back into G4 for a bit. Specifically the next round of Classics Reimagined. No prizes for guessing who’s in the great and powerful titular role, but we’ll get to that when we get to it. First we need to get out of Horse Kansas.
Now that I’m more or less up to date with d20 Pony, let’s look at a different pony webcomic. Indeed, let’s look at one of the first.
Hello all. Today marks the beginning of the Stretch for Time Fortnight my rambling about the short lead-up animations for the movies, a welcome change in terms of ease of viewing. After all, Hasbro put these on their own YouTube channel. I’ve provided links, since odds are these are far from fresh in anyone’s memory.
You’d probably think I can’t get much out of shorts that aren’t even three minutes long each. You would be wrong.
It’s that time again. Let’s cap off the latest addition to the dynasty with collectable cardboard representations of each entry, as per tradition.