Episode Review: "2, 4, 6, Greaaat" - Season 9 Episode 15 · 9:30pm Aug 10th, 2019
Phonetic title, eh? Guess it had to happen eventually.
Phonetic title, eh? Guess it had to happen eventually.
Ah, it's that time of year again. It's Halloween night, Linus is waiting in the local pumpkin patch to catch the Great Pumpkin, which supposedly flies through the air delivering presents to children the world over that time of year. Only it turns out to be Snoopy doing it by pure accident...
The Following is part of an ongoing series reminiscing about the show.
You can find an index of all the entries here.
( For the sake of nostalgia, this post will contain songs from the episodes they’re from. You can find some of them all in my work-in-progress playlist of all the songs that really get to me.)
This episode hit all the right chords with me. All of them. It deals with a lesson for life that is important, but underestimated by many in this world, in a society where people are quick with throwing old things away:
Preservation is important to retain the remembrance on those we have lost.
"Starlight Glimmer relishes her role as school councillor and encourages the students to come to her anytime about anything, but she becomes overwhelmed and learns a lesson."
It's the return of the Student 6 - I'm sorry, the YOUNG 6, as they are named in the mobile Pocket Ponies game (which is actually really solid). Eh, think I'll stick with Student 6, at least for this post. That's what the fandom mostly uses anyway, so it fits for this post.
I'll preface this by saying I, by and large, have never really warmed to the Student 6. Just bear that in mind.
Over the years, MLP has had its fair share of notable quest stars outside of its main cast of actresses and other VA based in or near Vancouver, all of whom clearly loved their time on the show. Whether it be semi-famous people who appeared for one character and got to let it loose (Lena Hall's Colratura, Autumn Blaze's Rachel Bloom) or even John de Lancie's Discord, who gels with the show so well he comes back two or three times a season ever since his character was reformed and made
With technology surprisingly advanced in this heavy-magic society, is it any wonder the cinema is pretty good too?
Here's a follow-up on Two Years until the Equestrian Exodus: What we should do now and how we can go on from here and A Season and a Half Left?.
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This episode continues in an unexpected way after the end of last week's episode. Last week, I said how it shows that Twilight has really become like Celestia when it's about putting ponies on the right path because she did that with Rainbow Dash and that she is truly ready to rule Equestria. After this episode now, I'm not so sure anymore if she is ready and I'm questioning if Twilight will really be a good ruler for Equestria.
And now we've gotten more to dissect. I just said on Friday how this was the last analyzis for a while and now there's already new stuff!
The synopsis for Episode 10 has been released and, wow, it sounds exciting! I'll talk about it after the break (hopefully, because I have no idea if these lines are enough):
A lot of you are probably wondering how my plans look now after I didn't update for a few months. So I figured writing a little entry to file you in. To make it simple:
I have made a decision about the release of Lemon Crumble's story. I had to open a thread in the Writer's Group since I didn't receive enough responses here, but it's decided now.
The story will get published either today or tomorrow. I will wind down a little now by watching the Finale again and once I've done that and if I still have the energy to write a blog entry that will accompany the release, I will go and publish it.
This episode gives me a huge "Apple Family Reunion" vibe, already at the beginning when we see how early Applejack woke them all up to get ready for the confluence, which makes me really nostalgic and choked up as it reminds me on Season 3, when My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was still young.
So, the blog entry about my Patreon plans wasn't read by many so far. I blame the length of it. Which was unavoidable, because there was just a whole lot to tell (and everyone who knows me knows that I don't like keeping things short). But of course, that barely anyone reads it is neither feasible nor acceptible for the plans I have made. So, here is a little TL;DR:
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The last ride has begun..... Now we are only half a season away from the end of the best TV show of all times. And I have to be really careful to not turn this into an obituary with bemoaning what will come in a few months.....