Friendship is Card Games: 2, 4, 6, Greaaat · 11:17am Aug 11th, 2019
This week, Rainbow Dash nearly ruins everything by being impatient, indifferent, and inconsiderate.
Why do I feel nostalgic?
This week, Rainbow Dash nearly ruins everything by being impatient, indifferent, and inconsiderate.
Why do I feel nostalgic?
Sorry, my mind's being a little blown right now. To whit:
Whether it’s a flashback to Spike’s first days or a pony-flavored Little Golden Book, this week’s theme seems to be youth. Let’s see how well this resonates with my inner child.
And so we return to Pony Life, and with it both a new overarching plot line and a new character. I have heard a bit about her, but let’s see what I think of the primary source.
Time to resume the Pony Life catch-up. Week 4 marks a transition point in the series. Where before each half-hour of G4.5 content consisted of two roughly eleven-minute episodes, now it’s four five- or six-minute ones. This will be interesting, but doable. If I can work with EqG shorts, I can work with these.
I admit, I haven’t been keeping up with Pony Life. It doesn’t help that it still isn’t airing in the States. Still, it is happening, it is pony-related, and there is enough to work with. Bearing all that in mind, let’s see what I can do with the next two episodes.
This week, we return to the fever dream of Pony Life, which proved more pyretic than usual last week given the misadventures in time and probability space. Let’s see how delirious this assortment gets.
This one feels… odd. I’ve met ROBCakeran53 in person, and I know well how much he doesn’t want to be associated with this story. Though, to be fair, you could hardly say that's what we'll be discussing...
Looks like that initial burst of Tell Your Tale shorts was just to set the tone, and they’ve pulled back to a one-per-week schedule. Given that, let’s look at what was going to go up last week, wherein reality ensues for a particular pink pony’s pancreas.
This week, we’re putting ourselves four degrees away from the source material. It’s a card blog based on a video based on a story based on a song based on FiM. Let’s get going.
With Chapter 5 reviewed and Secrets of Starlight still about a month away, I can start addressing the accumulated backlog elsewhere. This week, that means Tell Your Tale shorts. Let’s see what we’re working with.
The Mentally Advanced Series can be thought of as the Pepsi to Friendship is Witchcraft’s Coke; same concept, different execution, each with their supporters. I personally prefer FiW; MAS gets unpalatably cruel over time, especially once it’s no longer shackled to FiM’s visuals. But there is one offshoot, the Schweppes ginger ale of this analogy, where my tastes shift.
So. It turns out there are going to be seventy of these things. And an eight-episode series of full-length 3D episodes. When it rains G5 content, it pours. Time to stick my face back in the firehose.
Turns out the final issue of Friendship in Disguise should come out in a few days, which means a much more coherent blog next week given a brief delay. As such, we continue to see what sense I can make from Pony Life.
We return to another tale twisted by the teller. And this one was pretty twisted to begin with. Time for one of the iconic memes of early pony.
This week, we look at the penultimate batch of Pony Life. I’ll save my appraisal of the series as a whole until I’ve seen the whole thing. For now, let’s see how we approach the end.
It’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving in the States. And Black Friday, for that matter. So, let’s commemorate both with a tale of mistreated, overworked laborers and be grateful that most Equestrias aren’t like it.
This week marks the penultimate Rainbow Dash Presents card blog. Before getting into the grand finale with the mare of Lost Carcosa, let’s look at the various shorts peppering the playlist.
I could look at the next issues of Generations for this week, but I have something fun planned for New Year’s Day that requires me to skip over the comics for a cycle. As such, let’s see why everything is bigger and eight.
Well, the AFR prerelease could have gone better, but I’m going to view it as a learning experience. And I got to turn Orcus into a paperweight and have Drizzt punch a dragon, so I can’t complain too much. In any case, it’s back to Pony Life to see what other madness unfolds now that Twilight’s established a permanent planar portal in Sugarcube Corner’s broom closet.