My regular readers probably know by now that I am hardly the first person to cry “patriarchy!” However--and this seems incredible to me, owing to the popularity of the subject within the very den of third-wave feminism, English Literature departments--my Google-fu finds no other discussion of the issue, so it seems I am about to be just that:

“Show, don’t tell” is sexist.

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Love it!!!! Love it!!!! Best incarnation of Voltron ever!!!! With some voices that I actually know, too!! (Shiro, Haggar, Lance, etc.) Thank Sammy for getting me into it!!

This was better than "Parental Glideance" -- and I loved "Parental Glideance". I don't think I've liked an episode as much as this on first viewing since... probably "A Hearth's Warming Tail". It was fantastic. Can't quite give it an out-and-out five because of one little niggle, but it still has the potential if it holds up on rewatching. ★★★★/★★★★★

More under the cut.

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Tiny Pop did not show episode 23. And if a screenshot of an email posted on /mlp/ is to be believed (yes, I know) it was because of cider references. However, the channel's online schedule does still list the finale for tomorrow and Friday -- and episode 24 for Monday.

If DF hadn't had that mid-season hiatus, the US would be done with S6 by now.

We're back! I'm relying on my phone at the moment, so this will be fairly short. It was fairly good, I guess. I'm still not a great fan of Flurry Heart, and some similarities to "Baby Cakes", an episode I dislike, don't help. On the plus side, I liked the Starlight/Sunburst stuff a good deal, and there were some nice little touches. Particularly good to hear two characters speak. This premiere didn't wow me, but it didn't repel me either. The very last second intrigued me, too... ★★★

This is

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I just published the next chapter of Three Ways and I cannot see it either on the front page nor in the recent updated list.

Is this just me or what?

Character development? Pah, who needs a silly thing like that? Thank Celestia for the Student Six. And Fluttershy. Because the stuff with AJ and Dash was pretty dire. Watch "Fall Weather Friends" again instead. It's basically this, but better. ★★

This episode was so frustrating. It came so close to being a really nice throwback to the old days, with its relatively low-stakes plot, largely Ponyville-set story and Mane Six focus. We even got an excellent cameo from Maud. Sadly, it was badly let down by its ridiculous moral of "Do what you want, even if it hurts others". ★★/★★★ (haven't yet decided)

Crumbs crumbs crumbly crumbs, croomby cromba creepy cropy in my bed my bed

-Angry beavers

Over on the UK of Equestria forums, we asked people to rank the pre-hiatus Season Six episodes from 1-11 (counting the premiere as one). We had 14 responses, not bad for a half-season, and below you can see the mean ranking table. Any episode with an average rating of second or above gets five stars. Then down to fourth, four; down to sixth, three; down to eighth, two; and any episode which scored an overall ranking below eighth is lumbered with a one-star rating.

★★★★★

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The rest of S7, the movie, the show bible and next week's lottery numbers have leaked, but on today's actual episode: it was great. Really tremendous fun. It's not going to win any Pulitzer Prizes, but for simple "having fun watching pastel ponies" it was hard to beat. And how did Hasbro keep that a surprise given all those leaks? ★★★★

Here's the list I produced for the usual end-of-season vote on UK of Equestria. The rules there are that double episodes count as one, and that no ties are permitted. The order might change around a little bit in the future, once things have had more of a chance to sink in, but here's my current thinking:

1. What Lies Beneath
2. Surf and/or Turf
3. On the Road to Friendship
4. School Raze (finale)
5. The Hearth's Warming Club
6. The Washouts
7. Horse Play
8. The Mean 6

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Just have not fucking clue how im wanting go with it. I might base this is the Weed vurse aslong as Kudzu is cool with it. I might also include blue blood in the story if it ever gets off the ground. But yeah love to have input on this as well as any characters you'd like to see in it. Hahaha I get a feeling thisis going to just be a one chapter story but you never know.. i have to make sure its a GOOD idea before i write it being i see all sorts of hell spawned things going wrong with this. So

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The Last Crusade...

...Okay, okay. I suppose, in the long run, I'm not all that angry at the show's creators or anyone else who seems to enjoy this. I don't want to come off as this salty fanboy who's upset at every little change, but I still can't help ask the question: "Did this need to be shown?"

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Simple, old-fashioned fun, and Pinkie in particular was amusing for most of the episode. It really did feel as though Josh Hamilton had to struggle a bit to make it fill 22 minutes, though. And what was that Rainbow Dash all about? ★★/★★★

Hey Everypony, I am back....what have I missed.....

Oh...

Alot....
last blog....november 15......yeeaaahh

Okay I am not going to lie. I fell out of love for the show. NOW WAIT WAIT WAIT! before you take my wings can I finish please

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I'm rewatching season five right now, and I realized there are a lot of tertiary characters named "Flare". So...

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G. M. Berrow doing what G. M. Berrow does well -- light, fluffy, entertaining filler. Nothing too deep or meaningful in here, and (as I always do) I missed most of the little pop culture nods (though even I got the main crossover theme!), but I had fun. It's not enormously memorable and I'd hope there'll be better eps this season, but no real complaints about this one. ★★★

Apparently most of the fandom thinks this was quite good at best. Oh well, looks like I'm out of step, then, because I adored it. Even its little flaws made it more lovable to me. It's far and away my favourite episode of S8 so far, and quite possibly top 20 of all time. Admittedly I'm biased because of Scootaloo swimming, but still. ★★★★