First and foremost, do the honors, Bender!

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Dear god do I hate The Gift of Maud Pie, and I think I've figured out why. Yes, Maud is an inherently boring character and not worth building an episode around. Double yes, Rarity was acting like an idiot the entire time, and it was irritating more than amusing. But the umber one reason why I just do not like that episode is Pinkie. And it's not even the way she acts -- this is a far cry from the character destruction of season four, plus that line about riding actual swans, which I

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Yup, we're back to doing this again! Hit the break to find out what I thought!

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Rarity time! Who has money on the drama pool?

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Well, pony is back on Netflix, all seven seasons of it. And now it's just a matter of waiting for the U.S. to catch up on episodes now that Australia and Canada have aired the last episodes of Season 8 early. With Season 8 bobbing up and down in quality but finally seeming to be on a consistent track after the last two episodes, Kaita Mpambara who gave us "Horse Play" returned to write this episode. Since "Horse Play" remains the best episode of Season 8 so far, was Kaita able to follow up on

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So we've got our third map mission of the season and it's the only one to use a mane six pairing. I'd be way more excited if not for "Surf and/or Turf" and "The Parent Map" making it clear that the map is now nothing more than a cheap plot device the writers can use to call whoever they want for no rhyme or reason. At least early on the rules of the map seemed clear, it could only call those tied directly to the Elements of Harmony, Spike actually made more sense than Starlight since he had his

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I'm going to keep using the spoilers tag even if it's probably not needed, simply because I don't know how many people are waiting on U.S. airdates and how many have already seen the Australian airings. Anyway, after almost eight seasons in we finally get our first RariLight episode of the entire show (the closest we've ever come before was parts of "Sweet and Elite" and "Hearth's Warming Eve" though in the latter case it was impossible to determine whether that's how Twilight and Rarity

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Well, apparently "Fame and Misfortune" was an unfinished Larson script that Larson himself wasn't thrilled with, which just further bumps the episode down in my opinion. I'm not sure if it's a form of plagerism to take someone else's unfinished work without permission and tweak it, even if you credit them. The show has had other writers rewrite episodes written by a different writer before, but they have always credited the author for the original story, meaning that someone wasn't brave enough

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Here we are, another season down, another blog in the hole, and yet another year-in-review posted in January. Be amazed. >:B

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Well, considering the number of times they've tossed a Hearth's Warming episode at us, and gave us a second Nightmare Night episode a few seasons back, it was inevitable they'd throw out a second Hearts and Hooves Day episode. Nick Confalone is in the writer's seat for this episode, and now we know that the season is gonna right through "Mean Six" before it hits the mid season hiatus we've been getting for the past several years. Nick Confalone's track record is mostly solid, but between "No

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Well you should be aware of this by now, but the rest of Season 7 got leaked early because apparently someone at Hasbro got hacked (but considering Hasbro hasn't issued take downs on Daily Motion yet I suspect it's more them just being fed up with Discovery Family and looking for other ways to get the episodes out). With the synoposis for this episode and the episode ending itself being spoiled thanks to the IDW comics (apparently this episode was actually twenty first in production order so

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Ahhh, it's nice having a whole week of not having to watch the show, where I can do whatever I want and still have no time to do anything I need to because good lord do I have a lot of balls in the air. D: I feel like I'm repeating myself, and that's only half the problem!

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Yes, you heard it right, folks! This episode got leaked early, but not from another country like Canada or Australia, the blame is solely on Hasbro. Apparently, someone wasn't aware that "Daring Done" and "To Change A Changeling" were airing out of production order ("Daring Done" was 17th in production order and "To Change A Changeling" 18th) and put "Daring Done" up early on YouTube, albeit requiring you to pay $3 if you wanted to see it in the U.S. But fans payed for the early episode and put

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If you haven't heard, this season is completely fucked as far as release dates go. A Health of Information, this coming Saturday's episode, was leaked in Russia, and you can now find it on Dailymotion with English subtitles. So while I can't say I've seen the final version of it, holy shit.

If not for Twilight's Kingdom, this would be the most metal episode of MLP:FiM ever.

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I was gonna post some fic reviews today, but it's like, I've got a State of the Writer blog to make (that I should have already done...), I've got an episode to review, too much is happening today. D:

As for today's episode, am I the only one feeling like I missed something?

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I actually saw this two parter back when it was first leaked, but I was content to wait for it to air in the U.S. to give it a proper review. Josh Haber returned to write this finale, but while he takes solo credit for the story he was helped on writing with Nicole Dubac, who will become executive producer of the show next season. Nicole is like G. M. Berrow, her previous writing credit are tie in chapter books, her books focus on the CMC with the only one available at the moment being

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Last night, I dreamt I watched the MLP season 8 premiere.

Except for some pre-announced reason that I had forgotten, it was actually the new Hearth's Warming episode. And it was god awful.

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With "School Daze" having kicked off Season 8 with style, it's time to see whether we can break the curse of the third episode that's been plaguing the seasons since Season 5 ("Castle, Sweet Castle" was an appalling mess, "Gift of the Maud Pie" had a huge plot hole from shoe horning in Rarity, and "A Flurry of Emotions" was too late into the show to fit properly with Twilight's character). Following up on the hit from the previous season that was "Rock Solid Friendship", Nick Confalone returned

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So, coming off the exciting 200th episode, what does Season 9 have in store for us? Why, another Twilight Sparkle freak out episode of course. Look, alongside her obsession with books this part of her character was fine at first, but the more you keep focusing on it the more it feels like it's all her character has become: Books and freak outs. If it's getting to the point where you can lampshade it and have other characters poke fun at it in universe, that's a sign that you've become too

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So, after a disastorus first outing for the student six this season, we've got our first solo focus episode for them. This one focusing on Yona, and Rarity. Considering the most we got a season ago was Spike and Smolder hanging out in two episodes, this is long overdue. Also, first and foremost, this episode review is dedicated in memory of MythrilMoth, a FiMFiction user famous for his OOCST blog postings among other things, who sadly passed away sometime between last Sunday night and Monday

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