Episode review
Oh, I got excited just thinking about seeing this episode again. It has some dumb stuff in it, but I always dug it. Let's take a look.

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Also known as "The Great Apple Caper", based off of the episode "Applebuck Season". Actual discussion with spoilers after the page break, as always.

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A lot of people claim that Applejack has no character development, but this is simply not true. In fact, she has perhaps the most linear character development in the whole series. It stretches across 3 episodes which, in my mind, contitute a trilogy: Applebuck Season, The Last Roundup, and Apple Family Reunion.

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Early-Installment Weirdness is always interesting. There was a mild example in the previous episode, with the Gala tickets floating in front of even the non-unicorns, though that could be some magic intrinsic to the tickets themselves. Here, it's more a case of Early-Installment Normalcy; I'm pretty sure this is still the episode where Big Mac has the most lines. It's a shame. I like it when he gets non-Boolean

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Grrrrrrrrrrrrretings friends, and welcome once again, to Deconstruction is Magic, a retrospective, review, and analysis series looking at every episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is magic in order, seeing how well the show has aged and developed over the course of its nine-season run!

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With EqD engaging in rewatch streams in place of new episodes (didn't stop during previous Hiatuses, though), I felt compelled to watch along and reabsorb the older episodes of the series at a slower pace then my initial binge two years back. I missed the stream last week of the two-parter pilot, but I'll rewatch it in my own time soon enough and post a mini-review of it. In the meantime, though, we have "The Ticket Master" and "Applebuck Season".

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