1) Basketball

2) Snails

3) Those horrendous, god-awful, hideously out of place facial animations on the train. Jesus, those expressions don't belong in this show.

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In my scoring system, two of the four elements which contribute to the episode's rating are theme and characterization. These are both essential elements of a great episode, but they're meaningless if the episode can't entertain all the way through. "Buckball Season" is a strong example of this, as it boasts fully-formed themes, a relatively strong moral, and some of the strongest characterization we've seen in this show, but none of that can compensate for its eventual descent into tedium

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Man, I love Dungeons & Discords. "Discord episode" has become as much an epithet as "Spike episode", but when the writers try and actually make sure he's doing interesting, funny things, Discord is great to have around. And somehow, they were able to make an episode that just brushes up against the cringe line without actually crossing it. Not ultimately substantial, but tons of fun, no real complaints. Also, dat Puerto Caballo.

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This mare?

Who looks a lot like...

And also looks a lot like...

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Hey, new video! https://youtu.be/iaA4D4y9JWI Some people look at it this time! Listen to me talk about word play and get names wrong for like 10 minutes! XP

I'm at work, so I have to make this quick. But damn. Check below the break for details and mild spoilers.

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Hello there. another week another episode. This week we saw the appearance of a sports game that sounds pretty dang fun, Buckball. I'm honestly not that big of a sports person but the concept of Buckball sounded like it could be a pretty entertaining one. We've never really seen any sporting events in the show except for Wonderbolt shows so it was nice to see another aspect of sporting in Equestria (even if not very many have heard of it). I usually talk about how the episode shows some kind

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The blue stallion pushed the plate of cookies out of the way, slapped the field guide on the table, cracked open to a pre-marked page, and then shoved it forward for his green friend to look at.

"There you go, Carl."

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As football (known in North America as soccer) is the world's most popular sport, it would be logical to assume that it would be the first international sports event to be revived in the post-Event world.

Please keep in mind that during a game, the two goalkeepers are the only players who can use their hands. Therefore, those returnee ponies and natural born ponies could play all other team positions without any problems.

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Yaaaay, sports. That's exciting. I guess

https://youtu.be/xip-HLf80Yk

So today's new episode, "Buckball Season," was a cute and fun one, but it doubly catches my attention, because as it happens, I've long had an idea for a fanfic that runs freakishly similar to it.

I had thought I had made mention to it's existence before way back in my early days on this site, but upon reviewing my archived blog posts, that clearly wasn't the case, so here's a quick run through:

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I'm honestly surprised they didn't move this episode so it would air during the Olympics. Still, let's see what happens when ponies try to go higher, faster, and stronger.

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Some sportlyness, featuring hidden depths and incompetent goals, rather than goalkeepers. Another positive moral, and a pretty fun episode. Your standard fare, and following the rule of slice of life this season has set, it seems. I have rather little to say about it for the moment, but I liked it, at least.

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May contain spoilers to the new episode "Buckball Season". Proceed at your own risk.

Having just watched "Buckball Season", it has a very fun story and introduces a new sport that makes it unique from other episodes.

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And then I watched Buckball Season, The Fault In Our Cutie Marks, Viva Los Pegasus, and Every Little Thing She Does.

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