Y'know what bugs me most about the season 6 premiere? The fact that it's been eight episodes since the announcement of Cadence's pregnancy (Episode 110 - The One Where Pinkie Knows), and one since Starlight's hasty reformation, and in all that time, Twilight hasn't come up with a friendship report for her. Okay, actually, realizing that Starlight was only just reformed makes it bother me less, but still. You gotta fit at least nine months in that eight-episode gap (Cadence wasn't

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Due to the number of rock references in the latest episode and I'm working on a Bachelors of Science in Geology I am going to be posting several Maud related things over the next week:

Source: http://caramelcookie.deviantart.com/art/My-Little-Gym-Leader-Maud-Pie-589104770

Before I watched the episode, I knew from the title that it was a reference to the classic Christmas short story "The Gift of the Magi". If you're familiar with the story, then you can pretty much guess the plot.

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I did it again...

I'm always hesitant when I hear MLP is going to do a stock plot. This goes all the way back to Ticket Master and how, in hindsight, I can't believe a show that's shown such creativity and effort resorted to one of the most stock and predictable plots ever for their third episode. MLP tends to be hit and miss when they do that. So, hit or miss here? ...Hit. Barely.

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If you’re surprised to see this, you clearly didn’t read all of Friday’s blog post, nor did you check the calendar at the time. For shame. No, I’m not quitting Magic or ponies any time soon, though the former did mean that I missed the TV broadcast of the latter, which means I can do a quasi-live reaction as I watch.

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