i can imagne the griffons having their own show. This just looks epic

@Ping_chan  
She is, lord knows how long until GS is on it’s feet…paws again, but hey that’s one of the things I loved about this episode; Pinkie and Rainbow didn’t fix all the problems and made Griffonstone better again, just helped someone lay the ground work for GS to recover and maybe even grow.

@ColdhardSilver  
Wow I really like your review of the episode.  
After watching it the first time and seeing how hard Rainbow Dash worked to get the Griffons their treasure back, I was really hoping that Dashie could get their treasure back for them.  
But after reading your post, that treasure did nothing good for their Kingdom!  
I wonder if Gilda will spread the values of friendship in the griffon Kingdom?

@FanOfMostEverything  
@FloydPinkerton  
I love how the entire episode also works as giant metaphor for pride and arrogance.  
Griffonstone wasn’t built on the unity of their race like Equestria or under a common ideal or laws, it was built on pride. It is just as Grandpa Gruff said “it gave us an identity” and “the envy of all other species”; their unity was based on pure pride and a bit of arrogance (envy line) so when Arimaspi stole that symbol it all came crashing down since they didn’t built their empire on anything else.
 
In Arimaspi’s case after stealing such an idol of pride he immediately feel and died with it.
 
Rainbow Dash couldn’t let go of her’s and ended up prejudging the griffons and tried to solve the problem a quickly as possible which lead to nearly being in Arimaspi’s position.
 
Gilda couldn’t let go of hers which lead to her losing an old friend.

@FanOfMostEverything  
Yeah, that was my favorite part of the episode. Most of the folklore in Friendship Is Magic is just the standard pop culture stuff, so I was surprised by the reference to the one-eyed people of Arimaspi.

“The Griffons delved too greedily and too deep.”  

I do love how this is actually grounded in mythology. Except for the whole goatish aspect of the Arimaspi, but as Tirek demonstrated, they’re trying not to put human faces in the show.

@BigMax  

Very true; as I said, I don’t want to come off like I’m knocking this image in any way.

@Background Pony #270A  
AssasinMonkey began to draw this something like 4 hours after the episode was aired.  
But yeah, considering that this has been published something like 13-14 hours after the episode, it shouldn’t be considered “fast” (although the artist has been quite fast, considering the quality of the picture).

Not to take anything away from this image, which is really terrific, but shouldn’t the “that was fast” comments and tags be reserved for things that come out within a few hours of the episode? (Assuming the subject wasn’t revealed in commercials/trailers/synopses in the preceding days, of course.)

holly Gaben, How fast does this fandom work O_o

YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

“RAAAAHH! Gimme ya sh!t!”

I FORGOT MY COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAT

Wow, another amazing piece by Assassinmonkey *<3

@Chaotic Note  
Yep, you can always bet on him.
 
@cheezedoodle  
He was quite pleased, because all the informations about griffons given in the episode are aligned with his ancient griffon universe.

the griffons must’ve had the most badass kingdom ever before it all went under

AM has a thing for griffons, wonder how he liked this episode.

You can always count on assassinmonkey to draw the most badass creatures and beasts.

So awesome… O.O

Sweet!  
I’ve been waiting for a pic like this.  
I think we still need more Gudo, Arimaspi, Grover, basically all the new characters plus more Gilda.