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Castle Sweet Castle, Rarity Investigates! and The Hooffields and McColts
Castle Sweet Castle, Rarity Investigates! and The Hooffields and McColts
Maybe “threaten” isn’t the right phrasing but you know what I mean. I take issue that they scared him into trading back; it’s not a virtuous means. I realize the point may have been Maud getting the cannon back for Pinkie and yet the scare tactic ruins much, couldn’t the writers have put something else in like Maud giving up something more out of love for her sister instead of Maud and Rarity scaring him into submission with Pinkie not saying a pip or squeak against it? Rarity was in Manehatten to open a store, for all the love of existence you might think Rarity could have been generous and given him a few rubies or something but noooo, they’re in with scaring. Maybe the writers have something planned for the future where this backfires on all three of them but I don’t know.
And no, bits weren’t considered. “Street Rat” specifically wanted the cannon.
What Rarity did was an interesting thing. She wasn’t threatening him, so much as generating fear over Maud. And they did trade for the canon rather than steal it, so it’s all… A bit more ambiguous.
Pinkie should’ve offered to buy it for bits - I don’t think I recall her doing that, though I may be remembering wrong. Then the guy could get the canon with the bits - perhaps with a little extra payment to make up for the extra time to getting a party canon.
You know what, I realize that I’m weird. I was agreeing yet failed to see (until just a few minutes ago) hey here I am watching Pikapetey’s animations which sometimes include things of Tom and Jerry nature and… I need air.
“well it’s just for a laugh, no harm done right…?”
Air, air, air. Need air so good night.
You have one person agreeing with you right here. I have no response for your last paragraph in the above linked reply yet though; I never watched Fox & the Hound but I will say my Mom didn’t want me watching Looney Tunes.
Did you also not like the part in S06 Ep 03 where Rarity threatened that one Pony and both Pinkie and Maud didn’t say anything? Yucch, upon seeing it then I never liked it.
@Ihhh
While that may be how you’re viewing it I’m still in agreement with Cirrus Light. Personally I was an awful person suffering from his own awfulness which is why I started watching the show; I felt as if I desperately needed it or I’d kill someone and worse if given any possible opportunity. I was living except I wasn’t living, I was awake or sleeping but I wasn’t where lovely plain humble life is… The dreams were nightmares; I once at the age of 9 to 11 or so (grimdark ahead) had a nightmare of a lot of people in a room being tortured. One of them in particular I recall was standing on a conveyor belt while it moved him and he went face first into a fuckin’ bandsaw then yelled in pain. He could have left if he had his eyes open. Honestly, it’s all “I’m sleeping, seeing this, can’t wake” and all this. The nightmares got worse after I turned 16 (feeling as if I ruined myself) but alleviated upon starting to become a nicer supportive human being. Least I could do was refuse to be paranoid from my own antics, celebrations of death and abundant awfulness. uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh.
I could say the same about a sitcom.
Most episodes aren’t comedy focused, its mostly “slice of life” focused.
I only repeated it because you don’t seem to understand it.
You’re just repeating yourself instead of adding anything new. Nice badge, I’m done.
The premieres and finales are outliers. Most episodes are comedy focused.
I’ll grant that Applebuck season was fairly comedic, but not the show as a whole. All the season premieres and season finales would not be as they are if this was a comedy, in the humor-focused sense.
Well, at least you were forewarned so you could avoid this episode.
If that’s what you define as comedic and non-comedic, I’d love to hear your thought on sitcoms, which have a lot of focus on plot but are primarily focused on comedy.
>Mock position
>Re-assert argument without adding any supporting evidence
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That whole first two-parter was adventure with comedy about as prominent as it is in, say, The Lion King. Adventure was focus, comedy was secondary as comic relief.
Applebuck season, Griffon the Brush-off, and Boast Busters were all about the same, with a bit more comedy, but the episodes always ended with some moral, and AJ being exhausted had a lot of funny moments, but the main point was to show how much she needed help and needed to ask for it/accept it.
And even then, Tom and Jerry is Jerry smacking Tom with a mallet and you laugh.
This humor was never mean-spirited, and it even went out of its way to say, “Hey, these ponies are kind and they care for eachother.”
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None of the episodes are really dead serious, but Boast Busters is a strong example of how the drama and action are the foreground, and comedy the background.
Today’s episode is another good example.
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A joke, but not literally.
What do you call the Nightmare Moon Thing?
I think we’re watching two completely different shows. Comedy has always been the focus of MLP, and the adventure and more serious moments only came later in the series.
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No. It’s primarily… A show. That’s just about it. It has adventure, it has slice of life, it has feels, it has comedy, and they’re all pretty well mixed.
But it has serious villains - the series started with an adventure against one. Like Gravity Falls, it has comedy, but comedy isn’t the main focus nor why people love it. At least, if it were all about the comedy, then I seriously doubt it’d have the same following it does.
It’s that it’s so optimistic and upbeat, it’s uplifting to watch and makes you just feel happier. It’s funny, cute, heartwarming, and it makes you feel. Twilight giving a speech about how her friends represented the spirits of the Elements of Harmony wasn’t comedy. All the happy endings and morals told by Twilight in letters weren’t comedy (well, they are comedy in the classic “happy ending” sense, but you weren’t supposed to laugh at them).
Don’t get me wrong, there’s a large element of comedy in the show, but it’s not the main focus, and saying it’s a comedy show is very misleading. It’s a mix of adventure and slice of life, I’d say.
What you seem to forget is that MLP is still primarily a cartoonish comedy show.
Eh. I used to watch it when I was young because I grew up with cats and love cats. And mice. But I wouldn’t watch it anymore, really, just not that interesting. Just yeah, not my type of humor. Oh hey, Tom just got smacked in the face with a mallet… But in this cartoon world this carries no consequences. There are no consequences to any of these actions.
Except that Tom was beheaded at the end of one episode. I remember that. Because Jerry was a selfish prat who wanted to steal a whole bunch of food to gorge his fat face, completely remorseless to the fact that someone was going to get put to death for his actions. I mean, could’ve lived for months on a single sandwich, and nobody would’ve noticed just a few olives going missing, but no, he had to ruin everything and get Tom executed.
Lol, yeah, problem is, I enjoy fiction by getting into it, and I love thinking even more, which just really doesn’t work for some things, like Tom and Jerry.
I also partially blame the Looney Toons as both a symptom and a cause of the western animation ghetto - why the west is so terribly lacking in real meaningful animation, and adults almost universally pass it off as, “It’s just a cartoon.”
Something like Fox and the Hound is gold. Looney Toons are just cheap to me. A good laugh has its place, but the real gold is things that make you feel. I love MLP because it has made me, and sometimes continues to make me feel - and the characters are always absolutely lovable and adorable.
You must hate tom and jerry.
I’m looking forward to it.
Hooffield… It was very good for most of it, but the ending was kind of annoying. They were so willing to hold on to their hatred that a princess couldn’t talk them out of it, yet cute animals convinced them to stop?
I guess it’s alright if you headcanon in that the story of their original settlement had a lot more affect on them than was depicted.
@Background Pony #6753
Amy Keating Rogers - I liked Spike in “Best Night Ever.”
Mmm, I’m just really not a fan of slapstick in general, though. It’s not fun when a 20-pound system falls 4 feet and hits you in the head, and while you’re on the ground in pain worrying about serious damage, all of your friends are laughing hysterically and uncontrollably, and also on the ground - except unlike you, who’s on the ground in pain, they’re laughing.
I love the characters in large part because they lack that bad nature that would do something like that - they’re the polar opposite of their jerkish, selfish depictions in Friendship is Witchcraft or the old Mentally Advanced series.
The problem is Spike is almost always the target of slapstick and/or is randomly super incompetent, even when at other times he’s been very competent.
It’s not like a plague, though - most of his depictions are fair enough, and plenty are great.
Maybe it won’t be the new “Secret of my excess”, but if those writers are involved there’s at least a pretty good chance that it won’t sink to “Princess Spike” levels.
Either way, I’ll see this episode