My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Mk. 2: S2 Finale and Beyond

Apollo the Just · #81

I would just like to take this moment to request an elevated percentage of Tank screentime in season 3

Red · #82

All the pets need more screen time

#83

I don't really think the pets are interesting enough to merit more screen time.

Ace Mercury · #84

I think Owlowiscious is pretty interesting. Or maybe I just think that because his name is a pun.

Apollo the Just · #85

^^ w/e the episode where Dash chose her pet was one of my favorites. Because Tank.

[then again the one directly following it was also adorable. Season 2 was just very adorable overall]

DarkZero · #86

Tank is an armored Gummy that flies.

So yeah.

Ace Mercury · #87

Tank doesn't have the eyes. Gummy's eyes are... are really something.

Rainbow Dash · #88

CuccoLady wrote:^^ w/e the episode where Dash chose her pet was one of my favorites. Because Tank.

[then again the one directly following it was also adorable. Season 2 was just very adorable overall]

no NO MARE DO WELL IS AWFUL DO NOT TELL ME YOU LIKE IT

Apollo the Just · #89

Oh whoops I must have gotten the orders wrong

When is the one with Daring Do? THAT'S the really awesome one that I like.

e: ok well wikipedia informs me that was like half the season later so whoops nvm

#90

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike the pets---I just don't think they're interesting enough to carry greater focus.

Ace Mercury · #91

Rainbow Dash wrote:no NO MARE DO WELL IS AWFUL DO NOT TELL ME YOU LIKE IT

What's wrong with it? I liked that episode. Rainbow Dash had a fan club. She also learns an important lesson about something friendship related.

[ edit: also, that part where she gives herself a pat on the back is damn funny ]

#92

I thought 'Mare Do Well' was all right---it's just more, like, eclipsed by other, better episodes this season than objectively bad per se.

Rainbow Dash · #93

every character is awful in that episode and they cranked up dash's ego to like 11 for no discernible reason

DarkZero · #94

Yeah, the thing that bugged me about MDW was, if you're going to have a moral-centric show, the lesson should have actual morality behind it, as opposed to 'lol lets upstage our friend'.

SCARY WIZARD · #95

Sisterhooves Social was my favorite. So much cute neurotic marshmallow ponies and lessons about friendships and ehh...how did Spike just end up at the Carousel Boutique like that.

[SPOILER]And Rarity got dirty for her little sister aw how sweet and oh god I just. ;___;[/SPOILER]

DarkZero · #96

I liked that one as well. Sweetie Belle is probably my favorite Crusader.

Ace Mercury · #97

And swag.

Dizzy wrote:Yeah, the thing that bugged me about MDW was, if you're going to have a moral-centric show, the lesson should have actual morality behind it, as opposed to 'lol lets upstage our friend'.

I don't think that the moral was "let's upstage our friend", the moral is that people don't like a braggart. If future me ends up being an arrogant jerk, I'd hope my future friends were there to take future me down a peg.

In my mind, the natural extension to the story is that Rainbow Dash joins the Mare Do Well group, and the Mare Do Well becomes an even more legendarily capable superhero. Can cast super magic, talk with animals, predict the future, super-speed-strut, stronger than a speeding carriage. And, um, good fashion sense.

1-up Salesman · #98

So... Did the show not take any taking used-to at all when you first started watching?

DarkZero · #99

^^If nobody likes a braggart, then the Mare-Do-Wells shouldn't have bragged about themselves in Sugarcube Corner. The whole thing felt more like retribution than actual lesson-teaching to me.

^Admittedly, when I first started watching it, I hadn't really sat through anything quite so... diabetic in several years, so it felt a bit weird at first. You adjust, though.

Spritedude · #100

1-up Salesman wrote:So... Did the show not take any taking used-to at all when you first started watching?

When I watched the first episode (both parts) out of morbid curiosity, I honestly couldn't tell if I liked it or not. I put it off for a while before watching another episode, but once I started to get to know the characters and such, it started to grow on me.

Although it took me until a few months ago to be more "open" about being a fan. When I first started watching, I would watch it on my iPod late at night and delete my history afterwards. >_>