My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 3 |OT| The fun has been TRIPLED!

LuffyZoro said:
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Horses?!? In my pony show!
 
I was really hyped for the opener after seeing the 8-minute preview, but it ended up being pretty disappointing. Weakest season opener by far, and Sombra was an utterly crappy villain. I mean it was OK, but I was expecting much more. Oh well.

I guess they're saving Twilight's transformation into an alicorn for the season finale.
 
DrForester said:
Nah, just a joke about how she's supposed to be a Unicorn, and Hasbro made them change it. Yet we've never seen her fly, just glide.
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Well she's tired.

Still, I never imagined a husband would hurl his wife like a glider.

Hilariously enough the premiere was bad for me but the commercials for the upcoming episodes hyped me.
 
My 3.5 yr old daughter loved the new episodes, so I'm happy...I'm no brony in any way, but my daughter has her very own ponyville in the basement consisting of almost all known pony toys (of this gen) , and now I need to find her some goddamn crystal ponies for Christmas, i told her Santa could find them, but he couldnt fit floam or yak in the sleigh. :)

The hub is simply a toy commercial described as cartoons...
 
Wow, that episode was mediocre. The worst of the season premieres by far.

Also, that first Hub advert with the "FIM" ponies grimacing at the original-style Pinkie Pie is only going to further all of those who have issues with the first three generations of My Little Pony. Ugh.
 
$200 said:
I like the new episodes. Some of you have insanely high expectation.
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It's not that they were bad by any measure, but I don't see how it can be denied that the potential was there for them to be exceptional, especially regarding the villain. Everything that did not directly involve him was great.
 
"Test" song was rather unnecessary. Reprise was a bit better, but still felt kinda mediocre. The other song was pretty good, though.

Villain was generic as all hell. Didn't even get any good lines. He was okay as a looming threat on the horizon, pushing the episode along, but didn't do enough during the actual episode to be particularly memorable. He is far from a Discord.

Otherwise, I thought it was pretty good... not really the series' strongest, but enjoyable to watch regardless.

Didn't see the commercials, kinda skipped through 'em all when watching this late. Brother and Dad decided at the last minute that they had to play Halo 4 this morning at the same time the episode aired. I protested, but decided overnight to let 'em have it, since Dad'd been away in Atlanta for nearly a week prior. Then the episode comes out with the moral being self-sacrifice. Oddly relevant, considering, although obviously not quite the same level.
 
I really liked the repise song, was much better than the original, and I always had a soft spot for songs that end, then a character says a line, and after that the instruments give it a finish touch.

Katzii said:
Wow, that episode was mediocre. The worst of the season premieres by far.

Also, that first Hub advert with the "FIM" ponies grimacing at the original-style Pinkie Pie is only going to further all of those who have issues with the first three generations of My Little Pony. Ugh.
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Well, the first three gens can range from mediocre (mediocre means normal, not bad) to horrible, but she turns into a Gen3 Pinkie which was a horrible, horrible tv cartoon, in fact it was like those shitty monster high cartoons that are so beloved by little girls now, something that would been better if it was banned because they treat girls like shit.
I dont mind them taking a jab at horrible cartoons, theres too many of them in tv right now and its for a good laugh.
 
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic S3 1-2

Easily the worst of the two-part adevnture eps featuring the least developed mythology and characters that should have been one-offs and never seen again. It might be fine as a weaker story if this was the show's general focus but as it were, it's not and so this fails whereas it should have been one of the bookending highlights of a season.

History song was aight though.
 
Spoilers everywhere, fuck.

Liked the episode this week, though it felt a little weak in places. The ominous threat wasn't menacing enough, but other than that, fun episode.

That trick that Celestia did was awesome, but seeing it imitated was mindblowing. And the slide. Crazy.

I definitely wish they showed off the ponies' magic a little more. It's always fun seeing the creative and absolutely broken things they can do with it.
 
These two episodes feel more like a set up for something coming later on. Sombre is most likely dead and gone, because this wasn't about him in the first place. It's about Twilight and whatever going to "the next level" means. The book at the end was... interesting.
 
Twilight's next mentor?.
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About the episode, seems like Hasbro's marketing department just entered into Studio B one day and said: "Hey, Guess what?? We have this new line of crystal pony toys"
 
alfredofroylan said:
Twilight's next mentor?.
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So a season of "Dear Princess Luna"? Heh, could be interesting.

Honestly, on a "the next level" kind of scale, I do wonder about both Celestia and Twilight using blatantly dark magic in these episodes. Celestia looks scary when she's channeling dark magic. And then I wonder, will Twilight need to learn both light and dark? And will Luna be her teacher of the dark arts? I wonder if Hasbro would even allow that.
alfredofroylan said:
About the episode, seems like Hasbro's marketing department just entered into Studio B one day and said: "Hey, Guess what?? We have this new line of crystal pony toys"
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Totally. Like the train, balloon, and Carousel Boutique there are some parts that are inevitably going to be product placement. Well, MORE product placement than the usual 22 minute toy commercial that the show also is.
 
The book is going to be something amazing for an important episode, thats for sure. Do we know exactly if its real that Discord is going to appear in a third season episode, or its still a rumour?

Scirrocco said:
I love Rarity.
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The way she says, "I made it work, but still" is whats amazing about that quote. Rarity is awesome.

alfredofroylan said:
Twilight's next mentor?.
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About the episode, seems like Hasbro's marketing department just entered into Studio B one day and said: "Hey, Guess what?? We have this new line of crystal pony toys"
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Dont they do this all the time? the balloon, the train, Princess Cadence...
The thing is, thank good the team are really good at including them in plot devices and make it work. The crystal ponies was a little bit in your face, but that was not the bad part of the episode. Sadly, it fails with the villain


Amibguous Cad said:
Pretty mediocre episode. Doesn't fill me with confidence for the first completely faustless season, but not time to panic just yet.
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Im more afraid of Rob Renzetti not being the story editor in this one, seeing the work he did with MLP and the one his doing now in Gravity Falls.
Lauren Faust, even if she had some hand with the second season was not there for the majority of it, and we know they can do amazing work without her.
 
I liked the episode. It was an enjoyable affair.

I do like how the Crystal Empire resurfaces after 1000 years and the first thing Celestia does is send in Princess Cadence and Shining Armour for a good old fashioned occupation.
 
Hrmm, just realized. The Crystal Kingdom reappears after one thousand years, right? And the flashback clearly shows Princesses Celestia and Luna defeating Sombra one thousand years ago.

Presumably a few years ago at most, Nightmare Moon came back from a thousand-year vacation in the moon. She was defeated by Twilight Sparkle and friends and turned out to be Princess Luna.

Assuming the thousand years thing is strict and not just a rough estimate, this means Princess Luna was corrupted and turned into Nightmare Moon, was sealed in the moon, and then came back to defeat Sombra before being sealed in the moon again.

...it probably is a rough estimate, but still, continuity!
 
Beaniedude said:
I do like how the Crystal Empire resurfaces after 1000 years and the first thing Celestia does is send in Princess Cadence and Shining Armour for a good old fashioned occupation.
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But they briefly touched upon Cadence having some relation to the crystal empire - the crystal heart was even her cutie mark.
 
Whogie said:
But they briefly touched upon Cadence having some relation to the crystal empire - the crystal heart was even her cutie mark.
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Which was a nice bit of foreshadowing from last season. Her cutie mark was a bit weird. "I get the heart, but why made of crystal?" Turns out, there was more to come.

This, by the way, brings up something interesting about cutie marks. And I apologize for my overanalysis to come, but it shows that they don't have to mean "talent". They can also show "destiny". Cadance didn't even know about the Crystal Heart, despite having it for her cutie mark. Her powers just mimic it a bit.
 
SpacePirate Ridley said:
The way she says, "I made it work, but still" is whats amazing about that quote. Rarity is awesome.
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A lot of the characters in this show would work just fine with the lines they have regardless of who voiced them but Tabitha St-Germain's subtle delivery tweaks raise Rarity to the next level. She completely "gets" her character. And makes Rarity all the more special.

Steals every scene she's in this ep with the exception of when Pinkie is doing something especially random (she was written extremely well today) or Twilight's in complete spaz mode.
 
Hmm, kinda disappointed in Sombra. I wasn't expecting a complex backstory or motive, but I was kinda hoping for a fun, maybe Megatron-ish personality. Discord and Chrysalis weren't complex either, but their voice acting help made them stand out.

Also, in the preview,
Twilight was levitating the items in such a way they created an infinity sign.
 
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