My Little Pony XCVI: Long Live the King

**Aotrs Commander** · 2017-01-26, 07:28 PM (ISO 8601)

Trixie's Great and Powerful Guide v3.0!
Bleakbane'd Edition

Brief Introduction

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MLP: Friendship Is Magic is a reboot of the MLP franchise by Powerpuff Girls artist Lauren Faust. The show's writing and production engendered a large fanbase outside of the intended target audience.

This long-running thread is not only a place to discuss MLP, both official releases and the vast array of fanworks, but has become a mini-community in and of itself.

> Isn't this a show for little girls?

It's a clever show. It has excellent writing, character dynamics, humor, animation, and generally treats kids seriously rather than condescending to them. It has every right to be a 20 minute corporate committee designed infomercial, but it's not.

> If I want to get into the show, where do I start?

A good starting point is to watch the episodes in order. The show is available on Netflixs in many countries, but, at a pinch, can usually be found with some searching one youtube or dailymotion. Search for "Friendship is Magic Episode 1" and you should find the series pretty easily.

Alternatively, you can ask ponythread itself for a few choice episodes; we're always happy to help!

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General Links

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Ponythread New Episode Spoiler Policy

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To allow everyone time to be able to catch up on a new episode, we ask that everyone please spoiler all discussion of upcoming and new episodes until at least two days after it airs. (I.e., if the new episode is on Saturday, please keep eveything in spoilers until Tuesday.

In the case of official MLP comics, ponthread policy is to always discuss them in spoilers, on the basis that, for example, ponythreaders in the UK do not get them until some weeks later.

Art Links

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The specific colour values used for the ponies can be obtained from the Friendship is Magic Wiki (linked above) on each pony's wiki page, under the "more info" dropdown.

Tutorials:

How to Draw Luna
MLP Art Guides

Ponythread Learns to Draw II

The Creator

Lauren Faust

Concept art by L. Faust:

AJ/AJ
Pinkie/Surprise
Rarity/Sparkler
Twilight/Twinkle
Derpy/Ditzy

Group Shot

Deviant Art Links:
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ButterSS
Csimadmax
DonKoRR
Irving Zero
Johnjoseco
Kloudmutt
Shinepaw

>Awesome Great and Powerful Trixie<

Some Nice Pictures:

TG&P Trixie 1 2a 2b 3
Twilight Sparkle 1 2 3
Rainbow Dash 1 2 3 3.6
Fluttershy 1 2 3

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Seekrit Pony Projekt

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Past Threads:

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I - Because Friendship Is Magic
II - Now About 20% Cooler
III - The Great & Powerful Thread
IV - Friendship is Sufficiently Advanced Technology
V - Art of the Thread
VI - MUFFINS!
VII - The Grand Galloping Thread
VIII - Friendship is Music
IX - The Best Thread Ever
X - We Trot 'til We Drop
XI - "Mmph!"
XII - No One Can Groove Like the Girls with the Hooves
XIII - Fast/Fine/Fierce Thread
XIV - Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
XV - The Greater and Powerful-er Thread
XVI - There's a Pony for That!
XVII - Call Upon the Thread Ponies!
XVIII - Perfect Isn't Easy
XIX - I Emptied Your Thread
XX (a) - Untitled
XX (b) - Appletastic Treats
XXI - A Very Minty Thread
XXII - Surprise!
XXIII - It. Is. ON!
XXIV - Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
XXV - Au Contraire, Mon Ami!
XXVI - Applebloom to Zecora!
XXVII - Eternal Chaos comes with Chocolate Rain
XXVIII - In the Crazy of 40.000 Posts, There is Only Pony!
XXIX - The Spoilers have been DOUBLED!
XXX - Trixie Treats!
XXXI - The Great and Powerful XXXie!
XXXII - Find a Ponythread, and Soarin' the heck out of it!
XXXIII - Happy Birthday Pony(thread)!
XXXIV - There is Pony of it, no exceptions!
XXXV - The Thread Everypony Should Know
XXXVI - Superponies Everywhere!
XXXVII - We Should Have Learned [Something] By Now!
XXXVIII - Nopony Expects Sponish Pinquisition!
XXXIX - There is no Pegasus Mafia!
XL - The Plot Thickens!
XLI - Riots, Riots Everywhere!
XLII - Life, the Universe and Ponies
XLIII - Season II Ruined My Fanon!
XLIV - This Thread is Going to be Perfect!
XLV - Reign Of Terror
XLVI - *ROBOT TAKEOVER*
XLVII - Ponibooru, We Hardly Knew Ye...
XLVIII - I say Ol' Chap, how about those Equestrians?
XLIX - I Have Done Nothing Productive All Day!
L - The L is for Love!
LI - FE
LII - 525.600 Ponies!
LIII - Stashing Ponythreads Around in Case of Ponymergency!
LIV-E Long and Pony!
LV:55 Ponythread learns Agility!
LVI:S Has Left the Playground!
LVII - You Must Construct Additional Pinkies!
LVIII - Ponythread does not trust Wheels!
LIX - Is Very Proud Of You
LX - 60 Ponythreads? That's an Academy record!
LXI - Discord's Thread For Reformed Spoilers
LXII - Friendship Gives you Wiings!
LXIII - R63? We Have NO IDEA What That Is...
LXIV - Haute Couture and Huge Crustaceans!
LXV - Stand Back, I'm a Registered Princess!
LXVI - What Would Celestia Not Think?!
LXVII - Summer of Love and Tolerance!
LXVIII - Wondercolts don't do drugs!
LXIX - Only Slightly On Fire!
LXX - How many licks to get to the Center?!
LXXI - These Ponies Are Little!
LXXII - A Headcrab Full of Friendship and Joy!
LXXIII - Luna's Sordid Dreams? I'm Not Googling That...
LXXIV - Hats Are Technology!
LXXV - Go Go Power Ponies!!
LXXVI - 'P' is for 'Ponythread'!
LXXVII - Playground's Permanent Party Ponythread!
LXXVIII - I Cun Speek Breezeee!
LXXIX - Double Princess Now Canon
LXXX - Pony Princess Powers Activate!
LXXXI - All Of These Ponies Are Crazy!
LXXXII - Popular Teenagers Are Not To Be Trusted
LXXXIII - The Hub is Dead, Long Live the Hub!
LXXXIV - That's Not Canon Yet!
LXXXV - And that's how Equestria was made!
LXXXVI - Too Suggestive for Ponythread!
LXXXVII - Horses Riding Horses!
LXXXVIII - They told me not to Ponythread, but I didn't listen!
LXXXIX - Ponythread Perfect! Yaks no Smash!
XC - My Little Pony XC-OM: Enemy Un-pone
XCI - RETURN OF THE REIGN OF TERROR PARTY HOUR
XCII - Suggestive Horse Noises
XC(OM2)III - Resistance is Magic
XCIV - It's A Working Title!
XCV - I am (Finally) Become Pancakes!

**digiman619** · 2017-01-26, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)

Long Live The King!

**Rater202** · 2017-01-26, 08:01 PM (ISO 8601)

tracking post.

**DigoDragon** · 2017-01-26, 08:09 PM (ISO 8601)

Lost by only one vote. Not bad. :3

The problem I had with Trek was that I grew up on the Kirk episodes where they employ "cowboy diplomacy" by shooting stuff up and then negotiate when the other side surrenders. So diplomacy without the lasers just wasn't as fun in subsequent shows.

Huh.

Originally Posted by zimmerwald1915

When you're a daytime talk show host with literally nothing better to do . . .

He does SO much better hosting Family Feud.

**Aotrs Commander** · 2017-01-26, 08:14 PM (ISO 8601)

There are surprisingly few images of King Thorax.

The first one I looked at was this:

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..but I thought it was a bit big for the title post.

Though now I've posted them both, there's actually not a lot of difference, in hindsight.

Hind-sight? Ba-dum tish?

...

No, I didn't feel that one either.

**digiman619** · 2017-01-26, 08:24 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by DigoDragon

Lost by only one vote. Not bad. :3

The problem I had with Trek was that I grew up on the Kirk episodes where they employ "cowboy diplomacy" by shooting stuff up and then negotiate when the other side surrenders. So diplomacy without the lasers just wasn't as fun in subsequent shows.

Sounds like you'd be interested in the Star Trek: New Frontier books. Their captain solved the Kobiashi Maru by destroying the ship and warping away.

**otakuryoga** · 2017-01-26, 09:46 PM (ISO 8601)

you didnt miss much in first 2 seasons of voyager
summary: every other episode was them stuck in a time warp/loop/rift/whatever

i will throw another vote at DS9 as best
it pretty much had to be as it was on concurrently with Babylon5 or no one would have watched it
(and hands down has the best theme music)

**Topaz** · 2017-01-26, 09:52 PM (ISO 8601)

Topaz' Traditionally Tardy List of Pony tabletop RPGs:

Hasbro's Officially Licensed My Little Pony Friendship is Magic TRPG --

Tails of Equestria, from River Horse (Facebook Page) (US Publisher)

Complete Games --

D20 Based:
Courage is Magic (2.2 The Moon Sets Edition!) (Very Heavily Modified D&D4 based)
Heroes of Equestria (D&D-ish)
Pony Tales: Aspirations of Harmony (d20 meets Final Fantasy style)

D6 Based:
My Little Pony: Roleplaying is Magic, Season Four
Pony Tales the RPG (Open d6 based)
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Roleplaying Game (Older game using a D6 dice pool)
Puzzles and Ponies (Simple 1d6 game)

D10 based:
Sereg's Pony RPG (D10 dice pool)

D100 (percentile dice) based:
Fallout: Equestria RPG
Older, different Fallout:Equestria RPG
Fallout: Equestria PNP

Multiple die type based:
My Little Heroes AKA Hooves of Heroes (Original ODT file) (PDF version)
Ponies: The Roleplaying Game

Dice Pool Based (Ubiquity System):
Roan – Pulp Adventure RPG (Commercial "Equine Action Adventure in a world of Pulp Fiction")

Playing card based:
Friendship is Magic, the Tabletop RPG (GitP forum)

Commercial Card-based Dungeon Adventure Game:
Buck: Legacy

Supplements for existing systems --

Ponyfinder, a commercial Pony-based Campaign Setting for Pathfinder (Main book, has many supplements)
Pony Races for Pathfinder (Old)
2012 Fan Pony-Pathfinder thread on Paizo forum

Ponyfinder Setting Book also available for D&D 5th Edition
Roleplaying in Equestria for D&D Fifth Edition and associated Bestiary and Artifact book
Digo's Pony Races for D&D 5e (Discussion on GitP)

Ponies for D&D 4e

Dungeons & Dragons: Friendship is Magic (Ponies for D&D 3.5)
Pony Races for D&D 3.5 (GitP forum)
Ponies! My Little Pony: D20 adaptation

The Conversion Bureau (uses Microlite 20)

Rarity's Marvelous Wish-Granting Chapeaux (RPGnet forum, FiM using The Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG.)

The Savage World of My Little Pony (uses Savage Worlds)

My Little Pony meets Exalted tumblr

Shadowtrot by Digo Dragon (uses Shadowrun 4e) (Original Nightmare Run)

The Mane Six for FATE Accelerated (RPGnet forum)

MLP:FiM for Burning Engine/Mouse Guard (Discussion on RPGnet)

Unknown Ponies: Failure is Awesome (uses Unknown Armies)

Don't Rest Your Hooves (uses Don't Rest Your Head)
Don't Hate Your Friends (Don't Rest Your Head hack, RPGnet forum)

My Little Legend (uses the Legend RPG from Rule of Cool RPGs)

Ponies for Oz (uses Adventures in Oz: Fantasy Roleplaying Beyond the Yellow Brick Road)

Further contributions and updates welcome!

**DigoDragon** · 2017-01-26, 10:05 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander

There are surprisingly few images of King Thorax.

Might not be surprising. Seems like more artists have gone back to the original Changeling Classic.

Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander

Hind-sight? Ba-dum tish?
...
No, I didn't feel that one either.

*I* didn't feel that one and you know how I am with terrible jokes. :3

Originally Posted by digiman619

Sounds like you'd be interested in the Star Trek: New Frontier books. Their captain solved the Kobiashi Maru by destroying the ship and warping away.

Finally! A resolution that doesn't involve cheating the system.

**Pi Pie** · 2017-01-26, 11:04 PM (ISO 8601)

I'm going to have to disagree and say that Star Trek: Next Generations was the best. Picard actually captains like a proper Star Fleet officer trying to explore strange new worlds and spread harmony to the galaxy. He is basically the princess of friendship before pony even existed. He even had a Discord before pony.

**zimmerwald1915** · 2017-01-26, 11:11 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Pi Pie

I'm going to have to disagree and say that Star Trek: Next Generations was the best. Picard actually captains like a proper Star Fleet officer trying to explore strange new worlds and spread harmony to the galaxy. He is basically the princess of friendship before pony even existed. He even had a Discord before pony.

The actual reason Starswirl the Bearded has never appeared in FiM: DHX could never afford Patrick Stewart.

**digiman619** · 2017-01-26, 11:24 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by zimmerwald1915

The actual reason Starswirl the Bearded has never appeared in FiM: DHX could never afford Patrick Stewart.

I don't know; Stewart worked for American Dad!, he can't be that expensive.

**Thanqol** · 2017-01-27, 01:57 AM (ISO 8601)

Pony endures.

When's the new season?

**Forum Explorer** · 2017-01-27, 01:59 AM (ISO 8601)

So can I request that someone do a retrospect in review for the season. As in review each episode again now that some time has passed.

Because I kinda want to watch some pony, but there are a bunch of bad episodes in the latest season, or the episode tackled something that fanfics did first and better.

**Pendulous** · 2017-01-27, 04:45 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Forum Explorer

So can I request that someone do a retrospect in review for the season. As in review each episode again now that some time has passed.

Because I kinda want to watch some pony, but there are a bunch of bad episodes in the latest season, or the episode tackled something that fanfics did first and better.

I used to do that in ways and post them here. I think depression has made me not want to do...damn near anything anymore really. I haven't done anything writing-wise in what could be years at this point.

**b_jonas** · 2017-01-27, 05:32 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Thanqol

When's the new season?

Season 7 (the season that will destroy MLP) starts during spring 2017. We don't know more precisely. The feature film is planned for 2017-10, and we don't know anything about the fifth Equestria Games TV film yet.

**Pendulous** · 2017-01-27, 06:36 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by b_jonas

Season 7 (the season that will destroy MLP) starts during spring 2017. We don't know more precisely. The feature film is planned for 2017-10, and we don't know anything about the fifth Equestria Games TV film yet.

The MLP movie is 2017, and there are three 22 minute Equestria Girls shorts that will air...sometime...throughout the year.

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**DigoDragon** · 2017-01-27, 06:52 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Thanqol

Pony endures.

It is still finding it's way into other shows, games, and stuff. Endure it will for some time still.

It's brilliant.

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This is a great way to blind yourself.

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**otakuryoga** · 2017-01-27, 08:27 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Thanqol

Pony endures.

i am still shocked South Park has not done a pony episode

**digiman619** · 2017-01-27, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Forum Explorer

So can I request that someone do a retrospect in review for the season. As in review each episode again now that some time has passed.

Because I kinda want to watch some pony, but there are a bunch of bad episodes in the latest season, or the episode tackled something that fanfics did first and better.

Sure, I'll give a two-to-three sentence description of each episode, and my opinion on each. I'll spoiler it so as not to annoy those who already know, and they will be in production order rather than airdate order, if it matters.

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The Crystalling, (Parts I & II): Shiny and Cadance have a foal, who is inexplicably already an alicorn. Glimmer has a B-plot to reconnect with her old friend Sunburst. The baby accidentally destroys the Crystal Heart, but thanks to Sunburst's knowledge of obscure spells, the day is saved. My opinion: I don't usually participate in this aspect of fandom, but I ship StarBurst with the intensity of a thousand suns.

Gift of the Maud Pie: Rarity and Pinkie head to Manehatten as Rarity is looking for a location for a new boutique and Pinkie wants to buy a gift (a rock pouch) for Maud. She ends up having to trade away her party cannon for it, but Maud trades it back; If you've ever read The Gift of the Magi, you saw this coming a mile away. My opinion: Gee, Pinkie it's not like you know someone very skilled with fabric to make a rock pouch, that'd be silly. Ugh.

On Your Marks: The CMC have their cutie marks... now what? They try to just hang out and do stuff as a group, but they start pulling apart. Eventually (after helping a new colt named Tender Taps find his cutie mark, more on him in a bit), the CMC discover that it's okay to have hobbies that don't include all three of them, and that doesn't mean that they won't still be friends. My opinion: Not bad, but this is the second new character (OK, Sunburst was talked about/shown in flashback before, but he had no lines, so I say he counts as new) that seems to be created for shipping. He's also not the last. Okay episode, though.

Gauntlet of Fire: A good Spike episode. That should be enough. Seriously though, while helping Rarity, Spike gets a mystical summons to the Dragon Lands: It seems that the head of state, Dragon Lord Torch, has reached the end of his tenure, so he tasks all the young dragons (other than his daughter Ember (again, more on her in a bit)) to find the Bloodstone Scepter, which he tosses into a nearby volcano. Whoever returns with the scepter will become the new Dragon Lord. Taking a page out of Wonder Woman's book, Ember disguises herself in armor and joins the hunt anyway. Eventually, she teams with Spike (who's only interested in making sure Garble doesn't win, as he said he'd declare war on Equestria), who in the end gives the scepter to Ember, trusting her to rule. My opinion: That recap was longer than I intended. Hmm. Anyway, 3rd new character almost designed for shipping. Though as I said, good Spike episode; that should be enough.

No Second Prances: Twilight tasks Glimmer with making a new friend. After some antics, she meets, and subsequently makes fast friends with, Trixie. Twilight then tries to make Glimmer befriend anypony else, showing a rather negative aspect of her personality, really. Eventually, Twi admits that even if she doesn't particularly like Trixie, she has to respect that Glimmer does. My Opinion: Twi seems almost vindictive in this episode; why is Glimmer worthy while Trixie isn't? Trixie's crimes are being a braggart (while performing as a magician) and being influenced by an ancient artifact. Glimmer's crimes include brainwashing a town and almost destroying Equestria through bucking with the time stream! Not a fan of this one.

Newbie Dash: Rainbow finally gets promoted to official member of the Wonderbolts (she was just a reservist previously), but embarrasses herself on her first day and gets a horrible nickname because of it. She spends the rest of the episode trying to get called other things (and going through more and more elaborate plans to do so). eventually, they tell her that everyone in the Wonderbolts has an embarrassing nickname; it's part of the comradery of the group. My opinion: This is another "this could have been avoided really easily" plot. The antics are fun, though, so there's that.

A Hearth's Warming Tale: You know how Equestria's 4th of July/how-we-became-a-nation holiday is in winter? Let's ignore that and make it a Christmas analogue by telling A Christmas Carol: Pony Edition. Seriously, there's a framing device on how Glimmer doesn't see the fuss about the holiday, but that's what it is. My opinion: I'm Jewish, so I'm annoyed when Christmas is shoved down my throat when it's November. This aired in May. Do the math.

The Fault in Our Cutie Marks: This episode introduces Gabby: the most cheerful griffon in all of fiction. Basically, since ponies live in harmony and have cutie marks, she determines the former is due to the latter and asks the CMC to give her a cutie mark. They can't; it's just not part of griffon biology, but they try to help her anyway. Turns out she's really good at helping; doesn't seem to matter what, either. They go to apologize that they failed, but she shows up with a cutie mark! It's fake, obviously, in a "I didn't want to disappoint you" scenario, but it all ends with them giving her a pair of cutie mark-style decals for her saddlebags and throwing her a cuteceañera anyway. My opinion: Gabby is really cute, and they don't do a cop-out "You really did get a cutie mark!" ending. All in all, I like it.

The Saddle Row Review: Rarity has opened her new boutique and goes to read the review that will make-or-break her new business. We then cut back to the story's author (who is such an obvious J Jonah Jameson expy it hurts) interviewing the rest of the Mane 6 on how the opening went. We get a lot of The Office-style cut-to-the-interview segments as the story is told. After all the trials in getting the boutique open in time, Rarity gets a great review. My opinion: Easily one of the top 3 episodes of the season. Tons of fun has a nice flow. I really like it.

Applejack's Day Off: Applejack has trouble finding time to go to the spa with Rarity, as she has tons of chores, so Twi and Spike offer to do them while she does. While at the spa, they can't use the steam room because the spa workers can't get enough steam, and they give their patrons warm towels while they wait. Turns out they have a leak, which is exacerbated by them using the heat for the towels. Unfortunately, this eats up all the time they had and she heads back, only to find that her chores/routine has a bunch of unnecessary steps and by getting rid of them, she can free up more time to spend with her friends. My opinion: I have two theories on this episode: A) this is a genetic condition, as it's similar to Granny Smith' weird techniques in finding out how Zap Apples grow, or B) it's contrived nonsense. Take your pick.

Flutter Brutter: Goon news: We get to meet Fluttershy's family. Bad news: Her brother, Zephyr Breeze, is a lazy braggart. Fluttershy takes him in and tries to get him gainful employment, but it turns out that his boasting is covering up a crippling fear of failure. Eventually, they get him to finish his studies (in mane styling, if you care) and get him back on his feet. My opinion: Remember how I said a bunch of new characters seemed to be introduced just for shipping purposes? Zephyr seems like anti-shipping; he's annoying, self-centered, and convinced Dash is insterested in him dispite all evidence to the contrary. I was "meh" about it, myself.

Spice Up Your Life: Twi and Glimmer finally fix the cuite map, and find a mission for Rariyt and Pinkie. When they arrive, they stop for lunch, but all the high-class resturants Rarity heads to serve the same bland food. They find an out-of-the-way resturant that serves Indian-style cuisine and the try to help promote it, but end up turning it into another bland copy before realizing that they fix it. My opinion: The food critic/rater Zesty Gourmand just beat out Ms. Harshwinny at being an unlikable jerk. At least Harshwinny has professionalism. Also, Rarity, this is, what, the 8th time you tried interacting with "high class" ponies only to find out they're pompous jerks? Get a clue!

Stranger Than Fan Fiction: Rainbow attends a Daring Do convention and meets Quibble Pants (voiced by Patton Oswald), who is a huge fan of the series... at least the first 3 volumes. Eventually, they get attacked by Caberleron and pulled into an adventure, which Quibble seems to think it's made up at first (Remember, most peopole think 'Do is fictional). Eventually, they figuer out the puzzles and save the day, with Quibble saying it's okay to only like part of a series/ like it for different things. My opinion: While quibble gets shipped with Dash, he's not a "made for shipping" character; he's an anology for all the "RUINED FOREVER!" crowd. Also, there is a Daring Do body pillow. Where she is tied up. Yeah.

The Cart Before The Ponies: The class are having a boxcart derby, and the CMC get AJ, Dash and Rarity to help, but they go overboard and take over the project. They lose the race, but their designs win other awards. My opinion: An apt title, as winning the cart race had them ignore previous character development. You can safely skip this one, really.

28 Pranks Later: Remember "The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well"? Same idea, but a) it was due to a pranking spree rather than Rainbow getting full of herself, b) she was asked to stop, but refused, and c) the entire town got together and pulled a zombie prank back at her. My opinion: Better executed than the original and fun. I liked it, though some feel it was a better fit for Season 1 or 2 Dash as opposed to 6.

The Times They Are A Changeling: Twilight, Glimmer and Spike head to the Crystal Empire (to visit Flurry Heart (the baby) and Sunburst) when they discover the entire empire is on high alert; seems that there's a changeling on the loose. Spike is tasked to help find it and sends the group of guars in different directions before falling into a cave and meeting said changeling. His name is Thorax, and he truly wants to be friends with the ponies. There are some antics and he is spotted. Spike is paralyzed by indesicion and initially says nothing, but then immediately gets Thorax and returns with him and vouches for him. After Twi says it's good enough for her, Shiny and Cadance welcome him into their court. My opinion: I like Thorax. Spike gets a neat song. There's an allusion to The Marx Brothers. It's neat.

Dungeons and Discords: While the Mane 6 are off on an assignment to Yakyakistan, Spike invites Discord to his and Big Mac's "Guys' Night". He is dissapointed to find out it's an Oubliettes & Ogres (read: D&D) game. There's some tension between the three, but it all works out in the end. My opinion: While discord did some "rewrite reality so they LARP the game, the previews made it look much more than it was. Also, Spike, it's not healthy to make your GMPC a self-insert. All in all, it was fun, but it could have been better.

Buckball Season: AJ and Dash recruit Fluttershy and Pinkie ito helping them find a unicorn for a game of Buckball, which needs one of each race for some reason. While they find a unicorn (Snails, believe it or not), it's clear that Flutters and Pinkie are naturals for the game and have them take their place. Unfortunatly, they seem to snap under the pressure, but AJ and Dash fix it soon enough. My opinion: Very not bad. It seems wierd that Fluttershy is better at a sport than Dash, but it works.

Viva Las Pegasus: The cutie map sends Fluttershy and Dash to Las Pegasus in order to find a cutie mark problem. They find Flim and Flam there, and the two argue. AJ wants to find someone else to help, but eventually they work with them, seems Gladstone, the proprieter of the hotel is playing everyone against each other while claiming to be their friend, They eventually trick him into revealing himself, and it all goes downhill for him. My opinion: Gladstone's last scene makes this okay instead of really good. Upon realizing that his scheme is undone and he's lost everything, he runs out crying. What I wanted to happen is him to lunge at Fluttershy for ruining everything, only to get bucked by AJ. It just feels incomplete.

Every Little Things She Does: Glimmer is way behind on her friendship reports, so she tries to do everything at once. Once it's clear that isn't going to work, she brainwashes everyone and tries again. It still doesn't work and it backfires horribly. They eventually forgive her, though. My opinion: Let's just say that if Glimmer pulled that on me, she wouldn't have to worry about freindship problems as much as "running away from me/hoping I don't find her" problems.

PPOV: A fun cruise with Rarity, Pinkie and AJ fails, and each blames the other in this Roshomon-stlye story. My opinion: Seeing the three being wildly out of character is funny and seeing Twi try to solve it is fun. The last 3 minutes/ the solution make no sense, though.

Where the Apple Lies: Applejack tells a story where her well-meaning lies almost cost everything. My opinion: I did not like this episode for several reasons: 1) the plot gets annoying when AJ digs herself deeper and deeper, 2) Big Mac won't shut up, thus ruining his later stoic personality, and 3) this story is set several years ago, before Applebloom was born, yet there isn't even a handwave of where AJ's parents are.

Top Bolt: Dash and Twi head to Wonderbolts HQ because of the cutie map and meet 2 potential recruits: the shy Vapor Trail and the brash Sky Stinger. Turns out Vapor has been helping Stinger by making tailwinds for him, and he never noticed. There's some drama there, but eventually they work things out and enter the academy. My opinion: Sky Stinger is annoyingly cocky. I was practically begging Dash to humble him, but it never happened. It was okay, otherwise.

To Where and Back Again (Parts I & II): Glimmer gets an invite back to Our Town, and takes Trixie with her, as Twi suggested she take a friend (meaning her). When they return, everyone is acting wierd. Turns out, while they were gone, the entire Mane 7 has been kidnapped and replaced with changelings. Glimmer gets Trixie, Thorax (who came on Sunburst's behest as they attacked the Empire too) and Discord (who was meh about the whole thing until they mention Fluttershy was taken). They head to the Chegling Kindom to rescue them, but Chrysalis' throne blocks all non-changeling magic, meaning that only Thorax's magic still works. Eventually, they lose Discord (who was paralyed with indescision with the sight of dozens of Fluttershys) and Trixie (who makes a sacrifice play). and they pull a good switch with Glimmer and Thorax, but eventually Chrysalis gets Thorax and tries to pull the loveout of him. By sharing it with her, it causes a incredible transformation (as you see on the front page) and Chrysalis is defeated. Glimmer offers to spare/redeem her, but she refuses and heads off. My opinion: I liked it, and it contains an important message: Befriending Spike is good for your career, as this makes the third foreign head of state that he is freinds with. I forsee a career in diplomacy for the young drake.

Hope that helps!

**DigoDragon** · 2017-01-27, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by otakuryoga

i am still shocked South Park has not done a pony episode

Wait, they haven't? Huh. I feel like that says something, either about pony or South Park, but I'm not sure what.

**b_jonas** · 2017-01-27, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by digiman619

Viva Las Pegasus: [...] Gladstone's last scene makes this okay instead of really good. Upon realizing that his scheme is undone and he's lost everything, he runs out crying. What I wanted to happen is him to lunge at Fluttershy for ruining everything, only to get bucked by AJ. It just feels incomplete.

Now I'm curious. What do you think of the ending of EG3 Friendship Games and how Principal Cinch behaves there when she's defeated? I hope you enjoyed that one more.

**digiman619** · 2017-01-27, 12:09 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by b_jonas

Now I'm curious. What do you think of the ending of EG3 Friendship Games and how Principal Cinch behaves there when she's defeated? I hope you enjoyed that one more.

I tend to consider EQG as a separate continuity and often ignore it.

**Manga Shoggoth** · 2017-01-27, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by DigoDragon

Finally! A resolution that doesn't involve cheating the system.

There was a book called "Kobiashi Maru" which showed the attempts by four of the cast to take the test, and the affect the test had on them. The Kirk one is pretty poor, but the remaining three are quite good and thought provoking.

**Aotrs Commander** · 2017-01-27, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)

Apparently, TurboCAD hates rear left doors.

Because, for reasons which I CANNOT fathom, it WILL NOT assemble the A7V, despite the fact that the right hand side is a mirror (left-to-right and front-to-back) of the left hand side - literally identical, just inverted on two axis.

Large portion of the ENTIRE DAY trying to work out why the merry FRACK it won't play ball (including several trys from scratch).

The really bloody stupid part? the whole dman TANK only took about two session's worth, because it is such a simple and symmentrical shape.

Well fracked right now.

**Jothki** · 2017-01-27, 07:06 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by digiman619

Applejack's Day Off: Applejack has trouble finding time to go to the spa with Rarity, as she has tons of chores, so Twi and Spike offer to do them while she does. While at the spa, they can't use the steam room because the spa workers can't get enough steam, and they give their patrons warm towels while they wait. Turns out they have a leak, which is exacerbated by them using the heat for the towels. Unfortunately, this eats up all the time they had and she heads back, only to find that her chores/routine has a bunch of unnecessary steps and by getting rid of them, she can free up more time to spend with her friends. My opinion: I have two theories on this episode: A) this is a genetic condition, as it's similar to Granny Smith' weird techniques in finding out how Zap Apples grow, or B) it's contrived nonsense. Take your pick.

My assumption is that since her parents were dead, Granny Smith was already old, and Big Macintosh had still been learning himself, she never had anyone around to teach her how to properly do the little things. A lot of her techniques were therefore initially developed by flailing around until she found something that worked, then being too afraid to make changes in case it stopped working. Even when she became more experienced, a lot of her earlier attempts had become comfortable habits.

**DigoDragon** · 2017-01-27, 07:26 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Jothki

My assumption is that since her parents were dead, Granny Smith was already old, and Big Macintosh had still been learning himself, she never had anyone around to teach her how to properly do the little things. A lot of her techniques were therefore initially developed by flailing around until she found something that worked, then being too afraid to make changes in case it stopped working. Even when she became more experienced, a lot of her earlier attempts had become comfortable habits.

Huh, that makes some amount of sense. I'll buy that for a dollar.

If Spike cameo'd in Civil War

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...this Rarity is mesmerizing. @_@

**Pi Pie** · 2017-01-27, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Forum Explorer

So can I request that someone do a retrospect in review for the season. As in review each episode again now that some time has passed.

Because I kinda want to watch some pony, but there are a bunch of bad episodes in the latest season, or the episode tackled something that fanfics did first and better.

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Season 6 Episode 1 and 2, The Crystalling
3/5
We find out that alicorns can be born when Hasbro needs to make money. And apparently a baby alicorn can doom an entire civilization to destruction. Thus confirming that babies are evil. The actual episodes are acceptable, but they are dragged down by the premise.

Season 6 Episode 3, The Gift of Maud Pie
4.5/5
Pinkie, Rarity, and Maud in Manehattan. Lots of good interaction between the characters. All of the voice actors did a great job and the script was right on.

Season 6 Episode 4, On Your Marks
3.5/5
The Cutie Mark Crusaders have an existential crisis when they cannot fulfill their purpose of helping with cutie mark problems. The actual premise is intriguing and has potential but the actual episode is dragged down by characters that are one-dimensional.

Season 6 Episode 5, Gauntlet of Fire
4.5/5
Spike is called to the dragon lands by the dragon lord and must compete to become the next dragon lord. I really liked the return of the old characters and the new character, Ember. Spike can actually have an episode where he is not the focus of ridicule (mostly). Lots of action and world building while still keeping the ponyness of the universe.

Season 6 Episode 6, No Second Prances
4/5
Starlight Glimmer needs to find a friend and finds Trixie. I’m not a huge Trixie fan which holds the episode back. However, neurotic Twilight and the ending with Princess Celestia elevate this episode.

Season 6 Episode 7, Newbie Dash
2/5
Dash joins the Wonderbolts but is bullied by the other members. This one is a premise that pony is meant for. Bullying is a problem that should be discussed properly such as with Babs Seed. But do they do that, no. The message at the end is to just suck it up. Hits close to home for many people. Rainbow Dash’s impressions of the other Mane Six are a little cringe worthy.

Season 6 Episode 8, A Hearth’s Warming Tale
5/5
Dickens Christmas Carol ponified. Is it original, absolutely not. But the music is great, and it fits the pony universe very well. I have watched multiple times. Also further confirms how terrifying the pony universe is since a single unicorn can cause a mass extinction (again).

Season 6 Episode 9, The Saddle Row Review
4.5/5
Rarity opens her store with the help of the Mane Six. I was kind of indifferent on the first watch. But seeing it the second time really made me appreciate the episode. All the characters really shined. The only downside was the spoon mare.

Season 6 Episode 10, Applejack’s “Day” Off
3.5/5
Applejack is supposed to spend the day relaxing at the spa with Rarity but gets busy. Once again, we see that Applejack is a silly, bull headed pony. It doesn’t really grow the world any although learning more about the spa was nice.

Season 6 Episode 11, Flutter Brother
2/5
Fluttershy’s dead beat brother shows up. The brother is absolutely terrible and should have been introduced to the weather factory. Fluttershy’s parents are just as useless. The only good things are that Fluttershy has a backbone and the assumed relationships with Rainbow Dash.

Season 6 Episode 12, Spice of Life
3/5
Rarity and Pinkie Pie find an exotic restaurant (Indian) in Canterlot. Further confirms that ponies are silly and can easily be lead in herds. I love cooking, but I just didn’t find Saffron Marsala to be an engaging character.

Season 6 Episode 13, Stranger than Fanfiction
4/5
Rainbow Dash attends a Daring Do convention. The actual story is forgettable. However, Rainbow Dash being a super fan is adorable. The background imagery is also fantastic.

Season 6 Episode 14, The Cart Before the Ponies
1/5
The CMC have to build derby cars with the help of their sisters. You get an idiot ball, you get an idiot ball, everyone gets an idiot ball. Take all growth from the past seasons, throw it out and multiply the Mysterious Mare Do Well by 5 times.

Season 6 Episode 15, 28 Pranks Later
3/5
Rainbow Dash’s pranks get out of hand. Again, too much idiot ball. I think every fan was yelling “You don’t prank Fluttershy!” at this episode. The zombies are a nice touch although the sequence lasts too long.

Season 6 Episode 16, The Times They are a Changeling
4/5
Spike finds a changeling, Thorax, near the Crystal Empire. The ending is very abrupt which hurts the episode. However, learning more about the changelings is great. And I just want to give a hug to Thorax. He can have my love.

Season 6 Episode 17, Dungeons and Discords
3/5
Spike, Big Mac, and Discord have a guys night playing Dungeons and Dragons. This had so much potential. But they went with the standard Dungeons and Dragons is stupid trope. The creature models and ending are only reason I give it 3/5.

Season 6 Episode 18, Buckball season
4/5
Applejack assembles a Ponyville to compete with Appleloosa in buckball. Oh god, the expressions… so good! Most characters show actual intelligence and act like adults. Good slice of life episode. Also manages to make Snail sufferable (shocking).

Season 6 Episode 19, The Fault in Our Cutie Marks
4.5/5
The CMC meet a griffon that wants a cutie mark. This episode comes very close to having Gabby (the griffon) become too annoying, but they stay just on the right side of the line where she is cute.

Season 6 Episode 20, Viva Las Pegasus
3/5
Applejack and Fluttershy travel to Las Pegasus to help with a friendship problem and meet Flim and Flam. The Elvis impersonator is annoying which drags down the episode. I also don’t find the other ponies to be very interesting. Flim and Flam are better when they are scamming the Apple family.

Season 6 Episode 21, Every Little Thing She Does
4/5
Starlight Glimmer has to hang out with the Mane Six. This one is very controversial because of Stalight’s use of mind magic. Personally I like it since the episode shows that Starlight is not reformed and still has the villain mentality. It also shows why overlords must be very careful in giving instruction to minions.

Season 6 Episode 22, PPOV (Pony Point of View)
3/5
Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie go out on a sea voyage. Standard trope with multiple characters having different interpretations of events. I liked how each character sees the world. However -1 for not having seaponies.

Season 6 Episode 23, Where the Apple Lies
2/5
Flashback showing why Applejack is the element of honesty, because she lies all the time. Standard trope with a character’s lie getting out of hoof. This episode was not needed and ruined the much world building provided by pony fans. Also ruins Big Mac.

Season 6 Episode 24, Top Bolt
3.5/5
Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash are called to resolve a friendship problem at the Wonderbolts academy. Vapor Trail is cute but Sky Stinger is kind of grating. The actual message is okay.

Season 6 Episode 25 and 26, To Where and Back Again
4/5
Changelings attack Equestria and it is up to Starlight Glimmer, Trixie, Discord, and Thorax to save the day. The episode requires a few logical leaps (the changelings take out all opposition and have a magic McGuffin to neutralize Discord). However, the characters work well together and the changeling hive is interesting. + .5 for Chrysallis being a bad bug at the end.

**Forum Explorer** · 2017-01-27, 08:16 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Pendulous

I used to do that in ways and post them here. I think depression has made me not want to do...damn near anything anymore really. I haven't done anything writing-wise in what could be years at this point.

Yeah, I get that. Depression sucks. My sympathy, and here's hoping you feel better soon.

Originally Posted by digiman619

Sure, I'll give a two-to-three sentence description of each episode, and my opinion on each. I'll spoiler it so as not to annoy those who already know, and they will be in production order rather than airdate order, if it matters.

Spoiler

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The Crystalling, (Parts I & II): Shiny and Cadance have a foal, who is inexplicably already an alicorn. Glimmer has a B-plot to reconnect with her old friend Sunburst. The baby accidentally destroys the Crystal Heart, but thanks to Sunburst's knowledge of obscure spells, the day is saved. My opinion: I don't usually participate in this aspect of fandom, but I ship StarBurst with the intensity of a thousand suns.

Gift of the Maud Pie: Rarity and Pinkie head to Manehatten as Rarity is looking for a location for a new boutique and Pinkie wants to buy a gift (a rock pouch) for Maud. She ends up having to trade away her party cannon for it, but Maud trades it back; If you've ever read The Gift of the Magi, you saw this coming a mile away. My opinion: Gee, Pinkie it's not like you know someone very skilled with fabric to make a rock pouch, that'd be silly. Ugh.

On Your Marks: The CMC have their cutie marks... now what? They try to just hang out and do stuff as a group, but they start pulling apart. Eventually (after helping a new colt named Tender Taps find his cutie mark, more on him in a bit), the CMC discover that it's okay to have hobbies that don't include all three of them, and that doesn't mean that they won't still be friends. My opinion: Not bad, but this is the second new character (OK, Sunburst was talked about/shown in flashback before, but he had no lines, so I say he counts as new) that seems to be created for shipping. He's also not the last. Okay episode, though.

Gauntlet of Fire: A good Spike episode. That should be enough. Seriously though, while helping Rarity, Spike gets a mystical summons to the Dragon Lands: It seems that the head of state, Dragon Lord Torch, has reached the end of his tenure, so he tasks all the young dragons (other than his daughter Ember (again, more on her in a bit)) to find the Bloodstone Scepter, which he tosses into a nearby volcano. Whoever returns with the scepter will become the new Dragon Lord. Taking a page out of Wonder Woman's book, Ember disguises herself in armor and joins the hunt anyway. Eventually, she teams with Spike (who's only interested in making sure Garble doesn't win, as he said he'd declare war on Equestria), who in the end gives the scepter to Ember, trusting her to rule. My opinion: That recap was longer than I intended. Hmm. Anyway, 3rd new character almost designed for shipping. Though as I said, good Spike episode; that should be enough.

No Second Prances: Twilight tasks Glimmer with making a new friend. After some antics, she meets, and subsequently makes fast friends with, Trixie. Twilight then tries to make Glimmer befriend anypony else, showing a rather negative aspect of her personality, really. Eventually, Twi admits that even if she doesn't particularly like Trixie, she has to respect that Glimmer does. My Opinion: Twi seems almost vindictive in this episode; why is Glimmer worthy while Trixie isn't? Trixie's crimes are being a braggart (while performing as a magician) and being influenced by an ancient artifact. Glimmer's crimes include brainwashing a town and almost destroying Equestria through bucking with the time stream! Not a fan of this one.

Newbie Dash: Rainbow finally gets promoted to official member of the Wonderbolts (she was just a reservist previously), but embarrasses herself on her first day and gets a horrible nickname because of it. She spends the rest of the episode trying to get called other things (and going through more and more elaborate plans to do so). eventually, they tell her that everyone in the Wonderbolts has an embarrassing nickname; it's part of the comradery of the group. My opinion: This is another "this could have been avoided really easily" plot. The antics are fun, though, so there's that.

A Hearth's Warming Tale: You know how Equestria's 4th of July/how-we-became-a-nation holiday is in winter? Let's ignore that and make it a Christmas analogue by telling A Christmas Carol: Pony Edition. Seriously, there's a framing device on how Glimmer doesn't see the fuss about the holiday, but that's what it is. My opinion: I'm Jewish, so I'm annoyed when Christmas is shoved down my throat when it's November. This aired in May. Do the math.

The Fault in Our Cutie Marks: This episode introduces Gabby: the most cheerful griffon in all of fiction. Basically, since ponies live in harmony and have cutie marks, she determines the former is due to the latter and asks the CMC to give her a cutie mark. They can't; it's just not part of griffon biology, but they try to help her anyway. Turns out she's really good at helping; doesn't seem to matter what, either. They go to apologize that they failed, but she shows up with a cutie mark! It's fake, obviously, in a "I didn't want to disappoint you" scenario, but it all ends with them giving her a pair of cutie mark-style decals for her saddlebags and throwing her a cuteceañera anyway. My opinion: Gabby is really cute, and they don't do a cop-out "You really did get a cutie mark!" ending. All in all, I like it.

The Saddle Row Review: Rarity has opened her new boutique and goes to read the review that will make-or-break her new business. We then cut back to the story's author (who is such an obvious J Jonah Jameson expy it hurts) interviewing the rest of the Mane 6 on how the opening went. We get a lot of The Office-style cut-to-the-interview segments as the story is told. After all the trials in getting the boutique open in time, Rarity gets a great review. My opinion: Easily one of the top 3 episodes of the season. Tons of fun has a nice flow. I really like it.

Applejack's Day Off: Applejack has trouble finding time to go to the spa with Rarity, as she has tons of chores, so Twi and Spike offer to do them while she does. While at the spa, they can't use the steam room because the spa workers can't get enough steam, and they give their patrons warm towels while they wait. Turns out they have a leak, which is exacerbated by them using the heat for the towels. Unfortunately, this eats up all the time they had and she heads back, only to find that her chores/routine has a bunch of unnecessary steps and by getting rid of them, she can free up more time to spend with her friends. My opinion: I have two theories on this episode: A) this is a genetic condition, as it's similar to Granny Smith' weird techniques in finding out how Zap Apples grow, or B) it's contrived nonsense. Take your pick.

Flutter Brutter: Goon news: We get to meet Fluttershy's family. Bad news: Her brother, Zephyr Breeze, is a lazy braggart. Fluttershy takes him in and tries to get him gainful employment, but it turns out that his boasting is covering up a crippling fear of failure. Eventually, they get him to finish his studies (in mane styling, if you care) and get him back on his feet. My opinion: Remember how I said a bunch of new characters seemed to be introduced just for shipping purposes? Zephyr seems like anti-shipping; he's annoying, self-centered, and convinced Dash is insterested in him dispite all evidence to the contrary. I was "meh" about it, myself.

Spice Up Your Life: Twi and Glimmer finally fix the cuite map, and find a mission for Rariyt and Pinkie. When they arrive, they stop for lunch, but all the high-class resturants Rarity heads to serve the same bland food. They find an out-of-the-way resturant that serves Indian-style cuisine and the try to help promote it, but end up turning it into another bland copy before realizing that they fix it. My opinion: The food critic/rater Zesty Gourmand just beat out Ms. Harshwinny at being an unlikable jerk. At least Harshwinny has professionalism. Also, Rarity, this is, what, the 8th time you tried interacting with "high class" ponies only to find out they're pompous jerks? Get a clue!

Stranger Than Fan Fiction: Rainbow attends a Daring Do convention and meets Quibble Pants (voiced by Patton Oswald), who is a huge fan of the series... at least the first 3 volumes. Eventually, they get attacked by Caberleron and pulled into an adventure, which Quibble seems to think it's made up at first (Remember, most peopole think 'Do is fictional). Eventually, they figuer out the puzzles and save the day, with Quibble saying it's okay to only like part of a series/ like it for different things. My opinion: While quibble gets shipped with Dash, he's not a "made for shipping" character; he's an anology for all the "RUINED FOREVER!" crowd. Also, there is a Daring Do body pillow. Where she is tied up. Yeah.

The Cart Before The Ponies: The class are having a boxcart derby, and the CMC get AJ, Dash and Rarity to help, but they go overboard and take over the project. They lose the race, but their designs win other awards. My opinion: An apt title, as winning the cart race had them ignore previous character development. You can safely skip this one, really.

28 Pranks Later: Remember "The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well"? Same idea, but a) it was due to a pranking spree rather than Rainbow getting full of herself, b) she was asked to stop, but refused, and c) the entire town got together and pulled a zombie prank back at her. My opinion: Better executed than the original and fun. I liked it, though some feel it was a better fit for Season 1 or 2 Dash as opposed to 6.

The Times They Are A Changeling: Twilight, Glimmer and Spike head to the Crystal Empire (to visit Flurry Heart (the baby) and Sunburst) when they discover the entire empire is on high alert; seems that there's a changeling on the loose. Spike is tasked to help find it and sends the group of guars in different directions before falling into a cave and meeting said changeling. His name is Thorax, and he truly wants to be friends with the ponies. There are some antics and he is spotted. Spike is paralyzed by indesicion and initially says nothing, but then immediately gets Thorax and returns with him and vouches for him. After Twi says it's good enough for her, Shiny and Cadance welcome him into their court. My opinion: I like Thorax. Spike gets a neat song. There's an allusion to The Marx Brothers. It's neat.

Dungeons and Discords: While the Mane 6 are off on an assignment to Yakyakistan, Spike invites Discord to his and Big Mac's "Guys' Night". He is dissapointed to find out it's an Oubliettes & Ogres (read: D&D) game. There's some tension between the three, but it all works out in the end. My opinion: While discord did some "rewrite reality so they LARP the game, the previews made it look much more than it was. Also, Spike, it's not healthy to make your GMPC a self-insert. All in all, it was fun, but it could have been better.

Buckball Season: AJ and Dash recruit Fluttershy and Pinkie ito helping them find a unicorn for a game of Buckball, which needs one of each race for some reason. While they find a unicorn (Snails, believe it or not), it's clear that Flutters and Pinkie are naturals for the game and have them take their place. Unfortunatly, they seem to snap under the pressure, but AJ and Dash fix it soon enough. My opinion: Very not bad. It seems wierd that Fluttershy is better at a sport than Dash, but it works.

Viva Las Pegasus: The cutie map sends Fluttershy and Dash to Las Pegasus in order to find a cutie mark problem. They find Flim and Flam there, and the two argue. AJ wants to find someone else to help, but eventually they work with them, seems Gladstone, the proprieter of the hotel is playing everyone against each other while claiming to be their friend, They eventually trick him into revealing himself, and it all goes downhill for him. My opinion: Gladstone's last scene makes this okay instead of really good. Upon realizing that his scheme is undone and he's lost everything, he runs out crying. What I wanted to happen is him to lunge at Fluttershy for ruining everything, only to get bucked by AJ. It just feels incomplete.

Every Little Things She Does: Glimmer is way behind on her friendship reports, so she tries to do everything at once. Once it's clear that isn't going to work, she brainwashes everyone and tries again. It still doesn't work and it backfires horribly. They eventually forgive her, though. My opinion: Let's just say that if Glimmer pulled that on me, she wouldn't have to worry about freindship problems as much as "running away from me/hoping I don't find her" problems.

PPOV: A fun cruise with Rarity, Pinkie and AJ fails, and each blames the other in this Roshomon-stlye story. My opinion: Seeing the three being wildly out of character is funny and seeing Twi try to solve it is fun. The last 3 minutes/ the solution make no sense, though.

Where the Apple Lies: Applejack tells a story where her well-meaning lies almost cost everything. My opinion: I did not like this episode for several reasons: 1) the plot gets annoying when AJ digs herself deeper and deeper, 2) Big Mac won't shut up, thus ruining his later stoic personality, and 3) this story is set several years ago, before Applebloom was born, yet there isn't even a handwave of where AJ's parents are.

Top Bolt: Dash and Twi head to Wonderbolts HQ because of the cutie map and meet 2 potential recruits: the shy Vapor Trail and the brash Sky Stinger. Turns out Vapor has been helping Stinger by making tailwinds for him, and he never noticed. There's some drama there, but eventually they work things out and enter the academy. My opinion: Sky Stinger is annoyingly cocky. I was practically begging Dash to humble him, but it never happened. It was okay, otherwise.

To Where and Back Again (Parts I & II): Glimmer gets an invite back to Our Town, and takes Trixie with her, as Twi suggested she take a friend (meaning her). When they return, everyone is acting wierd. Turns out, while they were gone, the entire Mane 7 has been kidnapped and replaced with changelings. Glimmer gets Trixie, Thorax (who came on Sunburst's behest as they attacked the Empire too) and Discord (who was meh about the whole thing until they mention Fluttershy was taken). They head to the Chegling Kindom to rescue them, but Chrysalis' throne blocks all non-changeling magic, meaning that only Thorax's magic still works. Eventually, they lose Discord (who was paralyed with indescision with the sight of dozens of Fluttershys) and Trixie (who makes a sacrifice play). and they pull a good switch with Glimmer and Thorax, but eventually Chrysalis gets Thorax and tries to pull the loveout of him. By sharing it with her, it causes a incredible transformation (as you see on the front page) and Chrysalis is defeated. Glimmer offers to spare/redeem her, but she refuses and heads off. My opinion: I liked it, and it contains an important message: Befriending Spike is good for your career, as this makes the third foreign head of state that he is freinds with. I forsee a career in diplomacy for the young drake.

Hope that helps!

Thank you very much!

Originally Posted by Pi Pie

Summary in spoiler below.

Spoiler: Summary of episodes

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Season 6 Episode 1 and 2, The Crystalling
3/5
We find out that alicorns can be born when Hasbro needs to make money. And apparently a baby alicorn can doom an entire civilization to destruction. Thus confirming that babies are evil. The actual episodes are acceptable, but they are dragged down by the premise.

Season 6 Episode 3, The Gift of Maud Pie
4.5/5
Pinkie, Rarity, and Maud in Manehattan. Lots of good interaction between the characters. All of the voice actors did a great job and the script was right on.

Season 6 Episode 4, On Your Marks
3.5/5
The Cutie Mark Crusaders have an existential crisis when they cannot fulfill their purpose of helping with cutie mark problems. The actual premise is intriguing and has potential but the actual episode is dragged down by characters that are one-dimensional.

Season 6 Episode 5, Gauntlet of Fire
4.5/5
Spike is called to the dragon lands by the dragon lord and must compete to become the next dragon lord. I really liked the return of the old characters and the new character, Ember. Spike can actually have an episode where he is not the focus of ridicule (mostly). Lots of action and world building while still keeping the ponyness of the universe.

Season 6 Episode 6, No Second Prances
4/5
Starlight Glimmer needs to find a friend and finds Trixie. I’m not a huge Trixie fan which holds the episode back. However, neurotic Twilight and the ending with Princess Celestia elevate this episode.

Season 6 Episode 7, Newbie Dash
2/5
Dash joins the Wonderbolts but is bullied by the other members. This one is a premise that pony is meant for. Bullying is a problem that should be discussed properly such as with Babs Seed. But do they do that, no. The message at the end is to just suck it up. Hits close to home for many people. Rainbow Dash’s impressions of the other Mane Six are a little cringe worthy.

Season 6 Episode 8, A Hearth’s Warming Tale
5/5
Dickens Christmas Carol ponified. Is it original, absolutely not. But the music is great, and it fits the pony universe very well. I have watched multiple times. Also further confirms how terrifying the pony universe is since a single unicorn can cause a mass extinction (again).

Season 6 Episode 9, The Saddle Row Review
4.5/5
Rarity opens her store with the help of the Mane Six. I was kind of indifferent on the first watch. But seeing it the second time really made me appreciate the episode. All the characters really shined. The only downside was the spoon mare.

Season 6 Episode 10, Applejack’s “Day” Off
3.5/5
Applejack is supposed to spend the day relaxing at the spa with Rarity but gets busy. Once again, we see that Applejack is a silly, bull headed pony. It doesn’t really grow the world any although learning more about the spa was nice.

Season 6 Episode 11, Flutter Brother
2/5
Fluttershy’s dead beat brother shows up. The brother is absolutely terrible and should have been introduced to the weather factory. Fluttershy’s parents are just as useless. The only good things are that Fluttershy has a backbone and the assumed relationships with Rainbow Dash.

Season 6 Episode 12, Spice of Life
3/5
Rarity and Pinkie Pie find an exotic restaurant (Indian) in Canterlot. Further confirms that ponies are silly and can easily be lead in herds. I love cooking, but I just didn’t find Saffron Marsala to be an engaging character.

Season 6 Episode 13, Stranger than Fanfiction
4/5
Rainbow Dash attends a Daring Do convention. The actual story is forgettable. However, Rainbow Dash being a super fan is adorable. The background imagery is also fantastic.

Season 6 Episode 14, The Cart Before the Ponies
1/5
The CMC have to build derby cars with the help of their sisters. You get an idiot ball, you get an idiot ball, everyone gets an idiot ball. Take all growth from the past seasons, throw it out and multiply the Mysterious Mare Do Well by 5 times.

Season 6 Episode 15, 28 Pranks Later
3/5
Rainbow Dash’s pranks get out of hand. Again, too much idiot ball. I think every fan was yelling “You don’t prank Fluttershy!” at this episode. The zombies are a nice touch although the sequence lasts too long.

Season 6 Episode 16, The Times They are a Changeling
4/5
Spike finds a changeling, Thorax, near the Crystal Empire. The ending is very abrupt which hurts the episode. However, learning more about the changelings is great. And I just want to give a hug to Thorax. He can have my love.

Season 6 Episode 17, Dungeons and Discords
3/5
Spike, Big Mac, and Discord have a guys night playing Dungeons and Dragons. This had so much potential. But they went with the standard Dungeons and Dragons is stupid trope. The creature models and ending are only reason I give it 3/5.

Season 6 Episode 18, Buckball season
4/5
Applejack assembles a Ponyville to compete with Appleloosa in buckball. Oh god, the expressions… so good! Most characters show actual intelligence and act like adults. Good slice of life episode. Also manages to make Snail sufferable (shocking).

Season 6 Episode 19, The Fault in Our Cutie Marks
4.5/5
The CMC meet a griffon that wants a cutie mark. This episode comes very close to having Gabby (the griffon) become too annoying, but they stay just on the right side of the line where she is cute.

Season 6 Episode 20, Viva Las Pegasus
3/5
Applejack and Fluttershy travel to Las Pegasus to help with a friendship problem and meet Flim and Flam. The Elvis impersonator is annoying which drags down the episode. I also don’t find the other ponies to be very interesting. Flim and Flam are better when they are scamming the Apple family.

Season 6 Episode 21, Every Little Thing She Does
4/5
Starlight Glimmer has to hang out with the Mane Six. This one is very controversial because of Stalight’s use of mind magic. Personally I like it since the episode shows that Starlight is not reformed and still has the villain mentality. It also shows why overlords must be very careful in giving instruction to minions.

Season 6 Episode 22, PPOV (Pony Point of View)
3/5
Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie go out on a sea voyage. Standard trope with multiple characters having different interpretations of events. I liked how each character sees the world. However -1 for not having seaponies.

Season 6 Episode 23, Where the Apple Lies
2/5
Flashback showing why Applejack is the element of honesty, because she lies all the time. Standard trope with a character’s lie getting out of hoof. This episode was not needed and ruined the much world building provided by pony fans. Also ruins Big Mac.

Season 6 Episode 24, Top Bolt
3.5/5
Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash are called to resolve a friendship problem at the Wonderbolts academy. Vapor Trail is cute but Sky Stinger is kind of grating. The actual message is okay.

Season 6 Episode 25 and 26, To Where and Back Again
4/5
Changelings attack Equestria and it is up to Starlight Glimmer, Trixie, Discord, and Thorax to save the day. The episode requires a few logical leaps (the changelings take out all opposition and have a magic McGuffin to neutralize Discord). However, the characters work well together and the changeling hive is interesting. + .5 for Chrysallis being a bad bug at the end.

Clearly you do not hate Starlight with every iota of your brain because her episodes all got pretty good reviews from you.

Thanks for the reviews,

it's looking like if I want to watch pony again I should start with Saddle Sow Review or The Fault in our Cutie Marks.

**Adderbane** · 2017-01-28, 12:50 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Forum Explorer

Thanks for the reviews,

it's looking like if I want to watch pony again I should start with Saddle Sow Review or The Fault in our Cutie Marks.

So much of what makes an episode likable or not is dependent on subjective views of characters and stuff. The only way to find out is watch for yourself. I only got into the show recently (through another thread on this forum incidentally) and Season 6 is probably my favorite so far.

For what it's worth, my 2 bits

Spoiler: Thoughts on episodes

Show

Season 6 Episode 1 and 2, The Crystalling

Not the most interesting plot ever for a 2-parter, but Shining and Cadance's kid is pretty cute.

Season 6 Episode 3, The Gift of Maud Pie

Excellent implementation of Maud and Pinkie's relationship. Rather predictable from the title, but the story fits them well.

Season 6 Episode 4, On Your Marks

Good to see them exploring the post-cutie mark implications of the CMCs. Crazy Applebloom is creepy.

Season 6 Episode 5, Gauntlet of Fire

Spike gets to be taken seriously for once, which is nice. Another good new character, who'll hopefully get some more screentime.

Season 6 Episode 6, No Second Prances

Twilight is a little out of character, but Trixie struggling with her ego and jealousy of Twilight makes for an interesting arc.

Season 6 Episode 7, Newbie Dash

There are a couple of cringeworthy scenes, but it provides an interesting look at the difference between bullying and friendly teasing common in tightly-knit groups, and what to do when they collide. (Or NOT to do really)

Season 6 Episode 8, A Hearth’s Warming Tale

If you like Christmas Carol adaptions, you'll like this. Great mapping of ponies to Christmas Carol characters and fantastic songs. Probably one of my favorite episodes of the series.

Season 6 Episode 9, The Saddle Row Review

This has an interesting narrative format, reminds me of "The Office" almost. The plot is not particularly noteworthy, but the character's running commentary on it makes it quite enjoyable.

Season 6 Episode 10, Applejack’s “Day” Off

A couple funny moments but not much to see here

Season 6 Episode 11, Flutter Brother

Fluttershy's brother is annoying, but Fluttershy gets some good snarky comments on his behavior, which is just hilarious coming from her.

Season 6 Episode 12, Spice of Life

Not much to see here either. Not bad, just ordinary

Season 6 Episode 13, Stranger than Fanfiction

This is another hate or love it episode. I really liked how they avoided setting Quibble up as a straw man for Rainbow to humiliate like often happens. I hope we see him again; Patton Oswalt is great, and Quibble and Rainbow have an interesting dynamic. Also, this has some of the best facial expressions we've seen in a long time.

Season 6 Episode 14, The Cart Before the Ponies

Probably the low point of the season. Skip this and you won't miss too much except idiot balls being juggled. It could've been really interesting if the CMC's had thought things through and shuffled up their mentors instead.

Season 6 Episode 15, 28 Pranks Later

I thought some of Rainbow's pranks were pretty good...pretty decent creepy atmosphere for MLP

Season 6 Episode 16, The Times They are a Changeling

Go Thorax.

Season 6 Episode 17, Dungeons and Discords

It's great to see D&D becoming a more and more acceptable hobby.

Season 6 Episode 18, Buckball season

The plot is a bit contrived, but it leads to some decent exploration of characters.

Season 6 Episode 19, The Fault in Our Cutie Marks

Interesting look into the implications of ponies "special" status compared to other intelligent races.

Season 6 Episode 20, Viva Las Pegasus

Flim and Flam don't make great heroes.

Season 6 Episode 21, Every Little Thing She Does

Starlight still hasn't learned her lesson. The enjoy ability of this episode is entirely dependent on your opinion of her character.

Season 6 Episode 22, PPOV (Pony Point of View)

A good reminder that sometimes no one's side of the story is right. For a sort of mystery-type episode, the ending was a bit underwhelming.

Season 6 Episode 23, Where the Apple Lies

Another low point. The snowballing lie trope has been done before much better

Season 6 Episode 24, Top Bolt

Interesting conflict between Twilight and Rainbow on how to handle approaching problems. The new characters may or may not be a plus.

Season 6 Episode 25 and 26, To Where and Back Again

"Well isn't this quite the collection of secondary characters!". This reminds me of Slice of Life (though not quite that great). Chrysalis remains a good villain.

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