My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Page 232

totally did not expect the rarity/applejack switch...

As to the spoiler, this is what I keep saying there's always something unexpected in every episode lol, it's really great. Shame on anybody who says they always end in expected fashion.

Adorable episode. Way better than I expected from the description. Glad to have an episode just about the characters in a sympathetic situation as a break from the madness.

Shock and awe at parents, and at parents being somewhere between extremely easygoing and rednecks. Even more shock and awe when someone pointed out after the episode that Rarity's father appears to be a football player. Breakfast looked like something out of the Worst Bakers in Equestria fic, complete with burnt juice and of course "toast".

The opening was so-so material made good purely from how sympathetic it made Sweetie Belle. I was expecting her to be totally oblivious and annoying to the point where I could only agree with Rarity, but they did a good job of representing both of them realistically. And of course, when Rarity flipped after Sweetie Belle organized everything for her, all I could think of was the fact that Rarity was exactly like every male member of my family and how spot-on accurate that personality quirk was portrayed. It's certainly an interesting one to give Rarity, for sure.

ONE DAY was a pretty good gag, but the rest of the scenes with AJ and Apple Bloom, while kinda cute, were pretty unmemorable.

Totally called Rarity disguised as AJ mid-race just from being genre-savvy, though I didn't realize when they had switched. In retrospect, should have been easy since she had blue eyes instead of AJ's green.

To resolve some of the comments I've seen, marshmallows were made from plants (the marshmallow plant, no less) before they were made from horses. And the sheep thing is a pretty direct reference to Babe, thrown in as a joke that's not to be taken seriously. Faust or someone will probably throw in an explanation soon like they did with cows and pigs, although really we don't need another as the same thing still works.

I also raised an eyebrow when Rarity swore to Celestia that she'd work things out. So Celestia's name is used as a god figure...

Overall, really solid episode, and I kinda want to facepalm whenever I see people complaining that it was the worst of season 2. This is the first time the writing hasn't had any glaring flaws related to contrived problems or not enough time, in my opinion, and it was just really cute and led me along even if it wasn't laugh-out-loud funny. Everyone was treated as a character instead of just being around to make a joke or make them overly crazy, and the scenario was believable and easy to relate to.

Also, I dawwwwwed so hard I should probably be keeping insulin nearby when they showed Sweetie Belle's artwork.

Why is rarity afraid of getting muddy if she can use magic to cleanse herself just like she did at the end of the episode?

I got frustrated at the 3rd enemy and having to go through the speeches and that animation again when you retry, so I just pulled an IdrA not to waste more time.

Toast.
Toast.

Must Show to Gary Oak for very specific reason 0.o

Favorite line: "I give and give and GIVE. I give lessons, reasonable requests..." Actually rofl'd at that.

Ep5 is so far the best episode of Season 2. The others were great too, but a bit too much crazy. It doesn´t make the bad or unfunny, but makes them feel a bit off. After Ep3 and Ep4 I was a bit worried that the style of the cartoon had changed drastically, but with Ep5 we´re back on track, although with Rarity being a bit more melodramatic.

Every episode doesn´t HAVE to have the full Mane 6, but I liked how they actually included Spike at the end. After Lesson Zero Celestia charged them all to report about friendship, and of course Spike is the one to send the message. It´s not separate episodes, it´s a developing story. The only thing I missed is a shot of Celestia and Luna reading the letter back in Canterlot, those two sisters need to work on their relationship too after all, and this is the perfect lesson for them.

I noticed the switch halfway through the race when I first saw that "AJ" had something that looked like a horn, then that her eyes had too many lashes, and her mane didn´t look right under the mud. Where the switch took place was kind of obvious.