Okay, so just watched the season ender for MLP.

[kane_magus]

It was a good couple o' eps. My overall reactions as follows.

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"So Twilight Sparkle has a brother that we've never heard about before now. How about that."

"Ugh. Singing."

"Another alicorn? Just, you know, randomly showing up out of the blue? A'ight. Fair enough. How many others are there hiding in the woodwork I wonder."

"Twilight is right, she is totally evil."

"No really, you guys. Twilight's right. She's definitely evil."

"I don't care if you all get mad and shun her or whatever, Twilight is still totally right."

"See, I told you so, but do you ponies inside the screen ever listen? NooooOOOOOoooo. Wait, Twilight, I don't care if you were right, you don't need to sing again..."

"Wow, how long has she been in that cave?"

"Oh man, they're singing again."

"Okay, Celestia was right freaking there. Unless she went to get Luna or something, where the hell did she go?"

"Derpy sighted."

"Oh wait, never mind, there's Celestia. Still wonder where she was until now though."

"Okay, the villain is stronger than Celestia, huh? Hmm."

"Where is Luna?"

"You know... maybe they should, like, keep the Elements of Harmony with them, rather than having them being locked away in the vault all the time. Just a thought."

"Where is Luna?"

"Doctor Whooves sighted."

"No seriously. Where is Luna?"

"Now the villain is singing a villain song. Guh."

"Where is Luna?"

"Cool battle sequence."

"Luna, where are you?"

"Huh, no Elements to save the day this time, I guess."

"Where. Is. Lu. Na?"

"Oh, I guess they didn't need the Elements after all since Twilight's brother is super buff, apparently. I guess it was because it was his love that was powering them or something, but kind of a weird decision to make this one dude seem stronger than the main 6 and the sun goddess."

"Where's Luna?"

"There's Derpy again, but without her derp eyes this time. Huh."

"It's the frickin' real wedding. Why is Luna not there? Then again she wasn't at the fake wedding either."

"Wheeeeeeeeeeeereeeeeeeeeee iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?"

*Luna shows up again at the very tail end with her "Did I miss anything?" line* "OH COME ON!!!"

"Ooh, neat, Vinyl Scratch/DJ PON-3/whatever her name is. Haven't seen her in forever."

"Okay, they're singing again, but that one's not half bad."

And that's pretty much the gist of it.

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Heh.

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Comments

[hikarugenji.livejournal.com]

I think if it's not night, Luna can't be there.

I was disappointed with the songs in the episode -- from your comments it sounds like you might not like the songs in general, but I think they're usually really good. Winter Wrap Up, Art of the Dress, At the Gala, and the find a pet song were really well done but this time they just seemed mediocre.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's that Luna can't be there, given that Celestia handled both the sun and the moon for a thousand years by herself and I'd figure that Luna could do the same if something happened to Celestia. It's just that she simply wasn't there for whatever (contrived story) reason. My guess is that she was probably asleep or something. It just seemed odd that she would have played no role whatsoever in the invasion of Canterlot. I would have been satisfied even if she'd just shown up and got cocooned like Celestia did, rather than not being there at all.

As for the music, my initial reaction whenever they start singing is usually "Ugh, here we go again," no matter what the music is. But after I get a chance to listen to the songs by themselves, outside of the context of them (in my opinion) breaking up the flow of the show itself, I tend to enjoy them more.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

So, apparently, the real reason Luna wasn't there is that she was only added into the episode at the last minute due to fan demand (I guess they were originally going to just leave her out entirely?), which is why she only has like two or three lines and nobody verbally responds to her. That's one of the rumors, anyway, so don't know how legit it is.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

She got a whole 24 seconds total (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayMRCIjPnLU) out of a 40+ minute two-parter.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Hmm, and I missed that bit with her flying in from outside of the shield the first time through. Does Luna not actually live in Canterlot or something? o_O

[korby.livejournal.com]

I think for me, the most utterly bizarre part of this was Tori Spelling. "Hey kids, your parents know who I was, but you have no idea who I am, or why I'm here hosting these two episodes!" Get a personality that matches the target demo (both the little girls and the non-little non-girls) instead of some D-list celebrity who just happened to fit the leftover budget.

Songs I felt were good, but I always cringe at the pony language in them. I guess that just goes with the territory. The Bronyville podcast suggested that a musical episode, ala Buffy, would be an interesting thing for them to try doing.

This shapeshifter thing felt like it came way out of left field, sorta like that South Park episode where QEftSG was revealed to be a plot by the Crab People to turn men into wussy metrosexuals so they could take over the world. Of course it's not like they'd previously established any other constantly looming threats in the series, so the bad guys had to be this thing we'd never heard of before. I enjoyed Fluttershy's momentary fakeout of them though.

Just what goes on at a pony bachelor party anyways (and one that happens afterwards too?)? Sounds rife for Rule 34 abuse to me, and utterly creepy that a baby dragon would be putting it together. Yes, the term "donkey show" did pop into my head.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I didn't follow the pre-air hype for the episode, but yeah, Tori Spelling did seem like an odd choice from what I did pay attention to it.

At one point early on during the first half, I had almost convinced myself that the fake Cadance was going to be Trixie (http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Trixie), but I figured it would be way beyond her power level to pull something like this off.

And yeah... Spike as the supposed organizer for the bachelor party kind of squicked me out too, even if the whole point was just for the whole "Ha ha he doesn't know what a bachelor party is" joke. Not sure where he would have even gotten the idea from in the first place, since he obviously didn't have a clue. I mean, did Celestia seriously tell him that he would be the one doing it? While I don't much care for the whole Trollestia (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trollestia-molestia-tyrant-celestia) meme, I'd have to say that this could be considered more evidence for it. >_>