Magical Mystery Cure - Review

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If you have not seen the season three finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and do not want to SPOIL yourself, please leave the blog and come back after you've watched it. The following review is full of SPOILERS. Oh, and this is the most image-heavy blog post I've ever done... but I couldn't help it! It needed the visual aids!

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - "Magical Mystery Cure" - Review

So... I think I spent a great majority of this episode crying. ALL OF MY FEELS, MAN!

Ahem... Now for the review-y part of the review...

I thought the premise of the episode was an interesting one. Though I'm surprised Twilight Sparkle didn't follow the sort-of-unspoken-rule of not reading spells out loud until you know what they do. Obviously, this can lead to bad things, like you fraking up your friends' lives, for example... But anyway, I thought it was interesting how each of the Mane Six (minus Twilight) attempted to handle their altered destinies. I'm also glad they did that eye-rewind thing when they got their cutie marks back. It made it very clear that the spell had worked across time and wasn't just a sudden thing. Which makes me momentarily wonder how the altered Mane Six got their cutie marks... seeing as they all sucked at what they did...

Oh, and I gotta talk about the music. It made me cry. It was just so AWESOME! I can't properly articulate how wonderful it was. I gotta find somewhere to download that so I can cry some more...

Now for my fan-girling over random stuff: It was nice seeing some Crystal Ponies in with the regular ponies during the coronation. Also during the coronation, I saw Time Turner standing with Dinky Hooves. For those who don't know, Time Turner is known by fans and official merchandise as Doctor Whooves. Dinky Hooves is supposedly (according to fan-shtuff) The Doctor and Derpy Hooves' love-child... or something. It's cute, okay?!

First time:

 When I noticed it:

We also got to see Vinyl Scratch from the front for once! Shining Armor's apparently too manly to cry and has to make up an excuse for doing so... Liquid Pride. I might just have to use that. And uh... Derpy made a second or two appearance! Found that out thanks to the following picture from Memebase...

It's really hard to miss just watching it, but she's there! And all derp-eyed, too! I'm a happy Brony. Oh, oh! And the Mane Six's coronation dresses! I love, love, love all of them but Twilight's... and that's growing on me... slowly.

Finally, the Twilicorn thing. I'm totally okay with it. I'm glad the Elements of Harmony were involved with the transformation. I'm glad Princess Celestia didn't just randomly show up and go: "You're a princess now, Twilight Sparkle." I was properly explained, properly set up, and dang it! It made me cry!

Housekeeping

Okay so... the first to pictures in this post are from the Friendship Is Magic Wiki. The second two are screen-grabs by me off YouTube. And the last picture is from Memebase.

Now I'm off to work on a couple pony commissions and babysit my nephew. Really not sure when I'm going to get around to the other reviews I have to do, but... this one had to be posted like now.

Love ya, Jessie.

Dear Bronies

Bronies, we need to have a talk. It's about our wonderful ponies and the tendency to graft human problems onto them. Sure, that's sort of what they are there for, but we need to draw some lines.


Line 1: Scootaloo the Chicken

No, I have no problem with us calling dear little Scoots a chicken. What I have a problem with is grafting her with a handicap and sad story of not living in Cloudsdale. I bring this up because of a Brony panel (which was not actually a panel, by the way) that took place at Comicpalooza. The Philosophical and Sociological Aspects of My Little Pony consisted of a single guy who spent WAY too much time talking about how Scootaloo's eing size prevents her from flying and therefore is a handicap. He also told us about his head-cannon where Scootaloo and her parents had to live in Ponyville because Cloudsdale is unsafe for poor, flightless Scootaloo.

So... what if it turns out Scootaloo just has flightless parents, like Pound Cake. What then? What if, the next time we see her, she manages to take off and fly? This would completely destroy all of that. But no, apparently, Scootaloo is handicapped be too-short wings.

And then there are the sad stories about Scootaloo being an orphan. They're just... unnecessary. Seriously. The reason these stories popped up were because Scootaloo's parents haven't showed up in the show. Which, if you notice, is true for 99% of the ponies in the show. We might as well just brand all the ponies orphans, if that's the only reason Scootaloo is an orphan.


Line 2: Ditsy Doo/Derpy Hooves

First, let me say this: Derpy is Best Background Pony. However, just because she is a walleyed and clumsy does not mean she is sad or has a sad life.

This, I bring up, because I listened to BaldDumboRat of YouTube's reading of "Bubbles." It was cute, for the most part. However, I have a gigantic objection to the abusive mother portrayed in the story. "Hey, I think it's a good idea to poison my daughter and then leave her alone in the forest." Stop. Just... seriously. Stop it!

This is a kid's show for Pete's sake! Postpartum Derpy's mom we do not want or need. It's annoying and makes me cry. I watch ponies and do pony stuff to brighten my day and smile. I don't need depressing stuff. Yes, I found "Bubbles" depressing. I found it more depressing than sad "Derpy-pocalypse" art. And don't even get me started on that.


Line 3: Cupcakes/Rainbow Factory

Haven't read them? Don't. No, seriously, don't.

Read them? Stop talking about them. Me included.


I guess what I'm trying to say is this: STOP taking cute, cuddly, smile-inducing things and making them resemble human everyday.

I believe ponies are meant to educate about friendship and acceptance. They don't need to be burdened with our crap. We all know they've got their own crap to deal with. Party of One, anyone?