What did you think of the new episode?
>>27373573
I'm literally rewatching it now.
I really loved this iteration of the Christmas Carol, loved the atmosphere, visuals and the musics. Also Starlight's voice is top unf this time around, not to mention one of the cutest scenes of the whole series
>>27373573
Christmas episode in May/10
Outside of that it was a great episode in my opinion, with the except of the fairly generic intro song and reprise all the music was top tier (Pinkie's Present might just win me over as my favourite song in the series), and I know a lot of people bitch about it being a severely simplified retelling of A Christmas Carol I thought it wasn't a particularly bad retelling, they managed to work the central themes of MLP into the classic story and made a fairly entertaining episode out of it.
That being said if we look at it solely as how well it adapts A Christmas Carol instead of judging it by its own merits it is fairly weak.
>>27373695
>Christmas episode in May/10
this. i mean i enjoyed it, but why?
would have been way comfier if it was in december
>>27373635
I know your feel. I actually made a video were I gave it a 4/10. I have now disliked and privated that video. This episode was amazing and the only reason I hated it the first time is because I stayed up till 2 AM editing.
>Starlight episode
0/10
>>27373830
>rating 0 or 10 basing on whether your least/most favourite pony is the star of the episode
>>27373573
Liked it. Songs were good and so were the use of characters which were on point. Decent humor. Certain deserves a good rating more so than the previous episode.
>>27373860
>watching the show
>>27373573
It was pretty boring. It was a rehash of a Christmas Carol and we learned nothing new about the world or characters.
>>27373755
This season will be over long before december unless you didn't mind another mid-season hiatus
Though they should have aired it towards the end of the season so it was a lot closer to fall/winter, not what is the quintessential summer month
>>27373930
>fag of the fandom
What're you even still here for, homer stopped making PTS videos.
>>27373984
>Nothing new about the world or characters
Uh did you miss the part where snow frost was a real pony from history who was almost as powerful as Starswirl?
>>27373860
>Defending Starlight
This is still all I want.
loved it, all the songs were great (Luna singing her dark song was a really nice touch)
>>27373573
Starlight disgusts me, but the flanderized Mane6 parodies make me outright vomit in pain.
>She says that we should stop wasting time having fun and do productive things for the betterment of the community
>lol what a faggot, can you believe her?
>Yeah what a communist hue hue hue
While I wanted to punch the no fun allowed emo Snape wannabe right in his eyes.
I wanted to personally gouge my eyes out and throw them at them at Dash,Rarity,Fluttershy for being such a bunch of arrogant circlejerking monkey retards. Their ignorance made me vomit and reminded me of your typical bunch of retarded /a/ and /b/ bronies why can't everyone enjoy their disgusting My Little Pony cartoon.
>>27373930
Opinion discarded. Stupid ponkfag.
>>27373830
>>27373930
>>27374080
>>27375993
MFW
>>27376038
Agreed
>>27373930
Fuck off, fan of the fandom.
>>27375993
>this post
>>27373573
It was good.
>>27373573
I liked it. A little hard to get into a holiday episode in May, but other than that it was good.
And the lesson was a bad teacher will screw up a kid for life.
>>27373573
The animation and music were great, very great.
The story was a generic A Christmas Carol ripoff, which fucked up the original HWE concept by making it completely human-like.
It's a Starlight Glimmer episode, a character that according to Big Jim was 100% their idea and then the idea of shoving it down everyone's throats was also 100% their idea because they believed it was a smart move.
5/10: the technical aspect was great but the execution and character focus was concentrated shit.
Twilight would Be star swirls groupie
>>27373573
I liked luna and starlights songs, they mixed it up a bit by adding bit of grinch into it but overall I was still underwhelmed. I hate A Christmas Carol mostly because of how many shows do it, it was interesting to see them do it without death,tiny tim and all the other stuff but not interesting enough. also since its may I was not feeling the spirit. part of me would like to say I would have liked starlight to say in like an introvert but that just would be foolish of me. its a nice kids episode for Christmas , noting more nothing less.
>>27373830
Starlight is almost as good as sunset, I like them a lot more than a applejack and fluttershy
>>27373871
previous episode was very good
>>27373984
you learned that wendigos are real.
>>27375993
>She says that we should stop wasting time having fun and do productive things for the betterment of the community
>lol what a faggot, can you believe her?
>Yeah what a communist hue hue hue
I legit expected someone to point out that there is nothing wrong in bettering the community but having a holiday to relax is good too or at least for someone to argue that they better community by uplifting lonely ponies (since they cant be poor) Snape was not wrong, he was just unhappy.
>>27377967
The point of it was that there's no point in making the world a better place if no one can enjoy it ever. And if no one ever can enjoy the fruits of your labor, are you really making it a better place?
>>27377974
well that was not very well conveyed. starlight seemed more upset about hollow cheer, she did not seem like a no fun all play type person,just the type that hates to stock up on bread because shops close for holidays
>>27373573
It was good.
>>27378002
She was upset ponies were wasting their time with the holiday. She didn't realize that the holiday is absolutely essential to keep Windigoes at bay.
Maybe if the holiday emphasized its very practical reason for existing rather than showcasing the distractions used so people WANT to have it, she would actually have appreciated it from the start. But hey, doesn't look like Equestria outside of the book is offering up shit to keep the Windigoes out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dye9nn5KPM
it was 2 steps away from being full blown "poor unfortunate souls"
>>27373573
I liked it. Second one of the only two episodes I truly enjoyed this season, with GoF being the other one.
>>27373573
I think I've listened to this song about 30-40 times.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_rDT2GIvh8Y
>>27378026
>She didn't realize that the holiday is absolutely essential to keep Windigoes at bay
is it or would her spell summon them?There is nothing wrong with people wanting an occasional distraction but making it mandatory and mocking productivity is not very nice.
>>27378030
never mind, just rewatched poor unfortunate souls and mlp is better.
>>27373930
>doesn't watch My Little Pony
>posts on the My Little Pony board
>>27378040
I need a higher volume.This episode is a goldmine for remixing,amvs and tons of other stuff. it instantly got me thinking about ink potts count monte cristo and Im sure I will be seeing those 2 dancing ponies set to "once upon a time" from anastasia
The songs and animations were solidly 10/10. The problem was the weak moral. "I don't wanna celebrate Pone Christmas!" says Glim Glam with all the nuance of a G3.5 character. "But you will LITERALLY DIE if you work instead of celebrating, see!" says the choir of cringey flanderized mane six expies. I didn't take issue with the ACC plot though.
Songs alone make it one of the best episodes this season though. I was positively starving for memorable songs for 4 seasons now.
>>27373573
>cheap Christmas Carol knock-off
Go watch Muppets or Mickeys Christmas Carol instead, you brony faggot.
Storywise the episode has zero value in term of character development or interaction. It was a truly pointless filler. Pretty much a Star Wars holiday special compared to the trilogy.
>>27378081
>But you will LITERALLY DIE if you work instead of celebrating, see!"
yeah but thats more of the network pushing traditional values.like with apples and pies. twilight has lost all subtlety
>>27373573
Visually 9/10
Storywise/writing is 2/10
so i give it 5/10
>>27378045
You need people to consume to justify production.
>>27373573
Musician anon here.
I think i'm very subjective cause my opinion has alot to do with the music.
as a jazz musician, i was amazed at the music. the luna song was my least favorite, but all the other songs were amazing and had awesome arrangement.
for me, it's one of my favorite episodes in the entire show. was also pretty funny.
>>27373573
Songs were okay-mediocre, despite making up 90% of the episode, the plot itself was subpar just a christmas carol with ponies (extra points for bringing the wendigos back), and why they decided to air it in may is beyond me, they've really started beating a dead horse with starlight's "ebil background!" Overall I'd give it a 4.5/10 watchable in absence of better episodes.
>>27373573
the porn is good.
>>27378185
Opinions ARE subjective. There's no such thing as an "objective opinion".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMU1_-_4WKg
>>27378124
depends on what you are producing,for example work tools and toilet paper would still be in demand but that is not the point
>>27378267
are you Russian?
>>27378272
prove it
>>27373573
I need more songs similar to the Pinkie's one, I love dem Jazzy upbeat tunes or howerver they're called.
At first I was really disappointed that MLP would rip off "A Christmas Carol" like every other cartoon and countless movies before. But when I actually watched the episode, I was pleased to discover it was a more original story that just borrowed elements from Christmas Carol.
Although part way through I started wondering if Twilight hadn't made up the story herself, given that the characters were based off of ponies that she knew.
Luna playing the Spirit of Christmas Future (aka the spectre of death) was really fucking cool. And favorite new character in the episode was the guy from Hatred. Although everyone else says he's Snape.
>>27378317
derpibooru
>>27373573
I liked it, but I have to take point off for it being another fucking rehash of A Christmas Carol. Seriously, won't they ever stop doing that plot? The songs were fucking amazing, especially Say Goodbye to the Holiday. The parallels between Snowfall Frost's story and Starlight's own past were rather obvious, but it didn't bother me too much. This could have been a perfect episode if it had been just a tad more creative and innovative with the whole "A Christmas Carol" plot.
9/10
>>27378387
I did not find any porn but I did have fun.
>>27373930
This is what Ponkfags are. Their favorite pony is so shit they cannot watch the show anymore because of how terrible she is in her episodes.
>>27373573
would not watch again/10
fucking cristmas carol
its not like we have seen it in every show ever
nothing but fucking singing
spike getting some fucking refill
give a sickly poor pone dance shoes and everything is alright
did I mention that the stuff that could be described as a plot if you are on lsd sucked
also a story about a story
>>27373573
While the Christmas Carol trope is used quite often in long running TV series and cartoons, I'm one who doesn't partake in many cartoons or TV shows, so seeing the story re-told trough FiM wasn't a negative consideration I had previous to my viewing.
FiM Takes many common themes and progressions from Christmas Carol and subverts them enough to be engaging, while also tying those themes back to the canon of the show through Starlight Glimmer. I thought this tactic was interesting and was used well to draw very obvious parallels to Glimmer, which helps to engage the audience in the story, as it's telling has a practical effect on a character.
Songs were good, from a narrative and musical sense, visually the episode choose a particular tone, being a rustic pallet which conveyed the cozy, warm, atmospheric feelings of the holidays and group comradery very effectively. This was very cohesive with the themes being presented to the viewer, the primary one being we should celebrate the time we have with your loved ones and friends.
I particularly enjoyed some of the more nuanced moments, The lampshading of Snows (and by extension Starlights) motivations, Pinkie Pies song, the Meta gag Spike displays to convey a commercial break, when Twilight invites Starlight to join the party at the end with no expectations of her decision,
The episode was pretty tops m8.
>>27378660
>subverts them
it does not subvert anything, it makes it more kid friendly.
>I thought this tactic was interesting and was used well to draw very obvious parallels to Glimmer
I felt like it was too recent of an event.
>>27378678
Why would you say that, are you asserting that making something more kid friendly can not be subversive? Does implying the death of thousands vs the death of a few imply something that's more kid friendly? It sounds to me like a bit of a semantics game, I think my position is pretty reasonable.
>I felt like it was too recent of an event.
How do you think this arc would have been more effective with more time? Is the time you're referring to show canon time? Or is it real life time? By my calculations it's been 6 months since the season 5 finale, that seems like quite a bit of time to me, assuming that's what you're referring to.
>>27378785
>How do you think this arc would have been more effective with more time? Is the time you're referring to show canon time? Or is it real life time? By my calculations it's been 6 months since the season 5 finale, that seems like quite a bit of time to me, assuming that's what you're referring to.
well trixy and Starlight ep was not that long ago,they bring up her past in every/almost every episode.you need the wound to scab over if you want jabs to be effective,right now it feels played out.Its like im stuck in a loop of "no offense" part of rainbow rocks and no one says no offense.
>>27374065
Or did he?
>>27373573
luna's song was amazing, its like something by Globus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuBHa6VGZss&index=3&list=PL5ABB1C587A7E0696
