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Read It and Weep got a synopsis update, doesn't reveal much, but spoilering it anyway.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/episode-announcement-friend-in-deed.html Sounds like another Fluttershy Pinkie Pie episode. Looks we're gonna get a plot-relevant donkey now. No skip week yet again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFj9Cxt4oD8 Original post: EDIT: It's on youtube, on the HUB channel, and it's titled "The last round up clip". What a twist!

Season 2 will supposedly have 28 episodes, and the last 3 are a multi-parter apparently. If true, that's about the length of a Direct-to-DVD movie right there. It's only rumoured right now, though.

The first sypnosis of The "Last Roundup" was "AJ disappears and her friends go on a journey to find her". Vague.The second one was "Applejack has a bad day when she accidentally causes mistakes that get her friends mad at her and be hard on her, but the next day, she goes missing. Her friends think that she ran away in sadness due to their anger with her. So they set out to find their cowpony friend and make amends before she gets hurt." A lot more detailed. But then, the third one comes out and "After attending a rodeo competition being held in Canterlot, Applejack mysteriously disappears without a trace, so it is up to the friends to travel all over Equestria, searching high and low for their missing pony companion." As you can see, the third one (probably) contradicts the second one a bit, while the first one is too vague to really be contradicted. So it's not 100% guaranteed that the CMC are really going to succeed at the "making fall in love" part. Newer sypnosis' will likely add info that suggests something slightly different.

Though we are getting an episode soon that focuses a little more on Big Mac than usual, there was apparently an episode devoted entirely to him when Lauren was still on the team. Unfortunately, it was turned down. What are your thoughts on this? Would you prefer this episode to the upcoming Hearts and Hooves episode where he shares the spotlight with at least 4 other characters? Or is the opportunity to shoot down FlutterMac too good for you? Discuss.

Huh, I actually checked to see if you updated, but I must have skipped over your post. Laggy browser was laggy.

Concerning Hearts and Hooves, it appears to be about Big Macintosh and Cheerilee falling in love due to the crusaders. I can hear the FlutterMac fans readying their battleships already.

New sypnosis from this site.

To be quite frank, a lot of the popular fanfics of this fandom aren't nearly as good (or as bad) as the fans make 'em sound. For example, I'm having trouble getting through "Past Sins" due to its long and drawn-out chapters, and the fact that the mary-sue main character isn't all that interesting doesn't help either. I haven't read "My Little Dashie", primarily because I already have tons of fics to read already, but also because it sounds too much like a self-wish fantasy. Using one of the Crusaders instead of Dash might have not driven me to avoid it.

Remember this? Now there's a new level and boss.

The Verizon summary updated a bit. Though similar to its previous version, it adds an interesting point.

About AJ's parent's: Lauren Faust said that she thought about having them passed away, but figured it would have been deemed too sad for a children's show. They also had a brief discussion about making them explorers/traveling salesponies, but it was not needed in any episode and therefore never made official. So it's still up in the air whether they are gone or not.

Ohmygosh, I just noticed something. Applejack was the ONLY pony out of the mane six to show up this episode. Imagine, if you will, an episode without ANY of the mane six. Because we're getting close to such an episode.

I really need to watch this episode again, just for the history lesson. The dump of information is too much to take on a first viewing.

Fanfics! Fanfics. SCREAMING!

New Big Macintosh line: "Woooowwww."

Yeah, I read it as "doesn't not involve" the first time. I realized my mistake after posting the image. My bad.

Edit: Actually, reading the post more carefully, the joke doesn't really work as well as I thought. Oh well.

According to the EqD post, Hasbro has always been the one trying to take down Youtube streams, including that one time they misspelled the company name "Habsro". If this is their level of efficiency, then I'm more or less unfazed by this. I have a contingency plan if I can't get the episodes off youtube anyway.