Whitehawke

Trixie isn't referring to herself in third-person. She's clearly possessed. Youtube

Also, new image.

Updated synopsis from EqD: [colour=#333333]Over a campfire, Rainbow Dash decides to share some imaginative and spooky tales, causing Scootaloo to have frightening, vivid nightmares; Scootaloo wants to get rid of her nightmares but doesn't want the others to think she is spineless.[/colour] [colour=#333333] [/colour][colour=#333333] [/colour][colour=#333333]Maybe a ScootaDash episode? :!: [/colour]

Preview! A song preview, even. I almost mistook this for a PMV at first.

Dat accent.

This persisting discussion of a poorly used plot device is getting tiresome, this will be my last comment on the matter. If you still don't believe it is a low point of the episode after reading this, then more power to you. Pinkie Pie is writing a letter to Celestia at the end of the episode, so it must happen after Lesson Zero, which also means it happens after Sonic Rainboom, which establishes Twilight's cleaning/re-shelving habit.The spider webs are actually lazy design - since when do spiders make their webs inside locked down secret compartments? Where their prey is likely to never venture? It's a poorly thought-out attempt to tell the audience: "This place hasn't been visited by intelligent life for years!". If it was dangerous, it would have a password/key system of sorts integrated into it.Anypony can push the switch that opens the compartment, and unicorns can easily pull it out of there. Let us not even get into how the mechanism of that switch even works. This has nothing to do with the problem with this plot device. The issue is that there is no relevance to make such a vapid and thoughtless change to a commonly recurring locale for the sole purpose of giving an extra trait to a MacGuffin. See, this isn't about how bad this scene is, this is about how it has nothing relevant with the topic of the episode. Let's go into why this happened in the first place: the episode starts, Pinkie is conflicted about which of her friends she wants to spend time with. She needs to find a way to get to both of her friends and spend time with both of them, but it's impossible alone. Suddenly, convenient solution: A pool that can multiply her! But wait! She can't directly know of this pool already, so it must be a "legend" that she only "heard" about. She immediately does what the legend says and finds the pool. THIS is why the secret compartment is ultimately made: to follow into the "legend of the mirroring pool". Twilight can't know about how to deal with the problem at hoof, so she has to research and find information about how she can solve it. But the pool is still just a legend that was mentioned to her briefly, so the source of information cannot be in a common book. So a secret compartment is introduced. Just for this one and only purpose. This one scene. This is called writing yourself into a corner, and pulling something out of your "plot" to get out of it. Swarm of the Century had a similar situation: a new creature is introduced, and it is established over time that it is a major problem due to its mass reproducing ability as well as its boundless hunger. However, it is also shown that Pinkie knows how to get rid of it, but needs the proper tools first. As the episode goes by, we see the ponies try various solutions to get rid of the creatures, but none of them work. Pinkie then appears and quickly gets rid of all of them alone, due to her knowledge of them. See, if you look carefully, there are 2 things never explained here: where the parasprites came from, and how Pinkie knew how to get rid of them. Why? Because it doesn't matter! THIS IS NOT WHAT THAT EPISODE'S TOPIC WAS ABOUT! It was about learning to listen to your friends' opinions and perspectives. It is not explained where the parasprites came from, because calling them a "legendary" creature would not serve any purpose to the plot whatsoever. It is not explained how Pinkie Pie knew how to get rid of them, because making a "secret" compartment for her instruments would not serve any purpose to the plot whatsoever. This episode's topic was about how you need to choose which of your friends you want to spend time with, and accepting that a good friend will always make more time for you. Instead of Pinkie Pie searching for the pool through a legend she was told through her nana, perhaps she could have gone to Zecora for help but stumbled upon the pool while walking there. And the pool doesn't need an incantation to work. See? It avoids contradictions, and gets to the point, if a little conveniently. It would have also been easier for the situation to get out of hoof, because the clones continuously chanting the incantation to make more clones was stupid, even for them. And finally, this would have avoided the need to make the book Twilight was searching for extra special. It would have only needed to be a book in her library with the relevant information. One last thing, and this is giving Dave Polsky MAXIMUM credit here: if he had written an entire set of foreshadowing scenes for this episode, then his failure to account that this show runs for only 22 minutes each episode is to blame.

Twilight regularly cleans and shelves her books (Secret of my excess intro). Sometimes with her friends, too. (Sonic Rainboom) The compartment had spider webs around it, suggesting she doesn't. It goes against Twilight's personality to leave such an easily found location in her own library uncleaned. Moreover, to further support my point, note how Spike doesn't even mention the compartment to Twilight, nor does she ask where he found the book (something she has done in the past with her friends). Why? Because it doesn't matter to the writer. The compartment accomplished its goal. The goal he intended it to have. "This book is special!" Despite the fact that it goes against a main character's personality.

The secret compartment in this episode is poor writing. When you introduce a "secret" location, you foreshadow a search for something related to it, dropping hints of its location over time. Then, once the location is found, you explain at some later time why this location exists. To the writer of this episode, the compartment had only one purpose: "This book is more important than the others!". No explanation, no foreshadowing. He just wanted the book to be more special than the others. It's insulting to the lore of the world, and in most cases, insulting to the audience as well. Imagine if every time there was a search for a book (it's happened quite a few times, by the way), a secret compartment was introduced just to tell the audience "This is the right book!".

New synopsis. http://cdn.derpiboo....period_tv_guide

Haven't been following this topic all that much, but concerning my personal thoughts of this episode, it basically convinced me that Dave Polsky is the weakest of the FiM writers. This is the 3rd time he's written an episode that suffers MASSIVELY when looked upon with scrutiny. And he had an entire season to get this one right. The problem, I think, is that every one of his episodes are very "Loony Tune"-ish. Pinkie Pie is central to the plot (twice the main character, hijacks Over a Barrel), characters have much more violence inflicted upon them for the laughs and most of all is that their stories are wrapped-up quickly. And by quickly, I mean with the same amount of effort you might wrap up an episode of the Road Runner. Major issues: -"Legend" out of nowhere. I would expect at least a basic amount of foreshadowing. Don't call it a legend if it's going to become true within a minute of its introduction. -The test being "Watching paint dry". Never mind the way the "failures" got forcibly sent back. It was shown from the beginning that the clones had trouble adapting to Pinkie's memories, being incapable of remembering Applejack's and Fluttershy's names. PINKIE KNOWS EVERYPONY IN PONYVILLE. So the test could just have been "Name this pony". This would have been GREAT, because it would have turned "jokes" into foreshadowing. -THAT SECRET COMPARTMENT IN TWI'S LIBRARY. Seriously, there was NO need for that. IT WILL NEVER COME UP AGAIN AND I HATE THAT THOUGHT. Dave Polsky writes these episodes banking entirely on "it's a cartoon, and at the end of the episode, nothing can really change and nothing matters". He HAS to, because when I think too hard about the way the clones got forcibly sent back to the pool, I compare it to a farmer drowning an unexpected litter of baby kittens. The clones aren't wanted: they're causing too much destruction. This was actually shown decently enough. But Twilight zapping the clones like she did was supposed to be funny, given the way they look just before they explode. This is why I find Dave Polsky to be the worst of the writers, he takes the easy way out of his plots, using humor to cover the tracks. About the only things I actively liked is seeing AJ's herding skills once again, as well as Fluttershy having a picnic with the bear. Honestly, if Dave Polsky writes another episode, it will probably be about politics. Mayor Mare must compete against another pony for re-election. The mane 6 will be equally divided. Pinkie Pie will be a main character. Both sides will be caricatures of Republicans and Conservatives. And it will especially have an ending that could only happen in a cartoon. Like both sides getting elected at the same time. Because "Friendship". Point is, this could have went much better. I didn't hate what I was seeing, per se, but it doesn't hold up to multiple viewings like most of the other episodes do.

I want one, but I'm too busy with real life to actually get it right now. Pikmin 3 is the major reason I want it, but I do have some alternate titles I can see myself getting. Oh, and the Majora's Mask game was just a fake fan-trailer. There is very little chance an official release is in the works, regardless of what the person who posted it WANTS you to believe. It's like when someone created the Nintendo ON trailer, and claimed that was the "Revolution" system was working on (which turned out to be the Wii).

The episode (Too many Pinkie Pies) has leaked on Itunes. This isn't as bad as the Hearts and Hooves Day leak, since the episode's airing in a few hours, but there are chances that the episode will be on youtube before the official airing.

The episode has leaked on Itunes. This isn't as bad as the Hearts and Hooves Day leak, since the episode's airing in a few hours, but there are chances that the episode will be on youtube before the official airing.

And another clip.

Preview time! :smirk: :smirk:

Previews time!

Most interesting new ponies: Or maybe they're horses. Also, Pinkie wearing a Fluttershy disguise was unbelievably creepy. Seriously, what the heck Studio B?

My stream was full of lag, and it didn't help that my attempt to record at the same time seemed to slow things down. Need to watch episode 2 again because of this. All I know is that Sombra was basically less of a character and more of an impending doom device. They even obliterated him at the end to ensure that he would never be relevant again. Fanfics will probably try to give him more character anyway though.

A synopsis popped up for episode 6. Scootaloo finally getting an episode!

Seems Shining Armor just escaped with a curse instead of outright possession.

Updated with synopsis.

[colour=#282828]Season 3 episode 4 synopsis.[/colour] [colour=#333333]One Bad Apple:[/colour] [colour=#333333]Air time: [/colour][colour=#333333]10:30-11 a.m (Later than usual for both "Too Many Pinkie Pie's and this one) [/colour] [colour=#333333]The Cutie Mark Crusaders are crushed when Apple Bloom’s cousin, Babs Seed,[/colour] [colour=#333333]rejects their invitation to become a fellow Crusader and instead becomes a bully determined to make their lives miserable.[/colour] Air date: December 7 (...maybe) [colour=#333333]Arrg, stop stealing episodes from AJ, Applebloom! [/colour] [colour=#333333]This must be the "bullying" episode. Wonder why they couldn't just use DT and SS? I guess they wanted to use a blank flank (assuming Babs Seed is one).[/colour]

Season 3 episode 4 synopsis. [colour=#333333]One Bad Apple:[/colour] [colour=#333333]Air time: [/colour][colour=#333333]10:30-11 a.m (Later than usual for both "Too Many Pinkie Pie's and this one) [/colour][colour=#333333] [/colour] [colour=#333333]The Cutie Mark Crusaders are crushed when Apple Bloom’s cousin, Babs Seed,[/colour] [colour=#333333]rejects their invitation to become a fellow Crusader and instead becomes a bully determined to make their lives miserable.[/colour] [colour=#333333] [/colour][colour=#333333]Arrg, stop stealing episodes from AJ, Applebloom! [/colour] [colour=#333333]This must be the "bullying" episode. Wonder why they couldn't just use DT and SS? I guess they wanted to use a blank flank (assuming Babs Seed is one).[/colour]

Cover "E" and "F" revealed. Above is the complete "A" to "F" set put together.

Earth pony guards are now canon. (Seriously, every other guard was either a unicorn or a pegasus)