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f35aeb No.288371
Rock Solid Friendship
New episode will be broadcast on Saturday @ 11:30am Eastern (UTC -4) on Discovery Family. (Community streams may vary in programming choices prior to the episode).
Dailymotion link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5k8dc3
Summary:
"When Pinkie Pie learns that Maud might move to Ponyville, she does everything she can to make sure her sister sees that it has more to offer than just rocks." - Discovery Family
Chatrooms:
- This thread (duh)
- http://cytu.be/r/mlpanniversary (Official)
- https://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=/pone/ (Unofficial)
- http://bronytv.net/stream (Alternate)
Streams List:
(Recommended)
- http://cytu.be/r/mlpanniversary
- http://bronytv.net/stream
(Alternate)
- http://www.bronystate.net/
- http://www.livestream.com/otakuascendedlive
- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-brony-network
- http://equestria.tv/r/cmc_clubhouse
MAUD! Episodes are always better with a little Maud in them, and this one doesn't seem any different. Written by Nick Confalone, who's had a few solid episodes behind him (as well a previous Pie Family Shenanigans Episode - Heathbreakers), we find the deadpan rockfiddler possibly settling down in Ponyville. While Pinkie may be determined to show that there's more than just rock, maybe just rocks is all she needs.
I should also point out that this episode is the 147th overall. Not long now until the big One-Five-Oh which, barring any schedule changes, should be Parental Glideance, the episode that is setting up to introduce Rainbow Dash's parents. Should be a doozy.
Meanwhile, enjoy your rocks!
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f35aeb No.288375
Non status quo: Maud stays in ponyville and we are subjected to even fucking more of her boring shit in future episodes.
Status quo: She doesn't move to ponyville, episode was pointless.
God I hate this shitty character.
f35aeb No.288376
>>288375
This
She is good for exactly one joke. Why would anyone want to see episode after episode centred around that same fucking joke. It was barely worth a chuckle the first time you made that joke, making it hundreds of times more isn't improving it!
f35aeb No.288381
>>288376
>tfw no eps with qt marble
f35aeb No.288383
>>288371
official prediction:
shit.
f35aeb No.288390
>mfw new Maud episode
last one was so garbage I'm afraid to see them fuck her up again
f35aeb No.288393
On the positive side, having Maud around would give the Five someone new to interact with, which they need, since apparently having them learn to be friends with Starlight Glimmer is not part of the plan. Why is that not part of the plan again?
f35aeb No.288394
>>288393
>the Five
Something about this seems off.
f35aeb No.288395
>>288394
Looks alright to me.
f35aeb No.288396
>>288395
Maybe you're right.
Twilight is too shit to be with the rest of the cast.
f35aeb No.288409
>>288371
Would they kill them to let the siblings live togheter in ponyville? I would kill for more rainbow cunt being tsundere to zephyr and some limestone pie.
But I guess the writers have to be competent at their jobs.
f35aeb No.288415
Why does /pone/ always have to be so negative? I for one am really looking forward to this episode.
f35aeb No.288427
>>288415
Because the show has been shit for some 5 years now and there is no hope of improvement?
f35aeb No.288433
>>288427
epik meme ponybro
The show is still high quality
Especially now that we have such a cute new member of the main cast!
f35aeb No.288435
f35aeb No.288438
>Valerocktarian
>Rocktor
This one is going to be physically painful to sit through.
f35aeb No.288439
>>288438
It'd be a good episode to sit through stoned.
f35aeb No.288441
Son of a bitch. Glimmer's in this one too. This episode is ruined.
f35aeb No.288442
>>288441
Its a maud episode, it was fucked before it started.
f35aeb No.288443
>hitting Derpy with a pizza
FUCKING HELL, PINKIE
f35aeb No.288444
>>288441
So how much booze will I need to bear this episode?
And how much to recap the premiere and the babyshit episode as well?
f35aeb No.288445
>>288444
A lethal dose of alcohol I think should do it.
f35aeb No.288446
>>288441
All Bottled Up felt like an S1 episode
Admit it
f35aeb No.288448
Episode is over, rate that shit motherfuckers!
>Pinkie was unbearable.
>Maud was boring.
>Glimmer was shit, as usual.
>Plot was predictable.
0/10 Easily the worst one so far. Even worse than the babysitting one with the abomination.
f35aeb No.288449
When am I going to get a mane6 episode without Glimmer to butt in?
At least I got to learn Maud's full name.
>>288446
Okay, I admit that's true.
f35aeb No.288450
lol missed it. I'll watch it tomorrow. Still haven't watched last weeks.
f35aeb No.288451
>>288448
I think at this point I'm having to force myself to watch these episodes. If that's not a sign that this show is becoming unbearable, I don't know what is.
Or maybe I'm having higher standards this time around, coming off of Samurai Jack.
f35aeb No.288452
f35aeb No.288453
I rate this episode Boulder/10
f35aeb No.288454
I feel you guys are way too harsh with your criticisms. Don't you guys want cute ponies doing cute things? and I feel that these last 4 episodes have been that.
Sure there are some criticisms that seems fair like in the first episode the whole ark of finding what to do with Glimmer was bullshit because nothing happened, everything stayed the same, but I'd still have to say the pones are doing cute things in that episode. And in this episode sure Pinkie is annoying but when was the last time she wasn't written like that but the other pones are still cute.
f35aeb No.288455
f35aeb No.288457
I like the Glimglam/Maud interactions in this. Pinkie was obnoxious as fuck like usual.
f35aeb No.288462
Aside from Pinkie being overbearing, the episode was okay.
4/10
f35aeb No.288464
>>288446
>>288449
Are you nuts? It was close to the most removed from the style of season 1 this show has EVER been, beaten only by stuff like Slice of Life and A Hearth's Warming Tail.
Now I still liked it, but not even close to the way I liked season 1.
f35aeb No.288477
It's shit. Pinkie is out of character as usual, 2/10
f35aeb No.288478
>>288459
>soundless webms
>>288455
>can't into embd
Sure feels like Summer, nor/mlp/oofters
>>288462
>4/10
>"okay"
Does shit taste "okay" to you?
f35aeb No.288479
I dunno what to say about the episode, as my feelings on it are rather nuanced.
Lets start with the bad. Pinkie Pie. Even then, aside from the challenge accepted point at the very start, she was far more tolerable than usual. I think this comes straight from the writers knowing that her being in a whole episode would require her to be paced out and toned down reference humor for some mild slapstick. It works, as she isn't anywhere near as bad as she could be given her personality and the roll shes filling. This is really just like saying 'this is the best kind of cringe comedy' to anyone with standards and hates cringe comedy, if its preforming as well as possible it will simply not get its stink on the other aspects of what is going on.
This downer really does make for a problem as the rest of the episode was S tier. Absolutely amazing pacing, use of characters, interactions and morals.
Starlight becoming more fleshed out and being given some development on her own rather than 'friendship lesson' and while they couldn't resist making two 'she was evil' jokes in the episode, they both worked pretty well. Hopefully they wean themselves off this running gag on a high note before it's completely run into the ground though.
Maud became an actual character. Which was nice.
The moral, as hamfisted as it was, at least worked. But really it was just the Maud/Starlight interactions that stole the show. The dialogue was on point and it was actually very entertaining to see the two characters develop what felt like a genuine friendship.
f35aeb No.288480
SO it looks like Treehouse is going ahead with it's schedule of airing episodes ahead of Discovery Family. This obviously causes issues to things like the weekly sticky much like the Tiny Pop bullshit did last year. As a result, feel free to make a thread discussing episodes that are being aired in advance. These stickies will continue to follow the "official" broadcast schedule on Discovery Family.
f35aeb No.288483
>>288479
I disagree on Pinkie. She was back in full S4 mode. Worse than she had been in seasons.
Maud had no chemistry with anyone. The writers where still trying to tell that one same joke they always are with her and it still hasn't gotten any funnier in the constant retelling.
She is still devoid of any other personality traits than being devoid of personality.
She didn't have chemistry with Glimmer. The closest they got was "I like kites" with a reply of "cool" from a character who has never shown the slightest interest in anything not rocks. That's not chemistry or friendly banter, that's an awkward introduction you use for when some stranger keeps talking to you on the bus.
f35aeb No.288485
AJ and RD's parents confirmed
f35aeb No.288488
>>288485
RD yes. AJ no.
Also I hate Lynyrd Skynyrd
f35aeb No.288489
>>288478
Webm on imageboards were originally meant to function as GIF replacement due to better compression and color range. That means not every webm has to have audio.
f35aeb No.288490
>>288478
You pseudo-hipster elitist fuck.
f35aeb No.288492
>>288483
Well I'd be lying if I said I didn't see your points. But it isn't like two people can disagree on something.
It isn't as though I enjoyed pinkie in any way whatsoever, so lets just put that to the side.
I do think that Maud at least expressing a little understanding of other ponies liking things was a bit of character development on her part. It might have just been the establishment that she's just a very calm personality rather than something being legitimately wrong with her, but it was something.
Their interactions are predicated on that bit of exposition where she explains that she actually does want friends, given that she's been kind of on her own aside from her family, but it is there. I might also be reading a bit to much into things, but that's just how I'm seeing things. Heck I thought the kite things was an interesting detail because unlike all the other cast trying to bond with Maud Starlight simply stated something that she enjoyed without any attempt to relate it to rocks, though I'm pretty sure Flutters tried something like that.
So, yeah, I can accept your view on the situation, I just don't share it.
f35aeb No.288493
>mfw webmanon is still dead
Why are we here? Just to suffer?
f35aeb No.288503
Very good episode Maud isn't shit anymore Pinkie Pie was the worst part 8/10
f35aeb No.288518
>>288489
Here some news, cuckchan faggot.
This site allows webms with audio from the beginning and there's no point in posting webm videos without it.
Is easy to spot a filthy cross-poster when a faggot like you upload such content to this site.
You have two options here: lurk moar and save stuff from this site or vid related.
f35aeb No.288521
>>288518
>there's no point in posting webm videos without it.
>not cucking halfchan webms, while the cant do the same
Pleb
f35aeb No.288533
RARITY'S LIFE WAS A LIE/10
Asides from some small things that happened and made me giggle, the episode was really bad. It's almost like the new writers don't know how to work with any of these characters. Glimmer showing up and becoming friends with Maud was too predictable and pretty much the only thing I didn't want to happen.
Derpy being happy about the free pizza was cute though.
At least it wasn't a "waifu stealer" kind of episode.
f35aeb No.288564
Maud smiles: Complete
Surprisigly can't check off the free space yet because I don't think Starlight Glimmer ruined anything.
f35aeb No.288602
Oh, neat episode 5 came out.
Neat concept. It's kind of a good fit to have Fluttershy present a clear concept and even lay the law down on the design just to have contractors go behind her back.
Nice to see Fluttershy move past fully past the doormat she was at the beginning.
Sad that Giraffes were confirmed as non-talking though. No idea why, they're basically cows.
f35aeb No.288604
>>288602
It's especially weird that the made the giraffe non-talking despite giving it fully developed pony eyes.
f35aeb No.288607
>>288604
Maybe it's just a ruse? A way to get free healthcare?
f35aeb No.288619
>>288503
I was actually starting to like Pinkie after finding her insufferable for the longest time. This doesn't undo all of the progress, but it really didn't help it. They really wrote her teetering on the edge of completely insufferably annoying for this one, which I understand was kind of the point, but I feel like it goes against some of the character development of the past. She kinda learned to be less intrusive before if I'm not mistaken.
There were some cute moments, and generally I don't have huge gripes with the episode.
f35aeb No.288632
Canadian-quality streamrip of episode 5 here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5kc8av
f35aeb No.288666
f35aeb No.288670
>>288564
>Starlight Glimmer ruined anything
What about the magical map fuck up?
f35aeb No.288673
>>288670
Or that time she litterally bottled up her anger until it mindraped 3 random ponies.
f35aeb No.288678
>>288673
Yeah, but that was just making them angry at Trixie, nothing wrong there.
f35aeb No.288705
4: Cute/10. Honestly, in spite of Pinkie Pie's cringey behavior (which I fucking HATE) this is probably the episode I enjoyed most this season, which isn't saying much. Also, hard-hat flashlight magic focii.
5:
>Instead of knocking first, Fluttershy tries to push a door open with her head
>Fluttershy's character has actually developed
>Animals are flooding into Fauna's office at an unsustainable rate, ravenously consuming resources, and they're refusing to move back to the forest
>Fluttershy wants to build a safe zone for animals in the forest
Also,
>When the client pays these contractors to do something, they just do something else
>Construction is so shitty it falls over when a bear headbutts it
>Fluttershy actually stands up for her vision in front of her friends
>Rainbow Dash has enough strength to pile-drive a fucking log into the ground while flying
f35aeb No.288729
So, Lewis and Songco seem to have officially been promoted to story editors. I already like that the show seems to be about character interactions now. There has been a definite change in focus. The opener did not even have any rainbow princess battles. Even the babysitting episode with its focus on the most cancerous and shallow characters in the show managed to keep to the theme of characters learning how to deal with one another. The narrative is still a shitshow (no fixing that), but it looks like the old formula is making a comeback.
The episode itself had some solid jokes, like the bit with Maud telling Starlight about how to conquer Equestria with a rock. Pinkie Pie was annoying, but that was the whole point. Still, God do I miss scatterbraind, sensitive, off-beat Season One Pinkie Pie.
>>288564
If Lewis and Songco are not going to write episodes anymore, we can technically check the "all the talented writers leave" box. It's worth it if they can finally replace Rob Renzetti.
f35aeb No.288774
Well, ep 4 wasn't as shit as I thought it would be, in regards to Maud. But now it's guaranteed she'll be in even more episodes because she lives right next to Ponyville. At least her and Starlight were nice together. Starlight's bit about appreciating not being judged all the fucking time about her past was nice. I still wish they'd stop focusing episodes around her though.
But Christ, despite how much I usually like Pinkie, she was insufferable in this ep, even if it was relevant to the plot. God damn, her hair tied in a bun tho
f35aeb No.288775
>>288483
>She is still devoid of any other personality traits than being devoid of personality. She didn't have chemistry with Glimmer
haha this is how neurotypical normies see us, the robot people
and they say we are the one having problems with recognizing emotions
f35aeb No.288776
So how are we going to deal with the Canada 2 episodes thing? Two threads or one megathread?
f35aeb No.288843
>>288776
Considering we've only got one thread roght now, I'd say one thread a week.
49ef75 No.288869
Holy shit, only just watched episode 3, absolute fucking garbage. Literally the only good scene was comparing modern art to literal trash.
006607 No.288942
d90082 No.288958
Slight delay on the new sticky due to irl bullshit. Will post in the next few hours with some questions regarding how we do this now that Canada's gone rogue.
1810cb No.292880
>>288942
>qt
Don't you mean she… ?
7a7e92 No.292889
>>292880
'the fuck is that supposed to mean?
845ce8 No.293790
>>288564
>unexplained family members
Well this season's focus is on family, so it makes sense to start introducing more of them. Also, I doubt Fluttershy would be proud to discuss her deadbeat brother.
46b00d No.293818
>>293790
Can we check that box? We had already seen Rainbow Dash's father, but her mother was new. She was not exactly "unexplained," though. I mean there was no reason to think that Rainbow Dash did not have a mother.
e38dd4 No.293833
>>293818
It's starting to feel a little too neat and convenient to see all of the mane 6's parents. I mean, why can't any of them have single parents or something? I know Applejack's still a borderline outlier, but my point still stands.