/pone/ - My Little Pony★

the real pinkie died that day

it's just been a clone from then on

One of my favorite Pinkie episodes.

>>300326

That would be actually better BECAUSE IT'S BEEN SHIT SINCE THEN!

>>300394

It's been shit since season 2 started. Faust quit the show after season 1 ended.

>>300331

Well this episode belongs in a large category of disappointments and wasted potential mostly because 1) it didn't use the refreshing S1 style on it 2) It didn't use the actual idea as expected to be used in a quality manner. 3) It's competing with other cartoons and said cartoons did it far better than S3 did.

Most of the problems comes not from the genocide of clones and the autism decision to make them stare at the paint wall by force.

The clones lacked basic knowledge like their friends names(), but they were also dumb as shit yelling "fun fun fun" like a bunch of retards/zombies(). The clones were destructive and annoying(). The clones weren't evil, they were just too dumb and destructive to live.

Some plot contrivances make sense for the plot, but some pointed out with () are needless flaws that are only there because the executive writer is an effortless illogical idiot.

Any other cartoon show handles the split personality/clones trope as 1. Pinkie did not get her personality split into multiple traits. Automatically that sets it to 0/10. It didn't even bother with the secondary trope: the problems of having multiple (you)'s with the same exact personality as you. Again 0/10.

Often times the clone episode also goes hand-in-hand with doppelgangers/evil clones. None of Pinkie's clones were evil. Again a major lack of content giving this episode a 0/10.

The episode is empty, it's a title and nothing more.

>>300405

It can't even be considered a plot, it's a plotless episode. This is the most unfleshed way to handle an idea I've seen in ages and my initial problem was that the idea would be too generic. No instead the writer went all the way and didn't even bother writing about anything. A generic episode plot is automatically better than this "nothing" episode.

We expect some obvious things when we hear "clone episode" and whoever wrote this gave 0 fucks about making it a real clone episode. It was almost like a fart in the wind meant to insult the trope by putting 0 effort into it. The most empty promise I've seen in a while.

Now we couldn't even have the prime basic features of a clone episode and I want to talk about advanced storytelling maneuvers. As well as ways to refreshen the formula.

We have the good & evil yin/yang clone sub trope, done nicely by Tutenstein. We have the bad traits, good traits trope but which got switched around in Rick and Morty.

We have the mirror image/bizzaro world clones where each character's pros and cons get reversed.

We have 1 thousand split traits clone episode done by Wander Over Yander where each clone represents 1 basic trait. Often times this leaves the main hero an empty husk of his former self. Xiaolin Showdown.

Often times clones are weak because they get used as tools by the lazy hero and they represent the split power of the hero, everytime he summons a clone he gets weaker.

Then the hero or the evil clone need to absorb all the clones again to grow stronger and eventually race one another.

>>300406

Along with the many examples of 50 years worth of cartoons and 500 years worth of literature, legends, folktales, we also had 1 MLP FIM example of a split personality clone theme aside from S3's non-attempt.

A fan-made comic book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnhg-dZG1N0

https://whysoseriouss.deviantart.com/gallery/33362747/A-Piece-Of-Pie

I've already stated my problem in a unique way because everyone else was busy criticizing the episode for its shortcomings like the ending instead of looking at the bigger picture and realizing they're being baited to care about something made by a careless person.