My Little Repeats 174: "Fake It 'Til You Make It"

"Call us that again and you'll be finding out just what carnivora means!"

S8E04: "Fake It 'Til You Make It"

31 Mar 2018

My original rating: ★★
IMDb score: 7.1

The one with thread counting

Thoughts: This was Josh Hamilton's fourth and last Friendship is Magic writing credit. Back then I was rather irritated by it, since it didn't give me the Fluttershy/Rarity friendshipping episode I really wanted. But on its own merits? Well, it has its pluses. There is some F/R stuff early on that's very nice, and Flutters' personas are quite amusing even if the joke is stretched out for too long and eventually makes her quite dislikeable. The episode looks really nice, as they usually do by this point in the show's run. The team had pretty much tamed Flash by S8, it seems. Most notably of all, Andrea Libman gives us an absolute masterclass in voice acting. Now, this is still a long way from being a really fantastic episode. Some of the setup is shaky – it's been canon since "Suited for Success" that 'Shy does know her fashion – and not even mentioning Coco felt bizarre in this setting. Also, the usual School of Friendship issue: how come the other Manes can just zip over to Manehattan at the drop of a hat? So, it's got some good things, quite a few in fact, but it doesn't quite hang together well. As such, while I'm nudging this up to the top of the two-star band, I don't think it quite has enough smoothness to get over the line to a three.

Choice quote: Customer: "This store is a desperate wasteland of nothingness. Do you have anything in black?"

New rating: ★★

Next up, "Grannies Gone Wild". Other than some slightly tedious sniggering about its title, I can't remember a lot about this one. I seemed to quite like it six years ago, though, so here's hoping I like it again!