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| At this point, the Phantom's outfit parts to reveal... Pinkie Pie |
My original rating: ★★★★
IMDb score: 9.1
The one with sudokuThoughts: Kirin time! Now, to me kirin are a bit like Luna. (Stay with me on this.) I like them, but I don't share the utter adulation for them that half the fandom seems to. Fortunately, their big episode here – Gregory Bonsignore's only FiM writing credit – is a good one. The kirin/nirik¹ have an interesting concept and design. Applejack and Fluttershy make a good Map team, though Twilight's excitement about their being the first repeat Map team is never followed up. Autumn Blaze (voiced by Rachel Bloom) is a nice character and her song is plenty of fun. The moral is surprisingly solid for this late in the show's run. The crazy ticket office clerk is amusing. Downsides: Flutters insisting the kirin needed to be eternally silent isn't great. The plot is a tad predictable, and the story itself is actually not that packed with action. But I enjoyed the watch a lot. I think, as with "What Lies Beneath", it still just about scrapes a four. But no, I'm still not obsessed with kirin. Sorry!
¹ Fans often give the plural form as "nirik" too, but in the episode both that and "niriks" are used, more than once each.
Choice quote: Twilight: "Sorry, Fluttershy – flanks don't lie." [Cringey, but funny with it.]
New rating:★★★★
The next episode is "Father Knows Beast" – and if I give that four stars, scraped or otherwise, you can probably safely assume that Logan has been quietly replaced by... dunno, really. But by something. From here, it's definitely a "get this one out of the way" episode. But I will give it a fair chance!
Only three episodes left this season! (Well, four, technically, since Best Gift Ever is counted as an episode by Jim Miller.) Hard to believe, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw it back in 2018, I gave it a 6/10. In hindsight, I felt I didn't give Sounds of Silence enough credit back then, and now it's one of my favorites from season eight. I don't know if I can add anything to the discussion that most others haven't, but with that said, there are two episodes this season that I think are a little more impressive.
I count BGE as an episode, since that means 222 episodes in total and that's a more satisfying number than 221! (Also, if you don't, "Sparkle's Seven" is E199, which doesn't fit with its reason for existing.)
Deletestupid kirin
ReplyDeletestupid episode >:|
I thought this was a really fun episode. I don't really remember the context of whether the show doled out new races pretty regularly, but it doesn't seem there were a ton in the late seasons. Yaks, higgpogriffs (though they came from the movie)... I'm sure there were others. But the kirin were a cool idea that played out well. Though I have to say Rain Shine didn't seem like much of a leader. Good song, good character. There's a lot to like here, though I never felt inspired to write anything using kirin. Not in Equestria anyway, but in an EqG setting, yes.
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't remember this episode at all. I guess I'll have to rewatch it!
ReplyDeleteI do remember Father Knows Beast and therefor will enjoy it only insofar as you rightly savage it.