tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post1830709199617595466..comments2024-03-28T13:55:56.266+00:00Comments on Louder Yay: Episode review: S8E11: "Molt Down"Loganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769758118827489093noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-80560359970284757402018-05-29T20:04:45.254+01:002018-05-29T20:04:45.254+01:00Actually, that's quite right. Not sure why I d...Actually, that's quite right. Not sure why I didn't think about it, but it's true. My comment about it didn't change the episode rating, so I'll leave it in, but the point is accepted.Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03769758118827489093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-68237587859022237652018-05-29T07:41:39.074+01:002018-05-29T07:41:39.074+01:00Many large and famous universities offer free walk...Many large and famous universities offer free walking tours for whoever is interested, often student led and during working hours. I have gone on a few (MIT, Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford), and it is a truly fascinating experience.Sogehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01458447650766183354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-83053276771844482532018-05-29T03:22:32.537+01:002018-05-29T03:22:32.537+01:00Oh, uni open days happen all the time, yes. But th...Oh, uni open days happen all the time, yes. But the one in the episode felt more like a tourist attraction. I may also have been subconsciously influenced by the fact that I'm British, and we tend to use "school", "college" and "university" to refer to different things. "Going to college" and "going to university" are not usually interchangeable in BrEng, for example.<br /><br />(<a href="https://blogger.googleblog.com/2018/05/its-spring-cleaning-time-for-blogger.html" rel="nofollow">Blogger disabled that option</a> due to low usage. All previous OpenID comments will be anonymised, it seems. I'm a bit disappointed, but I don't think I have any choice.)Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03769758118827489093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-16352716442494485362018-05-29T02:46:08.509+01:002018-05-29T02:46:08.509+01:00Wait, do universities in the UK not do tours for i...Wait, do universities in the UK not do tours for interested high schoolers and their families when class is in session? I went on at least three college tours my senior year of high school.<br /><br />(Also what happened to the OpenID option for leaving comments?)Scintillahttp://aquilinestudios.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-80115066427953585552018-05-28T13:37:45.650+01:002018-05-28T13:37:45.650+01:00Yaknow, I call the roc one of the bigger disappoin...Yaknow, I call the roc one of the bigger disappointments of this episode, no pun intended. They had a roc -- a ROC! -- to play with, to add to the plethora of Equestria's fascinating mythological creatures... and they went, "Oh, it's a big bird? Yeah, just do that." There's nothing at all interesting about its design. They could have done ANYTHING with it. I mean, the chimera had a tiger head, that was something!<br /><br />Also, I disagree on the wings, I can't shake the feeling that there's some kind of tiny bat stapled to his back. Likely just a factor of newness, but, yeah, ugh.<br /><br />I will agree the shouting got old. Which is why Rarity's sudden-onset deafness was a terrible gag. Not only is it a contrivance to... what, make sure Rarity's there to be in danger too? Because Spike doesn't care enough about Zecora to save her otherwise? But not only is it that, it's needlessly doubling-down on something that was already happening. And it just doesn't make any sense.<br /><br />Overall, I was horrendously disappointed by this episode. I wouldn't rank it much higher than Spike at Your Service, and then only because it's about a change to Spike that's likely to show up in future episodes.Present Perfecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16195959811544391904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-5430083561781217242018-05-28T08:22:37.261+01:002018-05-28T08:22:37.261+01:00Yeah. As someone who watched the episodes when the...Yeah. As someone who watched the episodes when they leaked, I expected to see this. I loved every single one of the leaked episodes, with only NCC being a massive dud. I expected for those episodes getting the kind of reception they are getting. <br /><br />Regarding this episode... You know, I suspect that Haber realized that giving such an important episode like Newbie Dash, which is a very important episode for a character's development (in this case Rainbow Dash) to a person who never wrote anything in his life before was not a good idea. Newbie Dash was a big disappointment for me, between being an anticlimatic conclusion of a story arc lasted 6 years and also having a not so good moral. Infact it was one of my biggest letdowns that pulled the S6 as one of my least favorite seasons... So this time it seems Haber wanted to take on an important episode personally, and the result was... Infact the exact opposite of Newbie Dash. The whole plotline as well Spike's evolution and fear was very well handeld and so was the moral of never fearing of being abandoned only because you're growing up. Even thought unlike Newbie Dash, this wasn't exactly part of a years long story arc, the development of Spike here was well done, I give Haber my kudos for this. Between It Ain't the Mane thing About You, Shadow Play and Molt Down, he definitely himself back in track in terms of writing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8301854188587462574.post-36433097734437911592018-05-28T08:16:02.827+01:002018-05-28T08:16:02.827+01:00Another great episode, and one which is making me ...Another great episode, and one which is making me get a lot more on board with this season.<br /><br />I have to wonder, however: Smolder is clearly significantly older than Spike, and yet is still pretty much a teenager. However, Spike is doing a lot of regular work on the school Smolder attends. If they weren't ponies (or dragon in this case), this dynamic would be extremely weird.<br /><br />I also wonder if they will change Spike in some way if he moves through the EQG mirror.Sogehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01458447650766183354noreply@blogger.com