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New communist ponies! Season 5 started today, and it was a pretty enjoyable 2-parter. The second half fell a little flat but only a little, and both parts were sprinkled with the spot-jokes that really make the show for me.

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So, yeah. I'll give this pair of episodes 3/3.

In other news, I've been neglecting to post about pathfinder ponies again. Three new chapter:
Gather Information, where Applejack is a much better spy on her own than with Rarity trying to tag along.
Smash and Grab, where the party executes a cunning plan, with only one little hitch.
and Smuggler's Run, where, um, they kind of walk into a tunnel and fight some stuff.

This week's episode of My Little Pony could have been good. Most of it was good. But there was one scene in the middle that was just so... so horrible that I was pacing back and forth not only cringing but with my hands over my face, praying for it to end, and it wouldn't, and the only thing that kept me from turning off the television was the knowledge that if I did, I'd have to watch the scene again because I'd want to know how the episode ended.

The second time I watched it, I distracted myself by counting how many seconds the scene went on, and deducting a point from the episode's score for each second. So to get it out of the way, this episode gets a rating of -81/3.

I don't know what I'll do if I ever watch the episode again. Maybe fast forward.

( other things that might be spoilery I guess )

In today's My Little Pony, we learn at long last the origin of King Sombra and the Crystal Empire.

Just kidding, it's Spike and Rarity co-starring in an episode in which basically no one else appears (each of the other ponies gets one brief scene, except for Twilight who gets two).

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Overall... it was probably as good as a Spike + Rarity episode can be. If you actually like Spike and/or Rarity... you'll probably hate it. n.n

I'll give it a 2/3 and then remind myself that I've been giving *everything* 2/3 and that I should probably go and watch everything back to back to do an actual comparison.

Again! Again!

...right. This episode of My Little Pony pretended to be all about different methods of learning, but it was actually about repeating some random ancient facts over and over and over again until the people watching the show had no choice but to remember them.

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Argh. I really want to give an episode 3/3 but no, the ending was just too clumsy, so 2/3. Stupid endings.

I blame Diablo 3 for me not getting around to watching For Whom The Sweetie Belle Toils (again) until now (I watched it once the morning it came out).

I also sort of blame the episode. It was just sort of there.

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I think I'll rate it 'not applicable'/3. Or maybe 2/3. It wasn't bad enough for a 1.

I don't know, this episode used a bit too many clichés to be really enjoyable. It didn't have anything especially wrong with it but it was kind of blah.

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So... yeah. I have to give it 1/3. Even though I liked it more than the breezy episode, it was still mostly bad. It also put me to sleep on the second watching, during the big climactic action scene. That's never a good sign.

In this week's episode of my little pony, we learn that Sweetie Belle is dumb. No, wait, we already knew that.

We learn that Twilight Sparkle is good with foals?

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All in all, it was a pretty neat episode, and showed Twilight Sparkle in a good, not-at-all-crazy light. Still, I think it's in the 2/3 range.

This week's episode of my little pony was about as good as a Rarity episode can get. I didn't even hate it.

...well, okay, I sort of hated it.

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So... I guess 2/3.

Today's MLP examined Discord's friendship with the mane 6. Sort of as a side thing.

Fluttershy: Might actually be his friend; they do stuff together and care for each other.
Pinkie Pie: Wants to be Discord's friend but he can't stand her.
Rainbow Dash: NOTIT!
Applejack and Rarity: Don't trust him, but are usually willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Twilight Sparkle: Open hostility, but she'll grudgingly humor him with a scowl on her face because Celestia told her to, basically.

Guess which one he chooses to take care of him when he's sick?

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So, yeah. I really liked it. Enough that I wanted to watch it again the same day even though that meant dealing with commercials. q:3

Next week: Is it possible for Weird Al Yankovik to guess star in an episode without ruining the show forever?

I'm pretty sure if you go back far enough, everypony is related to everypony else. But to Pinkie Pie, it's a super-big deal if she's a fourth cousin twice removed...

Yes, I just spoiled the teaser that comes before the theme song. MUA HA HA HA.

( spoilers for the rest of it )

So I liked it, even if nothing really happened.