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#320676 The Freeman Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:24:22 PM from Hialeah,FL.

I saw the episode. It was pretty good. Song was okay. Also the random-ass Wilhelm Scream AB makes during the race was extremely hilarious.

And it apparently wasn't just me who thought the shooting stars at the end meant dead parents.

#320677 storyyeller Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:25:46 PM from Appleloosa

Well I think I have a new least favorite episode of season 3. There wasn't even anything objectionable about it, it was just boring. The attempted conflict feel flat. Anyway, highlights:

AJ: There's time for family bondage later

AJ:They put me in charge of an episode for once and all they'll remember is Derpy

Anyway, I guess this finally confirms that AJ's parents are dead.

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#320678 Applelight Limited Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:25:47 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

Charming?

Yeah, it was actually! That's a good way to describe it.

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#320679 Death Cloud Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:28:12 PM from Horsehead Nebula

I liked this epsiode, but I form my final opinion after rewatch. I still place it as season 3 level of quality.

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#320680 storyyeller Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:29:01 PM from Appleloosa

Well, I'm sticking by my theory the Apple parents got eaten by the crack in the wall. At least that explains why they aren't in their own photo album.

Can't they be one of the many nameless ponies in the photos? Or are all of those ponies already known?

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#320681 Rinsankajugin Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:32:28 PM from XT, Oinotna Nas

Halfish, Mousa. I poster here a couple during the second season.

Also, you guys think Raiksuu wouldn't mind her ponisona in an RPG?

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#320682 storyyeller Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:33:53 PM from Appleloosa

...then you'll drop dead from exhaustion.

If I were them I would have just refused to participate in that stupid race. I'm really surprised they actually went through with it (well in universe. From a meta persepctive they were obviously going to)

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#320683 Death Cloud Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:34:09 PM from Horsehead Nebula

That theory make most sense for me. No mater how unlikely.

edited 22nd Dec '12 2:35:44 PM by DeathCloud

Because he know I'm going to go out in this plane and I'm going to remove one of His creations from His universe.

#320684 storyyeller Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:36:13 PM from Appleloosa

Either way, the producers dodged the question yet again.

Except it pretty much proves they were dead. If they weren't, at the very least it would have been mentioned during the opening that they couldn't make it or something, especially since AB claimed the whole family was coming.

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#320685 Seraphem Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:51:04 PM from Delamare

20.5 is up, don't worry it's SFW

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#320686 storyyeller Sat, 22nd Dec '12 2:51:53 PM from Appleloosa

I imagine someone watching this episode and no other episode of mlp before.

I'm actually kind of glad my family didn't see this one. It's just a generic nonconflict about a party like the worst sterotypes of MLP. Come on, AJ can't even sucessfully go crazy anymore.

I kind of wish that there hadn't been a plot at all, really, just a feel-good episode of us getting introduced to the Apple Family, going around and talking to people (like Braeburn T_T) and just stuff like that.

That's actually pretty much what happened.

Rarity as Batman makes a whole lot of sense when explained. I'd have pegged Pinkie as the Flash though, because she's so happy-go-lucky and seemingly can run as fast as Rainbow can fly (when appropriate for comedy).

Come on, she's obviously Deadpool.

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#320687 Wryte Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:00:11 PM

Well, I'm home from surprise funeral attendance, and I watched the episode before I left. Not bad, but I gotta say, the song was definitely my biggest problem. The chorus was repetitive, but made even more so by the short stanzas between each chorus. On top of that, there was so little substance to it. It didn't develop any characters, advance the plot, or even highlight the lesson. A real disappointment for Applejack's first personal song.

Also, all the country accents started to get on my nerves. >_@

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#320688 storyyeller Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:02:33 PM from Appleloosa

Man, that barn cannot catch a break.

On the contrary: it breaks quite often.

Those two fillies with the overly long secret hoofshake were too damn adorable.

I must have missed that part.

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#320689 Rinsankajugin Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:08:58 PM from XT, Oinotna Nas

Deadpool is Marvel, Pinkie is obviously Plastic Man.

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#320690 Demon Shark Kisame Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:09:26 PM

No, AJ, don't eat that! It's been on the ground!

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#320691 Enlong Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:11:57 PM from The Magitek Holyland

Applejack's parents are extremely busy businessponies who don't actually work on the farm, having moved to their place of work, and are often on business trips, and haven't been back to the farm in... well, pretty much Apple Bloom's lifetime. Applejack was looking out the window and wistfully thinking that it'd be nice if they could come to this reunion... before noting to herself that it's really not likely.

Wait, that might be more depressing.

edited 22nd Dec '12 3:12:36 PM by Enlong

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#320692 JM Qwilleran Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:22:26 PM

But it's okay because what we don't see is that she still has the love and comfort of her Space-Dad.

#320693 Seraphem Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:23:06 PM from Delamare

not sure if posted yet but

We have Word of Sibsy

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The shooting stars WERE meant as a nod to AJ's parents.

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#320694 Applelight Limited Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:25:06 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

They're dead or presumed dead then?

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#320695 Red Savant Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:25:47 PM from Japan

Shooting stars are a pretty damn well-established thematic element.

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#320696 Enlong Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:26:21 PM from The Magitek Holyland

Yeah

The stars are symbolic of her extremely distant parents.

She was looking at them, and almost thought of making a wish that they would come home this year, before deciding that she's grown out of that sort of hope.

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#320697 Alesiopdv Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:27:34 PM

Well, that is pretty much Word of God (or word of storyboard director).

either way I´ll take her word for once and make her parents dead canon.

#320698 Enlong Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:29:45 PM from The Magitek Holyland

We have no more, or less, than he stars being symbolic of her parents.

Shooting stars are hella symbolic, but there's a number of different symbolisms that they could be symbolizing. Dead people, distance, wishing...

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#320699 Applelight Limited Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:30:43 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

There could be an awesome epic FIM story...A Js parents are not dead...and the mane six go looking for them.

But at the moment, yeah I think they're dead.

edited 22nd Dec '12 3:31:24 PM by ApplelightLimited

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#320700 Seraphem Sat, 22nd Dec '12 3:31:01 PM from Delamare

..... if they were alive, they would have made a mention about them at some point. They're dead, now lets move onto the real question

Do Pegasi even have families?

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