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#362251 The Freeman Tue, 30th Apr '13 2:44:32 PM from Hialeah,FL.

If you say so.

Possibly.

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#362252 Drenius Tue, 30th Apr '13 2:49:25 PM from Northern Virginia

Evening everyone, how now?

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#362253 Blissey 1 Tue, 30th Apr '13 2:56:26 PM from a random Pokècenter

How SaYS really should have gone

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#362254 stevebat Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:06:01 PM

Well, Insane Pony Tumblr has gone reasonably well on derpibooru

With one exception...

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#362255 Japanese Teeth Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:06:27 PM from Meinong's jungle

Because Spike had clearly not caused enough trouble already.

I know which one that is without even looking.

edited 30th Apr '13 3:07:04 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#362256 kegisak Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:11:25 PM

Is it the Sister Beater one? IT's not loading properly for me.

#362257 stevebat Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:14:14 PM

Yes

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#362258 Applelight Limited Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:14:58 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

That's a good analysis Mio. I'll go into it more later. Right now i need to sleep.

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#362259 the Librarian Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:18:43 PM from his own little world

So, Seraphem's going to work on my questionnaire...anyone else want to take a crack at it? No one but my teacher will see it, don't worry.

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#362260 kegisak Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:19:07 PM

Questionnaire? What about?

#362261 Japanese Teeth Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:21:22 PM from Meinong's jungle

@Librarian: How long is it?

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#362262 Sereg Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:24:10 PM from South Africa

I agree with JT on Games Ponies Play. It, like Spike at your Service, has serious issues, but the humour makes me more leniant.

Also, yeah. The length of the questionnaire makes a big difference to me.

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#362263 Seraphem Tue, 30th Apr '13 3:43:16 PM from Delamare

it's short, only like four questions, but they aren't multiple choice.

And, SAYS was the worst episdoe of Season 3 for me. It had good parts, but the OOC-ness of Spike was just far far to much for me to overlook.

Games, I liked it, it's lower middle of the pack for me for S3, yeah it had issues of it's own, but this time, the issues were ones I could look past and just enjoy the amazing parts.

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#362264 Sereg Tue, 30th Apr '13 4:02:53 PM from South Africa

In that case I should be able to answer the questionnaire.

My least favourite episode of season 3 was marred by Values Disonance and Unfortunate Implications and even then it wasn't too bad. As I said, I consider season 3 the most consistently good, even thouh it didn't have any episodes that totally wowed me like the other two did.

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#362265 Seraphem Tue, 30th Apr '13 4:08:01 PM from Delamare

Totaly wowed, yeah that would be Sleepless in Ponyville, Magic Duel, and MMC. Okay parts of MMC. Really wish it wa a two parter, but we got was just pure amazing.

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#362266 darkabomination Tue, 30th Apr '13 4:13:37 PM from deep within the Time Vortex

Hmm, I seem to be the only one then who wasn't thrilled with Magic Duel. It felt like a list of cliches. Nothing felt surprising or interesting, just vaguely entertaining.

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#362267 kegisak Tue, 30th Apr '13 4:42:49 PM

I found it pretty meh at best, really. Trixie to me is most interesting when we don't see her. That is to say, what she COULD be is much more interesting than what she inevitably is. Or was, at least. With this appearance the odds of her coming back in an at least semi-amicable role has increased, but until such a time...

She interests me as an antagonist, but not a villain. In Magic Duel she was a villain(Not to mention the fact that she was really only there in body; the corruption removed her actual character), so I honestly found her kind of annoying. The rest of the episode... was not much better, really.

#362268 Seraphem Tue, 30th Apr '13 4:43:52 PM from Delamare

It ddin't really remove her character, just exaggerated the latent darkness in her

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#362269 kegisak Tue, 30th Apr '13 4:46:03 PM

Eh... a character who's been exaggerated to the point of literal insanity isn't much better than a character taken over. Either way, the things that interest me about Trixie weren't present until the end of the episode. In her first appearance there was a sort of subtle inconsistency to her character that suggested that there was more going on. Here, the hammy evil side was played pretty much straightline, without the subtle cues.

edited 30th Apr '13 4:48:36 PM by kegisak

#362270 storyyeller Tue, 30th Apr '13 4:49:50 PM from Appleloosa

Yes. I'm continuing a conversation that ended several pages ago. That's how I roll.

Hey, I do that all the time.

Speaking of that, did anyone else think that Spike went through a bit of Character Derailment in Spike At Your Service? Seriously, he goes from an extremely competent library assistant that does most (if not all) of the cooking in a number of functions, to someone who can't do anything right except clean a pig.

He's been portrayed as clumsy before. It's not like a radical new thing. And he was more likely to mess things up due to trying too hard and refusing to stop.

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Hmm, I seem to be the only one then who wasn't thrilled with Magic Duel. It felt like a list of cliches. Nothing felt surprising or interesting, just vaguely entertaining.

But it had the mayor in it!

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#362271 Sereg Tue, 30th Apr '13 4:56:29 PM from South Africa

Sleepless in Ponyville and Magic Duel were my favourite episodes of the season, but they still don't come close to the top episodes of season 1 and 2 IMO.

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#362272 Seraphem Tue, 30th Apr '13 4:59:26 PM from Delamare

Yeah he's been a bit clumsy, but SAYS just went to far.

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#362273 storyyeller Tue, 30th Apr '13 5:05:04 PM from Appleloosa

I guess that's just YMMV. I don't think it went too far. My biggest gripe is that the ending was really predictable, but that's just to be expected with this show.

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#362274 Japanese Teeth Tue, 30th Apr '13 5:12:28 PM from Meinong's jungle

I'm kinda on the fence with SAYS. I don't think they exaggerated his incompetence to the point of OOC ness, but I think they could have initiated the conflict in a far more interesting way. And yeah, the resolution was really anticlimactic. If they would've had him set the thing on fire or something it would've been fine, but as is it was lackluster.

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#362275 storyyeller Tue, 30th Apr '13 5:14:46 PM from Appleloosa

It would have been nice if Spike realized that he didn't have to do it on his own.

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