anybody got any thoughts for Putting your Hoof Down the episode I'm currently on?

Just two words: Rabbit. Stew.

Like I said, even the 'normal' staircases were impossibly long.

Oh, you are being to harsh on Angel.

Next you going to say is that Kyubey deserve all his punishment he gets from fandom

It's a Merriweather Williams episode.. that should tell you everything you need to know.

edited 9th Sep '13 3:51:07 PM by Seraphem

That was good, emotional story with many funny gags and great one shot character.

Which also horribly mangled a character just for the sake of her story, and decided to crank the overall jerkishness and cynicism of the setting up several notches.

This. PYHD is one of the better Fluttershy episodes.

Spoilered for Starscream.

I'm picturing winged Twilight, with her current lack of flying experience, tackling the stairs. She only manages to belly-flop onto the next level. She repeats this a couple more times before saying "Ow! Fuck this.", and resigning herself to walking, before hitting on the trick she wound up using.

I wonder how the crystal ponies get their sheen? I've theorized a secretion on their skin that forms shortly after birth that's highly reflective.

Fore me Angel was in character in this episode.

I gathered it's a love it or hate it kind of episode so will it depend on whether I like it or not?

They aren't just reflective, they're also partially transparent. And it seems to be induced by the crystal heart.

Oh, overall it was one of her better episodes, and not all that bad.

Just... full of the same flaws and issues all of her stories but one deal with

and, oh hell no was Angel in character. he's always been a brat, but THAT.. was way to fucking far.

I wonder how the crystal ponies get their sheen?

Turtle Wax. Industrial-size tubs.

Which story would that be? Because I'll agree that Williams definitely amps up characters for the sake of story(Though I wouldn't so much say she goes out of character as many do, just exaggerates them) in PYHD and MMDW, but looking at Wikipedia I don't recognize those issues in her other episodes - Hearth's Warming Eve maybe, but it's not as if the girls have never fought before, but Dragon Quest and Wonderbolts Academy seemed free of it. Spike at your Service is a bit more questionable, but even then(As with PYHD, if should be noted) she didn't actually write the story for it, she simply adapted the story into a teleplay.

Well, if this isn't awkward, I don't know what is.

http://laptopgun.deviantart.com/art/That-Awkward-Moment-392607559

In my setting. Crystal ponies are litterally made out of living crystal that becomes brighter and more defined as their mood improves. And they are a sepperate tribe of ponies (albit a young one).

I honestly never gave their shininess much thought. They just are.

I go with descendants of the twinkle-eyed ponies from g1.

That reminds me. What's with the fanon association with Shining Armor and corndogs?

edited 9th Sep '13 4:35:40 PM by IkeAndMike

I think Merriweather's problem was just with the early episodes and he got better over time.

@ Ike: First place I heard of it was Friendship Is Witchcraft.

... SAYS has some of the WORST Character derailment in the series... Spike.. was just massacred from a character standpoint. DQ, okay nothing major, just, an overall weak episode that took a great premise and a chance for a recall great story.. and made it about dealing with a bunch of idiotic teenage jerks. More a waste of an episode then anything else.

Wonderbolt Academy... yeah that one is the only one she's done that I have no issues with.

Yeah it comes from the FIW episode of ACW

edited 9th Sep '13 4:42:24 PM by Seraphem

I thought that episode was referencing something else. :l