In This Week's My Little Pony ...

[rowyn]

terrycloth didn't do an MLP post! I had to get my "MLP exists" reminder from @BroniesForRonPaul. What's the world coming to?

Anyway, the moral for this week was "If you're born into a race with a culture of delinquency, crime, and general jerkishness, your only hope is to be adopted by a good race and spend your life acting like a member of your adopted culture". Also, it's okay to stalk your friends. And if you accidentally steal someone's baby, the right thing to do is raise it yourself.

... I don't think the writers really think this stuff all the way through.

Comments

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think that this is an episode which reminds us that this show is for little girls
and as far as little girls are concerned, "Boys are icky."

[rowyn]

Yeah, kinda that too. Although not as bad as the horrible one about Spike 'growing up'. D:

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Yyyyeah. I didn't think of that. So far, I don't think we've encountered an identifiably female dragon. (I honestly suspect that if we did, she would be more sympathetic and "less dragon-like.")

Well, blah. =P

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

My stupid cable box decided to break and stay broken all day Saturday. It fixed itself but I missed this week.

...well, not really. I watched it on youtube. But I was going to watch it a second time before posting and a ME3 session that went on way too long meant that it would have been really late at night* and I decided to just wait until it came out on iTunes.

That said, if you ignore the racial issues, it boils down to 'Just Say No To Drugs'. Or, well, peer pressure.

It had a few good parts ("Now we're going to show you how ponies deal with a big group of mean dragons. RUN AWAY!") and it wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be? But it was a pretty bad episode. x.x

* 8am counts as 'late at night', right?

[rowyn]

Yeah, an all-Spike episode is not a promising start. c.c All-Spike plus teenage-dragon-delinquents? There's pretty much no way for it to be good. :P

[sianmink.livejournal.com]

I guess it was due. Spike spent the entirety of the time travel episode hilariously giving not a single fuck (at least until the last scene), so I guess it had to happen. One should note that the older dragons wanted no part of those shenanigans.

the part with Crackle had us rolling. XD

[rowyn]

Dragons do not get a very good rap in this show, on the whole. c.c

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who felt a bit disturbed by this. I was half-expecting for them to reveal, "Hey, dragons aren't really that bad after all. They're just misunderstood or different or something." That, even though it was kind of implied that Spyke only stays cute and nice so long as he doesn't get too much STUFF (which makes him grow up and become more dragon-like, which is inherently bad ... which is kind of disturbing).

And then ... boy, it's harsh being a predator in this universe! Every animal is intelligent/sapient, it seems (even those who can't talk), so being a carnivore is evil. But then, that's a problem that's cropped up in many anthropomorphic/talking-animal settings. (That this trope is "averted" in Disney's Lion King by implying that all the animals are OKAY with a predator/prey arrangement doesn't make it any less disturbing.)

And then ... wait, he's got the little firebird? Shouldn't that go back to the parents?

What were they thinking?

Not that MLP hasn't been entirely lacking in uncomfortable moments before. This isn't the first time that "stalking your friends is okay." And then there was that episode with the cowboy-horses and their conflict with the buffalo stampede grounds, which really struck me as ... awkward at best.

The show is still adorable, but I wish they'd be a little more careful about the (presumably) unintentional morals.

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I thought I should add in -- Gwendel actually reacted first to the "hey, wait a minute!" with Spyke keeping the baby firebird, and with the weirdness of "Spyke rejects his dragonhood!" as a moral, before I did. Figured I should note that out of all fairness. (Plus, I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm some strange "brony" who watches MLP alone. That would be weird. ;) )

[kagetsume.livejournal.com]

We already know you're weird...