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THE LEGENDS WERE TRUE! THE WEIRD ONE HAS COME FOR US!

I had heard rumors but didn't believe it till I saw it myself. They even have him sing and play the accordian, and at one point he even sang Smile Smile Smile, my favorite pony song. I was in heaven man.

As for the episode itself, I really liked it. The set up of Cheese was interesting, as he was not a classic villain. Unlike Trixie or Lightning Dust (or whatever her name was) he wasn't a jerk, unlike the dressmaker he was actually good at his job, and unlike any other antagonist his goal for the entire episode was legitimately to make everyone in Ponyville happy, and no big twist that it was for selfish reasons. And yet through all this, he is still the antagonist, because he's going about things the wrong way and let's competition get in the way.

I think CF might even like Pinkie in this episode, she's acted much less like a weirdo and a fourth-wall breaker. It's a more serious episode about how she feels important to the community.

AND THE SONGS. The first one I felt was a little too much like something you'd see in a kid's musical, but I was like whatevs, it's still a song. THEN THE REST. AHHHHHH. SO AMAZING.

Pinkie still has a serious side. Look how excited she was to learn she had family, and how important it felt to her. And in Friend In Deed, she spent the whole episode trying to convince someone to be her friend, and having extreme difficulty with it.

Fluttershy in Bats is NEVER scared throughout the episode, and actually SPEAKS OUT and practically ARGUES with people. No panic attacks there.

Dash I feel is straying from her character, but I'd almost call it character development. Her relation with Tank is something we'd never see out of her in season 1, but not because she's losing her character but because she's growing. Same with Daring Do. I do feel she's getting a little to extreme (the games, of course; daring do books, okay; a musical, that's a stretch). I do think she needs to be a little more grounded, like how we saw her at wonderbolts academy. Her energy is put in check.

I really liked Pinkie in this episode, but I've always been a huge fan. She really got to display her personality here. I liked how she never stopped smiling throughout the whole episode, not because of ignorance but optimism.

Big Mac was really well done here. I always worry that his trademark yups and nopes take away from his character, but they played around it very cleverly and entertainingly, and that gag at the end was worth it.

All that stuff I was talking about with the songs in the last two episodes? Gone. This song was AMAZING and super catchy and sung by Applejack nonetheless with help from Applebloom, Granny Smith, and even Big Mac. Man, it hit it out of the park.

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I was pleased with the eoisode, but not a huge fan. It was nice seeing Rarity dealing with the inherit oroblems with her element the same way we saw Pinkie do it in Friend in Deed, and Twilight in the Trixie episodes.

I liked how there were a lot of background ponies, and good ones at that, with real character and even arcs and jokes. And though it may have been crossing a line, I chuckled pretty hard at grumoy cat cutie mark.

And lastly, I didnt like the songs (though I liked the fourth wall joke), I thought they were too operatic and didnt really have heart and soul, just like last week.

Mind wiping the bats so that they lose something essential to who they are, against their will, solely for the god of other people. Pretty scary.

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I did not expect to see a vampire fluttershy when I woke up today, much less a canon one.

Also another case of "we almost made an Applejack episode, but nevermind."

And the song reminded me a lot of May the Best Pet Win. Very much more of a bunch of words put to a tune rather than a legitimate song. Still pretty good, though, since they were with the two ponies who sing the least.

I liked that episode. All of the superhero references were awesome, and I think they only got away with it in a girls' show because of the Avengers. And I think even though RD was said to have the powers of Storm, she displayed them and acted more like Thor. Also Twilight could be any number of elemental-based superheroes, including Firestorm, Fire&Ice, or of course Captain Planet.

I also liked how it called back to Castlemania, and how they are rebuilding the sister's castle. I really hope something interesting comes out of that whole thing.

And hey! a Spike episode! Didn't see that coming. I like how they addressed in the show and in-universe how Spike is a main character but not a mane character. He's thrown to the wayside a lot of times, but he's still important at times and they won't forget about him when he's plot-relevant. I think that's an important promise for the writers to keep, especially with all the Spike abuse that's been happening lately (he gets slapstick'd a lot).

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