#mlp!shit

and that one singer near the end of the song who is singing the harmony or blaring out or whatever, idk music theory or what singing is logistically or however the term is supposed to be, but basically a singer of the mane six stands out among the rest for going beyond or going off the proper uh, tune of the song

or something

anyway i can’t find anyone mentioning this is twilight doing this, rebecca shoichet or whatever. i read some youtube comments thinking this is fluttershy singing it, but from the animation of twilight at the very end of the song in the last star reflecting portion... i’m not very good at being descriptive today, twi’s body goes up as the singer who sings that high part sings it, so it’s clearly twi

of course the singer is singing quite high (and thus impressive) so people mistake it for fluttershy, but i’m like 99% sure it’s twilight

my tastes are v. predictable

my favourite stuff has FEELS and HEART, and it doesn’t matter how predictable or unoriginal or whatever it is i watched or read, as long as it successfully makes me FEEL... it is perfect. it has achieved what it needs to do

for the longest time i’d list out all the stuff i’ve seen and be like THIS! THIS IS THE SADDEST PART AND I CRIED OR ALMOST CRIED and no matter what THAT part is always my absolute favourite in the whole show but I never had this for MLP. IT’s always been that sweet saccharine show i’d watch when i need to be reminded that no matter what is happening, sometimes the fluffiest most sugarcoated crap is what i need to consume. sometimes i just need pure happy. that’s why pinkie pie is my absolute favourite pony. she’s pure happy. but CRYING? no i don’t do that to ponies, it’s too TV-Y and for kids to ever touch upon dark or sad topics and not only that but do it WELL

things like say that one RD episode about tank. some fans are saying the intention with that episode was to showcase the four stages of grief. The problem with that was that Tank DIDN’T ACTUALLY DIE and while it’s still a nice and good lesson and wonderful and sweet for the audience and especially the children, it makes Rainbow Dash seem a lot more childish than her age in the series. And yes it makes sense she is more childish, this being a kids show for kids to relate to. Even if our main characters all have jobs and seem like stable adults, there has to be times where they act like this to teach kids stuff, but imo that could have been pulled off better with the CMC or maybe actually killing off the tortoise

other kids shows have some kind of death in it! It’s usually subtle or whatever, but some kids shows can broach the topic and THE WORLD DOESN’T END

but then MLP goes and starts implying the apple parents are dead. and that’s not just some pet or some animal or something with less weight on the television for the children, it’s literally THE GUARDIANS OF OUR CHARACTERs, who died when they were young and NEEDED these parents the most. Genius then that Granny Smith exists, but still. the biggest nightmare for a child is a parent dying, their primary caretaker, the most important person in their world leaving. but then MLP goes even FURTHER BEYOND THAT

it’s all about this family drama, where two who are in love cannot be in love due to their feuding families, reminding us of romeo and juliet where the main lovers ALSO die, but where that play was meant to send the message that young love where two characters who’ve known each other for all of like two weeks and end up committing suicide are foolish and dumb teenagers, here we have this wonderful wholesome love story about two adorable ponies and even if it seems like the most perfect and happy love story ever, it isn’t! IT ISN’T 

AND NOT JUST BECAUSE THEY DIE. it’s that Pear Butter has to leave her family to be with Bright Mac, and there is a rift, and Grand Pear disowns her. She is abandoned by a family she grew up for her whole life, in this one momentous decision..and it’s DEPRESSING. IT’S DARK. I never expected MLP of all things  to cover such a topic at all, and so well too! The fact that Grand Pear made the biggest mistake of his life, and left... and never saw his daughter again. That’s not whimsical childish mistake #29, that’s a regret you can NEVER fix ever again. And all you can do is move on and change what you can with the present, which is to rekindle with the family that’s still there, that you rejected, the grandchildren. And THAT’s another thing I could never ever predict at ALL when it comes to ponies, that not only do we know the parents died, but that a parent lost his child. A parent not only lost his child, but never talked to them again after a fight, after a rift. It’s unbearable the amount of regret there is there and how utterly depressing and dark that is.

That’s not. I DON’T EXPECT THAT IN HAPPY TECHNICOLOUR PONIES. You expect that in those primetime dramas with the heavy hitting tragedies and such. THAT’S JUST NOT SOMETHING YOU SEE, AND I SAW IT. AND IT WAS PULLED OFF WELL, and it MADE sense. We never heard of Grand Pear for seven seasons because he moved away! We never knew about the parents because no one wanted to bring up such a sad and uncomfortable topic, and no one was sure when it’d be the right time to do so! Yes there are some oddities and plotholes like why no one’s seen that combined twisty tree before and other such things, but overall it fit! 

honestly, my biggest fucking pet peeve is anyone coming away from that episode and the first thing they ask is “BUT HOW DID THEY DIE!? WHY DID THEY NOT SHOW THAT!?” that is fucking missing the ENTIRE point of the episode and it just pains me deeply that some people need to know something so unnecessary after everything else that episode spoonfed us. It’s like, someone must be absolutely soulless or heartless to only focus on something like that. It’s a reasonable curiosity sure, but this episode was not the time for them to reveal something like that, and even if they did? SO!? WHAT WOULD THAT ACHIEVE!? ALL IT WOULD DO IS SATISFY YOUR CURIOSITIES. THERE IS NO NEED FOR THAT KNOWLEDGE IN AN EPISODE LIKE THIS

the episode was celebrating the perfect pear’s life. The parents’ life. It was about THEIR life not their death. And I cried like a baby during and after this episode. I was BROKEN after this episode. My head was on the table and I just sat there numb for a long time. It just reminds me of how life really is like. There will be reasonable people who can be absolute intolerable shitheads, and they may eventually learn their lesson, but sometimes they learn their lesson too late. Sometimes you can’t choose your own family. Sometimes wonderful people die before their time. But by the end of the episode, after all the regrets and sadness there is forgiveness. And it just brings me hope because no matter how shitty it is that MLP’s message in the end is to still look up, still remember, and still be good to each other. It’s not being happy and sappy and everything is a utopia kind of thing, it reminded me that even in a seemingly wondrous place like Equestria there’s still these real things happening, but they can STILL have their happy ending eventually. It’s this kind of deep positivity I truly adore, and what keeps my gears running if not most people’s. 

Like, I truly related to this episode and it instantly became my favourite of the entire series. None of my favourite characters were in it. It just told a beautiful story and pulled it off flawlessly. Maybe there was good timing too, as my father passed away this year. His death was not pleasant to watch. People complaining “HOW COME WE DON’T KNOW HOW THEY DIED” piss me off to no end. I don’t want to remember how my father died. I don’t want to relive that memory. And IT’S NOT THE PART YOU SHOULD REMEMBER ABOUT THE PERSON ANYWAY, BUT THEIR LIFE. 

I think the best part is that I was dreading this episode because I found map episodes like Applejack/Rarity in Manehatten and Fluttershy/Twilight at that random place in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of stereotypical hicks incredibly boring and predictable. I assumed it was because characters like Fluttershy and Applejack need the more eccentric and bolder personalities like that of Rarity, Rainbow Dash, or Pinkie Pie to be interesting, but I think largely it ended up being the setting that made them such a bore. We’ve been to Manehatten before many times. If it weren’t for the fact that I absolutely adore the Rarity/Pinkie duo their map episode would probably be a bore too (luckily there was a song to...spice up that episode, ;) ) thanks to Canterlot being a boring as hell destination these days.