(Song Used: Crazy Little Voices by Ra)
First I want to say before I get to my thoughts let me overview a bit of my opinions of the previous films.
I didn’t like the first film. It always feels like the staff was given a list of High School movie cliches to hit and barely did anything to make them interesting. The best part of the movie was Twilight fighting with her wings in bed before everything else happens. Aside from one of the catchiest songs in the franchise there’s not much else I’d recommend about the first one. Aside just to see how Rainbow Rocks got where it’s at (Cause otherwise you may be confused on who exactly Sunset is). Because Equestria Girls for me has proven to be one of the few cases where all the sequels continue to blow the first out of the water in every single way.
Rainbow Rocks was a huge improvement, though naturally it still had some things that linger from the first movie. But it truly is a turning point where the series started to try to gain it’s own identity rather then an excuse for Hasbro to sell humanized Pony dolls and try to cash off High School Musical and/or Monster High stuff. With the focus on a battle of the bands, naturally the music is amped up and in particular every one of the songs the Siren’s are amongst some of the best songs this franchise has given us. It does kinda feel like Sunset’s personality changes a little too fast between movies but I think that’s because they didn’t know if they would make another after the first film and when faced with the Sequel had to really make things turn around for Sunset as no doubt she’d be playing a major part from now on as EQG proved successful. There’s a reason that it’s the preferred of the first 3 in most cases, time will tell how people will feel it compares to the fourth as it’s all new. But it was the movie that impressed people enough to started turning around on the series so it still deserves a good amount of credit.
Friendship Games was the movie that officially won me over however thanks in large part of the introduction of Human Twi in the series. It didn’t win over as many people as Rainbow Rocks maybe for not having as good of music and the villains that were advertised either were pretty one-note (Cinch) or didn’t have much screentime (The rest of the shadowbolts) and I admit it’s a flaw of the film. Though for what it did focus on I cherished quite a bit. I view Human Twi as our technical “villain/antagonist” but definitely not in the traditional sense. As all her actions are either not entirely her fault, and the time she does become a villain is the result of the combination of a magic power-up, curiosity, and the corruption in her mind that has resulted from her time in a terrible school environment where most students bully her and even the head of the school isn’t above blackmailing their own students to protect the school’s reputation. I think it really makes one of the more subtly mature morals of the EQG series. And for what it’s worth I feel what it does better then Rainbow Rocks is characterization and a more interesting plotline. I’ve said before that I feel Friendship Games and Rainbow Rocks are at about the same level and they have their strength and weaknesses in different areas. I just prefer what strengths FG has over RR.
But now as we get to the fourth film I think it’s quite possible it’s found a balance that manages to keep a solid quality throughout most of it and it’s now time to get as to why. Catch it after the break.
We’re in the final month of the season, so soon it will be a little while before things are all done on responses until either a Season 7 or the Movie next year. But there’s certainly things I could probably ask for help on.
Send me an ask, or reply to this post to help me with an idea for the response to P.P.O.V.
Another of these, as once again I’m drawing a blank what to do here.
Send me an ask, or reply to this post to help me with an idea for the response to Viva Las Pegasus
Thanks for the big help with last weeks. This week’s may not be as serious as I could always do a simple aftermath thing where AJ and FS come back to Ponyville. But I do also use these sometimes to see if anyone else has a better idea in mind.
Hey everyone, time to call for another of these.
Though this time I’m in a bit of a pickle. Because I don’t even have an emergency idea this time. Cause the episode itself kinda did that for me. It’s already been long established that even Genie Twi’s magic can’t do much for Cutie Marks. She can’t give, nor remove honest-to-goodness cutie marks. I don’t think different species is going to make an exception to that.
So, please if you can…
Send me an ask, or reply to this post to help me with an idea for the response to The Fault In Our Cutie Marks
If I don’t get a good idea this might have to be the first time I skip an episode response (Though I suppose I could also perhaps extend the idea helping phase even if it means I do the next episode before this one)