My Little Pony: Cinco de Mayo Show

[Trinary]

Trying to recall... was that the episode with her being bothered by her new nickname? Cause that one was so bad I couldn't even watch it all the way through. There's only so much cringe "comedy" a guy can take. It was even worse than Spike trying to sing the Cloudsdale anthem.

That's the one, "Newbie Dash," a close contender--if not the actual winner--of the coveted title of worst episode in the entire series.

[aceina]

i hope someday chuck reviews the equestria girls films

[JoshHam]

I'm in the middle of final exams and really should be studying for them, but I couldn't resist a MLP review. Somehow this review did not make me feel any better about wasting time that I really should be using for studying...

Does anyone know any animal plays that can explain mathematical proof techniques? Perhaps with a musical number or two thrown in?

[Robovski]

Animal plays that come to mind are the Lion King, The Frogs by Aristophanes, and maybe you can count a Midsummer Night's Dream. I don't know if they contain mathemtical proofs, but they are everywhere.

Video semi-related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZHsk0-eF0

[Darth Wedgius]

I'm in the middle of final exams and really should be studying for them, but I couldn't resist a MLP review. Somehow this review did not make me feel any better about wasting time that I really should be using for studying...

Does anyone know any animal plays that can explain mathematical proof techniques? Perhaps with a musical number or two thrown in?

Geometry? If You Were a Polygon, by Marcie Aboff, might help, if books count?

[Mecha82]

i hope someday chuck reviews the equestria girls films

I don't wish horror like that upon him.

[aceina]

i hope someday chuck reviews the equestria girls films

I don't wish horror like that upon him.

the equestria girls films are great thoe rainbow rocks is one of my fave movies of all time

[CmdrKing]

The original Equestria Girls is probably the most cynical "this is marketing and we give up" thing the FiM creators have ever put out honestly? But the rest of the movies are solidly above average at worst as far as the show goes overall, and Rainbow Rocks is legitimately pretty great.

Testing Testing 1, 2, 3 is one of my favorite episodes, certainly my favorite of that season. Especially since the show goes out of its way to acknowledge its viewership starts at young elementary, an episode that's all about how people can just learn differently and thinking you're an idiot usually just means you haven't figured out how you learn best is something I can't praise enough on principle. That they built a mostly interesting episode out of it is astonishing.

[aceina]

ya know the first film is both better and worse now than it was when it was new

worse do to the fact the series got so much better and you have to suffer through it any time you want to marathon the films

better in that it started sunsets character arc (the best developed charter in MLP IMO)

[Trinary]

The original Equestria Girls is probably the most cynical "this is marketing and we give up" thing the FiM creators have ever put out honestly? But the rest of the movies are solidly above average at worst as far as the show goes overall, and Rainbow Rocks is legitimately pretty great.

I mostly agree with the sentiment, but it's not fair to pin this on the FiM creators; at least, if by that you mean the creative staff who produce and write the series. According to several of the show writers and VAs who were at BABScon 2019, they said that the impetus for Equestria Girls came from the higher-ups at Hasbro, not the show creative staff. The way they described it: they got a call saying, in so many words, "We decided to turn the ponies into people." The writers described the reaction to this bombshell on their part was dead silence for a good ten seconds.

Accounts on this differ. Some say this was an attempt to cash-in on things like Monster High, but at this panel they said the idea came from some people at Hasbro searching the net and seeing fanart of the Mane Six as humans. Regardless of the impetus, this was something mandated by the higher ups. The writers said it was thanks to Meghan McCarthy, who came up with the idea of pulling a reverse Harry Potter or Narnia (instead of having normal kids end up in a magical setting, send the character from a magical world to the normal one) that allowed Equestria Girls to turn out as good as it did. They didn't elaborate, but they said this was far better than anything being pitched by the Hasbro suits--whose ideas they described simply as "bananas."

As for Equestria Girls itself (the first movie)--I find it incredibly average. The plot is full of holes, the pacing off, the villain is pretty awful, etc. It avoids a lot of the worst of the high school cliches and tropes, or at least rushes past them quickly--which begs the question of why they bothered with them. The characters still feel like themselves, or at least a version of themselves, which is always been the show's strongest point.

Rainbow Rocks was MUCH better and it really did great things with the character of Sunset Shimmer. It's easily the best thing EQG did. The movies after that kept the Star Trek numbering rule: 1 and 3 (Equestria Girls and Friendship Games) were pretty weak while 2 and 4 (Rainbow Rocks and Legend of Everfree were good). The specials they've produced after that have been hit or miss. Nothing awful, but only a few offered anything that really stood out as good (mostly Sunset in Equestria or the like). The shorts are generally pretty good.