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> I enjoyed most of the shenanigans.
I would say the same, although in reacting in an "oh, Twilight..." manner, it does also keep raising the matter that she surely knows better. It's a very good episode from an educational perspective, as children do get into these sort of irrational spirals. It's like what Mr Rogers sang about, 'what do I do with the mad that I feel'? But by that same token, it then stretches credibility just a little to have Twilight be the one to go through that, it would be more believable to have one of the CMC do all this. However, again then, it may be seen as more beneficial to have Twilight specifically freak out as children who are otherwise very mature and intelligent can also have meltdowns like this and are more likely to feel bad about it afterwards. All in all, on balance I think the episode probably helped children more with their issues overall than it did ruin the show for us adults. Purp over on youtube pointed out in his big video on Twilight that this was one of the episodes listed as 'key' to Twilight's character for guest writers to check out, and that does explain some of her later overly-neurotic nature, but that really isn't the episode's fault: indeed I think there's a fair few other episodes that could have been picked that would have had much the same effect. All in all you miss a large chunk of her character in cutting out those episodes where she's not the focus, but you also can't tell guest writers to watch the entire show before getting to work.
> I love the opening part here that has Twilight doing a lot of stuff and a glimpse of an ordinary checklist filled day of her life. Scenes of ponies doing SoL stuff without conflict (or with low level conflict) are inherently comfy to me.
In some ways the changes that occur to Equestria over the course of the show are unfortunate, as the SoL/comfy type of existence grows increasingly interrupted by the major events and turmoil. It reflects upon the good nature of ponies that they don't blame, for example, the return of Luna for the increasing misfortunes of Equestia, or the Mane Six, because before all of this got started, Celestia had reined over unparalleled peace and prosperity for 1000 years. Although, there is also the increasing industrial and technological changes we begin to see in the world... I wonder what could be causing those to coincide with the era we see in the show?
> Yeah, I had a partial finished review for this one somewhere, but I don't know what happened to it, so, uh, new shorter one! LOL.
I've had that happen to me a few times! It can get worse - finding the partially (even MOSTLY) finished review that you lost AFTER posting the new replacement one you wrote, that's really annoying! Also, I very much enjoyed
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Celestia's elegant leaping is almost as though she's trying to draw attention away from the fact, or declaring the forgetting herself! Either way I found it very humorous. But don't worry, please, as screencaps are just one of those many totally optional components!
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> She easily counters the spell, though, I assume Twilight in her right mind could also do this as we have seen her cast area effect spells larger ranges than that.
But, could Twilight counter another unicorn's spell, of that power and effect? Interacting with magic that someone else has cast seems like it would take more skill and power, so, I find it impressive still!
>>/12703/
> I presume grammatical and spelling errors as my normal will have slipped through.
It grants unique texture and flavour. When cooking, if you're too neat and too precise, you'll find the food a little too orderly, almost bland. Good cooking incorporates those little mistakes that enhances the overall flavour. In this case, it demonstrates that the writing is fresh and home-baked, not out of a sterile package from LLM-Mart!
> I wanted to use a local LLM to help catch some of the obiviouus mistakes but I have grown somewhat cold on the idea just from my own increasing distaste of LLM writing.
I'll confess I'm glad of it!