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>>/11349/ ‘’It's your only ho-o-ope! You have to take a leap of faith!'’ Now, for the main controversy with this episode, the potential anti-science and perceived religious influence here. I have thought about this before and have gone back and forth to how merited it was. The wording can be taken here with a very symbolic meaning albeit “leap of faith” doesn’t have to mean “faith” in a strong religious context but also as a figure of speech that just had an unfortunate timing/prescience. The trope of skeptic being dunked on is well established and minus that line, would I think that takeaway as merited at all? No. The end wording of the lesson though: > I am happy to report that I now realize there are wonderful things in this world you just can't explain, but that doesn't necessarily make them any less true. It just means you have to choose to believe in them, and sometimes it takes a friend to show you the way.'’ I don’t think a strong religious context is there but I can see a supernatural vs science with that as a take away. They probably were aiming for something like not everything needs to be rationally explained and have a little fun with that. I can understand some having a problem with this. For me? Eh, mixed but I do find this wording to be a little questionable and am going back and forth on it myself Also to note, I myself am technically on the conservative to borderline traditionalist side when it comes to religious and science matters, but still, debating the logic here and probably wouldn't use this type of show as a platform for that! How much does it matter? I don’t think this controversy matters as much as it did and I am not sure it would’ve had such a negative reception if it had premiered a few years before or a few years after. A lot of the fandom was fedoras and the peak culture war pastime when it aired was a subset of mostly evangelical Christians (at least in the US of A) getting into fights/getting dunked on by a larger subset of atheist movement and terminally online internet users who were aligned with that for a variety of reasons. Now it seems to be an afterthought in our current culture wars sometimes with unclear lines. Nowadays I hardly see this episode mentioned in a negative light in the way some others still have and I think it shows how things have changed from then discourse wise. Not going to go any further into that, at least here, makes the thread /uncomfy/. It doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to criticize but it probably should be seen as somewhat poor and wonky over something that is a major faux pas. < And wow, strong counterargument. I possibly can talk myself into liking this moral from the angle that our word destroyed a lot of childhood wonder and magic. Twilight Sparkle taken in that light might not be so bad. Our world became sterile and parental standards have become overly prescriptivist on one end to the mere abandonment of children to a world of smartphones and parental neglect on the other. That is a rabbithole for another time. ‘’'The Door to the Apple Cellar’ Now, for the more important thing to speculate on... WHO OPENED APPLEJACK’S DOOR TO HER CELLAR? It wasn’t Twilight or Applejack from what I gather from rewatching the scene. It seems like it just opened on it’s own! ‘’‘Rapidash Twilight!''’ A classic and somewhat forgotten meme! Something minorly interesting. A character being injured or wearing cloths one moment and then not the next scene in the same place happens a lot in this episode with no explanation! This is fine and cartoony even if part of my mind wants to overthink it. On the other end though I found it interesting that they bothered to animate smoke coming off of Twilight after she got mad here (though the burn marks still disappear) compared to how most other shots it would just be gone. Need to find the fic that ran way too far with that scene. ‘’‘Observations from Bridle Gossip Relevant:'’' >>/10760/ > It is interesting that Twilight Sparkle is so dismissive of curses. I don't find this irrational unto