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7/20/2025, 3:35:51 PM
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>Back with the games again, we see that all unicorns in the audience are forced to undergo a 'disabling spell', which presumably disables magic and reveals anyone who attempts to cast. This is the kind of detail that you'd expect to find in a world with magic. It's easy to compare this episode to stories like Harry Potter, where not only are there no measures to counter magic in situations where you would expect them to be present. One more reason why MLP stands out as a cut above most children's media.
It also, just like the spell, disables potential narrative imagination such as Hermione, Snape, Quirrel messing with Harry's broom, Harry Potter 1's Quidditch match creating a much more interesting and entertaining story to tell which Equestria Games lacks.
>I consider this to be the ideal use of Pinkie as a narrative device: addressing the 4th wall when necessary but without being explicitly aware of it
Questionable ideal. There's knowledge & physical 4th wall antics and Pinkie used knowledge antics instead of physical ones. We aren't judging her voice acting performance here apparently.
Stop. Something is wrong here.
>We then have Pinkie exposit the current status of the games and Ponyville's place for the benefit of the audience, only to zoom out and reveal the concerned or annoyed reactions of the ponies sitting around her.
The mixture of concerned and annoyed reactions were because she was throwing & spilling her popcorn. What she said here was not 4th wall breaking at all, making the reference here to her 4th wall abilities loose and pointless.
>Cathy Weseluck again does a fantastic performance in capturing a false bravado as Spike tries to fake it, that quickly gives way to excruciating self-awareness as Spike occasionally tries to inject a bit of humour into his situation,
Cathy Weseluck performs an insecure, bored and relaxed Spike singing as opposed to Tara Strong's anxious exasperated acting in other episodes. Spike's performance isn't the usual self-absorbed obnoxious boastful yelling & screeching you see in other episodes like Boast Busters (and within the same episode with Spike thinking he can set things on fire with his mind) and other cartoons, but rather the more "I want to crawl up and die already" gulping, self-aware scared embarrassment which is 100% on point for awkward feelings, but not 100% for pure entertainment you are used to in most cartoons such as Show Stoppers' song or even "Hush Now Quiet Now" that is unironically good but 180 degrees from a lullaby. However a bunch of cartoons also do utilize the self-aware character realizing he put himself into an uncomfortable situation.
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>Back with the games again, we see that all unicorns in the audience are forced to undergo a 'disabling spell', which presumably disables magic and reveals anyone who attempts to cast. This is the kind of detail that you'd expect to find in a world with magic. It's easy to compare this episode to stories like Harry Potter, where not only are there no measures to counter magic in situations where you would expect them to be present. One more reason why MLP stands out as a cut above most children's media.
It also, just like the spell, disables potential narrative imagination such as Hermione, Snape, Quirrel messing with Harry's broom, Harry Potter 1's Quidditch match creating a much more interesting and entertaining story to tell which Equestria Games lacks.
>I consider this to be the ideal use of Pinkie as a narrative device: addressing the 4th wall when necessary but without being explicitly aware of it
Questionable ideal. There's knowledge & physical 4th wall antics and Pinkie used knowledge antics instead of physical ones. We aren't judging her voice acting performance here apparently.
Stop. Something is wrong here.
>We then have Pinkie exposit the current status of the games and Ponyville's place for the benefit of the audience, only to zoom out and reveal the concerned or annoyed reactions of the ponies sitting around her.
The mixture of concerned and annoyed reactions were because she was throwing & spilling her popcorn. What she said here was not 4th wall breaking at all, making the reference here to her 4th wall abilities loose and pointless.
>Cathy Weseluck again does a fantastic performance in capturing a false bravado as Spike tries to fake it, that quickly gives way to excruciating self-awareness as Spike occasionally tries to inject a bit of humour into his situation,
Cathy Weseluck performs an insecure, bored and relaxed Spike singing as opposed to Tara Strong's anxious exasperated acting in other episodes. Spike's performance isn't the usual self-absorbed obnoxious boastful yelling & screeching you see in other episodes like Boast Busters (and within the same episode with Spike thinking he can set things on fire with his mind) and other cartoons, but rather the more "I want to crawl up and die already" gulping, self-aware scared embarrassment which is 100% on point for awkward feelings, but not 100% for pure entertainment you are used to in most cartoons such as Show Stoppers' song or even "Hush Now Quiet Now" that is unironically good but 180 degrees from a lullaby. However a bunch of cartoons also do utilize the self-aware character realizing he put himself into an uncomfortable situation.
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