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Get it? Cause rocks? It's, it's a- I'll go.

Anyway, as to this episode. I think they missed the holiday window by a few weeks, but they would have been squeezing it in right at the end of the season otherwise. This was a pretty fun episode, and we got to meet a lot of characters finally. It was interesting to see the Pie sisters with personality, and get an idea of how each of them developed. The parents remain virtually sans character, but that feels intentional. It was good also to see Pinkie and Applejack try to negotiate the scenario, something they both want but don't necessarily grasp the whole of. Pinkie understands both parties, but can't explain them properly, while AJ was lacking half of the critical information. The rest of the apples kind of existed to provide some insight later, but were mostly just foils to work with their Pie counterparts.

I think the big question of this episode is whether AJ's actions made sense for her, and I'd say yes. While perhaps an extreme, her big sister attitude and some reluctance to change from what she knows makes this response to the Pie traditions believable, if not reasonable. That said, I imagine most folks have encountered something other people do regularly that they just can't understand. In some cases, you can roll with it, and in some cases you might try to negotiate it. In uncomfortable cases, you try to navigate back to the familiar as fast as you can. Could AJ have talked the problem out and discovered things faster? Sure, but that doesn't suit the mare of action that she is.

While it's no Hearth's Warming Eve, this was a nice episode with some wonderful characters. Maud has managed to make her way back a few times, so maybe we'll see some more of the other Pie sisters too.

MLP:FiM is (c) Hasbro.

Description
Get it? Cause rocks? It's, it's a- I'll go.

Anyway, as to this episode. I think they missed the holiday window by a few weeks, but they would have been squeezing it in right at the end of the season otherwise. This was a pretty fun episode, and we got to meet a lot of characters finally. It was interesting to see the Pie sisters with personality, and get an idea of how each of them developed. The parents remain virtually sans character, but that feels intentional. It was good also to see Pinkie and Applejack try to negotiate the scenario, something they both want but don't necessarily grasp the whole of. Pinkie understands both parties, but can't explain them properly, while AJ was lacking half of the critical information. The rest of the apples kind of existed to provide some insight later, but were mostly just foils to work with their Pie counterparts.

I think the big question of this episode is whether AJ's actions made sense for her, and I'd say yes. While perhaps an extreme, her big sister attitude and some reluctance to change from what she knows makes this response to the Pie traditions believable, if not reasonable. That said, I imagine most folks have encountered something other people do regularly that they just can't understand. In some cases, you can roll with it, and in some cases you might try to negotiate it. In uncomfortable cases, you try to navigate back to the familiar as fast as you can. Could AJ have talked the problem out and discovered things faster? Sure, but that doesn't suit the mare of action that she is.

While it's no Hearth's Warming Eve, this was a nice episode with some wonderful characters. Maud has managed to make her way back a few times, so maybe we'll see some more of the other Pie sisters too.

MLP:FiM is (c) Hasbro.