I am keeping spoilers to a minimum, its more so a post to celebrate the special itself rather than go over the entire plot. I think that Rainbow Rocks has met its equal. It wasn't that the Friendship Games, Legend of Everfree and Magical Movie Night are bad. But they didn't surpass or meet Rainbow Rocks's quality. Even if you dislike Rainbow Rocks, that was the special that really made this series much more popular.
What I love about Forgotten Friendship, there is so much crammed in and the pacing was amazing, I am really curious to see those deleted clips, and I HOPE this gets a blu ray, not a dvd.. This special deserves it.
I guess you could say it was predictable, but then again this is a kids's show we're talking about here. Wallflower is growing on me. She can't be up there with the sirens.. But she is better and more improved version of Juniper Montage. Her motive is something anyone of any age can relate to.
Sunset also acts similar to the way she did in Rainbow Rocks, her attitude and anger get the better of her. But I agree with Sunset, she's trying to save her personality and bonds with her friends. How would you like to risk having your entire memories be erased of those near to you?
But yeah, I think I am in the majority as well, this special was amazing. I want the Dazzlings back in another special.. we need to see them one more time :D
Forgotten Friendship doesn't have the finale at the battle of the bands though. I am not joking when I say, that that scene rivals the MLP Movie soundtrack. Its a iconic moment for Sunset Shimmer and also my favorite moment in all of G4.
And we all thought it was a hoax until Hasbro officially confirmed it? And we were all horrified and hated the idea of the ponies as technicolor humans in high school? And the actual film got mixed reception when it was first released?
I don't think it was until Rainbow Rocks was released that EQG became just as well-liked as the main series, and people began to look forward to new EQG releases. We sure have come a long way.
We don't have a "canon" death for Bright Mac and Pear Butter, so I'm going to mix up the two most common theories.
Scenario: According to official reports, Pear Butter was killed by a timberwolf while delivering food to a neighboring community.
A month or so later, Bright Mac got sick with an advanced strain of the flu and died.
Fast forward to the present day. The Ponyville coroner is old and dying, and he makes a deathbed confession. He had been paid off to falsify the reports. Pear Butter had been murdered, and so had Bright Mac. He dies before giving any more information.
The bodies are exhumed, and it turns out that Pear Butter's injuries were caused by a weapon rather than a timberwolf's claws, and Bright Mac had been poisoned.
The case, closed for years, is now re-opened.
How does the Apple family react to this news? Do they help with the investigation?
How do the Mane 7 and the rest of Ponyville react to the news? Do Applejack's friends attempt to help the investigation, or are they content to let law enforcement handle it and stick to emotionally supporting the Apples?
(The killer is unimportant, since this is mostly about the reaction to the event itself, but let's say that it turns to have been Filthy Rich, who killed Pear Butter when she spurned his advances and then killed Bright Mac when he started putting together what happened to her)
While sorting out the sudden memory loss of the Humane Six with Twilight and Celestia, Sunset refers to the human world as "my" world.
This struck me. Unless there was a plot detail in one of the shorts that I missed (I haven't been keeping up with most of them), Sunset was born and raised in Equestria where she spent the majority of her life. She's spent a comparatively less amount of time in the human world, which we've presumably reasoned was some sort of self-exile, but now that Sunset has made amends with Celesta...what's keeping her from returning?
I mean, yes, she does have her friendship with the Humane Six, but does she have nothing left in Equestria? No friends or family back in her original home? What makes Sunset consider the human world a better place to live in than the pony one she hails from?
There's been a very interesting shift in the show over the years: Early on, lessons of friendship had to be learned by characters independently; Twilight even tells Rainbow to let Trixie go after their first encounter - hoping she'll learn to be better on her own! Later, however, the role shifted from learners to teachers, and the characters began instructing others on the tenets of friendship. It's a role the characters have become very comfortable in, with Twilight especially fully embracing her role of "Princess of Friendship".
But what if this had unintentional, catastrophic consequences - fallout none of them could foresee, but with an impact none of them could imagine?
Let's take a hypothetical situation: A year or two on, the Changelings begin to fall ill - bursting out in spontaneous laughter, shaking wildly, and suffering from mental disorders. It is discovered that sharing love among each other has a significant risk of producing a neurodegenerative, prion-like disease in the feeder. The effect is irreversible once begun, although it can be slowed with treatment; much of the Changedling population is found to be infected, including Thorax. Worse, the disease has one final stage - unable to feed conventionally, the Changedlings blindly attack whoever is nearest and attempt to feed by force.
How does the cast react? What would they try and do for the remaining Changedlings? Would Twilight sequester herself in a laboratory, trying to develop a cure no matter the hopelessness of it? Would Starlight fall back on some of her more exotic, dangerous magics? How could Spike, who is closest to Thorax, handle it? Do they seek out or capture Chrysalis to interrogate her as to a solution? What about the Changedlings themselves? Do they deliberately isolate themselves to protect ponies against the final stages of the disease? How do the un-infected choose what path to take?
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