"The Break Up Break Down"
season 8, episode 10
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| Won't somepony please think of the chi... eee... pie? |
This episode is part of the "grand leak of season 8", so I guess some of the bronies have seen it already. I wasn't that kind of fan and I was enjoying the show in it's intended form without any additional bars about *.TIFF frames. So, how this episode turned out?
WARNING: expect little spoilers here and there.
I wasn't expecting much from this episode. The concept of Big Mac + Sugar Belle didn't worked for me in "Hard to Say Anything" and I wasn't sold on that. So, how was this episode?
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| Special delivery for Ice Cube Cowbell? Yup, that's the pony we're looking for. |
The package is ready. Big Macintosh drew big symbols representing sugar and bell. Guess who's gonna get it? Of course his love: Sugar Belle.
We than get our intro theme like in every other episode. *Yay* I won't go into many details about the plot, because the episode is worth watching and I don'w want to spoil much.
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| Emergency Guy's Night Out (with fancy hats) |
Let's take a look at characters, shall we? Our main cast consists of Sugar Belle and Male 3 (you know, Big Mac, Spike and Discord). Sugar Belle was cute and innocent as always, so I don't have any complaints about her. Big Macintosh is OK, but to me he lost this "charm" since he become so vocal. On the other hand if we'll get only two words out of him it would be rather boring to watch, so it was fine.
No complaints about Spike. Our little purple green-fire burping dragon is being himself and I really like it that way. He's not a stupid add-on to the show here.☺
Discord was... I don't know. He was kinda asshole but at the same time a fun character and trickster who has a plan his sleeve. It looks like the writers can't decide if his supposed to be funny, rude, sometimes serious character. To be fair he's the Lord of Chaos™ and those different personalities work for him, but still I can't stand Discord from "What About Discord?" episode.
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| Do you want to talk about our Godess and Saviour, Celestia? |
And than we have The CMC as a part of story-line and they're preparing barn for Sugar Belle's surprise. By some misunderstandings and mistake by post office, Sweetie Belle is getting the pie with invitation inside, because the sugar symbol was smudged. The search for secret admirer is on! Was this part necessary? Of course not, but it wasn't bad either. I liked this side-story that was connected to the main plot.
And that's all the plot I'm showing you. It's just a quick-thoughts post so I have to keep is short. Let's take a look on the good and bad parts of an episode.
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| Shipping fuel intensifies!!! |
Good parts:
- Spike and Big Mac spying on Sugar Belle was funny.
- Whole misunderstanding with the delivery.
- CMC's search for special-secret-somepony.
- Cut-out cardboard character created by Discord for "OnO".
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| Big Mac and Skellinore - the most two dimensional character of this episode. |
Not so good parts:
- Big Mac "break up" with Sugar Belle.
- Asshole Discord in some moments.
CONCLUSION
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| It's always heartbreaking to see a pony cry... *sniff-sniff* |
I'll give this one 4.5 stars out of 5. Not a perfect episode for sure, but fun to watch and enjoyable.
P.S. We get an obvious reference while CMC's search is on and it was very funny. Also I really like when Male 3 is entering the world of roleplaying fantasy. The imagination and vibrant world with giant D20 dices is just fun to me.
P.P.S. As you can see, I've put many screenshots into this "semi-review". I hope next time I'll deliver more text so the post won't be flooded with colorful pastel ponies (not that it's a bad thing).
Thanks for reading! ☺
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