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@Background Pony #13BA
20. To Grandmare’s House We Go
19. I Just Can’t Wait for Wishentine’s Day
18. Pony Love
17. A Special Tune
16. Make Your Mark Theme Song
15. Everything is Gonna Be Okay
14. With Each Other
13. Where’d It Go?
12. Show Me Your Pony Moves
11. Portrait Day
10. It All Takes Time
9. All You Need is Your Beat
8. Joyous Wishentine
7. Iconic
6. Mane Family
5. Starshine Time
4. Villain
3. Hooves Together
2. Magic in Us

What makes dead last is easy, since Winter Wishday’s Joyous Wishentine is the only really remarkable song. After that, rankings start getting tough until we get to my all-time favorite songs. Magic in Us, I believe needs no explanation, and With a Little Creativity is something I’ve listened to so many times because it is joy incarnate, the perfect Izzy song. I also double-checked, these are all twenty of the songs that were on the list I read with remixes not counted.

@CloudMistDragon
Agreed, I really like Sean James Boyer’s and Benjamin Pinkerton’s score (moreso than I did William Anderson’s for FiM). Now I wonder if they’re going to release Heitor Pereira’s score for ANG

@WestRail642fan
agreed although I’m finding the new mane less jarring as time goes on.

@CloudMistDragon
Speaking of which, how would you rank them?

Very good to see MYM’s fantastic soundtrack getting this honor. :)

Seriously, the music in the show is SO GOOD. I can’t think of any song from it I haven’t listened to well more than once.

It was a fun adventure-filled episode.

@WestRail642fan
I did like old mane Misty a lot. I don’t think her new mane color is bad, but the contrast between that color and her coat is a bit jarring.

@TheQuietMan
For being called “TheQuietMan”, you sure are very vocal

@TheQuietMan
So you’re actively not watching it while actively criticizing it and now, you’re criticizing other people for praising it. You know that this is the kind of thing a troll does, right? If this is about not giving the show attention in an attempt to boycott it, why aren’t you also ignoring discussion of it? We’re going to like the show, no one’s forcing you to like the show, so just don’t engage with discussion of the show. Even if you strongly disagree with someone, you can at least respect how they’re voicing their opinions in a constructive manner and not say something if you don’t have anything nice to say.

i’ll die on this hill but i prefer old mane Misty

@TheQuietMan
In Power Ponies, we’re never given a reason for them to fix up the royal sisters’ old castle. The premise of them fixing it up is abandoned, and it never comes up again. It only happens to fill four and a half minutes, and so that Spike can feel unappreciated, and then an isekai story comes out of nowhere for no other reason than to give Spike a chance to be useful. More than five minutes of the episode’s runtime is dedicated to dumping exposition for characters that will never come up again. You could explain what these characters can do in thirty seconds, and most of the powers are just things the characters could already do. Then the magic comics thing never comes up again. You could cut it down to five minutes and not lose a thing. You’re right. I do just arbitrarily think G5 does things better.

No issues with pacing or a lack of substance here. It’s just a massive coincidence that the most replayed part is two minutes from the end, and that the rest of the episode is a dead zone.

Not sure how, given that Suited for Success and Simple Ways are both G4 episodes.

@Dragonpone
I’ll be honest, I don’t actually hate the show. But when it became the replacement main show, that’s when it started. And I’m refusing to watch it until G5 ends, there’s an actual new main show or if I can watch it somewhere else than Netflix and YouTube. I’ll watch MYM 10 more times if I have to.

@TheQuietMan
@TheQuietMan
When you’re trying to criticize the objectivity of someone else’s review, it’s just the littest bit hypocritical to state that you haven’t watched the episode yourself, and are going solely off your own negative biases about the show to try to call them out.

Where else could I watch it besides the official sources? Surprisingly, that site thinks TYT is so bad in their eyes, none of them were apparently even worth archiving. Even the comics starting from Kenbucky Roller Derby onwards weren’t stored there.

@CloudMistDragon
Neither?

@TheQuietMan
Did you even watch the episode he’s praising or are you just reproving him because the episode he lauded is a TYT episode?

@DerpyFast
Ya know? G5 could do episodes like Daring Doubt and The Cutie Re-Mark down to the premise, climax and resolution and you’ll still praise it for being better simply because “it’s G5 doing it, so it has to be better” is how I’m seeing it.

@DerpyFast
And you just proved my point yourself.

@Mr.Myoozik
Surprisingly dark implication for this lighthearted pony show, but you can mitigate the dark aspect of it by imagining that it’s like dying in an RPG video game. “Death should not have taken thee” is a Dragon Quest reference for those who don’t know.

@CloudMistDragon
Also, the ending where she’s surprised that all are still alive, which implies that there were others before them who took on the same quest and didn’t make it out alive

@Mr.Myoozik
I love how she addresses them then comments on how they’re still alive. Wonder if part of her job is telling ponies like them something like “death should not have taken thee” when they fail.

@WestRail642fan
I liked her, I thought she was funny

Book Fairy is cute

Has anyone else here wondered if Misty’s bunny outfit is a reference to the getup of the gadabout (originally called goof-off) from Dragon Quest?

Seriously, if she was intended to be a toned down Playboy bunny, that would be hilarious. XD

@Dragonpone
As far as I know, the algorithm rewards videos based off of how long someone has watched the video, which explains why a lot of video essays and analysis videos tend to clock in at around half an hour or longer and it gives advertisers more space to put in their ads. For TYT’s case, I don’t know how much it makes Hasbro money using this system, but since animation is a lengthy and expensive process, that may be one reason why the episodes tend to be short. Plus, I want to guess and say that Hasbro makes most of their profits from merch sales than anything.

@Mr.Myoozik
I might be dating myself, but isn’t ~10 minutes seen as the best length for Youtube videos anyway (if for no other reason than the ability to include more ads)? I thought that was one of the major reasons Let’s Players got so big, they were playing to the algorithm.

Actually it just now occurs to me that I know very little about the big influencer-type Youtubers to get popular in the last ~10 years. Maybe 5 minutes is the new normal.

I also want to say that I liked the Book Fairy, I thought she was funny

@Dragonpone
While I can kinda get why they make it short, make it more palatable for the target audience who watches it on YouTube Kids, the fact that they made the special the same length as a standard episode and have it be successful shows that they are capable of making longer episodes if they want.