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Maud Pie is quickly becoming one of my favourite secondary characters, as every time she is introduced she ends up bringing more unique humour to the episode. I have yet to see her written poorly, and with three writers for this one episode, everything turned out surprisingly consistent. The fact that Maud presents everything with a Deadpan snark never fails to make me laugh, but there are enough different ways this humour is used to keep it fresh, as well as giving her extra depth in the way she talks about geology. You can tell she has a passion, and she DOES have emotions, she just expresses it in different, more subtle ways.
This also helps to further contrast and develop Pinkie Pie's actions, since she now is directing her love and joy for others towards getting a wonderful gift for her sister. It's rare that we get to see other Ponies in the background reacting to Pinkie's behaviour, but now we actually get a glimpse of the police being alerted to her hyperactive frustrations. This leads me to think that while most of Ponyville know this is just Pinkie being Pinkie, those in Manehatten aren't so well versed. This also serves to set up the contrast for when Pinkie feels depressed for sacrificing her party canon, with a hilarious role switch with Rarity to demonstrate how there really is something wrong!
Rarity's involvement does seem to be more of a supporting role to give Pinkie another pony besides Maud to interact with, as her goal of setting up a shop in Manehatten was more or less just a reason for her to be there to begin with. It would have been interesting to see this get a little more development, which we may do in future episodes, but it does make this reasoning feel a bit half hearted when she could have stated this was just a secondary reason instead of her primary one. I also do wonder why Pinkie couldn't just ask Rarity to make her a new rock pouch for Maud, considering that she is an expert seamstress and all!
In spite of all this, I think the reaction of Maud to insist on Pinkie being happy over her own gift shows just the level of love she has for her sister. Plus the whole Maud sense aspect really brings up many possibilities about how a form of Earth Pony magic runs in the Pie family, adding to many hilarious moments where it seems any pony can bend the laws of physics to teleport behind ponies as they so choose!
I'm pretty satisfied with this episode to say the least, so I'd give it a grade of a straight A.
This also helps to further contrast and develop Pinkie Pie's actions, since she now is directing her love and joy for others towards getting a wonderful gift for her sister. It's rare that we get to see other Ponies in the background reacting to Pinkie's behaviour, but now we actually get a glimpse of the police being alerted to her hyperactive frustrations. This leads me to think that while most of Ponyville know this is just Pinkie being Pinkie, those in Manehatten aren't so well versed. This also serves to set up the contrast for when Pinkie feels depressed for sacrificing her party canon, with a hilarious role switch with Rarity to demonstrate how there really is something wrong!
Rarity's involvement does seem to be more of a supporting role to give Pinkie another pony besides Maud to interact with, as her goal of setting up a shop in Manehatten was more or less just a reason for her to be there to begin with. It would have been interesting to see this get a little more development, which we may do in future episodes, but it does make this reasoning feel a bit half hearted when she could have stated this was just a secondary reason instead of her primary one. I also do wonder why Pinkie couldn't just ask Rarity to make her a new rock pouch for Maud, considering that she is an expert seamstress and all!
In spite of all this, I think the reaction of Maud to insist on Pinkie being happy over her own gift shows just the level of love she has for her sister. Plus the whole Maud sense aspect really brings up many possibilities about how a form of Earth Pony magic runs in the Pie family, adding to many hilarious moments where it seems any pony can bend the laws of physics to teleport behind ponies as they so choose!
I'm pretty satisfied with this episode to say the least, so I'd give it a grade of a straight A.
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This episode made up the lack of good episode for pinkie in season 5. Let's hope spike gets the same treatment.