>>10602
>Alright, this maybe more rambly than normal but that is the /endpone/ way
In our discussions it's serving as a sort of nexus of all sort of more abstract feelings, thus the rambling, and perhaps embodying those ethereal sensations so well is the "missing puzzle piece" of why I like the show so much. It's comfy, it's epic, it's got great worldbuilding, etc, all that is true but it doesn't quite do enough to explain the special place in my heart I have for it. Other things belonging to my absolute favourites like Space Force: Wings of Honneamise and The Wheel of Time tap into similar hard-to-pin-down emotional resonance. Honestly just those three might be my chosen examples of what I'm talking about, I feel like it's exceptionally rare, though I'd have to double check my memory in case I can think of other examples.
>I think that is my favorite aspect of this; a low stakes and comfy adventure.
It's interesting that within the context of the episode, it's essentially a world-threatening event, at least the world as we know it so far. It's telling that the world serves as such an effective comfyness-protector - in this way it facilitates not only the mechanics of the story, but also the overall spirit of the show too.
>>10602

>albeit within the episode Twilight didn't lose faith in Fluttershy so much as Fluttershy overcame her own fear to protect her friends
Perhaps in a way, Fluttershy's faith in her friends helped her do what she did, a feeling that they would do the same for her, or maybe given that she's been hiding whilst they go into the cave that they HAVE been doing the same for her, and such is her faith in them that she can no longer stand to hide and cower when their efforts fail.
>>10603
>Permanent name change, I don't know? I just felt like calling it that today over "Odds and Ends."
I like it, much as I like this sort of segment! It's worth saying since I often won't have anything to add, despite finding it enjoyable reading. I'm just not as good at spotting animation details, and that precisely is why it's a joy to read the perspective of someone who is gifted in that regard!
>>10604
>a model for canon, if you will.
There's a point! I could see it working well with Gundam, it kind of already has a similar approach in Turn A, and perhaps things like Star Wars too, where old expanded universe stuff can be regarded as belonging to the rolling-canon of the original trilogy whilst leaving out the prequels and sequels and all that sort of malarkey.
>Most fans I've seen either try to reconcile it as one package or hate the show as non-canon past a certain point.
In this regard I think multiple fandom experience can be helpful, as with Doctor Who I think the fans approach something closer to my view in their approaches to the show, simply because with a show that long and vast, it reaches an event horizon where figuring out a coherent singular canon has long since passed beyond the realm of possibility. It's a curse and a blessing in a way - the Twilight Zone is basically early Doctor Who without the titular Doctor as a framing device, and whilst it had less longevity, it also remained much more coherent, though partly through there being not much of a canon to speak of to begin with.