Other Notes and Observations Part 2
Anon
12/04/2023 (Mon) 04:23
No.8896
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Rarity’s scene I think might be the strongest when it comes to defying her archetype as I think she had the most “negative” stereotype with baggage to overcome. Heck, I remember her being still pretty disliked by a lot back in the earlier days even though she had her defenders because of being perceived as a selfish, [aspiring] spoiled rich girl and what have you. It is not that her or the other mane 6 don’t have charismatics and negative traits of there archetypes, but they (to varying degrees) can move past and aren’t totally defined by them is the point.
I want to highlight some of the animation ad effects here. I think even in Season 1 there is still some things of interest. Like the camera lens focus affect with Rainbow Dash looking at Twilight Sparkle . Twilight Sparkle’s small moment coming out of a teleport in her fight with Nightmare Moon really impressed me and I made a crappy video highlighting it. Excuse the black bar in some of this. I was using a very old copy of Friendship is Magic Part 1 and 2 that I found in a USB I had. It had some weird issues with a black bar ‘’sometimes'' appearing, along with other stuff. (It is also not HD). Still, point is, I think even in this very early part of the show the animation was still showing that extra effort. From little moments like that to just how more alive the backgrounds felt (which of course helped spawn our background ponies!). It still was more rougher and some different things were being tried at times (like the mostly coffined to Season 1 sidemouth expression).
One thing that I do find honestly haunting about this episode is how many stories were and are being told using it or playing around with its concepts. Especially around the scene with Nightmare Moon’s fight with Twilight Sparkle and the rest of the Mane 6. Think about it, how many times we have seen this be broken down and sometimes picked apart in fics and artwork. Over analyzed to death from poorly made Youtube theories to various arguments on forums and imageboards over the years. Or even just messing with and splicing that fight itself with a PMV set to a different song a choice of either Twilight’s destroying Nightmare Moon or sacrificing herself to save Luna. The people who made this did not know how important this would be and it is weird to think about how many other stories and such spring from this one episode and especially that fight. It ‘’might'’ be the most retold and analyzed part of Friendship is Magic though I might be getting ahead of myself there as I can think of other episodes that still might eclipse it; Season 2‘s intro and outro two parters for sure might.
I tried isolating the music from the to be continued recap at the bargaining. Me having no idea what I am doing and a couple audacity plugins probably don’t produce the best results. I haven't paid attention to the background music much but for some reason it has stuck out to me more on this rewatch.
Rarity’s scene I think might be the strongest when it comes to defying her archetype as I think she had the most “negative” stereotype with baggage to overcome. Heck, I remember her being still pretty disliked by a lot back in the earlier days even though she had her defenders because of being perceived as a selfish, [aspiring] spoiled rich girl and what have you. It is not that her or the other mane 6 don’t have charismatics and negative traits of there archetypes, but they (to varying degrees) can move past and aren’t totally defined by them is the point.
I want to highlight some of the animation ad effects here. I think even in Season 1 there is still some things of interest. Like the camera lens focus affect with Rainbow Dash looking at Twilight Sparkle . Twilight Sparkle’s small moment coming out of a teleport in her fight with Nightmare Moon really impressed me and I made a crappy video highlighting it. Excuse the black bar in some of this. I was using a very old copy of Friendship is Magic Part 1 and 2 that I found in a USB I had. It had some weird issues with a black bar ‘’sometimes'' appearing, along with other stuff. (It is also not HD). Still, point is, I think even in this very early part of the show the animation was still showing that extra effort. From little moments like that to just how more alive the backgrounds felt (which of course helped spawn our background ponies!). It still was more rougher and some different things were being tried at times (like the mostly coffined to Season 1 sidemouth expression).
One thing that I do find honestly haunting about this episode is how many stories were and are being told using it or playing around with its concepts. Especially around the scene with Nightmare Moon’s fight with Twilight Sparkle and the rest of the Mane 6. Think about it, how many times we have seen this be broken down and sometimes picked apart in fics and artwork. Over analyzed to death from poorly made Youtube theories to various arguments on forums and imageboards over the years. Or even just messing with and splicing that fight itself with a PMV set to a different song a choice of either Twilight’s destroying Nightmare Moon or sacrificing herself to save Luna. The people who made this did not know how important this would be and it is weird to think about how many other stories and such spring from this one episode and especially that fight. It ‘’might'’ be the most retold and analyzed part of Friendship is Magic though I might be getting ahead of myself there as I can think of other episodes that still might eclipse it; Season 2‘s intro and outro two parters for sure might.
I tried isolating the music from the to be continued recap at the bargaining. Me having no idea what I am doing and a couple audacity plugins probably don’t produce the best results. I haven't paid attention to the background music much but for some reason it has stuck out to me more on this rewatch.