So, after achieving lv. 25 on survival mode (MW3) I just realized that I was having real strategic fun, that German-shopping mall map with the chemical gas attacks is quite difficult but darn fun.
And YES!, I completed the Submarine spec-ops mission on veteran.
Now into pony agenda:
Considering Rocket to Insanity and that other, much more recent one both got featured, I don't.
According to what I've heard, Seth has blind consideration when it comes to Cupcakes related things after March/April, even if well written they are not admissible(as far as I heard).
Twilight and Luna both basically act as Mr. Expositions, yes, but I'm curious why you felt that way about Rarity. I thought her role in the two stories was quite good, A Precious Rainbow in particular; having her drop everything and call in as many favours as she could to help the best way she can.
Rarity work under the basis of being the element of "generosity", but I'm not really sure if she follows the correct speech and attitude at times, yes she follows what we seen in
"Suited For Success" but I don't think such situation opens for that kind of intrusion on Rarity's behalf, I can see her more as a booster for the relationship between AJ/RD, in that sense it work best and with the right speech it could complement better its role in the story.
I think the problem with the memorial is that Dash dropped the subject quite abruptly. She was clearly shattered emotionally even before Luna reported her findings and drove Rainbow even deeper into depression, and I don't think it made sense for her to let it go as easily/readily as she ended up doing. Gummy acted sort of as a Deus Ex Machina to snap Rainbow out of her funk, and I don't think he should have been utilized that way.:
Dash was torn up pretty badly about both whether she was to blame for all of it and whether Pinkie deserved to be demonized, and for her to drop the issue so quickly after she was tasked with caring for Gummy just seemed... dumb.
It really is my biggest problem with the story.
Not dumb but lacking, the problem as I pointed out before is the
Monument which should not be the centre of RD's PTSD because it merely works as a resemblance of the tragedy, rather than the character behind it(Pinkie Pie). However I sort of understand a reasoning trend to give Gummy the value of "mental healing" plot device, which was a more plausible under the basis of using him as a flashback-resemblance of Pinkie, in that way (then adding the monument issue) the story works much better.
I thought that one was quite interesting. I... I really don't know what to make of it.
On the one hand, I do think that it is a logical evolution of all the crap that happened between them and that it flows naturally from that. Maybe not the most appropriate train of events, but I do think that it makes sense from the emotional/psychological point of view.
On the other hand, I have to seriously question the author's attempt to shoehorn the subplot into the backstory of Cupcakes/A Precious Rainbow, because I don't think it was necessary or that it works; and it also dilutes Rainbow and AJ's "feelings" for each other by turning it into another "they loved each other all along" story. Ordinarily I don't have any problem with that (because AppleDash), but I think the story would have been far stronger without the retcon because it torpedoes a lot of character development for no real reason.
As far as the sorta-cloppiness goes... I don't know what to think. I really don't. I can see why the author did it (as a sort of interpersonal trust yardstick between the two), and it makes Rainbow's nightmare about Pinkie right after much more poignant than it would have been otherwise; but I'm having difficulty wrapping my mind around the concept that such a thing could be of tangible benefit to the story and not just clop material. I don't think it was the latter, but I feel like I have to justify to myself why it wasn't.
Well some of the tangential stories are a bit off but keep the continuity, I see soft-clop/hard-ship chapter more like fan service with continuity attached to it, which works but is a bit "overdone" (with the whole nightmare/AppleJack being selfish bits).
I'm more intrigued about
the diary(cant remember the name) chapter/story which was by far more off, it followed the continuity but the amounts of grimdark were not necessary (I'm aware that this chapter links directly this story with Cupcakes, but the story itself became useless to the continuity because it doesn't add anything at all to the rest of the stories/chapters).
I'll just go ahead and say it; I really like he mane.
Evil expression is more appealing, I can feel her planing/trolling.
Also:
My chest!
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*Goes back to Beatles Abbey Road*)
