Talk:Maud Pie/@comment-4531340-20140316012810

It was certainly nice to see a character that was likeable, even if she wasn't the most excitable character (and actually, Maud's stonefaced [ha!] nature played really, really well off Pinkie's). It was also nice to see a lot of deadpan humor courtesy of Maud, as this show doesn't really go for that kind of humor usually (so it was a nice treat, is what I'm saying).

Also, I liked the ending; I've noticed season four has a tendency to have more "mature", for lack of a better word, endings (and not mature as in explicit, obviously, but rather endings that show a lot of maturity on the show's part. Take Flight to the Finish, for example - had this been any other season, I honestly would've expected it to end with Scootaloo finally learning how to fly; but it didn't, and works so much better because of it). In the case of this episode, they don't fundamentally change Maud, and it works so well - it goes to show that different people have different ways of conveying emotion, and there's nothing wrong with that (also, the message that sometimes, all you need is one thing in common with another person to bond with them was a good one, I felt).

Finally, one random observation I made: I literally had to pause my DVR, I was laughing so hard when I saw the carrot "cigar" that one bunny had during the poker scene towards the end; not that other scenes didn't do that for me, it's just that one stuck out most in my mind.

I think that a lot of very good humor comes from when Pinkie Pie is given a sort of straightpony to play off of (Pinkie Apple Pie and now this episode have reinforced that to me), as that just makes her antics that much funnier (in the case of the former episode, it was from the Apple family's attempts to appear "normal" to Pinkie, and their squabbles over it, along with Pinkie's hilarious obliviousness, that did it for me, I think). Of course, when Pinkie is given a pony like her to play off of (like in Pinkie Pride), that's perhaps even more entertaining, but much less sustainable.