Talk:The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows/@comment-10390252-20151018133621

Okay, I finally got to see this episode. Between glitchy streams (0.5 frames/second? WTH?) and Flashplayer being more buggy than that ant farm, it was impossible to watch it live yesterday.

This was a wonderful comedy. Mostly a Pinkie Pie character piece that really did a great job of getting in her scatty head and giving us a small insight into the unique personal reality of this most remarkable pony. We're reminded yet again how much socialisation, social niceties and happiness means to Pinkie and the lengths she'll go to in order to ensure that everypony around her is happy.

There were lots of nice little moments. I enjoyed Pinkie's new 'Ping-Pong Ball' move as well as her demonstrations of her natural inventiveness in problem-solving. Her relationship with the Baby Cakes was uber-cute as was the babies playing along with what the adults do. I also enjoyed Pinkie's sometimes-random behaviour and her leaning on the 4th Wall. The last fade-out scene reminds us, of course, that Pinkie Pie is The Pony That Knows It's All A TV Show.

Shining Armour also had a nice little bit of characterisation in this episode. He's shown as perceptive enough to see something is up with Pinkie and guess what it is. He's also shown as being kind and loving as well as the stern commander we've seen before.

Some other things that came to mind watching the episode:


 * 1) Was that Moondancer with Thunderlane at the colt's birthday party by the lake? Ship ahoy!
 * 2) Hoof-operated crossbows as a broadly-available Earth Pony sidearm confirmed;
 * 3) Pinkie is Ms Organisation and apparently has a role awaiting her in local government;
 * 4) Equish (fanon name for the Equestrian language) uses a character set that looks like a very distorted Roman character set (some letters mirror-written); is this a hint of an ancient connection with Earth?

Overall, G M Berrow did a great job with this episode. It couldn't have been as epic as last week's offering but it was a great Pinkie Pie vehicle that showed the character to good advantage without letting her be a shallow 'zany pony' cliché.

BenRG's Rating: 8.5/10