Talk:Bats (song)/@comment-24793448-20140409042919

There are some things that I genuinely enjoy about this song. The first thing I like about it is that the tone is much darker than your typical FIM song often giving off a very Tim Burton/Danny Elfman kind of vibe. I love Danny Elfman (he's one of my favorite movie composers) and you can definitely hear the Nightmare Before Christmas influences here. At one point I even expected to see Jack Skellington come out onscreen and burst into song with Fluttershy helping her by supporting the bats. Another thing I enjoy is how it's set up where when Fluttershy is singing it's very bright, cheery, and colorful (as it should be) but while Applejack and the others are voicing their negative thoughts on the bats everything becomes all grey, gloom, and doom once again with a strong Tim Burton feel to it. The song is also very catchy. One of the few gripes that I would have is the hate-filled language that's directed towards the bats as I personally grew up loving them. I mean god Applejack gets to the point where she calls the bats mean as sin and I was like "Wow that's kind of dark for a kid's show". Of course this probably is just the ponies' own misunderstanding of the bats. Another major problem that I have is that no one sides with Fluttershy AGAIN but they all gang up against her. I was definitely feeling uncomfortable when the other 5 started circling her while repetetively chanting "Stop the bats!  Stop the bats!  Make them go and not come back." Plus why is it soo hard for these people to write Twilight in character. You'd think that she would be the most understanding of the group after an episode like Bridle Gossip but here she's just being a jerk like everyone else (except for Pinkie Pie who, when you see her smiling while singing, you get the idea that in her naivete she just decided to join in with the singing because she likes to sing and that's what everyone else was doing). Not to mention the fact that they gang up on Fluttershy to the point where she's cowering on the ground trembling and no one wants to see that. So yeah no knocks against the song itself but what went on around it could've been handled better.