SigmasonicX
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This was a pretty good episode, much more so than I was expecting, with a lot of fun visuals. I was impressed by the way they justified including Applejack and Fluttershy, with the latter insisting that Flim and Flam needed help and the former looking for anyone with a problem but those two, and without both, they wouldn't have uncovered the larger problem. It's odd that the activity book summarizing this episode specifically stated that Applejack and Fluttershy didn't know in the end why the map sent them there.
It's clever how, to get around depicting gambling in a children's show, they instead turn Las Pegasus into a big amusement park, with claw machines and other children's games replacing slot machines. And DDR. I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't get a part with Fluttershy becoming addicted to the games and spending all of their bits or something.
I wonder if Impossibly Rich is real. It was Filthy Rich's great-grandfather(?), Stinkin' Rich, that started the family fortune, so there's certainly room for relatives.
Gladmane's scheme is similar to Sunset Shimmer's in the first Equestria Girls movie, where she split up the Humane Five until Twilight got them back together, and it partially has the same problem that they easily could have just talked things out, but it makes more sense here. He was making everyone suspicious of each other, as opposed to causing conflicts with single large events that could easily be traced back to him if anyone even tried to look, and he made them trust him. Plus, you know, he actually had an in-universe motive for doing this, unlike Sunset. The only potential issue was the animal trainers not realizing Gladmane was lying about the different routines.
I saw coming a mile away that the real trick was catching Gladmane gloating, but I love that it involved Fluttershy very obviously reaching over his desk to press his speaker button.
Flim and Flam were used well here, especially in how they were used to justify the heroes discovering Gladmane's scheme. This is their first speaking appearance without a song, which surprised me, since I thought that was their thing.
Oh, and once again, I'm busy this week, so don't expect an episode roundup until Wednesday.
It's clever how, to get around depicting gambling in a children's show, they instead turn Las Pegasus into a big amusement park, with claw machines and other children's games replacing slot machines. And DDR. I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't get a part with Fluttershy becoming addicted to the games and spending all of their bits or something.
I wonder if Impossibly Rich is real. It was Filthy Rich's great-grandfather(?), Stinkin' Rich, that started the family fortune, so there's certainly room for relatives.
Gladmane's scheme is similar to Sunset Shimmer's in the first Equestria Girls movie, where she split up the Humane Five until Twilight got them back together, and it partially has the same problem that they easily could have just talked things out, but it makes more sense here. He was making everyone suspicious of each other, as opposed to causing conflicts with single large events that could easily be traced back to him if anyone even tried to look, and he made them trust him. Plus, you know, he actually had an in-universe motive for doing this, unlike Sunset. The only potential issue was the animal trainers not realizing Gladmane was lying about the different routines.
I saw coming a mile away that the real trick was catching Gladmane gloating, but I love that it involved Fluttershy very obviously reaching over his desk to press his speaker button.
Flim and Flam were used well here, especially in how they were used to justify the heroes discovering Gladmane's scheme. This is their first speaking appearance without a song, which surprised me, since I thought that was their thing.
Oh, and once again, I'm busy this week, so don't expect an episode roundup until Wednesday.
