Mlp Party Pooped Review.

Before we begin, there was one thing that really stood out to me about this episode. That being, the, horrible, never ending, grotesque, faces, being pulled, all, the, damn, time. I don’t have any clue why this episode has such an obsession with exaggerated expressions but watching this episode makes me feel like I am watching an insane asylum.

But that’s only skin deep.. let us look at.. the “story”.

The main thing going on in this episode is the arrival of the yak prince and his response to the ponies (mishandled) hospitality. That isn’t a bad premise to start with but it feels like they didn’t really add enough to it.

To me, the main ‘issue’ of this story was as clear as day and it was exasperating to sit through the many failed attempts and pathetic attempts of the leads to try and figure out what to do.*

The main personal arc (with PP) feels almost tacked on to this story. The majority of her depicted journey is physical (rather than mental) and it feels like she ‘discovers’ the obvious in a very egocentric and preachy manner.

I am a little lost as to how to slice this episode beyond this...

If say this were supposed to be Pinkie Pie’s story...

Then we didn’t spend that much time with her... because a lot of time was given to following the rest of the M6.

What she was ‘doing’ was mostly just traveling... and her journey is just... full of stupid. Just look at the cannon map of Equestria. She has limited time and wants to go north, so she goes south (she’s a moron) to Dodge Junction. Ironically Dodge Junction isn’t even a junction according to the map, it’s a dead end and it’s about as far as Appleloosa which took day & night to reach in the past. But.. erm... now there’s sheep in the way (of the front of the train.. that just arrived.. meaning they are blocking the way to the dead end). Luckily though Cherry Jubilee was just about to set out to TCE by carriage (that would take forever!), so she hitches a lift with the swiftly asleep crew (they are also morons). Luckily (again) they were saved by the Wonderflops and they took her to Manehatten... oh why am I explaining this? This sequence is bananas. I don’t give a toss about any of the stages of this journey and in the end she just slides all the way back on a skid, making it ALL completely pointless! Basically this whole journey was just padding and it’s all so contrived and hammy that it becomes tiresome.

Ugh.. this episode it is all just such a clusterfuck. I thought that things couldn’t get much worse from last episode, but I was wrong. Last time they at least only focused on Spike and told a simple tale with a dumb twist at the end. This time.. they chucked everyone into a mind numbing tedium until the inevitable (and expected) conclusion. Everything feels so empty... except for those insane faces leering at me from the back of my mind... who could be that stupid to accept this as a central plot point? Pinkie was part of a band... for some reason... suddenly Cadence, a creature and a little yak... it all doesn’t make sense, there’s no rhyme or reason... it’s all an insane ramble!

*This might though be an issue of cultural relativism type stuff... I’ve grown up in multicultural Britain (which is also near many other countries/cultures). It is a natural instinct to me; that you shouldn’t serve someone from Japan; rice (they are pretty used to rice and they probably have much better sources and cooks for it at home).
I would guess however this might be vastly different to the intended audience, kids from the vast (though generally (more) culturally homogenous) United States.
Still, I would like to imagine that the main conflict of this episode should become pretty apparent pretty quickly to almost everyone, particularly given how hard they try to hammer it home... even if the yaks are ludicrously intolerant...