Thoughts on My Little Pony Season 4 Episode 4

Thoughts on MLP: FIM Season 4 episode 4

A Daring Do episode? Well, I like her design, so this shouldn't be that bad.

The plot starts off with Rainbow Dash being excited with the fact that she only has to wait four more months for the next book in the Daring Do series. She forces Fluttershy to listen to her talk about the series in a way that basically comes off as verbally masturbating to it. After that, she walks to Twilight's home, where they are having a holiday party about a holiday that doesn't exist. Here, Dashie learns that the book is delayed for two more months, and she freaks out.

Ah, so the humor is basically showing us the more obsessive side of the MLP fandom? It might've been funny for some, but in my opinion, the joke was far too long to be funny. Hell, it still persists throughout the rest of the episode. I found this to be extremely cringeworthy, but it's a good job of representing bronies who explode with excitement when the show is mentioned in real life.

After some research, they figure out where A.K. Yearling(Daring Do's real name) lives, and they go into the forest to find it. Once they get there, they find that the place is trashed, and A.K. 47 is no where to be found. After about a minute, 47 walks inside, assuming that the main six caused the wreckage. Rainbow Dash fangasms and tries to get Daring to finish the next book, but Twilight takes her outside to tell her that she is being a rude asshole. After the group goes outside to give the author some peace, a band of generic looking stallions attack Agent 47, and she does a decent job at fighting them, until Rainbow Dash says her name, causing her to fail and lose a precious ring to the leader of the generic looking dudes. They leave, and the gun now has an injured leg, though tried to get the ring back by herself. She tells the others to not help her, and that she works by herself.

A reference to the person that does the Harry Potter series? I guess it'd make sense...

Also, the fight made the main six come off as easily distractible idiots, since it seemed like Daring Do would need help in the fight, yet all they did was watch 47 get her assed kicked in awe.

Despite her wishes, the main six decide to go help, with the gay pony rushing and flying ahead. Daring spots her and agrees to let our favorite lesbian be with her, but only if she doesn't get in the way. JK Rowling puts mud and leaves on her face, becoming the opposite of a cute trap, hoping to get the ring back by paying the thieves. It works, but they are interrupted by a giant monkey with noses for his eyes, and the thieves run off with the money, never to be scene again. Indiana Jones 2.0 fights off some of monkey man's pets, but loses when RD tries to "help". She gets tied up and is taken back to the villains lair.

Honestly, I wanted to slap Rainbow Dash for thinking that interrupting a fight to give Daring her hat back would be worth it.

Our "hero" meets up with the others, but doesn't want to help anymore. Everyone convinces her to help some more, and they go to the temple that contains the adventurer.

The scene cuts to Daring Do being help up by chains above some piranha filled waters. She breaks out, and right before she gets herself eaten out on accident, Dashie flies in and brings her to a safe platform. During this, the others find the area that the villain is in, and they stop the creatures from using the ring to cause havoc. Rainbow Dash and her tan-colored clone sneak through the fighting and destroy the machine that would use the rings to cause said havoc. The temple is destroyed, and the enemy swears that he'll get Daring Do for this.

The episode ends with our cyan colored pone writing friendship lesso-er, journal entry, and she gets the new book a week early, with her being on the cover.

Eh, it was alright. All of the main events were rather...predictable.

It was too easy to tell that Rainbow Dash would mess up Daring Do's plan, and it was even easier to tell that she would make up for her mistake. It's difficult to actually come up with a different scenario that could still be exciting, though, so I guess this can be (mildly) forgiven.

*Edit: Actually, scratch that. The same exact overall events happen in "A Friend in Deed". Both episodes went:

>Pony X wants to help Y
>X fucks over Y
>X makes up for this fuck up.

And the predictability is now a minor flaw and not just nitpicking. *Edit over*

And now we have RD's fangasms. Yay...

In the whole episode, Rainbow Dash is fangirling about Daring Do(both the book and thee person), with numerous moments being dedicated to events that happened in the made up books. About 90% of the parts where Dashie talks is about her jerking herself off to her favorite book series. This is played for laughs when she and Twilight talk about the book events really fast at one point, and no one besides them understands what the hell they are talking about. This was emphasized by the fact that the others just looked at them with blank expressions, and Pinkie says something random that basically means that the two are right. Like I said above, this was a good representation of the fandom, but I found it to be pretty meh on the funny factor.

Overall, I found nothing wrong with the other parts of the episode(music, animation, etc.), though the animators used newer expressions/faces for Rainbow Dash, and they both look fucking stupid in my opinion. I think I saw a IWTCIRD pose though, so that's somewhat good.

I give this episode a six/seven out of ten.

The first three episodes were better, in my opinion.

*Another Edit: Why the hell is Rainbow Dash calm around more famous people(the wonderbolts), but she fangirls over Daring Do? She likes them equally, so it'd make sense that she's have an equal reaction to both.*

*Another stupid edit: This one was brought up by an Anon. To prevent the ring from being used for evil, Daring destroys it after she gets it back. The problem is that the villian needed a bunch of rings, and even if one was missing, then the device wouldn't work. This raises the question "WHY FUCK DIDN'T SHE DESTROY THE RING EARLIER?!"*

No more BS edits. This is my final opinion.