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[Pony Ep. Quips] “Feeling Pinkie Keen”—Worth Salvaging?
Let’s air out the nasty truth: this episode (written by Dave Polsky) is full of mix-ups. It’s a case of useful (really, necessary) detail missing from a few scenes, compounded by straight-bad dialogue,...
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[Pony Ep. Quips] “Over a Barrel,” Analogy, and Irony
A PRELIMINARY NOTE: This post will be the last of the “Pony Ep. Quips” series for a bit of time. Season 3 is over, my obsession is with repeatedly viewing episodes for their discrete enjoyable elements...
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Madlax Review: Yeah, Bee Train Pretty Much Sucks at Trying to be Serious...
At least Mabel is humorous when she goes about it: I won’t lie—more than being absolutely terrible, this show is just fun to hate. I’d come across all three girls-with-guns series at various points in...
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Vapidity: A Young Justice (Invasion Finale) and Teen Titans Rant (a few...
A quick disclaimer, in case you were careless enough not even to pay attention to the title: this post, very precisely, is not commentary—though my analyzing tendencies will inevitably seep in. Don’t...
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Taking It Too Far: “Small Things,” Setting, and Characterization
Pontifus and Digibro(ny) posted a recent exchange over Tumblr discussing the search for and affirmation of verisimilitude in animation. Details, objects linking setting to characters. The general idea...
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