There we are again, today's episode is "Daring do" (I meant "Daring Don't")
That's the fourth episode of season 4 of course. Let's go!
A: Without any further ado. B: Right.
And 3,2,1 - Let's go!
B: Huh? Oh, they are supposed to learn how to fly! A: Okay...
Cute!
Fluttershy... make up your mind.
Ah, she doesn't know at all what the fuss is about.
Uh-huh.
B: Whoah, look! A: Okay, how does she do that?
B: Well, she just...used her tail... A: Want some as well?
Yeah.
Arizodo... yeah...or Ahuizotl, however.
B: Yeah, right.... A: Oh, look out!
A: Haha, the birds!
B: Okay, the birds can fly now. A: That's a clever way to do that bird gag...
...when someone...gets hurt. Whatever.
A: I forgot the lyrics and have no idea why. B: -mumbles a sentence she doesn't finish-
Yeah, even more ponies!
I have to sing this more often, apparently. Then I won't forget the lyrics anymore.
B: That's the same with bronies and the series. A: Exactly, very good comparison.
B: 3 days (til S4) ...2 days... aaahh! A: Hey, look! AJ is dancing!
It's a random party, what else.
"National random holiday party" -translates into german-
A: Pinkie just wants to throw a party. B: Dude, what a hat!
B: Doesn't really fit to you, Applejack. A: I think it's cool...it's a partyhat.
A: Look, they all wear party clothing. B: Yeah...
Heh, she can vouch for that.
Hehe, the face! Hrm!
Yup, right.
And I know everything about J.K. Rowling! (Big Harry Potter Fan)
Shes totally bothered and doesn't care at all. How mean.
ASAP means "As soon as possible"--- - translates and explains what RD wants to do -
Ok, supporting the book author it is.
Ok, that's a red line like in those Indiana Jones movies when they travel by plane. Interesting...
Flying in a plane? Is that possible in Equestria? OK, it's Pinkie.
A: Oh Pinkie! B: Why are you doing that, Pinkie?!
Ok, let's just give a fuck about privacy, visit some star and break in.
WHat?!
Somebody already broke in, apparently.
Hoo-wee.
That was a lame "Whoo-Wee".
I don't know... is she that messy? Could be...
Okay, I beleve her for once.
...not.
Hehe! That face!
That grin!
Er... okayy.
Magic book ideas? What's... that looks like an artifact or so... a ring?
What's that supposed to be now? Inspiration?
That typewriter only has two keys, how is that possible? How do you write with that?
Oh well...
The burglars! Okay, so it really isn't her fault?
They don't look too nice.
A: What kind of cutie marks are that? B: But...she looks like Daring Do!
She's yellow...
Ok....
She IS Daring Do!
A: What?? B: Okayyy....
Daring Do is real?! She's not a fictional charakter?
A: Mine too. - mumbles - B: Yeah right. You knew it, Rainbow Dash.
My mind is officially blown too... by so much ludicrousness.
It can't be true that she's real!
Is that a play, or... is that true?
Private play for a fan? Who randomly comes by and you weren't informed about the visit? Can't be.
That looks serious.
What kind of an artifact is that?
Doctor Cabelleron, okayy...
The way she grins!
Okay, so he wanted to team up with her, but she didn't want to.
She has the same mane like Rainbow Dash.
She looks like a clone of Rainbow Dash. Back then I thought that Rainbow Dash imagined herself to be
Daring Do, but not that she's real!
B: She has the same eye color. A: Yes....right!
Ok, that thing is able to produce a huge amount of heat somehow... that artifact, if used in a certain way.
Yes, it should be about time.
They just sat at the window, gawking like they were watching TV...
She's very much like Rainbow Dash even, I think.
A: Very similar. B: Yeah...
A: What... I ... I just don't get that she's real now. She is supposed to be a fictional character.
Okay, I don't understand it anymore. They're battling themselves with fan knowledge.
Too much english (which I don't know). ...expert knowledge.
Pinkie understands it all, of course. Sure!
Usually she doesn't get anything but here she got it all....okayy.....
I assume that Pinkie is a reader of that book series as well. But...
The author writes about herself? Whatever for?
I mean the archeologist.
B: Ts, what is she doing? A: Ow, that must...yeah, that must hurt.
B: What is she doing there all the time?
Don't you notice that she looks almost exactly as you?! Do you ever look into a mirror?
I would address that at least: "Hey, you are a doppelganger!" ...Or not. Anyway.
Maybe they are...
...shape blind or so...
Eheh, er...awkward.
Not like that! Don't run yourself down!
Whoah....that was mean.
Oh come on... she's nice. A little bit annoying maybe.
Heh, they're eating hay.
Finally they're eating hay and behave like real ponies.
Oh well... those aren't real ponies for me anymore. They're more like an alien race to me you could say.
Which ist faintly reminiscent of horses.
Yep, just shut up for once.
Is that supposed to be a beard? Doesn't look convincing to me.
It works?!
Or not...
What the?! He's real, too?!?
A: REALLY?! B: Seems so. Or it's all just...
A: ...a dream! B: A dream, or a story she's reading.
A: Rainbow will wake up in the end or so. B: Yeah. Somehow...
A: Whatever, let's just go with this... let's pretend it's real.
It is cool in a way.
B: That face again.
Did you understand what she said? -translates the ring joke-
That cat again! Okay, the felines are all there, the tigers and such...oh man!
A: Ok - action! I like that! That's cool! B: Yeah! Me too!
Whoa, that pose, how cool is that!
It's like in an action movie or something like that.
Daring Do is way more brutal than in the first episode where she appeared.
The Wilhelm scream!
She's busy damnit! For heavens sake! Rainbow Dash can't stop babbling.
Oh man....Great!
Er...the cat got totally hit! Poor cat!
Oh no...
Yeah, right.
"...Already helped plenty" ...okay...
They all reacted totally the same. -GASP-
Aww, cute!
Aww... what kind of sound was that?!
Come on... go help her. Maybe she will ...
A: I guess some super dangerous situation... B: Twilight has some kind of...
A: ...is about to come up. YES. OF COURSE. Like in every movie like that. Sure. I Knew it!
Piranhas? Ok. Not bad. Now the ceiling will come down from above and the sidewalls will come as well..
B: Twilight has more spiky wings than rainbow. A: Yeah, her wings are different.
800 years of heat? Must have something to do with the sun.
Celestia, if this is real, then where are you? You have something to say to that, don't you?!
Eyup.
Is Daring Do maybe another student of Celestia? In case she is really real, that is.
That could very well interest me.
Uh-oh. That's not a good idea.
Uh...right. You'll be dead soon this way. Stop that.
Those things are heavy. Oh man.
At the last second. Of course.
Yup, you can swing your wings a little as well.
That's nice.
A: Yeah... she surrenders. B: Finally.
Now add an evil laughter, please.
Come on, an evil laugh. That fits such a scene. Bad Guy. Cliché.
B: Yes! A: Haha. Sure.
A: YAY, PINKIE ACTION! That was cool! Finally Pinkie is doing something helpful.
B: Yeah, Applejack! A: Oh yeah, action!
Mine, that's mine!
Come on, speed up already!
A: Super, teleport yourself out of there- B: Ouch!
Teleport yourself 6 feet from there?? Can't you teleport yourself further?!
Ok, whatever.
That works, too.
Well, that didn't work.
Okay...the whole builing will collapse if they proceed.
Okay, she does admit that help is good sometimes.
Again... All the other rings lay around, he's totally happy because of one ring...
Epic pose.
Yeah, come on, do it! Faster!
The Wilhelm scream, again. Two times in the same episode...Seriously?
Ok, fine with me.
Well! That's it then. Ahuizotl or whatever his name is, he shouldn't have survived that.
B: But he did. Ha-ha! A: Yeah...another cliché, of course.
The bad guy has to survive.
Awww, cute!
Hehe! Krk! Friendzoned!
"Sorry, I only cuddle that long with colts..."
"We don't know each other THAT WELL."
Yeah, you have to be able to trust others. Good lesson.
A: "Oh cool, she's also in that adventure book now."
B: So it all was real. A: It was real.
B: Yes. A: Ok. Really?! I don't get it. But whatever.
Next time Scooterloo awaits. We saw a scene from that back then. (Comic-Con Sneak Peek)
Ok, that's it.
That was a little strange that all this was real.
Yeah, er...a little? Very strange somehow. Well! To get this right:
Daring Do is a real life action hero, who really experienced every adventure of her books...
A:...in Equestria. Okay. B: So her books are kind of diaries one could say.
Yeah, what she experiences in form of a novel. Maybe a little filigreed, but...
But she pretends to be "A.K. Yearling" when she writes her books. She doesn't want...
...to be recognized. But all her adventures are real! They have to be well known across the land.
Celestia should be aware especially. Is Daring Do maybe even a student of Celestia?
I would like to know that.
That's an interesting theory. If she is one of Celestia's students...
But even then it should be known. Twilight would know....
A: So that can't really be...ok, now I am confused. B: She would be a secret student then.
To make a long story short: Let's talk about what we did like an what we didn't like about the episode.
Well, I...it was a little confusing, but did like it. Dunno. To see Daring Do in action -
that was cool nonetheless.
Yeah, but Rainbow Dash. We know about Rainbow Dash that she goes like:
OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH....and so when in front of the Wonderbolts. But...
A: Yeah... B: But that she went THAT crazy was a little out-of-charakter. Dunno...
A: Nah.That's allright. She did freak out pretty much before. But you dropped a good clue there:
The Wonderbolts would have been the much better choice for an episode that teaches you not only to...
...look up to your idols, but to see you're equal in worth. Better than making Daring Do real!
Hm... I don't know. I thought it was too exaggerated. That she dangled after Daring so hard...
B: But well, that's my opinion. A: I didn't experience it as out-of-character.
Actually, I found it to fit very well. Because Scooterloo idolizes her as much as she idolizes...
...the Wonderbolts, or Daring Do. Apparently Daring Do even more... But okay. You thought it was weird.
Yeah, a little.
Um...so...it was funny, but I'm not that excited I have to say. So...
But I found this episode better than "Castle Mane-ia".
Yeah...that's right.
So, Castle Mane-ia was more realistic, but this one was more fun to watch.
Yes.
Ok, what do I have to say about it?
I liked the action, the funny moments, it was voiced very well, voice-acting was good.
A few of the poses, especially during the action scenes were awesome and I liked...
...a few facial expressions very much. Also the camera work in this ep was great.
To put it in a nutshell, from an artistical perspective, the episode was awesome.
But what I didn't like was Daring Do suddenly being real.
I have a problem with that. It confuses me. I think it's unrealistic and very, very, very weird.
Also the "logic" that she writes her books as "A.K. Yearling" and not as Daring Do...
...so nobody can find her? But I mean she would be have to travel all the time anyway-I don't get it.
That's all weird somehow.
So... I'll put it this way: I can only make friends with this if she will return and gets shown as...
...a realistic character. So that she will also hang out with Dashie... as a friend.
That would be cool to see: That she is a regular, recurring character now.
But in case she will never reappear from now on, than I think it was redundant to make her real.
Now you made her real, dear MLP-creators, so please let her reappear sometimes.
An give her more depth. Maybe an episode where you bring into question why she writes her books as...
"A.K.Yearling", if Celestia knows her, if she even might have a relationship with Celestia.
I mean...not a love relationship...that would be funny, but I mean like a teacher-student relationship,...
...or that they are acquaintances. So that Celestia at least knows about her.
I would like to know about that because if she goes through so many dazzling adventures and saves...
...Equestria all the time, then Celestia should know, right?
Celestia knows about everything.
The author of the episode did answer the question if Celestia knows about Ahuizotl via Twitter, that bad guy there.... and he stated she...
...knows about everything, so he would go with yes. So she propably would also know about Daring Do.
All of that is a little bit weird for me. But however....
What did I also dislike...?
I would almost say all those action/sdventure clichés, but they were fun the same time as well...
...so that was alright.
Well...
How do I feel after this episode? On the one hand I loved so many things, but on the other hand I'm...
...totally confused by this reality issue. That Daring Do is real.
So... I cannot give full score. Because as much as the episode was fun it also confused me.
In a negative way.
We reconciled and our general opinion is that the episode is good, but not very good...
...and not even almost very good. So the score is...
3.5!
3.5... three-point-five.
Yup, there is nothing more to say for us...well...
But I do have to say that after the super-awesome first two episodes...
...the following two were weak in comparison.
I'm a little disappointed, I was so looking forward to the new episodes, but what came...
A: ...didn't really excite me. B: Yeah.
And also: no song! 16 songs should appear within season 4.
I guess they will come like this then: DOSHDOSHDOSH...
B: One after another. In concentrated form. A: Possibly, yes. Suddenly all the episodes are...
...full of songs. And we go like "Ok, we know it. Another song. Can't hear them anymore."
Yeah, but I'm looking forward to the upcoming song.
Yes, looking forward to that as well. Although, a duet with Daring Do and Rainbow Dash -
- that I would have found too much put on, so I am glad somehow that they didn't sing.
Or Ahuizotl: -sings- "Whlaa...I'll beat you all up!"
No, nononononono... that wouldn't have fit at all. Not into an action setting. Would have destroyed it all...
...even more than it already is... a little... so... yeah.
Well, so we got another pony episode we can be angry or happy about...
I guess we will laugh about this one day and I can just hope that Daring Do will reappear.
And that's all I can say.
Yup.
Will you do a real brohoof this time, or again more like a...
...Snore-Brohoof...
So?
Yeah, we're looking forward to the next episode, which will be about Scootaloo.
Can't wait for that one! I want to finally see that Scootaloos flight disability gets adressed.
You'll be sorry if that one will be as weak as this one again. You'll get in trouble!
If that episode about Scootaloo and her flying problem will be weak...
...then I have to say....
Then we'll renounce our faith, right?
Well, then my hype regarding S4 will die down,I swear. There's still some hope, but it will abate then.
What I would love would be a duet between Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. I would actually like that.
That would be ok. That RD builds her up with a song or so, I would love that. Wouldn't be 100%
fitting to their characters, but these two seem to have a lovely relationship to each other...
...so that should be ok. But let's wait and see! See ya!
Bye!
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