It is time.

[xaq_the_aereon]

Not gonna waste time talking about it. You all know what I speak of by now.

Go watch.

Comments

[davidn]

And your first comment is going to be one telling you the link doesn't work ;) Sorry!

That was... quite an experience, though. I'm left with the impression that My Little Pony is a much more sinister and demented programme than it most likely is. Did I see a cute little toy horse breaking a bear's neck in Guilty Gear style?

[xaq.livejournal.com]

You most certainly did.

BTW, link fixed. Thanks...completely forgot the http at the start. *facepalm*

[kjorteo]

The show basically plays to two audiences at the same time--it's about a bunch of ponies being friends and encountering basic friendship-related issues (like being jealous of each other or feeling left out or something,) resolving them, and writing once-per-episode letters to Princess Celestia about what they've learned in painfully obvious And Knowing Is Half The Battle fashion. If you watch it as an adult, though, then you tend to notice the references to everything they sneak in everywhere and the exaggerated psychopathic meltdowns they manage to pass off as "this character is a little stressed about the situation." (Maybe there wouldn't be so many Pony icons all over the internet if everyone in every scene always didn't have a meme-worthy expression.)

Anyway, the bear scene is from Lesson Zero, and is actually the least demented part of that particular episode. (Actually, Lesson Zero accomplished another TVTropes first by being the first single episode of something to have a separate Nightmare Fuel page just for that episode.)

[xaq.livejournal.com]

"Maybe there wouldn't be so many Pony icons all over the internet if everyone in every scene always didn't have a meme-worthy expression."

What would be the fun in that, though? :b

[kjorteo]

"What's next?"
"Cupcakes!"
D:
*Emergency Relax-O-Vision Activated*

Okay, that was a more in-depth reference than I was expecting, but it also singlehandedly won the entire video right there. I was at least amused throughout most of this but totally lost it at that part. Good job!

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll admit that's really only something the fandom would get, but I figured since they're my target audience...what the heck.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

For anyone who doesn't know and, for some insane reason, wants to, "Cupcakes" is a piece of MLP fan fiction that is, basically, the stuff of nightmares. If you wanted a step-by-step guide to being a cannibalistic, homicidal psychopath, this would apparently do the trick.

I say "apparently" because I'm not even gonna think about thinking about thinking about reading it.

[kjorteo]

Eh, it's basically just guro stealth-porn (nothing actually sexual, but the sheer level of detail to which they painstakingly go on about the flowing of the trickles of blood and all that makes it abundantly clear that some guro fan wrote this to fap to it) in which Pinkie Pie is Hannibal Lecter. I think the only reason it got to be so infamous is because it admittedly did such a good job keeping Pinkie's dialogue in-character (standard perky/bubbly/slightly ditzy as she always is, to the point where she seems completely oblivious to the horror of what she's actually doing) and therefore it's disturbingly difficult to un-see that portrayal of her as plausible, especially after Party of One.

If you want to take MLP:FiM in a horror direction, Story of the Blanks is better. (You probably knew that, though, since it served as your other instance of Relax-o-Vision in this project....)

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Indeed. The moment of the first ROV cut wasn't chosen by accident or random chance, after all. :]

SotB isn't nearly as scary to me as it was after my first playthrough (mistaken done on Halloween of all nights...what was I thinking?) anymore, though, although the connotations of a connection between the events of the game and those of the "Cutie Pox" episode....

[kjorteo]

Yeah, there was pretty much no way they could have an episode that starts with Applebloom going to the Everfree Forest to visit Zecora without my mind trying to insert "AND THEN SHE GOES TO SUNNY TOWN" in there somewhere.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's more of what that episode put into my mind about what exactly happened to Sunny Town; that it was practically wiped out by a Cutie Pox epidemic. Seeing just Apple Bloom going through that was disturbing enough...a whole community, though? An entire village population unable to wash dishes....mend clothes...harvest crops...tend wounds/illnesses....eat...unable to do anything because of mysterious marks magically materializing on one and spread to the others?

I imagine that would leave a severe psychological stigma on those who survived...and then here comes little Ruby sporting the first symptom.

Just imagining what happened during the epidemic and after the imagined threat of another outbreak...my brain works stuff like this way too well. D:

[davidn]

I shouldn't have played Story of the Blanks. Curiosity got the better of me. I just saw a sweet-looking NES game in your video, and was curious as to how it continued...

I am never watching this programme.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

I would apologize, but as I mentioned before, it was you posting that MLP/Top Gear video that got me into this show in the first place, so really, it's your own fault. :b

Seriously, though, the writers for the show aren't nearly as bad as the fans are. Just skip Lesson Zero (Season 2, episode 3) and you'll be fine.


Besides, now you know precisely why the video cut to Relax-O-Vision at that moment. :]