Season 7 episode 7 · 12:45am Jun 2nd, 2017
New Wonderbolt Episode!
Well, not really. They were not the focus of the episode itself. I'd still like to briefly mention that i thought it was a good episode overall with a well done message: Appreciate those who support you, even if they are a bit cringy
Whats the premise of the episode? Well... Scootaloo is doing a school project on an inspirational pony in her life. And it's not hard to figure out who that is. In order to find out more about her she gets (literally) launched to cloudsdale and instantly runs into...
Rainbow Dash's parents! (Headcannon blown the f out)
Scootaloo is all too eager to show them that Rainbow Dash is her idol. I mean look at that face:
And they immediately express that they too... are very big fans of their daughter:
however... when scootaloo tells them Dash is a Wonderbolt... they are shocked. Apparently Dash has not told them that she achieved their dream. So scootaloo immediately takes them to see a Wonderbolt show!
But it quickly becomes clear why Dash didn't tell them. They are a bit... embarrassing:
The episode proceeds to progress and things happen as one would expect in an episode premis like this. Dash eventually gets fed up and yells at them, they get sad, scootaloo can't believe she did it, Dash gives some fillihood backstory, but scootaloo gets her to see that her parents are just very proud of her, Dash apologizes and puts on a private stunt show for them.
BUT WE ALL KNOW WHY WE ARE HERE!
THE WONDERBOLTS!
They were all over the episode and i loved every second of it. Of course i still twitched here and there when my universe took stabs right to the heart, especially during Scootaloo's explanation of Dash's ascension into the ranks when...
But anyway... lets get to some pictures, shall we?
Brief Surprise appearance!
That is SUCH a Wonderverse Misty Fly face!
WHEN AM I GETTING GRANDKIDS?! (lawl)
Unfortunately, Soarin had absolutely no lines (but neither did Misty Fly so i guess that's okay! xD)
Believe it or not, the Wonderbolt with the most lines of dialogue in this episode was none other than Fleetfoot:
And she also had a lot of screen time (yay!)
Look! Screen time for Silver Lining! (a much younger looking Silver Lining!)
And is that...?
Looks like Thunderlane is a full fledged Wonderbolt too!
But this scene in the locker room easily took the cake for me because of this:
That face Fleetfoot made...
That face...
Is such a face Wonderverse Fleetfoot would make
But there was a very interesting scene at the end when Dash was explaining how her parents always embarassed her... and it kind of obliterated the backstory of my wonderbolts pretty hard Apparently they all knew each other when they were young, and apparently are all around the same age, even lightning dust. Which doesnt seem to make any sense, but i wasn't complaining:
BECAUSE OH MY GOD LOOK AT THE SPITFIRE AND FLEETFOOT FILLIES HNNNNGGGGGG
ALSO COLT SOARIN:
But what ya gonna do? I started writing the WOnderbolts long before they got any sort of development in the show, i've been mentally prepared from the beginning for my headcannons to get obliterated left and right the moment the show writers got to them
It was just awesome as always to see the ponies i work with so often in the show again. I love it every time. If you havent seen the episode i recommend it, if nothing else to see our favorite ponies get screen time!
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Oh gaaahhhhhdddd
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Urrkk!!
Why have you forsaken me Father
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Where have I seen that face before...
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Oh my god...
I think someones been hanging out with someone else too much. XDD
I'm just taking the assumption that the placements on the podium were because
Hasbro didn't want to come up with eight new designsthe familiar ponies were merely serving as placeholders in Dash's memory. There are too many other reasons it doesn't make sense (why idolize ponies you beat, why didn't they know who she was, why didn't she know Lightning Dust, etc.) for it to have any other explanation. It did give us wonderful gratuitous shots of foal Soarin, Fleetfoot and Spitfire, so I guess in that way it was worth it.I am THRILLED about Thunderlane becoming a full fledged Wonderbolt, though. Fits my headcanon just fine!
The better question is "WHEN ARE YOU GONNA DATE MY BABY GIRL?!?!?!?!?!"
then it's "WHEN AM I GETTING GRAND KIDS?!"
^^
Everything is fixed with thye Alternate universe tag
It will be interesting if we see any love running thought the next Wonderbolt episode.(Soarin there's your chance)
Think the mother jumped at Soaring because he was the only stallion there among them at that point I believe.
First Place Filly
DerpyI mean Muffins. Yes, Muffins. Always Muffins.This is relevant, I swear.
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Lightning Streak and Blaze were 100% missing and Wave Chill apparently hasnt existed since season 2
And I'm curious, was the window the only victim?
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i can totally see this being the case
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probably couldn't get ahold of his voice actor or something
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oh god i wish
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I
AM NOT
HORNET
Dad please
Take it with a grain of salt, I think is appropriate to say. Only those behind the scenes working on each episode have final say, and we don't always like the end result, but we gotta at least take the good with the bad and all that.
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Oh fucking hell in jesus’ nutsack... i WAS... replying to hornet, i just picked the pottery perfect wrong button to click on to reply...
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I had a heart attack in this part with this little colt:
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It was like HNNNNNGGGGGG
And this came to my mind almost inmediately:
I CAN’T do anything in my life without something reminding me of Piercing the Heavens (I blame you)
And...
Don’t you think Squall’s and Dash’s parents have a... similar personality (I’m not the only one who realized that, right?)
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That actually was something i thought about while watching the episode (I actually forgot to include it in the blog x3) Dash’s parents more or less mirrored the situation i had with Squall’s parents, it was interesting
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I can totally picture her saying something like: “Now I understand you, Squall”
I liked this one. Good to see someone in childrens media lampooning the participation award, or at least having a character less then thrilled with it.
<sees colt soarin> And no doubt upon seeing him some up right and up standing walking testament to the good abortion does to the world immediately leapt to his basement dwelling after wiping the pepper from his eyes and cupping an ice pack to his tiny package from repeated kicks from irate parents to sit at his heavily surveilance ridden computer to write out some foalcon before his new buddies at the SVU kick down his door and introduce him to their method of pedo electro shock therapy