MLP Liveblog Chat Thingy: "Twilight Time"

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How to participate in the liveblog chat:

Option 1: Whenever you watch the episode, comment on this post as you watch with whatever responses you feel like posting!

Option 2: Go to http://webchat.freenode.net/. Enter a nickname, then for the Channels field enter ##rabbitcube, and finally fill in the Captcha and hit Connect! We'll be watching the episode and commenting there starting at just after 3:00 p.m. EST. Not that that is one hour later than usual because I have a 2 p.m. panel. After the chat, I will update this post with a log of the conversation.

Chatlog below the cut!

[15:05] <@Sylocat> Magic lessons!

[15:05] <@Sylocat> Show off

[15:06] <@Sylocat> Uh oh... helping the CMCs?

[15:06] <Froborr> I would be happy not to get a cutie mark in sweeping.

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[15:06] <Decoy_Octopus> this is an oddly long cold open, isn't it?

[15:06] <@Sylocat> Yes

[15:07] <Froborr> A little, yeah.

[15:07] <@Sylocat> Uh oh

[15:07] <@Sylocat> Oh jeez...

[15:07] <@Sylocat> "Killlllllllll meeeeeeeee...."

[15:07] <Froborr> Great, they've created carnivorous evil-apples.

[15:07] <@Sylocat> "Must be blood. Must be fresh."

[15:07] <Froborr> So, this is the episode where Applebloom has to feed her prize-winning super-apple-seedling blood, right?

[15:07] <Decoy_Octopus> calling it, this will somehow be twilight's key episode

[15:07] <@Sylocat> (those are the only lines I remember from Little Shop of Horrors)

[15:08] <@Sylocat> Pipsqueak!

[15:08] <@Sylocat> Uh oh

[15:08] <@Sylocat> And Twist

[15:08] <Decoy_Octopus> oh hey pip isn't dead

[15:08] <@Sylocat> Wait, Diamond Tiara doing acrobatics?

[15:08] <@Sylocat> Oh, of course she's not

[15:08] <@Sylocat> Oh yikes

[15:08] <Froborr> lol

[15:08] <@Sylocat> It's Alfred!

[15:08] <Decoy_Octopus> she has a butler?

[15:09] <@Sylocat> Uh oh, fantasy sequence

[15:09] <@Sylocat> Mad scientist Apple Bloom!

[15:09] <Froborr> Sweetie Belle for President

[15:09] <@Sylocat> Oh yes, please, Sweetie Belle, toss her into the lake

[15:09] <Froborr> ...oh, just a dream sequence

[15:10] <@Sylocat> Ew

[15:10] <Decoy_Octopus> twilight isn't a princess you dopes

[15:10] <@Sylocat> Uh oh

[15:10] <Decoy_Octopus> what gave you that idea

[15:10] <@Sylocat> Exactly what they were chiding her for

[15:11] <@Sylocat> So, they're actually addressing the fact that Twilight is now a princess

[15:11] <Decoy_Octopus> wait is that the first time they've explicitly said in-show that she's an alicorn

[15:11] <@Sylocat> Well, the first time since the premiere, I think

[15:11] <Froborr> No, I'm pretty sure they said it in the season-3 finale.

[15:11] <Decoy_Octopus> I don't remember if they said it in the season 3 fin-oh okay

[15:11] <Froborr> Rarity said it there IIRC

[15:11] <@Sylocat> Cutie Mark Crusader Social Climbers and Connection Users

[15:12] <Froborr> Cutie Mark Crusader Power Brokers

[15:12] <Decoy_Octopus> oh hey someone acknowledged her hair is weird

[15:12] <@Sylocat> "A bold design choice."

[15:12] <@Sylocat> So they think "adorkable" is just her fashion choice

[15:12] <@Sylocat> Oh boy

[15:13] <@Sylocat> Wait, we don't see the Little Shop of Horrors thing again?

[15:13] <@Sylocat> Oh no

[15:13] <Decoy_Octopus> oh hey obnoxious titledrop

[15:13] <@Sylocat> Of course, once the CMCs now get a taste of popularity...

[15:13] <Froborr> To be fair, Twilight is a better teacher than Cheerilee

[15:13] <Decoy_Octopus> cheerilee's a teacher?

[15:13] <@Sylocat> Wait, they don't seem corrupted by the attention?

[15:13] <Froborr> Then again, Cheerilee is a pretty terrible teacher

[15:14] <@Sylocat> Uh oh

[15:14] <@Sylocat> Sweetie Belle truly is Rarity's sister

[15:14] <Decoy_Octopus> of course sweetie belle is excited about thi-darnit sylo

[15:14] <@Sylocat> Sorry ^_^;

[15:14] <Froborr> Is Sweetie Belle's voice getting deeper?

[15:15] <@Sylocat> Oh yikes

[15:15] <Decoy_Octopus> yeah I thought it sounded weird

[15:15] <Froborr> That last line in the previous scene seemed unusually deep

[15:15] <@Sylocat> Whatever happened to Luna being Pipsqueak's favorite princess ever?

[15:15] <Decoy_Octopus> fdf twilight eating

[15:15] <@Sylocat> (thus that Assassin's Creed comic)

[15:15] <@Sylocat> Hay burgers

[15:15] <Froborr> ...She just used the burger to wipe ketchup off her face.

[15:16] <@Sylocat> Uh oh, and Twilight's blundering right into the trap

[15:16] <Froborr> Twilight is Princess of the Slobs

[15:16] <Decoy_Octopus> wait pinkie why are you here

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[15:16] <@Sylocat> Red light, green light

[15:17] <Froborr> Scootaloo is really Rainbow Dash's protege, isn't she?

[15:17] <@Sylocat> I'm surprised Featherweight isn't there, given how he sold them out in Ponyville Confidential

[15:18] <Froborr> Featherweight is there.

[15:18] <@Sylocat> He is? I didn't see him

[15:18] <Froborr> He just took the photo of the CMC!

[15:18] <@Sylocat> Like Decoy and I both said, Sweetie Belle is Rarity's sister

[15:19] <@Sylocat> And now Apple Bloom and Scootaloo are falling into the same trap

[15:19] <@Sylocat> Come on, CMCs, invite everypony else except DT/SS

[15:20] <@Sylocat> ...Or not

[15:20] <@Sylocat> Oh jeez, one of the kids is drooling, literally

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[15:20] <@Sylocat> RUN FOR YOUR LIVES

[15:20] <Froborr> So... the CMC are girls 4-7 and the other kids are the bronies, right?

[15:20] <@Sylocat> GAH!

[15:21] <@Sylocat> Wait, she's... she doesn't... huh? What is this...

[15:21] <@Sylocat> Ah, of course, she's setting up a structure

[15:21] <@Sylocat> Hey, in the background, that's a diagram of the Mystery Box

[15:22] <Froborr> Hey, it is. Interesting.

[15:22] <@Sylocat> I suppose Twilight does want to prove she's not above them all

[15:23] <@Sylocat> Wait, why is Twilight surprised they haven't improved?

[15:23] <@Sylocat> Ah, she's using Rarity's techniques from The Crystal Empire

[15:24] <@Sylocat> Only they're not quite... huh?

[15:24] <@Sylocat> HAHAHAHAH

[15:24] <@Sylocat> Well, it's better than they were last week

[15:25] <@Sylocat> Wait, is that her key to the box?

[15:25] <Froborr> This seems possible!

[15:25] <Froborr> Haha, Spike is suffering. Sucks to be him.

[15:26] <@Sylocat> Ah, so it's not her key

[15:26] <Froborr> Huh, surprisingly no.

[15:26] <@Sylocat> That was... a weird episode

[15:27] <Froborr> Yeah... don't know if I liked it?

[15:27] <Froborr> It kept not going where I expected... except then it did?

[15:27] <@Sylocat> Weirdly paced, a bit of cringe comedy

[15:27] <@Sylocat> (also, the CMC advanced with their skills a bit too fast)

[15:28] <Froborr> To be fair, we don't know how much time elapsed before the final scene.

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[15:29] <@Sylocat> Ah, that's true

[15:29] <@Sylocat> I was also hoping that DT/SS would get a bit of egg on their faces at some point

[15:30] <@Sylocat> But oh well... it had to make the point that, it's okay they didn't get any social advancement out of this in the end

[15:31] <@Sylocat> (also, I suppose Twilight will have to get her key last)