MLP Liveblog Chat Thingy: Leap of Faith

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 3:00 p.m. EST. However, I will probably not be participating because I'm busy with family stuff, so I'd appreciate if one of you could copypasta the chatlog to a comment. Whenever I actually watch the episode, I will update this post with my own responses.

Speaking of which, I updated last week's liveblog a couple of days ago.

Chatlog for "Leap of Faith" below the cut!

[21:55] <Froborr> OMG Big Mac and Applejack splashing SO ADORBS

[21:55] <Froborr> BUT WHY DO THE APPLES GET MORE EPISODES THAN EVERYONE ELSE COMBIENS

[21:55] <Froborr> Is this a Granny episode?

[21:55] <Froborr> Granny is the best Apple!

[21:55] <Froborr> And this silent film thing is awesome.

[21:56] <Froborr> You know, the opening credits need a couch gag.

[21:56] <Froborr> Like, maybe the final picture is slightly different every episode.

[21:57] <Froborr> Dear Princess Celestia: Today I learned that athletic competition should be left to the races that are good at it.

[21:58] <Froborr> Seriously WTF Granny, "Leave it to the pegasi?"

[21:58] <Froborr> OH MY GOD THE FLIM FLAM BROTHERS!

[21:58] <Froborr> I did NOT expect them to come back!

[21:59] <Froborr> Oh my god Doctor Whooves for the better time!

[21:59] <Froborr> YES now they're the medical-industrial complex instead of ust generic capitalism!

[22:00] <Froborr> Fun fact: snake oil actually IS good for you, it's full of Omega-3.

[22:00] <Froborr> THEY EVEN HAVE AN AUDIENCE PLANT THIS IS THE BEST!

[22:00] <Froborr> Oh no. Poor Granny. She's pondering getting them to heal her hip, isn't she?

[22:00] <Froborr> This is why I never hope. Hope is evil.

[22:01] <Froborr> Also, given that I'm watching Baccano! at the moment, this is gaining extra creepiness.

[22:01] <Froborr> "Horsentery"!?

[22:01] <Froborr> hay fever

[22:01] <Froborr> *groan*

[22:02] <Froborr> Wow, that was quite the final sting.

[22:03] <Froborr> No, there's no tonic in Equestria that can make an old pony young again, but it's amazing what a dose of confidence and some old-fashioned placebo effect can do.

[22:03] <Froborr> Granny is going to hurt herself so bad.

[22:04] <Froborr> The tonic is about 80% Flim-Flam pee and 20% year-old cider.

[22:04] <Froborr> Farm pony with big glasses? He's going to turn into Superpony, isn't he?

[22:05] <Froborr> Heheh, "Shill."

[22:05] <Froborr> This is the episode where Applejack teaches someone an important lesson about Honesty and gets her crystal coffer key, isn't it?

[22:05] <Froborr> And it'll be Shill that learns the lesson.

[22:06] <Froborr> Apple juice and beet leaves? Ew.

[22:07] <Froborr> Hmm, this is actually a good dilemma for Applejack! Honesty vs. her family's happiness!

[22:07] <Froborr> And now Applejack is morally complicit in everyone hurt by the fake tonic.

[22:08] <Froborr> APPLEJACK WHAT ARE YOU DOING

[22:08] <Froborr> Either you have somehow forgotten that the tonic is fake, or you are hatching a Wacky Scheme (tm) liable to get your GRANDMOTHER injured!

[22:09] <Froborr> Hmm, I'm noticing a lot of the same ponies in line as earlier in the episode.

[22:09] <Froborr> Nothing so toxic or easily manipulated as hope.

[22:10] <Froborr> Yep, and that's why people with a reputation for honesty have an obligation to actually be, y'know, honest. Including with themselves.

[22:10] <Froborr> Okay, their routine is actually really beautiful.

[22:11] <Froborr> lol, Lyra.

[22:12] <Froborr> This is quite possibly the best Applejack episode ever.

[22:12] <Froborr> She is getting ACTUAL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT and CONSEQUENCES and DILEMMAS

[22:12] <Froborr> Applejack is going to end up breaking the record, isn't she?

[22:13] <Froborr> Or not. Dang.

[22:14] <Froborr> Yay, another double-moral1

[22:15] <Froborr> Jimmy Stewart! That's who Shill reminds me of!

[22:15] <Froborr> That is PERFECTION ITSELF.

[22:15] <Froborr> Yeah, that bit is the next key, isn't it?

[22:16] <Froborr> Yep.

[22:16] <Froborr> Okay, yeah, that was a really good episode.

[22:16] <Froborr> Not quite MAUD PIE good, but what is?

[22:17] <Froborr> Though structurally, it was notably VERY similar to Rarity in Manehattan. Still, good stuff.