MLP Liveblog Chat Thingy: Somepony to Watch Over Me

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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 2:00 p.m. EST. Note that that is back to the old time because I have things to do this afternoon. After the chat, I will update this post with a log of the conversation.

Chatlog after the cut!

[14:05] <Froborr> go

[14:05] <@Sylocat> Is the sound weird or is it supposed to be muffled?

[14:05] <@Sylocat> Ah, it's the latter

[14:05] <Froborr> I think it's supposed to be

[14:05] <@Sylocat> Oh boy

[14:05] <@Sylocat> "Change everything forever and ever," and then it's something completely innocuous

[14:06] <@Sylocat> Uh oh

[14:06] <@Sylocat> Number of explosions predicted?

[14:06] <Froborr> They're leaving the CMC home alone?

[14:06] <@Sylocat> And that's how Equestria was unmade!

[14:06] <Froborr> So... "accidental party trashes house" or "home invasion"?

[14:06] <Froborr> Also: Joy. An Apple Bloom episode.

[14:06] <@Sylocat> When the CMC are involved, the two are not mutually exclusive

[14:07] <Froborr> I think at this point she's had more focus than Rarity.

[14:07] <@Sylocat> Ooh, new writer

[14:07] <Froborr> That looks suspiciously like the Dangerously Delicious Pies logo.

[14:07] <Froborr> Mm... I want pie.

[14:08] <@Sylocat> Hahah

[14:08] <@Sylocat> Oh yikes

[14:08] <@Sylocat> We've all been there

[14:08] <Froborr> I haven't!

[14:09] <Froborr> My parents were more of the "learn to swim by getting tossed in the pool" types.

[14:09] <@Sylocat> So, they're leaving her alone because she'll cause even MORE trouble if she's along with them. That sounds much more plausible

[14:09] <Froborr> Though that particular cliche never happened.

[14:09] <@Sylocat> Ouch

[14:09] <Froborr> Yes, that does make a lot more sense.

[14:09] <mere_oblivion> @Sylocat may feel a tad shy about saying what kind of parents he had.

[14:09] <Froborr> lol

[14:09] <@Sylocat> This is a hoof-biter

[14:09] <Froborr> *groans*

[14:10] <@Sylocat> Applejack is a worrywart? This is new

[14:10] <Froborr> Yes, Applejack, you are a silly pony.

[14:10] <Froborr> Applejack IS the team mom, it's consistent.

[14:10] <@Sylocat> Wait, the WHAT closet?

[14:10] <Froborr> *bursts out laughing at Hats and Bows closet*

[14:10] <mere_oblivion> Still, I'm glad to see Applejack showing even some signs of character development.

[14:10] <Froborr> Very true.

[14:11] <@Sylocat> Apple Bloom reading a book? That's less plausible than Rainbow Dash reading... oh wait

[14:11] <Froborr> On the other hand, "Applejack develops a vice just so that it can be solved within one episode" is pretty much the standard Applejack plot.

[14:11] <@Sylocat> Oh yikes 

[14:11] <mere_oblivion> True enuf, Froborr.

[14:12] <@Sylocat> And "Carving a massive swath of destruction through everything in sight" is the standard CMC plot

[14:12] <Froborr> I dunno, it's fun to read this episode as a commentary on how the writers cannot allow the CMC to grow up.

[14:13] <@Sylocat> She should have put the pillows on the other end of the rake

[14:13] <Froborr> That is a weirdly designed wheelbarrow to begin with.

[14:14] <@Sylocat> Yo dawg...

[14:14] <@Sylocat> (Helmetception?)

[14:14] <@Sylocat> A crib?!

[14:14] <@Sylocat> I almost feel sorry for Apple Bloom

[14:14] <Froborr> The helmets are meta commentary on how the CMC all wear many hats in their quest for their cutie marks.

[14:15] <@Sylocat> Oh nooooooooooo

[14:15] <@Sylocat> They're going to make the deliveries

[14:15] <Froborr> And then Apple Bloom got her cutie mark in Wacky Schemes.

[14:15] <@Sylocat> Scootaloo? Has an idea?

[14:15] <@Sylocat> "Gets tired?" If she gets tired, she can go to sleep

[14:15] <@Sylocat> Ooh, musical number

[14:15] <@Sylocat> ...Or not

[14:15] <Froborr> lol, cutoff musical number.

[14:16] <@Sylocat> Wait, now Apple Bloom's musical numbers are diegetic too?

[14:16] <mere_oblivion> Yeah, this isn't opera, where people routinely bellow for five minutes before rushing off to rescue someone from the stake, gallows, etc.

[14:16] <Froborr> Recently I noticed a first-season non-Pinkie diegetic musical number, but now I can't remember what it was.

[14:17] <@Sylocat> The hardest part of this for the other two CMCs will be suppressing the gag reflex

[14:17] <Froborr> Okay. Wait. Applejack set up bales of hay so that Apple Bloom could safely get down to the pie cart, but also doesn't know Apple Bloom left?

[14:17] <Froborr> WHAT IS HER GAME?

[14:17] <@Sylocat> HAHAHAHAH

[14:17] <@Sylocat> Oh yikes

[14:18] <@Sylocat> Applejack just picked up that crib

[14:18] <@Sylocat> Adrenaline, like moms lifting cars off their kids

[14:18] <Froborr> Applejack is hella strong, it's no big.

[14:18] <@Sylocat> "Lion tamer's chair?" Is she going through the Everfree or something?

[14:18] <Froborr> Wait, ricotta doesn't come in hunks.

[14:19] <Froborr> It's more blobby. Almost a fluid, like yogurt.

[14:19] <@Sylocat> Oh my Celestia, she IS going through the Everfree!

[14:19] <@Sylocat> THE FIRE SWAMP!

[14:19] <Froborr> Oh no, Apple Bloom's in the fire swamp!

[14:19] <Froborr> Watch out for ROUS!

[14:19] <@Sylocat> And it's an ROUS

[14:19] <Froborr> ...or chimerae, that works too.

[14:19] <@Sylocat> Or... a Chimera Of Unusual Size

[14:20] <Froborr> Actually that's a fairly typical size for a chimera.

[14:20] <@Sylocat> Wait, he's on her side?

[14:20] <@Sylocat> Or not

[14:20] <@Sylocat> Oh, they're after the PIES

[14:20] <Froborr> Pie bandit chimerae! That's the BEST.

[14:21] <@Sylocat> Or... not, again

[14:21] <mere_oblivion> And they want Apple Bloom to try out the apple pie of forbidden knowledge.

[14:21] <@Sylocat> Where's Fluttershy?

[14:21] <Froborr> What about her?

[14:21] <@Sylocat> Uh oh

[14:21] <@Sylocat> Well, Fluttershy could give that chimera a good talking to

[14:21] <Froborr> Ah, point.

[14:22] <Froborr> Man, Apple Bloom's pretty strong, too.

[14:22] <@Sylocat> Suddenly, Apple Bloom runs like Sonic the Hedgehog

[14:22] <Froborr> Makes you wonder how tough Granny must've been in her day.

[14:22] <@Sylocat> HAHAH... oh yikes, kindred spirits

[14:23] <Froborr> Fireproof boots, lion tamers chair, snake charm flute, and ricotta!

[14:23] <@Sylocat> Whoa, collapsable lion tamer's chair

[14:24] <@Sylocat> Ouch

[14:24] <@Sylocat> I almost feel sorry for the chimera, that can't be comfortable

[14:24] <Froborr> I really love that the funny list was a Chekhov's gun, that was clever.

[14:25] <@Sylocat> "Flame geyser swamp," gee, I wonder what that's a reference to

[14:25] <Froborr> Yep.

[14:25] <Froborr> Neigh Orleans?

[14:25] <@Sylocat> Who... who is that?

[14:25] <@Sylocat> Wait, is this Hollow Shades?!

[14:25] <Froborr> Hollow what now?

[14:25] <@Sylocat> I've wanted to see this town ever since I saw it on that map of Equestria

[14:26] <Froborr> Eh, that was okay.