My Rise and Fall: How I succumbed to MAGICAL FRIENDSHIP - Page 164

Arcanum · 04-26-2012, 03:48 AM

BBBFF was just horribly blaaah and the transition into it was extremely awkward.

Meanwhile This Day managed to alternate between sounding sinister and desperate, and was pretty great on the whole.

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How can anyone have preferred BBBFF over This Day?

So essentially this.

rpgdemon · 04-26-2012, 08:22 AM

This Day had no emotion at all put into it! It was very bland.

Locke cole · 04-26-2012, 09:37 AM

No emotion? What song were you listening to?

I could understand if you thought it was generic, or out-of-place, or whatever, but a lack of emotion is the last complaint I would have thought would be aimed at it. It being highly emotional is the main reason I like it so much.

I mean, I can respect your opinion on the songs, but to be perfectly honest, I'm just baffled.

rpgdemon · 04-26-2012, 11:37 AM

It all sounded very much flat-toned. While there may have been a level of emotion from both of the characters, it didn't shine through because the entire song was sort of on one flat plane. It doesn't have any sort of variance to catch your attention, which I can't get into. It's very much just straight up, here's a slab, look at it, rather than enveloping you into what it's doing.

Maybe lack of emotion was the wrong phrase, but it doesn't draw you in, it just sits you down in front of it, at an arm's length away.

Arcanum · 04-27-2012, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by rpgdemon

It all sounded very much flat-toned. While there may have been a level of emotion from both of the characters, it didn't shine through because the entire song was sort of on one flat plane. It doesn't have any sort of variance to catch your attention, which I can't get into. It's very much just straight up, here's a slab, look at it, rather than enveloping you into what it's doing.

Maybe lack of emotion was the wrong phrase, but it doesn't draw you in, it just sits you down in front of it, at an arm's length away.

Clearly we aren't listening to the same song, because none of that describes This Day.

Gregness · 04-28-2012, 02:16 AM

Back to something we can all agree on:

Flarecobra · 04-28-2012, 10:51 AM

Well, on EqD, there's a poll about the best song of the season going on...

This Day Aria and Smile Smile Smile are leading the pack by a LARGE margin

DarkDrgon · 04-28-2012, 02:33 PM

am I the only one who thought the Mane cast didn't have too much to do with this finale? Like... the only one who really needed to be there was twilight, and even she didn't do that much. Just felt like more could have been done with it

IHateMakingNames · 04-29-2012, 08:52 PM

Twilight was relevant in the first half. It was her brother's wedding and she was the only one who noticed something wrong with the bride. In the second half she was captured by the big bad and aided the real Cadance's escape. But then the plot was resolved by the side characters without any influence from Twilight so a lot of that got diminished. Though the other five main ponies did nothing through the episodes besides fail to get the elements.

Gregness · 04-29-2012, 09:08 PM

I'm actually pretty okay with someone other than the main characters being able to do something once in a while.

04-26-2012, 08:22 AM	#1632
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	This Day had no emotion at all put into it! It was very bland. __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.

04-26-2012, 11:37 AM	#1634
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	It all sounded very much flat-toned. While there may have been a level of emotion from both of the characters, it didn't shine through because the entire song was sort of on one flat plane. It doesn't have any sort of variance to catch your attention, which I can't get into. It's very much just straight up, here's a slab, look at it, rather than enveloping you into what it's doing. Maybe lack of emotion was the wrong phrase, but it doesn't draw you in, it just sits you down in front of it, at an arm's length away. __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.

04-28-2012, 02:16 AM	#1636
Gregness Never give up. Never give in. Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 1,034	Back to something we can all agree on: __________________ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein

04-28-2012, 10:51 AM	#1637
Flarecobra Burn. Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Classified Posts: 11,017	Well, on EqD, there's a poll about the best song of the season going on... This Day Aria and Smile Smile Smile are leading the pack by a LARGE margin __________________ "Only the fool wishes to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone." -A Thousand Sons Rules. Read them, know them, love them.

04-28-2012, 02:33 PM	#1638
DarkDrgon Always Trick Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 978	am I the only one who thought the Mane cast didn't have too much to do with this finale? Like... the only one who really needed to be there was twilight, and even she didn't do that much. Just felt like more could have been done with it __________________ [color=red] Kneel before the Lord Drgon, or you will be knelt.

04-29-2012, 08:52 PM	#1639
IHateMakingNames Awwwwh Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 12,119	Twilight was relevant in the first half. It was her brother's wedding and she was the only one who noticed something wrong with the bride. In the second half she was captured by the big bad and aided the real Cadance's escape. But then the plot was resolved by the side characters without any influence from Twilight so a lot of that got diminished. Though the other five main ponies did nothing through the episodes besides fail to get the elements. __________________ "If I'm reincarnated, I want to be Musashi again!" - Musashi, Brave Fencer Musashi

04-29-2012, 09:08 PM	#1640
Gregness Never give up. Never give in. Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 1,034	I'm actually pretty okay with someone other than the main characters being able to do something once in a while. __________________ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein