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In NeoGAF’s MLP community thread, we decided to vote on episodes for a recommended episode guide, based on those created for Star Wars: Clone Wars and other shows. After tallying up votes, we then modified the results to get better character coverage, to get at least one episode for each of the Mane Six each season (besides 1 and 3). This resulted in a total of 63 episodes that were recommended, or 7/13 of the series. While things have slowed down in terms of new people joining the fandom, this will hopefully be useful for anyone that’s starting out but is overwhelmed by the number of episodes. The full album is linked below.
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The ’Main characters” for me are the characters that have dedicated episodes to them and AT LEAST one is from their POV. So far those characters include (witch exception of Slice of Life which was a special episode)
-Mane6
-CMC
-Spike
-Discord
-Luna
You can argue that Cranky and Matilda are more important characters than Celestia since she had less development and presence in the story than them, but CMC are pretty much main side characters.
Yeah that’s not really surprising, even from the start PonyGAF never really cared about Applejack. Haven’t been there in ages but Fluttershy was their darling for a while.
Proven by who?
Like I said, way earlier, was it truly important to the plot?
It does matter though when those episodes are very innocuous and not at all vital to the seasons theme or plot.
I didn’t say their just as important as Cranky and Matilda, but that neither are really important. The CMC finally getting their cutie marks just don’t matter much when it comes to the Mane cast and story, just like Cranky and Matilda’s wedding.
Stop feeding the Trolls. There is no way they think Matilda and Cranky are on the same level as the CMC, who are essentially a secondary main cast. This is an objective falsehood and they know it.
Also they’ve got almost NO Applejack episodes recommended, not even stuff pretty commonly regarded as good like Appebuck Season and Last Roundup.
I think they really like Pinkie, Rarity and Twilight. They seem to have the majority of their episodes recommended.
Because it’s a goddamn mess of an episode.
Just to clarify, GOLD = contains important information for new viewers, PINK = best episodes, as voted by a small group of people and limited by how many episodes we wanted to include. So “Luna Eclipsed” is gold because it’s basically Luna’s introductory episode, and Do Princesses Dream is white because it doesn’t contain anything globally significant enough to be gold, nor did it get enough votes to be pink. Doesn’t mean it ain’t a great episode, of course ;)
As for The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows, we did consider that one. Ultimately we figured that any future episode dealing with Cadance and Shining’s baby would be a much more useful “first episode” for that character than one that just touches on the pregnancy.
Hope that helps!
I’m not even going to bother to try and convince you that those are the season themes, even though it has been proven months in advance the past two seasons.
Of course. It just so happens that at least one Cutie Mark Crusader was crucial to the plot as written in every episode I cited.
It really doesn’t matter if the episodes are focusing mostly on them or if other family members are involved. None of these episodes would work without using the Cutie Mark Crusaders to drive the plot line forward.
What started this whole thing was you making a claim that Cranky and Matilda are just as important as the Cutie Mark Crusaders and that just isn’t true. I’m sure that we could debate this for hours on end but the only point that needs to be made is that Cranky and Matilda were likely going to be one-off characters initially whereas the CMC were always supposed to have frequently recurring roles.
Yeah, I don’t get why this episode was left as unimportant either (especially when Luna Eclipsed was Gold-rated). It’s a pretty spectacular look at Luna (one of the most important non-Mane Six xharacters) and her guilt, especially in contrast to aforementioned LE.
Also, if this is to help people get up to speed on vital information about primary and secondary characters, why is The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows not pink?
Rainbow power is synonymous with Friendship power. Season 5 focused on Destiny and Friendship.
Each episode has multiple main driving points, they normally all revolve around cause and effect with small things leading to wacky consequences.
They’ve had roles in many episodes due to them being a family members but the episodes focusing on just them individually aren’t many. And then when you subtract the Luna/Tantibus arc it gets even smaller. They’ve each had a few episodes over the seasons where they learn a lesson, but they aren’t alone with that as other characters have had them too.
Cutie marks have been proven to play an important role in Equestria. Just look at what happened when Rainbow Dash was prevented from getting hers in the season finale. Who knows what kind of important ponies the Cutie Mark Crusaders could help in the future with their new destinies.
Still an exaggeration.
And still glorefied counseling.
The theme of season four was “Rainbow Power” and the theme for season five was “Cutie Mark Magic”.
A character is considered a prominent part of the episode to me if they are a main driving point for the plot.
I’ll list them all for you right now.
Season 1:
Call of the Cutie
Stare Master
The Show Stoppers
The Cutie Mark Chronicles
Season 2:
Sisterhooves Social
The Cutie Pox
Family Appreciation Day
Hearts and Hooves Day
Ponyville Confidential
Season 3:
One Bad Apple
Sleepless in Ponyville
Season 4:
Flight to the Finish
Twilight Time
Somepony to Watch Over Me
For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils
Season 5:
Bloom and Gloom
Appleoosa’s Most Wanted
Brotherhooves Social
Crusaders of the Lost Mark
I’d say this seasons theme was Freindship, just like every other season. And also time-travel.
You’re definition of “prominent role” is vastly different then mine then. Most Applejack episodes focus on her family, in which Apple Bloom is present. Almost every character in this show develops and learns lessons,even characters we will never see again. That’s not something unique.
These characters have been introduced much more recently though, and Discord has even had more prominent role and focus on him than the CMC. What do you mean by prominent, there proximity to some main characters make them appear more often but they definitely haven’t had 19 episodes featuring them. Maybe 19 episodes where one of them make an appearance.
This season the theme was “Cutie Mark Magic” but that does not mean that cutie marks will not be significant anymore in future seasons.
I am referring to episodes where one or more of the Cutie Mark Crusaders play a prominent role. There are at least two of those in every season to date. These characters were introduced very early in the series and have been having time dedicated to them every season. They may not play as big of a role as the Mane 6 but they learn lessons and develop their character all the same.
None of those appear as frequently as the CMC have throughout these five seasons. I have just gone through the complete list of episodes from all the seasons and around 19 of them prominently feature one or more members of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Yea like I said we pretty much covered the entire topic of cutie marks already.
Which episodes where specifically dedicated to the CMC? Those would be ones that don’t prominently include the Mane 6, their family or other reoccurring characters right? That leaves around 4 episodes, that’s not an episode each season. Even Gilda’s had half that. But how does the number of episodes they’ve appeared in make them as important as Starlight and the Mane 6?
They do though, We’ve seen Fluttershy with Discord, Rarity with Coco, Twilight with Moondancer, they all play larger more important roles than the CMC despite being introduced later. Saying Scootaloo is special because she helped Rainbow Dash develop more is like saying that for every one of those reoccurring characters.
You might want to be a little bit more careful about how you word things in the future. I’m not sure where you are trying to go with this. You are pretty much proving that cutie marks play an important role in Equestria by pointing out what removing it does to a pony.
I cannot say that you are entirely correct or entirely wrong. Granny Smith and Big Macintosh may play a role in an episode of each season, but none of them have episodes dedicated specifically to them in every single one.
These “repeating” characters do not appear nearly as often as Scootaloo or the rest of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Like I said, we had never seen Rainbow Dash show the kind of affection she did to Scootaloo before “Sleepless in Ponyville”.
They where introduced, and briefly explained , but we get to see what not having a cutie mark does to a pony, and how cutie marks makes up a ponies personality until Starlight.
Apple Jack’s entire family gets multiple episodes each season, and I don’t see how appearing in numerous unimportant episodes makes someone Important.
We see a lot of bonds being made with all of the Main 6, with more repeating characters, why do you think this one in particular is more important than all of those?
@Mattatatta
Pink was determined by fan vote on PonyGAF. Both of those episodes missed the cutoff line by just one vote. Which is why the real PonyGAF episode guide is “watch all of them in order from the beginning you filthy animal”.
Gold means “important to the plot”, it’s not a quality judgement.
Let me get this straight, are you trying to tell me that Starlight Glimmer was somehow able to explain cutie marks in season five before Cheerilee did in season one?
None of those characters have multiple episodes dedicated to them in every single season.
Have we ever seen Rainbow Dash form a close relationship with another pony like she has with Scootaloo? “Sleepless in Ponyville” showed off a softer side of Rainbow Dash that we had never seen before.
Starlights town explained cutie marks before then, they give a pony a boost in attributes associated with that mark.
There’s a lot of characters related to the Main 6, their not automatically important either though, Big Mac, Granny Smith, Twilight’s Parents, Rarity’s parents, Fluttershy’s brother, Pinkie’s Sisters, ect ect. And that still excludes Scootaloo from being blood related, unless being almost like family makes you Important to the show too now.
I think you are forgetting that Cutie Mark Crusaders (though mostly Apple Bloom) helped both Troubleshoes Clyde and Diamond Tiara figure out what the cutie marks they already stood for.
“Pretty Important Role in Equestria” might be an exaggeration.
Their talents just seem like glorified counseling. “Hey you don’t have a cutie mark? Don’t worry we’ll make you try a bunch of random activities, that you couldn’t possibly come up with on your own, until you get it! You might get cover in sap a lot.”
Cutie marks have been around since the very first episode of the series, although they weren’t explained until “Call of the Cutie”, which happened to be the episode where the Cutie Mark Crusaders were formed.
You mean other than the fact that they are closely related to some of the most important ponies in Equestria?
I seem to recall Rainbow Dash taking Scootaloo under her wing to act as a sister figure to her.