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Hi
it’s AW again and I thought “Somepony to watch over me” was another alright
episode and I thought the “no time for a song” joke was fantastic. I liked this
AppleBloom episode that turned into a AppleBloom and AppleJack episode, but it
had a few odd and interesting things like the problem with AppleBloom staying
home alone, AppleJack acting like an over protective mother, and the chimera at
the end.
I
found it odd that the rest of the Apple family didn’t want to leave AppleBloom
home alone because she wanders alone or with her friends without adult
supervision all the time. Most of the time AppleBloom hangs out with her
friends doing dangerous stuff to get their cutie marks like zip lining or scuba
diving and they usually do this with no one watching over them. AppleBloom even
does dangerous stuff on her own like in “Cutie Pox” when she took a walk in the
Everfree forest when she was angry. Since the adults don’t stop her from doing
these dangerous things I thought that the rest of the Apple family wouldn’t
mind her staying home alone, but that didn’t happen. It’s possible that they
worried that AppleBloom couldn’t handle all the chores by herself, but it
seemed like they were more worried about her safety. Ultimately AppleJack got
worried about AppleBloom, came back, and started acting like an over protective
mother.
Before
this episode I never thought of AppleJack as a mother figure, but now it makes
a lot of sense. AppleJack’s, Big Mac’s, and AppleBloom’s parents aren’t in the
show, some of writers and Lauren Faust before she left wanted to say they were
dead, but couldn’t because it was too hard, they couldn’t get approval, or some
other reason. Since it’s possible that AppleBloom’s parents died when she was
little it makes sense that AppleJack helped raised her and would be overly concerned
with her safely. Granny Smith and Big Mac probably helped raise AppleBloom too,
but AppleJack’s attitude made me think that she did most of it. A lot of this
paragraph could be viewed as speculation or head canon, but I thought it was
possible after seeing over protective AppleJack mom. The last thing I want to
talk about before I’m done is the chimera and AJ’s fight with it at the end of
the episode.
I really
like it when the show adds new mythological monsters like the chimera and I
didn’t mind that it had a tiger body instead of a lion body because the show
already had the Manticore and it had a lion body. Also chimeras can be any
animal combo not just lion, goat, and snake, but I’m not sure if a chimera
should be one mind, one voice or three minds and three voices. Speaking of
voices I had a few problems with the chimera’s voices, the tiger’s voice was
cool and intimidating, but the other two were not cool or intimidating. If I
remember correctly all three parts were supposed to be female, but the tiger’s
voice sounded male and I think it was because of the editing. Anyway I liked
the chimera and I really like the action scene with AJ vs. the chimera even
though it was a bit silly. The end of the episode in swamp town was alright and
I likely the ending dialog with AJ and AppleBloom it was pretty good and tied
up the moral.
Thank
you for reading and please tell me what you thought of this episode and what
you thought about AJ in black fire proof boots. I do wonder what happened to
Big Mac, did he have an equally dangerous route or did AJ take the dangerous
route while Big Mac took the safe route.
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