Everything Wrong with Inspiration Manifestation

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Hello, this is Kirb with another MLP episode review! Before I start this review, let me talk to you about a pony named Stellar Eclipse, and more specifically why you DON'T want to make jokes about him.

Apparently this pony was a fanmade character created by a brony named Sylvain Levasseur Portelance. The main difference is, what makes Stellar stand out from other fancharacters is that he actually got an appearance in the show, specifically in last week's episode, "Trade Ya!" Now if you couldn't tell by now, I didn't know that he was an OC, as I never read the MLP wiki's episode page before I write my review. However, a lot of people DO, and were offended when I made fun of his design in "Trade Ya!"
So they go over to a stand which is filled with Discord-shaped lamps, owned by a half-paralyzed guy who I swear must have migrated in from OC-land.
~Me, from my last review
Well, a lot of people took this the wrong way, thinking that I was making fun of the creator of the OC himself. The fact is, I don't hate this guy or his OC because I don't know anything about this guy. I mean, you act like this guy is dying or something.

Oh, damnit! Okay, let me recap: I don't hate this guy or his OC. No disrespect. I apologize.
Now how am I going to move on from that? Oh wait! Stellar Eclipse is an OC; you have to have some creativity to make an OC; creativity was Rarity's original element; and her creativity is put to the ultimate test in the episode Inspiration Manifestation.

So this episode starts out with a little children's fair or something, and Pinkie Pie is excited about it. A little too excited, but then again, she's Pinkie Pie and she's a psycho anyway, so why start questioning it.
We see Rarity preparing the stage for a puppet show or something, and Spike is helping her because he is everyone's slave a good friend!
Spike compliments Rarity about her project, but Rarity tells Spike that it's thanks to him and that he is her favorite dragon. In other words, you... are my number one... guy.

Spike takes this as a great compliment, obviously unaware that she's only saying this because he's the only dragon that wouldn't kill her, and we move on only to discover that her customers are displeased with her project. Reminds me of the response to my reviews. "Too negative!" "Too positive!" "Too long!" "Too short!" "Too much delay!"

Apparently Rarity is so depressed that she starts majorly pigging out on ice cream. I know that's how a lot of people deal with their problems, is to eat a lot and stuff, but personally, I usually just blast Rage Against the Machine music at maximum volume through my speakers. Ever tried that, Rarity? No, wait, you're probably too sophisticated for it or something.
So Spike decides to go back to that castle that we saw in episode 1 (but didn't appear again until it popped up in every other season 4 episode) to see if he could find something. Through a Young Frankenstein-esque contrivance in the wall...

...Spike finds a magical book which is called "Inspiration Manifestation". Wow, your title dropping is worse than that in the Lord of the Rings movies.
As he's leaving with the book, he doesn't notice that the book is stored in a room they use in the Indiana Jones movies, as it starts crumbling behind him, obviously not wanting him to get the book. Isn't it strange how ancient buildings always seem to want to KILL everyone?
So Spike brings the book to Rarity, and just in time, too, because if this was the real world, she'd be getting fat from all the sweets she's eating. Rarity tests it out and, much to her happiness, she becomes much more inspired. Rejoycing, she goes off to make a new puppet theater. However, none of us are fooled about this, because we're only 6:45 in. There's a lot more episode to go and a lot more to go wrong.
So the puppeteer likes the new puppet theater and Spike is ready to return it, only Rarity won't let him. Though it does make me wonder how Spike would return it in the first place, seeing as how the gigantic Indiana Jones door slammed behind him anyway.
The next day, Spike shows up at Rarity's place, only to see that she's TOO inspired, as her front door explodes with a pile of dresses and she makes a face that one would be likely to see in The Shining:



So Spike, being the little idiot he is, DOESN'T take the book away from Rarity yet, as she won't even have breakfast because she's too inspired, changing Applejack's cart, giving Rainbow Dash a dress against her will or knowledge, and making one of Fluttershy's birdhouses gigantic. During the course of this episode, Owlowiscious becomes sort of Spike's equivalent to Jimminy Cricket, in that you know he's right but he's so annoying despite that.
But Rarity starts going too far, as she screws around with the fair, but my favorite part is how she changes the band by literally changing the forms of everypony in the band to completely different ponies.


Look at that, it's a mariachi band one second and then it's the band from the Gala the next (and Octavia comes back again). Dude, that book has godlike powers! I wish I could change people into completely different people! My obnoxious history teacher comes up to me, poof! I turn her into a cuddly Rainbow Dash. That would be amazing! Hell, I wish we'd had that in the 1930s: we could've prevented WWII by turning Hitler into a lamp!

So Spike FINALLY decides to tell Rarity to stop, but unfortunately Rarity won't stop until "every inch of Ponyville has benefitted from her creative vision."
Today, we will redecorate apple carts; tomorrow, we will redecorate the world!
~Raridolf Bitler
After she gives Spike a heavily jewel-covered outfit that even Prince would laugh at, she goes off without him. When Twilight meets him and asks him, he can't keep his balance in the outfit. Can't you just eat your way out of it? You're a dragon. You eat jewels, remember?
Now Spike is torn on whether to give Rarity up as a friend by telling the other ponies about what she's doing, or to not tell them and risk the entire town being lobotomized by her. Hey, here's an idea. Why don't you tell them about her, and just tell them not to tell her you told them? No wait, that would be sensible.

I guess Spike DID do something sensible, however, as he seems to have taken off that ridiculous outfit, but he still can't bring himself to tell them about Rarity. However, he does decide to take away her spellbook, but first he has to find her, which is pretty easy to do since all you have to do is follow a trail of eyesores.
Through a distraction, Spike actually swallows the book. I just hope it doesn't make the inside of his stomach overly glamourous.
But Rarity still does her magic without it somehow, so it's up to Spike now to FINALLY talk her out of it... and that somehow takes the spell away. Interesting.. In any case, Rarity is released, and Twilight has to undo everything Rarity did with help from Cadance and Luna. Why didn't Celestia help? I got millions of flames the last time I made a joke about Celestia being lazy, so I won't answer this.

So, what have we learned today? Well, to be honest, I don't know. Part of me heavily identifies with this, as I have problems with my inspiration, and I'm very rarely inspired to write anything anymore. But the other part of me actually sees this as sort of a metaphor for addiction. Yeah, if you think about it, most of the story talks about how a certain substance increases your creativity but also increases your dependency, such as alcohol or caffeine, the latter of which I'm still struggling with, so it's kind of fascinating. But if you take that away, this is one of the sillier episodes. As usual, its pure goofiness is very entertaining, and it was fun to see Rarity go over-the-top with her creativity. Meh, I give this a 4/5.
Well, I'm glad that I'm all caught up with the episodes at least. (checks wiki) What?! I have one more? Okay, well, you'll forgive me if I'm late with it, right?

Hey! I already talked about you!

-Kirb
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Roxor128's avatar
Regarding the face comparison bit: The one from the live-action movie looks FAR LESS creepy than the one of Rarity.