Everything Wrong with Twilight Time

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Hey, kids! Do you want another uncomfortable reminder that Twilight is a princess now? You do? Well, how about we spend an entire episode rubbing it in?
Then we'd probably get "Twilight Time," an episode that spends more time reinforcing the fact that Twilight is a princess than... well, the episode "Princess Twilight Sparkle." And considering how my review of THAT episode was received, we're in for a treat today, ladies and gentlemen!

So the episode starts off with Twilight teaching the CMCs pointless things, like how to levitate a broom for Sweetie Belle, how to make a potion that will make a flower grow for Apple Bloom, or how to reassemble a unicycle for Scootaloo. Why is she teaching them that type of stuff? Because they're trying to find their cutie marks doing it. Why doesn't she just tell them what their real special talents are, what all the fans have clearly known since the beginning? The same reason Glenda the Good Witch from The Wizard of Oz didn't tell Dorothy that she could go back home anytime she wanted: Some people are dicks.
By the way, remember how I was afraid in the Daring Don't review that Twilight would turn into a Cadance-esque alicorn? We have even more proof of that here: she's slightly taller and her horn is slightly longer. If they make Twilight look just like Cadance, I will be very upset.

So the next day at school, Diamond Tiara decides to show off an acrobatic display, but instead has her butler do it for her. Haha, it's funny because she's rich! Hahaha, insulting people with lower incomes is so funny! Y'know, something gives me the thought that the people who wrote the Richie Rich movie also wrote this script, because they're the only ones who would find that funny.
Despite the fact that the spoiled little brat never does anything, the foals shower her with praise. So basically, it shows us that if you're rich, you can do nothing and people will still love you. Top notch message to convey to the children watching this, DHX.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon take this time to brag about all the cool ponies they'll be meeting in Manehattan, like Marker Hysteria, gonzo journalist extraordinair--whoops, sorry, I got into self-promotion mode again.
But the CMCs are upset by this and Sweetie Belle tells about how they go to see Twilight Sparkle all the time. This suddenly sparks the attention of the brats, who tell them to take them along next time they go to see Twilight. What, so you weren't interested in Twilight when she was just an everyday, normal pony, but now that she's a princess, you want to see her? Good god, you two are superficial fucks.

So the CMCs take the two along because they want to see them fail at stuff they try to learn. Now to be fair, I'd like to see that too. I think the entire fandom would like to see that, in fact. Good revenge for being the morons they are.
The brats start obsessing over Twilight and the CMCs' plan to teach them a lesson backfires on them. It gets even worse when the brats tell all their classmates about this, and they must all be huge idiots because they're all convinced by this.
Sweetie Belle arranges to meet Twilight at the MLP equivalent of a McDonald's--not sure how they'd have that considering there's no meat to make the burger patties with--and invites a few other students to watch them from a distance. However, the entire class tags along and starts taking pictures of Twilight as if she's a celebrity or something. I guess Twilight now knows how Kate Middleton feels, being an everyday normal pony and then suddenly getting thrust into royalty.
It's bizarre because in the last episode and in most episodes from the point she was made an alicorn princess, people treated her like a normal pony, but now they're suddenly realizing that she's royalty and are treating her differently. Wow, delayed reaction there, guys. I wonder what else they're suddenly discovering just now?
Pony #1: "Hey, did you hear that Discord is now resurrected?"
Pony #2: "Oh my god, seriously?"
Pony #1: "I know! It's weird, isn't it?"
Pony #2: "Like, totally! When did that happen?"
Pony #1: "Last year."
Pony #2: "...seriously?"

The CMCs now use their new connection with Twilight to make themselves more popular among the school, which gets them a lot of stuff. These ponies are fucking zombies!
So they go to a pool party with the brats, but then they realize that it's only "cool" because the other ponies are locked out, as they stand at the front gate with sad faces. You know, here's an idea. If you're locked out of the place, maybe continually standing at the front gate doing nothing isn't such a good idea. Maybe you should go, I don't know, do something else? Geez, these ponies really ARE zombies!
However, the CMCs decide to leave because they have "Twilight time," but all the other ponies want to come along, as they reach in through the gate with their hooves while... um...

I guess I was more correct about the whole "zombie" thing than I thought. So therefore, the title of this episode should really be "The Omega Mare."
By the way, something else I've noticed about this episode is that one of the colts bears an uncanny resemblance to a character from that movie which shall not be mentioned. I'm not going to go into too much detail about it, but it's still somewhat terrifying.

The other colts and fillies follow the CMCs to Twilight's library. Unaware, Twilight lets them all in to share Twilight time with them; however, she soon catches on to the fact that they're not really interested in learning anything and are only in on this because of her royal status. Disappointed, she insists that the CMCs prove that they aren't only doing this to become popular, but they fail miserably at that. So Twilight makes all of them leave, and Diamond Tiara says that the CMCs are to blame for all of this, and the rest of the classmates agree. Do they just follow what Diamond and Silver say blindly, no matter what it is? I can just imagine:
Diamond: "Hey, this is all the Cutie Mark Crusaders' fault!"
Other school ponies: "Yeah!"
Diamond: "And Lil Wayne has talent!"
Other school ponies: "Yeah!"
Diamond: "And the Holocaust was good!"
Other school ponies: "Wait, what?"
Diamond: "I said it, so it must be true!"
Other school ponies: "Oh. Yeah!"

So the CMCs apologize to Twilight and properly show off the skills that she had taught them, which causes her to forgive them and give them another chance. Y'know, I just noticed how quick Twilight is to forgive ponies who screw up. Like how in Magic Duel, she immediately forgives Trixie for trashing the entire city, and how she immediately forgives Sunset Shimmer for almost taking over Equestria in that movie.
Anyway, the episode finishes up, the CMCs show off thier skills, and Sweetie Belle writes the friendship lesson in the journal. Then they leave the place, disguised as other ponies so they won't be recognized by their classmates. You know, CMCs, you could have used those disguises earlier when they were chasing you. I mean, they're terrible disguises and we can all see right through them, but still, considering the intelligence of your classmates you could probably fool them perfectly.

Oh well, it's over. So what do I think about it? Well, this was a rather strange episode for me. It wasn't necessarily bad, but it brought up a lot of questions that were never answered. Plus, the fact that they felt the need to reinforce the fact that Twilight is a princess was overplayed. All in all, it's just strange. I give it a 3/5 rating.

-Kirb

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BerryPunchrules's avatar
It was a bad episode, but what's useless about using magic?