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I'm testing out quicker review formats. Not for me but just showing if somewhat else wanted to join in they don't need to be like ours, lol! 

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> Reviews coming this weekend, hopefully!
Yeah, one review very late, but I did mix it up! I'm holding back on Green Isn't Your Color for the moment. T

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> Watching this episode differently than I usually do! In previous reviews I watched the episode on fim.heartshine.gay on my ThinkPad. Tonight, however, I’m catsitting for my aunt and uncle, so I’m watching this episode on Plex, on a big fancy modern smart TV! I’m not a great fan of smart TVs or adverts, but hey ho, it’s not my TV and I get the luxury experience! Unfortunately, can’t take screenshots!
That ain't a bad experience! Hehehe, A Dog and Pony Show and Green Isn't Your Color I watched on a corebooted chromebook due to a couple of issues with my own ThinkPad T470, so different but similar boat!

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Despite the CMC continuing to be well-written and well-characterized as accurate/realistic children in my opinion, in one regard they step over the line for me and enter the realm of annoyance: whining at Applejack about the state of their new clubhouse (fun to see it introduced, incidentally!). Now, when I was about 7 and visited my grandparents in Northern Ireland, my grandfather put a couple of planks down across a ditch leading to a crumbled old mill, and that served for a castle, for me. It was an absolute state – vastly overgrown, rubble everywhere… But I loved it! It was MY castle,
I think this was done more in the spirit of: Adult gives child ill suited old junk that was from their childhood trope. It doesn't bug me but I can totally empathize with this as I would have loved a treehouse or an old mill. (That sounds wondrous actually!).

> Anyways… A detail that’s of interest is Applejack mentioning that it was her clubhouse, growing up. I wonder what sort of friend group Applejack had over when she was their age? 
There is a lot of little information like this that I am surprised to have seen the fandom didn't run with more back at the time. Though this is understandably small with no details so where a bunch of other memes. I guess this is in sort of the category like Spike being somewhat well connected and having some sort of independent life doing things for Princess Celestia or what not.  

>  Another intriguing detail is the ponies in the audience stamping their hooves to clap rather than clapping their hooves together. I’m almost certain this is changed to more humanistic clapping in later seasons/episodes, which is a shame as even indoors, this method of clapping makes a bit more sense for ponies as it involves less effort for them physically.
I think I agree. Though I understand some more human gestures being introduced and some fans forget that certain rules weren't always so concrete (ponies did stand up on two legs in Season 1 some). Their is a certain charm to ponies being ponies and it adds to the world. 

> I’m giving this episode an 8.1 
Completely get that, even if I liked Stare Master more. Probably born out of my preference for certain scenarios like low stakes adventure.