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Totally Legit Recap: "Fame and Misfortune" Season 7 Episode 14 (Patreon)

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2017-08-20 10:36:20
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2020-06

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Hoo boy, this was a marathon. It's always really hard getting back into the weekly schedule after a hiatus and I forget how to manage my time effectively. I thought this episode was great. Rarity gave a show-stealing performance and - all meta aside - I thought the lesson was wonderful and something that's very applicable to my own life as someone who loves making content of all different types. The folks you reach are worth the ones you don't.

I've touched on it a few times before, but the reason I love this show is because I'm a fucking manchild, and I don't just mean in the sense of being a faggy nerdboy - I mean I'm very immature. I spent my teens and the ensuing decade doing nothing but looking for my next fix; I didn't even attempt to start growing up until my late twenties, and consequently I've got a lot to learn and a lot to make up for. This show, while its lessons are generally simple, gives me a way to reflect on how I can improve myself and my life.

I know the videos get kind of dark and bleak sometimes, but that's what they're for - they help me get all that shit out of my system and to find a concrete application for the show's message.

Or whatever. That was pretty gay, but It's 3 am and I've done nothing but eat, sleep, and edit for the past 48 hours.

As usual, thank you guys for giving me money. I don't know why you do it, but I'm grateful and I hope you don't stop.

Now, on to the next one.

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Totally Legit Recap: "Fame and Misfortune" Season 7 Episode 14

It's not anyone's fault, it's everyone's fault. Larson gets one final laugh from beyond the grave and sends us past the singularity. Also, please stop breaking my waifu. Give me money so I can pay for Rarity's therapy: https://www.patreon.com/DWK Intro Music: "Rock is Dead" by Marilyn Manson (cover) Outro Music: "Psychosocial" by Slipknot

Comments

Anonymous

This mlp episode could have been my favorite if they had been a bit more uplifting about it. They point out alot of bad behavior from the fans but show no awareness of their own bad behavior in return. The ending where all the fans are painted as bad people who learn nothing cinched it for me as an unlovable episode.

Anonymous

Maybe I'm being just as autistic as everyone else, but I thought this episode was beautiful, and that the moral wasn't what you said. It was not shitting on the fandom; it was trying to remind us of the magic of the show, tell us how every pony is beautiful, and teach us one of the most important lessons on friendship there is. Yet it predicted that almost no-one would get this; in the end, almost the entire fandom was still bickering and did not hear its message; only the two fillies understood, but "that makes everything [they've] been through worth it." Be among those two fillies and understand the beautiful message of this episode. It is almost all in the song. The characters are not flawless, but that is what makes them real characters who learn and grow. For instance, Fluttershy admits she had to learn the same lesson repeatedly, but that who among us can say we have always learned each life lesson the first time? >"We're not flawless; we're a work in progress. We've got dance and we've got quirks, but it's our flaws that make us work." >"None of us claimed to be perfect, and it's sad if that's what you all think." >"Our flaws are what brought us together, so stop acting like something's wrong." It is only due to flaws that characters can learn and grow in friendship, and flaws are what make friendship work through friends complementing each other's strengths and weaknesses like engineering pieces fitting together to form something stronger than the sum of its parts by virtue of which it also holds itself together. They then delineate each character's major flaw and how it makes them a real pony as a beautiful, imperfect being who learns and grows. This episode was one of the best lessons on friendship in the show, and it was a lesson for us. Be among those two fillies who understood. >"Friends can go through all sorts of tough times, and come out stronger than before." It's their flaws that make them work, give them life and depth, brought them together, and yields the friendship that strengthens every one. Love each character for the beautiful, imperfect being she is. It's what friendship is all about.

Anonymous

As a college student going in to his freshman year all I have to say is that I believe I that whatever chioce you choose ill support you gladly. wow that sounded so gay.

Bob Hershey

Hey DWK, I see you skipped "The Perfect Pear" in favor of this episode. I can't blame you...this episode just screamed "DWK WAS RIGHT"! Besides, I also wouldn't blame you if you decided "The Perfect Pear" was too sweet and precious to defile with a Totally Legit Recap. Well, maybe ALMOST too sweet and precious! ;)

Anonymous

I was waiting for this since the moment it aired.

Anonymous

I almost get a heart attack whenever you threaten to quit. Here, have some more money. Please don't quit.

Anonymous

Jesus Christ we are getting close to the singularity! One more step and Rick/Morty will get involved.

Anonymous
>>6784976

I mean, yeah, but the allegory played on two (or more) levels. I agree with your point, but I don't think DWK missed that point. I just think there are multiple points. Further, I think DWK intentionally ignored or played down some of the lessons you mentioned for humour's sake. The friendship journal in the show represents MLP in real life, and the bickering reader-base in the show represents us fans in real life, I think we all agree on that. The lesson in the fictional canon was that your friends are flawed but it's what makes them them, what allows them to grow, and you can appreciate them not only in spite of their flaws, but even because of them. One allegorical lesson, the one I think you're getting at, was: you can appreciate these *fictional characters* because of their flaws, because it makes them more real. I think the second allegorical lesson was that the *creators of the show* are flawed as well, real human beings incapable of making a perfect fictional product for us to consume, and we should stop sperging out about every choice the writers and directors make that we disagree with. Although he's sardonic about the whole thing, mockingly suggesting the allegory has collapsed in on itself as this "singularity", I do think DWK alludes to all three lessons, and jokingly points out a fourth lesson: "hey, it's worth making fiction, even for bickering hair-trigger assholes, because we get paid."

Anonymous

Rarity will prevail. So will we... and I will come back with financial support. Last week I got ma new credit card after vacation. But the thing is I'm broke af so it'll take me sometime with working until I can afford you twerking XD Shit, just had to put that in the end XD