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Totally Legit Recap: "To Where and Back Again" (Part 1) Season 6 Episode 25 (Patreon)

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2016-11-12 11:52:21
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2020-06

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Man, this finale. I can't stop rewatching it. We got all the Glimmy we could ever hope for, and Trixie has cemented herself as one of my new favorite characters in this show. Honestly, I didn't care about her back in the pre-Twigglicorn era, but this season completely changed that. Trixie is clearly mentally unstable, but now we can see that she's actually a functional person. She used to just show up, spew pasta everywhere, and then fuck off immediately. For all we knew she was hunched over in a cave, rocking back and forth while sobbing and sticking pins in her Twilight voodoo doll. Now it's like oh, hey, she lives in her wagon and travels around. She's a legitimate performer who's actually invested in her craft, not just a looney twat running around screaming at people who threaten her ego. I like how passive-aggressive and self serious she is, and it's hilarious how quickly her "tough girl" act evaporates when shit hits the fan. Trixie's got serious personality problems, but her relationship with Glimmer is doing both parties a lot of good, and she's obviously trying as hard as she can.

Oh shit, this is turning into some kind of character analysis. I'm gonna stop typing. Thank you guys for helping me do all this. I know just as well as you do that the ride never ends, but it feels like it's got rocket engines on it now. We may not have a destination, but that doesn't mean we can't go faster.

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Totally Legit Recap: "To Where and Back Again" (Part 1) Season 6 Episode 25

WOW! GLIMMER! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DWK Intro Music: Cover of "I Get Wet" by Andrew WK (Yes, I made it myself, because I get that question **a lot**) Outro Music: The Lonely Island ft.

Comments

ErrorStream

Jesus Christ, i love you

Anonymous

You sir are awesome. Just like how you can't stop rewatching the finale, I can't stop rewatching your totally legit reviews. (I just wish you'd say pony instead of person when refering to ponies, but what do I know, I'm just a Twatwaffle)

DWK

The whole "pony" instead of "person" thing is cool in the show - I think it's cute and it adds to the world - but you'll never hear it coming out of my mouth. There aren't enough pots in the world to contain all that pasta.

Charon

No dude don't stop the analysising. You were on a roll there. I'd love for you to ramble more about how Glimmy and Trixie are two psychos and how their friendship is helping them become something resembling functional people.

Erin Palette

The most memorable part about this season finale is that it's turned TGAP Trixie from a caricature into an actual person (well, pony, but you get what I mean) with depth and feelings. Previously, the rampaging ego of Trixie only cared about herself. And then, in that one scene where Trixie uses her smoke bomb to help Glimmer escape and then shields her *with her own cloak*, I realized just how much Trixie really did care about Starlight Glimmer. There was literally nothing in that scene that benefited Trixie in any manner. She was there 100% to support her friend and did what was needed to help her out. I know it's silly to get teary-eyed over a cartoon about talking horses, but dammit, this touches me.

Anonymous

It's like you started announcing that you made a video and involuntarily turned it into a Trixie-cast

Anonymous

Man, Trixie was a delight this time

Anonymous

Someone posted this recap on /mlp/, which was my introduction to you, and while I enjoyed it, the primary thing I got from it was how desperately sad you are. You didn't even make it explicit in any way. It was just the subtext of the entire script and writing. And then I watched more videos and it became explicit. I've been on /mlp/ for years and your videos epitomise what those people are like. This entire fandom, at least our niche of us, is almost exclusively desperately sad people. An anon made an insightful comment about the kind of thing that you do. "It happens when we project our depression onto our fantasy so that no glimmer of hope is left." In your characterisation, you've projected your depression onto the show itself, and now no glimmer of hope is left. You characterise Equestria itself as a land of ponies as depressed as you are. And now your escape reflects your own misery.

DWK
>>3279887

Well, I'm glad you like the videos and seem to identify with them on some level, but here's the thing: I'm actually a fairly happy person, and I try to get that across in my videos as well. I wasn't always in a good place, and that's where all the bleakness comes from. I don't hate myself, but I do hate who I used to be and I have a lot to atone for. I mean, there's still plenty of stuff about me that I don't like, but it's all serviceable. Those moments of self-deprecation and hopelessness in the videos are just me coming to terms with the things I've done, and really, that's what these videos are - my self-prescribed therapy put out on the internet for everyone to see in the hopes that people will identify with what I feel. I want to take as many of you guys with me as possible on this little bout of self-examination, and maybe we can all come out better for it. One very important thing I always try to do - especially in the more recent videos - is preserve and expand on whatever lesson the show is trying to teach. This is gonna get really autistic, so prepare to cringe. The core concept of the show - that friendship is magic - works so well because *it's fucking true*. From the moment I achieved self-awareness as a child until very recently, life was a horrifying existential nightmare for me. I could never just chill the fuck out and be productive because my thought process was a constant loop of OH DEAR GOD WHY WHY WHY DO I EXIST WHY AM I FEELING BOOHOOHOO I'M SO SAD, and I adopted an accordingly self-destructive lifestyle. What I finally realized is that solace comes in the form of interpersonal interaction. I have no fucking clue whether or not there's a god or some kind of designated purpose to my existence, so the only point to this that I can figure is just sharing it with other people, as corny as that sounds. It feels right. Those moments where you understand someone else and share a mutual comprehension of your respective life experiences are wonderful, and for me at least, very much worth living for. That's the glimmer of hope. Being alive is terrifying, but I'm not in any hurry to eat a shotgun sandwich because the good parts are just that good, and those parts all involve - in one way or another - experiencing it with others. That's the reason the videos are often horribly bleak and crass with sudden moments of strangely sappy and sincere emotion - because that's what life is like. I'm not trying to project depression onto the show because I'm not depressed, I just sort of impose my life experience on it, much of which is depressing but an equally sizeable chunk of which is humorous and/or uplifting. Anyway, sorry for writing you an essay, but I hope I've offered a different perspective; I don't want sadness to be the big takeaway from my content, and if it is, that means I'm doing it wrong. I don't know where you are on your adventure through life, but in my opinion, the right perspective is one of the most valuable things one can have, and I wish you the best. Also thanks for giving me money.

Anonymous
>>3279887

If that hole that you crawled out of is anything remotely resembling the one you frequently shine a flashlight into with your vids, it just adds to the level of amazeballs I deem your comedy to be.