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So I continue to deliberate over whether I want the Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie Build-a-Bear plushies.
I've actually been fairly interested in getting Rainbow after realizing how much she's grown over the seasons. And then as I said, I'm sure she's the one they'll retire first.
But then today she goes and proves that she can never fully get away from being rude. She was doing so well! Now suddenly she has to go and act insulting about Twilight's excitement over an exhibit. It's one of her worst comments in quite a while.
I was really mad at her in the morning over that. Later on I felt somewhat better, but I still don't know what to think about whether I want the plush.
I wish they weren't limited editions, because that makes me worried and panicky thinking that even though my feelings are all over the place right now, I might regret it later if I don't get them.
With Twilight, I love her so much and we usually see her good side over her bad, so it's easy to forgive her faults and love her in spite of them. Plus, sometimes she's hilariously adorable when she has a meltdown, like in Swarm of the Century when the Parasprites are tearing the town apart right as Celestia is coming for a visit. Twilight goes, "Okay, Rainbow Dash, distract them." Rainbow flies by being chased by them. "Great. Now, everybody else, build an exact duplicate of Ponyville over there. We have one minute." Then she breaks down and wails that they really are doomed. Poor Twilight.
With Rainbow, it seemed like for most of seasons 1 and 2, we mostly saw her bad side, insulting and arrogant, and it aggravated me so much that it wasn't easy at all to forgive her faults. There were only a handful of times I liked her in the early episodes. Then she seemed to really be changing in the latter part of season 2 and into seasons 3 and 4. She matured a lot. But that comment today ... ugh. Just ugh. That was such a backslide.
I suppose I could blame it on the writing, since it sure hasn't been consistent for some of the Ponies, like Fluttershy. But considering Rainbow Dash's personality and her past behavior, it's hard to know what to think.
Also, the original Maverick series is honestly really cute. We have Cozi TV now and they air it. I still don't think I'd like the sequel from the early '80's, although I was going to try it again and see how I felt. But I don't think I tend to like Westerns from the '70's and the '80's. They seem to be so silly, almost like they're making fun of the genre. I don't like Alias Smith and Jones (although I was going to try it again, too) and I don't like Bret Maverick (the sequel series, not the person).
Gunsmoke continued until 1975 and was pretty consistently serious. Sometimes too much so, honestly. I didn't like what happened in The Guns of Cibola Blanca at all. It seemed way too raunchy for the series, even though by the mid-seventies times were changing with what they would air on TV. And it was such a confusing mess. I got so fed up trying to figure out what was going on that I finally started fast-forwarding through the thing and only stopping at Richard Anderson's scenes.
Anyway, though, the original Maverick series is pretty adorable. It's a little tongue-in-cheek and sometimes there's shades of the kind of humor that would come later in The Rockford Files and Alias Smith and Jones, but it seems to be a lot more mild. And I like the character of Bret Maverick. He's amusing and definitely not your typical hero. But he's a pretty honest guy, really, unless he's showing up some cheaters who've been causing trouble.
I only caught part of an episode tonight, and I liked it as well as the other three I've seen, although it was a little sad too. At the end, Bret was commenting on how the guy with him had done all kinds of dangerous things, but had come out alive, was a hero, and would be rich. Bret was broke and leaving town and no one noticed or cared. He wondered if he was wrong about his life's philosophy.
I really loved one of the episodes last week, where he and his brother Bart were both trying to get hold of some money and there was only enough for one of them to get a share. I thought it would be one of those awful "everybody gets greedy and betrays everybody else into dangerous situations" episodes. That seems to always happen in the old Road movies and is one major reason why I just can't get into them. The characters are always either greedy or cowardly and betraying each other. I can't stand it and can't buy the idea of the characters really caring about each other.
But in this Maverick episode, the stuff with the brothers getting greedy was more playful and did not extend to getting each other into dangerous situations. And it seemed like it was mainly Bart carrying on (although Bret did a bit of it). But as soon as Bart actually got into real danger, Bret immediately came to help him instead of just letting him suffer and maybe get killed. And they decided to share what money they could get. So much squeeableness! And so very different from what I thought would happen! That definitely makes Maverick unique.
I hope to continue catching episodes where possible. Right now I can only catch it on Saturday nights, as on weekdays it airs at the same time as Ironside. And even though Maverick is cute, I like Ironside lots better.
I've actually been fairly interested in getting Rainbow after realizing how much she's grown over the seasons. And then as I said, I'm sure she's the one they'll retire first.
But then today she goes and proves that she can never fully get away from being rude. She was doing so well! Now suddenly she has to go and act insulting about Twilight's excitement over an exhibit. It's one of her worst comments in quite a while.
I was really mad at her in the morning over that. Later on I felt somewhat better, but I still don't know what to think about whether I want the plush.
I wish they weren't limited editions, because that makes me worried and panicky thinking that even though my feelings are all over the place right now, I might regret it later if I don't get them.
With Twilight, I love her so much and we usually see her good side over her bad, so it's easy to forgive her faults and love her in spite of them. Plus, sometimes she's hilariously adorable when she has a meltdown, like in Swarm of the Century when the Parasprites are tearing the town apart right as Celestia is coming for a visit. Twilight goes, "Okay, Rainbow Dash, distract them." Rainbow flies by being chased by them. "Great. Now, everybody else, build an exact duplicate of Ponyville over there. We have one minute." Then she breaks down and wails that they really are doomed. Poor Twilight.
With Rainbow, it seemed like for most of seasons 1 and 2, we mostly saw her bad side, insulting and arrogant, and it aggravated me so much that it wasn't easy at all to forgive her faults. There were only a handful of times I liked her in the early episodes. Then she seemed to really be changing in the latter part of season 2 and into seasons 3 and 4. She matured a lot. But that comment today ... ugh. Just ugh. That was such a backslide.
I suppose I could blame it on the writing, since it sure hasn't been consistent for some of the Ponies, like Fluttershy. But considering Rainbow Dash's personality and her past behavior, it's hard to know what to think.
Also, the original Maverick series is honestly really cute. We have Cozi TV now and they air it. I still don't think I'd like the sequel from the early '80's, although I was going to try it again and see how I felt. But I don't think I tend to like Westerns from the '70's and the '80's. They seem to be so silly, almost like they're making fun of the genre. I don't like Alias Smith and Jones (although I was going to try it again, too) and I don't like Bret Maverick (the sequel series, not the person).
Gunsmoke continued until 1975 and was pretty consistently serious. Sometimes too much so, honestly. I didn't like what happened in The Guns of Cibola Blanca at all. It seemed way too raunchy for the series, even though by the mid-seventies times were changing with what they would air on TV. And it was such a confusing mess. I got so fed up trying to figure out what was going on that I finally started fast-forwarding through the thing and only stopping at Richard Anderson's scenes.
Anyway, though, the original Maverick series is pretty adorable. It's a little tongue-in-cheek and sometimes there's shades of the kind of humor that would come later in The Rockford Files and Alias Smith and Jones, but it seems to be a lot more mild. And I like the character of Bret Maverick. He's amusing and definitely not your typical hero. But he's a pretty honest guy, really, unless he's showing up some cheaters who've been causing trouble.
I only caught part of an episode tonight, and I liked it as well as the other three I've seen, although it was a little sad too. At the end, Bret was commenting on how the guy with him had done all kinds of dangerous things, but had come out alive, was a hero, and would be rich. Bret was broke and leaving town and no one noticed or cared. He wondered if he was wrong about his life's philosophy.
I really loved one of the episodes last week, where he and his brother Bart were both trying to get hold of some money and there was only enough for one of them to get a share. I thought it would be one of those awful "everybody gets greedy and betrays everybody else into dangerous situations" episodes. That seems to always happen in the old Road movies and is one major reason why I just can't get into them. The characters are always either greedy or cowardly and betraying each other. I can't stand it and can't buy the idea of the characters really caring about each other.
But in this Maverick episode, the stuff with the brothers getting greedy was more playful and did not extend to getting each other into dangerous situations. And it seemed like it was mainly Bart carrying on (although Bret did a bit of it). But as soon as Bart actually got into real danger, Bret immediately came to help him instead of just letting him suffer and maybe get killed. And they decided to share what money they could get. So much squeeableness! And so very different from what I thought would happen! That definitely makes Maverick unique.
I hope to continue catching episodes where possible. Right now I can only catch it on Saturday nights, as on weekdays it airs at the same time as Ironside. And even though Maverick is cute, I like Ironside lots better.
