All Plotted Out - an MLP:FiM podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Hello, hello! … and tara, tara.

Must be Strong...

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So, Pawn Heart reaches the end of the line, offering a review of the epilogue episode ‘The Last Problem’, the standard season overview and awards, and a bunch of mildly wistful musings on putting the podcast together.

To all who’ve joined me, for all or part – thank you!

Hello hello! We’re coming in to land... please ensure all loose threads are neatly tied around your waist and that you have secured any bits that may fly about and blind a kid in the overhead lockers. Will the talented trio of Nicola, Mike & J-Hab successfully bring this huge vessel in for a Photo Finish? (Any more metaphors you want to mix in there?)

YES! They will.

AVOID! Spoilers.

LEARN! How to correctly pronounce ‘Dubuc’. (I’m talking to you, Pawn Heart.)

All this and more in this careful and militarily precise coordination of arcs and plot strands… -tastic instalment!

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Hello hello! Well, they can’t all be winners – after a fairly strong start to the final season, we reach an inevitable fallow patch with a decent (if a trifle familiar) excursion to the Dragon Lands and the sadly underwhelming final script (and it is certainly a script) from an APO veteran. I’ll miss the hip hop puns - You may not.

LAUGH! At those who have the confidence to be themselves – for the children’s sake.

IGNORE! Your poorly elder brother. And laugh as he falls in a pit.

IRONIZE! The host overexplaining how bad overexplanation is.

All this and KILOtons more in this Oppentastic instalment!

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Hello hello! Pawn Heart returns from the flank-end of space to bid adieu to Brian Hohlfeld, who hands in his final paper with the flawedbut typically thoughtful ‘The Taming of the Yak’, and applaud the graceful finale prep-work of ‘Frenemies’.

REJECT! Difference as part of a healthy school curriculum.

GUSH! Over Kathleen Barr’s voice performance.

HEAR! How Pawn Heart feels about Surf and/or Turf. Again.

All this and a hairy trophy in this week’s (month’s?) outcastic instalment!

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Hello hello! So we reach the ACTUAL 200th episode, which sees the end of G.M. Berrow's rollercoaster writing journey with the show, but will her last ep hold more prose than cons, or will it bring the season to a full stop? (groan). Also, Patton is back, and this time he's brought the whole clan!

MILK! That scene in the pilot episode some more cos there's still a few background assets that haven't yet been plot-plundered.

SPIKE! ... Is still awesome.

THINK! ...of a third one of these for me, please - my brain is not what it was.

All this and an unusually subdued child actor in this week's Surrogacy-tastic instalment!

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We at last enter the weighted body of Season 9 with the return of the Young Six (and a bunch of other stuff from previous Young Six episodes) and an instance too many cooks actually making the broth by leaning into the knowledge that there are too many cooks.

EXPRESS! Yourself conceptually in a thoroughly uncommercial way.

CELEBRATE! 199 episodes (?).

REWRITE! A back story because the original one smelled a bit.

All this and an unanticipated Zephyr Breeze cameo in this week’s Heist-acular instalment!

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Hello, hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! And so, our little ponies enter the final furlong with the welcome return of a great writing partnership and the rather less welcome return of a terminally underachieving “threat”.

SKATE! One-hoofed on the thin ice of another unsolicited ‘Non-Compete Clause’ prologue.

DIG! A genuinely funny Jerry Maguire reference.

PITY! Sombra, once more the clown prince of FiM’s rogues gallery.

All this and a generous 15 mins of bonus pon-age in this week’s scene-setting-tastic instalment!

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Hello, hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! 'TIS THE SEASON! ... well, tis A season... Pawn Heart weathers sweaty mounds of July snow to reckon with their previous assertion that 'The Hearth's Warming Club' is the best seasonal episode, before rifling at the bottom of the stocking for a trio of festive mini-eps which aired with passible proximity to Christmas for once.

FABRICATE! A new hat for Applejack, to match her own fabrications about the old one. ESCAPE! From a locked room again as the fad continues to defy gravity. MELANINIZE! In this balmy Winter Wonderland.

All this and Seasick Spike in this SPOOKTACULAR extravaganza! Well... it's at least a [i]vaganza[/i], anyway.

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Hello, hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! At last, we graduate from Season 8 with flying Rainbow colours (possibly), allowing Pawn Heart the chance to kick back, make awful puns, rant about “poetic logic” (whatever the flying feather that is), and have a parting shot at ‘Surf and/or Turf’.

MAGNETISE! Your home by putting a bunch of disparate items close together. PROBLEMATISE! The Hall & Oates-themed awards ceremony. PRIVATISE! … they’re watching you… they see your e-‘vry move. All this and niche besides in this week’s idiosyncratic pony-blast!

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Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out!

This weak Season 8 (and Pawn Heart's microphone) peaks with the introduction of the Kirin, and we question the wisdom of doing a one episode Deadbeat Dad story involving a regular cast member.

BLOW! A trumpet in tandem with the genuine horn section the show has brought in. MARVEL! At the trivia that an MLP writer seemingly wrote an award-winning play about cheese. PLEASE! Turn down the gain on your microphone. It would be witlessly ironic if, after 20 years of wearing earplugs to gigs, I get irreparable hearing damage from a flippin' podcast.

All this and mor...gonzola (a cautionary tale) in this week's parmesan-tastic instalment!

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