My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season One Part One

Hello and welcome to Only Animation. Here you guessed it! We will talk about different cartoons, anime and movies. And today we are going to talk about Season One of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (MLP:FIM) is one of my favorites and today we are doing to talk about the first three seasons to get prepared for the 4th season which will be released in the United States on November 23, 2013. This is the 4th series of the My Little Pony Franchise and it was developed by Lauren Faust. Faust was then chosen by Hasbro to be the Creative Director and Executive Producer. She wanted to challenge the established girly nature of the show and create more in-depth characters and adventurous settings.  Season One of MLP:FIM was first aired on October 10, 2010. For the full transcripts of season one go here.  

You can also play games online with the characters from the show here. They have a great flash

This is a pony I made on the pony creator.

game there where you can make your own pony. Make your own pony there (don´t use the randomizer or anyone else´s pony) and share it on twitter with the hushtag #mlpfimmypony. The contest will end when the new season comes out in November. I will announce the winners then. There will be eight categories (Best Alacorn, Best Unicorn, Best Pegasus, Best Earth Pony, Best Male Pony, Best Female Pony, Prettiest Pony, Weirdest Pony and Worst Pony). To win you must put the hush tag with the corresponding category you wish to enter.

The Main Characters 
 

Twilight Sparkle

Voice Actress: Tara Strong

Singing Voice:  Rebecca Shoichet

Apple Jack
Voice Actress: Ashleigh Ball

Rainbow Dash

Voice Actress: Ashleigh Ball

Pinky Pie
Voice Actress: Andrea Libman
Singing Voices: Shannon Chan-Kent
                       Andrea Libman  

Fluttershy

Voice Actress: Andrea Libman

Rarity 

Voice Actress: Tabitha St. Germain
Singing Voice: Kazumi Evans

 Spike

Voice Actress: Cathy Weseluck

  
A full character list will be created once I post all three seasons. So be sure to come back for more information on all of your favorite pony's.

Friendship Is Magic 

Episode 1&2 

The First and Second Episode of MLP:FIM was a two part episode officially called Friendship is Magic Part 1 and Part 2. However Hasbro, on their website refers to Part 1 as Mare in the Moon and Part 2 as Elements of Harmony. The two episodes were both written by Lauren Faust and were directed by Jayson Thiessen and James Wootton, who continued to direct the three seasons. 

Summery 

Twilight Sparkle (the main character) tries desperately to warn her mentor, Princess Celestia that Nightmare Moon would return to bring about eternal night. But instead of the answer Twilight was hoping for, she get´s sent to PonyVille to oversee the preparations of the Summer Sun Celebration and to make friends. But Twilight is worried about Nightmare Moon and tries to rush through the preparations and put off making friends. But ultimately, in the end she will be glad that she made friends and discovers the true magic of friendship.

 

Commentary

I love that in the beginning Spike doesn´t know show to spell some words. Hence showing that he is a baby dragon. I hope that in the next seasons they show that part of Spike more, because kinda after that you forget that he´s a baby. ¨The Fate of Equestria does not depend on me making friends¨ you have to laugh at that when you realize how wrong that statement is. And then, poor Spike tries to make Twilight become friends with Pinky Pie but it just doesn´t happen in that moment. Then comes in Apple Jack who wants to have her try everything that has an apple in it and makes her sick. LOL, at Rainbow Dash crashing into Twilight. And then Rainblow dry lol! And the face that Twilight makes when Rainbow gets rid of the clouds, it´s priceless. That´s one of my favorite parts of the show is how expressive the characters are.Then lol at Spike´s boy crush on Rarity. I love how he adores her. Rarity´s fangasm over Canterlot is amazing too. Poor Fluttershy, she is so very timid but she loves animals and loves Spike. Then suddenly out of nowhere a surprise party from Pinky Pie and then duh duh dum .... Nightmare Moon. I love Nightmare Moon´s mane.  I also like the sweet moment with Twilight and Spike when she tucks him into bed. And then frantically looking through books for the Elements of Harmony and Rainbow comes in suddenly being all tough and of course after all the searching that Twilight did it´s Pinky Pie who finds the book about the Elements of Harmony. Then through the Everfree Forest they go to find the Elements with Nightmare Moon trying to stop them. ¨Tell me she´s not ...She is¨. I love this song. It just makes me smile every time I hear it (for more information on the song see the song section below). I absolutely love how this ends I cry every time.

Episode 2

The Ticket Master

Summery

Princess Celestia sends two tickets to the exclusive Grand Galloping Gala, a royal celebration held in Canterlot. The thing is, Twilight has five friends and they all have good reasons for wanting to go to the ball. Twilight Sparkle gets caught up in a big decision of who to take with her to the ball and ends up making a sacrifice and receiving a big surprise. 

 

 Commentary

I love that every time a letter comes from Princess Celestia, Spike burps it up. So does that mean it wet with dragon spit. EWWW! And Spikes face while they are happy about the gala. Lol. Rainbow Dash crashing again. Then Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash at each others throats for the tickets. This is very realistic. I had a similar experience when I was younger. I could only invite a certain number of friends over for a sleepover at a time but I had more than that and that caused some of my friends to fight. Later, we solved it, but things can get out of hand sometimes if some friends get excluded.  Pinky Pie freaking out, then realizing they´re tickets to the gala lol and then comes Rarity to go all fashionista. And then out of no where ninja bunny Angel steals a ticket to show Fluttershy. And suddenly Rainbow and Apple Jack out of no where. I feel bad for Twilight when the fight breaks out. Poor Twilight never did get a chance to eat. Also an interesting moment in this episode. Twilight teleports for the first time. Something that no other pony can do. And yay Princess Celestia sends more tickets.

Episode 3

AppleBuck Season

 

Summery 

 Apple Jack takes on a bit more than she can handle when she trys to harvest all of the apples by hersef. But due to her stubbornness she decides that she is going to do it all herself, risking herself, her friends and the citizens of PonyVille until finally Twilight Sparkle has enough and insist to help her. 

Commentary

I will say this, how in the name of Celestia did Apple Jack think for one second that she could do all of that work by herself. I mean if she grew up on a farm and all of that, you would think that she would know the type of pony power it would take to do all of that work. Gawd, Pinky Pie, she really reminds me of the Pinky from Pinky and the Brain. Apple Jack single handily saves the town, shouldn´t the mayor say hoofedly and Lol, CowPony! Twilights giant speech that she never got to give, poor thing. Poor Apple Jack is so exhausted. And Pinky pie totally oblivious lol. And horrible muffins. poor bunnies AJ´s gone crazy. I like that Twilight Sparkle is shown levitating the apples in the end. 

Episode 4

Griffon the Brush-off

When Rainbow Dash and Pinky Pie realize they both like pulling harmless pranks, they join together and become better friends. But when Rainbow Dash´s old childhood friend, Gilda (a griffon), comes to visit. Pinky Pie starts to feel left out. When Pinky Pie see´s Glenda being rude she decides to cheer her up by having a party. At the party, many pranks are set up for Gilda, who gets angry when she suspects that Pinky Pie sets them. But Rainbow Dash speaks up and admits setting up the pranks. Angry Gilda flies off and Rainbow and Pinky strengthen their friendship. 

Comentary

Rainbow Dash crashing again lol and she tries so hard to get away from Pinky Pie who is totally oblivious  that Rainbow Dash doesn´t want to hang out with her then. And lol Pinky Pie bouncing is faster that Rainbow Dash at full speed lol. Aww they scared Spike so badly that he has hick-ups and Princess Celestia  being sent all of the scrolls at once. And Rainbow kinda insults Pinky but then goes off to play pranks with each other. Gilda is a total asshole, I can´t believe Rainbow would hang out with someone so mean and yeah Pinky is jealous but for the right reasons. Gilda is a big mean, grumpy pants. Okay I officially hate Gilda as a character, she makes Fluttershy cry. Gilda gets what she deserves in the end.

Songs

Now for the best part of My Little Pony! The Songs!

Theme Song

 

The theme song of the series was composed by Daniel Ingram with Lyrics by Lauren Faust and it features the voices of all six of the main characters. There is also the extended version:

I love the extended version. Also while in the planing stages, they originally thought to have Pinky Pie sing the entire song which you can listen to here. All translations of the series use a translation of the theme song except for the Italian first season which had this song.

 

And there are also the two Japanese openings which you can see here.

and

The Laughter Song

Gala Fantasy Song 



Ticket Song 

 

Please be sure to come back to find out the winners of the contest and to see the rest of this and upcoming seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic as well as my commentary. 

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