Introduction, Episode Recommendations for Christmas, /endpone/ Anon 12/24/2020 (Thu) 02:00:09 No.7056 del
When one has to think about certain moments where you believe that everything ends up in pure happiness and joy, does that mean that every single character will have a happy ending forever? If that´s true, for how long? Where does one draw the line for conveying that sense of joy? How would every single character of one of the greatest parties deal with the next day after celebrating it as if it were the ending of that fairy tale?

Well, these are a few questions that one raises after watching the movie released in 2017 and gets to see the whole ending with Sia´s song and all the characters (both old and the new ones introduced in that entry) where they celebrate a huge party in Canterlot after defeating the Storm King.

For this Christmas period, there are several episodes in the list that are very fitting for spending a good amount of time with franchise: Hearth's Warming Eve, A Hearth's Warming Tail, Hearthbreakers, The Hearth's Warming Club (>>1954) and Best Gift Ever (>>2358->>2360, >>3871); not to mention that one could also include several episodes related to the Winter season. This gen can perfectly provide a couple of hours of entertainment when it comes to this period and in the season 8 thread, you can actually read the reviews about the last two episodes mentioned.

This episode spotlight will serve just to check how episodes were discussed at the time (back in 2018) and how one can analyse from a distant perspective. This time, the episode chosen for this spotlight comes from the 8th season.

You might be wondering if this episode is Christmas related but as shown in A Health of Information with Nightmare Night, the theme cannot be found in the episode itself. This means that this spotlight could have been reviewed at any other day/period of time. Any user who is reading this post and raises this approach is going to be correct, anyone can point out the seemingly inappropriate criteria for writing this episode spotlight...

However, this review fulfils a very different purpose because today, December 23, the 2nd wave of /endpone/ started all of a sudden with this series of posts: from >>272 and >>273 to >>288. So, as you can guess, this spotlight follows a more meta perspective so, pardon me if this spotlight doesn´t follow exactly the formula that was delivered for other episodes because there is a more personal meta context that I have to address and for this occasion, there are going to be details that you can´t consider normal for reviewing an episode.

It´s been 3 years….3 years since I pressed the New Reply button on the old Endchan servers where 500 and 502 errors would pop up very often and would have inconsistent periods of maintenance (you could refresh the page several times and the site would sometimes work and all of a sudden, get an error that points out that you are stuck).

If anyone out there had told my old self what would happen after hitting that button, if anyone had told me that I was opening Pandora´s box at the time, I wouldn´t have believed that person. Only 3 years, yet after 2020, it feels so...distant (I feel older than the actual material time). Receiving a reply from the old Polish Board Owner with a Hi Anon picture that was seemingly innocent at the time and then, the race for the 300 posts for reaching the 1st page on Endchan´s boardlist would become a spontaneous task that would spark the start of this second wave.