"Going to Seed" Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- At first, I thought this was going to be another case of Applejack teaching the importance of hard work. What a pleasant surprise to be wrong :)
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I found it odd that Applejack would doubt the existence of the Great Seedling when she's seen a draconequis, a magic-stealing centaur, and a community of dragon-ponies. But once she explained her disappointment at not being able to catch it as a filly, it made a bit more sense.
Same. Also until we see big macs sillowete I had no idea it was him.
I'm pretty sure that Big Mac was hungover most of the episode. He must not be taking the show ending very well
He saw GoT season 8.
@@jascrandom9855 no he saw the legendary coffee cup XD
Nice we get see Applejacks parents again.
If it's the final Apple Family episode, then it was the perfect ending for the family, as it showed the entire family working together and spending time with each other in the present and the past. Baby Apple Bloom though being held by Pear Butter (Butter Cup ) is adorable
I'm glad to see that moment where Bright Mac helped Big Mac and Pear Butter was carrying Applebloom, while young Granny Smith was looking for Applejack. Having an episode where the entire Apple family were together was such a highlight for me. I agree about the lesson and applaud the writers for their creativity.
Dr. Wolf..this video you made had me in tears of joy because of how TRUE it is... because I’ve been childish all my life and still am..even though I’m autistic but I know when to be responsible for my and others actions..Thank you for this BEAUTIFUL moment my dude...may god bless you!
(I’m still crying tears of joy guys!)
Honestly, I liked this episode, Dr. Wolf, especially for the flashback with seeing Pear Butter and Bright Mac again, so we know they were around after Apple Bloom was born, then presumably passed away some time after that, leaving Granny Smith to raise Big Mac, Applejack, and Apple Bloom on her own.
A wonderful slice of life episode where we get to see the entire Apple family together.
Hearing your remarks on the lesson in this episode, I'm reminded of a quote by C.S. Lewis: "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” If that doesn't sum up this fandom, I don't know what does.
When I heard the synopsis for this episode I was kind of worried. Worried that we were going to get another sister bonding episode where the older sister doesn’t listen to the younger one, conflict based off lack of communication occurs, and the conflict features unnecessary arguments between the two siblings even though we know it won’t matter in the end. Thankfully, this episode throws all that aside and what I got was a sweet sister bonding episode where AJ finally learns a lesson she actually needed to learn
One thing we know about Dr.Wolf, he LOOOOVES his plot twists!
I feel like this was one of the most wholesome episodes I have ever watched. Like the whole episode just kept this soft smile on my face. And it was super nice to see Their parents again. I also loved the lesson it taught AND those cats are so stinking cute!!
Sibling bond is important, because in the future family is all you have.
I really adored this episode and it's one of my favs of the season. Seriously the last time I can recall a great AJ centered episode was way back in S5 in Mane Attraction. I don't count Perfect Pear since AJ wasn't the main focus.
I thought it was adorable!! And it was good to see Pear Butter and Bright Mac when they were with the kids, baby Applebloom so cute!!
I got early access to all the episodes and get four early Saturday and just got ep 10-13 and I gotta tell ya Doc the next three episodes are going to be a blast, mostly Ep 13!! 🤗
It's the Great Seedling, Charlie Horse!
Granny aged A LOT in the last, what, 13 years? Or like 8 years, since she's looked that way since the beginning of the show. I'm wondering if that's just an example of cartoon aging, or if it's a result of having lost a child and a child-in-law. Interesting how the Great Seedling was never proven to be real at the end. And yeah, I love Applejack and this was a good AJ episode. She's responsible and hard-working, but she can let loose and have fun and play too. And she and Apple Bloom got to be cryptid-hunters together.
*Today's Lessons:*
Finish your schedule in time while having fun!
Encourage a dream for them to succeed.
Adults are never too old to have fun.
Never overwork yourself or life will prank you back.
This episode fulfills the desire of every Apple Family Fan of the show: The entire 'core' Apple Family working together. Granny Smith, Ma and Pa Apple (Bright Mac and Pear Butter), Bigmac receiving a truly meaningful gift from Pa Apple, and (Finally) baby Apple Bloom using an apple as a pacifier.
The cuteness levels were incredibly high on the chart, probably only second to Fluttershy in the last episode.
Based on the image of the Great Seedling, I was kind of expecting Thorax to make an appearance.
Same
Lets not forget the flashback were the Apple Siblings had a great time with their parents.
This is a very good way to do the last episode about Apple Jack and Apple Bloom bonding again a highly fun and whimsical never grow out of childhood and spend time with your brother or sister.
This was a very amazing review! I'm glad you liked this one. I know its not most peoples favorite, but it is my FAVORITE EPISODE OF THE ENTIRE SERIES! I don't know why, but I am a kid still, so maybe that has to do with it. But it was my favorite episode because it reminded me of lot's of memories I have had, and the memories I want to have more of. BEST EPISODE FOR ME!
Excuse me, that's Goldie Delicious, not Golden Delicious who's an entirely different character. Yes, it's confusing.
Big Mac: "Why didn't Princess Luna help me here?"
The scenes with their parents caught me off guard. I mean, when the flashback began I _hoped_ they'd be seen in it, interacting with their children in some way but even still, it somehow caught me off guard. I guess that given the previous flashbacks we've had of the Apples this far, never showing their parents, I was at the same time expecting they wouldn't be present on this one, either. It made me feel like crying. I almost shed a manly tear when I saw them. I couldn't help but express a very large smile upon seeing Bright Mac and Pear Butter next to little Big Mac and Applejack. That hit me right in the feels. In a good way, of course, but it did. :')
i feel sorry for Big Mac.
but the whole Ep was good and fun to watch.
This episode kinda made me think of people celebrating Halloween with dressing up and trick or treating. Pretty much saying that you are never too old for this stuff that lots of people say are just for the young.
Xerneas + Sawsbuck = The Great Seedlin
Personally on a scale of 1 to 10, i give "Going to Seed" a positive 8...and it was also good to see Bright Mac and Pear Butter again...too bad it's the 2nd and probably the final time they'll appear in the series what with it being the final season.
I give it a 2. It's a very bad episode. Not as bad as last week episode but still very bad.
Ill give it a 6.6
Its a decent episode, but it just has this feeling that i dislike..
To be fair in Big Mac's case, when I over work myself I sleep walk. I once lost an argument with a portrait of John Wayne.
Icarus the Foxkidd No shame in losing to the Duke, pilgrim.
One of my favorite morals. Always hold on to your inner child.
In some ways it wouldn't surprise me if the moral was for fans who were kids when they started watching the show, and are now teens, and it telling them to hang onto that childlike wonder and not take things too seriously.
What a delight to see AJ finally break down her guard and have some fun :)
I loved this episode. For many reasons, not the least of which is that it put to bed a very dark fan theory that Applebloom is actually AJ's daughter and not her sister. That they told her she's AJ's sister because she was an accidental pregnancy and AJ wasn't ready to be a mom. It also showed where Big Mac got his neck... thing... god I forget what it's called, and it was indeed from his pops bless his soul. Nice touch that AJ doesn't have her cutiemark yet since she doesn't get that until (presumably) after her parents are passed away. Strengthens the fan theory that AJ rejected the farm life as a coping mechanism for the grief of losing her parents. She went to aunt and uncle orange because they filled in as parent figures which is what she was craving. I was really hoping that it was going to turn out Big Mac was consciously setting up the great seedling stuff, even though he was tired, even though he knew it would make even more work for him, because he liked seeing his little sister acting like a kid. Kinda like how an exhausted parent still makes time to drink half the glass of milk, and bite the cookies so the little kid will believe in santa one more year. It would have been a cute way to show how much he loves his sister. A nice follow up to brotherhooves social. I think subconsciously that IS what he was doing, which is why the get up. I find it a little funny that the great seedling looks a little like Thorax, I wonder if a long time ago changelings looked like that, and went around spreading fertilizer in people's orchards to improve their crops so they could feed on the ponies love and appreciation. Then the ponies started to just expect them to show up and stopped having proper appreciation, so the changelings changed forms due to bitterness from being taken advantage of. So the great seedling became a legend because there were people that remembered this big deer like thing that brought plentiful harvests from when they were children but were too young to know about the fallout of why it stopped coming around. Headcannons are fun.
I got the impression that Big Mac's sleepwalking (sleepbucking?) was one of the well-known side-effects of Lunesta or Ambien, where you do things during sleep, and don't remember any of it in the morning. Then AJ was having a protracted 'Nam flashback, setting up traps in the closest thing analogous to a Southeast-Asian jungle; was anybody else surprised there weren't punji sticks at the bottom of that pit? Yeah yeah, it's a kid's show, and I'm exaggerating a bit. This was a fun Apple family episode to watch. :)
This was my fav episode this season, start to finish it was great. Loved the faces and how AJ got swept up.
As a big brother, i wouldnt hold a grudge for my sisters getting caught up in a veil of excitement, especially if we had apple orchards equivalent to crop circles lol.
This is just a great story for the family
10 of 10 Solid episodes of Season 9 next week Starlight Glimmer episode YES! Come on 11/11 let's go
How. Personally it poor episode personally.
@@monsterjambrony he means 10 out of 10 episodes he been good
@@monsterjambrony Well I don't fully agree either, however I do think 9/10 have at least been solid
Beginning of the End was fantastic
Uprooted was good
Sparkles Seven was great
Point of No Return was real good
Common Ground was great
She's all Yak...sucked
Frenemies was god tier
Sweet and Smokey was decent
Going to Seed was sollid and cute
I remember trying to hunt down the tooth fairy. I used to set nets and little toy army soldiers underneath my pillow before bed to try to catch her. Instead, I would write her notes and talking to her. Turns out it was my mother the whole time, but it brings me a smile having those memories.
I feel so many adults need to learn this lesson. Especially in the education system. Most of the time when you see a kid try to take in art for their future because they have a bunch of whimsy and creativity; the teachers and even parents try to snuff that out and tell them to grow up. That's why I barely payed attention in school because I knew they were full of bullcrap. Yes, you are becoming an adult, but that doesn't mean you should give up your childhood at age TEN. Well I'm 23 and I still watch cartoons, I play video games most of my time (mostly ratted M games so I guess it's more adult), and I love to draw. But I still have responsibilities like buying my own food, having a good hygiene, and using money responsibly. I'm not giving up my childhood memories and creativity and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Doc, your reviews always give me a new outlook on each episode. I'll appreciate this episode a little more now.
It’s was ponyriffic watching applejack and apple bloom bond again
Big Fish already beat you to it.
Give me the fish and it'll feed me for a month.
Give me the apples and it'll feed me for a year.
Catch me The Great Seedlin and it'll feed me for a lifetime.
Teach me the Alabama Stomp and it'll feed my soul.
You see where this is going?
I loved this episode! It was a really good bonding experience for the sisters, but I really thought it was Goldie and Granny Smith the whole time by the way they looked at each other and the sarcasm in their voices.
I really loves this episode and the lesson that came with it ❤️🧡💛😊🍁🍂
I find it interesting that Big Mac was left exhausted throughout the episode. While we see Apple Bloom and Applejack chasing childlike wonders, we see what happens if you only focus on work like Big Mac demonstrated. I think it's brilliant that the staff showed that opposite end through Big Mac :D
Personally, I really enjoyed this episode. Good Applejack episodes are rare, so I'll take what I can get.
There are som many potential Applejack ideas we never got to see: AJ teaching Twi how to embrace the 1/3 earth pony in her as an Allicorn and possibly learning more about Earth Pony Magic (She's more like Twi's second-in-command and confidant when she has panic attacks and needs to be calmed down, not to mention having saved Twi's life multiple times in the show and being the first in showing interest whilst the others weren't in Twi's interests whilst vice-verca Twi can counter AJ's troubling stubborness (TWIJACK!!!XD)), dealing with the fear of being alone (Granny isn't getting older, Apple Bloom is traveling Equestria as a crusader, Big Mac might leave to be with Sugarbelle and start his own family, and the rest of the Mane 6 have their own dreams ... it has been shown that AJ's greatest fear was that her friendships would one day end), the fate of AJ's parents (It'd be interesting if Chrysalis was responsible: stealing their love and leaving them as dried husks, or their love being so pure Chrysalis cocooned them as a private stash to use sparingly thus resulting in them being saved in the end), her plans in the end (in the IDW comics it's revealed that Mayor Mare has been grooming AJ to take her place as Mayor of Ponyville should she choose - and given Twi's new position as ruler it would enable her to remain in touch as co-leaders.), Winona getting pregnant and having pups of her own.
Part of me wishes the Gen 5 is actually a hoax and Hasbro intends to have G4 age into a new generation: older crusaders, cake twins, and Flurry Heart ... with the Mane 6 as the mentors (kinda like those 2-year skips in One Piece and Naruto Shippuden). XD
Wow I am *way* behind with these episodes 😅😅😅
And by God this is sad because I'be been seriously coming to the same conclusions myself over the past year 😢😢😢 really fitting since this is the Final Season 😭😭😭
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this newest episode Dr Wolf 💙🐺=^_^=🐺💙
I really liked this episode. I didn't suspect that it would've been Big Mac all along, but that's one of the episode's strengths: an unexpected twist. I also really loved the chemistry between Applejack and Apple Bloom in this episode. Moments like those are some of the show's most heartwarming aspects.
This was an awesome episode. It's nice to see the Apple sister's bonding and that we got to see the parents again. At first, I thought Granny and Goldie were behind everything but then I thought Big Mac was the one setting off the traps and I was right. This season is turning out great.
In the words of C.S. Lewis, “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
This fixes the timeline for the Apple parents time of death
Remember when Granny Smith said that the whole family was in the episode? Maybe there’s a reason why the parents weren’t there, either they are dead or they are in there for a reason. We now know that they weren’t somewhere “making” Applebloom. Applebloom was probably a sickly baby, or the parents were there for a medical reason and had Applebloom with them.
We'll gloss over aj getting stuck in a hole and the guily from that basically killing her child like innocence
"There is no point in being a grown-up if you can't be childish at times." The 4th Doctor.
so this is the last apple fam episode
I squealed when I saw bright mac and pear butter in the flashback.
It probably won't become a classic in the vein of "The Washouts" or "For Whom The Sweetie Belle Toils", but it's still a solid entry nonetheless
Solid? It's nearly as bad as last week episode.
@@Secret_Moon Bad? Why?
(Also I wouldn't consider The Washouts a classic. I felt it was a bit lame)
@@thejazmaster5292 Because just like last week episode, it teaches a very bad lesson to kids. Instead of teaching them to be responsible and have good work ethic, it is telling them it's fine to neglect their work and just play around. It's not ok to throw work aside to just have fun like that, especially when they are having fun at the expense of others.
The episode goes in the right direction during the first half, with AJ criticizing AB for fooling around and not helping her family, but then gave compromise and promised to help with her hunting if she helped with work. It gives a good bonding between the sisters while still emphasizes on the importance of work. But then the episode turns upside down its head when the writers made AJ suddenly become childish (yes, childish, not childlike) and obsess with the hunting herself, abandoning all her work, the very thing she criticized AB for and had learned herself a hard lesson in the past. And because of that, Big Mac was forced to work to exhaustion, not to mention hurting himself with all the traps around. If the writers thinks of it as a joke, it's not funny. What do they expect children to learn from this? That it's fine for them to just play around and have fun and don't care when their parents are exhausted with work and need their help? I am not against having fun, but as AJ said in the very beginning of the episode: there is time for fun, and there is time for work. I had expected that AJ was the one who worked overtime at night because she wanted AB to be carefree and also so that she could have time for playing and bonding with her sister. It would have made a touching moment when AB found out about it. But no, she simply just fooled around and had fun with herself without caring a damn thing about work and her exhausted and sleep deprived brother. I don't even know how people can watch this episode and say it's good.
@@Secret_Moon Well, AJ isn't perfect, and she went after the Seedling in order to relive her childhood, and while I do agree that she abandoned work and Big Mac got way too abused by the episode, I think it's also important that she stayed in touch with her inner child, as adults often forget to do.
But I do see what you mean. Why don't you like the last episode though?
@@thejazmaster5292 I am not against AJ having childhood fun, I actually like the idea. But "throwing necessary work aside to have fun on your own despite others working their ass off" is not a lesson you want to teach kids. Like AJ said it herself, there is time for fun and there is time for work. In fact, as I mentioned, the story could have let AJ work at night to save time for having fun with her sister. It would have made a much more touching and compelling story and still tackled the idea of AJ having childhood fun with her sister while also taught kids to be responsible with work.
As for the last episode, I already discussed it here:
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Every time AJ doubted the Great Seedling, I kept thinking "One of your core group of friends is besties with the living embodiment of chaos. . . A simple harvest deity hardly seems that unlikely now does it?"
7:25 OR its the great pumpkin Charlie Brown!
This was a sweet episode
C.S. Lewis said this once, and I quote: "Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being an adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
No offense doc but this is why I don't read synopsis for episodes. It either makes me underestimate a episode or overestimate one. Also I like going into it completely blind
was putting the puzzle pieces together for this episode and it gotten easy to figure out what was going on.
i also picked up on the bonding between two sisters aspect of the episode and was satisfying.
I was hoping Big Mac was one setting off the tracks and making the apple circles...on purpose. Just to be big brother to sweetie bell but it was him sleep walking because of exuastion. Sucks to be right in that rectrospect.
Carrot circles that "turnip?"
I remembered this quote, in relation to this episode, but I forgot the exact wording and who exactly said it. But I _think_ I found it, or one at least close enough.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C.S. Lewis
Personally this is another win for Season 9 for me. I'd compare it to the episode with Quibble Pants. In that both episodes were ultimately predicatable but also managed to have small things that really elevated the episode for me. I was certain the whole episode would be AJ remaining skeptical while Bloom would be lazy but neither of those things happened. And for me this episode is the first episode for me AJ and Bloom felt like sisters in the positive way than a negative way (not to say siblings don't snap at each other or something but I feel we've seen sooooooo much of that). Plus its just nice to see AJ just so happy. I can't remember the last time she has felt so genuinely excited to do something. This episode had many pitfalls but managed to avoid all of them. And even it being predictable isn't enough to make me think any less of it. I give it a 8 out of 10. Its not the most amazing note to end on but I'm satisfied if this is the last episode of the apple family (though I would want to see Big Mac do something else this season I'd be fine if he didn't since last season had his best showing for me).
I have no words for this port of "Going to Seed", this is very awesome & very Great... Plus love your work keep up the great work Dr. Wolf001sir your doing an Awesome job, thank you for keeping "us" happy, joy & asking about what's aware thinking about every single season from 1 through 9!! ^_^ You're a good yet Awesome Wolf even as a "Man", We the Fan's Love you in both Heart & Spirit!
the last crusade had me in *tears*
This was a solid and enjoyable episode.
Suddenly, I remember why I love Cryptozoology in the first place. Thank you!
I REALLY liked the ending :-)
Applebloom's face though...joker grin... *shivers*
2:33 Carrot circles that turnip.
Reminded me of season one and thats always a good thig.☺
Two words for this; Leprechaun Trap, remember those little traps you made for the leprechaun on saint patty’s day?
Besides being meh on Uprooted, there hasn't been an episode this season I've not liked and that's even including the next 3 episodes that were leaked along with this one.
Still, even thought I liked them, I feel that She's All Yak and Going to Seed should have been putted aside for something more important and engaging...
I gave that episode an 8/10 Super Mushrooms, although, they try to capture a Seedling, but the best of all, it was a sleepwalking Big Mac
Probably my fave episode of season 9 so far, mainly due to the cuteness of AJ, Apple Bloom and Big Mac! The lesson was very similar to Apple Family Reunion, though.
Good message, however I can't watch this episode, Student Counsel, or The Last Crusade for a while since I'm at my Grandma's house for at least a couple of weeks. Hopefully, I'll watch these episodes once I'm back home. :)
I think the Great Seedlin reminded me of the Great Pumpkin from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Apple Bloom was a stand in for Linus, especially when she was trying to catch the Great Seedlin and prove it was real to the adults, Applejack included.
All I taking away, is how adorable the apple sisters were in this ep.
But I really was expecting to see that seeding at the end of the episode.
Dr.wolf: I got an idea for a theory video are the Elements of Harmony and the tree of harmony evolving to be like the creast from digimon the the physical Crest could be destroyed but the power of the creast is inside of digi-destiny. And when any creatures with strong enough power of laughter kindness honesty loyalty generosity and friendship they gain a boost of power from the new Treehouse of Harmony in times of need or new threat. That could explain why the tree of harmony choose yona, sandbar, silverstream, ocellus, gallus and smolder were equal or more powerful as the mane six and knowing that evil creatures like King Sombra, Queen Chrysalis, cozy glow and many more may appear in the future with more creatures learning about the power of friendship the tree of harmony could new guardians or pillars to protect Equestria and their allies to Equestria
I really enjoy this episode. ❤️
that my little pony episode is awesome
This is a prequel to Alien in Equestria. Don't doubt it.
8:46 well duh in equestria there’s no such thing as eating meat cause they are meat and that be cannibalism....now in the equestria girls world they probably do eat meat cause their obviously not ponies.....except sunset shimmer
It didn’t give me that I was excited to see it feeling as it usually does but it was good
Hi Dr Wolf I have a little question. I want to know if you watched Daughter of discord. If you already watched it could you possibly do a reviwe about it. Thanks and i Hope that my english isn t so Bad sorry
Doc, did you get your hair cut?
Sensational video
Dear dr wolf can you make a theory about arimaspi because grogar has a crystal ball that looks like an eye of arimaspi
This is not about the review but I wanna know. Like I wanna join the brony community. How do I join I would rlly like to now or when I'm older
I liked this episode 8/10
"It's the GREAT PUMP, er, SEEDLING CHARLIE BRO, uh, APPLE BLOOM, JACK, oh who ever..." Be grown up but don't lose your inner child, perhaps like Bronies? Is Hasbro giving an approving nod to the non demographic fans here, maybe? All the while letting the demographic know they don't have to lose hope. Adults are like ogres, they come in layers. And Apple Bloom with her mother and her father in the background rules out all the tragic stories about dying in childbirth. I have a sneaking suspicion Hasbro is never going to actually tell us what happened to the parents, and y'know? Maybe that's the best way to end all the Apple arcs.
Applejack that's my favorite character on earth pony because also unicorn i and an OC myself
Is it windigo or some sort of creature like flutterbat
Big mac is a sleep kicking on tree also like a sleep walking
SIGN HANNAH
CALL ME SOUL HARMONY
i just want to say my cat likes pancakes lol. you said cats dont eat pancakes xD but mine dose :)
I was hopin for a return of Babs
1:25 - Goldie, Dr. Wolf. ;)
I sorta did a bit of math to figure out some things in the episode. AJ said that the planning for this harvest was a hundred moons in the making. That would be eight and a half years, from there and the flash back we can assume that AJ is 16 and started planning when she was eight. After she fell into her own trap.
A complaint I had was that this interfered with the Apple Family timeline until I saw AJ's parents. They're still alive when she's eight years old. However AB is a baby, so I assumed that she's 6 years younger than AJ making her two years old at the time. From all of this we can assume that within those 8 years her parents died, which would explain why AB has so few memories of them.
So far, this is favourite episode of season 9.