All Plotted Out - an MLP:FiM podcast

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! This week, Pawn Heart rhapsodises endlessly, tirelessly… [i]relentlessly[/i] about some actual honest-to-Celestia post, before chattering contentedly about two eps that embody very different strengths of the show. USE! Your words. STOP! That dog barking please. HAIL! A new day for Equestriiiiiaaaa… THE PRINCESS IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE PRINCESS. Or somet...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! With Spotify polls once more functioning, Pawn Heart returns to cut an unaware swathe of pompous destruction through season 8! LAUNCH! An eyebrow at Applejack’s rubbish guardianship advice. BRISTLE and/or FROTH! At your host's inability to grasp the magic and/or meaning of ‘Surf and/or Turf’. PROBLEBATISE! The state of Tara Strong’s synuses. All th...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! By this point, the start of a new MLP season without Maud Pie would feel like… well, season 4, really. Two of season 7’s strongest contributors weigh in with, respectively, a rock solid example of the tried and true Pinkie/Maud dynamic and Fluttershy losing her mind and fumbling contemporary slang. Is it “dank”? Is this episode “dank”?! … cos that does...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! SEASON 8METRICULATES with the bold introduction of the School of Friendship and a host of new recurring characters. Reception was, should we say, “mixed”. PONDER! The logic of letting Rainbow Dash teach anyone, anywere. MEDITATE! On the first episode’s Tardis/clown car-esque ability to fit a season’s worth of character-building into 23 minutes. WONDER!...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! THE BIG ONE.... Well, as big as you can be when you have a budget smaller than an amoeba’s fitbit. The “old guard” of the show has a last hurrah with a globetrotting big screen spectacle 3 years in the oven. REBUILD! All of the show assets in a completely new app. QUESTION! Whether you feel the love tonight or can, in fact, wait to be king. DROWN! Like...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! It’s time to bid a fond farewell to Season 7 as Pawn Heart breaks down the two-part finale, ‘Shadow Play’, as well as collating notes, votes and stray musings into a fairly epic season wrap-up. QUESTION! The wisdom and urgency of resurrecting the ancient dead.  FLEETINGLY WONDER! whether it should actually be “runners up” or “runner ups”. SHUN! The pre...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! This week we cover a couple of eps that keep it simple – but is this a case of KISS or KISS OFF? SMILE! At an episode that draws us back to the chaotic potential of Pinkie Pie. BE INDIFFERENT! Towards Pawn Heart’s lack of certainty over script editing credits. COCK! An eyebrow at more eleventh hour attempts to add cause and effect drama to the encroach...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! This week we have a couple of apparently lighter than air offerings with surprising weight – the CMCs’ summer camp shenanigans poke holes in the concept of cutie marks, whilst a comedic turn on a dirigible sees Twilight pushed to her (vertical) limit. QUESTION! Pipsqueak’s use of slang. REJOICE! At Cadance having something to do. REALISE! This is a hai...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! Honestly, you wait two seasons for a Zecora episode, then three come along at once. A fair bushel of Rarity and Fluttershy love this time round, too. Oh, and Pawn Heart is a liar. POGO! With Rarity’s adversity-inspired punk chic. RECOIL! From Fluttershy’s inability to follow simple social distancing rules. MARE-VEL! At how low Twilight’s voice was in S...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! No sooner had he boarded the train from Ponyville than we’re back with Thorax and the tricky politics of the new Changeling hive, while we once again return to the wobbly half-reality of A.K. Yearling in ‘Daring Do’s New Nightmare’. WANT! To have those Egyptian wall art riffs printed on papyrus. SHOW… AND TELL! Why settle for just one? SQUEE! Like it’s...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out! A quieter week – or so it seems – with a couple of eps that rest mid-table on IMDB… but is that fair? REJOICE! At the return of two of season 6’s best characters. FAKE ENTHUSIASM! At the retelling of legends with no dramatic tension or interesting characters. COCK AN EYEBROW! At the host’s insistence on comparing the show to a masterpiece of 14th centu...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out ! Heavyweight week this one, with IMDB's highest rated episode of the show facing off against an episode that caused a degree of disquiet amongst the fanbase. Hand on my heart, I don't mean to be a contrarian... GASP! At the host's reaction to a fan favourite episode starring his favourite character, written by two of his favourite writers. READY! Yours...

Hello, hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out ! This week, Andrea Libman gets to show her range with a couple of meaty Fluttershy & Pinkie Pie roles, while the animators go to town in the Chaos Dimension. BE SHORT-CHANGED! by Prince Rutherford's baffling emotional about-face. BE COWED! By the Fox brothers best episode, like... ever . DISAMBIGUATE! The writer of 'Not Asking for Trouble', who is...

Hello, hello! Welcome back to ‘All Plotted Out’! This week, Pawn Heart admires the gumption of an episode that dares draw direct comparisons to the great ‘Suited for Success’ before encountering a genuine first for the podcast... TRY! To appreciate an Applejack episode. GASP! Along with the presenter’s laboured breathing. BLINK! And miss what’s happening in those little dream bubbles… All this and...

Hello hello! Welcome back! This week, the reliable team of RD & Scootaloo swoop in to save us from the threatening maws of mediocrity, while ‘Hard to Say Anything’ proves that there’s nothing quite as deadly to a reviewer than an episode that is, for all intents and purposes, “fine”. PROSTRATE! Yourselves in awe before Cloudsdale's gorgeous art design. PUZZLE! Over which episode 'Hard to Say A...

Hello, hello! Welcome to 2023!  What better way to start a new set of 12 than with a couple of eps that say, loud and proud, ‘MANAGE YOUR EXPECTATIONS’? IRONIZE ! An episode that preaches the importance of not compromising individual vision which, itself, appears to have been heavily compromised. BE AFFRONTED ! By the host’s failure to wish you a Happy New Year. BE AMBIVALENT ! About an insta...

Hello, hello! Welcome back to 'All Plotted Out' - a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic podcast! This week begins a ... [ahem]... "bouncy" period for episode quality, with both a jubilant character piece by a tried and true writer and ... well, put it this way - I wasn't expecting to have to sharpen my hatchet so soon. TURN! On a sixpence at a show which combines pre-school platitudes with jokes a...

Hello, hello! Welcome back to ‘All Plotted Out: an MLP FiM podcast’! SEASON 7 has arrived! Bookmarked by two arguably more plot-significant series, it is perhaps easier to overlook. As this episode endeavours to illustrate, though, it got off to a great – if unorthodox – start.  SWOON! At Lewis & Songco’s ability to conceal the mechanics of storytelling. BE AMAZED! By their ability to sim...

Hello, hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out: an MLP:FiM Podcast! We have, at last, reached the summit of Season 6 with the two-part finale – a somewhat risky concept, both in-universe and out, that sees the show-makers double down on the idiosyncrasies of the Haber-era show. Will they succeed? And … will they succeed? Join Pawn Heart for both a deep dive into the final story and a look back at a...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out - An MLP:FiM podcast! This week we circle the season six denouement with an elegant brew of lowkey sitcom and implied saw-based family violence [what is this - a 2011 fanfic?], and a refreshingly strong Rainbow Dash episode. Pawn Heart also spins things out past the 30 minute mark with a review of a remarkable fandom music release.  GASP! at the em...

Hello, hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out: An MLP:FiM! This week, Season 6 decides to hide its mildly dirty laundry before the finale rocks up. GALLEONS! RASHOMON! STARLIGHT ENSLAVING THE MANE 6[ish]! It’s all … slightly less interesting than it sounds, but fear not as Pawn Heart pulls a piece of fairly relevant filler content out of his flank! Email us! allplottedout@outlook.com FB! @allplott...

Hello, hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out: an MLP:FiM podcast! This week, the derby kart is truly drawn out of the mire with the help of a great new character, only to be threatened once more by some jobbing Mystery Machine nonsense. HOW are the CMCs such good characters? WHY did the cutie map decide to pair Fluttershy with Oliver Cromwell? WHAT is that Revelation of the Daleks reference all a...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out - An MLP:FiM podcast! This week sees the return of a pair of show titans, continues this season's fervent Spike revivification policy, and also experiments with being totally, absolutely fine. HOO dares displace Braeburn? HOO had the best debut script for the show? HOO is Jennifer Skelly? Now, while I don't you think you're ready for Jen Skelly (because...

Hello, hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out: an MLP:FIM Podcast! After spinning off the road with 'The Cart Before the Ponies', Pawn Heart continues to bury his junker in the ditch with another maligned episode [in a suitably directionless review], before offering a compensatory bonus review of a QUITE SIMILAR EPISODE THAT IS ALSO UNPOPULAR! What is he doing? WHY is he talking about Stewart Lee?...

Hello hello! Welcome back to All Plotted Out: An MLP:FiM podcast! This episode finds Pawn Heart at a loss for words as the season reaches new heights ... and explores new lows, so decides to pads out proceedings with an idea half-inched from The Needle Drop! WHAT makes an episode a '10'? WHY is 'The Cart Before the Ponies' allegedly like a Gothic Cathedral? WHO told the host that was how you prono...