Top 10 Season 1 Gravity Falls episodes (Part 1)

Happy Valentine's day, buds! And tomorrow will be the end of Gravity falls and man does it hurt to think that. Gravity Falls is a show I have come to love and respect. The stories are so much fun and filled with suspense, each one is unique and adds just a bit more character into these...... characters.

So today I will count down my own top 10 season 1 episodes from Gravity Falls. I will let you know this, this list is part torture for me to make. Each episode is awesome, that makes it so hard for me to pick and place the episodes so it led to multiple nights of debating with myself.

My top 5 Cartoon of 2015

With 2015 coming to a close, it makes sense to recollect on some of the best I've seen and with so many competitors, it will be a hard choice to make.

Steven Universe

Well I've decided to write about some of the shows I've seen this year that have been popular and very highly praised to see if they live up to the hype. This time it's Steven Universe.

Star Vs The Forces of Evil

Well I've decided to write about some of the shows I've seen this year that have been popular and very highly praised to see if they live up to the hype.

This time it's Star Vs The Forces of Evil.

Over the Garden Wall

Well I've decided to write about some of the shows I've seen this year that have been popular and very highly praised to see if they live up to the hype.

This time it's Over the Garden Wall.

Monster High movies vs Equestria Girls: Part 3 [The Conclusion]

After 2 parts, it's time to the the final comparison to see if which one stands out more and I will use the newest of the 2 franchises to compare it.

For Equestria Girls, we have Equestria Girls: Friendship Games

For Monster High, it's Boo York, Boo York

After watching both movies and sorting out my thoughts for it. I have finally decided on how to write this finally finale. For all who were waiting for this, here is my Christmas gift to you, the conclusion to Monster High movies vs Equestria Girls.

Gravity Falls

Welcome to Cartoonation. This is where I talk about all the animated shows and movies I watch and love. This is now be replacing Sugar Cube Corner which will now be a category for this.

Well, I guess it was about time I started watching this show. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube wouldn't shut up about how amazingly mind blowing Gravity Falls is. My breaking point was when the people I know even start talking about it so I decided to watch episode 1 to get a taste of the show. Now I know almost every episode back to front and quoting characters. Someone help me. :c

Monster High movies vs Equestria Girls: Part 2 [Equestria Girls]

Welcome back to part 2 of this 3-parter, if you missed part 1, feel free to click here for get a quick read. Now that Monster High has been glossed over, time for Equestria Girls. Since most of the people who read this are bronies, I don't think I have to explain much for Equestria Girls since most reviewer and brony analyst have pretty much ripped these 2 apart and dissected them. So I will be going a little more in depth with how different they are.

Monster High movies vs Equestria Girls: Part 1 [Monster High]

Well, this one was a long time coming, especially now with Equestria Girls 3 coming out this september. Everyone knew that Equestria Girls was created by Hasbro to compete with Mattel's Monster High. To better judge the 2 different series, I have taken the time to do some research and watch all the Monster High shorts and movies within my semester break (Yup, great way to spend a holiday......). Anyways, today I will compare them to one another, to be fair, I will only use the movies and not the TV specials for comparison. There is a lot to cover for Monster High so let's start.

Lullaby for a Princess

Earlier this week, I watched the full animation for Ponyphonic's Lullaby for a Princess by WarpOut. This project has been in the works for 2 and a half years and man was it worth the wait. Watching the original animatics for this video, I thought it was going to be another Pony Music Video using flash but I was pretty impressed and I was excited for what they were planning to do.

After a long time with no new info on the project, I thought it was a forgotten piece by now and I stopped following it's progress. But thanks to the latest video of the person whose video had led me to this song, Fiery Joker, AKA Commander Firebrand from FOB Equestria, I learned that the animation has fully completed and has just been released. I watched it and it blew my expectations out of the water and into the heavens.

The biggest thing that surprised me was the art style, like I said, I thought they were going to use flash to make it but they went far and beyond just using flash like the show, the most common praise a great pony animation would get this, "This is as good as the show's animation" or "This looks exactly like the show". But this one is like a gorgeous artwork that came to live so it can tell a story, the models feels like 3-D while the backdrop looks like a painting with stunning CG effects.

The animation is also top notch, the way they animated it fits so well with the song and it's so fluent. I was in awe with a big smile on my face the first time I heard this and the only thought in my mind was "Oh My God, this is amazing. I have to see others' reactions to this."  The best part about it is that I showed this to a friend of mine who knows nothing of the show and she was just blown away by it, she was so surprised that this was the work of a fan of a show for "little girls".

So far, this is the best animation I've seen and I hope the fandom can create more works of art like this one here. Feel free to voice your opinions and tell me what you thought about it.

(P.S. When Season 4 came out, I was surprised how similar it was to this video. WarpOut, if for some reason, you're reading this, either you have some mad guessing skills or someone on the crew saw your animatic and said, "this looks awesome, let's make the fight look like this." Either way, you're awesome for making this. ^ ^)

See you next time.

What is Discord's role?

When people heard the voice of John De Lancie for the newly-introduced antagonist in season 2, Discord, the spirit of chaos, fans went nuts for him.

Since then, every episode with this draconequus is always known for being funny and having a ton of references to other medias.

In "Return to Harmony", he acts as the antagonist by hiding the elements of Harmony, trying to divide the mane 6 and turning Ponyville into Chaos Capital of the world, we all know how his plan turned out.

In "Keep Calm and Flutter On", Princess Celestia ask the Mane 6 to help reform Discord so he can use his powerful chaotic magic for good, and she believes Fluttershy will be the one who can reform him. Fluttershy thinks the best way to reform Discord is to befriend him, At the end, Discord does promise to use his powers for good (most of the times) because he treasures his friendship with Fluttershy, but not enough to not betray them when Tirek offer him freedom for an alliance, only for Tirek to betray him.

Since the elements of harmony are now returned to the tree of harmony, Equestria has lost one of their powerful defenses. Since the elements and the power of the tree is the only way to defeat Discord, it shows how powerful he is so it makes sense that Princess Celestia wants Discord to use his magic for good.

Discord can sense magical imbalances, transform and create things out of thin air and break reality itself.

He now stands as one of Equestria's strongest allies, seeing how she asked Discord to go after Tirek instead of Twilight.

That's his role in Equestria but what about in the show?

Twilight in the beginning refers to people who don't really care about friendship, as more of an antisocial person. Discord represents a different kind of person, he represents the kind of person who doesn't know much about friendship. It's not because he doesn't care, he doesn't understand how friendship fully works yet, he doesn't know what's okay and what's not when it comes to friendship, no episode shows this better than 'Make New Friends but Keep Discord'.

Discord gets green eyes of envy when he learns that Fluttershy has a new friend called Treehugger when she went to observe the breezies and that Fluttershy asked Treehugger to go to the Grand Galloping Gala with her instead of Discord.

Feeling like he has been replaced, he gets his ticket and goes to the gala with a sentinel green goo creature called the smooze to make Fluttershy feel jealous too.

But when things don't go his way, he tries to send Treehugger to another dimension so he can have Fluttershy's friendship to himself.

Eventually Fluttershy steps in and tells Discord it's normal to have more than one friend and have different friends for different things. People think that seems out of left field for Discord, seeing how he normally portrayed as smart and calm while playing somebody else, but they seem to forget he is new to friendship.

He doesn't understand that people can have different friends for different things, he is scared that he may be replaced so he becomes a little possessive towards Fluttershy. It may seem like a kid moral but there are people who are like him, most of them are children or teenagers that are shy and insecure about themselves and their friendships.

While this moral may seem useless to us, it could be a new way of seeing thing or a long-needed answer for those people.

Anyways, that's all for now, feel free to voice your thoughts and opinions.

See you next time.

5 shocking moments that happened in My Little Pony

My Little Pony has been recognized as a cartoon for little girls. While I think that that is not entirely true, it's a show for all ages and all who can accept it, it's still undeniable that the show is originally targeted for children so Hasbro can release their new pony play set. However, there have been moments where the whole 'made for kids' thing is questionable as some of these things while a little more cutified, are things I never even think would be on this show. So here are 5 shocking moments that happened in My Little Pony.

10 morals shown in My Little Pony

My Little Pony did a pretty good at presenting itself as a show for all ages and for all who can accept it, that's why I like this show. There are a lot of good morals shown in this show, some morals which I never expected it see in a show like this and here are 10 morals from My Little Pony that I think are great and handled maturely.

Take note that all these are in no particular order and how the episode presents the moral does affect what I think of it.

Where is Season 5 heading?

With 5 seasons and still going pretty strong, even with a channel change, My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic manages to teach people that weirdly-coloured ponies can't stop a show with lovable characters, an interesting world and memorable stories with some mature morals. However with Twilight Sparkle becoming the Princess of Friendship with a purpose to spread Friendship across Equestria, the mane 6 becoming what fans call the council of Friendship and a slightly out-of-placed crystal castle, what else is there left for the MLP team to do?