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Hearthbreakers was an OK episode but I felt shafted with how the Pie family was utilized in it.
I liken this episode to "Maud Pie" because it introduces more family to a main character and the lesson in both is about bridging differences between one another with "Hearthbreakers" extending it from individual differences to disparate familial traditions, cleverly using the backdrop of a holiday to carry the moral. The resolution of both conflicts were to find similarities between one another and to understand and accept the differences as well.
However, "Maud Pie" was executed better because, unlike "Heartbreakers", the new characters was introduced in a better way.
There was relatively little interaction between the Pie and the Apple family in "Hearthbreakers" and I felt shafted by this. The closest thing that came to it was the obsidian rock hunt that paired Big Mac with Marble where we had no communication, Apple Bloom and Maud which had a very strange dynamic, the elders who weren't explored, and finally AJ and Pinkie who had already been developed and this was the relationship that was most focused on.
While lack of real interaction was utilized to strengthen the conflict, the Pie family did invite the Apple family to their home and it could have been done better like in "Maud Pie" where the new relatives interact directly with the main cast and use the differences in personality and thought to accentuate the conflict instead of using the collective nature of both family units to do so. Maud was given a unique personality and they explored it through interactions so why not the Pie family?
This show is about character relationships so the former is what I definitely prefer so this episode left me disappointed.
As for the specific new Pies, Igneous and Cloudy were fine but I found it strange that for a family that is steadfast upon tradition, their children don't share in their verbiage.
1/2
I liken this episode to "Maud Pie" because it introduces more family to a main character and the lesson in both is about bridging differences between one another with "Hearthbreakers" extending it from individual differences to disparate familial traditions, cleverly using the backdrop of a holiday to carry the moral. The resolution of both conflicts were to find similarities between one another and to understand and accept the differences as well.
However, "Maud Pie" was executed better because, unlike "Heartbreakers", the new characters was introduced in a better way.
There was relatively little interaction between the Pie and the Apple family in "Hearthbreakers" and I felt shafted by this. The closest thing that came to it was the obsidian rock hunt that paired Big Mac with Marble where we had no communication, Apple Bloom and Maud which had a very strange dynamic, the elders who weren't explored, and finally AJ and Pinkie who had already been developed and this was the relationship that was most focused on.
While lack of real interaction was utilized to strengthen the conflict, the Pie family did invite the Apple family to their home and it could have been done better like in "Maud Pie" where the new relatives interact directly with the main cast and use the differences in personality and thought to accentuate the conflict instead of using the collective nature of both family units to do so. Maud was given a unique personality and they explored it through interactions so why not the Pie family?
This show is about character relationships so the former is what I definitely prefer so this episode left me disappointed.
As for the specific new Pies, Igneous and Cloudy were fine but I found it strange that for a family that is steadfast upon tradition, their children don't share in their verbiage.
1/2
