LPS season 4 review thread

[penny82ling]

Okay my thoughts on the season premiere

OMG, confirmation that Blythe inherit her abilities from her mom, I feel like doing a call it dance, though I am sure I am not the only one who thought the same. We get some hints that Blythe's mom might not be alive, which makes me sad.

This is an episode that has a great A plot / lousy B plot. The revelation about Blythe's mom made this episode. I didn't like the whole misunderstanding plot, but it was wrapped up by the end of the second act thankfully, thought I liked the Jetsons parody.

Speedy was cool, but why does he wear glasses, he is like a Jewish Mr. Magoo. And he was alive during the Civil Wars, how many owners did this guy have.

Anyway I liked how the vlog is Blythe's version of the journal her mom had. Again maybe people feel old.

I hope Blythe's mom turns out to be alive, but not sounding very likely from the sounds of it.

A great episode if you ignore the stupid misunderstanding sub plot.

Now onto episode number 2

Well a follow up to the premiere, with Blythe's mom journal, she is obsessed with it, but you know what I think she has a right to be, she probably hasn't seen in mother in many years if at all, I don't know if she ever knew her mother, so I sympathize with her, I think we were suppose to side with Russell, but I was on Blythe's side, Russell should be more supportive and let Blythe get it out or her system. I might also feel that way because I care more about finding info on Blythe's mom than solving the missing Twombry door nob mystery, which I knew who took the door nobs form the beginning.

I do have to say Minka is adorable as Russell's assistant, and we find out Twombry took the door nobs, big surprise. And know Twombry has money, does that put her in the same league as Fisher Biskit, can she compete financially with him, probably not, but the gap closed a bit. Speaking of Fisher, I wonder if he is going to try to stop the Littlest Pet Street from happening, wouldn't put it past him.

As for the other part, don't know what to make of it. Was Delilah really an antagonist or was she and her friends that much of a ditz? Was this misunderstanding or intentional sabotage, and it was never resolved at the end. And if I was Zoey I be more worried or offended that I am losing touch with my dog side, forgetting you are a dog, I would be more motivated to get in touch with my dog side, but that is just me.

The songs were okay, but not as catchy as the song from the latest LPS short "What's Next".

Anyway the singing contest plot still better than the B plot in the previous episode, but after the reveal of Blythe's mom in the previous episode, it wasn't very interesting to me. Having these two episodes premiere in the same week hurts my interest in any non Blythe mom stuff, because I am so excited the reveal that Blythe's mom can talk to animals and that there are more people that can talk to animals like Blythe.

[Zexoguy]

I'm really looking forward to seeing what else they do with the whole thing about Blythe's mom. It would be a nice, refreshing change of pace from the usual arcs about Blythe trying to further her fashion career. I mean, it's good that she has ambition and all, but she's already gotten more professional success than most people her age get. It'll be good to see her focusing on something other than fashion in the last season.

Also, in the second episode, I'm glad Delilah and her crew didn't intentionally steal Zoe's song out of malice. I think she really is just that much of a ditz. It'd be a shame to see her villainized liked that. I also thought Russell saying "MINKA I DIDN'T DO IT!!!" was priceless.

[guillermogage]

Littlest Pet Shop is off to a glorious start! I liked both episodes. Speedy is actually a memorable character. He has distinct memorable dialogue and habits and quirks, and is not merely a plot device to learn about Blythe's mom.
I just realized as, I am typing this, that her name, Lauren, could be a bit of a shout-out to a certain developer of another cartoon brand reboot.

[Shokew]

These premieres weren't bad at all - just not spectacular (especially thanks to the misunderstanding nonsense that holds things back in the first episode (The Tortoise & The Heir); and the subplot being better than the main plot in the second one (Pitch Purrfect)). I was mostly invested in the reveal of Blythe's mom being able to talk to animals; further proof that not all humans on this show are bad, especially not Blythe, in my personal opinion.

[pepperclark1973]

After months LPS finally became alive.

[youflamingidiots]

Both episodes were kind of boring. The pets barely did anything while Blythe got all the attention with her newfound mom.

[penny82ling]

Ivan The Terrific

Well this was an alright episode. They finally mentioned that Penny is technically a bear which is a dangerous animal.

I thought the bear plot was fine, love the name Ivan I wonder if it was based on a pro wrestling that had the nickname bear Ivan Koloff. I thought it didn't need the hat inspector character, it was pointless.

As for the Youngmee plot,it reminds me a lot of the MLP:FiM episode "May The Best Pet Win", and the lesson is of course you can't force, it has to come natural. Looks like Yongmee has an arc here herself. So far we three ongoing character arcs here, first is Blythe and her mother's journal, second is Mrs. Twombly and the Littlest Pet Street, and now Youngmee finding a pet, all these plot center on the human characters, interesting observation.

As for how I think this plot will turn out, I could see it go many ways. Here is my list of possibilities.

1) Sugar Sprinkles - I am pretty sure she doesn't have an owner, she kind of knows Youngmee though I don't think Youngmee knows her. Only problem is I think Sugar Sprinkles is not a owner animal, I think she likes having the freedom to go where ever she wants. I don't think having an owner is for her.

2) This monkey toy I have seeing in LPS commercials lately, I forget the name of the character, but you all know what commercial I am talking about.

3) Someone completely new we haven't seen yet.

Anyway it was an okay episode, so what can I say.

[youflamingidiots]

Nov 14, 2015 18:46:24 GMT -5 penny82ling said:

So far we three ongoing character arcs here, first is Blythe and her mother's journal, second is Mrs. Twombly and the Littlest Pet Street, and now Youngmee finding a pet, all these plot center on the human characters, interesting observation.

May I ask why? The pets never get any kind of overarching stories, or character development at all, and the show (and the entire franchise) is supposed to be about them. But they're gonna give all the development to the humans who don't even have toys? You don't make a show about the Justice League and give all the attention to some teenager who isn't even a superhero.

[guillermogage]

Nov 14, 2015 19:38:30 GMT -5 youflamingidiots said:

Nov 14, 2015 18:46:24 GMT -5 penny82ling said:

So far we three ongoing character arcs here, first is Blythe and her mother's journal, second is Mrs. Twombly and the Littlest Pet Street, and now Youngmee finding a pet, all these plot center on the human characters, interesting observation.

May I ask why? The pets never get any kind of overarching stories, or character development at all, and the show (and the entire franchise) is supposed to be about them. But they're gonna give all the development to the humans who don't even have toys? You don't make a show about the Justice League and give all the attention to some teenager who isn't even a superhero.

The Justice League is a bunch of adults that can go anywhere they want. Actually... even ordinary humans who are old enough can do that.

The pets are pets. All of them spend at least probably a typical workweek of eight hours a day, five days a week, at the pet shop, confined largely to a day camp and such, and probably in apartment buildings when they are at home. I personally figure that they cannot come and go anywhere as they please; not even at the same level as an elementary school kid.

This does bring up the issue of how, for example, Blythe was able to bring them all around the world. I figure that, especially with many of the pets being luxury, exotic pets, that the owners don't feel like they have to be with them on a constant basis like a very young human child, and think that their pets going to other continents is a cool, interesting thing for the animals, even if it is a teenage girl bringing them along instead of themselves.

The fact that so many of the pets have highly specific hobbies indicates that humans are somewhat aware of their intelligence levels (obviously higher than animals in our world), so even among people who cannot talk to animals, many people have relationships with their pets similar to humans and Pokémon, but without the battling.

Even then, whatever story arcs the pets can experience are limited by the fact that they basically have as much freedom as a kindergartener.

...Well, the pets often do dart out that little door to the day camp and to the store, including during times when Blythe is... not around (while she is in school). Zoe went to that Pitch Purr-fect audition without Mrs. Twombly noticing or caring. Perhaps that alley was right around the corner.

[guillermogage]

Something I want to mention is the poodle, obviously voiced by Tabitha St. Germain. I always get giddy inside whenever I hear her voice even tho she already is a main character and not some guest star, because of how special her distinct roles are.

She was really cute as the poodle! She sounded very similar to her Derpy voice. Tabitha, you're so cute, I have a crush on you!

[Zib]

The Tortoise and the Heir

That was a really good main plot for the most part. The discovery of Blythe's mother and the mystery behind her is very intriguing.

Speedy was very one note with the only joke being that he's an ignorant old turtle. The charm and small humor of his ignorance really wore out by the end (to the point where some could consider it frustrating) when he doesn't even seem to realize what crashing against concrete is a bad thing.

The part where Sunil and Russell mentioned was pointless, and the only connection it had to the plot and what was going on at the time was that there was a turtle... that's it.

The pet plot was really lame due to it just being a simple misunderstanding plot, but the narrative puts little focus on it; so at least it's not a plot we have to sit through constantly.

I also liked the moral at the end, it was nice and really unique.



Pitch Purrfect
It was good to see Blythe's interest in her mother carry over to this episode as our's did, but it wasn't good to see Russell stunting the progress in what we're finding out about her.

Russell is my first complaint. He was much more demanding and less understanding than he was even in the beginning of Fun Russell, which, ironically, developed that these traits of his will just be of a lesser extent. He wasn't understanding nor supportive at all for Blythe's interest in her mother when he would. Also, the demands he made don't really even make sense for the plot.

Which brings me to my next complaint, this subplot. It's very predictable how it was going to end for one, and for another it's just filled with a lot of plot holes...
Why don't they want Mrs. Twombly to find out?
I know they explain that it's because they don't want her to be sad or shocked, but wouldn't it be better if she did find out that they were stolen?
If she did find out that they were stolen, that would mean she would contact the authorities, which would be more faster and more efficient in finding the culprit.
Surely, Russell doesn't think the pets can do a better job than the police.
Also, Russell sends Pepper to look in the garbage for the door nobs...
Why would the culprit steal the door nobs just to hide in a dumpster, no less the dumpster of the place he stole from?
None of this makes sense, and that means it shouldn't make sense to Russell, the sense maker of Littlest Pet Shop.

As I've said, this plot ends predictably. The ending being that Mrs. Twombly sold her door nobs.
But what did she need the money for?
Littlest Pet Street. I like how they have a goal set for Mrs. Twombly now.

The main plot has its own fair share of flaws, arguably as many as the sub plot.

I think more time should've been spent on Sunil, Vinnie, Penny, and Zoe in their accapella group.
It happened too fast, they started the group and then they were at the competition; rather than building up the competition more.

Delilah is the only guest character I really liked and was hoping that she would return in an episode.
I didn't expect this to be her return...

She seems out of character here. Alright, she didn't have much character in the first place (in fact, I was hoping her return would develop her more), but I feel her actions here contradict the character she did have.

Her song in the Pet Fashion Expo episodes was "All Around the World", telling that she travels often. So, why does she tell one of the pets in her group that she "didn't fly over the ocean for nothing", if, as shown in her main song, she does it often?
This really doesn't make sense considering how she wasn't this tense during the Pet Fashion Expo.

She seemed really apathetic towards Zoe when she discovered that they accidentally stole her song. She apologized for like a second, and then went on with her day as if it was nothing.
She was very willing to help out the pets she was very friendly with before, so it doesn't make sense why she would treat them to such a cold apathetic apology.

She takes this competition so seriously, yet in the Pet Fashion Expo episodes she seemed so carefree towards the competition. So carefree, that she left her fashion booth in order to help Vinnie and Sunil.
Her lack of seriousness in the Pet Fashion Expo explained that it was because she does it all the time.
Which brings up the question again, why does she take this competition so seriously in this episode?

There were some funny moments, but they weren't able to cover the glaring flaws this episode has.

[penny82ling]

Senior Day

So no song in this episode, I must have gotten the episodes mixed up when I heard there is going to be a song. My bad.

For some reason this episode brings back memories of a Seinfeld episode "The Old Man", only the message is kind of opposite.

I thought Jerry's owner mis heard what he said, and that turned out to be the case.

We get confirmation that Russell owner is a woman, when we saw her before it was unclear to me at least, sometimes it is hard to me to tell a old man and an old lady apart.

As for the other plot, the old lady Blythe took a liking to at the retirement home Laraine, where the Biskits twins all along, gee I didn't see that coming, I say sarcastically. It was kind of obvious especially after the distorted picture frame, which an old anime trope, which is cool for them to use that, though I wish we could see what they looked like as little kids, they were in pig tails, it might be so adorable.

We knew it was the Biskits just from the synopsis, I only had two questions related to that, one was answered, the other not yet. Where the Biskits actually nice to her or was that just Laraine's own perspective. The answer surprisingly yes, the indication are they are nice to their grandmother, they do have a soft side, in the words of Blythe in this episode, "no one would believe me anyway". Though if you read the comics, we get an idea on how Blythe feels about the Biskits at this point, which is they are not so bad. We will see where they go. I liked that they all tried pretend to get along in front of Laraine, and the Biskits were smart enough to know what Blythe was trying to do, once again surprised me, first a soft side, and now some intelligence. And they can say they only let Blythe keep the sweeter because it looked ugly on them, but the real reason they are thankful or anyone that did this for their grandma, who they love, it is too late, the cat is out of the bag, you have a good side.

The other question is Laraine's Fisher's mother or his mother - in - law, if it is his mother, Fisher just locked up in a home and took over the family business, which says a lot about him. Or if it is not, maybe we might get some info on the twins mother, this is the mother season, that seems to be the theme. Though the credit does list her as Laraine Biskit, but that doesn't mean anything, the people making the credits are not the writers.

Anyway alright episode, even though there was no song. Hopefully we get a song next week.

[penny82ling]

Littlest Pet Shop Of Horrors

OMG Applejack is here. That is so cool, I guess that means there can't be any crossovers with MLP, though perhaps this is in the same universe of the Jem and the Holograms comics.

But actually it is not canon part of Blythe's story, as we have a scary stories episode. Though since Blythe came up with the story, maybe pony merchandise does exist.

First a vampire story, and it has promise but than you have to Twilight it up, dam it Russell, though I loved the song. I love the Misery parody story, Pepper being so insane gives me flashbacks to the Black Lagoon dub. As for Sunil's story, it was a fun story, and a nice surprise of Buttercream at the end.

As for the Roger plot, it was an okay plot, good to fill time.

Anyway better late than never Halloween episode.

[penny82ling]

Game Of Groan

This week's episode to me felt like a sequel to "Eight Arms To Hold You" because it only had the main male pets in it, except for a fantasy scene. So another manly episode of LPS in which we go to renascence fair, what is more manly than that. Actually this fair reminds me of the Putt Hutt from Gravity Falls.

I thought this was fun episode, though Russell has been getting a lot of focus this season, still nice to see him loosen up, Vinnie and Sunil getting focus is always a welcome.

As for Blythe, I thought her getting self contious of Josh when he was dressed up like Robin Hood, was pretty silly, I am glad that didn't last long, and maybe this is the last we see of Blythe acting like a dork when she sees Josh, I hope she true to her word that she is no comfortable talking to him. Always great to see Youngmee, but I thought the whole scared of jester hats was dumb and they were trying to force a plot on her, just let her be the supportive friend, not everyone needs to have their own plot in an episode.

I was shocked they bought Shivers, I do wish he and Blythe interacted. And Russell when he just loses his mind is best Russell.

[penny82ling]

The Tiniest Animal Store

First of all this is the type of plot I have long since wanted to see in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and still do, with the heroics of the Mane 6 some pony should make a play about them, that would be so awesome.

Anyway back to this episode, this was a fun little episode even though I hate the producer guy, so annoying and uncaring. This episode reminds me of episodes from two other elements and had element from both, Kim Possible "And The Mole Rat Will Be CGI" and Avatar: The Last Airbender "Ember Island Players". Also a little bit of Family Guy "Brain Griffin's House Of Pain" at least with the cheesy sitcom theme song.

I tell you though the human actors without the pet costume, they did look like the human version of the pets they were playing, it is like a tribute to fan art. That is cool.

I know this is a kids show and litigation is boring, but easy solution here, Blythe should just has suit the producers. He was using Blythe's name with out her permission and she clearly was not comfortable with what he was doing, Blythe should have sue him, I think she has a great case. What is it with these shows, between Jem and the Holograms never calling the police and having those Misfits thrown in jail like they should be, and Blythe not calling a lawyer, these Hasbro cartoons are something else.

As much as I hate the producer guy, I thought the actress that played Blythe was cool, she was nice to help Blythe with fashion career. She reminds me of the actress that played Kim in the Kim Possible movie, she is actually nice.

Anyway great episode even though Blythe should have just threaten a law suit and that would have stopped everything. Just saying.