Their characteristics are expressed quite vividly in their music. They get their own nice little storybook mythology backstory that many of the main villains of the series got, except there’s a little more visual indulgence as is appropriate for a theatrical release, during which they’re revealed to be mythological creatures known as ‘the Sirens’, who were banished from Equestria by Starswirl the Bearded and found themselves in the Equestria Girls universe trying to get by on crappy fast food until they discovered the Equestrian magic and Canterlot High. The fact that the group is lead by a rocky hierarchy shows what’s fundamentally wrong with it. Aria Blaze is the petty bickering foil to Dusk, and doesn’t appear to trust the leader of the group, Adagio Dazzle. Sonata Dusk, my personal favourite of the three, is a bumbling loudmouth who almost reveals their plans a couple times. Whereas the main conflict of the protagonists is overcoming personal disputes, The Dazzlings are content with bickering to the end. Similar to Discord in that they seem to be functional polar opposites to the main characters, but less obvious and actively comedic. The Dazzlings themselves are probably among the most interesting villains in the entire franchise. The Dazzlings wish to take control of the Equestrian magic of our six main characters, and manipulate their way to setting up a Battle of the Bands at Canterlot High to do so. Our villains this time around are ‘The Dazzlings’, three mysterious girls whose appearances seems to remind me and others of the characters from the Monster High franchise that Hasbro have been trying to compete with using these Equestria Girls, and who have the ability to manipulate people through their singing. We’re back at Canterlot High, to which protagonist Twilight Sparkle is brought back to through a ret-conned but quite thematically meaningful plot device in Sunset Shimmer’s old journal to Princess Celestia. Rainbow Rocks truly delivered in so many ways that the first movie never did, most importantly in being a movie that had the ambition and the love to truly feel like a theatrical release and not a glorified straight-to-DVD spin-off. Boy am I glad to say that even those expectations were exceeded. My enthusiasm for Rainbow Rocks was admittedly still pretty mild, but after listening to the soundtrack I found myself listening to my absolute favourite Daniel Ingram works yet. My interest in the franchise has gone through an on and off renaissance, and in general I’ve gotten a lot more perspective in my life. Though fairly enjoyable all in all, it was much more a sidestep than a step up, and even managed to pale in comparison to the series’ two parters in terms of ambition.Īlmost one and a half years later with the ambitious and slightly underrated Season 4 under my belt things have changed. Though I was excited to see the franchise get its own movie, it wasn’t quite the way I wanted it to be. I went in with the expectation of a mediocre to average experience and had a mediocre to average experience. I was just barely 6 months from cutting off my rocky relationship with the Brony fandom almost entirely, and coupled with the slightly underwhelming feeling I had watching the third season of the series first time around I was at my nadir of enthusiasm for MLP: FiM. I went into this a different person to the person I was when I saw the first film. So here we are again with the second installment in the My Little Pony Equestria Girls franchise.
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