Just restoring anything I happen to have saved. Not just STOMP stuff.
I don't know that it made me rethink any life choices, but it certainly caused me to look back and re-examine a few. In the end, I'm a prisoner of my neuroses though, and I probably wouldn't have changed anything. Even the crap that was my own fault.
I eventually arrived in the same place. I wouldn’t change anything. The fantasy is nice, but is a fantasy. My classmates were simply not like this. There are reasons I didn’t form bonds and chose to cut off all contact.
It might be interesting to see Sparky go adventuring with an "alternate" 6 though, just for the awkwardness as she says and does things based on experience with her close, intimate friends, and then realizes that these aren't them. Some adjustment would be called for..
The awkwardness isn’t what I’m looking for. I want to see it work.
-Spike is being written well here. Always nice to see him used as a foil for Twilight.
What have I said about how Larson writes Spike and Twilight’s relationship? I don’t think anyone else has ever done it as well.
-It was nice that Minuette didn't turn out to secretly have something terrible about her. Also, she almost has a house like a MLP character but the hourglass symbols are tastefully restrained instead of being utterly nuts.
I didn’t even notice the windows the first time around. That’s how much it works. It’s a credible aesthetic.
-Season 5 continues to do right by Pinkie Pie.
This is a bigger deal than it sounds. My initial reaction to Pinkie’s entrance into the episode was a firm “Get lost, this isn’t your episode.” I wasn’t worried about Larson’s ability to write Pinkie. It’s just not her story.
And then she met Minuette and I realized how much we needed to see them interact.
And then she mostly goes away. She’s there for the logical reason that she would be, and nothing more. It doesn’t feel like an intrusion.