Rating: 4 3 4
We start off strong with a Derpy.
They're all at some music festival thing where Sunset and Pinkie want to see some pop duo named Post Crush perform at. The next day, right after Sunset wakes up, Rainbow Dash runs up and smacks Sunset's ass with an oar. Meanwhile, the others are eating pancakes the normie way and Fluttershy ruins it by spitting at Applejack after an unfunny story.
Guys, Pinkie's a heckin' white supremacist!?
Derpy and Bulk. Also Rarity and Applejack holding hands.
Sunset and Pinkie get stuck in a line because the security guy is being overly thorough. Here's a tip if you're a woman or can pass as one and have to go through a bag check: Put tampons on the top and it will likely embarrass the security officer if they're male and they'll just let you through. No idea if the same can apply to guys and condoms, although you probably don't want to try it at a place like Disney World. Might give off the wrong impression.
They get to the front of the line, pass the security check, and get their bracelet things which are scanned by a phone the security officer has. So you know how concerts and stadiums and crap use facial recognition to photographically rape people? When we're all microchipped and drinking the soy-bug lattes in our pods, festivals and shit like this are gonna be using the microchips to track whether we're within the premises and probably be monitoring our blood chemical content for drugs and shit so the pigs can churn us through the for-profit prison system for drug crimes.
Sunset has a plan to camp out in front of the stadium until Post Crush performs but Pinkie decides to be spastic little shit and gets distracted by a thing where she has to guess how many beans are in a jar. Fun fact about me: I once won a free book of my choice from one of these because I guessed the closest in my class. I'm pretty sure I got the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid book at the time. Haven't read any of those books in over a decade but from what I can tell from modern commentaries on the series, man is Greg Heffley such a relatable guy.
Pinkie fucks off into a maze so Sunset has to lure her out with a candy trail. Then they come across an Austrian painter and Pinkie volunteers herself and Sunset to be part of his art show. After cleaning up, Sunset bounds their wrists together so Pinkie won't run off. Pinkie does so anyways, destroys a food cart, and gets them both kicked out. Pinkiepilled. Sunset decides to be a moody cunt since she missed the concert.
This goes kinda hard.
On the hill, some magic burst happens and the next morning, Sunset wakes up and gets smacked in the ass by Rainbow Dash again. As the events of the previous day transpire, Sunset realizes she's repeating it. Pretty much the same shit happens only this time Twi is with them. Day ends with Sunset and Pinkie getting kicked out again.
Me waking up knowing I have to work on this shit.
Turns out the day is repeating again and after getting smacked in the ass once more, Sunset thanks Mistress Dash.
Sunset fucks off without them and does her best to avoid Pinkie and finally gets to see the concert. Afterwards, the other girls call her out for ditching Pinkie who has lost her mind and constructed a life-sized Sunset doll made with real bones.
I should make a life-sized Pinkamena doll. Maybe that will cut down the existential sting of not being in Equestria.
The next morning Sunset wakes up to find she's still in the time loop. During her day, Sunset states it's now day 17, indicating we've skipped the past 13 days. Sunset then gets the genius idea to run from her problems so in the middle of the night she jacks the camper and drives it away hoping the time loop is proximity-based. It either breaks down or runs out of gas. Rainbow Dash looks like she's spent seven months writing 100-something thousand words-long commentaries on a fucking children's show.
Day 18, she finally gets the idea to ask Twilight in Equestria for help. I wonder, does time reset relative to Equestria too? If the whole causal time loop of EG to MLP were to be true, this would mean within that time loop, It's About Time is a causal time loop within a causal time loop and this would be a standard time loop within a causal time loop possibly disconnected and observable from the MLP world.
Anyways, Twilight goes off on some Time Twirler artifact and someone is using it to create the time looping. The girls go to figure out who has the thing and they come across the Dazzlings singing a song about the repetitive nature of life. After the song's over, Adagio drops the mic and says "human scum" under her breath. Damn, this bitch is just like me as a pre-teen. Combine Adagio's controllingness with Aria's moodiness, you really do just have me as a kid. I mean, I'm still like that, I'm just less uppity about it now.
Day 19, Sunset yet again gets smacked in the ass by Rainbow Dash's oar. She has to be enjoying it by this point because she knows damn well it's going to happen. That night, Sunset uses a cat to pass a barter check to get past the security guard blocking off access to the Dazzling's backstage area. So is the cat Sunset's backstage pass? The Dazzlings fuck off so Sunset snoops around their shit but they return and catch her. Sunset uses her memory magic and it turns out the Dazzlings just looped a vocal track, not time itself.
Herobrine sighting #81
Sunset fucks off after the Dazzlings explain their existential depression and she makes Pinkie cry. Day 20, Sunset decides to spaz the fuck out with Pinkie. Eventually, they get to meet the Post Crush duo who commit a microaggression upon seeing them. Sunset then sees their memories and discovers they're the ones behind the time loop and we can deduce Sunset got stuck in it because she was close enough to the Time Twirler's activation spot to be pulled into the time loop too the first night. Turns out Post Crush kept fucking shit up during their concert so they kept repeating the day and we see the Time Twirler's manually activated and they activated it usually right after their performance. I wonder if Sunset notices when time resets or if she just sort of wakes up with the previous days' memories. Back in night 17, seeing as Sunset's still around after the others go to bed, either Post Crush delayed activating the Time Twirler this night or there's some kind of delay which affects Sunset at a later point.
Herobrine sighting #82
The Post Crush girls threaten to ban them from the festival and Sunset calls them out on how it will just reset the next day. However, the yellow one states she's an art school dropout and can just draw their faces and tell security to kick them out each day.
YCH $80, $20 for complex background, $20 for shading. PayPal only.
They get Sunset and Pinkie kicked out and HOLY FUCKING SHIT, IS THAT LOSS!?
Around this point my notes also tell me to ask what happens if Sunset were to die. Would she still wake up the next cycle as her same consciousness? I know those not stuck in the time loop would just be dead permanently in their timelines if they died but what would happen to those stuck in the time loop if they died?
They're about to break back into the festival but it turns out Sunset passed a speech check she initially failed and the security guard just lets them back in. While running back to Post Crush, we see Wallflower and Derpy in the background laughing and this is just so adorable!
Sunset and Pinkie break into the backstage and confront Post Crush where while fighting, the show starts. Sunset destroys the Time Twirler and womansplains to Post Crush before the four perform for the concert together. Song's decent. To save on the animation budget, they recycle a bunch of visuals.
It's alright. Kept me entertained enough for 4 EV. No vibe so 3 VB. We already did the whole perfection thing in The Point Of No Return and this was released after that episode too. 4 DV for seeing what the Dazzlings are up to.
MLP Commentaries IndexWritten 2025-5-9 Published 2025-6-1