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| Anonymous #934955 5 months ago |
...And? |
| Harlequin_Jester #934968 5 months ago |
I thought that when I read the episode synopsis for the first time. |
| d715 #934987 5 months ago |
only applejack didn't die |
| Fronzel #935025 5 months ago |
The story of John Henry is one of heroic futility. Even if he works faster than the machine, it costs him his life while the machine will work the next day.
Anyway, I wished they worked at some angle like this rather than a last-second "quality > quantity" thing. Although as it is that makes the Apple family look fairly bad. Only with the labor of five ponies who can't afford to be there ever day could they match the machine. |
| Anonymous #935038 5 months ago |
@935025
But because of Henry the company didn't fire all the workers. Plus the Disney short is cool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGglKPqG16s |
| Anonymous #935047 5 months ago |
FORE THAT STEAM CIDER MACHINE SHALL BEAT ME DOWN I'LL DIE WITH AN APPLE IN MY HOOVES |
| WatermelonRat #935051 5 months ago |
@955 I work the night shift and sleep during the day. Cut me some slack. |
| NonAnon #935072 5 months ago |
It's also a bit about hard work.
Flim & Flam comes into town, scam apples outta the local farmers and sell the cider (75-25 split). The farmers did the growing and the machine does the brewing. Then they split when they wear out their welcome. I have a hard time believing they'd work the farm themselves at all, if they actually took it over. Most likely they'd sell it off in pieces. It's not just quality vs quantity. It's also hard work vs the get-rich scheme. |
| Anonymous #935099 5 months ago |
There's no evidence that Flim and Flam didn't work for years perfecting their machine. Probably went into debt, too - thus, more reason for their desperation to acquire money as quickly as possible.
Also, yeah - John Henry thing was kinda obvious. |
| Anonymous #935127 5 months ago |
@935099
Even if you work hard for years that doesn't justify the use of poor quality materials and rushed production. Now that I think about if they didn't push the machine at double they still could have win. |
| Anonymous #935177 5 months ago |
^Maybe they could. In any case, the machine actually worked PERFECTLY - they ran it in an improper fashion only for the purpose of the contest.
Had they just - thrown those crap barrels away and used the earlier ones, there wouldn't have been any problem. We would have had a show with 2 new permanent characters and 4 impoverished Apples. |
| Xuncu #935684 5 months ago |
Oh, yeh, kinda. |
| trueblue02 #936231 5 months ago |
i dont give a flyin fuck-a-what bout how good the machine produced at first, my bits will still go towards the hard workin farm family needin to provide for their loved ones!!!!!!! |
| Silver #936313 5 months ago |
I caught this comparison without even remembering John Henry's name. |
| CrocScraah #1089722 4 months ago |
How is there still no fanart of Applejack as John Henry? |