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"The Shadows of Things to Come" - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic BGM

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Channel: RainShadow · 2014 · Music

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"The Shadows of Things to Come" BGM from the episode "For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils" of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" (S04E19).


--Overall Comments--

Dave Polsky returns with another great, and surprisingly dark, episode for the season!  Rarity helps Sweetie Belle finish her dress designs for a play which she wrote, directed, and is performing.  But when Rarity makes some improvements to them, the dresses outshine young Sweetie Belle's production.  The young filly blames her sister for doing this on purpose, leading her down a path of anger, nightmares, and regret.  Everyone's favorite Princess of the Night, Luna, arrives in Sweetie's dreams to help guide her through her past, present, and potential future if she does not undo her actions.

This episode, both in what happens as well as with the music, is a direct continuation of "Sleepless in Ponyville," but with Sweetie Belle instead of Scootaloo.   It's great to see the series take on a connected series of episodes over multiple seasons such as this that isn't related to the overarching plot (I can only assume we'll get one with Apple Bloom next season).  In both "Sleepless" and this episode, we have one of the CMC having issues (albeit different ones) with their sister, or in Scootaloo's case, "sister.":  The CMC begin having nightmares spurred by their issues with their sister, and Luna steps into their dreams to assist them through their problems, and help them with their fears.  Luna takes a different approach with Sweetie Belle, taking her through her past (and how Rarity was actually looking out for her instead of trying to outshine her at her 5th birthday), Rarity's stress in the present, and how Sweetie's actions will negatively impact her sister in the future.  I loved the Christmas Carol homage here—I grew up with that play, and they adapted the overall theme of it fantastically for this episode.  Throughout these dream sequence, we have some of the best imagery the show has had so far: creepy, weird, moving, and sometimes downright frightening.  Seeing Rarity's downfall due to Sweetie Belle's actions was pretty dark, especially for this show.  In the end, it was great seeing Luna taking an even more direct approach with a member of the CMC's dreams this time, laying it on very thick for Sweetie to drive the point home.


--Track Specific Comments--

Oh man this scene...and this track!  Princess Luna shows Sweetie Belle what is to transpire if her bad actions go uncorrected: Rarity, embarrassed and shamed from her dresses failure becomes insecure, to the point where she can no longer design them anymore and becomes an insane shut-in.  Yeah—this is definitely one of the darker and deepest scenes of the series.  And it has some intense and insane BGM to match!

When the nightmare really begins to spiral out-of-control (literally!), we get another reprise of a theme from this episode's predecessor, "Sleepless in Ponyville."  This loud brass theme was used during Scootaloo's nightmares, specifically the scene where Scootaloo is running through the scary forest right before Luna intervenes in her dreams.  You can hear it in the track "'Silly Sleep' / Princess Luna / 'It's a Horse Without a HEAD!'" from that episode, from which the this episode's track "Luna's Theme" was also originally from.  As I said in the comments for "Luna's Theme," I throughly enjoyed hearing these themes used again, especially in the same context.  It further connect this episode with "Sleepless" in a way I really like.  Hopefully we'll hear them again in an Apple Bloom nightmare episode next season!

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----) Download all BGM from episode: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/sflknt8nv917v/S04E19_-_For_Whom_the_Sweetie_Belle_Toils

(Download all BGM from season 4 will be added at the end of the season at the bottom of the description!)



For a playlist with all of the BGM and songs from this episode in order: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM9sv7wkNb96q07xyBbLQ2eKAJypN7BxE



Music By: William Anderson
Additional Music & Orchestrations: Kelly Davidson


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***UPDATE: The COMPLETE season 4 original soundtrack is now available in two simple zip files! Get the whole thing at once here: http://bit.ly/mlpseason4soundtrack

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