YMMV / My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Sunset's Backstage Pass

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• Accidental Innuendo: The face Sunset makes when telling the group how PostCrush was may seem a little suggestive◊.
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • Yet another Equestrian artifact was lost in the human world, but there's no backstory for it this time. Doubly so since it wasn't hidden like the Memory Stone; it was just lying on the path like it was tossed haphazardly.
  • The loop lasted for three weeks. While it's not as long as the novel adaptation (which is a year), it's still possible that Sunset used this as an attempt to do stuff that happened in the novel adaptation.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Sunset, as missing the PostCrush concert due to Pinkie Pie's wacky antics and subsequently being trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop cause her to become bitter and acerbic to those around her. Her frustration and annoyance are pretty understandable, especially to anyone who's had a bad time at a music festival. It helps that she has a Jerkass Realization and gets better.
  • The security guard. No-one at the festival seems able to obey the rules, so he has to thoroughly enforce them, to the point where it makes him act cold.
• Les Yay:
  • K-Lo and Su-Z have more than a few touchy-feely moments between them throughout the special.
  • Sunset has sort of expressed this as her appeal towards PostCrush. Particularly the scene after she saw their show without Pinkie Pie joining her, Rarity sarcastically asks her how was the show, and she replies that it was perfect in a love-struck tone while blushing.
  • The scenes in the time loop where Rainbow Dash repeatedly smacks Sunset in the butt with a paddle, especially the second time when Rainbow Dash blushes because she thought Sunset enjoyed it.
• One-Scene Wonder: The Dazzlings only appear briefly, but they're just as entertaining to watch as before, and give Sunset some pertinent advice before they leave.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Dazzlings act as a Red Herring for a few minutes before they're almost literally Put on a Bus and don't appear again. They don't have nearly as much of an impact on the plot as they did in Rainbow Rocks, only accidentally helping Sunset have a Jerkass Realization. Some fans feel that they should have been the main villains instead of PostCrush, using the Time Twirler to keep Sunset and the others stuck in the time loop as revenge — a possibility that Sunset considers in-universe. It doesn't help that fans have waited five years to see the Dazzlings again after Rainbow Rocks (IDW comics notwithstanding), so their anticlimactic turn here can sting.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The rest of the group guilt-trip Sunset Shimmer for going to see PostCrush without Pinkie Pie, and Sunset eventually admits this was a mistake. However, Pinkie caused the two of them to miss the concert and got them kicked out of the event, and it's shown that she will do the same things to the same results every loop unless stopped. After seeing Sunset go through two loops where this happened, it's hard to come down on her for wanting to do things alone. After three weeks of dealing with Pinkie behaving this way, and her negligence in letting the Dazzlings catch Sunset searching through their van, Sunset's explosive rant about how much trouble Pinkie's been causing through the "Groundhog Day" Loop is rather understandable.

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