It’s sad when you realize Luna basically did self harm every night

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"Luna eclipsed" was more Luna trying to fit in and be accepted by the ponies around her, while "DPDOMS" is Luna accepting herself

I love how every Luna centric episode (except maybe for Between Dusk & Dawn) have themes like that uwu


Luna's island dreamscape reminds me of Celestia's colors. It's like, subconsciously speaking, Celestia is her go-to source for comfort.


7:13 "I wish I could fall asleep this fast."
As a fellow insomniac, I share those feels.


This episode is amazing. Luna is one of my favourite characters of the show.

Well, let's compare:
 ----------- CELESTIA  ---------------  LUNA ---------
    1. Raises the Sun.       1. Raises the Moon.
    2. Eats cake.                 2. Total emo.
                                               3. Can go into ponies' dreams.
                                               4. Has her own chariot with Bat Ponies!
                                               5. A gamer.
                                               6. Had hot her own legends and prophecies about her.

That's 6:2 for Luna, I guess? :J

@@bonbonpony Celestia ain't bad either, but my personal favorite is still Luna


He is fast getting to THAT episode!<br>The second greatest tearjerker according to some.

He is fast getting to THAT episode!
The second greatest tearjerker according to some.

Well, it took the second place only because of the series finale.

@@Einari1983 Oh no, I was talking about a certain episode in season 7.

@@katheralockharte4718  just thinking about perfect pair Is making me cry


When I saw this episode, you see how much Luna felt bad about what nightmare moon did in the past, and in the end when she forgot herself and was having a peaceful dream I was almost crying, she deserves a happy dream


Somepony should have talked to Celestia about Luna hurting herself every night.


A tearful ending with plenty of comedy in between to make this an amazing episode. The ending is most touching as Luna is finally able to have a peaceful dream, her self induced nightmare at an end at long last, something she's not been able to enjoy for maybe more than a 1000 years.


Finally, a Luna episode! My favorite part here was seeing how ponies were in their dreams. Giant meowing Derpy, Lyra and Bonbon turned into CatDog, and Sailor Moon Princess Big Mac were all great.


20:08 oh man, here we go again with the feels, PB. Damn, Luna. Like, I get why she did this to herself, but knowing that she did actually made me emotional, not gonna lie. I’m glad she realized she was forgiven in the end.

It’s kinda sad that Luna tortured herself like that cause of what she did


"Nice...giant...evil... Angel..?"<br>Angel is evil by default. You don't need to add that qualifier.

"Nice...giant...evil... Angel..?"
Angel is evil by default. You don't need to add that qualifier.


This is a fantastic episode. Dream sequences are fantastic. That scene with Luna forgiving herself is fantastic. Rainbow Dash really has a terrifying dream.


The total comes from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, which is the book that the film Blade Runner is based on.

I would thoroughly recommend that book as an excellent read :3


I just noticed a plot hole:  The Tantabus had already left Pinkie's dream before she went and offered the whole town ice cream.  It would've had no way of connecting to the dreams of Ponyville.

I thought the same. I think maybe after the Tantabus leaves a dream (and maybe before even entering to it) it can still perceive if other ponies appear, so that way also going inside their dreams


You know if you think about it she really didn't do much harm after she became Nightmare Moon. She only destroyed part of her and Celestia's old castle then attacked Celestia and was then immediately banished to the moon which all took place over the course of just a few minutes


I love Big Mac’s transformation into Princess Big Mac - not only are the visuals inspired by Sailor Moon, but William Anderson composed a soundalike parody track of the SM transformation music (well, the original - not what was used in the DiC dub 😜)


9:53 "I know one of Fluttershy's kinks now."
So what have we got so far?

Fluttershy - pet play
Applejack - bondage
Rarity - masochism

Can u explain the masochism thing about Rarity? Just curious

@@saltywafflez5133 When Rarity got smacked on her rump by a diamond dog and <i>only</i> complained that he had called her a mule, many fans joked that she didn't seem to mind being spanked that much.  That's probably where it all started.

@@saltywafflez5133 When Rarity got smacked on her rump by a diamond dog and _only_ complained that he had called her a mule, many fans joked that she didn't seem to mind being spanked that much.  That's probably where it all started.

Is AJ's bondage because of the lasso thing she does?

@@twist_ending7545 Because of how often she ends up bound by her own lasso.  The three times I can recall off the top of my head were A) when Trixie turned the tables on AJ in Boast Busters, B) in the comic book episode when she was still learning how to use her psychically linked lasso, and C) when she and Twilight were trying to lasso a growing Spike in Secret of My Excess.

@@Narrator007 ohhh. Because you'd assume that being raised on a farm she'd already know how to use it.


Is sad that luna punish herself for nightmare moon and its great for the mane 6 because they make luna see that she is not the same pony. My favorite Luna episode, great episode


I am so looking forward to that one episode this season. Y'all know which one I am talking about.

Please, don't mess this up with spoilers, there's only one chance for this reaction to go extremely amazing, and millions of chances to ruin it for him (and us).


17:00 "Dream that you're Discord."
I think Fluttershy would like that idea...


Yet again, the show pops up to remind you that Luna is Best Princess!


Luna: as long as none of you dreamed of a another pony it’ll be fine<br>Me: fluttershy dreamed about angel and rainbow dreamed about Changelings so will those characters have bad dreams now?

Luna: as long as none of you dreamed of a another pony it’ll be fine
Me: fluttershy dreamed about angel and rainbow dreamed about Changelings so will those characters have bad dreams now?


this episode gave me the feels, I got goosebumps


This is the darkest episode in entire series. I cried my eyes out watching this episode. And I'm doing it again.

A Rockhoof and a Hard Place is darker. It's a similar plotline, but Rockhoof eventually goes to suicide (being encased in stone).

And the mane 6 don't outright refuse. Yona has to pull him back from the edge.

_A Rockhoof and a Hard Place_ is darker. It's a similar plotline, but Rockhoof eventually goes to suicide (being encased in stone).

And the mane 6 don't outright refuse. Yona has to pull him back from the edge.


Other then the slightly rushed ending this episode is soooo fun to watch. I am glad that they adressed her possible guilt over trying to kill her sister and take over the world. the dream sequences in the show are amazing

Yeah, it's not easy to reproduce that special ethereal atmosphere of the dream world, but they managed to do that pretty well in this episode, with background music, visual effects, weird things happening around, and the overall plasticity of that world. As a long-standing dreamer myself, I can tell they did a very good job ;)  And I would never expect to see such a huge reference to conscious dreaming and dream control in MLP. Looks like they really know the deal ;)

@@bonbonpony Totally, not only in this episode but in the series as a whole, the dreams actually feel like dreams and they are really interesting and diverse, Some creepy dreams, some cool etc.


00:08 The title is a reference to the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.
01:11 "Tantibus" is from Latin, it means "nightmare". It might also be a reference to the Greek mythological character Tantalus who was sent into Tartarus for eternal punishment. He was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink. His name means "one who has to bear much".
02:08 That bed though :) It looks so awesome!
02:57 Yeah, especially Pinkie... :J  I can see her jumping half an inch lower than usual :)
04:10 Well, good for you :P
06:05 Many bad things can be said about this castle (especially its interiors), but it definitely looks marvellous at night :J
07:14 Well, there is a couple of methods, I can share you some of mine if you wish ;)
08:50 All of them :D  Looks like not only Luna can jump from dream to dream ;)
09:02 Wow, that's a great news!  Brohoof from a fellow dreamer /)*   :)   Then I guess you realize that you can use your dream skills to visit Equestria? :>  The portal to Equestria is inside of your mind :>
09:37 Remember, folks, it's always the shy ones... :)
10:48 Yeah, I feel you bro :D  Definitely some serious nightmare fuel :D  BTW the melody of the song is a jab on the signature song of Barney the Pink Dinosaur from "Barney & Friends" ;)
11:32 Mess with your mind? :>
12:50 Yup :q
13:30 Yes it can. It's called Mutual Dreaming. Linda Lane Magallón wrote a couple of books about her studies on this phenomenon. As a lucid dreamer, you should definitely try this one day ;>
14:36 Best dream ever :D
14:42 Well, it's a dream. You can do anything, provided that you can imagine it and it doesn't contradict any of the existing things ;>
15:58 Filthy Rich? What were you doing in that house, with that mare? This isn't your wife :q
16:32 I told you, you're a psychic :J
16:45 Big Mac is the best Alicorn Princess :D  All with Sailor Moon transformation ;D (even the music cues on that ;) )
19:19 They don't have to. For Discord, the real world is like the dream world for them. They already can do everything in it. But it's not about them – it's about Tantibus and Luna.
21:31 OK, I think I may say this now:  There's a parallel between Apple Bloom's shadow in "Bloom and Gloom" and Tantibus in this episode. The Shadow is a concept from Jungian psychoanalysis, it represents your dark side, the part of who you are that you suppress as not acceptable by your moral or social standards. So in a way, it really feeds on your fears and guilts, and may grow stronger with time. That's why Luna knew how to deal with it and taught that to Apple Bloom in her dream: because she had the experience from her own struggles with Tantibus. Also, it might suggest a possible way of how Luna became Nightmare Moon in the past: it might have all started as her Shadow, kinda like the Tantibus, and then grew with time into a demon that took control over her: Nightmare Moon.
22:22 Dreaming inside her dream? ;>  That can mean only one thing: nested dreaming to slow down the time flow ;)  Well, I guess she's got a couple of years of good dreams to catch up with :J
23:02 In the meantime, Celestia eats cake :q    No wonder so many fans like Luna more :J

00:08 The title is a reference to the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.
01:11 "Tantibus" is from Latin, it means "nightmare". It might also be a reference to the Greek mythological character Tantalus who was sent into Tartarus for eternal punishment. He was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink. His name means "one who has to bear much".
02:08 That bed though :) It looks so awesome!
02:57 Yeah, especially Pinkie... :J  I can see her jumping half an inch lower than usual :)
04:10 Well, good for you :P
06:05 Many bad things can be said about this castle (especially its interiors), but it definitely looks marvellous at night :J
07:14 Well, there is a couple of methods, I can share you some of mine if you wish ;)
08:50 All of them :D  Looks like not only Luna can jump from dream to dream ;)
09:02 Wow, that's a great news!  Brohoof from a fellow dreamer /)*   :)   Then I guess you realize that you can use your dream skills to visit Equestria? :>  The portal to Equestria is inside of your mind :>
09:37 Remember, folks, it's always the shy ones... :)
10:48 Yeah, I feel you bro :D  Definitely some serious nightmare fuel :D  BTW the melody of the song is a jab on the signature song of Barney the Pink Dinosaur from "Barney & Friends" ;)
11:32 Mess with your mind? :>
12:50 Yup :q
13:30 Yes it can. It's called Mutual Dreaming. Linda Lane Magallón wrote a couple of books about her studies on this phenomenon. As a lucid dreamer, you should definitely try this one day ;>
14:36 Best dream ever :D
14:42 Well, it's a dream. You can do anything, provided that you can _imagine_ it and it doesn't _contradict_ any of the existing things ;>
15:58 Filthy Rich? What were you doing in that house, with that mare? This isn't your wife :q
16:32 I told you, you're a psychic :J
16:45 Big Mac is the best Alicorn Princess :D  All with Sailor Moon transformation ;D (even the music cues on that ;) )
19:19 They don't have to. For Discord, the real world is like the dream world for them. They already can do everything in it. But it's not about them – it's about Tantibus and Luna.
21:31 OK, I think I may say this now:  There's a parallel between Apple Bloom's shadow in "Bloom and Gloom" and Tantibus in this episode. The Shadow is a concept from Jungian psychoanalysis, it represents your dark side, the part of who you are that you suppress as not acceptable by your moral or social standards. So in a way, it really feeds on your fears and guilts, and may grow stronger with time. That's why Luna knew how to deal with it and taught that to Apple Bloom in her dream: because she had the experience from her own struggles with Tantibus. Also, it might suggest a possible way of how Luna became Nightmare Moon in the past: it might have all started as her Shadow, kinda like the Tantibus, and then grew with time into a demon that took control over her: Nightmare Moon.
22:22 Dreaming inside her dream? ;>  That can mean only one thing: nested dreaming to slow down the time flow ;)  Well, I guess she's got a couple of years of good dreams to catch up with :J
23:02 In the meantime, Celestia eats cake :q    No wonder so many fans like Luna more :J

Thanks for the insight, Bon Bon, hope things are well with Lyra


I wish we had more Luna episodes in this series.


This is a really great Luna episode, another S5 favorite of mine! That’s all I have to say on this because, I could go on and on with my thoughts on this.


I'm so glad that I'm not the only guy going all sentimental about these characters.<br>I really love to see how emotionally invested you get while watching. I feel ya...

I'm so glad that I'm not the only guy going all sentimental about these characters.
I really love to see how emotionally invested you get while watching. I feel ya...


11:03 - This is especially funny because Dash's voice actor, Ashleigh Ball, is a flautist.


Those singing flowers always remind me of the Barney song and i almost get terrible flashbacks every time.

Yeah, like, what brain damage one needs to have in order to come up with a kids show such as "Barney & Friends" or similar? :q   Every second I watch it, one of my brain cells commits suicide :q And they say MLP is cringy ;q

I believe they actually sing to the tune of the nursery rhyme song “This Old Man.”


Incredible episode, and a perfect mid-season finale for season 5. With all the callbacks and fan service, it almost feels like it should have been titled “Slice of Life - Part 2,” lol.


6:13 "Ooh, you get to sleep with Luna?"
Not in the same bed, calm down there big guy!  :D


Two of my favs in a row. Great episodes!


9:03 "I actually knew how to lucid dream for like a year, like ten years ago.  It was great."
Not as great as it would have been after puberty though.  ;)


7:00, 3, 2, 1 sleeping pills just kicked


Huzzah!  More fun reactions to more feelsy episodes.  Oh, and as for the title, it's a reference to a 1968 Science Fiction tale by Phillip K. Dick titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"  Some of the themes explored in this episode are very, well, Dickensian.  Oh, and <b>Do Androids Dream</b> was the story that got reworked into the original "Blade Runner" movie.  So yeah -- that's what's up with this title!

Huzzah!  More fun reactions to more feelsy episodes.  Oh, and as for the title, it's a reference to a 1968 Science Fiction tale by Phillip K. Dick titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"  Some of the themes explored in this episode are very, well, Dickensian.  Oh, and *Do Androids Dream* was the story that got reworked into the original "Blade Runner" movie.  So yeah -- that's what's up with this title!


0:23 "I love me some Luna."
So do your friends, from what we heard.  ;)


I'd love to have with my friends together a dream and have together adventures there. Something like another dimension you can go when you sleep. ❤💤⛼


You might have watched it already, but just FYI, the halfway point of the series is Episode 20 of this season.


In this episode Luna did more, then two princesses done for 5 seasones xD<br>Still great.

In this episode Luna did more, then two princesses done for 5 seasones xD
Still great.


I'm a fan of this one...up until the reveal that Luna created the Tantabus as a form of self-punishment. Like...what the fuck? Was it so difficult to make it something born from her fears that the Nightmare may return?


Spike always wishes to be a big strong dragon


10:54 KILL IT!!!!!!!! KILL IT WITH FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRREEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


This episode was my favorite episode in the show until the perfect pear


8:52 she dreamt of that red dragon so does that mean it got nightmares to

And what about Rainbow Dash’s dream? We know changelings are sapient.


Oddly enough, I actually know two people who despise this episode with every fiber of their being…

I honestly think they’re just insane.

Oddly enough, I actually know two people who _despise_ this episode with every fiber of their being…

I honestly think they’re just insane.


Next step will be the rarity trilogy, followed by the episode that will most likely fry his brain, and then THE episode. The episode that would reach into his chest grab his feels it pulling out.

Why do you need to spoil him? Wouldn't it be nice to see his reaction to surprises?

I also remember how one reactor was only hinted that some episode could be cool and he already figured it out as that episode started just because a big deal was made about some episode.

AstrumSpark they aren’t really spoilers. A spoilers is if I would tell him what was going to happen in the episodes (which I am in no way going to do)<br>Plus even then nothing I said is really anything that would ruin anything.

AstrumSpark they aren’t really spoilers. A spoilers is if I would tell him what was going to happen in the episodes (which I am in no way going to do)
Plus even then nothing I said is really anything that would ruin anything.

I understand your point of view. :) But some people view different things as spoilers. All I'm saying that since you never know what a reactor could consider to be a spoiler, it better not to give any hints at all, just in case.

For example you said about it being a Rarity trilogy. We know he loves Rarity. So maybe it would be more pleasant for him to get that surprise of that trilogy instead of expecting it to happen. As for "THAT" episode, the way you described it really makes it sound like a very big deal, and some people in the past were able to put two and two together just based on that hyping and seeing that episode's title. Which would ruin a reaction.

This time it was fortunate since he saw those episodes before reading your comment :)

AstrumSpark I only stated that that episode was going to be heavy with the feels nothing else. The rest I will give you.

@@Nazo-kage  I'm with AutumnSpark on this one, because PonyBro is very sharp, and he can add two to two after just a couple of seemingly meaningless hints. He proved it multiple times in his "Turnabout Storm" reactions in which he pretty much figured out the key points of the plot all by himself from just some scattered evidence. That's why for certain episodes in this season it's so important that he went to them as blind as possible.


The world of Dreams are full of surprise: Litterally Lyrabon fused, Giant Derpy, Muscled Spike, Power Ponies Applejack and Rainbow Dash, Alicorn Mac, Flutterbat and Monster Angel...

also: Rainbow dash worst nightmare is singing flower, Applejack dream is so... humble... ,Rarity dream is all about dresses, Fluttershy dream to be pet by animals, Pinkie pie one is just weird; Even in her dreams, she defy the laws of physics and reality. Twilight is dreaming about Books, how surprising

Guess we've done fusing before Steven Universe made it cool, eh ;)<br>But we weren't the ones with most kinks in this episode :J

Guess we've done fusing before Steven Universe made it cool, eh ;)
But we weren't the ones with most kinks in this episode :J


Wait, Nightmare Moon did literally NOTHING bad... She was banished mere minutes after coming into existance. Only evil she did is mess with the mane 6 in episodes 1-2.

I mean, she also attempted to kill her sister and take over the world, so there’s that…

You're wrong about that. She refused to lower the moon and tried to murder Celestia

@@voldy3565 Attempted murder is still a very serious crime last time I checked.

We know what would've happen when we see twi travelling timelines while battling starlight, so she was rightfully banished


14:41 "Can you do anything in this dream?  Anything you want?"
Or anyONE.  ;)


That was fast luna got twilights letter and came to raritys house fast


Luna is the best princess and then cadence and then celestia and then twilight


Reminds me of the matrix Blue Pill Red pill house scene. 8:34


This confirms the only male zlicorn is Big mac


(Breathes heavily) Sheesh, leaving a bunch of comments down for a truckload of reaction episodes can take a lot out of ya. It’s kinda hard to keep up.

Hah, tell me about it... :J  Too bad that on YouTube they're very fragile, because you don't really own them :/  You can lose the result of hundreds of minutes of your "work" in a second when the video that you commented gets removed, or because YouTube just feel like it to make your comment disappear into vacuum from no reason :P

This is why I save my longer comments to disk, as Notepad documents.

@@Narrator007 I do that too, even with other people's comments if they're interesting. But I keep forgetting to do that.


18:06 This line made it into politics...... I'm not shitting you. Look it up!


@@robertjuniorsernaquevelasq151 Huh. Been a while I’ve gone onto this video. Unfortunately, the name I used predates LyraBon, thus why I didn’t use it at the time.


Yeah, I can see him gradually dying inside from watching this :D


Bro it's so annoying how slow the tantabus is getting into the real world at the climax moment of the episode it feels like one of those quick time events in game but it's like 30 seconds so they give you so much time to react so it ruins the tension

I think it's because of how bigger it's size became, due to feeding off of Luna's guilt. When it was small, it could easily travel to other dreams really fast. But after growing bigger, the size must have become heavy for it and thus, slowed it down. Making it move so slowly towards the real world.

I mean, if you look closely, it moves around very fast since it's so small and light in shape. But as it got bigger and bigger in the dream, it started moving slower, hence my above statement "larger, heavy size making it too slow to move around"


Next: React to some MLP meet videos by ToucanLDM..they are just funny and unexpected.


Dude why do you hate Spike so much? I mean I get he's kinda annoying and kind of an asshole at times but why do you full on hate him? Just the way you angirly went "SPIKE" when he showed up to say he'll watch over everyone just kinda concerned me on why you hate him so much.

I know it’s been a whole @ss year but him hating on Spike is a running gag. He LIKES Spike. It wasn’t until sometime after that he ran across into someone else’s thought/parody of spike did he begin to “diss” Spike. It’s not that deep. People “diss” characters who consistently get f*cked as a gag… usually

He claims that he just does it for laughs, but sometimes I’m not so sure…


5:32 - like I said, stick to bein' a butt-monkey for now, Spike. LOL


18:33 How appropriate.  Filthy Rich is throwing money at the problem!