"The Bright Circle Celebration"
Wow, we haven't even gotten a full minute into the episode, and already Petrie is going full-panic mode over nothing. It's a new record!
![:p dino :p](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_tongue.gif)
The Bright Circle Celebration seems a little too much like the Time of the Great Giving (aka Thanksgiving) so far. Being thankful, having a big feast...oh well, I suppose there are only so many holiday-ish things you can do with dinosaurs.
At about 3:30, the former profile pic of
@ImpracticalDino suddenly jumps out at me.
![:lol dino :lol](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_laugh.gif)
I just realized this is the LBT version of one of those Christmas specials where the characters disagree about whether Santa Claus is real, but in this case, it's Petrie and Cera disagreeing on the Bright Circle. In any case, I always like a message that there's more to the world than what you can see.
![:smile dino :smile](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/Dino_grins.gif)
Oooooh, a meteor. <3
![:DD dino :DD](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_happier.gif)
Mr. Threehorn: "A rock's a rock, a tree's a tree." Totally oblivious to the fact that, actually, these weren't. Next: "I can see the world is flat." It's official: Mr. Threehorn was the original Flat Earther.
![:lol dino :lol](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_laugh.gif)
Hey, a callback to the mud pool plot! Hooray for continuity!
![:cerahappy by RockingScorpion :cerahappy](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/cera_smile.png)
A fire rock? Flying rocks haven't been a danger since LBT III, so that's pretty cool!
Littlefoot's plan to put out the fire ends up being pretty effective, but it takes a snowfall to really turn things in the Gang's favor. This isn't really consistent with how rare snow in the valley was supposed to be, but the Great Valley looks so beautiful that I'm not gonna complain. I get the impression it was supposed to be sort of a "Christmas miracle" moment, anyway.
![:) :)](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/smile.gif)
This is one of the better performances of "I Feel So Happy"...until Mr. Threehorn (or maybe it was Thicknose?) joins in and sort of ruins it, that is.
![:p dino :p](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_tongue.gif)
This wasn't a bad holiday special for LBT! (Though when I was a kid I somehow missed the fact that it was LBT's holiday special, which seems totally obvious to me now.) Like Gentle, I liked the message of faith, and the "miraculous first snow of Christmas" trope they pulled out was fun, too. Plus, this was among Petrie's better episodes, not one of those ones that revolved around him overcoming yet another random fear. Rather than having to learn a lesson here, he actually was the one who got to teach Cera her lesson. I, too, noticed the episode was a bit slow at the beginning, but other than that, I found this one to be pretty good.
![:) :)](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/smile.gif)