My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Live Reactions & Discussion)

Meanwhile on Earth:

I miss that show.

We have a synopsis for the two-part season finale. :3

Starswirl the Bearded is finally a character!!!

Also it's going to be another story about how cool the comics are at the expense of the main characters.

I have an idea for the Round Robin.

When Sparkles tries to get a book with her magic, she accidentally does another piece of magic like turning it into an apple or Angel or setting it on fire.

edited 2nd Feb '18 4:38:06 PM by fredhot16

That's one annoying thing for me and yes I know I harped on this here already. It seems the group of legendary ponies are in fact going to be those heroes from the fables from Campfire Tales. While we been begging to see Starswirl be a character since Season 2, I am getting very tired that one writer apparently thinks the comics are God almighty and should seep into every crevis of the franchise.

edited 21st Sep '17 8:43:36 AM by kyun

I never felt like I needed to read the comics to get these things or like them.

So I disagree.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't got a problem with it, either. I like that the comics are getting incorporated into the show. I've been wanting that for years.

I didn't, and still don't because some of the ideas from it are kinda silly, like Dragontown.

This just doesn't seem to be necessary to be reading the comics for this. The comics are more the tie-in then the other way around.

i would honestly rather the comics and the show stay separate. the comic really isn't good enough that the show should be making nods towards the issues when most of the issues are hot garbage.

that said, i don't think i had to read the comics to understand the show so there really isn't an issue here.

edited 21st Sep '17 11:31:03 AM by EpicBleye

I'm just going to repeat what I said over in the spoiler thread: the comics aren't required reading to understand what's going on in Campfire Tales and Daring Done. They're required reading to care, at least for me. If you don't read the comics, these are basically brand new characters utterly divorced from the main cast around whom the show keeps stopping its episodes to talk about how cool they are.

It's like watching a Star Wars movie and having all the action stop for thirty minutes so the characters could sit around discussing how awesome the Thrawn Trilogy of books is. If you read the Thrawn Trilogy and liked it, you're probably going, "Yeah, it was pretty awesome!" but if you didn't, then it's just taking time away from the development of characters you're invested in to look the audience straight in the eye and shamelessly try to hawk merchandise.

No disrespect to the comics. I'm sure they are lovely and there are plenty of people who enjoy reading them. Thrawn was really awesome too, I hear. But if I wanted to nerd out over how cool the supplementals are, I'd do it by reading the supplementals. Putting it in the show is just distracting.

Inviting the Mane Six to pal along with the comic characters on a team adventure just sounds to me like it would make for a really cool finale for the comics, but as a season finale to the show, it's the narrative equivalent of a hostile takeover.

Also, I question why the comics are apparently worthy of acknowledgement in-show but apparently Equestria Girls is still invited to go get f*cked and die. But that's a petty aside, unrelated to main point.

Honestly, I don't think it's a big deal. The idea that the show would delve into Equestrian history/mythology is something that would probably have happened with or without the characters from the comics getting involved. Like, I'm out of touch enough with the comics that I didn't even realize that either the camping episode or Daring Done were borrowing content from the comics. It just looked to me like they decided to do some episodes that focused more on Equestrian history. Whether or not the episodes were good or bad is up for debate, but whatever their quality is, I don't think the fact that they were based on the comics is really relevant to it, at least in this situation.

More specific to , I also don't think that those criticisms, while entirely valid, are really tied to the fact that the characters are from the comics, just that they're new characters who usurped attention from the cast. Thing is, any "the cast recounts their favorite myths/legends" episode is going to be like that by default. Even if the comics weren't a thing, the episodes would've played out almost the same way anyway. I'm not sure why the inclusion of characters from the comics has to necessarily be shilling for it when the episodes in question wouldn't have been all that different if they had decided to make those stories original to the show instead of borrowing from pre-existing content. I mean, it would be far from the first time that the show has shifted the focus to characters we've never met before.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if this was an exec's idea.

edited 21st Sep '17 1:23:50 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Welp, let's see if they can make it good enough to forgive all that.

Who's the better detective, Pinkamena or Rarity?

edited 2nd Feb '18 4:38:22 PM by fredhot16

Rarity is smarter then Pinkie so..

edited 21st Sep '17 2:41:38 PM by Ultimatum

Rarity didn't need a remedial course in sleuthing from Twilight, so she was better by default.

Sauce

Hot or barbecue?

-stares at you-

How about spicy barbecue sauce?

-pulls out sword-

(Holds up fists) Let's go!

-pulls out gun, shoots your fists-

Honey barbecue is objectively the best sauce. Objectively. It has been scientifically proven to be the best. Experiments have been performed and conclusive data has been derived from the experiences of test group A, who had honey barbecue sauce, and test groups B through G, who were incinerated by dragonfire.

Gah! You shot my fists!

Now I can drown you with the blood coming out of it!

edited 21st Sep '17 4:19:27 PM by fredhot16

-pulls out magic sword-