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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

     Original OP text 
I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#193676: Jun 15th 2019 at 8:03:29 AM

I doubt anyone is still paying attention at this point. Besides, MLP is hardly a trailblazer here. If they were going to get upset, it'd be about Adventure Time or Steven Universe or Korra or whatever.

Also, that POTD is surprisingly relevant.

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kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#193677: Jun 15th 2019 at 8:33:43 AM

Ah here we go. The LGBT episode. And the couple is already there in the background!

Skeedaddle! :D

See??? They're Scoot's AUNTS. Not parents.

Theme for the quilt? Welllll it IS rainbow-colored....

So hold on they're just there?? ... oh they're on holiday! That's why we haven't seen them before.

DERPY!

HER PARENTS?!!?

... wait. ... so this ep has both Scoot's aunts AAAAND parents!??! :O There's only so much I can take!

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#193678: Jun 15th 2019 at 8:34:17 AM

"The Last Crusade". ...... wait. surprised

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#193679: Jun 15th 2019 at 8:38:16 AM

... ... wait. Her aunts don't have a role in this ep? ... So let me get this straight. All these online hype was for just one minute of screentime!?

WOAH! :O That's her father!? He's a straight up Steve Irwin! And her mom is just as adventurous! They're aaaaaawesome! They should get along with Fluttershy swimmingly.

Oh wait for the weekend?

Ooooooh Scootaloo's leaving. :(

"We been together since Season 1!"

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#193680: Jun 15th 2019 at 8:45:53 AM

Oooooh this is sad and funny at the same time. All those memories framed on the wall... sad

Dash will have none of this! She's been like ... like ... her big sister/aunt/mother!

I bet their new job will be revealed by the end. And it will be way too important for the CMC to change.

"But you DON'T have the same Cutie Mark." Wow. Didn't know his nickname was Truth Bomb.

Uuuuuuum d-don't ... do that. Don't use potions. You remember what happened last time.

... so they get themselves out of the rope bindings, and then in the next scene they chain themselves together anyway?

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#193681: Jun 15th 2019 at 8:52:40 AM

... the CMC going away all together? I suppose that's a good solution but it means they can't be in Ponyville.

I can't believe how great the backgrounds have become!

Ooh his aunts again! They DO have a role in this story.

If Derpy mailed it to her by accident, why didn't she return it later?

Yay we have a good argument!

Awww. :D Everyone's here.

CONTINUITY!

Silver Spoon waving at her! :D I can't take it.

Noooo it didn't change their mind??

Oh. They'll leave without her. Siiigh.

Lofty! :D :D Hahaha.

Awwww the aunts are gonna be in Ponyville too! Great!

This was a good episode! It helps that it was one I kinda wanted to see in an earlier season too.

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#193682: Jun 15th 2019 at 9:02:52 AM

I'll be honest, I was expecting like an epic goodbye to Scootalo and all, so I felt a little disappointed when she stayed (not because I don't like her, but because I thought the show was taking an important step by retiring a character that was always there since the beginning).

Still, scoots family is very cool.

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Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#193683: Jun 15th 2019 at 9:27:48 AM

That's the first time I've seen a cartoon not say it's okay for parents to uproot their kid because of their own bullshit and it's okay because you remain friends no matter the distance (which is bullshit).

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
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#193684: Jun 15th 2019 at 9:40:48 AM

Kay I guess you're right.

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Theriocephalus Amateur Veteran from gimme a map and a moment and I can tell you Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#193685: Jun 15th 2019 at 10:03:20 AM

"Scootaloo! Our darling daughter! I know we barely see each other and can only spend a few days together now and again, but I have great news! We can be a full-time family again!"

"Really? You're coming to stay here?"

"Nope! We're moving to get a new job in another continent, but you're coming along! Let's get packing, cause we're leaving the day after tomorrow!"

"But, but what about my friends? My home? I've never known anywhere else! I've been building a life here! I'm becoming an important member of my community! I can't just uproot my whole life and move away! What about my friends? I'm closer to them than to anybody else in the whole world! Being part of the CMC means everything to me!"

"Aw, don't worry! You'll make new friends when we get there!"

"Don't I get a say in this?"

"No?"

"Couldn't you at least have given me more than two measly days before dropping this bombshell on me?"

"Nope! Now get packing, Sri Lanka awaits!"


Moral of the day: pulling your kids halfway across the world for job-related reasons probably works a lot better when a) you spent any real amount of time with them beforehand instead of being largely absentee parents before deciding they need to stay with you on exactly the same occasion as you move permanently to another continent, and/or b) you give them a reasonable timeframe to properly come to grips with such a huge change in their lives.

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#193686: Jun 15th 2019 at 10:07:02 AM

Kay, I got it, I was wrong

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fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
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#193687: Jun 15th 2019 at 10:50:44 AM

(not because I don't like her, but because I thought the show was taking an important step by retiring a character that was always there since the beginning).

Why would Scotaloo have to be retired? What would be the point of that?

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#193688: Jun 15th 2019 at 10:50:44 AM

[up][up] Don't take those posts personally. I can see where you are coming from.

But I really don't want to see it happen tbh. Not with the CMC. Specially not at this point in their lives.

Edited by MrSeyker on Jun 15th 2019 at 10:51:46 AM

Fedetropes Call me Blast, not Fedetropes from Doomed universe Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#193689: Jun 15th 2019 at 11:04:33 AM

[up]Ok.

[up][up]...Dunno, I had an idea but looking back at it I feel kinda dumb about it.

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fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
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#193690: Jun 15th 2019 at 11:12:43 AM

Actually, quick question, does Scootaloo actually live in Ponyville? Not in Cloudsdale?

I ask because I have a vague memory of cloud architecture being a part of Scootaloo's home.

Edited by fredhot16 on Jun 15th 2019 at 11:19:16 AM

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MrSeyker Since: Apr, 2011
#193691: Jun 15th 2019 at 11:47:51 AM

Nope. The one time we saw were she lived it was a shown as a regular house.

And there's that time when the CMC discussed how Scoots would get to Cloudsdale to do her report on Rainbow Dash's life, indicating she might have never visited the city in the sky.

Edited by MrSeyker on Jun 15th 2019 at 11:50:47 AM

lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#193692: Jun 15th 2019 at 2:01:49 PM

This person noticed something troubling related to this episode and "Parental Glideance" having Scootaloo say no one ever told her she was good at anything before.

@193683 Time to Move and The Moving Experience have a lot of examples where they don't end up moving after all or just move down the street.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Jun 15th 2019 at 2:05:27 AM

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#193693: Jun 15th 2019 at 3:06:21 PM

So Scootaloo's aunts are practically a cameo. I'm not sure why everyone was making such a big deal about it.

Wait, Scootaloo has parents?!?!

This episode definitely feels odd, coming so late. It's like they came up with a bucket list for the final season of things they still needed to answer, and wanted to reassure everyone that, no, Scootaloo hasn't been living on the street for the last how every many years. But the fact that it comes so late is just weird.

It was also really strange hearing them say "CMC" instead of "Cutie Mark Crusaders" constantly in this episode. Have they ever said "CMC" before? It feels like the new writers are almost embarrassed to say "Cutie Mark Crusaders", but I can't imagine why. It just comes across as a bit surreal and self-conscious.

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ErichoTOME Since: Apr, 2015
#193694: Jun 15th 2019 at 4:48:19 PM

Okay, I have seriously been hoping there was a lesbian couple in the show for a long time. Um...haven't we all?

It might not be Princess Bubblegum and Marceline, but I'm still so happy this happened.

This was the only cartoon of the 2010s WITHOUT gay characters in it!

Oh, and Scootaloo's parents appear. Awesome too.

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lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#193696: Jun 15th 2019 at 5:14:26 PM

There's also Star Flight and Heart Bright from G3. They're "as close as two ponies can be," go in for Sweetheart Sipping, share the same bed, dream the same dream, and finish each other's sentences.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Jun 15th 2019 at 5:20:05 AM

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#193697: Jun 15th 2019 at 5:32:26 PM

Was out this morning but caught a restream. Cute episode.smile It wasn't as heavy in the end as the first half made it feel.

Also, I bucked up and fully spoiled myself on the next episode. Should still be fun anyway.

There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.
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#193698: Jun 15th 2019 at 6:42:11 PM

There's also EQG Rarijack, considering some of the writers intentions.

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kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#193699: Jun 15th 2019 at 6:43:31 PM

This is a great last CMC ep for the show! The huge party at the end brought everyone together, even everyone the 3 children helped become better ponies! They were great cameos.

Theriocephalus Amateur Veteran from gimme a map and a moment and I can tell you Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#193700: Jun 15th 2019 at 10:37:05 PM

I figured that "CMC" was just used over "Cutie Mark Crusaders" for the same reasons people use acronyms in real life (i.e. the way people just say FBI instead of saying Federal Bureau of Investigations longform). It's just quicker to say — "see emm cee" is a lot less of a mouthful than "Cutie Mark Crusaders", especially when you're using the term several times in causal conversation. Same reason for why people tend to give each other nicknames, too.


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