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

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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

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#27876: Dec 12th 2013 at 12:44:25 PM

@Marcen As much as I like DV Ds and Blu-Rays I just miss a good ol' VCR and watching The Lion King on my ol' TV before I upgraded to HD when I was a kid.

"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus Prime
japaneseteeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#27877: Dec 12th 2013 at 12:45:07 PM

@Syd: I'll trade you one for a can of elbow grease and a Henway.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#27878: Dec 12th 2013 at 12:45:10 PM

I remember when I was a kid my mom used to tape a ton of stuff on VHS including lots of Ninja Turtles and Captain N & The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.

marcen12 Sigh from Under The Floorboards (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#27879: Dec 12th 2013 at 12:48:51 PM

@Star Ah, the good old days. If there was a place, not on the Internet, that had nothing but VHS movies that had from black and movies to 2003, I would be there almost every day talking to people and buying movies from there. DV Ds are fine but we got the good old days of VHS! The kids will never know.

https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615q
Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
Are you into... Vinyl?
#27880: Dec 12th 2013 at 12:49:00 PM

@ JT: You're on.

I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!
PrincessGwenevere Ooh, sparkly! from Coat Mountain Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Ooh, sparkly!
#27881: Dec 12th 2013 at 12:51:31 PM

I watched The Little Mermaid, Anastasia and Who Framed Roger Rabbit endlessly as a kid. The latter gave me nightmare and half the jokes flew over my head, but I liked it regardless.[lol] I also remember being fascinated by the orange video tapes Nickelodeon used to produce.

Oh, and in honor of the Christmas season and Minty being in the thread.

I for one welcome our new sock-giving overlord.

"I feel like I'm on a raft and surrounding me is an ocean of dumb."- Mr. Sark
Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#27882: Dec 12th 2013 at 12:54:37 PM

@Marcen And considering the generation we are both living in, it's a really sad thing. God I miss those days so much.

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#27883: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:03:03 PM

Wait, am I a clone?!

marcen12 Sigh from Under The Floorboards (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#27884: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:05:23 PM

@Star Same here, man. (looks up at sky, melodramatically) Me too...

https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615q
MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#27885: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:06:32 PM

Warning: essay incoming.

Radiant Moonlight:Fair point, however the effects of a being who embodies chaos only make Fluttershy a bully while a seminar which was meant to make people less of a doormat and instead was more about being aggressive made her even worse up to the point at getting mad at pinkie for laughing, throwing a guy and insulting her best friends purpose in life.
Fluttershy has always had at least a little bit of anger deep in her soul; she was just desperately repressing it. Remember the glare she gave Pinkie as she said, “I’m a year older than you”? Remember how she was driven to the brink of madness by the animals at the Canterlot Garden running away from her?

It’s not the Fluttershy has any special resistance to mind games. It’s that Discord simply did not understand how FS thinks, so he picked entirely the wrong tactic for his game. When that tactic didn’t work on the first or second try, he threw a hissy fit and brute-forced it with magic.

In contrast, Iron Will had established himself as someone trying to help Fluttershy, so she was more inclined to trust him than she ever was towards Discord. And Iron Will’s advice wasn’t inherently bad, in the same way that fire isn’t inherently bad.

As I said above, Fluttershy was never a paragon of unimpeachable niceness. She was prone to unkind thoughts, but she never acted on them, for a number of reasons. One of those reasons was that she was afraid of the possible consequences of asserting herself. Then along came Iron Will, who taught Fluttershy that asserting herself wasn’t something to be afraid of—in fact, it was totally awesome! In one swift motion, this knocked away one of the major support beams of Fluttershy’s repression. The anger that she’d been bottling up for her entire life came rushing out—even those mean thoughts about her friends that she never would have uttered if she were sober.

Of course, her friend’s tearful reactions snapped Fluttershy out of her rageohol bender pretty quickly. Upon realizing she had gone too far, her first reaction was to jump to the complete opposite extreme, locking herself inside her house where she couldn’t hurt another pony with her words again. Fortunately, Iron Will picked this moment to come calling for payment. Unintentionally, he was forcing Fluttershy into a confrontation that she couldn’t hide from, a problem she couldn’t solve by being a doormat. But Fluttershy’s own horror at her potential for cruelty kept her from going too far. So at that moment, by necessity, Fluttershy found how to be assertive without being a jerk.

She reconciled with Rarity and Pinkie Pie, but things can never be quite the same between Fluttershy and her friends. And I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Now everypony knows that she’s capable of resentment and cruelty. Her kindness is no longer a default state that she lacks the spine to deviate from. Instead, it’s something she consciously chooses and occasionally fights for, which makes it all the more meaningful.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#27886: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:12:25 PM

and make some mint candy canes.

Ug, those are the worst kind.

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Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#27889: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:17:26 PM

The old orange Nick tapes were cool, I'll admit. I had a copy of Good Burger, was one of my favorite movies and I still have a soft spot for it.

Though fast forwarding to get to the beginning of a movie was always annoying.

Also had a pile of g1 tapes from the 80s original broadcast, though I remember the quality was kinda crud.

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#27890: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:24:34 PM

[up] Welcome to the Good Burger, home of the good burger, may I take your order?

edited 12th Dec '13 1:24:42 PM by Luminosity

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#27891: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:29:14 PM

I had Harriet The Spy on VHS. I also had a crush on Michelle Trachtenberg because of it.

Edit: Wrong actress.

edited 12th Dec '13 1:30:41 PM by Wryte

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#27892: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:33:18 PM

[up] [up] cool

I' have several episodes from All That. In hindsight some jokes didn't work, but it's still an entertaining skit comedy steeped in it's time and place.

marston Since: Sep, 2011
#27893: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:39:32 PM

At some point, I might read The Silmarillion, and I've already read quite a bit about it. But given how King Sombra is, for all intents and purposes, the pony equivalent of Sauron, you gotta wonder: Maybe there's a Bigger Bad out there who's kind of like the pony equivalent of Morgoth. Obviously that kind of character wouldn't be in the show itself {Since Morgoth was also the LOTR version of the devil, and he's also not as famous as his former 2nd in command, AKA Sauron}, but I'm surprised that there's no pony fanfics that touched on this, especially since it would make for some interesting world building. And it would be neat if Sombra worked for him at one point as even more of a Shout-Out.

And on the topic of the current conversation, I too miss VHS Tapes. Sure, they're heavily inferior to DVD's and Blu Ray's, but there's just something nostalgic about watching a movie on one of those old pieces of technology.

edited 12th Dec '13 1:42:02 PM by marston

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#27894: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:40:08 PM

Let's see I had The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Toy Story, Shrek on VHS and probably some others that I kept on watching again and again when I was younger but that's pretty much all I can think of.

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KuroiTsubasaTenshi Streamer from Twitch Since: May, 2011
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#27895: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:41:33 PM

I had old, original series Power Rangers VHSs. *shudder*

Also, some Disney movies, but those are only slightly cringe-worthy.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#27896: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:42:58 PM

I had so much stuff on VHS listing it will take the entire day. The last things I had on VHS were recorded episodes of TMNT 2003.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#27897: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:52:07 PM

Who could forget the "Coming home to a theater near you you" little blurb followed by a bunch of previews from Disney?It's hilarious seeing them in rewatches thinking oh that was pretty good, to why the hell did I think this was cool?

Anyway, I've got the Sonic ova, some Power Puff Girls, Rug Rats, Samurai Jack, and other assorted 90s cartoons still in decent working order. Hell, I still have a functioning Sega Genesis and a half dozen games.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#27898: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:52:11 PM

I had Harriet the Spy on VHS. I also had a crush on Michelle Trachtenberg because of it.

I started reading the book once but didn't get very far.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#27899: Dec 12th 2013 at 1:56:59 PM

[up][up] The "Dendy" of mine I mentioned earlier is functional as well. Even bootleg Nintendo hardware is indesctructable.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#27900: Dec 12th 2013 at 2:00:06 PM

Who could forget the "Coming home to a theater near you you" little blurb followed by a bunch of previews from Disney?It's hilarious seeing them in rewatches thinking oh that was pretty good, to why the hell did I think this was cool?

The problem is that they still do that on DVD.

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