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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.

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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

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#34901: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:31:23 PM

I don't see how I was being 'ranty' or anything with that. At all.

marston Since: Sep, 2011
#34902: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:33:24 PM

@CDRW: The Power Ponies episode is quite underrated and lacking in fanart in general, honestly. For some reason it's a fairly hated/disliked episode.

CDRW Since: May, 2016
#34903: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:35:46 PM

Weird, because it's ratings were through the roof. I guess everybody was so excited to watch it and then got let down the day it arrived?

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#34904: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:38:01 PM

Really don't get why so many had issues with that episode.

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#34905: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:39:07 PM

Same here I quite liked Power Ponies.

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
Exists for some reason
#34906: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:39:24 PM

Hey guys. What's been going on all day?

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CDRW Since: May, 2016
#34908: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:40:58 PM

We were just discussing the distressing lack of tentacle porn featuring The Mane-iac.

Except we really weren't. She just needs more art in general.

edited 3rd Jan '14 7:41:30 PM by CDRW

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#34909: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:43:16 PM

She was fun as a character but she was potentially lacking which is kind of what is stopping people from doing fan-art of her in the first place.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#34910: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:43:27 PM

I don't know, maybe he's gotten worked up about this in the past and people were trying to stop it early.

Exactly. This isn't the first, or even the third, time it's happened.

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#34911: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:44:26 PM

My guess is that people hate it due to it's use of Super Hero clichés, even though it is kind of suppose to be a parody of that stuff. Or it could be because more people keep getting butthurt about the lack of Slice of Life in the season so far.

edited 3rd Jan '14 7:45:28 PM by marston

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#34912: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:45:52 PM

@Marston Yeah I think it maybe because people missed the point entirely of what the episode was meant to be about.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#34913: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:45:55 PM

I think the main issue is that while she was really funny in the context of the episode, she was very one note. Compared to say, Ahuizotl, there isn't much you can do with the Mane-iac beyond "hair themed crime". She's too gimmicky to have much potential without doing a lot of development. If they hadn't pushed the whole "hair" theme so hard and given her a bit more personality beyond "evilly insane" she might have fared a bit better. Not that she was bad; she filled her role perfectly. It's just that you can't take her out of that role very easily.

As a whole, I think the issue is sort of what Marston said. It went so heavily playing on Superhero tropes that unless you're big into that sort of thing, it could stretch a bit thin by the end of the episode. Compare it to say, "Read it and Weep" where the Daring Do segments were complimented by mundane sequences of Dash in the hospital. "Power Ponies" was all superheroes all the time.

edited 3rd Jan '14 7:48:53 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#34914: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:46:03 PM

*way in the back*

I LIKED IT

edited 3rd Jan '14 7:46:19 PM by God_of_Awesome

KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#34915: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:48:01 PM

Really don't get why so many had issues with that episode.

IMHO, I figured "Bats!" was going to get the most hate from the fandom, due to just being... so... How to put it: lackluster.

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Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#34916: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:49:02 PM

@Japanese Teeth Exactly that's what I mean by lacking in potential while she's a good character on the surface, where she suffers in is the fact that she's bland, one dimensional and not very memorable.

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#34917: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:49:02 PM

@JT: Yeah, but Ahuizotl isn't the best character to use as a counter-comparasion to her, since he's kind of just as one-note as she is if not even moreso {Yet he still get's a fair amount of attention, for some reason}.

edited 3rd Jan '14 7:50:36 PM by marston

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#34918: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:49:32 PM

I thought Bats! was pretty good aside from the issue that got brought up earlier.

@God of Awesome: I think you wanted to post this.

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CDRW Since: May, 2016
#34919: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:49:36 PM

@ JT: Stop making sense! Ahuizotal (however the hell you spell his name) was just so generically boring. Sure, his character design was quirky, but personality-wise? The guy's a friggen' whiteboard.

Bats had character plot-holes big enough to sink the Titanic in. But we got Flutterbat out of it, so it all comes out even in the end.

edited 3rd Jan '14 7:50:23 PM by CDRW

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#34921: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:50:53 PM

It occured to me to wonder: why was the exit trigger chosen to be defeating Maneiac (from a Watsonian point of view). The best I can think of is that the issue of the comic was supposed to be about that one story and in order to leave you need to complete the story.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#34922: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:53:55 PM

I'm not necessarily saying that his personality was interesting (he has no motivation at all), but it's more that the genericness worked in his favor. He wasn't pigeonholed into a specific role like Mane-iac was; there was more flexibility. The Mane-iac was basically a characterization version of Crippling Overspecialization; she works brilliantly in the context of her episode, but there isn't much to work with outside of that. Whereas Ahuizotl isn't as interesting in his context, but he's enough of a blank that people want to fill in the gaps with fanwork.

[up]One WMG I've seen that makes a lot of sense is that the comic as a product is designed as a roleplaying project. It was made deliberately to allow people to experience the events of the comic. It explains why such a thing would exist, and also why it would disappear afterward: whoever makes it knows they can make more money if the comics are one-use.

edited 3rd Jan '14 7:55:44 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#34923: Jan 3rd 2014 at 7:54:14 PM

Really don't see how there were an character issues with Bats, other then the other five switching around to agree with Fluttershy with nothing changing to explain their change of attitude.

Ahui versus mane-iac, But there was still way more potential with him then with her. Her, we know all we need to, everything there is to know about her is presented, there's no mystery, it's all given. Ahui however, there's a ton of mystery left. Trying to come up with what we don't know gets our imaginations going, leads to more people coming up with stuff for him.

Mane-iac, like JT said, she only works in that one narrow context, and we know so much about her, there's no mystery to wonder about.

[up] I like the theory the shop was just one of those mysterious little shops that wasn't there yesterday, and isn't there when you go back either.

edited 3rd Jan '14 7:56:53 PM by Seraphem

CDRW Since: May, 2016
#34924: Jan 3rd 2014 at 8:01:16 PM

Actually, Mane-iac has a ready-made plot bunny built into her episode.

She gets out of the enchanted comic book.

After that, there's infinite ways you could take it. Comedy, drama, slice-of-life, adventure, grimdark. They all work, and each one offers tantalizing possibilities to play with her personality.

KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#34925: Jan 3rd 2014 at 8:05:11 PM

wild mass guessSpike will do to Mane-iac as what Fluttershy did to Discord to make him a recurring character.

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