A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
I suppose it's possible, but nothing in the show has hinted that that would be the case.
@Wryte: False. I don't have "sugarcube" as my title.
Reaction Image RepositoryI hope we get a Pinkie focus episode soon. Her Flanderization is starting to get out of hand and I'd like to see her brought back to normal-ish.
edited 26th Jan '14 1:27:51 PM by CDRW
Well, next week's episode is Pinkie Pride. Although she'll almost certainly be overshadowed, because you don't share an episode with Weird Al Yankovic that easily.
Reaction Image RepositoryHuh, I never noticed Discord was wearing tidy whities in this shot.
◊ Kinda surprised they got that past the censors.
Pinkie's being flanderized because her airheaded randomness is gradually overshadowing all of her other character traits.
edited 26th Jan '14 1:41:02 PM by CDRW
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Tidy whities are okay. It seen that on many children's shows.
That ep was good because the Pinkie clones ARE flanderized! That's part of the point. Now if her randomness distracted her from helping her friends as in the show's theme, THEN I would think it's flanderization.
edited 26th Jan '14 1:43:06 PM by Shota
I'd say it's on the edge. pinkie being Pinkie, these are things she'd be distracted by. But, the writers are relying a bit more on her gullible side rather than keeping her eccentric, though inherently understandable traits. So it could be flanderization if it's pushed a little further, but right now it's still within acceptable limits.
Well the thing is there's more to Pinkie's personality than just being wacky and childish, but unless the episode is focused on her, we don't really see any of that. The other characters aren't quite subjected to the same level of narrowing down to a single trait when they're not the focus. Rarity can play a small role in the episode while being supportive of her friends and not being entirely "yay, dresses and hats!" and Applejack is capable of talking about something other than apples or family, even if she isn't the focus of the episode. Pinkie on the other hand usually just defaults to throwing out the occasional non sequitur and acting like an idiot.
I heard about that months ago.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayOh, you Magnificent Bastard. Now I have even less of an idea what this is going to look like.
I thought she was good in Pinkie Apple Pie, though she wasn't the focus.
I like to think there was a perfectly good explanation for everything weird she does. Like that day she happened to be in a balloon counting contest or something. If anything, I'd say it's Big Mac who's suffering from flanderization.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play

I have passwords. They contain letters and numbers arranged in specific orders.
^ Because a million fans pounding at a million keyboards will eventually produce the insane theory that Stephen King is actually zombie!Shakespeare.
edited 26th Jan '14 1:18:00 PM by Wryte