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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

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#47426: Feb 8th 2014 at 8:56:07 PM

@Story: All I meant was that I thought it was cool that they didn't take any potshots at AJ when it would've been extremely easy to do so. She's never identified as unattractive, per se, but out of the cast, she's definitely the one who puts the least effort into her appearance and probably conforms the least to any conventional standard of beauty. It's nothing major, but I think a lot of shows would've felt the need to throw in some sort of "But she's a farmer! Who likes farmers!?" kind of crack. Even Rarity avoided that.

And yeah, I love how AJ was so matter-of-fact about everything. Her entire attitude is basically "quit bugging me, I'm trying to work".

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#47427: Feb 8th 2014 at 8:57:08 PM

That would require him doing something beyond be some random object for Rarity to obsess over for no reason. Which I hated.

Or annoy AJ, which was hilarious.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#47428: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:01:50 PM

I still think it would've helped everything to flow better if Rarity's obsession with him had more to do with trying to get a good review of the town by appealing to him rather than purely for personal reasons. Oh well.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#47429: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:04:54 PM

Agreed. As is, there.. was no damn reason for it beyond some crush that came out of nowhere and, had nothing to do with anything else in the episode and... yeah. The writers just do not handle romance well. Even bad ones.

But yeah giving her ANY other reason would have made things SO much better. The actions were hilarious and mostly fine, the motivations were horrid.

Well, and her line to Spike, that was just WAY to far for a joke.

Swasfewses Hermit from New York Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Hermit
#47430: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:06:15 PM

The scene with Spike was actually one of the only redeeming jokes in the episode personally.

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#47431: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:08:39 PM

Oh, okay.

...this episode is going to be another minefield to discuss, isn't it?

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#47432: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:08:46 PM

..... It was her being an utter bitch, and beyond that. There was nothing funny about that. She knows full well how he feels... and says THAT to him, that there is no way he could understand? Spike should have flipped her a claw and walked out at that point. That wasn't funny, that was just nasty and cruel.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#47433: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:09:45 PM

At least they didn't forget about him. Rarity's thing with Spike has always been a bit odd; she's aware of his thing for her, but at the same time she's pretty much always treated him as more of a little brother than anything else. To his credit, he took the whole deal well. Probably because he knew it wouldn't end well for her. tongue

And now I go to bed.

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Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#47434: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:11:25 PM

Huh. This is gonna be a broken base episode, isn't it?

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Court Dragon
#47435: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:12:02 PM

Yeah, I get the feeling this is gonna be another one that isn't going to be fun at all to discuss.

A shame...

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#47436: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:14:11 PM

In unrelated news, I came across a fic called An Alien Walks Amongst Us that has an interesting comments section. The first few comments are all talking about how horrible the story is, but then it suddenly switches to people gushing. Either the story got a lot better, or only the people who really liked it were willing to stick with it past the first chapter. Possible both.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#47437: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:15:26 PM

So it's only "Fun to discuss" if, everyone agrees with everything?

Swasfewses Hermit from New York Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Hermit
#47438: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:15:58 PM

I have a hard time seeing Rarity as an asshole when she's pretty much having a giant mental breakdown, but eh. If that's how you want to see it.

I wasn't a huge fan of the episode at all, so I'm perfectly okay with it being a topic that doesn't come up often.

Unrelated random note 

edited 8th Feb '14 9:32:57 PM by Swasfewses

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#47439: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:17:38 PM

Had to go to my Grandma's, so I just barely finished the episode. Crazy stuff happening, and I loved it! grin

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#47441: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:26:41 PM

Eh it's fine not to like arguments. I'm ataully the same way IRL, I can't STAND hearing people fighting or yelling at each other near me, it, just triggers me and, I just can't stand it.

But, as long as it's not getting personal, I don't see the issue with debating, if heatedly, different points of view. You don't have to participate if you don't want to.

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#47442: Feb 8th 2014 at 9:27:47 PM

I wasn't a huge fan of the episode at all, so I'm perfectly okay with it being a topic that doesn't come up often.

Pretty average episode IMO

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#47443: Feb 8th 2014 at 10:08:09 PM

I thought it was really funny but I'm fine if it doesn't come up again very often.

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Court Dragon
#47444: Feb 8th 2014 at 10:20:25 PM

Anyway, I liked the episode, though not as much as I could've.

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Bluespade from Fort Worth, Texas Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
#47445: Feb 8th 2014 at 10:21:05 PM

...this episode is going to be another minefield to discuss, isn't it?

It's got romance in it, it was pretty much a given people were gonna react strongly to it.

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#47446: Feb 8th 2014 at 10:25:04 PM

I'm surprised it wasn't more divisive.

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#47447: Feb 8th 2014 at 10:30:52 PM

Please don't quote that. I shouldn't really be doing tha "Oooooh, I just know this is gonna turn into arguments" thing.

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Swasfewses Hermit from New York Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Hermit
#47448: Feb 8th 2014 at 10:31:48 PM

[up][up]A lot of people seem to have found it too "funny" for the romance to bother them.

edited 8th Feb '14 10:32:14 PM by Swasfewses

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Court Dragon
#47449: Feb 8th 2014 at 10:42:10 PM

I wonder what the significance of the rose was.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#47450: Feb 8th 2014 at 10:58:37 PM

Probably just standard romance cliche stuff, like with Blueblood's introduction.

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