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
My only exposure to Duck Tales is the Moon theme.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlaySpeaking of evolving shit and then not using it, just what is up with the whole Princess Twilight thing? You'd think that there would be interesting stories to tell with a unicorn suddenly becoming one of the god-queens of the realm, but they never seem to actually do anything with it besides the occasional mention.
I was never a fan of Twilight becoming a princess like that, but now that that's done, I'd like to actually see what they had in mind with the whole thing. Because as it looks now, they could've just skipped the whole thing and season 4 would play out exactly the same.
Well we're getting a Twilight episode this weekend, so hopefully pitting her against the CM Cs will result in something funny.
Honestly, I don't see her as gotten boring so much as just being Out of Focus; so far this season the only episodes that really focus on her have been the premiere and "Three's a Crowd". The former was pretty good in how it treated her, IMO, and in the latter she basically just upstaged by Discord. Outside of that, she just hasn't had much focus. Granted, they could have done more with her, though.
edited 19th Feb '14 8:16:06 AM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryWell, the episode synopsis is The Cutie Mark Crusaders are thrilled when Twilight offers to help them with their studies. However, problems arise when the girls realize they can use their relationship with Twilight to increase their popularity. Sounds to me like it'll get referenced somehow.
Reaction Image RepositoryUse it how? Have her attend court? Pass some laws? Talk to diplomats? Most things that could "use" her new status sound incredibly boring to me.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/@Ike: She's a princess. To a kid, that basically means UNLIMITED POWER. Think of how the CMC could abuse that.
Reaction Image RepositoryI've always found undercooking meat weird too. I refuse to eat beef if it's the slightest bit pink inside. Which unfortuantely usually means forgoing it alltogether, especially with steak.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayOne of the problems of this season: they make Twilight a princess and it barely changes her life. ... sure I didn't want her life to change TOO much, but she gets barely any special treatment or respect from Ponyville, and people shrug her off in Manehattan! She flies a lot in "Princess Twilight Sparkle" and barely does afterward! Judging from the over-arching plot, it seems they're taking their time developing her into royalty, but still.
My guess is that they knew that everyone was going to freak out and assume that They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, so they deliberately went light on the Princess thing to reassure people that it wasn't going to dominate the show.
Reaction Image RepositoryHow about the story of the sudden transformation from a glorified college student into one of the most powerful people in the country? That shit comes with responsibility, you know. Responsibility weighted on shoulders that may or may not be strong enough for the load makes for something pretty interesting.
Yessssss. Let the salmonella flow through you...
I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!Second, 'Princess" seems to be more of an honorific then anything to ponies. Not a title of real power, beyond respect in and of itself. Cadance wasn't treated as though she had any political power before she took over ruling the Empire. Sort of, All rulers are Princes/Princesses. Not all Princesses/Princes are rulers.

Whew! Man that was a lot of pages to catch up on! Anyways I'm back from my grandparents and saw the show I had planned to see last night. It was great, had a nice slap up meal of burger and fries and then went to the theatre to see the show.
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