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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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#53951: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:12:22 AM

@Ace: I dunno, looks a bit more like Nightmare Rarity from the comics to me.

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#53952: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:12:58 AM

Yeah, Tumblr is really kind of an echo chamber that can't do a whole lot outside the site. What do we think is going to piss them off this time?

Tone Policing.

The actual definition of this is a fallacious argument along the lines of 'you can catch more flies with honey' - basically, someone who is tone policing is saying that you have to be nice to someone while you're arguing with them even if you're arguing for something like, say, your basic rights. Which is of course wrong; as the episode shows there's some times you simply have to get firm with people and let niceness fall by the wayside in favour of kindness.

The problem is, a lot of (The really, really BAD) Social Justice types on tumblr are people who are basically just using their social movement of choice as an excuse to bully people in a socially acceptable way, and will basically call Tone Policing anytime anyone suggests, "Hey, maybe don't be an asshole?". So this episode is probably gonna cause a bit of a tiff with them, since, you know... being an asshole was demonstrated to be the wrong thing to do.

My opinion on this trend totally has nothing to do with the fact that I've been accused of tone policing for suggesting that screaming at someone who was uncomfortable with homosexuality in their stories was not the correct way to make them more comfortable with it, no siree

edited 1st Mar '14 8:14:35 AM by kegisak

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#53953: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:14:00 AM

@JT: Nightmare Rarity has a darker coat.

Those 3-D glasses! This needs to be on the Shoutouts.

Oh, Rarity, put the spray away :V

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#53954: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:14:21 AM

That's why I say, don't give them any attention and hang out with the fun guys. It's never cool in the danger zone.

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#53955: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:14:40 AM

@norumu2s Okay.

So they took after the Disney version of fairies.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:15:20 AM by MorningStar1337

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#53956: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:14:58 AM

OK, enough of all that.

I'm just wondering why I'm reading comments elsewhere that called this episode bad? I legitimately don't get that.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:15:15 AM by edvedd

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#53957: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:15:33 AM

Apparently the ending reeked too much of G3, edvedd. Dialogue felt forced, and the plot resolution came right out of the blue.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:15:51 AM by nomuru2d

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#53958: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:15:54 AM

[up] Well my current feeling of G3 were kinda meh. And the Breezies having a pocket dimension to themselves isn't that far-fetched (See the CGI Tinkle Bell movies and most anything involving The Fair Folk)

edited 1st Mar '14 8:18:11 AM by MorningStar1337

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#53959: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:17:55 AM

Im seeing alot of complaints on derpibooru.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#53960: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:18:21 AM

I dunno why people would hate it, the episode had enchanting wonderment. ENCHANTING WONDERMENT!!!

KalloonWhite Since: Nov, 2011
#53961: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:18:35 AM

People always find SOMETHING to complain about, you just sort of learn to tune it out.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#53962: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:18:54 AM

  • It's nothing like G3, really. The massive amounts of cuteness, maybe.

Any idea what their home dimension is like?

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#53963: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:19:01 AM

I didn't even THINK about the transformation. If that of all things spoiled it then I don't even know.

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#53964: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:19:46 AM

Semi-Norwegian, actually.

they're as norwegian as the Swedish Chef is swedish.

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#53965: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:19:59 AM

Some of Derpibooru's users seem to have a bias against flutters.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#53966: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:20:50 AM

That's because people complain about everything. The main complaint seems to be that the whole "turning the cast into breezies" wasn't a good way to resolve the plot, since there was no foreshadowing for it and it seems to have been done solely for the novelty of breezifying the cast. Which I can kinda understand, but I don't think it detracted all that much. Basically, people think that a lot of the breezie stuff felt shoehorned. I.e. they just show up out of nowhere at the beginning, and the plot is resolved with a spell that wasn't hinted at existing. And I can kinda see it, but I thought it was amusing enough not to ruin the episode. Though the stuff in the middle with Seabreeze and Fluttershy was probably best part.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:22:36 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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#53967: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:21:25 AM

I can certainly see the argument that the resolution felt a bit Twilight-ex-machina. That breezie spell and all.

Of course looking at it Doylistically, it was done so that they could get to the breezy kingdom and Fluttershy could get her key - and we could get a new playset. The pegasi could have easily been written to be capable of helping out the breezies in time.

But to be honest part of me thinks no matter how well written it was people would be inclined to complain, just because it's probably the most blatantly marketable episode of the season(Though perhaps not the show to date. Canterlot Wedding is certainly a rival there, as is The Crystal Empire). Not that I find that a bad thing, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouths of some.

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#53968: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:21:30 AM

[up][up]AND IT WAS ADORABLE DAMMIT

edited 1st Mar '14 8:21:51 AM by edvedd

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KalloonWhite Since: Nov, 2011
#53969: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:22:35 AM

Ignore complaints, obtain cuteness?

IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#53970: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:23:00 AM

I didn't particularly like or dislike this episode. On the one hand, some of the gags were pretty funny (Rarity can shine like the sun!), and Seabreeze was my kind of guy (though seriously, What the Hell Is That Accent?? Scottish? Swedish? Minnesotan?).

On the other, most of the first half didn't really have anything interesting happen, and it was obvious from the outset that the Breezies likely wouldn't be able to get home if they stuck around, which to me made Fluttershy look somewhat greedy (it wasn't until later in the episode that it was apparent to me the Breezies weren't being kept there by Fluttershy, and instead were just putting off their journey home, but that just changes it to look like they don't care about going home).

edited 1st Mar '14 8:23:14 AM by IrishZombie

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#53971: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:23:15 AM

the funny thing is that I made a thread in Fim Fic's transformations group about the breezies since I saw fics with breezification inevitable...and that happened in the show itself.

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#53973: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:24:50 AM

I gotta ask, how does one tell a male and a female breezy apart?

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#53974: Mar 1st 2014 at 8:24:52 AM

@Kegisak: Yeah, most of the complaints seem to boil down to that people think that the episode forced some plot elements for the sake of "selling" the breezies, and honestly I can understand where they're coming from. I just don't think it was as detrimental to the overall quality of the episode as the "WORST EPISODE EVER" crowd makes it out to be. Narratively, I do kinda think the resolution would've been stronger if the breezies had just continued on normally rather than going the transformation route, but the spell was pretty adorable.

I'm not really sure what to think of this one. I definitely enjoyed it how they handled the moral, but the plotting felt a bit uneven. The whole "one leaf disrupts the whole migration" was a bit odd, and like others have said, the ending, while cute, had felt like it came out of nowhere.

edited 1st Mar '14 8:28:02 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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