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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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#59901: Mar 22nd 2014 at 12:55:41 PM

Agreed. There was very little superfluous content and no attention-drawing gimmick type stuff. It felt a lot more focused than a lot of episodes do.

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CDRW Since: May, 2016
#59902: Mar 22nd 2014 at 12:57:05 PM

Aw man, Jan got the can. sad At least that Vogle guy is looking into it.

[up] Do you know offhand who the writer was?

edited 22nd Mar '14 12:59:18 PM by CDRW

Swasfewses Hermit from New York Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
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#59903: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:03:33 PM

Writer was Polsky.

Episode was good. Really glad Sapphire Shores was in it. I've been waiting for her to come back in an actual role.

edited 22nd Mar '14 1:06:05 PM by Swasfewses

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#59904: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:17:44 PM

Yeah, it was a (surprisingly non-controversial) Polsky episode.

Also, was it just me, or does Sapphire Shores have a really pointy nose?

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MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#59905: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:35:35 PM

I am able to watch ponies again for this weekend alone. Though I am clearly watching slowly.

Is it me or has Sweetie Belle been getting smarter and more scheme-y-er ever season?

I imagine everyone was surprised to see Pipsqueak come back and voiced.

And per usual my desire to see bad things happen to DT and SS were only intensified.

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AkoSiKuya23 Since: Sep, 2009
#59906: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:36:56 PM

Okay, watched it again, and yeah, I think I kinda take back everything I said. Everything was worth it for that last exchange:

Rarity: Any chance I can catch an encore performance?

Sweetie Belle: Eh, I don't think the play was all that good. To be honest, the costumes were the best part.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#59907: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:48:45 PM

Well that was unusual, but a very great episode.

  • Sweetie Belle can do telekinesis now!

  • Wait, why didn't Rarity use TK on the box during the chase?

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CDRW Since: May, 2016
#59908: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:51:01 PM

Because the building is saturated with an anti-magic field in order to protect Sapphire Shores from rampaging unicorn fans.

Also, I feel compelled to point out that Sweetie's telekinesis is the green of her eyes, not the green of changeling magic.

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#59909: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:51:58 PM

...That is a big hat.

[[orange:Shut up, I got it on sale from Valve, all right?!]]

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Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
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#59910: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:55:01 PM

It seems orange isn't a color option.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#59911: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:56:02 PM

Okay that episode was so damn adorable and, just he perfect way to bring Luna in.

We now have pretty good evidence for ponies aging at about the same rate as humans. At least as foals.

Luna was the perfect one to give this lesson, though do wish we got a little bit more about that time and what it was like for her that crove her to that.

Sapphire Shores is amazing

How the buck did the other two CMC get past that guard just by Sweetie opening the door from the inside?

Luna continues to be best Princess.

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#59912: Mar 22nd 2014 at 1:56:57 PM

I like to think that Luna is just making all of this up. I mean, how would she know what happened?

Well pensive potions are canon, though the potion only works on Alicorns. But Discord was also able to show memories to an ordinary unicorn.

so luna is the ghost of sisterhood past/present/future.

I didn't realize it, but wo you're right! She showed her the past, present, and future.

And we still don't know what her cutie mark is.

At first I thought it was going to be a dolphin.

Chrysalis' magic was green.

Yeah but that was evil bright green. Sweetie's is more olive.

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Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
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#59913: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:02:23 PM

Luna was the perfect one to give this lesson, though do wish we got a little bit more about that time and what it was like for her that crove her to that.

Me too, but I understand why they couldn't delve into it more in an episode that's supposed to be about Sweetie Belle.

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#59914: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:04:52 PM

It didn't seem bad, just...done by 10-year olds.

It worked for Shark Boy And Lava Girl. Oh, Wait!.

yeah, hasbro is just playing by the rules. and they still follow them pretty loosely

As I understand it, they're stretching things a bit here. But then again IP law in general is a grey area with boundaries defined mainly by how many laywers you have.

Clearly Luna has learned a kind of Dream Therapy that involves nightmares.

Now we need a Psychonauts crossover.

written in pseudo-Old English

It was more like pseudo-Early Modern English.

It's like how the knowlessmen perceive us IT people, they think we're like those doods who can dance through codes and raise computers from the dead, but actually we're just often winging it and praying we diagnosed the machine's symptoms right.

Reminds me of in middle school when people thought I'd be able to get into any college I want without trying. Hahahahahaha no.

For every future Sweetiesode, we focus on how great the supporting characters are.

Or the costumes. Even if there aren't any.

Don't we already do that for AJ?

Well AJ actually does get overshadowed in her own episodes.

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#59915: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:09:59 PM

Seeing as how various characters are coming back and have already reappeared {The Flim Flam bros in an upcoming episode, The Diamond Dogs in Rainbow Rocks and one of the Friends Forever comics, Trixie in Magic Duel, Sapphire Shores in the new episode, etc}, I'm still wondering if Gilda will ever return.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#59916: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:10:58 PM

so was the dream sequence cool? I heard the visuals in this one are particularly good.

It was pretty cool.

I would say that being able to visit multiple dreams at once is probably within Luna's abilities. Either that or she's specifically favoring the CMC due to their relation to the mane six.

I like to immagine that Catherine happened and noone noticed because Luna saved everyone.

Also, I feel compelled to point out that Sweetie's telekinesis is the green of her eyes, not the green of changeling magic.

I already said that. Oh wait,

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#59917: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:14:31 PM

Wait, the Flim Flam brothers are coming back? I like the Flim Flam brothers!

Incidentally, I also would have liked to not know that.

MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#59918: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:17:40 PM

Oh right, it's Saturday, there was a new episode today, wasn't there?

I have a LOT of catching up to do....

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#59919: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:26:23 PM

Gilda probably will return eventually. It's just a matter of when.

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KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#59920: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:26:58 PM

Saw new episode. Sapphire is just the sexiest pony EVER... STILL!!!cool

edited 22nd Mar '14 2:52:12 PM by KingKix

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#59921: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:34:42 PM

How do you think SB managed to spin through the window?

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#59922: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:43:35 PM

I'm more amazed the window didn't break.

Also, so seems Sapphire is very superstitious, or at least very concerned about 'luck'

MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#59923: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:48:43 PM

Oh god, it's worse than I expected. Pinkie pie's sister is.... Boring...

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Ever9 from Europe Since: Jul, 2011
#59924: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:49:42 PM

I know it's the law, and if Hasbro doesn't occasionally wave its copyright dick around, they will lose the rights to their own creation

I wish that were the case, then we would get at least A FEW works going into the public domain, even if only the ones that don't have an army of lawyers to protect them.

Unfortunately, yet fortunately, The owner of a mark is not required to constantly monitor every nook and cranny of the entire nation and to fire both barrels of his shotgun instantly upon spotting a possible infringer.

That's why we can have things like Creative Commons, where artists intentionally waive a part of their censorship rights, on the other hand, that's why things like the Happy birthday song can stay in copyright even after a century of obvious public use.

Trademark genericide only applies to very specific case of total disuse, and failing to even formally renew the trademark license (this is how Hasbro lost Firefly, Surprise and the rest), and genericide, when a trademarked term becomes universally used as a common word. You can't trademark Painkiller-branded painkillers, so if Aspirin starts to be used everywhere as a synonym of "painkiller" and not as an indicator of your specific brand, then your trademark on the word can get lost.

Neither of these relate to fan-works at all, anyways. Derivative works' censorship is a copyright issue, not a trademark issue, and copyright doesn't dissolve from disuse, it expires after a fixed time.

edited 22nd Mar '14 2:52:06 PM by Ever9

KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#59925: Mar 22nd 2014 at 2:57:05 PM

So because Hasbro thought Button Mash was missusing the property/infringing the work without giving the rights to the company, they claimed C&D?

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