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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.

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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

PrincessGwenevere Ooh, sparkly! from Coat Mountain Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Ooh, sparkly!
#61701: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:19:52 PM

Out of the new writers this season, I've liked Haber's stuff consistently. I would like to see more of Ed Valentine too, because I liked Flight to the Finish but I wasn't that nuts about Three's a Crowd, ironically.

@Dark: Oh shi- there is? *runs to download*

edited 29th Mar '14 12:21:23 PM by PrincessGwenevere

"I feel like I'm on a raft and surrounding me is an ocean of dumb."- Mr. Sark
Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
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#61702: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:24:04 PM

Leap of Faith was an episode. ._.

I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!
PurpleDalek Since: Sep, 2011
#61703: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:27:03 PM

So that was really predictable, but I still enjoyed it. Thoughts:

Flim and Flam have got away scot free twice now.

Ponyville residents have no pattern recognition. Must be something in the water.

Wait, what if AJ spends her Key? Will the mane six have to steal it back?tongue

Hah, Time Turner gave it a ten. I get it.

Yay another Flim and Flam song!

Hey, no one arrest Silver Shill or anything.

Can Twilight please do something this season.

edited 29th Mar '14 12:27:09 PM by PurpleDalek

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#61704: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:27:42 PM

@Gwen. Hahahaha.

Never heard of those games until tvtropes. The music's nice though for the SNES.

marston Since: Sep, 2011
#61705: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:37:51 PM

[up][up]I know, right? Whenever she does show up in a S4 episode, she's been ridiculously bland after the premier. We already have 3 uninteresting Reasonable Authority Figure's, we don't need a 4th one, especially not one who use to be funny, flawed and interesting.

Swasfewses Hermit from New York Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Hermit
#61706: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:39:18 PM

I have seen people say that a lot and I just do not see it no matter how hard I try. She seems the same as she's always been to me.

animal-loving
Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#61707: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:39:58 PM

Leap of Faith was an episode. ._.

Take it or leave it.

I have a message from another time...
storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#61708: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:43:34 PM

who's the pony with the parasprite hat?

That's what I was wondering.

This episode: proof that all of Ponyville has the collective knowledge-retention of a goldfish

You know, goldfish actually have a pretty good memory.

Would you be interested in purchasing the moon from me? Moon Tourism is going to be BIG in the future and you'll want to get on this from the ground up.

SPACE TOURISM!!!!! Buy Now! Only 80.000 $ for a Space tourism [sic]

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PurpleDalek Since: Sep, 2011
#61709: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:43:54 PM

It's a problem quite a few characters have. Once they go through character development, they're less interesting. Without her social awkwardness, Twilight loses a lot of her charm.

And, before anyone says it, no I don't want Twilight to snap back to her previous self and no I don't want her to have a Lesson Zero style breakdown every time she has a focus episode. But the writers need to be something with her. She's essentially become Celestia Lite.

I don't know, maybe focus on her new responsibilities and authority as a princess. Something like that.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#61710: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:45:30 PM

Key episode.

You guys are good. It took me until the talk with Silver Shill before the competition to figure that out.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#61711: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:50:27 PM

@Purple: Yeah, I'd really love to see something that focuses on her trying to balance her responsibilities with her role as a friend. Something that acknowledges her development without removing her flaws.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#61712: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:56:06 PM

Though, getting lassoed by her ankle and pulled like that.. can't be good for her hips.

Don't worry, Not the Fall That Kills You… is practically a law of physics in MLP

Are we going to look for quotes as usual, or just make stuff up?

I saw we just find perfectly ordinary, boring quotes from the thread. There are certainly enough of them.

Looks like someone did a Scootaloo Kiwi reference after all.

I liked the way Flim and Flam didn't even really deny what they were doing when AJ confronted them, and instead somewhat cleverly managed to not only convince her not to be honest and immediately pounced on that to turn it to their advantage.

Yeah that was awesome.

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PurpleDalek Since: Sep, 2011
#61713: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:56:45 PM

Exactly. An episode where, say, Twilight tries to attend a peace conference and Gummy's birthday party at the same time would be welcome.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#61714: Mar 29th 2014 at 12:58:48 PM

Did anyone else think of the tonic as Liquid Courage?

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PurpleDalek Since: Sep, 2011
#61715: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:00:09 PM

I was waiting for the reveal that the miracle tonic was just Flim and Flam's dodgy cider repackaged.tongue

Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#61716: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:01:45 PM

Exactly. An episode where, say, Twilight tries to attend a peace conference and Gummy's birthday party at the same time would be welcome.

No.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#61717: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:01:53 PM

For all we know it could very well be. After all, why waste a perfectly good supply when it could be put to use.

edited 29th Mar '14 1:02:48 PM by darkabomination

Rainbow Pomeranian Lover from Central Illinois (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
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#61718: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:02:15 PM

I liked this one, and I'm very glad that it turned out in a way that pleased me. This is because the element of Honesty is the one that I most identify with, personally, and I was very glad to see that it spoke out for telling the truth even when it's inconvenient or uncomfortable. That makes for a good counter-story to when Discord messed with her mind by telling her that "the truth hurts so it's better to tell lies" that turned her temporarily into the infamous Liarjack. Kind of makes me wonder if Discord would ever read that diary the ponies are making, or ever read any of the letters Twilight and the others have sent to Celestia.

One thing I'd comment on is the way the ponies are so eager to believe the Flim Flams even if they had been tricked before. I think there are a few aspects to this. One is that perhaps pony culture is big on giving second chances, which is a theme that has cropped up before in the show, with Nightmare Moon/Luna in the very beginning, to Trixie at the end of Magic Duel, to even Discord himself. They could have thought "even if their apple cider wasn't good, that doesn't mean their health tonic is going to be bad." Another is that ponies are very easily swayed by charismatic figures who sing catchy songs, which would go with some other things we've seen in the show such as Pinkie's Smile song and the way that Cheese Sandwich got popular so quickly when he did his performing song and dance. The third might contradict the second (these are just guesses I thought of) but perhaps the Flim Flams weren't as memorable in the long-term to the ponies as they were to us. We viewers of the show have gone and rewatched episodes and memorized songs but unless Equestria has movie cameras that would have recorded the Super Cider Squeezy incident, that incident might have faded in the public memory of most ponies who weren't personally affected by the Flim Flam brothers' actions aside from being disgusted by bad cider. Applejack's personal livelihood was threatened, so it's natural that she would remember them, but it might not have stuck in the other ponies' minds as much that "these guys sell inferior products" especially if what they did remember was the catchy song. As tropers, we remember classic characters like the slick con artist types that the Flim Flam brothers are ponified versions of, but the ponies might not have those specific stereotypes in their minds that come from human films and TV shows, so they wouldn't necessarily associate the way the Flim Flams act and dress as being hints that they're obvious con artists.

One other thing that I noticed is not only the similarity to Dumbo's Magic Feather plot in concept (someone uses a placebo to gain confidence) but also that unless I'm forgetting something, the magic feather part of Dumbo involved Dumbo having to do a high dive into a pool of water. So I was wondering if that was also a shout-out in itself, or just a coincidence, although Granny Smith did wear an unusual-looking swimming outfit and Dumbo was dressed like a clown during that part.

edited 29th Mar '14 1:04:05 PM by Rainbow

PurpleDalek Since: Sep, 2011
#61719: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:03:21 PM

No.

It's better than doing nothing.

Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#61720: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:06:01 PM

[up]Sometimes doing nothing is the better option. At least when you can't do something else that is.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#61721: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:07:49 PM

Also, the only thing the Flim Flams did wrong the first time is trying to sell crappy cider. It doesn't mean their tonic is bad, especially with 'proof'.

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PurpleDalek Since: Sep, 2011
#61722: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:10:28 PM

Doing nothing is never the better option.

Unless you want to murder someone. Then doing nothing is probably the better option. But when it comes to making art, trying and possibly failing is always better than doing nothing at all.

PrincessGwenevere Ooh, sparkly! from Coat Mountain Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Ooh, sparkly!
#61723: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:12:18 PM

I think the writers want to make it so My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic doesn't become My Little Pony: Twilight is Super Special Awesome like people were bitching about in season 3. Thus, the whole Rainbow Power includes the rest of the M6.

I believe I've voiced my opinion on how I'd like some main character and secondary character interaction, like the Friends Forever comics. There's a bunch of relationships we really haven't touched upon yet, and it doesn't have to write out the main characters. (ie Twilight and Zecora, Flutters and Discord, ect.)

Hell, write an episode with Celestia and/or Luna with Twilight.

edited 29th Mar '14 1:13:54 PM by PrincessGwenevere

"I feel like I'm on a raft and surrounding me is an ocean of dumb."- Mr. Sark
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#61724: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:15:50 PM

I want to see a Twilight and Discord episode. Like a followup to Three's A Crowd. There were some really interesting dynamics in there, and I think there's an interesting parallelism with the characters: both of them have only recently learned to appreciate friendship as something worth pursuing, and initially they have lots of difficulty with how to do it. Twilight is further along than Discord is, so having her get frustrated with him over it only to realize that she's been through something similar.

In other news, I finally got around to watching Frozen and I really enjoyed it. I think it was a bit slow to start, but it really nailed a lot of stuff.

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#61725: Mar 29th 2014 at 1:15:51 PM

The end was a little cheesey and the number of injured pones was a bit ridiculous, but other than that, I liked what they did with this episode.


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