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
I just learned that Goat Simulator wasn't made up for the comic. It's a real game. Maybe Marcen would be interested.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayOkay. Fine. If Flash is really such an awful character (apparently) and Flash Light is really such an awful ship (apparently) and I'm just not getting it ...
Could someone please explain what's so great about Twi Dash? Because I can't see it ending in anything other than misery. Please explain it to me. Marcen? Or maybe someone else, considering it's popularity?
The difference is that Flash Sentry is not a character; he's a prop. He's a generic non-threatening cute guy who exists solely for the purpose of being shipped with Twilight in exactly the kind of crappy subplot typical of the kind of crappy girls' shows we all thought FIM was going to be before we actually watched it. He makes a single contribution to the entire plot of the movie, and it's to resolve a conflict that exists for the sole purpose of giving him a contribution to the plot.
Say what you want about how the relationship dynamics between Rainbow and Twilight would actually work, but at least Rainbow actually has a well established and developed character to base such dynamics off of. Flash is just a blank slate defined only in the broadest strokes of "nice guy."
As for Twidash's popularity... well, there's the nerd/jock and tomboy/girly girl opposite attractions that are always popular with shippers, they're both fan favorites and Little Black Dresses in their own rights, and there's the Les Yay vs Het Is Ew factor when compared directly to Flashlight.
[edit] Oh, I see that trope's been renamed.
edited 2nd Apr '14 2:41:51 AM by Wryte
I've said before that people who make those claims about Flash are talking garbage. Flash had more personality than some of the Mane Six had in the first five episodes!
I've discussed this before in my blog.
Also, Het Is Ew is one of the dumbest things in fandom.
EDIT:
No. I'm being too generous. Make that all the Mane Six for the first five episodes (the show had a rocky start) and some for the first twenty.
Also:
First of all, they were shipped long before that.
Secondly: Wow. They share one interest. In a book that's implied to be ludicrously popular and therefore incredibly easy to find other fans of.
edited 2nd Apr '14 4:08:09 AM by Sereg
No, all the mane 6 had more personality in their introduction in the pilot then Flash got through the whole movie.
What little he DOES have, is nothing but pure cliche. He's not a character, he's just a vague 'nice guy, teen chick story love interest' who did nothing of note. You could completely and utterly remove him from the story, and other then that one bit, which could have been done by ANYONE, or even had the whole dumbass plot point dropped for how little it matters. Nothing would be changed.
And like Wryte said, most of the hate, is because he is exactly the type of horrible cliche most girl's shows fall back on, and something that we loved MLP for NOT having.
Twisadh makes way more sense, at least you know the two have actually talked to each other for more then, what a grand total of like 15 minutes? Most of that spend just blushing and acting awkward for no damn reason?
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Okay. What do Flash and Twi share? Nothing.
And the claim that he has more personality than Mane Six ever is even more ludicrous. In the very first two-parter episodes Mane Six got defining traits, showing what is the most notable about them and already shaping them into characters. What did Flash Sentry get in the entire movie? Nothing.
Name ONE thing about Flash Sentry we haven't seen in every "girl" show/movie/anything ever. Just one.
You're not much better Sunset. Sure you at least had character, and backstory and what not, but you were still a complete idiot. Physical cutting and pasting pictures to fake them? An army of brainwashed teenagers, versus three demi-gods, 5 of Equestria's greatest heroes, who have defeated foes far far stronger then you, including an entire army of changelings, AND the entire royal guard? Yeah I know they are rather inept, but even THEY should be able to handle some teenagers.
edited 2nd Apr '14 4:35:34 AM by Seraphem
You might wanna retract that statement. Why? I shoot fire.
Yes, through your internets.
Honestly, I could have conquered the whole Equestria by myself in my demon form. This is the kingdom that has to rely on six teenagers every time something more threatening than a handicapped fly shows up. The teenage army were more like an afterthought.
You gotta admit, it's not me who's foolish by doing cutout photos, it's the ones that got fooled by them. I guess those hedious "humanized" forms also made the principals more dense than they already were.
edited 2nd Apr '14 4:44:27 AM by SunsetShimmer
The sparkle is gone, see me shimmer on~Also, Het is Ew is one of the dumbest things in fandom.
Hey, I said it was a contributing factor to making Twidash more popular than Flashlight, not better.
Speaking of popularity: Sunset, I wanted to thank you for your request last night. It's already become one of my most highly rated pieces on both derpibooru and deviantart. We'll have to do it against sometime. For now though, I'm going to bed.
I decided to look at your blog to see what you meant, but you really didn't explain that at all. All I found was that you were willing to put more effort into analyzing and theorycrafting about Flash then most people are, which is fine but doesn't really prove your point.
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You can give it a watch if you want, but don't expect anything too spectacular.
edited 2nd Apr '14 6:13:20 AM by Mio
Post of the Day #699
We all gonna miss she and her knitting, but her legend will always be whit us.

I imagine that Davenport sounds like that one guy from Left 4 Dead, even though we know what he really sounds like. QUILLS HERE!
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