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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
I find it odd that Daring Do being real sorta came out of nowhere, similar to how Shining Armor wasn't even mentioned til the season 2 finale. It's fine if it's real, but it's a little jarring.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Heck, for It's About Time they introduced freaking time travel just for a one off plot.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play@Rhyme: Oh boy, that's a can of worms right there.
I do hope they'll eventually leave Equestria itself and head abroad. I'd like to see what's out there.
edited 11th Apr '14 9:29:09 AM by edvedd
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectI would explain why, but it's a debate we've had many times before and I doubt anyone will be convinced who isn't already.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayLet's see Dragon world, and Griffon land, and Tatzlwurm Town or something.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau Project@Rhyme: I don't hate it, I just think it wasn't handled as smoothly as it could've been.
Reaction Image Repository@story: A series of tunnels. They burst out of the ground to borrow cups of sugar.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectThe problem is that when an episode is bad because it's a bad episode, you can just not watch it, but when it's bad because it screws up continuity, there's nothing you can do.
I do find it hilarious that people used to complain about MMDW being inconsistent and having an OOC setting. Oh how little they knew.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI complained about MMDW because the moral was terribly handled and the remane 5 didn't even try to help Rainbow in a more conventional way. And there's a big difference between "this ruralish town has lots of construction sites and a hydroelectric dam" and "somewhere in the entire world of Equestria there are Aztec ponies".
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.I've already talked about what I thought were the particularly weak parts of Daring Don't, but I don't feel like going over it again. I think the short of it was that it sometimes wasn't consistent with itself, and sometimes wasn't consistent with things we already know about Equestria.
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...But Tatzlwurm Town is the greatest idea, right?
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectThat would be pretty epic.
And honestly, my biggest issue with MMDW was just how unpolished it felt. Basically, they bent the setting and characterization to the story rather than letting the story develop naturally from the events. I don't think that much tweaking would've been required (fixing the scene with the mane cast bragging about MMDW would've repaired like 75% of the episode's issues), but it mostly boils down to a lot of the stuff happening in the episode only coming about because it had to in order to make the plot work than because it made sense in-universe.
Reaction Image RepositorySpike never had this issue in the first seasons. He was well-written! I wonder what happened.
:D Now I'm imagining a Ponyville version for the gigantic worm's home, where they dress in hats and kitchen aprons and say "Honey I'm home" in Hulk Speak!
edited 11th Apr '14 10:07:57 AM by kyun
*Applies casual brushies to Wind Whistler.*

Yeah I find it baffling that people have issues with this season for world building... When pretty much it's identical to the world building prior to this. "Animals dependent on ponies" Winter Wrap Up. A civilization no one recognizes as real, distant from Ponyville? The Crystal Empire.
I still don't get the hate for Daring Don't. Daring Do was always based on Indiana Jones, Genius Bruiser. It's not too far fetched that his pony counterpart would write a book about her adventures, passing it off as fiction to avoid being hassled by the Loony Fan. None of the elements that make up the Daring Do series are really that out of place. A creature from Aztec mythology in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink. Ancient ruins. The only difference is that it takes place in a tropical rainforest.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.