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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

Sereg Since: Jun, 2010
#68501: May 1st 2014 at 2:34:17 PM

@Wryte: Some of those problems you mentioned are more applicable to the HP movies than the books. Ron has a lot of his character stripped away in the movies, for example. I also prefer the Lot R movies to the books though.

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#68502: May 1st 2014 at 2:39:20 PM

Where is that quote from, Meta?

edited 1st May '14 2:39:32 PM by IkeAndMike

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#68503: May 1st 2014 at 2:42:59 PM

Yeah the movies messed up a LOT of stuff from the books for HP.

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#68505: May 1st 2014 at 2:48:00 PM

@Ike: My own brain. That quote is loosely based on memories of things that real people have said about the misuse of magic in fantasy stories—I just swapped "electricity" for "magic".

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#68506: May 1st 2014 at 2:56:13 PM

Some of those problems you mentioned are more applicable to the HP movies than the books. Ron has a lot of his character stripped away in the movies, for example.

I actually found Ron had more character in the movies, at least Deathly Hallows (it's been longer since I watched any of the others). They actually gave him stuff to do in the DH movie; in the book he was just there to make Harry look better by comparison.

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#68507: May 1st 2014 at 3:05:14 PM

I also prefer the Lot R movies to the books though.

Same.

Anyway, DH is my least favorite of the books, and the only one I never read more than once, so I don't remember it as well.

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#68508: May 1st 2014 at 3:08:20 PM

@Kegisak: I still think that's just what Twilight tells herself.tongue

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#68509: May 1st 2014 at 3:10:21 PM

The books I found fairly bland. Harry's a very boring protagonist, magic only does what it does when the plot says so, Voldimort's a hilariously one-dimensional villain with Genre Blindness, and the last book I found a let down.

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#68510: May 1st 2014 at 3:11:14 PM

@Mio I wouldn't want to get into a debate about this with Twilight.

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#68511: May 1st 2014 at 3:14:41 PM

On the other hand, Harry Potter has its share of humor, mythology references, etc.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#68512: May 1st 2014 at 3:16:35 PM

I likd them, yeah they had issue, but overall were pretty damn good, fun, and just a really great read.

Sereg Since: Jun, 2010
#68513: May 1st 2014 at 3:18:27 PM

@Wryte: ... Er, Ron rescued Harry, guided Hermione to the Chamber of Secrets, informed Harry and Hermione of what was going on, had the arc with the putouter, introduced the concept of wizard fairy tales and that's just off the top of my head. The movies tended to remove all his cool attributes or give them too Hermione, which was insulting to her too, because she was already cool.

marston Since: Sep, 2011
#68514: May 1st 2014 at 3:24:23 PM

@Dark: Huh, that's pretty much how I feel about Harry Potter too, especially the movies. Stole the words right out of my mouth. No offense to anyone who likes the series, of course.

edited 1st May '14 3:25:16 PM by marston

Sereg Since: Jun, 2010
#68515: May 1st 2014 at 3:26:21 PM

EDIT: Nevermind.

edited 1st May '14 3:26:53 PM by Sereg

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#68516: May 1st 2014 at 3:28:25 PM

I liked Harry Potter and couldn't stand Lord of the Rings. I barely got through the hobbit.

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#68517: May 1st 2014 at 3:42:50 PM

My main gripe with HP is the fact that it's constantly introducing new rules about how things work. As well as the fact that it'll introduce spells or magical items that have enormous amounts of potential to upend the plot only for them to never really get delved into. Like they'll bring up a cool spell or something, but it'll only get used a handful of times and never show up again.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#68518: May 1st 2014 at 3:44:13 PM

Yeah the magic really wasn't thought out to well. New rules weren't TO bad since they didn't tend to brek existing ones, and we are dealing with a kid learning tings as he grows up. But just how many spells could have been so useful, only to not be used.....

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#68519: May 1st 2014 at 3:46:09 PM

[up]Yeah, but even so, there were some points where I was like "Seriously? This has never even been mentioned before now?" I.e. some of the stuff in the later books (like the Horcruxes) would've been better off being introduced earlier in the narrative, given how important they are.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#68520: May 1st 2014 at 3:50:06 PM

But why would they when they are such incredibly dark, buried magic that there is no reason for any wizard to really know about let alone a kid. Plus Dumbledore wasn't even completely certain that's what they were dealing with till the latter books. There's no rel logical reason he should have found out sooner.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#68521: May 1st 2014 at 3:50:07 PM

That's another thing. Using Harry's lack of knowledge as a way to introduce new magic spells or items for the plot, and this is still going on in the seventh book.

And he never really has to do much, his friends or later adult allies do a lot of the plot-important stuff for him, and the last book's climax was a letdown.

Also having Hermione and him going on random camp trips and wandering about for 2 3rds of the book while the interesting stuff at Hogwarts like a new repressive dictatorship, a resistance group of students from the DA meetings, and the last battle were only skimmed over. Not to mention the sudden body count came off as needlessly edgy.

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#68522: May 1st 2014 at 3:52:19 PM

My main gripe with HP is the fact that it's constantly introducing new rules about how things work

It's a lot like MLP in that respect. I think both series put more emphasis on rule of funny than consistency in world building.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#68523: May 1st 2014 at 3:53:32 PM

Again, makes sense for it to have happened the way it did.

Yeah would have liked to see what was going on back at Hogwarts, and while the death toll did spike, it had been climbing throughout the story.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#68524: May 1st 2014 at 4:46:26 PM

@Story: Thing is, when new stuff is introduced in MLP it's generally stuff that's rare enough that it makes sense we wouldn't have heard about it before now. In HP a lot of stuff that comes up in later books are things one would've assumed would've been mentioned earlier.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#68525: May 1st 2014 at 4:52:25 PM

For instance, the Death Eaters aren't named until the fourth book, and a lot of terms and ideas weren't identified until much later on.


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