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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

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#71326: May 11th 2014 at 10:23:43 AM

@Dragon: There's also the fact that Twilight wasn't exactly using a lot of finesse in that fight; she was just blasting him with enormous amounts of energy. She did manage to teleport, but that's her signature spell, so obviously she'd have an easier time getting that figured out.

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#71327: May 11th 2014 at 10:25:06 AM

That, and her attacks didn't require much finesse. Just flying towards Tirek and blasting him as hard as she could. The one part that would require finess—teleporting—was already Twilight's specialty.

EDIT: OH COME ON

edited 11th May '14 10:25:25 AM by MetaFour

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#71328: May 11th 2014 at 10:25:10 AM

You think they'd trust the princesses not to screw with the games.

Maybe they found out about the torch lighting.

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#71329: May 11th 2014 at 10:25:56 AM

Other than the fact that they are indisputably the best craftsmen and engineers among pony kind? My personal theory is that the Medieval Stasis seem in Hearth's Warming Eve was partially due to poor trade, but also due to the fact that a large number of unicorns that could be building and inventing things were instead wasting their energy moving along celestial bodies every day and night. Farming is tedious, I imagine weather control is exhausting, but both of these are beneficial in the long run. Keeping the sun and the moon from moving however is dull, time consuming, and not an ideal way of leveraging power. Not when you could devote your time to making the armor the Pegasus need, or the pikes Earth ponies need instead.

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Dragon_Ranger Since: Jan, 2010
#71330: May 11th 2014 at 10:30:24 AM

Twilight had to have known that anything less than all-out wasn't going to be enough to stop Tirek, so she would have to use as much power as she could muster.

Note also that Tirek never lands a clean bit against Twilight. Of the three attacks that connect, Twilight manages to deflect all of them with some type of magic barrier.

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#71331: May 11th 2014 at 10:31:53 AM

I don't know if anyone said this but...does anyone think that Tyrek is like a villain out of a God of War game when he reaches maximum power?

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#71332: May 11th 2014 at 10:31:56 AM

I take the distant land comment to mean he came from there originally

Either that or he was caught in Colloseum/XD and then transferred to Gen 4.

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#71333: May 11th 2014 at 10:33:06 AM

@Marcen Now that you put that way, Tirek's kind of a creautre that Kratos would fight.

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#71334: May 11th 2014 at 10:36:04 AM

@Star Yep. I was kind of wondering when Kratos was going to appear.

https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615q
Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#71335: May 11th 2014 at 10:36:31 AM

@Rhyme Beat: There are some who would say that Unicorn's had all the leverage they need in their magic since magic in this setting can do practically anything.

That however brings up a whole new set of questions, and many of those people also likely believe that HWE was covering up an obvious caste system so who knows.

Anyway, we did get our first explicit mention of Earth Pony strength in this episode. Still not sure if that will mean anything though.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#71337: May 11th 2014 at 10:43:43 AM

@Story: What was that guys full handle? Because that sounds like something he would say.

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Pannic Since: Jul, 2009
#71338: May 11th 2014 at 10:47:45 AM

I was just thinking of that one dude who had a fixation on the Complete Monster trope and was deadset on applying it to Discord. Lawl.

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#71339: May 11th 2014 at 10:49:03 AM

@Pannic Oh come on, even Discord isn't THAT heartless.

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#71340: May 11th 2014 at 10:52:19 AM

What was that guys full handle? Because that sounds like something he would say.

Don't worry, I already reported him.

I was just thinking of that one dude who had a fixation on the Complete Monster trope and was deadset on applying it to Discord. Lawl.

That was someone else. I've forgotten his name.

Not to be confused with Gaz Be Moo who was obsessed with Discord but not Complete Monsters.

@Meta Four, the only match in the new thread was the post where you asked me to search. I'll try searching the old thread next.

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#71341: May 11th 2014 at 10:54:05 AM

@Paniic Discord was never a complete monster. He was evil but never went THAT far. If he were a complete monster, he would have out right destroyed everypony instead of made everyone chaotic.

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#71342: May 11th 2014 at 10:55:43 AM

No hits at all in the old thread. I suspect you told me to search for the wrong words.

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Pannic Since: Jul, 2009
#71343: May 11th 2014 at 10:59:26 AM

I forget his username. I just remember he got into a tizzy and got into a spat with Ginger.

KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
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#71344: May 11th 2014 at 10:59:58 AM

So, will I have needed to watch all the key episodes (assuming that's still what they're called) in order to make sense of the finale, or can I just go ahead and watch it right now?

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
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#71345: May 11th 2014 at 11:00:15 AM

@Mio . It wasn't really hiding the caste system, unless you mean the episode was pretending like the caste system doesn't still exist. And it does still exist to a lessoned extent , but it's unfortunately one created by the rules of Equestria itself. As for magic being able to do anything, that may be true, but most unicorns have only telekinesis and a few spells in their arsenal. To demonstrate both point I show how terrible Rarity was as a weather pony. She seemed to only be able to move clouds around and it's implied she could change what type of clouds they were. This suggests great while unicorns can have any spells tied to their cutie mark they can't just do everything with magic unless they've got Twilight's versatility

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Pannic Since: Jul, 2009
#71347: May 11th 2014 at 11:01:25 AM

They reference the key episodes, but it gives the relevant information so you're fine as long as you know the broad strokes.

KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
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#71348: May 11th 2014 at 11:02:59 AM

That's fine, then. Thanks, Pannic.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
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#71349: May 11th 2014 at 11:08:59 AM

So, will I have needed to watch all the key episodes (assuming that's still what they're called) in order to make sense of the finale, or can I just go ahead and watch it right now?

No you won't. It'd probably be a good idea to watch the season 4 opener though.

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#71350: May 11th 2014 at 11:18:34 AM

@Rhyme Beast: Yeah, though that doesn't make sense to me because the tribes were obviously three different nations, not one nation with racial stratification.

I don't really mind the idea that Ponies abilities mean that ponies tend towards certain jobs, but any discussion of caste systems in Equestria inevitably seems to lead to racially based social stratification that doesn't really make sense.


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