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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.

     Original OP text 
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

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#73676: May 22nd 2014 at 4:39:45 PM

True, though the whole Superior Spiderman thing is rather..... divisive. But other then Spidey, yeah doing way better then DC. But given how bad that place is self destructing, not a hard thing to do.

kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Element of Class
#73677: May 22nd 2014 at 4:55:31 PM

I dunno, I still like a decent amount of D Cs comics. They admittedly have... issues socially, and they're lagging a bit behind in a lot of ways, but their stuff in and of itself is still decent.

Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.
MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#73678: May 22nd 2014 at 5:02:16 PM

Hellboy and its spinoffs are the only ongoing comic series I'm interested in.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#73679: May 22nd 2014 at 5:03:22 PM

I don't really follow comics, so I can't really comment on that.

As for Scoot's parents, I think it's just a case of "we have more important things to use our time for." Yeah, it would be cool to see them in the background at some point, but I can't really fault them for not bothering to do so when it isn't really relevant in any meaningful fashion. The only point in the whole show I can think of where there their absence could be counted as even remotely conspicuous is in "Flight to the Finish" and even then, their presence would raise more questions than could be addressed in the episode without derailing it.

In "Sleepless in Ponyville", she presumably asked her parents if she could go offscreen, and given the fact that the trip is chaperoned by three adults, they said yes. Same deal for "Flight to the Finish" and "Equestria Games". She's going along with the Mane 6, who have saved Equestria multiple times by this point. If anything, Scoots is safer going to the Crystal Empire with them than she is in Ponyville without them.

The TL;DR version is that there are very few points in the show where it makes sense to take the time to introduce them, and the writers figured that it wasn't worth the trouble.

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#73680: May 22nd 2014 at 5:06:49 PM

wild mass guessWe'll meet Scootaloo's parents in season 5, and we'll all slap our heads when we realize that Scootamom and Scootadad have been in the background of numerous episodes from the very first season.wild mass guess

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#73681: May 22nd 2014 at 5:09:32 PM

I'll laugh if it turns out to be like Thunderlane and Cloudchaser or something.

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Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#73682: May 22nd 2014 at 5:11:28 PM

@Japanese Teeth If that's the case that is.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#73683: May 22nd 2014 at 5:14:02 PM

Rainbow Dad is also Scoots Father and he's never around because he keeps going back and forth between Ponyville and Cloudsdale keeping his dual lives secret.

IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
Darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#73687: May 22nd 2014 at 5:20:21 PM

That, or her mom's an orange and her dad's a grape.

Insano Mad Pinoy from At my laptop, refusing to waste time Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
Mad Pinoy
#73689: May 22nd 2014 at 5:27:33 PM

No, her mother was a hamster and her father smelt of elder berries!

edited 22nd May '14 5:27:57 PM by Insano

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
Exists for some reason
#73690: May 22nd 2014 at 5:35:43 PM

Scootaloo created herself, for she is the goddess. :P

As for the marvel versus DC thing, I like the DC characters, but Marvel seems to be (slightly) more progressive, and less prone to reboots. The Tangent Comics thing was my idea for a Mutants and Masterminds thing (or a fanfic).

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Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#73691: May 22nd 2014 at 5:47:21 PM

From what I've gathered from Atop the Fourth Wall, Marvel is also much less prone to unceremoniously killing off their characters for cheap shocks.

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#73692: May 22nd 2014 at 5:53:24 PM

Yeah, They only kill them off if they are a woman that has the gall to get hitched. Since marrying a superhero turns them old and makes them die.

Unless Quesada sees you as a mother figure, then anything it takes to keep them alive is perfectly fine.

But yeah on the whole Marvel handles things better then DC. With a few exceptions. But the worst ones are rather old by now.

marston Since: Sep, 2011
#73693: May 22nd 2014 at 5:53:34 PM

[up][up]I know, right? Seriously, at times it feels like DC has killed off more characters then The Walking Dead {Which alongside with the FIM comic is one of the very few comics I still read} or any other actual Anyone Can Die series.

edited 22nd May '14 5:54:01 PM by marston

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#73694: May 22nd 2014 at 5:55:32 PM

\*has no idea what's going on*

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#73695: May 22nd 2014 at 6:00:23 PM

This is one reason I don't really read comics, despite being a fan of comic book characters. The other reason is that the way comics are published means you can't just start at the beginning, then read the next issue, then the next etc. and expect to get the full story.

OrionAurora Constellation from Andromeda Galaxy Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Constellation
#73696: May 22nd 2014 at 6:02:21 PM

Oh hi everypony. What's going on?

We are all made of star stuff. Very, very weird star stuff.
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#73697: May 22nd 2014 at 6:02:34 PM

Yeah, when I do read comics it's almost always in compiled volumes rather than issue-by-issue. The large volumes of spinoffs that make continuity a pain don't help either.

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kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Element of Class
#73698: May 22nd 2014 at 6:08:56 PM

I haven't had too much of a problem with that, with one exception... Batman family keeps on fucking dying in an issue of something else, and I refuse to buy those series because I don't want to encourage it.

Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.
IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#73699: May 22nd 2014 at 6:11:32 PM

In related news, this morning I was surprised to find a Justice League mini-comic in my cereal box. Read it, it wasn't anything spectacular, but hey, free stuff.

IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
Exists for some reason
#73700: May 22nd 2014 at 6:13:38 PM

I only read older collections of stories because I don't have the money to buy issue after issue of 20 to 200 different series.

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