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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

ScottPilgrim2013 Why aren't you laughing? from Arkham Asylum Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Waiting for Prince Charming
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#78751: Jun 30th 2014 at 7:30:40 PM

[up][up]Same here.Or like I said earlier,give Shining some sort of spotlight and personality(like in the comics).

edited 30th Jun '14 7:31:04 PM by ScottPilgrim2013

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#78752: Jun 30th 2014 at 7:38:19 PM

@Kegisak: The issues aren't really very evident until the last two issues. At that point, the romance takes over, and while the premise is okay, the romance really isn't interesting enough to merit spending the time on it, and the resolution is really rushed (and honestly kinda nonsensical). Now, I'm not going to be one of the "THE COMICS ARE RUINED FOREVER" people, but I will say that it's definitely the weakest arc so far in terms of writing. They attempt to use the plot to develop Celestia's character, but it just makes her come across is immature because she knowingly endangered two dimensions for the sake of her romance, and it's just at odds with everything we know of her characterization. The problem isn't the inclusion of Romance, per se, it's that they handled it badly.

On the other side, the Trixie/Rainbow Dash comic was a lot of fun. It brings back the Diamond Dogs.

edited 30th Jun '14 7:40:55 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#78753: Jun 30th 2014 at 7:41:12 PM

Go and try shipping Vinyl with anypony outside Octavia

Yeah, the only way that can work is if it predates the Vinyl Octavia shipping

Though people do sometimes just cast them platonic or interested in other muscians.

Or Flash and Twily, story tries to portray them as a couple, gets so half-assed it barely seems romantic.

I suspect that was deliberate.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#78754: Jun 30th 2014 at 7:49:05 PM

[up] Yeah it REALLY came off as some suit saying "We need a cute boy for her to have a crush on because High School!" And the writers just not giving a crap about him.

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#78756: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:03:37 PM

Blame the editorial mandates.

As for romance in the show, I can't not ship Spike and Rarity. I know that since spike is still a kid it any work now but I'm thinking long term.

As for Flash as a character, if they bring him back for an episode (such as Teilightt being in charge of the guards for whatever reason) and have him actually do stuff, that'd be good for him.

edited 30th Jun '14 8:04:56 PM by IkeAndMike

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#78757: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:04:07 PM

[up][up]You have quite the timing.

[up]Yeah, Flash needs some more development.

edited 30th Jun '14 8:06:33 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#78758: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:04:33 PM

Speaking of romance, looks like Korra season 3 isn't up on Nick's website yet. Oh well, hopefully next week.

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ScottPilgrim2013 Why aren't you laughing? from Arkham Asylum Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Waiting for Prince Charming
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#78759: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:05:37 PM

I ought to get around to starting Korra,been meaning to for a while.

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#78760: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:06:47 PM

Bleh, I have to admit that all the shipping in season 1 of that kind of killed my interest. I have seen some of season 3, and it's pretty good.

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#78761: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:07:00 PM

Korra season 3 has started already? I must watch it immediately!

To the Leprecave!

ScottPilgrim2013 Why aren't you laughing? from Arkham Asylum Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Waiting for Prince Charming
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#78762: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:08:15 PM

Kind of been a bit skeptic to the show,because of its romance and love triangles.

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#78763: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:08:26 PM

@ed: Sorry, looks like you missed the fun shipping conversation and the weapons grade cuteness that is Celestia/ Pinkie.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#78764: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:08:46 PM

Same, just, couldn't get past all the stupid freaking love triangle stuff, plus the suddenly modern, tech heavy setting that just.. felt far FAR to different from the world of the original for me to get into it. Plus the random retcon about how bloodbending works.

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#78765: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:10:39 PM

Ech,starting to understand why I'm skeptic about it now.Maybe I'll do what I did with the original series and wait for it to end then watch it.

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#78766: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:11:09 PM

Why do people feel the need to shoehorn romance into stuff that didn't originally involve it? It never works well, and I'm not just talking about ponies either. Oh, and I mean official canon stuff doing this, not fanfics or fan art.

edited 30th Jun '14 8:11:50 PM by marston

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#78767: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:12:28 PM

The only other thing that stops me from totally enjoying Korra is the pacing. I know it's not really their fault, but stuff still just goes by too quickly in this format, and it makes things hard to register.

Pony has its share of pacing problems I know, but it's not as pronounced as that.

edited 30th Jun '14 8:13:30 PM by edvedd

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ScottPilgrim2013 Why aren't you laughing? from Arkham Asylum Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Waiting for Prince Charming
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#78768: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:13:45 PM

[up][up]"Shrugs"Because...sparking an new interest?I'll be frank,I really don't a lot of times.There doesn't seem to be a definitive answer.

[up]Pacing in general has been a bit of a problem recently in a some animated works(examples:FIM,Korra,Adventure Time).

edited 30th Jun '14 8:15:57 PM by ScottPilgrim2013

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#78769: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:14:24 PM

Because of just how big the shipping wars were in Avatar, which handled it's romances pretty damn good, keeping them there, but never the focus. Knowing how rapid people were about shipping, they decided to focus more on romance, even setting up several changing official pairings to drum up interest, not realizing that shippers will just hate anything but the ship they want to see, and people that don't give a fuck, will simply hate the focus on romance and stupid freaking love triangles.

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#78770: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:15:26 PM

I'd have to finish the first series before I start on Korra. Although I will say that if it handles romance in the same way that the initial series does, that could indeed be a problem. So far, only the romance between Aang and Katara seems really developed, and all the others popped right out of nowhere. Sokka's thing with Suki showed up really rapidly (she macks on him at the end of her introductory episode), and his thing with the Moon Princess just always felt weird. Like, the show makes it out like they were star crossed lovers or something when they were never even dating. They had like, three conversations. And Zuko/Mai works, but it had like no buildup. Like they start making out like two episodes after they're first shown interacting.

edited 30th Jun '14 8:17:37 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#78771: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:20:10 PM

Romance aside, I actually enjoyed the first season of Korra. Amon was all sorts of badass and actually really liked the tech upgrade. (I'm a huge sucker for Steampunk/ Dieselpunk turn-of-the-century stuff.)

I started watching the second season, but I got distracted and started watching Sleepy Hollow with my mom.

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#78772: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:20:12 PM

@Scott: Yeah. Even some animated movies have that problem. Dragons 2 was enjoyable, but things were happening a little too quickly. I'm not sure if it's just creators being too ambitious, or a deeper and more widespread issue.

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#78773: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:20:36 PM

It's been a while, but I just assumed Zuko and Mai were already an item before he was banished. You wouldn't need much buildup in that case. I agree on Sokka/Yue, though.

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#78774: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:22:00 PM

Well the Zuko/Mai thing we get more shown of, it wasn't them just starting it there, they had an existing relationship before he got exiled.

Korra, over does it. It tries to have a love triangle, and like every other episode whose hooking up with who changes for the most random reasons. And none of them actually work, and feel like they are just there for the sake of having a romantic tension subplot.

@ Gwen, I'm not saying the tech was bad in and of itself, and it did do some interesting things with it, it just.. felt TO different from the original, and to fast. There was no gradual change just, suddenly cars and skyscrapers and power plants. it's just to big a shift to quickly for me to really enjoy it. Especially since it's so soon after the original.

edited 30th Jun '14 8:23:56 PM by Seraphem

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#78775: Jun 30th 2014 at 8:23:32 PM

You have to evolve romantic relationships naturally. If you try too hard, people notice.

edited 30th Jun '14 8:24:10 PM by edvedd

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