My Little Pony: FIM

seitora

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Braeburn actually seems to get shipped with just about anything. He's something like the Archer of MLP, where he's capable of being gay, bisexual, or straight, but no matter what he seems to attract everybody.

Speaking of ships:
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I'd ship it.
 

AJ_Katon

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seitora said:
Braeburn actually seems to get shipped with just about anything. He's something like the Archer of MLP, where he's capable of being gay, bisexual, or straight, but no matter what he seems to attract everybody.

Speaking of ships:
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I'd ship it.
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This is their love song.
 

seitora

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The end of season 5 starts in half an hour

I won't be watching right away but I'll probably get spoiled by the internets anyways!
 

burnerx7

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Sorry, the premise was very good, and the end was full of action, drama and good story. A race in time protecting Equestria. And even with the inexplicable way in wich Starlight could fight Twilight to a stand still, her "redemption" sucked balls. Twilight didn't defeat her in any discernible way, her start of darkness was prety stupid and a song of 2 minutes doesn't justify all the shit she did.

Aghhh that was as bad as Sasuke final revelation of friendship with Naruto
 
What the hell kind of magical steroids has Starlight been taking that she can outlast an Alicorn who's special talent is magic?
 

seitora

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Well, I watched it, and I have to agree with the overall sentiment.

Most of the two episodes were pretty good. The ending sucked horribly. DIAMOND TIARA got more characterisation and a convincing redemption in one episode. Starlight Glimmer has like quite possibly the worst fucking villain motive in the show, then gets convinced by a friendship speech in the space of a minute and a bit and makes up with everybody.

This maybe came down to time constraints, but I was disappointed that the only pony to even notice and comment on Twilight having wings and a horn was Rainbow Dash. Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis, Applejack all seemed to completely glaze over it.

I was a little bit disappointed by the alternate timelines too. Something I had expected was to see a future timeline where everypony really WAS equal, after Starlight preached to Fluttershy and the two colts about that. Missed opportunity there.

Actually, the one thing that I really like is how Starlight Glimmer was directly attacking the narrative. Several times she scoffs at the idea that a group of six friends is the difference between the Equestria of now and an Equestria in ruins, and it's all because the plot narrative of a show DEMANDS the Mane 6 be super-important in every event, even if they don't directly save Equestria themselves.

nixofcyzerra said:
What the hell kind of magical steroids has Starlight been taking that she can outlast an Alicorn who's special talent is magic?
 

seitora

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actually, the other thing I don't like is how the rest of the Mane 6 was useless since their present selves weren't involved in the plot until after it was all over. Hell, Spike was there and he was pretty much a tag-along who served as exposition for a few lines and that was it.
 

seitora

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holy fuck

I just realised

Nightmare Moon just made it CANON that Equestria can survive eternal night by saying she imprisoned her sister YEARS ago

EDIT: also this is wicked awesome

 

seitora

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Capable of making friends, but didn't really understand friendship itself.
EXTREMELY good with magic
Able to develop and improve time spells

Starlight Glimmer is Star Swirl's descendant, reincarnation, or character continuation? Starlight befriended Sunburst but didn't bother after that, while Star Swirl befriended Scorpan, but was said to not understand friendship. It's a stretch, but Starlight's Cutie Mark might even be a reference: depending on your perspective, the streaking trail above the star almost looks like it does a little whirl in the middle.

I'm honestly beginning to think these last two episodes were written with numerous plot holes deliberately so the fandom can exploit them, to be honest. Josh Haber wrote Bloom and Gloom, which I think is the most surreal episode in the series, and as I noted before he seems to write Starlight as attacking the narrative of Mane 6 being coincidentally always around in a timely manner to directly or indirectly stop the latest villain. It wouldn't surprise me if he deliberately wrote in a parallel to Star Swirl.
 

seitora

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Friendship Games is now on Netflix.

Meanwhile, Starlight Glimmer has been screwing around with the timeline, and as a result Cutie Map 1/2 are no longer available on Netflix but Cutie Re Mark 1/2 are
 

seitora

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nixofcyzerra said:
What the hell kind of magical steroids has Starlight been taking that she can outlast an Alicorn who's special talent is magic?
None. She power leveled. When she wasn't stalking Twilight, she was out in the badlands grinding levels by fighting Changelings and in the Everfree battling just about everything. Next season's villain will be Chrysalis once more, out for revenge against this mysterious unicorn who has been slaughtering her people. A subplot will be Zecora declaring that the chaos in the Everfree has grown more erratic with something killing off countless Timberwolves and other predators. Starlight is strangely nervous when she hears about it.
 

seitora

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Twist CONFIRMED for Big Bad of Season 6.
 
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seitora

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The pun hath been doubled!



Big Mac at McBonald's :p
 

seitora

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(spoilers if you haven't watched Season 5 finale yet)

With regards to the final 'ashlands' timeline, I just realised that the difference between this one and all the previous ones is that Starlight Glimmer got yanked along for the ride. While it's not certain, I kind of think present Starlight Glimmer stayed in the past to fight off whatever big bads marched out, and while one of the big bads would always take over, there was always still life existing. In the Ashlands timeline, however, nothing is shown to have survived.
 

seitora

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the second half of Season 5 is on Netflix now
 

seitora

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So it looks like one of the comics will feature Prince Blueblood and Prince Shining Armor working together

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Blueblood has a few background moments in Sweet and Elite that very vaguely suggest he made up with Rarity (him and her are standing together by themselves when Rarity christens Fancy Pants' new airship), but doesn't get any actual lines, and he briefly shows up in Equestria Games as well. I'm sure having an actual issue will give him a resurgence of popularity, for good or bad.

Meanwhile, I'm beginning to wonder if I should spin out all the image posts to a new topic now...It's worth noting I can't even post comics past a certain horizontal length, for that matter. This alternate ending for The Cutie Re-Mark is interesting

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seitora

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From the viewpoint of having 5 full seasons now, I think it might actually have been better if Twilight either became an Alicorn OR a Princess at the end of Season 3 but not both, and then the other at the end of Season 4, either when she takes magic from the other three Alicorns or after defeating Tirek. Becoming an Alicorn by completing Star Swirl's spell but not becoming a Princess until she defeats Tirek would actually tie up what I feel is a discontinuity created by Cadance's mere existence, that of 'where the hell was Cadance in Friendship is Magic 1/2?'.

Given that Cadance apparently had time to babysit even as an alicorn and Twilight didn't know who 'Princess Mi Amore Cadenza' was, it seems like the possibility of a waiting period between a pony ascending and then becoming royalty exists, and it might have worked better for Twilight. I dunno. Alternatively she could have become a Princess, then getting magic from the three remaining Alicorns resulted in her ascension later on.
 

akun50

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I agree that Twilight being dubbed princess the same day she became an Alicorn was more than a bit hasty. Especially since, like Cadance, we didn't actually see her doing anything overtly Princess-y for quite a while, and she didn't even a freaking domain to be Princess OF for quite a while.

Plus, I feel it's a bit silly for all alicorns to automatically become princesses.

I don't doubt that Twillight can do it, but she still doesn't exactly seem interested in the development, and while it was strongly implied that Twilight was always intended to become Celestia's replacement in Faust's original storyline, I simply don't see that happening anymore.

In fact, a few decrees aside, she's done basically fuck all with her position of authority. She's more or less a glorified ambassador, or a royal steward who's in the chain of command as a backup in an emergency.

If anything, I almost want to say that being a princess hinders Twilight more than helps. I mean, it didn't get her anything in the way of respect in Manehatten during that trip with Rarity, and aside from the times she gets to do her royal decrees or she gets ribbing about her status from one of the others, it's almost like everyone forgets she even IS a princess.
 

seitora

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Well, like I said, my idea of Alicorn after MMC and Princess after Twilight's Kingdom would actually explain away an issue created by Cadance existing and not doing anything in the first two episodes of the series. An episode showing Twilight training under Celestia in matters of bureaucracy would've given us a decent peak into what Celly and Luna do in their day-to-day dealings too, without shoehorning Twilight into being a 'fourth wheel'. Then defeating Tirek would basically have given her the street cred that beating Nightmare Moon and Discord didn't.

Additionally, not having an automatic 'Alicorn = Royalty' paradigm would give the showrunners freedom to add more Alicorns throughout the series.

Now of course they can't do that because those seasons are done and gone already, but I actually am considering adapting that above logic for use in a future story. Potentially I may combine it with my January 8th posts from the Ideas topic about how the perception of time passed between the start of the series and MMC means Twilight had a complete meltdown in Lesson Zero and several months to under a year later became a Princess. That kind of neatly dovetails in with this idea so in addition to Twilight getting training, she's also getting anxiety management from Celestia.
 

LORD_ARM

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BIG SPOILER for next season

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We have a new Alicorns and its a baby.  Its also really ugly.  The designed of the baby looks nothing like any of other baby shown so far.  I would like to write more but if I DO its just going end of a rant. The clip is just 22 sce long so I will not past judgment on it in tell I see the whole show.  I would like to say that I have a bad feeling about this.  :no:

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seitora

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Season 6 spoilers

Yeah, that design is terrible.

Well, I was going to write a story at one point prior to Season 6 about how everyone builds a baby shower, etc. thinking the foal is going to be a filly and it ends up being a colt in a satire of the fandom. I'm wrong now, but I'll still write it I guess.

That they have a clip out now already though makes me wonder when the new season will come out
 
I guess considering the different proportions that Alicorns (minus Twilight) have, Alicorn newborns can also look quite different?

The eyes should be way smaller though. Did they forget what the Cake twins look like?
 

seitora

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You know what, watching that video again...something just doesn't jive with me with Twilight's attitude. It's like, Shining tells her that and Twilight basically acts all prissy arrogant and stuff. Like I mean, Celestia and Luna are there too, and she pretty much just seems to kind of strut in. Cadance is there, and then she just kind of backs away the heck away from Twilight when Twilight goes to look at the baby, instead of being a proud mother and showing off her new foal (though Cadadance looks a bit tired from her expression and how a bit of her hair is out of place).
 
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