Friendship is Magic

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:45 pm

TheJerkStore wrote:
Maj wrote:I watched the video clip and seriously thought that some random group of fans made a movie and put the MLP into human bodies.

And then I saw the movie on the main page of Netflix. Oh, my.
I envy anyone that missed the "Equestria Girls" drama.

Care to clue in those who missed it?

TheJerkStore · Post by **TheJerkStore** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:43 pm

Longes wrote:
TheJerkStore wrote:
Maj wrote:I watched the video clip and seriously thought that some random group of fans made a movie and put the MLP into human bodies.

And then I saw the movie on the main page of Netflix. Oh, my.
I envy anyone that missed the "Equestria Girls" drama.
Care to clue in those who missed it?

Nothing much to it. Equestria Girls was made, a bunch of bronies threw a fit about how it was the worst thing every and made death threats against the writers for making it. Meanwhile, the ones that wanted to see a movie over-reacted and started spewing shit on the internet too. Basically, "bornies" will start tearing each other to pieces at the drop of the hat (See: Derpygate, Down with Molestia, Twilicorn drama, etc.)

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:00 pm

erik wrote:
Maj wrote:OK. So I watched it because why not. I don't even care if made sense or was good because I feel like a happy pony princess on crack.
My boys like it. I'm ambivalent. When I came home last night they were both eating dinner and watching it at the table. The best was near the end when my 4 year old said "They look fabulous!" after a brief transformation sequence.

But they did look fabulous! That was pretty much my exact thought during that scene!

I pretty much came out of that movie like a sparkly, fuzzy WTF. And I don't even care because I can be a princess, too! Or something...

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:36 pm

I wish I was recording him when he said it, but I had no indication such fun was imminent. He said it as Rarity would-

"They look fab-u-lous! ♫"

My wife and I could not help but be cracked up.

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Sun Nov 10, 2013 4:23 am

Maj wrote:
erik wrote:
Maj wrote:OK. So I watched it because why not. I don't even care if made sense or was good because I feel like a happy pony princess on crack.
My boys like it. I'm ambivalent. When I came home last night they were both eating dinner and watching it at the table. The best was near the end when my 4 year old said "They look fabulous!" after a brief transformation sequence.
But they did look fabulous! That was pretty much my exact thought during that scene!

It wasn't mine, but I was pretty pleased with the sudden return of the magic girl elements that helped suck me into season 1. There are segments of the movie that are fine, and some that are clumsy, but necessary. It is just that the chain which weaves them all together in the background is really terrible. Well, that and the idiot ball scenes with Twilight for the sake of cringe-comedy. Those actually weren't as bad as I was lead to believe, but still made me twitch a bit.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 11:12 pm

Anybody posted this here yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2VhC1QF7ww
JanAnimations at it's finest.
Yes, this is 100% Fan-Madework.
Animation, Music, Voice-Over, everything.

TheJerkStore · Post by **TheJerkStore** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 11:49 pm

Button's mom has inspired a suprisingly large amount of inappropriate fanart. Even by the standards of the fandom.

Another unrelated pony video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ivb-KmVSt0

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:40 am

TheJerkStore wrote: Another unrelated pony video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ivb-KmVSt0

That video sucks and you suck for posting it.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:39 pm

Another Pony related Video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLMvyX5yqXI
No idea if it's been posted here before and i don't care, it's good enough to be posted again!

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Nov 23, 2013 8:00 pm

And Season 4 started today.
Prepare for more Pony incoming over the next weeks.
Starting right now:

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:55 pm

I chose to sleep and then watch the Doctor Who 50th live, rather than watch the MLP season premier asap.

I'm 7 minutes in, and I'm betting there's already CelestiaXBlack Vine tentacle porn on tumblr...

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:10 pm

i haven't seen it yet.
i have to wait untill there is a copy on the tubes that does not give me eye-cancer from watching <.<

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:24 am

found it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faKa8HAZupg

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 8:35 am

Prak_Anima wrote:I chose to sleep and then watch the Doctor Who 50th live, rather than watch the MLP season premier asap.

I'm 7 minutes in, and I'm betting there's already CelestiaXBlack Vine tentacle porn on tumblr...

MaybeCertainly. Mixed with some Celestia/Luna incest. Plus the fact that I know that there is tentacle-porn heavy all-powerful magic-immune rape-plant fanfic that pre-dates this season by several months.

I felt an echo of Sailor Moon S (or maybe R), personally.

'We've lost our ability to power up, but if we look deep inside, we can pull a new transformation out of our... plots.

Not sure how the season is going to go, though. The crazy intro double episodes have had nothing to do with the rest of the seasons so far.

One niggle, however: the timeline doesn't make much sense. Big D's seeds _weren't_ what the tree was holding back, because that conversation happened before (chronologically, not the order shown) he so casually scattered them about. So there must be something else under the Everfree...

Still, a fairly decent balance between Responsibilities! and Friends, at least from a thematic point of view. But at some point, everyone needs to learn that it does not do to doubt Twilight Sparkle, and no one ever should, not even herself.

Side note: Just saw a web page ad for a dating service called 'Brony Mate.' I was far too scared to click the link.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 8:43 am

The tree was holding back the Everfree Forest so that ponies could have their own place, it just happened to also hold back Discord's seeds.

The thing that got me was that they needn't leave the elements behind. The tree obviously had enough power left for at least 1000 years. So basicay they just need to periodically bring the elements back every so often.

TheJerkStore · Post by **TheJerkStore** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:05 pm

I thought the girls were needlessly bitchy to Discord through the entire episode. If they addressed me like that, I wouldn't help the retarded pastel horses either.

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:18 pm

Apparently no one believes he's actually reformed- that was a little off tone, but not that much. And given his reactions, it seems fairly justified.
Hopefully that turns into a plot point later

@Prak- that doesn't make sense. The Everfree isn't some weird place outside Equestria; Celestia and Luna ruled from there at one point (before NMM- in fact up to NMM, since that is where the first flashback clearly takes place): the 'Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters' is inside the Forest.

They also just revived the tree from the point of death or failure. Yanking the 'batteries' right back out probably won't work.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:20 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:I chose to sleep and then watch the Doctor Who 50th live, rather than watch the MLP season premier asap.

I'm 7 minutes in, and I'm betting there's already CelestiaXBlack Vine tentacle porn on tumblr...

and here, we go:

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:39 pm

TheJerkStore wrote:I thought the girls were needlessly bitchy to Discord through the entire episode. If they addressed me like that, I wouldn't help the retarded pastel horses either.

Voss wrote:Apparently no one believes he's actually reformed- that was a little off tone, but not that much. And given his reactions, it seems fairly justified.
Hopefully that turns into a plot point later

Yeah, they still treat him like a villain, which is fucking dumb. Somewhat understandable, given the complete mind rape he perpetrated when he was the big bad, but still dumb.

@Prak- that doesn't make sense. The Everfree isn't some weird place outside Equestria; Celestia and Luna ruled from there at one point (before NMM- in fact up to NMM, since that is where the first flashback clearly takes place): the 'Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters' is inside the Forest.

They also just revived the tree from the point of death or failure. Yanking the 'batteries' right back out probably won't work.

There's been some implication that EFF is completely out of control and basically so full of monsters that the idea it has normal animals too is basically laughable. I could see it being more of a case that it's easy to defend one castle in the middle of it, but it has to be held back by the tree in order to allow a civilization to exist.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:52 pm

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 5:23 pm

Prak_Anima wrote: There's been some implication that EFF is completely out of control and basically so full of monsters that the idea it has normal animals too is basically laughable. I could see it being more of a case that it's easy to defend one castle in the middle of it, but it has to be held back by the tree in order to allow a civilization to exist.

I think the 'implications' are mostly fanwank. Recall that the 'out of control' aspect of the everfree we're presented with by the ponies in the series premier is basically animals and weather behaving... normally. No pegasi weather control or earth ponies farming or babying the animals, just.. nature.

In 'magic duel,' 'too many pinkie pies' and even this premerie, we see a lot of fluttershy's animal friends in or coming out of the forest, so that doesnt wash either. The 'full of monsters' seems to be 1 manticore, 1 ursa family, a rather friendly serpent, a cockatrice, a crocodile thing and some number of timber wolves. And a zebra, depending on how you want to count her.

TheJerkStore · Post by **TheJerkStore** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 5:55 pm

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 7:55 pm

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Dec 07, 2013 7:49 pm

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:34 pm

Finally watching Episode 4x3, apparently "Magic" is synonymous with "Courage." Certainly none of the other elements have much.