My Little Pony; Fighting is Magic
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Post by Geneva on Jun 23, 2011 18:45:27 GMT
Meh... To each their own. I can see how the humour might not appeal to absolutely everyone. At least you took the time to watch it, though. A lot of people are afraid to even do that. You know, in case they do something scary like enjoy it.
Also, am I the only person who actually likes the Nightmare Moon arc?
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Post by The Custodian on Jun 23, 2011 21:06:34 GMT
I, kinda liked it. It wasn't great but it wasnt horrible... I kinda wish we could see Luna a couple more times
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Post by Geneva on Jun 23, 2011 21:22:29 GMT
Yeah. She didn't really get as much screen time as she should have.
The only real gripe I had with the Mare in the Moon episodes was Rainbow Dash's "test" of loyalty. Turning down a place on an up-and-coming flyer's team isn't really a great display of loyalty considering the fate of the world was at stake. That and who wouldn't be suspicious of a trio of shady ponies calling themselves the Shadowbolts who just happen to appear in the middle of the Everfree forest right outside the place where the Elements of Harmony and Nightmare Moon herself were waiting. A bit of a no brainer really.
According to the MLP team, Luna's due a lot more screentime in season 2 due to popular demand from the fans. The same goes for Trixie. I'm curious as to what both their personalities will be like, though.
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Post by wisdomseyes1 on Jun 23, 2011 22:19:17 GMT
Trixie's personality is going to be obvious. I wonder if luna, however, will still be a philly like when she was defeated. Wow... that actually brings me back to a few months ago when I spited all things pony. My friend wanted to make a video with them and wanted me to be "the fabulous pony" (which i now know as Rarity) It brings me back because The only way he could get a different one of his pony hating friends to join in was to tell him he could be the mare in the moon, the only slightly evil character in the show. Now... some people are saying its too obvious what they do. After being alive for 18 years... I can honestly say that every TV show in existence to this point I have seen is like that. Every once and a wile I might be shocked... but really, they intentionally set up shows to be obvious as to whats going to happen. It's called foreshadowing. And int he case of Twilight at the end of episode 1... those episodes don't exist to me... Also, am I the only person who actually likes the Nightmare Moon arc? Mamy of my friends liked them, don't get me wrong... It's just... Way to girly for a persons first time, and needs a little more preexisting knowledge to get some of the humor. |
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Post by Overread on Jun 23, 2011 23:58:26 GMT
Now... some people are saying its too obvious what they do. After being alive for 18 years... I can honestly say that every TV show in existence to this point I have seen is like that. Every once and a wile I might be shocked... but really, they intentionally set up shows to be obvious as to whats going to happen. It's called foreshadowing. Kids of today - seriously if the pony show is the best for story you have then you've missed out big time. Seriously go hunt down some VHS (for some reason its not made it to DVD which is a massive shame!) or book copies of Animals of Farthing Wood - now there was kids TV that they wouldn't dare try and show in this PC world of today (for guidance think of it like Watership Down, but without the overly dark animation style and with a lot less blood - but still as brutal in how - fickle - character lives are). |
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Post by Geneva on Jun 24, 2011 0:05:02 GMT
Has everyone forgotten all those uber-creepy Pinkie Pie moments? She practically threatens to kill Twilight at one point. Not to mention the tea party she held for her "special friends"....
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Post by The Custodian on Jun 24, 2011 0:29:51 GMT
Pinkie Pie is just... I dont know. *looks around shiftily* Shes everywhere and nowhere... If it wasnt for her ability to randomly appear anywhere shed be my favorite of the main group.  Just sooo creepy. |
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Post by wisdomseyes1 on Jun 24, 2011 0:41:57 GMT
Now... some people are saying its too obvious what they do. After being alive for 18 years... I can honestly say that every TV show in existence to this point I have seen is like that. Every once and a wile I might be shocked... but really, they intentionally set up shows to be obvious as to whats going to happen. It's called foreshadowing. Kids of today - seriously if the pony show is the best for story you have then you've missed out big time. Seriously go hunt down some VHS (for some reason its not made it to DVD which is a massive shame!) or book copies of Animals of Farthing Wood - now there was kids TV that they wouldn't dare try and show in this PC world of today (for guidance think of it like Watership Down, but without the overly dark animation style and with a lot less blood - but still as brutal in how - fickle - character lives are). I did not in any way shape or form say anything of the plot.. as the show actually has no plot. I'm not sure where you have seen anything to do with the storyline in the quoted section of my post. How many shows of today do you see a super powerful bad guy and a weak good guy and the weak good guy overcomes the bad guy at the end of the show? (Let's just put Marvel movies in the parenthesis and be done with the list though there are many more movies that fit this category) How many criminal investigation shows have different plots from each other... at all? Seriously, the only thing between them that changes is the location and cast along with slight but barely noticeable personality changes. how many horror films are about an insane person running around with a knife? Or they are undead? Or they are aliens? The plots themselves don't change much... the effects and casts do. And YOU KNOW how the story is going to end, you just watch to see how it gets to that obvious point. My comment was on how obvious something is going to turn out. Living for 18 years as I have said, I can grantee that next to all movies have obvious endings alongside obvious plot-lines. Avatar was a fan favorite because of its special effects... but a common complaint was that it was just a Pocahontas story and nothing more. You KNEW from the moment jake met that blue girl that he was going to hook up with her. YOU KNEW that the tree was going down regardless of what anyone did. YOU KNEW the moment that the blue girl told jake about the rider of the giant banshee, that He would later in the show ride it. YOU KNEW that he would fall in love with the forest and become one of the people. Obvious all of it. That's all my comment was about. Plot has nothing to do with my statement, because up to this day, their is no plot in my little pony that I have been able to find. Why does a pony show differ from a zombie show or a cat show or a gun show? What makes a Gunsmoke (longest running TV series if I remember correctly) any better than my little pony? because my little pony is a cartoon? because it is about ponies? I don't understand how the main characters make the show rather than the substance of the show. I have a feeling that if the show was all males and social norms said that ponies were a boy thing, we would have no problems for either gender... It's no wonder I see so few male equestrians (the horse riders not the characters in the show F2) |
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Post by infornography on Jun 24, 2011 1:53:41 GMT
Purely because of the ridiculous meme status of My Little Ponies I watched a few episodes of the new series.
It's surprisingly good for what it is and has humor that can be enjoyed by adults as well as young girls, but ultimately it is a children's TV show. Not something I'm going to change my lifestyle over or anything. I can only guess that the fact that it wasn't utter drivel blindsided some people so they became obsessed which lead to it's current level of meme. *shrug*
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Post by Overread on Jun 24, 2011 2:15:24 GMT
Kids of today - seriously if the pony show is the best for story you have then you've missed out big time. Seriously go hunt down some VHS (for some reason its not made it to DVD which is a massive shame!) or book copies of Animals of Farthing Wood - now there was kids TV that they wouldn't dare try and show in this PC world of today (for guidance think of it like Watership Down, but without the overly dark animation style and with a lot less blood - but still as brutal in how - fickle - character lives are). I did not in any way shape or form say anything of the plot.. as the show actually has no plot. I'm not sure where you have seen anything to do with the storyline in the quoted section of my post. Yes you did - you stated that the plot (at least on an episode by episode basis) was highly predictable based on the early outside of each episode. It's relation to the mass market of major TV in general is a, sadly, accurate perception of a lot of mainstream TV - which probably explains why a lot of it is watchable, but not enough to make me bother getting a TV or licence. Why does a pony show differ from a zombie show or a cat show or a gun show? What makes a Gunsmoke (longest running TV series if I remember correctly) any better than my little pony? because my little pony is a cartoon? because it is about ponies? I don't understand how the main characters make the show rather than the substance of the show. My point zoomed right over your head and way into the next cloud - or possibly mountain (if we keep to the pony theme ;p). Never seen or heard of Gunsmoke nor made any comment as to the subject characters being ponies, the undead, foxes, rabbits or super robots. The subject matter in itself (ponies) wasn't even the basis for my post - I was focused only on the subject matter of the plot content and advancement within the series itself. I have a feeling that if the show was all males and social norms said that ponies were a boy thing, we would have no problems for either gender... It's no wonder I see so few male equestrians (the horse riders not the characters in the show F2) Problems - gender? Eh the horses are a girls thing is so monumentally new that its tiny in the greater scheme of things. Heck head down to the races are all the jockies are male (well at least they are not female - debate still rages on if they are human or elf - I've seen the evidence - The Simpsons does not lie!) |
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Post by Overread on Jun 24, 2011 2:17:43 GMT
Purely because of the ridiculous meme status of My Little Ponies I watched a few episodes of the new series. It's surprisingly good for what it is and has humor that can be enjoyed by adults as well as young girls, but ultimately it is a children's TV show. Not something I'm going to change my lifestyle over or anything. I can only guess that the fact that it wasn't utter drivel blindsided some people so they became obsessed which lead to it's current level of meme. *shrug* I suspect it stands up well because the adult humour is not of the more base variety (at least in presentation). In short its trying to slip into the shoes in the market mostly left wide open by the ending of the Muppets as a new mainstream form of entertainment. It also works because the majority of childrens TV currently has far too much PC content (it kinda works in MLP because of the subject matter and overall presentation - any PC does not feel PC) mixed with terrible poor writing. |
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Post by Dangeresque on Jun 24, 2011 3:57:56 GMT
Only American? It's huge in... Australia too. Don't know where you got this from... If people want to watch a show about ponies... that's fine. If they want to start (please do not swear) threads about it on every (please do not swear) site on the whole (please do not swear) internet every (please do not swear) day, well. We begin to have a problem. Didn't we already argue this one out? Didn't this topic already get locked twice? |
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Post by wisdomseyes1 on Jun 24, 2011 4:16:09 GMT
Didn't we already argue this one out? Didn't this topic already get locked twice? The topics you are referring to are very old, so usually it doesn't matter. You are also getting the reasoning for why the threads got locked wrong. No where in this thread do i see decapitation and violence... Which was my point... there really is no plot in the show. There is character development, but rarely do the episodes correspond with one another in that way. The only re-occuring theme is that they are going to go to the grand galloping galla... which appears in 2 episodes... You said that kids of today should be sad if the best story is of ponies. 1) you applied that simply because its of ponies it is worse than other things and 2) implies I was actually referring to the story, which i did not. I reffed to episodes and parts of them that were funny. Gman said that his only gripe about the mare in the moon episode was rainbows test, and several people before him had similar comments. My comment was directed to say that next to all TV shows and movies are predictable in that sense. Some more than others, but they are all predictable all the same. When not a bot said he did not think the episodes were funny, i pointed out by memory all the parts that I thought were. These points are not a plot of any kind, and the show has no (or little at best) plot to it. It is an episode by episode based show, with different themes set up for it. It portays humor that is not static like other shows. If you dare to watch some trash like chowder or adventure time... which I have seen 1 or 2 episodes of each, you will see that the humor does not change with them... and that the humor comes from the characters being stupid. Not the kind of show I would support my kids watching... nor would i wish to spend my time watching. |
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Post by Geneva on Jun 24, 2011 14:00:48 GMT
Only American? It's huge in... Australia too. Don't know where you got this from... Google Insights. Check if you don't believe me. This is General. Isn't the entire purpose of the board meant to be discussing recent and popular topics? And if you're complaining about it being too widespread, could you not say the same thing about plenty of other topics? When's the last time you went onto a forum and couldn't find a topic on anime? To be honest, Pony threads seem to be the only thing capable of kicking some life into General at the moment. I'm just happy to see this level of activity at all. The first time it was locked because of indecent images. The second time, as I understand, to prevent a repeat of the first. Even so, this wasn't an attempt on my part to just start another MLP thread for the sake of it. This thread is about the game shown in the OP and, while it has spiralled somewhat overnight, that's what it's intended for. And on that note, has anyone heard anything else about the game? |
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Post by wisdomseyes1 on Jun 24, 2011 15:32:41 GMT
@gman: I think Danger is just trolling again...
@op: The game from its trailer looks interesting... but not worth-wile to get. Maybe its just because they are only showing 1 character and in 1 map related to that character... but still...
I can imagine, however, that rainbow dash will be an epic fighter and make sonic rainbooms EVERYWHERE! F2
PinkyPie you know will be amazing in game.... but i can't possibly predict what she will be able to do short of streamers and balloons to make her fly. F5
This game will probably be AMAZING if they get other characters in it. F3
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