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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 12:56 pm

https://www.thewrap.com/top-ten-little-pony-episodes-ranked-photos/

So The Wrap did a top ten pony episodes list in celebration of the upcoming movie and it's...... something else

I'll give them credit for picking some interesting choices.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:14 pm

The descriptions of the episodes are well written, although I question the Changelings being referred to as straight out "insects". Rather, they're like a hybrid of pony and insect characteristics. Image
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:58 pm

It's actually not the worst selection of "these should give you a pretty good sense of the show", though I would probably reverse the order for chronological reasons :-P
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 4:24 pm

Terrible #1 choice on that list.
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Postby drunkill (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 4:43 pm

Headless Horse wrote:It's actually not the worst selection of "these should give you a pretty good sense of the show", though I would probably reverse the order for chronological reasons :-P


Well, the list is counting down, but yeah
The Doctor wrote:Terrible #1 choice on that list.

Yeah, not the best two-parter to show for new viewers. Then again, I doubt anybody new to the show would follow this list.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Oct 07, 2017 5:48 pm

Heads up - some dick Hasbro employee leaked confidential documents of S7, including the rest of the episodes set to air, episode scripts, and even the movie script. Included in this massive leak is the show bible, which I think is interesting to discuss and can be done so here or a new thread if desired. Of course, I won't leak anything for yourself. :-P
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Oct 07, 2017 5:57 pm

Yeah, the show bible is kind of irrelevant at this point given how much further along in the show we are, but it's really a fascinating peak into the origins.
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Postby drunkill (?) » Sat Oct 07, 2017 6:05 pm

I made a dedicated thread for showbible discussion here: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=16242

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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Sat Oct 07, 2017 8:19 pm

Dang, having the rest of the season available for viewing is quite the temptation. :gonkity:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sun Oct 08, 2017 1:49 am

One of the interesting things browsing the S7 scripts is that they were all locked in in early-mid 2016. I would have thought at least a few months later, but it seems Hasbro is sitting on scripts at least a season ahead. That said, each script also has a 'broadcast script' which has some lines cut here and there and is the definitive final version to fit within 22 minutes, most of those were finalized in 2017 a couple to a few months before airing.

Also each script has a friendship lesson blurb at the beginning, which is interesting to me given at times it feels like they've gone away from that formula explicitly. And for the record, Perfect Pear's:

Friendship Lesson: Just because someone is gone doesn’t mean
they don’t live on in our memories.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:18 am

This is a curious thing to show up in an official book... https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/10/ ... aunts.html

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:59 pm

Huh. Who, exactly, is Penumbra Quill? That sounds entirely too much like a pony name to be a real person.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:04 pm

EqD interviewed Penumbra Quill a while ago
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Postby adiwan (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:22 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Huh. Who, exactly, is Penumbra Quill? That sounds entirely too much like a pony name to be a real person.

Mike Vogel and Nicole Duboc invented this pony pseudonym/persona.
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:58 pm

Scootaloo’s parents being neglectful and traveling all the time is a good way to springboard off of her comment in Parental Glideance about not having the kind of encouraging parents Rainbow Dash does. Having her being primarily taken care of by her (strongly implied) lesbian aunts is a nice and interesting solution to the problem that keeps Scootaloo’s parents out of the picture without giving her a dismal home life. Good on the book for going there.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:08 pm

While we know ponies can have different kinds of ponies as kids. There's an implication here that Scootaloo's dad might be an Earth Pony.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 7:55 pm

Since Dubuc is now the EP of pony and Vogel is back in S8, the question is will this actually show up in-show or not.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 8:43 pm

S7 has been better than past seasons at coordinating content between the show and print media, so I expect S8 will continue in that regard. Scootaloo's family is the last such mystery FiM has (save for the circumstances of Spike's birth) so I doubt Hasbro would let it get decided pretty much at random.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:06 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:S7 has been better than past seasons at coordinating content between the show and print media, so I expect S8 will continue in that regard. Scootaloo's family is the last such mystery FiM has (save for the circumstances of Spike's birth) so I doubt Hasbro would let it get decided pretty much at random.

I have one mystery that was not addressed before: who is Granny Smith's husband? Everybody was excited for Pear Butter but that point was ignored by almost everyone. :granny:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 11:13 pm

The drinks look really good

I don't know about sweet potato ice cream :ponder:
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Postby Kronos (?) » Wed Oct 11, 2017 11:44 pm

Aramek wrote:https://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/10/11/new-my-little-pony-cafe-opens-in-tokyo-with-themed-foods-exclusive-merchandise/


They didn't call it Sugarcube Corner.

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:16 am

I didn't think MLP was still that popular in Japan. Did they ever bother to dub the show beyond season 3 or 4 or whenever it was that they stopped?
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:22 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:I didn't think MLP was still that popular in Japan. Did they ever bother to dub the show beyond season 3 or 4 or whenever it was that they stopped?

The show itself, no, but they continue to release the Equestria Girls stuff in Japan. "Legend of Everfree" most recently came out in Japan last February.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:22 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:I didn't think MLP was still that popular in Japan. Did they ever bother to dub the show beyond season 3 or 4 or whenever it was that they stopped?

Bushiroad stopped at the end of season 2, but the merchandising rights apparently were turned over to Sega, and some of the new Netflix episodes (mostly Equestria Girls) have a Japanese dub. So... it's sort of continuing... just not the actual show. :pinkieshrug:

edit: Here's the bit from Mirror Magic with Sunset and Starlight. The comments are... surprised at Starlight's dub voice.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:40 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:Bushiroad stopped at the end of season 2, but the merchandising rights apparently were turned over to Sega, and some of the new Netflix episodes (mostly Equestria Girls) have a Japanese dub. So... it's sort of continuing... just not the actual show. :pinkieshrug:

edit: Here's the bit from Mirror Magic with Sunset and Starlight. The comments are... surprised at Starlight's dub voice.



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:bwuh: How on earth did I go this long without realizing Ryoko from Kill la Kill and Holo from Spice and Wolf were the same VA...
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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:03 am

Those foods look butt. Now the Kirby cafe would be worth it.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:22 pm

Wayoshi wrote:This is a curious thing to show up in an official book... https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/10/ ... aunts.html

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Mike Vogel confirms it.

https://twitter.com/mktoon/status/918280280376561664
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Postby Octavia (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:36 pm



Now confirm it in the actual show please.
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:49 pm

Even if the show doesn't go there the fact that any pony media is flat out going there is awesome.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:03 pm

That's nice but I kind of imagined Scootaloo being raised single-hoofedly by her father, and her parents are divorced. (apart from being an orphan living in a box under Rainbow Dash's cloud)
Maybe another character gets this piece of backstory.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:12 pm

I briefly mentioned this in the Soapbox this morning, but part of me still thinks that Hasbro is too afraid of losing money from right-wing families (who might otherwise buy their toys) to actually put this in the show or otherwise run with it. But like Dex said, it's a start.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:23 pm

Octavia wrote:
Now confirm it in the actual show please.


Scootaloo is the only major supporting character other than Celestia and Luna, who's family we've never seen in the show, and the last 2 seasons made a LOT of headway in that area. I'd honestly be shocked if a Scootaloo family episode isn't in S8. Whether or not they'll let the aunts show any affection is another matter.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 9:05 pm

The Doctor wrote:
Scootaloo is the only major supporting character other than Celestia and Luna, who's family we've never seen in the show, and the last 2 seasons made a LOT of headway in that area. I'd honestly be shocked if a Scootaloo family episode isn't in S8. Whether or not they'll let the aunts show any affection is another matter.

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 9:08 pm




:wingsright: we had an entire episode with his family just last weekend.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 9:27 pm

I'd love to have an episode where we saw how Spike grew up. As close as he and Twilight Sparkle are, I feel like he might've been raised by Twilight's parents, especially what with Celestia still busy being the sole leader of Equestria.

He's extremely well-known up north, and folks in Canterlot and Ponyville seem to know him well too, but I imagine that first impressions of him were rather interesting. After all, while dragons now are starting to become familiar to Equestrians (certainly thanks to Twilight and Spike installing a pony-friendly leader once a power vacuum presented itself :smirk:), back then I think they were mostly just seen as migratory monsters. With how adventurous Twilight Velvet proved to be in last week's episode, maybe she thought it a lark to adopt a baby dragon!
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:13 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:With how adventurous Twilight Velvet proved to be in last week's episode, maybe she thought it a lark to adopt a baby dragon!


"She might have been your mother, Spike. But she wasn't your Mommy."
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:14 pm

I was so directed by the movie I couldn't imagine anything else pony related happening for the next week. I snap back to reality and discovered I missed anniversaries, bible drops, cafes and apparently ponies getting a lot gayer since I left.

And I only stopped paying attention for less then a week!
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Postby Kronos (?) » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:59 pm

Soft Snow wrote:I was so directed by the movie I couldn't imagine anything else pony related happening for the next week. I snap back to reality and discovered I missed anniversaries, bible drops, cafes and apparently ponies getting a lot gayer since I left.

And I only stopped paying attention for less then a week!
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