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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 3:08 am

Well this is worse: https://cf.press.discovery.com/ugc/high ... _Final.pdf

DF is electing to do the midseason hiatus after episode 11, and air the EqG specials to bridge that gap afterwards. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 3:10 am

This season's scheduling has been a huge mess. At least it kinda looks like it's coming into some sort of order, now.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 3:18 am

And regarding EqG, I'd kind of expected the specials to air either before or after a few fresh episodes of the horse show. Maybe Hasbro feels it's enough of its own thing that they don't want attention diluted between FiM and EqG?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 4:47 am

If the production schedule is holding them back, a mid-season break is understandable, although it's going to be a little weird if this season collides with the movie.

But stopping on "Not Asking for Trouble" is... a strange call.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 5:34 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:If the production schedule is holding them back, a mid-season break is understandable, although it's going to be a little weird if this season collides with the movie.

But stopping on "Not Asking for Trouble" is... a strange call.


It's unlikely the movie will directly tie into the movie. Granted it's an assumption, but if the movie doesn't have a self contained story, it's probably not going to hit a wider audience than the established fan base.

There might be some minor thing that doesn't really tie directly into the movies narrative

One theory I've had. The season so far has put a surpring amount of focus on Starlight. I wonder if they will bookend the season with her actually leaving, after suggesting it in the season opener. There is no indication she's in the movie and maybe this season will explain why.
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Postby Rainbow Crash (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 5:44 am

I thought a mid season break during summer was standard now. Wasn't the last time they tried to air through the summer a ratings disaster?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 8:58 am

Rainbow Crash wrote:I thought a mid season break during summer was standard now. Wasn't the last time they tried to air through the summer a ratings disaster?

Their scheduling doesn't seem to be directed by ratings. Season 5 stopped in mid-July and picked up again in September, and the break seems to have done as much to hurt ratings as anything else. Season 6 aired straight through, but it started much lower than season 5 and never outperformed season 5. And, of course, all bets are off for season 7.

The Doctor wrote:One theory I've had. The season so far has put a surpring amount of focus on Starlight. I wonder if they will bookend the season with her actually leaving, after suggesting it in the season opener. There is no indication she's in the movie and maybe this season will explain why.


I would find it a little disappointing if Starlight just vanished at the end of the season. I know she's not well-liked by the fans, but she's at the core of their attempt to pull together a B Team. I've been saying for quite a while that they need to build up more secondary characters who can have lesson-learning episodes, since the mane 6 have already worked out most of their emotional issues. If Starlight leaves, there's no reason for Trixie to stick around, and that leaves... Discord? Thorax? CMC: The College Years?

And, really, Starlight's problem is that the writers haven't pushed her hard enough emotionally. A few episodes of groveling would probably bring most fans around on her.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 10:27 am

Except you don't need Starlight for that when you got a new princess of friendship who's job is to teach it to Equestria.

But they'd rather Twilight be the bumbling fool for their cool, new, and better Twilight Starlight.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 10:53 am

DerFurShur wrote:Except you don't need Starlight for that when you got a new princess of friendship who's job is to teach it to Equestria.

No, you need a protagonist who still has learning to do. The mane 6 have all pretty much sanded down their rough emotional edges. I was grousing about this a few seasons ago because, despite traveling all over Equestria to solve friendship problems, it was still the regular gang dealing with a parade of one-off characters. They were fine in their episodes, but you aren't going to be bringing back Silver Shill or Troubleshoes or Zipporwill -- okay, so some of them have come back. But you can't walk a mile in their horseshoes, ya know? They still exist so one of the main characters can teach them. If the show is going to run for another five seasons, they have to expand the main cast or dramatically change the formula of the show.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 11:01 am

They're gonna keep it going by just introducing a new new new Twilight after they make Starlight a princess in the next season or two after she redeems Chrysalis.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 11:09 am

Uh... sure, if that's how you want to look at it. But I seriously doubt anyone is going to tape wings onto Starlight's butt unless Hasbro suddenly decides that they'd sell millions of toys by doing that to her instead of doing what's perhaps better for the show and expanding the size and importance of the secondary cast.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Sat May 27, 2017 11:13 am

It's Hasbro

Also what else is all this building to other than Starlight getting a promotion she's already better at magic than Twilight, and is better at being a friend since she has both her friemds and friends of her own (a lot of them who hate Twilight), and is getting sent on solo map missions because she doesn't need backup, that's for scrubs like the Mane 6
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 2:13 am

Mr. Big wrote:So they just announced at the Licensing Expo that season 8 has been greenlit, with 26 episodes as usual.

This would bring the total to 195 episodes. Now they'll have to order season 9 so they can reach 200 episodes :twonk:

This was my response every time someone said the movie would be the end of the franchise.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 6:11 am

The cannot stop! They mustn't! I WANT MORE.
Every cartoon I watch is on a hiatus right now.
All of the life-action series I watch are also on a hiatus or have ended.
It's aggravating beyond compare.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 9:40 am

adiwan wrote:The cannot stop! They mustn't! I WANT MORE.
Every cartoon I watch is on a hiatus right now.
All of the life-action series I watch are also on a hiatus or have ended.
It's aggravating beyond compare.
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It's your own fault for not watching Little Witch Academia :twiright:
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sun May 28, 2017 9:59 am

Highbrow Dash wrote:
It's your own fault for not watching Little Witch Academia :twiright:

My problem is that I don't like anime :pinkieshrug:
The culture clash and the animation style is a bit too much for me.
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Postby Kronos (?) » Mon May 29, 2017 1:09 am

This season so far has been pretty good, though it feels like Starlight is just doing what Twilight would had she never become an Alicorn.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon May 29, 2017 4:03 pm

Good to see you around again, Kronos.
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Postby Kronos (?) » Mon May 29, 2017 7:05 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Good to see you around again, Kronos.


Thanks! Glad to see the Round Stable is still around.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Tue May 30, 2017 2:13 am

You know what I just realized? Girls who started watching this show at 10 are now like 17 and after the next season they will be adults and the show will still be going on. And you know, it doesn't feel like the show as been out for that long until I think about it. This show's cutest has destroyed my sense of time.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue May 30, 2017 6:04 am

Hasbro's strategy is to keep it going long enough that those kids will eventually get back into it. It's the perfect plan.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Tue May 30, 2017 6:13 am

I had a similar thought with "SpongeBob". I'm betting that a good number of kids watching the show now has parents who were kids when the show first came out.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue May 30, 2017 6:33 am

Yeah Hasbro's plan also involves bronies eventually having kids and getting them into the show, but that part is more flawed.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Tue May 30, 2017 7:23 pm

Highbrow Dash wrote:
It's your own fault for not watching Little Witch Academia :twiright:

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Postby Daring Do (?) » Wed May 31, 2017 5:15 pm

Mr. Big wrote:I had a similar thought with "SpongeBob". I'm betting that a good number of kids watching the show now has parents who were kids when the show first came out.


I'd hope not, considering Spongebob came out in 1999.
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Wed May 31, 2017 11:59 pm

So, 18 years ago? :pinkieshrug:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:43 am

PhoolCat wrote:So, 18 years ago? :pinkieshrug:

Also, Spongebob is rated TV-Y7.
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:48 am

So a seven year old in 1999 would be 25 now, and could have a seven year old kid themselves
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:11 am

So word got out to the university newspaper that I had put a few ponies in my office: http://omnibus.au.dk/arkiv/vis/artikel/vis-mig-dit-kontor-niels-olof-bouvin/ (sorry, text in Danish, though the pictures should speak for themselves :wink: )
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:49 am

PhoolCat wrote:So a seven year old in 1999 would be 25 now, and could have a seven year old kid themselves

If they had a kid at 18 then yeah.

Which is pretty possible, at least around where I live.
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:20 am

People round here can legally start making babies at 16.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:22 am

It really is hard to believe that FiM has been running as long as it has. I mean, even if I go back only to when I got into it, that's five years and a couple of months that I've been watching this show now.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:38 pm

Niels Olof wrote:So word got out to the university newspaper that I had put a few ponies in my office: http://omnibus.au.dk/arkiv/vis/artikel/vis-mig-dit-kontor-niels-olof-bouvin/ (sorry, text in Danish, though the pictures should speak for themselves :wink: )


I don't know what any of that says, but your office looks awesome :yay:
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Postby adiwan (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:45 pm

Niels Olof wrote:So word got out to the university newspaper that I had put a few ponies in my office: http://omnibus.au.dk/arkiv/vis/artikel/vis-mig-dit-kontor-niels-olof-bouvin/ (sorry, text in Danish, though the pictures should speak for themselves :wink: )

An office full of pony make the non-pony stuff appear more noticible, especially the piece of artwork above the head in the 5th photo.
A guy putting on a godzilla costume next to a woman who is lying with reduced amount of clothes on a bed.
Also spay your catgirl...
Quite peculiar.
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:22 pm

Octavia wrote:
I don't know what any of that says, but your office looks awesome :yay:


Thank you! I'm running low on available wall space, though.

adiwan wrote:An office full of pony make the non-pony stuff appear more noticible, especially the piece of artwork above the head in the 5th photo.
A guy putting on a godzilla costume next to a woman who is lying with reduced amount of clothes on a bed.
Also spay your catgirl...
Quite peculiar.


The picture up in the corner is by the wonderful Phil Foglio of Girl Genius fame – it's not that easy to see at this resolution, but the woman is clad in buildings, as behoves Godzilla cosplay. Spay your Catgirl is from Something Positive by Randal Milholland.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:03 pm

That office really does look nice! :yay:

I also noticed "Diesel Sweeties" posted outside the door.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:13 pm

Niels Olof wrote:So word got out to the university newspaper that I had put a few ponies in my office: http://omnibus.au.dk/arkiv/vis/artikel/vis-mig-dit-kontor-niels-olof-bouvin/ (sorry, text in Danish, though the pictures should speak for themselves :wink: )


I don't speak Danish but I know what this means:

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Postby Octavia (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:40 pm

My office is also decked out in ponies, but I have the distinct advantage of being self-employed and working from home, away from the judging eyes of coworkers. :wat:
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:53 pm

Niels Olof wrote:So word got out to the university newspaper that I had put a few ponies in my office: http://omnibus.au.dk/arkiv/vis/artikel/vis-mig-dit-kontor-niels-olof-bouvin/ (sorry, text in Danish, though the pictures should speak for themselves :wink: )

A fine beard and splendid tache there :vogue:
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:02 pm

Mr. Big wrote:That office really does look nice! :yay:

I also noticed "Diesel Sweeties" posted outside the door.


Indeed, another favourite for all my coffee or cat related joke needs.

Octavia wrote:My office is also decked out in ponies, but I have the distinct advantage of being self-employed and working from home, away from the judging eyes of coworkers. :wat:


Happily, I have never had issues in that regard. I created the rainbow door a couple years ago, when we held Tour de Bureau requiring all participants to theme their office. I chose a rainbow theme (including the floor) and played Pink Fluffy Unicorns at some volume. That traumatised them sufficiently that technicolour ponies hold little offense. :gotcha:

PhoolCat wrote:A fine beard and splendid tache there :vogue:


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