S04E19: Trade Ya!

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Re: S04E19: Trade Ya

Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 2:47 pm

Yeah, I'm definitely not expecting that to be the lesson here. We already have Flim and Flam for all our scummy merchant needs.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 2:48 pm

Sorry...I must have misread the quotation marks there.

And yeah, I think that kind of lesson would really be stupid and kind of a letdown after the one's we've had so far.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 3:50 pm

Obviously that's not the moral.... *Note to self don't try to tell jokes online*
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:44 pm

Free markets are evil! :flail:

:bluh: There they go again with the indoctrinatin'...
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Postby Mordja (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:47 pm

Flea markets own. I've made a quick buck selling expired, prescription medicine there. :wat:
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:26 pm

:3: Hey Pinkie Pie! I'll trade you this lovely Scootaloo for that crummy old cupcake.
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“Trade Ya”: Spike and the Mane 6 are headed to the Rainbow Falls
Traders Exchange to find items they treasure. But when things don’t go exactly
as planned, the girls learn that nothing is more valuable than their friendship.


Waaaiiiiiit a second....


I always thought "Mane 6" was a kind of fan name for them instead of anything official. I wish there was a better name for them as a collective.
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:41 pm

And sometimes they get their revenge.

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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:45 pm

Perpetual Lurker wrote:And sometimes they get their revenge.

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:-I


Old comics are much more intersting. If only for the insane what the fuckery they had. :amazing:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 6:00 pm

Huh, I thought that the name Mane Six has always been official.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 6:05 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Huh, I thought that the name Mane Six has always been official.

This fandom came up with it, as far as I can tell. I think Hasbro adopted it somewhere around the summer between seasons two and three.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:34 pm

That flea is actually a rather cool looking monster. I love the crazy ideas older comics had. (And any monster who loves Twinkies can't be all bad.) :awesomedash:

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:rainbert: We know it's a flea.

:-/ I mean "flee" flee.

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Postby The Outlander (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:46 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:This fandom came up with it, as far as I can tell. I think Hasbro adopted it somewhere around the summer between seasons two and three.


I thought that they've always been called the Mane 6 by the marketing department, and that it's an evolution of G3, which called its primary cast the Core 7.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:53 pm

But "Mane 6" sounds like something the fandom started out with, with the pun. :pinkieshrug: So my guess is the fandom coined the term, and it was adopted shortly later.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:00 pm

Yeah Fandom Made it I Think, and it like Alicorn, Octavia, Lyra, etc was incooperated into the official terminology later on.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:50 pm

Let's compromise by doing what I do: Call them the Main Six. :wingsright:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:39 pm

Aramek wrote:Let's compromise by doing what I do: Call them the Main Six. :wingsright:

Puns usually make me ill as well, but even I can stomach that one.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:52 pm

No, no, I love puns, and I love it when the show does it. I just hate seeing people type it. The "anyhoof" and "sonmeponies" sort of thing.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:38 pm

^ And we discourage those types of puns here. But I don't get how Mane 6 is on the same level as those two. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:50 am

The Facebook clip is out! Rarity and Applejack actually find common ground for once.
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Postby londonarbuckle (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:53 am

This looks like it's going to be the ultimate slice-of-life-y episode. It's gonna own.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:56 am

It's going to be like Castle Mane-ia minus the castle and the mania.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:03 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:The Facebook clip is out! Rarity and Applejack actually find common ground for once.


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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:07 am

I think I know where this episode is going.

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:awesomedash: I am SO OK with this.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:14 am

The entire setting looks like it could have as easily been in Ponyville as Rainbow Falls. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:15 am

Wayoshi wrote:The entire setting looks like it could have as easily been in Ponyville as Rainbow Falls. :pinkieshrug:


I wonder if Rainbow Falls was supposed to be a toy tie in, but never materialized.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:18 am

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I wonder if Rainbow Falls was supposed to be a toy tie in, but never materialized.

Or a potential tie-in that DHX designed and Hasbro completely failed to capitalize on, much like a certain library.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:18 am

Wayoshi wrote:The entire setting looks like it could have as easily been in Ponyville as Rainbow Falls. :pinkieshrug:


But they live in Pinyville, they already know what's at their own towns Flea-Market. This way they can have more fun by finding new things they might not be able to find at home.


But yea, guessing moral will be something along the lines of Material goods should never be more important to you then people/friends or something like that.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:20 am

Also, yeah, that's just 40 seconds of exposition that didn't really clear anything up. I kinda hope we just still don't know what the fuck is going to happen even after tomorrow's EW clip. :amazing:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:21 am

Wayoshi wrote:The entire setting looks like it could have as easily been in Ponyville as Rainbow Falls. :pinkieshrug:

Now that I think about it, I remember that one of the synopses implied that this trip was originally for Spike, with the six of them merely accompanying him. He knows Ponyville well and seems to have a decent amount of free time, so if there's something he wanted to buy that he couldn't get there or in Canterlot, I suppose that'd explain the trip.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:30 am

I think I can guess what's going to happen, but it should be fun. :-I
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Postby Dal (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:41 am

Angel Beat wrote:Maybe they'll trade off their Rainbow Key items, not realising their true value. :v:


This would be a neat plot line. If you have Spike realizing what those items meant to them and then have a scene near the end where he used his wheeling and dealing skills from Just For Side Kicks to get them all back, you would have a really touching episode.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:51 am

The Doctor wrote:I think I know where this episode is going.
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That's fine, I just hope it's not gonna take the first 20 minutes to get there. I don't want too much time wasted on setup, just get right to the crazy.

I'm getting "Ticket Master" vibes from the whole deal, all the friends pushed into conflict for the same item(s).
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Postby MochaBean (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:51 am

And there goes Spike off to the Nerd Stall. :-I
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:52 am

Dal wrote:
This would be a neat plot line. If you have Spike realizing what those items meant to them and then have a scene near the end where he used his wheeling and dealing skills from Just For Side Kicks to get them all back, you would have a really touching episode.


While the ponies are recreating "Three Men and a Comic Book" from The Simpsons, Spike is recreating Deep Space Nine's "In the Cards"

:awesomedash: I can not approve of this enough!
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:58 am

MochaBean wrote:And there goes Spike off to the Nerd Stall. :-I

I didn't even notice it at first, but you're right.
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And look at the Daring Do stall next to it. And a crystal pony even came all the way out there!
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:39 am

I can tell where this episode is going. :-/

I have to say, can we stop with the Rarity and Applejack relationship in episode/comics? I feel like one of the issues in the show is that they never characterize all of the Mane 6 relationships. We've really had a lot of Rarity/Applejack moments, why not Rarity and Rainbow Dash? Or Twilight? Why not Applejack with Pinkie Pie? I feel there's so much un-tapped areas on the show, where we haven't seen friend-to-friend basis's between certain characters, and I wish they would expand on that.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:53 am

Well it's an easy ship er I mean friendship to fall back on, you got the fact they have sisters that are best friends & the opposites attract cards.

But yes I do agree we really need an Dash/Rarity ep, or maybe a Twy/Flutes ep. And more AJ/ Pinkie now that they're 4th cousins.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:58 am

At least there's potential uniqueness with the other four no matter which way you slice them. While things with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash have been similarly done to death, Twilight Sparkle hasn't really done anything with Fluttershy or Pinkie Pie in forever (not since A Bird in the Hoof and It's About Time, respectively). Same goes for Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash; Griffon the Brush-Off was an eternity ago.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:02 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:At least there's potential uniqueness with the other four no matter which way you slice them. While things with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash have been similarly done to death, Twilight Sparkle hasn't really done anything with Fluttershy or Pinkie Pie in forever (not since A Bird in the Hoof and It's About Time, respectively). Same goes for Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash; Griffon the Brush-Off was an eternity ago.


:rainbert: :fluttersmith: Adorable interactions between Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy can never be done to death.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:03 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:
I have to say, can we stop with the Rarity and Applejack relationship in episode/comics? I feel like one of the issues in the show is that they never characterize all of the Mane 6 relationships. We've really had a lot of Rarity/Applejack moments, why not Rarity and Rainbow Dash? Or Twilight? Why not Applejack with Pinkie Pie? I feel there's so much un-tapped areas on the show, where we haven't seen friend-to-friend basis's between certain characters, and I wish they would expand on that.


A-freakin'-Men to that! :golfclop:

I'm honestly too tired of the AJ and Rarity dynamic. Okay we get it, Rarity is too lady-like and prissy while AJ is too [insert antonyms], can we move on? Granted they did try earlier this season with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie but neither really formed a fun or interesting dynamic (with Fluts and AJ not having much interaction in Bats! and the lack of any Silly-No Nonsense dynamic in Pinkie Apple Pie). I would say Rainbow Dash needs to interact more with AJ but I feel that the Twilight-Applejack relationship is SORELY lacking.

Without going into my list of notes a former-maybe-still-obsessed fan would take during a marathon jotting down every.bit.of.AJ.ness, I really think that relationship has been really neglected. In fact, we only see it during the two parters. I honestly think Twilight's best friend is Applejack... and yet we see very little of it outside of the two parters, let alone shared by Applejack since we almost always see the relationship with Rarity which I always thought was played for laughs rather than a genuine best-friends relationship. But after so many episodes and comics (you know what I'm talking about, comic readers...) with Rarity and no Twilight, it's become quite jarring, especially when you think back to the first episode and the two parters.

Granted... the one downside of going back to Twilight and Applejack is that well-... I found Twilight quite dull this season so far (haven't seen 1, 2, 3 Testing) so I don't know what dynamic could be formed out of it. That said however, I'm sure a writer can probably write something about the two (like I dunno, maybe have it relate to Twilight's alicorn-ness).

But yeah, tired of seeing Rarity and AJ together for the nth time, would like to see AJ or Rarity with other characters, and no, the Aj-Twi thing is so not because of how I find the relationship between the intellectual James Joyce and his 'less smart' lover awfully cute
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