S04E15: Twilight Time

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Re: S04E15: Twilight Time

Postby Angel Beat (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:47 am

This... could be interesting.

It has favourite purple book horse, at least. :twonk:
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:36 am

The Doctor wrote:Teaser image from the HUB.

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Looks like a Brony convention to me. :smirk:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:37 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:You know, I always thought Apple Bloom was the smartest of the CMC. She obviously has a good mind for things like engineering and potion-making and she's also got that same air of leadership about her that a certain purple nerd has as well.

I think they trade off the leadership hat depending on what sort of mess they're getting into, but sometimes Scootaloo seems like the leader type. In "Flight to the Finish," she's the one coming up with plans and encouraging the others.

Applebloom has had the most screen time, but she's often prone to depression over her cutie mark. "Bridle Gossip" AB was definitely sharp, but she's kind of different when she's in CMC mode.

Of course, a certain other Crusader is clearly the best at evil plots. :smirk:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:03 am

I bet that zombie pony thing comes from a spell gone horribly wrong...maybe it's a return of the Want It Need It spell.
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Postby Frosthawk (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:22 am

I will have to hand it to this episode for one thing already, I would not have gotten "zombies" at all from the synopsis.
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Postby Corpy (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:24 am

Fortunately, the zombies only eat cutie marks. :ohboy: :anticipation: :scootawoo:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:34 am

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I could fit if I didn't have these damn arms!
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:06 pm

Look at the fat one! :awesomedash:

LOOK AT THE FAT ONE! :awesomedash:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:25 pm

That fat pony really does resemble Phillip J. Fry. I wonder if it's an intentional cameo...
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:25 pm

Frosthawk wrote:I will have to hand it to this episode for one thing already, I would not have gotten "zombies" at all from the synopsis.

I think that's more a case of the Hub pulling something out of context in order to generate hype. Which is to say, I think that's more likely than this episode doing something as crazy as zombies.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:36 pm

Didn't they do The Hub do this with some other episode and everyone was sure the episode was going to go in one certain direction when it didn't?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:05 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Didn't they do The Hub do this with some other episode and everyone was sure the episode was going to go in one certain direction when it didn't?

I remember hearing something about MMDW getting promoted as a superhero episode when it obviously wasn't.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:17 pm

It wasn't?! It was all full of amazing heroics! :allears:
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:33 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Didn't they do The Hub do this with some other episode and everyone was sure the episode was going to go in one certain direction when it didn't?


Yes: A Canterlot Wedding :smirk:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:47 am

Just in case anyone didn't know the title reference:

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:08 am

I'm a little surprised there have been no previews yet. Usually they seem to put one or two out by Thursday evening.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:46 am

Yeah the MLP Facebook page usually has one Thursday night, then EW & co on Friday.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:23 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:I remember hearing something about MMDW getting promoted as a superhero episode when it obviously wasn't.


Yeah, that's certainly true. Like I said, I still feel like they just made a zombie joke, and it's just a crowd of ponies waiting to see Princess Twilight, possibly built up from the CMC saying crazy stuff.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:32 am

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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:36 am

Speculation: CMC make Twilight popular misunderstanding a desire of hers or a situation?

EDIT: Wait a minute... is that an improved schoolhouse?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:38 am

Wayoshi wrote:Speculation: CMC make Twilight popular misunderstanding a desire of hers or a situation?

It must be something they did to excite everyone else. Otherwise, why would Twilight be getting all this attention only now?
Wayoshi wrote:EDIT: Wait a minute... is that an improved schoolhouse?

Assuming you're talking about this?
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I don't think so. Looking at the lights, the tables, and that ketchup bottle, it's clearly a restaurant.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:01 am

Pipsqueak abandoned Luna at the drop of a hat.

:speakest: NIGHTMARE NIGHT IS FOREVER CANCELED AND ALL TOILETS WILL NOW BE KNOWN AS PIPSQUEAKES
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:52 am

The Doctor wrote:Pipsqueak abandoned Luna at the drop of a hat.

:speakest: NIGHTMARE NIGHT IS FOREVER CANCELED AND ALL TOILETS WILL NOW BE KNOWN AS PIPSQUEAKES


Does Luna have such authority to change the name of toilets? :gotcha:
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Postby Wylie (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:29 am

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Does Luna have such authority to change the name of toilets? :gotcha:


:unenthused: Every single one of our subjects dreamed last night that toilets are now known as Pipsqueakes.

:speakest: They will continue to do so until it has entered the common parlance.





:memories: Woo, you really just rent cider, you know? I gotta go take a Pipsqueake.








:speakest: Close enough.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:44 am

I just saw the clip, and what I hope that since the CMC are responsible for Twilight's new popularity, I hope there is a good reason as to why she wasn't popular before. :-/
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:47 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:I just saw the clip, and what I hope that since the CMC are responsible for Twilight's new popularity, I hope there is a good reason as to why she wasn't popular before. :-/


Well, from the kids point of view she's that crazy pony who hassles them if a book is a second overdue.

:-/ Look, if you'd return it on time, we'd have no problems.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:50 am

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Well, from the kids point of view she's that crazy pony who hassles them if a book is a second overdue.

:-/ Look, if you'd return it on time, we'd have no problems.


I would also suggest the possibility that they merely never noticed, since that's how incredibly useless the wings have been.

:excite: Hey girls! Notice anything different?
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:nngh: I don't get it.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:20 am

"S04E15: Twilight's popularity gains an unexpected boost when the residents of Ponyville remember she is a princess."
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:34 am

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Does Luna have such authority to change the name of toilets? :gotcha:


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Mechanical Ape wrote:"S04E15: Twilight's popularity gains an unexpected boost when the residents of Ponyville remember she is a princess."


:lol: Gee, Twilight why don't you just wear a cape and and hunch over all the time?
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:15 pm

ShieldedDiamond wrote:I just saw the clip, and what I hope that since the CMC are responsible for Twilight's new popularity, I hope there is a good reason as to why she wasn't popular before. :-/

Maybe they said something huge, like that she can move both the sun and the moon or something. That's all I'm coming up with, at least. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:54 pm

Remember, she wasn't popular before because it ruins the narrative if she was. So, it isn't so much "the town suddenly noticed she was a princess" than it is "turn off your brain, this is a cartoon and can't/shouldn't be that realistic."

Lemme find a comic that illustrates this problem:

(I can't connect to broni, so, fuck. I guess you don't get a comic that illustrates this.)

It was a comic about Dash meeting Daring Do and being all :awesomedash: but then Do goes :sweetielarm: right back at her, going like "OH MY GOSH! YOU'RE RAINBOW DASH! THE AVATAR OF THE ELEMENT OF LOYALTY, WHO HAS SAVED THE WORLD THREE TIMES, AND THE ONLY LIVING MARE TO EVER DO A SONIC RAINBOOM! CAN I GET YOUR AUTOGRAPH?!"

The reason they don't do that in the show as the show falls apart if it was realistic.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:57 pm

So...in the words of MST3K, if we're wondering why other ponies don't notice Princess Twilight, we should repeat to ourselves, it's just a cartoon and we should really just relax? :v:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:42 pm

Aramek wrote:Remember, she wasn't popular before because it ruins the narrative if she was.

Right, and thus, this episode could well be dragged down by its surrounding episodes if this isn't handled carefully enough.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:47 pm

Well based on the synopsis and opening, it could very well just be the kids who are now enamored with her now. Kids not caring who Twilight is would not be out of place for me.

Lets flash back to the 90's

:iamapony: Son, would you like to go meet Richard Dean Anderson?

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Today and 10 seasons of Stargate later...

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Postby Aramek (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:51 pm

I disagree, because, as nice it is to have everything "wrap up" at the end, I don't mind fakeout endings that don't do anywhere. To me, the entertainment of each episode is "podular", self contained, while the over-arching themes (not plots) but themes also add to the enjoyment. Character development, continuity worldbuilding, etc, all of that adds to the fun, but isn't ruined, necessarily, if they decide to not cleanly wrap things up at the 21 minute mark.

An example of something that wouldn't ruin anything for me (and in fact would make me laugh a lot) is that, at minute 21, they are doing one of those "everyone laughs" endings, and, in the final ten seconds, before it fades to black, :evil: busts through the wall and begins laughing with them, for, like, 2 seconds, tops, and then, boom, credits.

Next episode it is as if it didn't happen.

I would absolutely love that shit. Just like the Flutterfang outro sting. It won't go anywhere, but was a fun "OR IS IT?!" stinger.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:06 pm

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:13 pm

CMC being adorable.

This episode can't not be good. :awesomedash:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:13 pm

Someone dump mud on Silver Spoon.

Awkward Twi is best Twi. :twonk:

Also, those CMC outfits...ewg. :eep:
:speakest: The fun has been doubled!
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:19 pm

Aramek wrote:It was a comic about Dash meeting Daring Do and being all :awesomedash: but then Do goes :sweetielarm: right back at her, going like "OH MY GOSH! YOU'RE RAINBOW DASH! THE AVATAR OF THE ELEMENT OF LOYALTY, WHO HAS SAVED THE WORLD THREE TIMES, AND THE ONLY LIVING MARE TO EVER DO A SONIC RAINBOOM! CAN I GET YOUR AUTOGRAPH?!"

The reason they don't do that in the show as the show falls apart if it was realistic.


Then Daring Doo spends the whole episode annoying the hell out of Dash until she gets sick of it and realizes she shouldn't obsess about her idols so much.

That sounds like a better episode :gotcha:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:02 pm

Wayoshi wrote:EW

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:gah: Oh dang it.
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