Re: In-Season General Show Chat - Season 6 Conversation Stat
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Fizzbuzz
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Headless Horse wrote:I was thinking abouttoday, of all things
Specifically about the excellent choice of hover text. And it made me consider again how much fun it is that the show was designed to play to the entrenched "need" for cupcakes and sweets to be in a cartoon for girls, yet it subverted it by making it a thing specifically for Pinkie Pie—who is deliberately presented as a wacky oddball—and the rest of pony society eats normal stuff like veggies and flowers and carrot hot dogs.
Oldpony, particularly G3, kind of made itself infamous for gumdrop castles and candy cane lanes and all that sort of sugary rot, as though that kind of thing has to be part of any entertainment for girls (I guess because it's supposed to appeal to girls' aspirations to work in kitchens and bake?). And then in the G3.5 revamp, they bowed to the pressure of the times (I guess) and replaced the plates of cookies with fruits and vegetables—a token change in the scheme of things, but clearly there was some effort made to change up the status quo.
But in FiM, by making Pinkie's fixation on sweets be something that defines her specifically, and something that everyone else finds kind of weird and uncanny about her, plays a really interesting game with the old tropes. Nobody's going to grow up watching the show and thinking "I wish I lived in a world made of literal candy", nor even are they going to think "in an ideal world, you get to eat candy and cupcakes all the time". Instead pastry time is a special occasion, something you have to summon the Cakes to cater for you, and something for them to stress about and give them deadlines and responsibilities and financial constraints—the otherwise unseen "adult" side of celebratory eating. It takes all the mystique and novelty out of it, while still keeping it fun by making it part of Pinkie Pie's rules-of-physics-breaking goofball character
Fizzbuzz wrote:Is that about how the pre-FiM fandom feels in general? I guess I'd been under the impression that they were mostly annoyed with this generation, particularly for the first few years when there was little variety in the toys and blindbag figures and such, then later upset with us (by which I mean, bronies) for ruining the show or something.
Headless Horse wrote:Parents generally make a lot of careful decisions when they're deciding what to buy their kids to keep them quiet. They'll have to decide whether they want their kids playing with things that reinforce a love of space battles and violence, or whether they want their kids obsessing over makeup and hairstyling; some will say no, some will say yes, some will grudgingly give in to what the kids insist on. But it's often a completely separate decision that they make from the one over whether they'll let the kid watch a cartoon about laser robots or candy-eating ponies. And sometimes the outcome is very different. I know my parents weren't any too thrilled at my watching the TF show, though my saving up money to buy the toys was all just good clean fun.
I don't know if things have changed in the intervening 30 years; maybe parents these days are more likely to trust TV as a source of kids' entertainment versus letting the toys be the driving force, and maybe that's part of why Hasbro decided to lead with the show for G4 instead of making the "entertainment" into just an afterthought portion of their marketing budget for a high-effort toyline. Or maybe TV itself has changed enough, what with new methods of content delivery and a freshened emphasis on seasonal storytelling arcs as opposed to disposable 80s-style episodic content, that they thought it was a more viable primary means of engaging with kids than it used to be.
Headless Horse wrote:On the subject of food, was Ticket Master the only time when anyone (Spike in the restaurant) even alluded to eating grass?
Mechanical Ape wrote:I was just thinking, did the CMC ever have their cuteceñearas?
Mr. Big wrote:Hey, so the show's director is doing a contest, where a winner gets a Fluttershy and Discord Guardians of Harmony figurine. Deadline is August 27, the morning a new episode airs.
Here's the whole post on how to enter - https://twitter.com/TheBiggestJim/statu ... 5890088960
As discussed with Lauren Faust, Celestia and Luna were born alicorns from a race of alicorns before Equestria existed.
The alicorn race stuck to themselves.
During this time, there were also earth ponies, pegusai, and unicorns constantly fighting on the side.
The three pony races decided to found Equestria, but thought they couldn't rule themselves, so they invited Celestia and Luna to rule them.
Before this point, neither of them were royalty within their alicorn society. The three pony races asked them to be princesses.
In this newer land of Equestria, Flurry hearts is the first to be born as an alicorn.
Davyinatoga wrote:I wonder if all alicorns are seemingly immortal or if something about the Equestrian Princess designation imbues them with it. And why ponies are able to transform into Alicorns. Would alicorns even really need to reproduce if they can live for eons?
Davyinatoga wrote:I wonder if all alicorns are seemingly immortal or if something about the Equestrian Princess designation imbues them with it. And why ponies are able to transform into Alicorns. Would alicorns even really need to reproduce if they can live for eons?
The Doctor wrote:And it lost. Surprisingly to Jessica Jones.