S05E12: Amending Fences

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Re: S05E12: Amending Fences

Postby Homeswirl (?) » Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:27 am

I only just now realized that "Minuette" can be a play on "Minute", as in 60 seconds, hence the hourglass cutie mark. I am not the fastest spoke on the wheel.

However, that still doesn't explain why this particular cutie mark is shared among multiple ponies.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:36 am

It could be a shared cutie mark from family or something like that. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:33 pm

I was amazed at how well this episode was able to explain Minuette, Lemon Hearts, and Twinkleshine often showing up in Ponyville backgrounds. I'm really not sure if a future episode will be able to explain the duplicated cutie marks amongst early background ponies, though, especially with how the show has lately been hyping the uniqueness and importance of each pony's mark.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:48 pm

Personally, I think we can chalk up the repeated cutie mark to animation errors. As for a in show explanation...yeah, it'd be hard to write their way out of that one. :v:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:13 pm

In the case of early S1, I think it was because the animators figured no one would care about the background ponies, so they didn't bother with spending time on making unique assets for them when there was still lots of work to do in the way of animating the actual characters and drawing backgrounds for all of Ponyville and so on. This sort of thing is especially noticeable in episodes like Sonic Rainboom, in which a few of the background ponies in Cloudsdale were just existing background ponies that had wings pasted onto them.
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Postby Skipper (?) » Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:18 pm

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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:31 am

Did we ever find out for sure if the flashback of Minuette expecting Twi at the party was Twi imagining how it went down, or if it was somehow a true flashback through magic? I realize it was probably the former, but the fact 101 was used as a real flashback made it ambiguous live, at least for me. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Mordja (?) » Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:13 pm

Only on rewatch am I realizing just what a social nightmare Minuette is near the beginning of the episode. Case in point, that moment when she tells Twilight that everyone just figured "she'd moved on" is just :nngh:

Oh man, that S1 clip. It looked so sparse! Character animation is still there, tho.

Anyway, still an amazing episode. It's really got that emotional core I think most Larson episodes kinda lack. :yay:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:17 pm

She's a lot like Pinkie in that regard. She does care about others, but she doesn't always understand the best way to communicate it.
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Postby BurningBright (?) » Fri Oct 16, 2015 5:58 pm

This episode hit me hard. Moondancer was literally me in High School, and pre-Ponyville Twilight was me all through college. I'm still kicking myself for missing out on all of the cool opportunities to bond with other people in my class. I've since come out of my shell, long before a silly technicolor horse show could point out how I was acting, but still.

This had one of the best morals of the entire show, IMO. It's easy for nerdier types to just kind of get lost in a world of books/computers/whatever and sequester themselves from a sometimes hurtful world, but they end up missing out on the cool stuff the world has to offer while they're at it.
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Postby Jill (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:47 pm

  • Twilight Sparkle: Princess of Friendship, terrible friend.
  • Minuette seems nice. :-I
  • None of these horses actually seem to care all that much.
  • No surprise that Filly Twilight sounds just like Bubbles.
  • Moondancer. A Twilight that never found her Ponyville. Exactly how I used to be. And still am.
  • Book horse became one with the books. :starity:
  • "I tried friendship, and it's just not for me." same
  • "Pottery" i get it
  • This nerd thinks being abandoned by one other nerd hurts.
  • Lure the nerd with a trail of books, yes.
  • It's hard to take this bit of melodrama very seriously. I've made countless "friends" and all but one have developed a mutual tendency to avoid me. I'm inclined to think that this is just the way of things, and I still have yet to deliberately shut anyone out for it. Moondancer on the other hand was being a big baby because she put herself out there once and just one of her friends didn't have the time to show up. It's hardly on Twilight for being a bad friend when you decide to ditch everyone else because you didn't get your way this one time.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:27 pm

I really liked how the episode sets it up for her old friends to be mad at her, and then.. they act pretty much like someone whose highschool friend went off and became a movie star :allears: . Most of them, anyways. It was a surprise in a pleasant way.

I found this to be a fun episode, and it was nice to get reminded of that. It almost feels like it was last season :-/ . I look forward to seeing what you make of the rest of the episodes, I think there's some real gems.
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