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Postby Big Boss (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:27 pm

Do you like horse? I'm pretty sure you do, otherwise you wouldn't be here.

Please try to keep this pony and/or show themed. Do you have a substantive topic that could go on for a while? Try making a new thread for it first. I'd like to try some new things for making this a better place to post. Now that S5 is here, it's time for general show chat to return.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:58 pm

:fluttersmith: aww. I was going to try and start up the monthly threads again.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:59 pm

So about the new season: do we know at what time the episodes are going to air? Some people say it's at 8:00 AM EST time but the episode thread says it's at 11 in the morning. :pinkieshrug:

Also, I guess these threads will cycle for a while from In-Season to Out-Season?
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 1:39 pm

kefkafloyd wrote:I'd like to try some new things for making this a better place to post.

What are you thinking will change between this and past show threads?
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:05 pm

And so our story begins...
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:07 pm

RIP that other thread.
kefkafloyd wrote:The not quite as long as last year's ponyless summer will be upon us.

Eleven months and 151 pages later...
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:13 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:RIP that other thread.

Eleven months and 151 pages later...


Boy am I sure looking bad after THAT one! :v:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:16 pm

To be fair, I don't think anyone expected this hiatus to have been as long as it was.

I still wonder what the main factor was for its length. Had Hasbro been super late on greenlighting S5, or was it already in production, and were they using it as a bargaining chip in that deal with turning the Hub into Discovery Family?
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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:26 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:So about the new season: do we know at what time the episodes are going to air? Some people say it's at 8:00 AM EST time but the episode thread says it's at 11 in the morning. :pinkieshrug:


Obviously the episode thread has it right. It's not rocket science, Kefka looked up the time.

Continental Europe is 6 hours ahead of the US Eastern timezone, so the episode airs at 17:00/5PM in the afternoon here. 1 hour earlier, 16:00/4PM in the afternoon for our UK folks.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:32 pm

Ah, thanks, I'll have to write that down so I can remember that it's at 17:00 each week. I just needed to know so I could find out what time to find a stream.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:38 pm

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Postby Doctor Wheeze (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:19 pm

Oh my gosh, the time of the little ponies is almost upon us again :awesomedash:
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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:21 pm

Is this the real life? Or is it just fantasy? :-D
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:22 pm

It's been so long, I can't believe we finally made it. It's over. We have reached the promised land of Season 5. :yay:
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Postby Durandal (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:30 pm

Just think of it this way: In the time that we've been without new ponies, this baby had learned to walk, talk, use a spoon, put on shoes, and wear pony shirts.

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Postby Octavia (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:31 pm

Only 5 more days until new ponies! :flail:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:34 pm

Durandal wrote:Just think of it this way: In the time that we've been without new ponies, this baby had learned to walk, talk, use a spoon, put on shoes, and wear pony shirts.

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:starity: Wow, that really puts things in perspective.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:31 pm

I remember one of my Mom's friends bringing over her baby daughter for a visit. She set her kid down on my computer desk. The baby abruptly threw up all over my keyboard and desk, as they do.

Last week - "You remember so and so's daughter? She recieved an acceptance letter to the same college you went to."

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Anyway - I have another of those big emote posts sitting on in a text file, just for
fun while we wait for the next season, and then the season starts up. :annoyed:
Don't know if I should post it here or in PPPP.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:44 pm

I think we could have the posts here. It'd bring a nice sense of humour to the thread, plus your emote posts are always awesome.
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Postby stonecutter (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:34 pm

Octavia wrote:Only 5 more days until new ponies! :flail:

Can't wait! :crack:
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:35 pm

I am trying an Octavia-style experiment for at least the beginning of S5 of avoiding spoilers like the plague. I am curious to see what will happen
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:40 pm

I do that as well, it makes the episodes even more exciting when you have no idea what happens next.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:51 pm

There's actually been remarkably little revealed about the premiere so far. If you've seen that old SDCC animatic then that's about the extent of it.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:53 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:So about the new season: do we know at what time the episodes are going to air? Some people say it's at 8:00 AM EST time but the episode thread says it's at 11 in the morning. :pinkieshrug:

8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.

The US spans several time zones.

Durandal wrote:Just think of it this way: In the time that we've been without new ponies, this baby had learned to walk, talk, use a spoon, put on shoes, and wear pony shirts.

Psssshhh, that's not impressive for a pony foal. :smug:

Fizzbuzz wrote:There's actually been remarkably little revealed about the premiere so far. If you've seen that old SDCC animatic then that's about the extent of it.

It's the commercials cherry-picking good scenes that we have to watch out for. :eep:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:44 pm

I'm excited like how Pinkie was excited when Cranky and Matilda got back together.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:46 pm

Dexanth wrote:I am trying an Octavia-style experiment for at least the beginning of S5 of avoiding spoilers like the plague. I am curious to see what will happen

I've seen the teaser trailers, but that's it. I miss the days when nothing leaked out. The "holy shit" moment at the end of part 1 of the S2 finale was an amazing experience, especially since we watched it live with about a dozen other people who hadn't been spoiled.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:53 pm

Seriously, nobody saw <drug to hell> spell coming. :starity:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:59 pm

Aramek wrote:Seriously, nobody saw <drug to hell> spell coming. :starity:

I'm pretty sure Twilight was not drugged when she got dragged to Pony Hell :gotcha:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:07 pm

All the fire was all green and purple.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:17 pm

I've been too long not paying attention to the biz side of :ponydrugs:

So the show now airs on Discovery Family, which is what the Hub used to be? Is that how it works now? I guess I'll need to update my DVR settings then.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:18 pm

Octavia wrote:I've seen the teaser trailers, but that's it. I miss the days when nothing leaked out. The "holy shit" moment at the end of part 1 of the S2 finale was an amazing experience, especially since we watched it live with about a dozen other people who hadn't been spoiled.


Honestly, I think the only reason that didn't get spoiled is because Chrysalis wasn't the marketing hook. It was the wedding, and they hyped the hell out of it.
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Postby Master_Twig (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:58 pm

The worst was when they showed the climax of Simple Ways in one of the teasers.
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:12 pm

Yeah, the previews were... not well-considered in Season 4. I'd like to believe they recognize this and will hold back a lot more during Season 5. Though I guess we still have a week's worth of spoiler videos ahead. :roll:

By comparison, how much of Princess Twilight Sparkle had they spoiled by this point? Are they doing better this time around?
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:10 am

For me the big one was simply that, like, S4's finales with Tirek. Had they been way way cagier about that? I'd have had so much more HOLY SHIT to it. And Rainbow Rocks, which I went into with really just 1-2 trailers, was way super awesome fun because I avoided it all. So here's hoping for more Wedding moments!
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:29 am

Canterlot Wedding was still the best "OH MY GOD what is happening :twonk: " moment for me. Completely unexpected and worked perfectly.
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Postby Frosthawk (?) » Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:02 am

Master_Twig wrote:The worst was when they showed the climax of Simple Ways in one of the teasers.


It also basically ended up being the good scene in the episode.
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:19 am

So does anyone have plans to stream the new eps live? Sadly the people who used to are no longer around for various reasons...
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:47 am

From what I heard, there isn't anything going on right now. You'll probably have to use Bronystate as the streaming service for the time being.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Mar 31, 2015 12:46 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Canterlot Wedding was still the best "OH MY GOD what is happening :twonk: " moment for me. Completely unexpected and worked perfectly.

I still regret that I didn't start watching the show until just after this episode aired, and as such I didn't get to experience that live. On the other hand, thanks to what got me into it (a thread on SA where they were mocking bronies), I did come into it thinking that Celestia died at the end. :gotcha:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:20 pm

Bronystate is ok quality but has that stupid OC sprite in the corner.

I plan to find better and link them in chat in the minutes leading up to the premiere.
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