Re: Offseason General Show Chat




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ROBOT B9
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Panboy wrote:So I was just on the Hub youtube channel for the first time ever. watching the rainbow rocks shorts, and I saw a bunch of Jem shorts .. What? are Hasbro and the hub resurrecting the 80s?! are they gona bring M.A.S.K back too? please say yes...
But Really Jem, Was Jem ever popular with anyone?
Headless Horse wrote:Is her hat accurate but... on backwards?
[08:36:38] <ChocDooder> Berrybot, drunkill
[08:36:39] <%Berrybot> thank drunkill for spoilers are present in person. the idea canned, where aj would give someone tetanus
[08:36:46] <ChocDooder> oh no
[08:36:51] <ChocDooder> ban drunkill for spoilers
[08:37:07] <ChocDooder> spoiling the Very Special AJ episode
[08:37:38] <ChocDooder> Berrybot, applejack:
[08:37:38] <%Berrybot> applejack: new york writes that a subset
[08:37:44] <@drunkill> Don't use rusty horseshoes!
[08:37:46] <@drunkill> bad applejack
[08:38:04] <ChocDooder> their fault for not getting vaccinated
[08:38:54] <@drunkill> Hasbro please send your cheques in the mail. ChocDooder and I await our Season 5 credits.
WandereringPony wrote:
Well, there IS that Jem live-action movie they're working on now...any 80's nostalgia trip seems to be someone's idea of a movie plan these days.
ROBOT B9 wrote:I think that's happened already, I think the whole 80's nostalgia craze was bigger last decade than it is now.
ROBOT B9 wrote:I think that's happened already, I think the whole 80's nostalgia craze was bigger last decade than it is now.
The Onion goes all the way back to the early 20th century!ROBOT B9 wrote:Wow, I did not know that The Onion was that old. How long have they been around for?
"We should Choose, To travel to the MOON, Not because it is Easy, but because I am Drunk, and I say it will not be that Hard," exclaim'd the tottering Adams, speaking from the White House, a Disreputable TAVERN on the South Side of Philadelphia, upon the Roof of which Adams had seen fit to be in his cups Esconced, and without his Pantaloons withall.
Dal wrote:Earth pony magic more than mere strength, just like unicorns are more than magic and pegasi are more than wings.
Earth ponies are about creating, nurturing, and growing. We've seen Applejack plant seeds and stomp the ground instantly producing sprouts, and her impressive orchards of Sweet Apple Acres speak for themselves. But their magic goes beyond fields and gardens. Cheerilee is a teacher, Pinkie Pie raises spirits and smiles all over Ponyville, and the Cakes make unparalleled confections.
It's that subtleness of their magic that makes explaining it in the show so hard, and I think that's why they went with strength. Like you guys brought up, Big Mac dragging an entire house through town isn't exactly subtle.
ZamuelNow wrote:
The more I think about it, the more I think G4 really dropped the ball with earth ponies as a group. It feels like there's so many ways they could have been portrayed to make them more interesting than "the ones that can't fly or magic". Oh well, at least aren't crystal ponies.
Headless Horse wrote:I'm just as glad they never played up the "earth ponies are just as special, they have their own powers that put them on a level with the others" thing. Seems like the kind of thing a show like this would have been expected to do, you know?
Undecided wrote:Every time you write a story I can't help but sigh, because I know I'm gong to lose another man card.
Headless Horse wrote:I'm just as glad they never played up the "earth ponies are just as special, they have their own powers that put them on a level with the others" thing. Seems like the kind of thing a show like this would have been expected to do, you know?
Fizzbuzz wrote:I can imagine a lesser show having Applejack and Pinkie Pie suddenly moping about not being able to fly/do magic and one or all of the other four go hugely out of the way to explain exactly why they're special.
Kate wrote:there are as many female characters in the base game as there are Cole McGraths
Fizzbuzz wrote:I wonder this, though. Do ponies really see flight and magic as flashy and life-changing, like we would? We do since we obviously can do neither such things, but in Equestria that sort of stuff is a part of their daily lives.
ZamuelNow wrote:
I feel they do but not to the same degrees as we do. They actually have remarked on a few aspects here and there but such comments are less common since such abilities are common.
I think Outlander said something in a better way than some of my comments and I think I'll slightly paraphrase. It's less of the RPG aspect of all of them needing to be equal (though I'll admit that I'm a little guilty of that). Rather that earth ponies, as a group, aren't interesting. A lot of the underdog battles can be, and have been, portrayed through personalities. Show's done a great job at that and it doesn't portray them as equals. While there's a lot of smaller things unicorns and pegasi can do that capture attention. Setting up weather in early episodes were exciting pieces of worldbuilding without a Sonic Rainboom. There's a world of magic spells without the crazy high level stuff. Yet, you're left wondering what do earth ponies do. And the way the show avoids it makes it a glaring standout even more, especially when there's aspects like everyone contributing and it not looking like it or saying alicorns have all three types when we basically only see two.