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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2015 1:07 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:So effectively, she works for the entire company now, right?

Well, I doubt she has quite too much influence over Hasbro's toymakers. :v:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:02 pm

You never know...one day, she might go up enough ranks to become CEO. :spoiler:
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:06 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:You never know...one day, she might go up enough ranks to become CEO. :spoiler:


Not if ShieldedDiamond has anything to say about that :vogue:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:09 pm

That'd be even better. :vogue:
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:21 pm

The Doctor wrote::pinkieshrug: I've accepted the show will never do a Celestia episode. At best, we'll get more tiny moments like we've gotten so far, sprinkled throughout the season. And hopefully the comics will continue to do good by Celestia.


Maybe the show doesn't like to focus on characters and plots that the kids will find boring or hard to relate to. :pinkieshrug:
Still, I'm missing the "Dumbledore" aspect of her - headmaster with a hundred secrets and foibles.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:39 pm

Still, they had Celly and Luna arguing in SlOL, kids can relate to fighting with thier siblings. I know it was one of the most refreshing things I'd seen from them in five years. :gotcha:

:speakest: Are you suggesting I fight with my sister for 22 minutes?

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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:43 pm

Too bad they already did that episode... twice.

They've even used both sisters as the one in the wrong.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Jul 03, 2015 11:38 pm

Tabitha is the greatest.

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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 12:58 am

ROBOT B9 wrote:You never know...one day, she might go up enough ranks to become CEO. :spoiler:

:seethe: To which she'll probably end up renaming it "The Twilight Sparkle Company"
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:09 am

Headless Horse wrote:Tabitha is the greatest.

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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:10 am

:lol:

And what I wouldn't give for a "Too Many Princesses" episode.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:29 am

Headless Horse wrote:Tabitha is the greatest.

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Phew. Thank goodness Celestia and Luna got a pass.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:58 am

The second Little Witch Academia OVA was shown this evening at Anime Expo (and kickstarter backers online).

Just like the first one, we have a pony sighting.

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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 5:35 am

:wat: : "I fare better than Twilight, I hope."

Megan McCarthy, good at soccer. Ohkay. Ohhhhhhh Kay. :-P

Mechanical Ape wrote::lol:

And what I wouldn't give for a "Too Many Princesses" episode.

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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 5:57 am

I would actually like to see a Too Many Princesses episode. Maybe Twilight turns Rarity into an alicorn and Rarity finds that royal life isn't what it's cracked up to be.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:10 am

Rarity already had wings, tho.

It didn't work out well for her :v:
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:16 am

Larson really won't stop until all the ponies are princesses.

His will be done.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:18 am

:prettywings: :"It is time for you to fulfill your destinyyyy"

:excite: :"I present to you, Princess Shining Armor!"
:notgonnadoit: :" ....... Um. Wouldn't that be Prince Shining Armor?"
:wingsright: :"Nope, Princess is an alicorn's official title of nobility."
:notgonnadoit: :"Look, seeing as how all of us are getting a set of wings or horns, do you think we could just drop the title and all the pomp and circumstance? I'm not comfortable being called that, and let's be honest, I probably fly like a winged rock."
:pcstare: :"Absolutely not, Princess Shining Armor."
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:19 am

Bakertoons wrote:Rarity already had wings, tho.

It didn't work out well for her :v:


Yeah right...but there's always a second try. :v:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:25 am

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote::prettywings: :"It is time for you to fulfill your destinyyyy"

:excite: :"I present to you, Princess Shining Armor!"
:notgonnadoit: :" ....... Um. Wouldn't that be Prince Shining Armor?"
:wingsright: :"Nope, Princess is an alicorn's official title of nobility."
:notgonnadoit: :"Look, seeing as how all of us are getting a set of wings or horns, do you think we could just drop the title and all the pomp and circumstance? I'm not comfortable being called that, and let's be honest, I probably fly like a winged rock."
:pcstare: :"Absolutely not, Princess Shining Armor."


That reminds me. The Princess Winona and Princess McLargehuge emotes were never implemented. :rainbert:

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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 10:30 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote: :seethe: To which she'll probably end up renaming it "The Twilight Sparkle Company"


I don't know how serious you're being with this, but your harping on something that was likely not even Meghan's lone idea is kinda pointless. It's not like Meghan makes story decisions alone, without any input from the other writers and Hasbro higherups.
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Postby Master_Twig (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 1:42 pm

So, last night I went and saw Weird Al Yankovich. It was a highly awesome show. Between songs, Al did many costume changes. During these costume changes, in order to keep the crowd entertained, they played clips of Weird Al on the big screen from his many various media appearances. During one of these intermissions they showed the Super Duper Party Pony song. :hi:
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 8:23 pm

Master_Twig wrote:So, last night I went and saw Weird Al Yankovich. It was a highly awesome show. Between songs, Al did many costume changes. During these costume changes, in order to keep the crowd entertained, they played clips of Weird Al on the big screen from his many various media appearances. During one of these intermissions they showed the Super Duper Party Pony song. :hi:

I'm seeing him in October over here - I really hope they play that here too! :allears:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 9:34 pm

Perrydotto wrote:
I don't know how serious you're being with this, but your harping on something that was likely not even Meghan's lone idea is kinda pointless. It's not like Meghan makes story decisions alone, without any input from the other writers and Hasbro higherups.


I was mostly joking. But it's fairly obvious that Meghan does have an obsession with Twilight and typically makes things revolve around her when she's involved, especially with things Hasbro don't always have a say in.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 9:48 pm

Despite the grief I have, and will probably continue to give Meghan, especially if Celestia and Luna are equalized in the finale, I've thought about it more, and don't think it's quite an obsession with Twilight.

I think Meghan has been outright overworked.

Season 3 and 4 she's the sole story editor. She also wrote all three of the two-part episodes in those seasons, as well as co-writing a few others. She's also written three Equestria Girl films. The Sony leaks reveal that she wrote at least one draft of the script for the upcoming MLP movie.

That's a hell of a lot to put on one person's plate. And I think that, more than anything, is why her episodes lacked polish, or focus on multiple characters. It would have taken time to think of ways to use the other 5. It would have taken time to think of other ways to use Celestia and Luna other than having them play damsel in distress. It would have taken time to make the stories and plots make more sense. I think she wrote those all ASAP with few rewrites.

Now we have Larson seemingly doing at least half (and possibly more) of the story editing duties. I think that's why we are seeing such a strong season so far. The work has been spread out, and as a result, more care can be put into the work.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Sun Jul 05, 2015 1:35 am

Master_Twig wrote:So, last night I went and saw Weird Al Yankovich. It was a highly awesome show. Between songs, Al did many costume changes. During these costume changes, in order to keep the crowd entertained, they played clips of Weird Al on the big screen from his many various media appearances. During one of these intermissions they showed the Super Duper Party Pony song. :hi:

I wonder how hard it would be to get the rights to use Pinkie's parasprite-pied-piper polka as the intro to the polka medley on his next album, as a sort of Easter egg.

I wonder how I would go about suggesting such a thing.

I wonder if he's even planning to ever release another album, or just put out singles on YouTube from now on like he said he might now that his record deal expired.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:38 am

The Doctor wrote:She's also written three Equestria Girl films.

The new one is Josh Haber, not her.

That's a hell of a lot to put on one person's plate. And I think that, more than anything, is why her episodes lacked polish, or focus on multiple characters. It would have taken time to think of ways to use the other 5. It would have taken time to think of other ways to use Celestia and Luna other than having them play damsel in distress. It would have taken time to make the stories and plots make more sense. I think she wrote those all ASAP with few rewrites.


I'm not sure if I'm really as forgiving. Yeah, there's a lot, but that's the job of the writer. And if she's really writing so much around Twilight because it's too hard to take time to include the others, that's not Hasbro mandate, that's just not good writing. It's kind of taking the easy way out still. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:41 am

I'm certainly not saying it is good writing, just that there's probably more to it than her wanting to put the focus entirely on Twilight.

:smirk: That being said, ask me again if we get more Princess Worfing if she writes or edits the season finale.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:05 am

I don't know if Meghan will write any other episodes for the show with all the other things she has. In any case, I generally liked her episodes.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:16 am

ROBOT B9 wrote:I don't know if Meghan will write any other episodes for the show with all the other things she has. In any case, I generally liked her episodes.


I enjoyed the vast majority of her episodes from S1/S2. She's kind of like the Pony Brannon Braga. Good as one of the writers, less good once they became the other writer's boss.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Jul 05, 2015 4:00 pm

I wonder if that job will change with her new position in the company. :ponder:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Jul 05, 2015 4:33 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:I wonder if that job will change with her new position in the company. :ponder:


What her job is doesn't seem to be clear.

In my mind she's now the person who comes up with the toy mandates, rather than the one who had to integrate those mandates. Which I think would be a good thing to have someone in that role who can come up with toy mandates that can more easily be adapted into a story.
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:43 pm

Season 5 question:

Where are songs :fluttersmith:
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Postby Thaddeus (?) » Sun Jul 05, 2015 11:59 pm

Season Opener. Slice of Life (Kind of)

Other than that, kinda sparse, yeah.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:33 am

Forget all that, where the hell is a Fluttershy episode?
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:45 am

There's a leaked list of all the episode titles for the season, which so far have panned out, and it has episodes names that are very likely Rarity and Fluttershy episodes.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:51 am

Rarity yes (expect something soon after the next episode), but Fluts? I didn't really notice any... in any case, I think Making New Friends kinda counts as a Fluts so far.

Anyways, I want to say with the latest DF promo showing clips from the last act of both Prin. Spike and yaks, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Twi with old buddies shot was actually from early on. Certainly a coincidence, but it was reasonable to conclude it was a late spoiler yet again.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:00 am

Wayoshi wrote:Rarity yes (expect something soon after the next episode), but Fluts? I didn't really notice any... in any case, I think Making New Friends kinda counts as a Fluts so far.

Anyways, I want to say with the latest DF promo showing clips from the last act of both Prin. Spike and yaks, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Twi with old buddies shot was actually from early on. Certainly a coincidence, but it was reasonable to conclude it was a late spoiler yet again.


#15 sounds like it could be a Fluttershy episode.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:06 am

Andy Price and Katie Cook's Comicon Print. :lol:

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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:20 am

I had a feeling you'd say that about 15... I don't think it's more likely than not, honestly.

As for songs... I'm pretty sure another musical is on the way, which will help fill up the quota. I haven't missed them, honestly
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