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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:40 pm

I have to confess...I haven't seen Frozen either and I REALLY REALLY WANT TO. :wantitneedit:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:49 pm

Pocket wrote:After all the gushing I've seen about that song and that movie in general, there's no way I'm going to appreciate it as much when I finally see it.

Then again, I said the exact same thing about Wreck-It Ralph, and that turned out to be dead wrong...


It might surprise you. One of the big things boosting up the song is the visual sequence that goes with it.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:20 pm

The Doctor wrote:I have really enjoyed S4 but Twilight has dropped like a rock to last in my mane 6 rankings. Her becoming a Princess has ended up having no real impact to the story, except to make her more marysue-ish. She is boring now. All her little flaws and are pretty much gone and she's just.... there.

In terms of personality, I think Twilight has the same problem as season 3: She hasn't had any episodes.

I mean, yes, there was "Princess Twilight Sparkle," but she hasn't gotten any episodes as the sole focus after that. Season 3 gave us the bookends and "Magic Duel" (and maaaaybe "Games Ponies Play"), so the finale felt more abrupt than it could have.

Granted, we probably should have seen some effects of her new title by now, but I don't think her personality has been completely ironed out just yet.
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Postby Sailor Yue (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:30 pm


I really want to see these, but everyu time i try to go to those tweets, firefox crashes :fluttersmith:
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:40 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:I. Three's A Crowd was a nice episode, but it was primarily about Discord being a dick.


Discord being a dick, along with Princess Twi's response to Discord being a dick.


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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:42 pm

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Discord being a dick, along with Princess Twi's response to Discord being a dick.


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Do you think Twilight's response wouldn't have been exactly the same as if she wasn't a princess? Or wasn't what any of the ponies response would of been? The only think that would have been lost was Discords comment about her thinking she's all high and mighty now, but his underlying comment about whether or not she was his friend would have been valid, wings or no.
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Postby Killing Vector (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:50 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:In terms of personality, I think Twilight has the same problem as season 3: She hasn't had any episodes.

I mean, yes, there was "Princess Twilight Sparkle," but she hasn't gotten any episodes as the sole focus after that. Season 3 gave us the bookends and "Magic Duel" (and maaaaybe "Games Ponies Play"), so the finale felt more abrupt than it could have.

Granted, we probably should have seen some effects of her new title by now, but I don't think her personality has been completely ironed out just yet.

Twilight hasn't gotten much slice-of-life focus since season 1, really. Correct me if I'm forgetting anything, but excluding the season premieres and finales she's played a main role in:

Lesson Zero
Luna Eclipsed
It's About Time
Magic Duel
Three's Company

And three of these episodes pretty heavily involve a secondary character (Luna, Trixie, Discord) and lean more towards adventure than slice of life, with the other two overlapping each other somewhat (in that LZ and IAT are both about Twilight freaking out over something ultimately unimportant). Now, I am excluding more ensemble-type episodes that Twilight has a non-trivial role in (like GPP) and the season premieres and finales which are of course all Twilight-centric. But my point is that unlike the rest of the mane 6, from season 2 on I don't think we've gotten much opportunity to see Twilight except while having adventures, and her character has suffered for it.
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Postby Tears (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:57 pm

The Doctor, do you think the shift to her character is based entirely on her being a flying nerd instead of just a magic nerd? The read I have on your posts right now is that it is the change she's gone through and the failure so far to significantly advance her story based on that change that makes her a flat character? :ponder:
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:17 pm

I have to agree that Twilight has simply suffered from a complete lack of spotlight. The few moments with her we have had are great (Mostly her nerding-out in Castle-Mania, Daring Don't, and Three's a Crowd), but otherwise she simply hasn't played much of any role in any of the episodes. It almost seems like they're going so far out of the way to not have her being a Princess take over the show that they've shied away from using it much at all.

PTS at least shows that when given a proper spotlight, she still freaks out and has insecurities just like everyone else, and that being a Princess is important. Unfortunately we just haven't see enough of her for it to matter elsewhere. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:22 pm

Tears wrote:The Doctor, do you think the shift to her character is based entirely on her being a flying nerd instead of just a magic nerd? The read I have on your posts right now is that it is the change she's gone through and the failure so far to significantly advance her story based on that change that makes her a flat character? :ponder:

If you look at Twilight's personal development in each season, the first was the strongest -- she is a natural introvert who is earnestly trying to become a better person.

In the second season, all her development is having an OCD freakout because she thinks she's going to mess up the good life she's created for herself.

In season 3, she is the least-used major character, and her only character development is to try to realign her from "crazy OCD" season 2 Twilight to "accomplished scholar of friendship" Twilight.

I presume The Doctor is frustrated with Twilight's role this season as Princess of Counseling. Her friends have problems, she points out their emotional conflict, and they work things out on their own. That's great for other ponies, but Twilight herself doesn't change. Even "Three's A Crowd" didn't require any growth from her. With luck, future episodes will resolve that, but I can totally understand someone wishing "Congratulations, here's your crown!" came with more upheaval and emotional turmoil.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:25 pm

Tears wrote:The Doctor, do you think the shift to her character is based entirely on her being a flying nerd instead of just a magic nerd? The read I have on your posts right now is that it is the change she's gone through and the failure so far to significantly advance her story based on that change that makes her a flat character? :ponder:


Since becoming a Princess she no longer has her freak outs, which were a lot of fun. I'm all for character development, and her moving past that is certainly OK, but now it's like they bit a brick wall with the character and don't want to do anything else with her. I said before this season started that I hopped the writers would embrace this big change to the character in season 3 and go with it. They thought they were up against the end of the show, wanted to go out with a bang. Now they're stuck with it, and I would much rather they do something with it than try and pretend it never happened other than having her fly now and then.

PST and Threes a Crowd would be almost entirely unchanged if Twilight was a unicorn and not a Princess. The guards still would have sought out Twilight after Celestia and Luna vanished, Applejack probably still would have wanted her out of harms way being the one in charge during Celestia and Luna's absence. And Threes a Crowd only would have required editing of the flying scenes but really nothing as far as story goes.

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I presume The Doctor is frustrated with Twilight's role this season as Princess of Counseling. Her friends have problems, she points out their emotional conflict, and they work things out on their own. That's great for other ponies, but Twilight herself doesn't change. Even "Three's A Crowd" didn't require any growth from her. With luck, future episodes will resolve that, but I can totally understand someone wishing "Congratulations, here's your crown!" came with more upheaval and emotional turmoil.


Even the counseling thing was part of her character before becoming a princess. Remember her advising Pinkie in "Friend in Deed", she was always quick to give advice. They even joke about it in "Lesson Zero" with Rainbow on the counseling couch.
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Postby Tears (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:29 pm

The Doctor wrote:All her little flaws and are pretty much gone and she's just.... there.


Just on that, I think Twilight's always been a less straight-up fun proposition than most of the other characters. She's the straight mare, she's earnest and sincere and studious. Even for a goof-off, she's the adjudicator. That's been broadened out with the level of joy she takes in rules and study and organisation - she'd honestly rather be the judge and rulebook-holder for a goof-off than actually goofing off herself (I promise I won't say "goof-off" again in this post).

They made the hard-working, ultra-gifted protege to the god princess of Equestria relatable by showing the softer side of that, the nerdy delight she takes in things, the way she can be kind of a klutz, Elaine-dancing in Sweet and Elite or messing up the winter wrap-up or taking her sister-in-law to a travelling museum/comic con.

And I don't think I've noticed a big shift in that, but I guess

a) I'm not that interested in her princess/alicorn-ness (I'm totally used to her as an alicorn, I think she's adorable with wings)
b) I expect them to get to it in time.

We had a little bit of foreshadowing with the castle, but I feel like there was a desire to show that the characters are all fine and to establish that sense of normalcy before they built up the princess aspect. If it had gone straight from PTS into more stuff about Twilight and her new role and the castle, I think some people would have called it the Twilight Sparkle show and bailed.

But now I feel like they have firmly established that, so whenever they wanna develop Twilight's deal is fine with me. It's a difficult balance, because on one hand as Killing Vector said we haven't had many non-adventure Twilight-focused episodes, but on the other hand there's definitely a perception among some people that simply alicorning her counts and other characters should get more focus to offset that (which I don't agree with - alicorning is not character development in of itself)

But Twilight does get a lot of the work in terms of exposition and playing the foil to other characters. Listen to how surprised Tara is at Comic Con 2011 at the response she gets when she does her Twilight voice. Working away in her home studio in LA, she probably had no idea that she was working on anything but another show for young kids, and now nerds are going nuts :gotcha:



(her doing Twilight is at about 1:05, but she also does Bubbles a little earlier)

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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:38 pm

The Doctor wrote:Now they're stuck with it, and I would much rather they do something with it than try and pretend it never happened other than having her fly now and then.


This is something I've brought up before, but the writers have a tendency to do something, then quickly forget it or back out of it. Twilight being a Princess or the events of Sleepless in Ponyville are pretty much ignored, Wonderbolt Academy only got a brief mention in Rainbow Falls and then went back to being ignored.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:53 pm

I think Twilight really needs a slice-of-life episodes, she's been getting so many "fantasy" kind of episodes, that it makes it so she doesn't really do much in those "slice of life" episodes.

Although, to be fair, I think it's better that Twilight isn't in the spotlight all the time. Because I still see this as an ensemble cast, not "Twilight Sparkle and friends."

Though that doesn't excuse the fact that she should have a slice-of-life episode again. :ohrarity:
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:57 pm

Tailspin wrote:
This is something I've brought up before, but the writers have a tendency to do something, then quickly forget it or back out of it. Twilight being a Princess or the events of Sleepless in Ponyville are pretty much ignored, Wonderbolt Academy only got a brief mention in Rainbow Falls and then went back to being ignored.


You have a weird definition of ignored, given that directly referencing the events and displaying the changed character relationships is most certainly not ignoring something.

Scootaloo has had only one episode since Sleepless in Ponyville. That episode most certainly made use of Rainbow's new relationship with Scootaloo. As I said earlier, it's about focus. Continuity only started popping up in this series when each character had enough history behind them for things to start mattering. With about ten primary characters, each given a fair spread of episodes, that can take a long time. How long did it take after Stare Master, when Sweetie Belle was revealed to be Rarity's sister, for that fact to even matter in an episode? Not until the next season. Things like Princess Twilight haven't been given enough time to even get episodes in which they matter. In fact, Twilight's next episode this season is most certainly an episode in which it matters. So give it time before passing judgement on what continuity matters, and what continuity doesn't.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:12 pm

Tailspin wrote:
This is something I've brought up before, but the writers have a tendency to do something, then quickly forget it or back out of it. Twilight being a Princess or the events of Sleepless in Ponyville are pretty much ignored, Wonderbolt Academy only got a brief mention in Rainbow Falls and then went back to being ignored.



I disagree, just because Dash doesn't spend every moment with scoots doesn't mean it was ignored. I still say FTTF was a decent follow up. And who's to say we won't see more Dash/Bolts interaction in the future? Same for Dash/Scoots.
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Postby Tears (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:55 pm

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Since becoming a Princess she no longer has her freak outs, which were a lot of fun. I'm all for character development, and her moving past that is certainly OK, but now it's like they bit a brick wall with the character and don't want to do anything else with her. I said before this season started that I hopped the writers would embrace this big change to the character in season 3 and go with it. They thought they were up against the end of the show, wanted to go out with a bang. Now they're stuck with it, and I would much rather they do something with it than try and pretend it never happened other than having her fly now and then.


I do agree with that, if they didn't move it forward at all this season I'd be disappointed. I feel almost certain they will, because writing 26 plot outlines for anything is hard apart from anything else, and there is all sorts of scope to develop this side of Twilight.

On the other hand, I'm equally happy right now to have "Twilight wants to hang out with her sister in law", and I do have high hopes for another upcoming episode.

But you're right, they wrote that climax and they should do right by it now there's more time. I guess for me it's more something I'll think about when the season's ended.

SlateSlabrock wrote:If you look at Twilight's personal development in each season, the first was the strongest -- she is a natural introvert who is earnestly trying to become a better person.

In the second season, all her development is having an OCD freakout because she thinks she's going to mess up the good life she's created for herself.

In season 3, she is the least-used major character, and her only character development is to try to realign her from "crazy OCD" season 2 Twilight to "accomplished scholar of friendship" Twilight.

I presume The Doctor is frustrated with Twilight's role this season as Princess of Counseling. Her friends have problems, she points out their emotional conflict, and they work things out on their own. That's great for other ponies, but Twilight herself doesn't change. Even "Three's A Crowd" didn't require any growth from her. With luck, future episodes will resolve that, but I can totally understand someone wishing "Congratulations, here's your crown!" came with more upheaval and emotional turmoil.


I see her development in season three more that she learned to be more comfortable with her situation and her friends and her abilities, which led to the unlocking of the flying nerd power-up. And that sets up a lot of new stuff which PTS opened up - the insecurity about losing her friends or things being different, which sort of anticipates and mirrors the audience worries regarding character dynamics.

There's also the way she's always been uncomfortable with the trappings of power, the way Rarity is so desperate to impress the cognoscenti in Sweet and Elite whereas Twilight's totally in with those people (or would be if they knew who she was and who she knows) but she couldn't care less. And now she's thrust into a position where that stuff is much less avoidable. I thought it was really poignant in PTS when Celestia talks about her own loneliness, which made me think back to A Bird in the Hand where she can't just come to a tea party without everyone being on tenterhooks because she's Princess Celestia.

So there's a bunch of stuff raised in MMC and fleshed out in PTS that could be great for Twilight, because she'd reached a point of equilibrium and was immediately thrown off it. And I can see why they backed off to regroup and show where everyone else (and Twilight herself) lies following this big shake-up, but I think the character dynamics have been fully re-established and any time they wanna jump into that is fine with me.

Like you and Killing Vector and Shielded Diamond and others said though, it would be nice to get some slice of life too, and I guess the hurdle there is that anything princessy tends to be in the epic bracket, but I don't think that's insurmountable.

Who has got the most character development this season? :allears:

Pinkie has obviously had hell of emotions, but I think Scoots takes it for now, FttF was everything I'd hoped :scootawoo:
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Postby Passport Clean (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:07 pm

My bet - Twilight's princess status will continue to play out like Sailor Moon's princess status (remember that?): It has only a minor impact on her daily existence except for occasional brief spotlights and the big season finale arc where it snaps into major prominence (remember that Meghan has been talking about doing something more epic than they ever have for pony before). Themes of destiny, heroic responsibility and raw power will predominate, while the actual meaning of rulership will rarely been dwelt on because the target audience has only a fuzzy understanding of the concept and isn't all that interested in the nitty gritty of it. The one major difference will be the subtheme of how Twilight's status affects her friendships; it has been singled out in dialogue two or three times, so I expect it to show up some more.

I also suspect a lot of this current conversation is going to look amusingly premature once we've seen the whole season. The writers have been shuffling a lot of wild cards like Discord* into the deck, and after "A Canterlot Wedding" I expect the unexpected.

* His motives seem incredibly murky after "Three's a Crowd".

Tears wrote:Pinkie has obviously had hell of emotions, but I think Scoots takes it for now, FttF was everything I'd hoped :scootawoo:


I'm glad you enjoyed FttF. It really let me down (the only episode of the season to do so). For me, the beginning dragged, the song's visuals were dull, the CMC's flag routine was shockingly unimpressive despite the fact that everyone was gushing about it (show don't tell, huh?), and the Scootaloo trying to fly bits were pedestrian. I liked it much better on a second watch (song is killer, second half looks nicer), but I expected more from a spotlight episode on my favorite characters.
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Postby Tears (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:46 pm

Passport Clean wrote:

I'm glad you enjoyed FttF. It really let me down (the only episode of the season to do so). For me, the beginning dragged, the song's visuals were dull, the CMC's flag routine was shockingly unimpressive despite the fact that everyone was gushing about it (show don't tell, huh?), and the Scootaloo trying to fly bits were pedestrian. I liked it much better on a second watch (song is killer, second half looks nicer), but I expected more from a spotlight episode on my favorite characters.


Yeah, I noticed your list. Full disclosure, it's probably my favourite episode of season four (maybe Pinkie Pride, I just- don't make me choose). I've heard the "beginning dragged" thing a few times, but I loved that about it, Valentine's other episode had that too, and it's one of my favourite things about his writing. Tightly-plotted episodes are great, but it's nice when things get room to breathe a little*.

And the flag routine? They're like seven, man, for shame! I thought they did damn well with a day's notice, they had a set and choreography and a script. I think even Equestria-wide calls for young kids to do a flag routine tend to be pretty rinky-dink.

I agree that the song visuals were a little pedestrian (like Scootaloo :smirk: :nngh: ), but it was a great song.

But after all the to-ing and fro-ing in the fandom about Scootaloo's ability to fly, I thought the scene between her and Rainbow Dash dealt with it better than anything.

:rainbert: Listen, Scootaloo. Maybe you'll fly someday, or maybe you won't. You're all kinds of awesome anyway.

It's such a great message, too. :allears:

And the scenes with Scootaloo trying to fly were legitimately a little heart-wrenching, too. It was emotional and fun and it had the CMC in it, and I just ate the whole thing up. But I know you and Pictish and Ragnar and other people whose opinions I respect didn't like it at all, and I get that too.

But I liked the slowness, I liked the heart, I liked Dash :awesomedash: , and it was great, to me.


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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:51 pm

I've pretty much enjoyed all the season 4 eps to some degree, but I'll also say FTTF is up there with Pinkie Pride & PAP in my "Favorites To Rewatch" category ATM. And I liked the song, it was Cheesy, but like Bad Seed, very, CMCish.


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Postby Rachael33 (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:35 am

Sorry if I derail whatever conversation is going on here...but what is with this love of socks on ponies? I just don't get where it came from or why it is so popular...Sorry if I offend anyone. :fluttersmith:

Don't get me wrong...on some (Like one of DM29s pictures on deviantArt) I find it cute. I am more curious how it caught on....
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:44 am

Richy33 wrote:Sorry if I derail whatever conversation is going on here...but what is with this love of socks on ponies? I just don't get where it came from or why it is so popular...Sorry if I offend anyone. :fluttersmith:

Don't get me wrong...on some (Like one of DM29s pictures on deviantArt) I find it cute. I am more curious how it caught on....




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Postby londonarbuckle (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:44 am

Tears wrote:
*Full disclosure II: the disclosening - I also really like movies by Terence Malick, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Noah Baumbach. My two favourite movies are probably The Man Who Wasn't There - which isn't even anyone's favourite Coen brothers movie - and There Will Be Blood, which both move incredibly slowly. Basically, stick a minute-long static shot of a corn field in a movie, and I am on board. I like meandering.


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Postby Pocket (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:48 am

I don't think Minty has much to do with it; it started out in the days when Equestria Daily was just getting off the ground and most of the fanbase was still on 4chan. I think it might have been an "art challenge" that somebody posted and it just sort of snowballed from there.

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Postby Dexanth (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 2:18 am

I don't think it really is. I think it was one of those tumblr things, like ponies & juice boxes was, where blogs just getting off the ground would join in popular memes, and 'Ponies in socks'/'Ponies drinking juice boxes' were more or less the top two.

Both were popular because they are cutesy-things, or that's what I imagine was the case.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 2:20 am

Tears wrote:*Full disclosure II: the disclosening - I also really like movies by Terence Malick, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Noah Baumbach. My two favourite movies are probably The Man Who Wasn't There - which isn't even anyone's favourite Coen brothers movie - and There Will Be Blood, which both move incredibly slowly. Basically, stick a minute-long static shot of a corn field in a movie, and I am on board. I like meandering. Junebug! A man and his wife come home to visit family, and it's awkward, and a few days later they leave. Love that movie.


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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 2:25 am

I believe the ponies in socks meme started with this picture from Egophiliac...

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after she was inspired by this post on EQD about some new sock merchandise and how they look like they would fit on hooves.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/07/pony-socks.html


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Postby Rachael33 (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:00 am

Thanks! :allears:

Sorry y'all...I just never knew how it started...
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:52 am

Starting to wonder if Pony might be taking a break in March, we haven't even gotten a title leak/reveal for 17-19 yet. Or maybe I'm just being impatient :-P
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:53 am

SoundMonkey44 wrote:Starting to wonder if Pony might be taking a break in March, we haven't even gotten a title leak/reveal for 17-19 yet. Or maybe I'm just being impatient :-P

It is only February 6. I would give it another week or two.
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:11 am

I'm just going to leave this here.

:scheming:

SlateSlabrock is really knocking these out of the park.
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Postby ComradeCosmobot (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:12 am

Grilox wrote:I don't like the new season!!

I also didn't like season 2 much so there you go!!! :twonk:

Season 3 best season forever!!


wow look how wrong this guy is :gotcha:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:21 am

kefkafloyd wrote:I'm just going to leave this here.

:scheming:

SlateSlabrock is really knocking these out of the park.


I love the hover text that comes with it, thanks go to you and SlateSlabrock! :scheming:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:24 am

Finally, the most devious minds in Equestria join forces!

:smirk: :scheming:

If they don't kill each other first.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 7:07 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:Hate to interrupt best pony chat, but :sweetielarm: FREE COMIC ALERT :sweetielarm:

If by some chance you still haven't read the first story in the comics (The Return of Queen Chrysalis, MLP:FiM #1-4), the collection of those four issues is currently free on iTunes.

"Cool," I said, three hours ago.

"Oh," I said when I remembered that my account was still attached to an email address I stopped using years ago and subsequently lost access to.

"Phew," I said when I was able to contact the friend who'd set it up for me in the first place and get back into it.

"Aaaaargh" I said during every step of the process of getting back into the email account, wrestling with a system that apparently could no better remember my login than I could, finally inputting a new password and email address, and grabbing the comic.

"Bite me, Apple," I said when it turned out I can't actually read the comic on my computer because ARGLEBLARGLE POST PC WORLD WARGH

Well... I appreciate being reminded why I quit using iTunes all those years ago, I guess. And being given an incentive to get back into my old email account and make sure I didn't leave anything important behind.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 7:19 am

This smiley is the best. I'd say it looks more diabolic then the other :evil: we have. :scheming:
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 7:20 am

Well, Diamond Tiara is the most consistently diabolical villain the show has. :allears:
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Postby Passport Clean (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:37 am

:scheming:

... hmm, something about the way her arms (front legs?) are positioned...

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There's a lot of potential novelty pony merchandize we're being deprived of.

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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:07 pm

Eh, I think it's all right that they aren't milking pony dry yet. I don't want it to become completely overexposed to where people are sick of it.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:50 pm

I think there's a fair amount of FiM-branded merchandise that exists out there that we don't really notice. A lot of it just gets targeted at kids and not us.
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