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Postby acksed (?) » Sat May 03, 2014 7:07 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Like I said in last month's thread, I think I'll watch the entire run of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Would people be interested if I put up a thread in Foreign Lands and posted my reactions to each episode as I watched them, like what Mir did in the episode threads when she was watching all the episodes of this show? Judging from the posts last month, ATLA has a lot of fans here, so maybe so.

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Postby Big Boss (?) » Sat May 03, 2014 8:34 pm

Troops, done by Kevin Rubio, who helped Charlotte Fullerton co-author songs like Art of the Dress. :spike101:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 12:13 am

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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 12:55 am

Mr. Big wrote:Okay, if anyone wants to catch up on season 4 before the big finale, then head over to the Hubworld website. They have all of the episodes aired (including today's) available for stream.


It's awesome that they're doing this, now people could actually support the Hub by watching the episodes online, rather than going through YouTube and such. :yay:
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Postby Dal (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 1:56 am

So next week is the finale, but I have been preparing for this day. How you may ask? I haven't read a comic since season four started. Now I have those, and the books, to satisfy my pony fix till the new Equestria Girls and beyond.

I hope you folks have a great summer! :gotcha:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 2:00 am

Dal wrote:So next week is the finale, but I have been preparing for this day. How you may ask? I haven't read a comic since season four started. Now I have those, and the books, to satisfy my pony fix till the new Equestria Girls and beyond.

I hope you folks have a great summer! :gotcha:


You've got some awesome Celestia time to look forward to.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 2:02 am

Dal wrote:So next week is the finale, but I have been preparing for this day. How you may ask? I haven't read a comic since season four started. Now I have those, and the books, to satisfy my pony fix till the new Equestria Girls and beyond.

I hope you folks have a great summer! :gotcha:


I have those official Rarity and Twilight Sparkle books set aside for myself! :twiright:

Which I'll be done with in like 2 weeks... :cry:
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Postby Dal (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 2:03 am

I know! It's going to be awesomeeeee. :yay:

(I may have read the micro already)
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 5:54 am

I just can't believe the season is over already... It was such a long time but it felt so quick.

I personally have no interest in the comics or EQG so I'm thinking about rewatching the first season again over the summer to see how it's held up.
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Postby Venusy (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 7:29 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:
It's awesome that they're doing this, now people could actually support the Hub by watching the episodes online, rather than going through YouTube and such. :yay:

Seems to be region locked to be US only though.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 7:32 am

Huh....well, I can kind of understand that, The Hub is only available in the USA, right?

Still, it's cutting out a huge amount of their potential audience around the world that way.
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Postby drunkill (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 9:07 am

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kefkafloyd wrote:Troops, done by Kevin Rubio, who helped Charlotte Fullerton co-author songs like Art of the Dress. :spike101:


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Postby Venusy (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 9:11 am

ROBOT B9 wrote:Huh....well, I can kind of understand that, The Hub is only available in the USA, right?

Still, it's cutting out a huge amount of their potential audience around the world that way.

Yeah, I understand that they likely have licensing contracts that can't be broken. Still, I think they'd be able to make potentially more money running the Hub as a worldwide online TV station.
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Postby fenster (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 2:10 pm

Venusy wrote:

Yeah, I understand that they likely have licensing contracts that can't be broken. Still, I think they'd be able to make potentially more money running the Hub as a worldwide online TV station.


Would they? I'd think that if it was so obvious that TV networks would make more money on revenue from online sources rather than their traditional TV-Ad model, then they'd be going for that. I think that it's only been in the recent 5 years where Netflix/Hulu really became a competitive model and even then they don't look to be the easiest of models to compete against. It's probably a hell of a lot easier to just concentrate on the Hub in America and let other networks decide to pick up shows for other regions.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 2:14 pm

Dal wrote:So next week is the finale, but I have been preparing for this day. How you may ask? I haven't read a comic since season four started. Now I have those, and the books, to satisfy my pony fix till the new Equestria Girls and beyond.

I hope you folks have a great summer! :gotcha:


I've done this as well, by total accident. Hopefully the comics can keep me amused!
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Postby Pocket (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 6:57 pm

Venusy wrote:Yeah, I understand that they likely have licensing contracts that can't be broken. Still, I think they'd be able to make potentially more money running the Hub as a worldwide online TV station.

The biggest problem with that is, how would they find ad partners who'd be willing to sponsor a show that hasn't been localized for their country? Even if we assume that people in non-English-speaking countries are forced to watch the (sometimes terrible) local dub, that still leaves out the majority of the world. I think that's the main reason why stuff like Hulu hasn't expanded outside of a few world powers.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 7:12 pm

Besides, one of the other problems is that it comes into conflict with the TV networks that show Hub programmes overseas. Can The Hub really get Disney Channel to sign off on Littlest Pet Shop and MLP for their streaming?
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Postby WandereringPony (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 7:15 pm

kefkafloyd wrote:What episode would you like to see in season 5?


A slice-of-life episode that crams worldbuilding questions by the bucket into the background as it plays out and simply doesn't answer them, leaving hooks by the zillions for the rest of the season.

MLP has been making an art out of hiding things in every episode in S4. Go all out for one episode in S5.
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Postby Venusy (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 7:22 pm

The show already has a problem with distribution in other countries, particularly in English speaking ones - primarily because it's on YouTube (or since everything was content ID'd, Dailymotion).

But yeah, should have been clearer with what I meant: a lot of people internationally want the Hub's content, and many of them also want to support the show legally. The Hub could likely turn a profit by offering an international subscription service with livestreams and video on demand services, in addition to running the channel on US cable. However, there are a lot of headaches with this solution, it will likely not appeal to the actual target audience for these shows, and would not provide a good way to disseminate the non-English dubs.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sun May 04, 2014 8:08 pm

Yeah, the rights issue with other countries is a whole other can of worm, which is why shows are rarely available for stream in international markets.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 12:40 am

Well, there wouldn't be any "rights issues" if they hadn't already signed away the international distribution rights, but they wouldn't have done that in the first place if they'd believed that a top-down Internet-based service would have worked out better for them.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 2:54 am

Meghan & Tara are having a web conference Tuesday, click the link to ask a question.

http://www.examiner.com/article/tara-st ... e-on-may-6


Glad so many people wanna see the changelings again. :evil:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 3:12 am

Oh goodness, this could be our chance to ask the questions in the "We're audience members asking questions at a brony convent" thread in PPPP! :-I
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 5:53 am

Hmmm....now I need to think of something interesting to ask them. :ponder:
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Postby Homeswirl (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 7:21 am

fenster wrote:Would they? I'd think that if it was so obvious that TV networks would make more money on revenue from online sources rather than their traditional TV-Ad model, then they'd be going for that.


Yeah, about that... http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2014/04/10/online-ad-revenues-blow-past-broadcast-tv-thanks-to-mobile-and-video/
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 11:06 am

Broadcast and cable TV added together still have almost double the ad revenue of Internet advertising, though. While Internet advertising continues to grow, I think it'll be another decade or so before TV executives are quaking in their boots over it. (This of course means that the smart ones will start moving online now.)
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 11:34 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:Oh goodness, this could be our chance to ask the questions in the "We're audience members asking questions at a brony convent" thread in PPPP! :-I


Yes. :-I

Finally, the FOR/FROM debate will be solved.
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Postby fenster (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 11:39 am



Considering how recent this is, yeah this is pretty much what I meant in that these models only just recently have been looking promising, well after the contracts for MLP have been made. In the future, yeah we'll see efforts by Hasbro to expand into Internet marketing more because I do think TV is a dying model, but it's not like the numbers for Cable TV were even that much lower in revenue ( $34 billion) at the moment, so we're most likely not going to get any big changes for a while.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 11:41 am

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Yes. :-I

Finally, the FOR/FROM debate will be solved.

We'd have to ask Cathy Weseluck about that. Or Lauren Faust herself, since she wrote the script. If she still has a copy of that script, I think that is going to be TRS's holy grail.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 12:05 pm

Aw, I thought the Skeletor smiley was TRS's Holy Grail... :skeletor:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 12:09 pm

Actually, we're both wrong. The real one would be if that guy who created Yellowstar drew a picture of Squeebleshy for us.
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 12:31 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Actually, we're both wrong. The real one would be if that guy who created Yellowstar drew a picture of Squeebleshy for us.


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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 1:02 pm

Is that person who did Yellowstar still around? Maybe we could contact them...
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 1:04 pm

I solved for/from last year. You guys sure know how to run a joke into the ground. :v:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 1:28 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:We'd have to ask Cathy Weseluck about that. Or Lauren Faust herself, since she wrote the script. If she still has a copy of that script, I think that is going to be TRS's holy grail.


God, imagine what that would go for at a fan auction.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 1:38 pm

I'd say it might get into the hundred thousands list at least.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 5:38 pm

It's going to be very difficult for me to keep out of the finale thread until Saturday but I want to try and do it. I want to go into the finale completely blind.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Mon May 05, 2014 9:48 pm

I say we give the for/from debate new life, to start a new war! :scheming:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue May 06, 2014 5:52 am

Nah, we've solved that mystery. How about we talk about who is better: Joel or Mike? :gotcha:
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Tue May 06, 2014 8:22 am

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