It's true, Trixie really is nothing more than show-off that talked big.... and yet, as of now she's the perfect character for some evil power to be granted to her so she can enact some "revenge" against Twilight.

...

Trixie probably specializes in illusions and magic tricks. Not very good for dealing with fifty-foot-tall threats, but she knows how to keep a crowd entranced.

She could be a Seventh Ranger.

Just as Twilight was the apprentice of Celestia, so too can Trixie be an apprentice of Twilight.

Of course Ms. Faust is the one guiding the story. We're just the fans.

I didn't like Trixie enough to be enthused to see her as a Seventh Ranger.

Looking forward to tomorrow's episode. I like Spike. Especially when he snarks.

What worries me about tomorrow is that they already did this with Griffon The Brush-Off, at least as far as I can tell from the description. Hopefully they give Spike sufficient snark to offset that.

Trixie's got some nice shades of blue in her design, but I wasn't too impressed by her actual character. I wouldn't be surprised if she showed up again, but I can't say I'd be thrilled either. Maybe if she got some decent Character Development, though... As it is, she's not too high on my list of minor characters I'd like seeing again.

Actually, with all the CMC episodes, I'm sort of surprised the bullies haven't shown up again. You'd think that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon would still be taunting them about not having their cutie marks — especially since they upstaged them at their own cuteceañera. And it's not like the girls have been covert about still wanting to earn their marks ASAP. If either of the libbies walked by and saw another of their failed attempts, surely they'd take a moment to rub it in...

^^ Spike is most definitely capable of snark, if Winter Wrap-Up is any indication.

A lot of the characters we've only seen in one episode aren't ones I expect to come back. Despite the fans getting excited over them, I think it'd be best to see new characters rather than see the others shoehorned back in where it wouldn't make much sense.

Spike will probably be the one who is wrong this time.

I'm hoping for more insane Twilight.

I'm hoping that the episode has Spike being a more sympathetic character - he's usually the Butt Monkey.

It seems to me like he'll be more of the focus of this one, so he'll probably be more sympathetic. Twilight being who she is, I imagine the plot will be something to the effect of his trying to get her attention, and her completely failing to notice it - a double aesop about respecting that sometimes your friends want to hang out with other friends, and noticing and understanding your friends feelings.

In regards to Trixie (yes that conversational thread is gone, but gosh darnit Trixie came up and I will not rest until my two bits are put in!) I've always been of the opinion that she's Weak But Skilled - most of what we've seen so far could be chalked up to lights and sounds - making illusions - and some fine telekineses. I imagine she has a great deal of technical prowess, easily on twilight's level, but nowhere near the amount of raw magical force. I figure if she did come back there'd be really good potential for character development, because it seemed to me that her 'high and mighty' personality didn't hold water. She seemed waaaaaaaay too upset when she was 'revealed' as a phony to actually be that arrogant - of course that's probably more a case of wanting to see something there than it actually being there, but still.

Yeah, she was sure showing some humility when the giant fucking bear was fucking shit up, but that disappeared as soon as the threat was gone. Remember how she left? I remember her saying something about blah blah The Great and Powerful Trixie.

She's about as likely to learn her lesson as the CMC are to remember the aesops they've been handed.

edited 21st Apr '11 11:57:26 PM by Gelzo

Hey guys, WMG something for me.

Now, this series is generally full of nonsense, but I'm having trouble parsing the episode Feeling Pinkie-Keen, in which we find out Pinkie Pie has the ability to predict things from bodily feelings, an ability that has never been evidenced before nor, indeed, since.

So, why do you think this is? (In-story reasons please)

Intuition? Pinkie Pie seems more insightful than she usually lets on.

I know we're confirmed that Luna won't show up until next season—I'm hoping still that during the galloping Gala some mention will be made of her since it seems to be taking place at night.

Oh, sorry for not being clear enough: The contradiction I wanted worked out is why this is the only episode where its even mentioned.

Currently my best guess is that the rest of the time she's simply too busy to pay any attention.

The spasms come and go.

That was a day when they were in full swing.

I'm ready to dismiss it as a thing regarding having multiple writers, but since you wanted an in-story rationale...

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...I got nothing. Pinkie's tail should have been twitching hard at the Best Young Flier's Competition.

If I may go for something more post-modern, perhaps the fact that its a new, heretofore unmentioned ability is part of that story's overall moral: in asking Twilight Sparkle if she could believe in Pinkie's predictions despite her pro-science stance, she was also asking us if we could believe in Pinkie's powers despite our pro-continuity stance!

... Then I remember that Lauren Faust is not Hideo Kojima and I go back to wanting a Watsonian perspective, to which I'll add that maybe the predictions only happen during the days when Pinkie Pie is on some sort of "Pony Period."

Well, this was disturbing...

Man, Twilight believing Pinkie's powers was science at work.

She didn't believe until a bunch of things turned up in favor of it being real. She just doesn't know what caused it, yet.

Fluttershy has had it with the internet's bullshit.◊

PONY HELL FOR ALL

The cartoon world obviously has different rules than our world. I don't think there's any mistake that you can't write yourself out of (albeit maybe not always satisfyingly) in a setting with this much fantastic shit going on.

if we reason that the Sonic Rainboom is behind the phenomenon, we can pass the blame onto someone else.