Subtle continuity nods are fine too.

The thing about the princesses are that they're ultra-powerful gods. Not only that, but they're in charge of everything. I don't know about you, but I'd be terrified if ever one of them approached me on the street. If only because I know in the back of my mind that they could probably atomize me with a thought.

Maybe it's just a knee jerk reaction people have to beings with that level of authority and power. You dissascociate yourselves from them because they're so beyond your level. They're on a higher level than that of their subjects, so the ponies don't know what kind of standards the sisters hold too. From their POV they could have some kinda Blue and Orange Morality thing going on

edited 16th Oct '11 8:26:43 AM by gingerninja666

Snips and Snails seem unusually much more stupid than everyone else.

Yeah, that's always annoyed me. Especially since they're the only prominent colts in the show.

^^Bah, you just need to shrug it off and treat it as a force of nature. You know, if you say something that pisses them off and they kill you, well, that's life. I think there's a difference between being respectful and being a Lick Spittle.

I love Spike's German voice, es ist sehr Cool.

edited 16th Oct '11 8:35:38 AM by PacificState

I would pay for a sort-of Simulation game featuring ponies. Hey, Nintendo, Takara Tomy, you guys listening? Time for Nintenponies, guys. The {{3DS}} will print money like the 6th Generation of Pokemon just came out.

As for the Princess Alicorns (almost typed "Alicrons", a Transformers diet is doing this to me), I imagine they would want to be treated like everyone else. Fanon!Luna asking for less protocol in informal situations is aligned with my personal fanon.

edited 16th Oct '11 8:34:51 AM by AceOfScarabs

No, I'm alright with them.

I ony find it a little weird due to most of the characters being well thought-out and relatible. Which is something you don't see in most cartoons.

What in this series do we see in other cartoons, really?

I've read the meta-article. I cannot unsee it. It all makes sense now.

Celestia seems to humour their desires to incessantly respect her... up to a point.

She seemed perfectly fine with them throwing a parade for her after all. Even though I think the visit was supposed to be an informal one (was the visit in Swarm Of The Century supposed to be informal?)

edited 16th Oct '11 8:47:15 AM by gingerninja666

Where are people getting this "Hasbro hates continuity" stuff?

If its from the rumor that Hasbro demanded a Slice of Life format, Lauren said the show was intended to be mix of adventure/slice-of-life from the start. Let us not fall down the path of God Never Said That.

^I think that was a formal visit, which was why Twilight snapped (however briefly).

Formal visit to do what, I wonder. Inspect the town, maybe?

Stretching it in a few places, but I wish it were true.

And Spike got short-shifted in "Lesson Zero", IMO. He had to put up with Twilight's breakdown for most of the day, didn't get to go to the picnic, and didn't even get to put his well-deserved Only Sane Dragon postscript to the letter. Sure, his ego gets a bit inflated at times, but by all rights Twilight should be serving up a big plate of gemstones sometime soon.

—R.J.

edited 16th Oct '11 8:52:56 AM by rjung

Show is mix of adventure/slice-of-life.

edited 16th Oct '11 8:55:44 AM by DeathCloud

Yeah, that was BULLSHIT.

Do the writers just hate Spike or something? He was one of the most awesome characters in that episode and he gets sod all acknowledgement. HE DESERVED TO GLOAT!

edited 16th Oct '11 8:56:39 AM by gingerninja666

He'll have his chance to shine, I imagine.

He shone quite bright in the Diamond Dogs episode, he really kicked some ass.

I'm a bit worried about people always assuming that there is a conflict between any show creator and the network/executives s/he's working for, and what's more that any changes the network requests neccessarily make it worse. I don't really know if people actually understand the process or are just projecting themselves on the author, and their own inflexibility to modify their own work.

I'm not trying to tell anyone what they should think, it just worries me that the above assumptions tend to be the default among people without any actual (not just perceived) evidence to back them up.

edited 16th Oct '11 8:59:46 AM by Vree

@Calnos I remember one of the team (possibly Faust herself) did say that Hasbro wanted the episodes to be watchable in any order.

I never said that. I just said that Hasbro didn't want a lot of continuity in the show. I never said it was a bad thing

He really did deserve several pats on the back, yes.

Was it just me, or were most of the characters off-balance this episode? Pinkie and Applejack didn't get to do much at all, while Rarity and Twilight got their worst traits turned Up to Eleven.

Soarin' is obsessed with pies.

Pinkie Pie's name contains the word "pie".

Must write fic now.

Try to focus on too many characters in so short a time span, and you end up focusing on none of them.

Maybe it's just because I'm an AJ fan, but her lines were some of my favourite in the entire episode

Not sure what you mean about Rarity. She just seemed more melodramatic than usual

edited 16th Oct '11 9:07:51 AM by gingerninja666

Re: Telekinesis used on a pony - Twi did it to Flutters in Green Isn't Your Colour to help her mess up on stage

Swarm of the Century's visit was supposed to be casual. Spike says so. Of course, Twi being Twi, says "There's nothing casual about a visit from royalty!"