Ya but I don't like Discord I like Babs and Spoon.

Title Card!

Ewwww... that's nasty.

Ye gods, I love these.

edited 24th Nov '12 7:16:32 PM by DemonSharkKisame

Okay, having the CMC coming out of Babs' head like that looks kinda nasty.

I agree the CMC went too far, but it seemed off they were outright begging for Babs' forgiveness at the end, especially since she herself caused a nasty accident to Pinkie's float when they were trying to save her. They were wrong, but not the only offenders. Granted Babs did apologize too, but at her own decision.

I admit it was bit different from what I expected though, I was certain it was going to end up Made Out to Be a Jerkass scenario with the town turning on them (again) for trying to attack Babs.

Also thought the anti climatic crash at the end was sorta funny.

edited 24th Nov '12 7:20:07 PM by Psi001

I can see what people are saying about the moral, but there are so many directions they could have taken it, they had to pick one. It didn't touch on every nuance of the issue, but it wasn't that bad.

I know I have to forgive this of a kid's show, but Babs didn't seem like much of a bully to me. More of a jerk. She destroyed their float, but everything she did after that was annoying at worse. It was hard to understand why the CMC were so intimidated by her when she didn't really threaten them in any way. I mean, the CMC know where she sleeps and outnumber her 3-1 when DT and SS aren't around.

Like I said, I know it's a kid's show.

I've only seen a couple episodes.

The word snitch seemed to tranquil them big time as well. They seemed more emotionally dumbfounded than intimidated.

edited 24th Nov '12 7:22:17 PM by Psi001

No, it's nailed on, just like AB's bow.

Don't remind me of that horse!

Sweetie Bender

Soon to be canon lol

AJ cancels Hat Trade: Already has a better one

In before Discord re-enacts Killing Joke

Death was always so kind to Susan Sto Helit

edited 24th Nov '12 7:26:41 PM by AceOfScarabs

I'm perfectly fine with planning one's enemy downfall, so long as it neutralizes the threat. I believe it should be appropriate for the situation and one should think in advance whether compassion & kindness necessary for opposing force. Of course more solutions like sabotage there not first planned method anyway. Seriously, I do prefer to Win Without Fighting and realize out of 4 responses one can have to neutralizing the threat, direct combat and such is the least favored.

And yes, the level is far higher, though root is the same: Someone being malicious to others & causing them harm. One can define it with whatever words they want, the action is the same. One has just gone so far in being malicious that it justifies extreme actions to neutralize threat. Again, the key is neutralizing threat. Whether that means with compassion or freezing them in stone all depends on the situation (And yes, I approve of freezing Discord in stone or blowing up Sombra, merely to neutralize the threat).

It's fun how things are gray like that. I just enjoy mocking saccharine black & white things at time, especially today. Plus whole bullying aesops are starting to get old for me. Not just here, everywhere. I DO think issue needs to be addressed and all, I do believe He Who Fights Monsters exist, etc. I'm just tired of all the "If you respond at all to a danger, you're automatically as bad as them" things I keep hearing when that is not always the case.

I know THIS time was the case, but it's just an annoying pet peeve of mine at this point.

edited 24th Nov '12 7:31:35 PM by Prime_of_Perfection

Psi 001 - You mean, like, their distress was just because they didn't know how to respond to her behavior? I can sort of see that, but it still seems a little extreme to just let her take their ice cream and kick them out of their own clubhouse.

Technically, she also sang in this episode.

But that's not remotely what the moral was here.

I don't get it.

So, in terms of in-universe progression this episode, it may have been a really small moment, but did anyone notice how there was a good bit of focus on the fact that Scootaloo can now hover enough to land gently from a high jump as well as Sweetie Belle's small magic burst, with one almost immediately following the other?

It seems pretty deliberate to me, showing that their abilities are developing, but still incomplete.

Related to this is the fact that both Rarity's and Twilight's magical "awakenings" (for lack of a better term) coincided with them finding their cutie marks...

This post contains Manicapaint (cheesecake!).

Pinkie

Twi

AJ

Luna

I'm telling you Babs is a Superhero.

She ate all the muffins :3

This makes sense in a disturbingly amusing way

Big Mac:3 Manticore:0

edited 24th Nov '12 7:44:37 PM by AceOfScarabs

Babs I Choose you

edited 24th Nov '12 7:42:26 PM by HeroShepherd

It kinda makes sense Sweetie wouldn't be able to use magic, what with unicorns supposedly only getting spells related to their talents, yeah.

Yeah, I think the fact that Twilight was able to use telekinesis before her CM is a big deal.

@Apple And even then she had a very hard time with it.