Also the Luna toy by Hasbro is way fatter looking and her horn is stubby and looks like the "pointy" end of a chocolate coronet or whatever it was that Konata likes to eat.

Remember the part where the little girl in the fairy tale princess outfit said, "But I wanted to be a zombie next year!" ? I know it was kind of a joke, but can't you see that happening in real life? It does seem like the show's staff is trying to say something. After all, one of the messages of this episode is "People (especially kids) love to be scared."

edited 23rd Oct '11 11:46:48 AM by DS9guy

It was more like that even if someone seems scary at first, they still can be really nice people beneath.

That and scares can be fun, I guess.

Wait, did you say... Z-Z-Z-Zombie pony?!

edited 23rd Oct '11 11:48:00 AM by KuroFox

I'm just reading the quote from the director on the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Nightmare Fuel page. And Pinkie does say, "Sometimes it's just really fun to be scared."

edited 23rd Oct '11 11:51:00 AM by DS9guy

Each to their own.

Though I think theres a difference between a quick and harmless fright and being actually scared. =/

But hey, it's pinkie, and horror films don't have fans for no reason, I suppose.

It's not like those two messages are mutually exclusive.

I know. I know. I guess what I am trying to say is that I love that the people running this show understand that little girls aren't perfect little angels that need protection.

edited 23rd Oct '11 11:54:45 AM by DS9guy

Oh right. Yeah, I like how the show, despite the target demographic, doesn't fall to the cliche of being overly nasally(?) and such.

As someone said before, it doesn't undermine the kids intelligence so much it makes you want to shoot someone.

A flaw that some people run into when they try to imitate Disney but that is neither here nor there.

You know, Perky Goth could be a trope that could fit Luna. I just think Addams Family or the Animated Adaptaion of Beetlejuice.

edited 23rd Oct '11 12:05:14 PM by DS9guy

It's not like Disney hasn't had it's own High Octane Nightmare Fuel. They got their own page for it entirely.

Though it has, of course, toned down during the years, but still prevails.

Luna wasn't very perky untill the end of the episode. And not exactly "goth" apart from ethereal starry mane, black coat, cape made out of bats, her personal guards being bat winged, being the mistress of the night... OK, she is kind of goth, yeah. But the milder side and not the "hangs out in graveyards" type.

Still, I wouldn't be ready to pin the goth tag on Luna. Maybe it's just me.

But she was clearly much happier at the end of the episode, and of course when THE FUN HAD BEEN DOUBLED!

edited 23rd Oct '11 12:07:35 PM by KuroFox

I understand. And I found the Fluttershy scenes to be entertaining because you don't usually think of the quiet one being comically abused. Yet when it happened, they made it work without it going too far.

edited 23rd Oct '11 12:15:39 PM by DS9guy

I bet the bat thing was only because they are the most symbolic nocturnal animal. And a cape dissolving to owls would had looked weird.

And pegasi normally have feathered wings, and butterfly wings wouldn't really fit the princess of night.

Apart from the bat thing, what else was macarbe? I mean that Luna actually did on purpose.

And I was really surprised of the Flutterabuse too. Even more so since Fluttershy's a girl. "Because quiet guys are comic relief while quiet girls are super precious and unharmable."

edited 23rd Oct '11 12:19:35 PM by KuroFox

^^^ But that was just Luna dressing up for the occasion. I highly doubt she's normally a goth.

edited 23rd Oct '11 12:17:58 PM by storyyeller

You forgot the carriage. I do hope this won't be her only other appearance.

edited 23rd Oct '11 12:20:31 PM by DS9guy

What if she allways doing that not only for that one night? And her guards have bat wigs also all the time?

Then Luna has excellent taste.

What if that even before her NM transformation ?

BTW I noticed that NM is less hammy than Luna. Odd.

Then I can imagine Rainbow Dash taking a good look at them, then at her wings, and letting out a frustrated sigh, because bat wings would obviously be at least 30% more awesome than feathered ones.

edited 23rd Oct '11 1:02:51 PM by CountDorku

Pipsqueak's accent didn't drop; notice the slight stop after he says "princess"?

Well, I can confirm that Call of the Cutie is also censored by Treehouse. Just saw the episode today, and they censored a line near the end. When Silver Spoon says to Diamond Tiara "Whatever. We still think you're losers, right, Diamond Tiara?", the line is censored so that it ends up as "Whatever. (silence), right Diamond Tiara?". I may have mentioned this before, but this is the same network that showed all the 11 Land Before Time movies there were back in 2006, all of them uncensored, including the first one. I guess they've been taking from South Park. "Horrific, deplorable violence is OK, as long as nobody says any naughty words!" That only leaves one more episode so far that I haven't seen that could possibly be censored on the network, and that's Griffon the Brush-Off. Fortunately, they somehow lightened up and are actually airing it on Wednesday, so let's see how they butcher it there.

edited 23rd Oct '11 2:00:41 PM by x86x

This is wha hapen when show land on station aimed for to little kids.

MLPFIM in Poland airing on that kind of station :/

As far as PM Vs go, I had another idea. Someone should do Friends On The Other Side. I know it's already been done, but I think it could be made a lot more awesome using footage from the new episode.

The word losers is censored?

...what that fuuuuu..?

edited 23rd Oct '11 1:58:17 PM by dmysta3000

I don't know that title.

edited 23rd Oct '11 2:00:27 PM by DeathCloud

well we wouldn't want anyone to think that our antagonists were mean, would we?