"Damn you I wanted to be the first to think of that one."

engaging Happy Dance, uhh hua uhh hua huaa

Exaggerated Pinkie is kind of her natural state, though.

someone was asking about the name of that black and yellow pegasus?

@ JT, it was clear from the start she didn't give a buck about any pony but herself.

To paraphrase another well known work of fiction, Pinkie only has two settings: "Open fire" and "Changing mags".

x4 Watch it, pal, or you'll be doing the Burny Dance soon enough.

edited 15th Dec '12 8:24:20 AM by HouraiRabbit

@ Blissey: Thanks. I really like her.

This is her if anyone didn't notice.

Lighting Dust x Trixie

Listen to the first few seconds.

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Yeah, I like Midnight Strike's design.

And Lightning Dust wasn't bad from the outset. In fact, she almost seemed like the better one in the team from the outset, until we started seeing what sort of leader she was.

It really only got bad at the precision flying course.

Getting put in a leadership position has a way of doing that to people, I've noticed. Even in real life.

I think it did plenty of that.

Based on her cutie mark, I'm calling that pink trainee "Sunflower."

Well fuck. I leave after my bout with Mousa and the next episode shows 'my' character no less than 3 different times. Damn that was convenient.

Hahaha oh wow!~

Speaking of whom, any word on when Orion's coming back?

Listen to the first few seconds.

Whoa...

Midnight Strike is officially my favorite non-speaking bit pony.

I'm sure he has some free time to come back here :V

@ Syd: She's being called Flowershine apparently.

So, dem dress blues and aviators. I wonder what the various ribbons were awarded for.

edited 15th Dec '12 8:28:32 AM by HouraiRabbit

Flowershine, huh? It's better than "Sunflower."

Hay, Colin. Welcome back!

Vector of Spitfire in her Officer Dress Uniform

Small winged badge on collar = no sure, possibly flight achievement of some kind

Upper forelimb badge = rank epaulette

Chest pocket badge (left) = Wonderbolt unit decoration

do you think Flower Shine And Blossom Forth are sisters?

I doubt Leadership really could have done to LD what she ended up doing, although I don't doubt the little ego boost probably helped things along.

What I'm still trying to figure out is, Whether Spitfire put RD as a wingpony to try and teach her to work as part of a team, or whether she genuinely though that LD would lead RD well. I mean, On the one hand it would almost make more sense to make them both leaders of separate teams, but on the other RD and LD where the only ones who could keep up with each other, and the fact that LD liked to push meant that they were liable to do a little extra. At the same time though, Spitfire does know what Dash is capable of, so it seems like a bit of a waste.

But then, What you are in training doesn't decide your role on the team, I suppose. Plus, when you think about it, considering the wingpony has to respond to everything their leader does and add to it with splitsecond timing, the wingpony may actually be the superior flyer of the two.

Heh. I suppose this all just goes to show the solidness of the episode, because for a good while I genuinely shared RD's disappointment that she wasn't made leader, which is odd because I don't normally sympathize with her, and I'm not a leadership type myself.

Well, it's been fun, but I'm out for now. Catch everyone a bit later.