Some interesting stuff from the writers at a recent panel

For example: Spike At Your Service? Originally concieved as a Rarity episode.

And news of the season 4 opener! Nice.

What they proposed is a good way to start it off.

edited 22nd Feb '13 7:31:06 PM by edvedd

I find the reasons for that a bit odd.

Also, M.A. Larson having issues writing Fluttershy sometimes would explain her characterization in Magic Duel slightly.

edited 22nd Feb '13 7:31:40 PM by edvedd

@Enlong: Huh, that's quite the interesting interview. And evidence mounts that the Twilicorn thing has been in the works for a long time.

Makes sense as their foils for each other.

As regards to Fo E, I might pick it back up after some time, I've gotten fairly far after all. It's just that scene with Pinkie just... Just hit really hard, too much darkness I could handle at the time. Oddly, my friend who I've tried to get into the show is reading the fic. He says he'll try it out one of these days, but he's still not sure. But anyway, I explained a bit about the fic and he is enjoying it quite a bit.

I think we'll still have the easy to miss BG cameos like in the finale, but nothing like the major cameos such as in Luna Eclipsed or Hearths Warming Eve.

Gah fillings suck. Just had round two and had to deal with 7 fillings and had to keep my mouth open for 2 and a half hours. Far from a root canal, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Well, of the Mane 6, IMO Pinkie's fate is the most tragic. Don't want to spoil, but only one other Mane 6 had an end that could really be that hard to take. And again IMO Pinkie's was still worse.

but yeah that is one of hardest punches in the fic to the readers feels. That, and Chapter 29. Hour of the Wolf.

slight spoiler maybe two survive the ending completly, one dies, but via Heroic Sacrifice to save another pony, one well, cant describe, and the last, gets a Bolivian Army Ending where we're not sure just what her final fate was, but it doesn't look good.

edited 22nd Feb '13 7:39:39 PM by Seraphem

The thing about the darkness of FOE is that it mostly comes from tragedy, rather than malice. You don't have people being outrageously evil like you do in the actual games. (For example, the Vaults were actually supposed to work and just failed due to accidents)

I think some of the side characters like Diamond Tiara had kinda shitty ends... in fact most characters have shitty ends. There's only one I can think of that had a "good" end.

Re: Spike at your Service: Couldn't they have rewritten that episode so...Rarity wouldn't be mean to Spike?

You can sort of see the germ of that episode idea in Rarity's little speech about how good it would be to have someone devoted to you.

edited 22nd Feb '13 7:39:32 PM by edvedd

The Vaults in Fallout were actually social experiments. I don't think they were really designed to keep people alive.

Yup

'The Vaults were never meant to save anyone."

Singel biggest thing I love the most about FOE. Stable Tec was doing it RIGHT. The first priority of the Stables was to save ponies. Yes they had experiments, but they were for good reason, and every stable was left with instructions that saving the population of the Stable came before the experiment.

Every "failed" Stable was either an accident, or outside forces.

antoher reason to dislike PH, friggen sex-slave stable. GAH!

Yeah Dark, if the darkness in FOE is getting to you, well wait the kep going, but sta the hell away from Project Horizens. THAT is friggen grimdark just for the sake of being dark, depressing, and angsty. plus all the retconning to help "fix" issues that, mostly only exist in the writers head.

edited 22nd Feb '13 7:44:22 PM by Seraphem

@edveed: Pretty much what I thought, unless they do believe that Rarity would be mean to Spike no matter what. . .which is odd.

I don't know, I guess someone thought that using another character would have been better.

@Seraphem: The sex slave thing didn't actually have anything to do with the stable's original instructions. That was a result of the ponies in it screwing things up.

@Mio: The lesson could easily have been about not taking advantage of people.

Still the fact he had to go there with it.. combined with... THAT scene... yeah.. just turns my stomach.

I haven't read it but I've heard Pink Eyes isn't so grimdark, you could try reading that if you want to stick with that universe but not be so depressed by it.

I'm going to have a LOT of fanfiction to catch up on once I graduate this program. 1.5 semesters left (as long as I passed the final I took today)

Yeah, PH is pretty needlessly dark at times. Stopped reading it awhile ago and I'm not sure if I want to bother finishing it.

The fanart and videos should keep me going for the hiatus, plus Gravity Falls.

I just have no patience for fanfiction.

And yes Pinkeyes, is just, it's, it is the total opposite of PH. Puppysmiles is just so so sweet, and innocent and cute, even the worst stuff suddenly seems fixable when viewed from her POV.

It really is the anti-PH. PH is well written from a technical stand point, but mired in darkness, cruelty and bile. While Pinkeyes, isn't exactly all the well written, (Someone said the author wasn't a native English speaker, and I could buy that.) But is so happy, bright, and just, FUN that it's an amazing read.

I very rarely read fanfic anymore, despite writing them. There are a handful I enjoy, but on the whole I find most of them just don't capture the feel of the show in the way I'd want them to. I'll be good over the hiatus with the art, comics, and rewatches though. Or I can binge on Powerpuff Girls or something.

edited 22nd Feb '13 7:53:58 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Like I said before, I can take tragedy. But it's starting to feel like EVA in the sense that all the tragedy won't really save anypony in the end. Or at best, there'll be a long term bittersweet ending that won't mean anything because all the sympathetic characters died before they could get even that.

@edveed: Maybe. On the other hand I can imagine that that sort of plot would meet with a similar reaction as MMDW, justified or not.

Putting it that way the change may have been for the best.