.........Should I watch Sisterhooves again, the new south park episode (AWESOME btw :D) or Chuggaconroy's Majora's Mask walkthrough? I CAN'T DECIDE

All three at once

Well since Twilight is the main character who is supposed to tie them all together, they can't have her showing favorites. Plus she has Spike.

edited 8th Nov '11 9:22:32 PM by Crowfall

Yeah, Twilight's the center of the group. Someone did actually make up a relationship chart that showed the strength of their relationships...

True enough. Ticketmaster seemed to go out of its way to emphasize that point.

edited 8th Nov '11 9:23:34 PM by BorneAgain

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I think part of it is that certain characters wouldn't really be interesting to watch in one-on-one interactions. Like Twilight and Fluttershy would probably get along great, but they're both so reserved that it wouldn't really be interesting to watch them unless some sort of external conflict was happening. That's why interactions between say, Applejack and Rarity are more common; the characters are different enough that their interactions are more fun to watch. Some pony combinations just don't make for as interesting shows, and since storytelling is built on conflict, the writers are more likely to put the ponies together in combinations that result in conflict.

That's fine, but maybe just as throw-away scenes? It'd be hilarious to see, using your example, Twilight struggling to come up with something to say to Fluttershy. Though yeah, unless that's a part of the conflict of the week that would be a waste of the episode's time.

What are you talking about? Some of the funniest scenes have starred only Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy. Have you not seen "Green Isn't Your Color" or "A Bird in the Hoof"?

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What I meant was that the interactions between the characters doesn't create conflict on its own; external circumstances had to force stuff to happen. The scenes from Green Isn't Your Color and A Bird in the Hoof are both more situational humor than character humor. The plot causes their interaction rather than their interaction triggering the plot. Like in Green Isn't Your Color, it's the conflict of interest between Fluttershy and Rarity that drives the plot; the scene with Fluttershy and Twilight came about as a result of it. And I'm not saying that it can't be done, just that you'd have to go to more effort on a Twilight/Fluttershy-based plot than say, Applejack/Rarity.

edited 8th Nov '11 10:27:17 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Change of pace tonight since the ATG theme was to make a papercraft pony and I totally wasn't prepared: MacGuyver Mode Engage!

If recording just started and Ashleigh Ball has a voice injury, does that mean we won't be getting any AJ or RD for a while at the beginning of season 3? I'm not sure I want that. They'd better get a whole BUNCH of episodes later in this season.

I don't see Spike "hooking up" with any pony other than Rarity - not only does he have a thing for her, but he was raised from hatching by Twilight, which means he probably considers her his adoptive parent more than anything else, and shipping him with the other ponies is just plain weird. Also, he is clearly Twilight's familiar, which is a fancy term for "wizard's slave for life".

Now, putting the shipping aside for a moment, how come Spike doesn't have any wings? It seems odd since every dragon so far has had wings, minus Spike. Do they grow in latter on in life, is he just a member of a species we haven't seen before, or did they clip his wings when he was enslaved by the pony overlords? Because even though having creepy bat wings would probably make him terrifying, he wouldn't have to fall off ladders every other episode if he had a pair.

Ha ha, the stupid dragon fell again! What a douche! >Ponies mock Spike<

This is now a thread about Spike.

My guess is the wings just start growing in later or something.

EDIT:Where did you hear that?

edited 8th Nov '11 10:36:18 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Eh, it hasn't really been touched on. Most people either figure his wings grow in later, or he's just a breed of dragon that doesn't have them. He was born without, after all.

I don't really see him 'hooking up' with any of them. It's not the cross-species thing that gets me, it's the lifespan thing. Like, his aging process might put him at about the right size at the right time, but I don't really like thinking of the poor guy falling in love and then having his heart broken when generations pass by him. But then, maybe he could become the patriarch of a clan, and he'd always have his offspring to keep him company - assuming he could have kids with a pony.

Hah, it just means that she'll have to fill in later. Or they record the episodes that don't require her, if they do the "shove the whole cast in a room and let 'em go" style of acting, which I think they do. So yeah, we'll get a few episodes without Dash or AJ. It's not like we didn't have those this or past season. I'm sure they'll be well spread-out.

edited 8th Nov '11 10:40:02 PM by kegisak

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Love isn't always about having lots of foals. But don't worry, dragons can have babies with ponies. Hideous, hideous monster babies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_horse

Off-topic, but has anyone ever submitted anything to Equestria Daily before? (I sent them a fic yesterday and I got a response saying it was sent to the prereaders just three minutes later. o_o)

How long do things usually take to go through the queue?

I certainly doubt he could reproduce with a pony (and let's not give Random any more ideas), but as always when discussing Spike's future, I suggest people read It Takes A Village. In it, Luna tells Spike that his natural, inborn jealousy and territoriality can come to serve him, as the ponies who are 'his' will be his family - he'll safeguard their success, safety and happiness as he would his own. So in a way, he would be a patriarch.

^I've submitted fic to Eq Daily before. It took... maybe three days to get it posted? I forget; it was months ago.

edited 8th Nov '11 10:43:50 PM by RedSavant

If D&D is anything to go by, dragons can reproduce with ANYTHING.

You may now suppress your traumas related to the end of Shrek 2.

Another thought I've been wondering about: given that they aren't shy about meme-dropping, might a hypothetical Dash/Rarity episode drop the phrase "dresses in style"?

I did once read a mini-fic about him growing up to be Ponyville's protector.

Your choice of words makes me wonder if you have a rather grim view of the world.

Seriously speaking, though, I very much doubt that that's the way Twilight looks at Spike.

On a similar note, I wonder how Spike's "you're not mommy" line in Winter Wrap Up factors in.

^What was the line, exactly? I definitely would like to see more on the relationship between Twilight and Spike.