My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Forum Archive (nuked Western Animation thread)
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#378751
Haha, Roid Rage & Cloudchaser? Sure, why not.
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CDRW avatar
#378752
[up][up] Eyup. They're as good as married.

edited 25th Jun '13 3:13:46 PM by CDRW

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#378753 from riding the wave
Roid Rage is the only pony MANLY enough to satisfy CLOUDCHASER STORMWALKER.

YEAH!
And, since today is apparently National Jump To Conclusions Day...
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#378754 from Cranberry World
Thanks, Meta. I made more screencaps of Wonderbolts Academy than any other episode, but I didn't screencap Snowflake and Cloudchaser getting engaged huddling together.
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#378755 from Meinong's jungle
Standing next to each other and physical contact? Well obviously.
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#378756
She's even smiling and batting her eyes.

Edit: And Rarity does something nice for her friend.

edited 25th Jun '13 3:19:31 PM by CDRW

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#378757 from Inkster, MI
[up][up][up][up]Snowflake. As in "SNOWFLAKE FEELS NO PAIN!"
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#378758 from Fort Worth, Texas
So two pages back, we had people saying they'd rather not see Flash show up in the series because he's a flat character, while at the same time the thread in general was gushing about how great of a character Octavia is...

Does anyone else see the irony there?
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#378759
There was no gushing! I specifically did the opposite of gush! I suctioned!
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#378760 from Cranberry World
Does anyone else see the irony there?

Not our fault that we're better at fleshing out characters than the people who actually create the characters are.
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#378761
Octavia has the excuse that she's not actually a character and the fandom can make up whatever the hell it wants. Flash is a major character in the movie and is therefore expected to have a personality.
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#378762 from Fort Worth, Texas
Also ironic: the last three posters have Background Pony avatars.

I must confess I never understood the amount of praise heaped on the show's extras. Probably because I don't read fanfic.
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#378763
So having not seen the movie, in part due to lack of interest, what seems to be the general consensus?

edited 25th Jun '13 3:33:43 PM by Thirikal

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#378764 from Meinong's jungle
What Crowfall said. Octavia is only technically a flat character because she has about 12 total seconds of screentime over the course of the series and pretty much none of it is plot relevant. You wouldn't expect her to be fleshed out because she was never supposed to be anything more than a background character.

Flash is a major character who was specifically created for the movie; if you're going to go to the trouble of incorporating him into the plot, he should be well developed.

[up]Generally good, but the new characters aren't as developed as they could be.

@Blue: Comparing the BG's to Flash isn't really a fair comparison; the Background ponies don't have any personality because they were created solely to fill the background. Flash was created to be an actual character. You can't compare, say, Octavia's fifteen seconds of screentime with no dialogue to Flash's fully voiced movie appearance.

edited 25th Jun '13 3:36:36 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#378765
¡¡¡¡Octavia is God Empress of Equestria!!!!

edited 25th Jun '13 3:36:34 PM by CDRW

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#378766 from Hyrule, Krypton
S'up. What I miss? Octavia is now my lord for some reason.tongue
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#378767 from Cranberry World
@ Thirikal: The general consensus seems to be that it's better than they expected, but it could have been better than it turned out to be.

I found Sunset Shimmer's tearful "I'm so sorry" 180 at the end hard to swallow.
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#378768
@Bluespade: There's just something enticing about a blank canvas. We get the barest hint about them via cutie mark or the way they sit on a bench, and we just take that and run with it. The background ponies appeal to the creative and curious parts of our minds. There's also something about them that makes them stand out more than most background characters in other shows. Maybe it's the colorful, cheerful designs, I don't know.
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#378769 from Cranberry World
¡¡¡¡Octavia is God Empress of Equestria!!!!

I'm tempted to add this to the list, at the risk of it turning into an Octavia tumblr. tongue
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#378770
I've kinda run out of Octavia pictures to make tumblr images with. There's only one left, and it doesn't fit.

But go ahead. I'm sure I'll never be able to come up with a workable post. wink
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#378771 from Fort Worth, Texas
I mean I do understand why the background characters get so much more attention in this show than in most others. With their interesting designs (since there's no need to restrict color choices) and the cutie marks implying some kind of characterization by default.

I do consider Derpy to be a step above the rest, since she has been given somewhat consistent characterization despite her background status.
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#378772
@JT & Syd: Huh, okay. That's pretty much what I expected. May it out sometime out of simple curiosity, but as it seems it's mere passable, the impetus is kind of lacking.

edited 25th Jun '13 3:57:37 PM by Thirikal

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#378773 from a random Pokècenter
So two pages back, we had people saying they'd rather not see Flash show up in the series because he's a flat character, while at the same time the thread in general was gushing about how great of a character Octavia is...

no, we were gushing about how beautiful octavia is!
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#378774 from Cranberry World
I think I just hit on a good reaction image to go with "You guys like suck puppets don't you?". wink
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#378775
Which is admittedly still kind of strange, Blissey.
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