I think I know why—If it's for the same reason i get annoyed when any talk about pony sexuality comes into play. This show isn't about that and it doesn't have to be. sure Rarity had some girlish dreams about her prince, but that was more along the lines of character development than "rarity is straight".

It's for kids, anyway. Stuff like that isn't age appropriate.

I agree. A, there's very little actual romance in the show. 2, everyone makes all the ponies lesbians already. And III, I know that it's a good thing to teach about acceptance, but the TARGET AUDIENCE for the show strikes me as a wee bit young to develop any sort of attraction one way or another, and the "LGBT acceptance" moral would be better served towards a slightly older demographic. We could always reference it for the purposes of the moral (girls like cakes and boys like pies, but there's a boy that prefers cake!), but to have an openly gay character in a show where there's not a lot of romantic love would just feel like shoehorning it in.

'Sides, that kind of clamoring tends to result in a badly-done Token Minority.

I think I have a few ideas:

1. I'm asexual, and I like the idea of the characters being asexual, when the only big asexual characters on television are Sheldon and... yeah, pretty much just Sheldon.

2. I get the funny feeling that those threads are less about setting positive LGBT role models for kids and more about validating ships. And I really hate shipping. Like, one person in the thread posted an idea for an episode that would basically be Twilight/Trixie (I have no idea why people like her - she's an annoying, egotistical brat devoid of any redeeming or endearing qualities), and I'm not going to say what I was thinking because that would be rude.

I mean, I watch Glee all the time, and my favorite character (barring an utterly appalling statement concerning bisexuality) is Kurt, so it can't be that I'm a homophobe.

edited 9th May '11 9:37:10 AM by Pannic

To be fair, I don't think it's the egotistical, condescending braggart Trixie that the fans are in love with. More like a confident, self-reliant Trixie (usually softening her negative side by crafting a scene that makes Trixie have a generous share of humble pie).

"(girls like cakes and boys like pies, but there's a boy that prefers cake!), but to have an openly gay character in a show where there's not a lot of romantic love would just feel like shoehorning it in. " Well-said.

I also want to add that those kinds of morals are even better served without bringing gender into it at all. We get very specific about what we can accept and what we can't. One moral I am hoping for is a simple "celebration of differences" moral—something they have hinted at with "dog and Pny Show" and "Swarm of the century". I'm imagining a moral along the lines of "just because somepony thinks differently than you, doesn't mean that they are wrong or that you are right. As friends, we need to celebrate each other's differences."

I'm still waiting for all those Dash/Spitfire Les Yay fics.

You mean "You gotta share, you gotta care"?

Yeah, I think acceptance of difference is such an inherent premise of this whole series that it really doesn't need an episode to itself.

Been thinking about the physics behind the Sonic Rainboom. Light does travel faster than sound but I don't think that's what's happening here. A sonic boom does created a shockwave in the air. Rainbows are caused by reflections of light through raindrops. So what if the shockwave coused by Rainbow Dash's flying alters the way the water in the air sits in just such a way that the light bounces off of it looking like a rainbow?

True and some editor make Physic Goof from this. For me Sonic Rainboom is pure magic.

Interesting pool here.

ItS a MoThErFuCkInG mIrAcLe Is WhAt It Is.

On pony sexuality: shoehorning is exactly what it would be. It's primary intended audience are little girls, they shouldn't know what it is yet. Any sexual tones just do not fit.

Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls

Give it a few years.

"She'll become a crazy shipper!"

"She only has a toy ship."

"Give her time..."

Can we ad Spitfire and maybe Sorin (whatever his name is speled) to Esemble Darkhorse list ?

It's actually spelled "Soarin'". And I think male shippers outnumber the female shippers by a wide margin. That's not to say they're better as they can still get into heated flamewars. Those flamewars just tend to be manlier.

mm, I'm not sure they're any more an ensemble darkhorse than any of the other background characters. I mean, except for the fact that they actually have speaking parts, but I always though that an ensemble darkhorse was supposed to be a recurring minor character - they've only really had parts in one or two episodes thus far - unless you count all of Dash's imagine spots.

Female shippers of the show tend to be on LiveJournal (that's where the kink meme is). I don't think mixing chans and LJ would go down that well. :/

It would be......magnificent.

I just re-watched episodes 1 and 2 while waiting for them to import into iMovie, and I just realized Nightmare Moon uses "foal" in place of "fool".

Josieph's post immediately brought Man Josieph to mind.

Also, I feel weird sometimes as this is the only work that compels me to launch into Defensive Fan mode, especially if the complainer has Never Watched It. Even though I don't do this, it makes me feel like kind of a hypocrite.

edited 9th May '11 3:44:29 PM by AnonymousUser

Do we have any pictures of those two new guys? Spitfire and Soarin?

I'm like that with a lot, actually, to the point where, often, I'll actually sit down to watch something I wouldn't normally, just so I can have a fair critique of it. This is why I saw New Moon.

If you say, "I don't feel like watching it because it doesn't interest me, " fine. If you watch it and don't like it, fine. I just hate when people say, "This Sucks, " without even watching it.

edited 9th May '11 3:58:50 PM by UnobtainableCheese

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Spitfire

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Soarin