Your best friend is dangling off a cliff. Your husband/wife is dangling off another. Which would you save?!

The general answer to that is the reason why I don't like the idea of the mane cast having coltfriends

edited 9th Dec '11 6:05:23 PM by gingerninja666

define abandon

The answer is both. Granted, if your significant other can fly, then you rescue the one who can't fly :V

Give up? Disregard, make her chosee betwween him and her friends ?, ignore? etc

@Boob Cute giant spike would be cool too

edited 9th Dec '11 6:06:46 PM by FallenLegend

Your best friend is dangling off a cliff. Your other best friend is dangling off another cliff. Your other other best friend is drowning. You can only save one.

We're NOT a perfect pair

You could say the same for brother/sister.

edited 9th Dec '11 6:06:53 PM by ApplelightLimited

Save the cliff!

@Kyler: Let your other friends join in the rescue, silly, that's why there are so many of you :V

edited 9th Dec '11 6:08:31 PM by AceOfScarabs

Stomp on both of their hands and laugh.

I hope we get a new design for mega-Spike. I think the reason he looked weird in the flashback is because he was enlarged, but his skeleton was still baby-like. Hopefully this time, he'll have a more adult look to him. Maybe wings? Or a cool hooked beak-thingy like Basil?

Do you mean "literally cut off every single contact or never taste that mighty horse meat again" situation?

To be honest I didn't though that much on every possible meaning of "abandon". But It would apply in every sense of the word.

Love isn't selfish after all.

edited 9th Dec '11 6:22:16 PM by FallenLegend

Excuse me while I resist the urge to beat myself over the head with my laptop.

Ginger I am geniunely curious, WHO IN THIS THREAD SAID THAT WOULD HAPPEN IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM?!

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND HAS TOLD YOU THAT LOVERS > FRINEDS?!

Are you seriously implying that the writers would do that? Do you honestly believe Romance and friendship are such mutually exclusive concepts that you can't have them together on a show?

Is there some sort of GIGANTIC rift between erotic love and platonic/whatever-hell-friendshp-is-called love? After all, what is romantic love if not a form of friendship? Someone please explain that to me because I've never been in a relationship.

Please explain to me how a romantic interest would "overwrite" the show's theme of "The Power of Friendship >>>>>>> Everything else."

If the possible bachelor candidate would y'know, bend the entire show's premise to him and his girlfriend because the writers suck donkey testicles, that'd be one thing. But if some nice dude like Big Mac got together with say, Fluttershy, and the writers basically occaisionally go "oh yeah, these two are together in case you forgot since it's been about four or five episodes since the last time they acted like a couple" and not make a gigantic fucking deal out of it like every other show in existance, then tell me; WHAT IS SO GODDAMN HORRIBLE ABOUT THAT?

Just because something exists in fiction that's been done poorly in previous works doesn't mean it'll be done horribly in another work. You're being stubborn as a goddamn mule*

^{yeah, I went there}

over something that you could think is the best thing ever because the writers did a good job with it but refuse to accept it because of past examples of it not being properly utilized in your eyes.

Ginger, I like you. I really do. I respect pretty much everyone on this website barring a few exceptions. You guys are decent people with common sense.

But I want to make something as clear a possible; I come to this website to get AWAY from the "STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT I DON'T LIKE HURKA DURR" bullshit all over the rest of the internet. I respect your opinions and I'm sorry if you've had a ton of failed relationships in the past that have soured your outlook on romance.

But throwing a temper tantrum like a spoiled brat because people are discussing something you not only hate/disagree with, but can ACTIVELY AVOID AND NOT PARTICIPATE IN is one of my biggest peeves and the #1 reason I wish I could be a moderator on some forum like this one.

You're throwing a hissyfit over something that might not even actually come to pass! Insisting a trope is horrible just because it exists is another one of my berserk buttons. Hating something that hasn't even come to pass that has the potential to be good OR bad just positively boggles my mind and is the main reason I refuse to associate with the Sonic fanbase. It's fucking ridiculous!

Tl;dr: None of us know whether romance added to the show would be bad or good, so there's no use in acting like it's the end of the damn world. If it happens, and it sucks, fine. If it happens, and it doesn't suck, fine. But for all that is reasonable and holy, STOP ACTING LIKE A LUNATIC AND FUCKING WAIT BEFORE PASSING YOUR OPINION.

Agree, disagree, get butthurt and sic the mods on me for harassment, What-fucking-ever. I've vented my anger and said my rant, I don't give a fuck.

EDIT: yeah, what thefran, Fallen Legend, Applelight, and Savant all said.

edited 9th Dec '11 6:22:58 PM by takashi.0

Say 5 of the six are kidnapped/imprisoned/whatever...

...only one remains, and they need backup to rescue them. A squad of lower tier characters. A BF could help fill out that squad;

An apple clan member joins to rescue AJ,

Spike joins to rescue Twi (or Rarity),

Villian (Trixie for instance) could join,

and BF joins to rescue their other half.

Stuff like that might work.

Edit: Wow...I respect your passion!

edited 9th Dec '11 6:25:39 PM by ApplelightLimited

That's what I'm hoping for: A purple version of the dragon from Owl's well

won't happen, but it'd look cool

edited 9th Dec '11 6:23:15 PM by gingerninja666

That's joyful.

Because you should see "abandon" broader than that.

How about generally making someone of the mane cast spend more time with her gentlecolt of choice than with the rest of the cast? Loving couples do that all the time.

Can we please go back to discussing pony rump again

edited 9th Dec '11 6:24:06 PM by thefran

Who says the mane six are straight, anyway? Maybe they all really want Ditzy Doo.

Wasn't the dragon from "Owl's Well That Ends Well" just a green version of the dragon from "Dragonshy"? HOW MANY RECOLORS DO YOU DEMAND?!

Gay romance in girl media as the only option? Not gonna happen, and probably shouldn't.

edited 9th Dec '11 6:25:07 PM by thefran

the one from owl's well didn't have wings I believe

edited 9th Dec '11 6:25:29 PM by gingerninja666

Ooh... Yeah... Get a load of that featherbrain...

Why not? Most of the ponies are recolours of themselves. Or he can be a recolour of sea serpent.

He did if I recall. I think they appeared towards the end when he was mad that everyone escaped.

edited 9th Dec '11 6:26:09 PM by boobustuber

x7 Sorry, Not in debating mood right now. But I will say this

True love isn't selfish. I doubt someone that loved them would force them to do that.

edited 9th Dec '11 6:30:14 PM by FallenLegend

Applejack is the orange Applejack