Well, any comments on my wall of text?

You think almost like me I guess, although I focus moreon the enviromental factor than the genetic factor, which probably comes first.

edited 14th Jan '12 6:58:17 PM by AceOfScarabs

My rationale is that the womb is probably very insulated against any outside influence, plus the environment will have to go through the mother first - and honestly, a very physical approach of 'and exactly what is going to affect the baby how?'. In magical pony land I suppose that can work, gestation on cloud would predispose the pegasi signaling, for example.

Whoa, did I just kill the thread?

Nah, I'm just bored.

NERCROOOOOOO

Nah, I think it stumbled over a rock and broke it's ankle or something. It's not dead, but it's sure as hell slowed down.

Or... ponies are just as clueless about this shit as we are.

I suppose it's possible. Go ask a baker about alleles and gene theory some time, see if he can explain why his kid can roll his tongue but he can't.

Well, its getting late. I shall slumber now.

Good night.

Well, now that the thread seems to be dead, I'm back. Go timing!

Anything interesting happen today?

Aside from the episode?

Eh... Ginger caught fire a little bit, but we talked him down before he exploded. After that I had to go do homework, and I didn't check back nearly often enough to keep up with it all.

I was here until about two hours after the episode before I needed to get some sleep, so I caught the ginger craziness.

Why do you all need to be in timezones that sleep when I've got free time? Grumble grumble.

I'm still here y'know

Btw, somebody mentioned earlier an aristocratic Rhino voiced by Tim Curry who makes witty quibs?

Fund it.

So you are, so you are. Did your day ever improve? Before the episode things seemed to be going pretty shitty for you.

Well, the workshop's winding down...think I'll go to bed.

Good night folks!

Today's episode... I can somewhat understand why it wouldn't be liked because of the ending, but after reading the Homage entry on its recap page, I suppose it makes sense. It's all about instilling guilt into the young!

As for the ponies, I agree that Rainbow Dash was kinda dickish, but Rarity... You've all seen how badly she handles kids (Sisterhooves Social and the end of The Stare Master). She knows that she wouldn't be able to handle babies.

Was Rainbow being dickish? Yeah her excuse is one of the weaker ones, but did she know that the Cakes had already checked with everyone else? Plus Pinkie was right there clamoring to watch the kids, so she knew she wasn't their only option.

You know what? I kind of miss Twilight. She's been Out of Focus this season. I want her to be prominent in Read it and Weep, which would also be prime time for some good RD TS interaction.

Okay, someone tell me what Ginger's reaction to the episode was!

Also, my thoughts:

1. Pound and Pumpkin are adorable when they're not crying or causing trouble.

2. I really liked Mr. Cake in this episode for some reason, I don't know why XD

3. I felt really really sad when Pinkie broke down.

4. Great, another episode that brings to mind uncomfortable thoughts about when I have kids XD

5. Aside from their parents not being there I kept wondering exactly what the heck the twins were so upset about.

6. You would think that eventually the kids would mellow out, and that it wouldn't take Pinkie throwing a screaming fit to get them to realize that they should be cooperative.

Liked it except he didn't think Pinkie suffered enough in the ending.

Ginger liked it, but hated how the problem was ultimately resolved.

How did he hate it? I mean, I know that they still asked her to be it and she still accepted, but I can imagine why.

Pretty sure RD's backstory episode will bring up the matter of her parentage. Also, why did she drop out of flight school?

Gravity

-slap-

Nonono, the problem of how Pinkie handles the babies. He thinks that having the stinkers who caused the trouble suddenly resolve the trouble without Pinkie figuring out a way to do it instead was a big cop-out.