If I can't understand it, then I don't want to know. I can't stand technobabble.

Not everything NEEDS to be explained

edited 29th Jan '12 6:13:18 AM by gingerninja666

@Ginger: Who are you talking to with that Scootaloo statement?

I hate arriving to conversations to late.

edited 29th Jan '12 6:14:18 AM by Mio

Electricity? Oooh, are you referring to The-Gift-of-the-Gods-from-up-High?

Discworld is one part light and one part dark. On the one hand, Pterry loves his punes, or plays on words, a little too much. On the other hand, the Disc is so fleshed-out and well-described you could practically find your way around once you got familiar with the place. Also it gets better. Death and City Watch arc books are excellent, and the Moist arc introduced recently is pretty interesting because the protagonist is a shameless scoundrel and a confidence trickster and a fraud and a snappy dresser. The Tiffany arc books, while a bit oriented to younger audiences, has a dark side to it that makes it a great read.

Overall, I'd recommend the series.

But enough Discworld, we need more ponies! Especially the Scootalove episode!

@Ginger: That's a reasonable view, because sometimes the universe (or even multiverse!) is simply too vast for a single person to comprehend. Anyways if Twi insists that Unicorn Magic is practically a science, I'm not gonna say otherwise because she probably has done papers to prove it and such.

edited 29th Jan '12 6:15:41 AM by AceOfScarabs

@Mio YOU!

You were fine with Sisterhooves Social, despite the fact that it involved Sweetie Belle and her sister.

Your complaint was that you think the WRITERS need to give Scoots something to do outside of the crusaders and RD. All that had been established before Sisterhooves was that Sweetie hung out with the crusaders and idolized her sister. You didn't complain that they were going to be focusing on something already established about her back when they announced that episode.

edited 29th Jan '12 6:20:25 AM by gingerninja666

Discworld Ponies!

Twilight is the Librarian, Rarity is Ridcully, and Fluttershy can be Ponder Stibbons.

...Pinkie Pie can be the Bursar.

Is it just me, or were Lyra and Bon-Bon all over the place in this episode?

Definitely. In fact, Bon-Bon was in multiple places simultaneously.

Indeed, I was fine with Rarity and Sweetie Belle having an episode together. In fact it was one of my favorite episodes.

But this Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo to be honest I am just absolutely terrified at the prospect them being together in an episode. Mostly because the likelihood of Scootabuse being vindicated in someway is fairly high.

edited 29th Jan '12 6:23:45 AM by Mio

In before Esk ends up in Equestria.

Hm... if the contraption uses a "Divination-class spell" to detect good/bad apples, then...

Does that mean you can pre-program a spell on to stuff, and you only need to supply it with raw magical energy to activate it? Except, for it to work for more than a couple of seconds, it'll need a steady stream of energy. But Flim and Flam only gave the contraption a short zap to get it started.

They must be using some sort of magic-supplying reactor or engine, and the zap they gave it is the starter that gets it running. But then, where does the magic come from? A reactor/engine still needs fuel.

The next logical step is... ... ...is beyond me.

How so would it be vindicated?

edited 29th Jan '12 6:26:30 AM by gingerninja666

@Kyler: The idea is that energy for Unicorn system spells is forced into a particular "shape"to get a specific spell. A perma-burned spell would be like an etched circuit ROM that casts the same spell as energy is fed into it.

As to how it stays powered, I think the Brothers pump a sizeable charge into it, enough power to last a good long while.

edited 29th Jan '12 6:31:20 AM by AceOfScarabs

Well, if they are going with a tried and true "teach to fly" plot then it is almost guaranteed that Scootaloo is going to suffer some cartoony injuries at which Dash will show little concern. Then we will never hear the end of it from fans

On the other hoof Dash could just be plain dismissive of Scootaloo and that would probably be enough to. Maybe we will even get a cynical message on how we should put so much stock in our idols because they are not be who they seem.

Look I know this is all pretty irrational but I can't get them out of my head.

edited 29th Jan '12 6:51:34 AM by Mio

so, odd question I've been wondering about but keep forgetting to ask, assuming we're talking using American conventions where-by Cider =/= Inherently alcoholic, what's the differnce between Apple Cider, and Apple Juice?

Yup, that's what I thought. I'd seen a similar concept before, in Tales of the Questor.

But... it's a huge machine. Even with the two of them, I would imagine powering the contraption really ought to be a significant strain (especially if you mean for it to run for a full hour). But they hardly even broke a sweat!

Hmmmm, Dash seems to suffer most at the hands of the writers themselves. Moreso than any other character.

wheras Scoots (Dash Jr) suffers most at the hands of the fandom. Again, moreso than any other character.

Coincidence?

Hmm, could they charge it up before hand? the the jolt we see is just the ignition spark?

edited 29th Jan '12 6:38:23 AM by Seraphem

About the "Cutie Mark Crusader Babysitters" thing, that would be a hilarious disaster, even more than it was for Pinkie. Also, remember that since Apple Bloom was helping with the farm, she wouldn't be there, so it would just be Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. First of all, Scootaloo probably would get into racing with Pound Cake and they would probably trash the store knocking things down. Or she would just get angry at them as they didn't listen to her and played around. However, she'd probably be good at thinking up entertaining games for them to play, even if said games also ended up trashing the store.

Sweetie Belle, on the other hand, would try to bake something for the Cakes or for the babies and end up making as big a mess of that as she did in Sisterhooves Social. Or else she would try to sing the babies to sleep but she'd sing her loud lullaby and it would just make them more active and want to dance to it.

Basically, I'd like to see that potential story! (considering I liked Baby Cakes so much, it would probably be even funnier with the Cutie Mark Crusaders)

Speaking of Sweetie Belle, I was thinking of Rarity's kids (in relation to my next-gen fanfic idea) and thought that Rarity really would either need to babyproof her store or have an addition where the kids and potential spouse would live (or a separate house next door) so that the babies wouldn't be underhoof all the time. Especially if they were unicorn babies and were at all like Pumpkin Cake. Rarity had enough trouble keeping Sweetie Belle from accidentally messing things up, and baby foals would be even more trouble, if Pumpkin Cake was any indication.

edited 29th Jan '12 6:39:26 AM by Rainbow

You know Rarity would be the type of pony to hire a full time nanny-pony to take care of the kids.

@Kyler: we never get to see the internals of the squeezy so for all I know they have a concealed mana battery inside it.

Edit: I recently saw more work by that artist:rainbow guy who did the somewhat unsettling Gamma Delta pet_pony art, and he's eased off on the creepy, in the latest piece she's no longer frightened, actually has had a manecut, and is actually posing happily for a sketch.

edited 29th Jan '12 6:44:42 AM by AceOfScarabs

Well, if it's a battery, they still have to charge it sometime, right?

(Actually, if it's a battery, why would it need a starter jolt?)

It just serves as turning the key. They made it so that it only turns on when they pump in a very specific amount of magic to prevent someone from using it without them.

Maybe that's what they're doing. They're charging up the battery inside the machine whenever they fire a bolt at it.

edited 29th Jan '12 6:45:50 AM by gingerninja666

The jolt is an ignition charge to start the reaction, I should think. The engine might run on something like thaumic combustion so it needs a bit of a kickstart.

I don't think it can simply be an ignition charge though. Since that bolt they fire is capable of changing how the machine functions depending on their intent.

They say "Double the power" then they fire another bolt at the machine. Suddenly the machine is then working twice as hard

edited 29th Jan '12 6:52:25 AM by gingerninja666