Personally I'm over the whole Derpy thing.

I'm not quite sure I saw the resemblance to Lady Gaga, to be honest. I mean, she does look like the cover of The Fame album, but I don't recall Lady Gaga having a German accent. Not to mention that Sapphire Shores was the pop star.

Somepony pointed out that it's suppose to be a parody of Anna Wintour.◊

And there's some other guy Karl Lagerfeld in that picture as well.

edited 19th Mar '11 1:57:43 PM by Deathonabun

I thought that the designer was based off of Lady Gaga.

A mix of both, perhaps. Plus a little bit of True Art Is Foreign.

edited 19th Mar '11 2:29:41 PM by Fancolors

This is the best pic of Luna ever. No eceptions.

EDIT: Okay, never mind.

edited 19th Mar '11 3:11:34 PM by ABRICK

I know, odd thing to say something about, but I'm on the fence about the "scream" gag. I want to declare it a rehash of "yay!", but it still amuses me and is so Fluttershy.

I'm going to re-watch the episode later, I like when Rarity gets time in the spotlight (seeing as how I see a bit of myself in her).

Well, I didn't see what you posted, but I can only assume you were talking about this.

Or maybe this.

That second one makes me laugh. The reason we haven't gotten Luna in an episode yet is because she's busy getting over massive culture shock.

Interesting.

Lulzy.

^^This. Totally this. I hope that when she comes to Ponyville (or they meet her at the Galloping Gala—which would be EVEN BETTER) she's still a little old fashioned.

Why all the irk over Twilight keeping her promise? On one hand, the problem might have been solved if Twilight violated it, but breaking promises isn't exactly healthy. If said promise breakage had worked, then Twilight would have easily been forgiven by both parties, but her word wouldn't be quite as trustworthy. Had she broken her promise only to make matters worse, she would have had a serious problem on her hands, and it would be unlikely for the others to seriously trust her again.

Pinkie Pie was doing the right thing by encouraging Twilight to keep her promise, though she was doing it in an unnecessarily harsh way (by adding "FOREVER" and such).

If I were in Twilight's situation, I wouldn't want to violate my promises, even if doing so looked like a quick solution.

^and that's exactly what twilight was supposed to learn. "Don't break promises to friends, even if it will fx their problems. Doing so only makes you look like an untrustworthy person, and (as she said earlier in the episode) losing a friend's trust is the quickest way to lose a friend!"

I have a problem with these absolutes. It would have been better if she had just told them straight off- she was in a position to help at any point, but Pinkie was guilt-tripping her the entire way.

Actually, I thought that the intended point of the episode was to be honest with your friends...I think it was just that the composition of the plot was wrong. That's probably the wrong term, but whatever.

The whole thing would have been fine with me if Pinkie dropped her personal moral at the beginning, as she did, but rather than have her stalk Twilight to reinforce it, they should have had Twilight debate whether or not to tell them herself, like the adorable social retard that she is.

Or keep sticking random objects into her mouth. Or something.

^^THANK YOU. *huge sigh of relief*

I felt the same way. It was one of those moments that I could totally see coming, but was executed well enough that I still found it amusing.

I know the pony genetics things has been sort of dropped, but my girlfriend left a comment on Faust's dA page asking about it and she got a reply back:

6_9

So, question for anyone who's actually familiar with the franchise, as opposed to those of us (me) who just hopped on the bandwagon - how does this compare, in quality, to the other earlier series'?

Because I'll never live it down if I like this and it turns out that consensus is it's not as good as the original, because there is no way I'm ever watching the original.

EVEN BETTER. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Pannic : The original series was... okay. Friendship is Magic gives everyone a lot more character focus than the first series did; they showed lots of ponies, but they all tended to have very generic personalities. Even the ones who appeared more frequently than others tended to be one-note. They went on lots of adventures, with lots of singing — and it wasn't as good as the self-aware singing we get in FiM.

They also had humans in the original series, with Megan as the Audience Surrogate, plus her siblings. It was also really obviously Merchandise Driven, as they made sure to include all the playsets, and all the different types of ponies got spotlight episodes. That was part of why few characters reappeared often; they wanted to fit in as many ponies as possible, and remind viewers that the Big Brother Ponies/First Tooth Baby Ponies/Sparkle-eyed Ponies/Flutter Ponies/What-Have-You Ponies were out there.

Then the second series, Tales, deep-sixed a lot of the fantasy elements and focused on a much smaller group of earth ponies. There weren't any pegasai or unicorns this time around, except for cameos as 'alien' ponies. Really, Tales could have been done with humans, easily, yet they tied it into My Little Ponies for some reason. The cast got a little more depth, but still weren't really rounded characters.

Never saw any of the third generation stuff, though, so I can't help you there.

edited 19th Mar '11 10:45:27 PM by FoominBlue

I saw the third-generation stuff and Babies, thanks to my girlfriend being in a curious mood.

It's easily the worst by the circumference of Earth twice over.

Good to hear. The extent of my familiarity was the Nostalgia Chick's review of the movie, which looked lame.

And "Winter Wrap-Up" is stuck in my head. Seriously, that's a really good song for something that appears in a kids' show.

edited 19th Mar '11 11:03:31 PM by Pannic