Well, what I mean is, entertaining them is all she tried to do. She didn't set out to turn herself into some monster slayer. She didn't even really start to inflate herself until she was challenged - and no performer worth her spit is going to just back down when someone says's she's not great.

You'll have to work hard to convince me she did honestly defeat an Ursa Major.

Or even pulled an accidental defeat of one and got credited with it.

Know that I think about it, yeah. It's like Ponyville had never seen an entertainer before. Rarity's first line is: "My. what Boasting" in an annoyed tone. That's Trixie's job to be larger than life.

Oh and maybe she didn't REALLY expect them to believe she beat an ursa major, just go along with it for the sake of the show. Magicians have made bigger claims

edited 12th Jul '11 2:37:22 PM by gingerninja666

Trixie definitely hads a swelled head, but she wasn't the one really at fault in that episode - that honor goes to Snips and Snails, for being dim.

Yeah, Rarity complaining about boasting, she's obviously never heard a rap song. Also, it's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.

LIKE A BAWWS

edited 12th Jul '11 3:04:10 PM by GoodGuyGreg

I agree, she probably was just spouting random nonsense to get the crowd on her side.

^There's nothing wrong with patter. One should just recall that boasting about having single-handedly defeated a kind of animal that lives in the forest bordering the town one is performing in may not be a good idea. Of course, if Trixie were Genre Savvy she wouldn't have been boasting at all.

Yeah. I don't think she's a bad person; she has a show to do. It's how she makes a living, after all, and it would have been harmless, if annoying, if the boys hadn't fetched a real Ursa Minor for proof.

But it was still a lie on her part.

The boys were dumb, but they believed she was genuine. Onus on her for being a scam artist.

A con artist normally aims to swindle people out of something (money etc) Trixie didn't stand to get anything except admiration

I still don't see that as a Scam. For all we know, telling stories was Trixie's main gig, with a bit of flash in the background. Even if she did lie, she doesn't get anything out of it aside from the crowd's attention, at which point she would do them an actual service.

WHAT DO PONIES USE FOR CURRENCY??? DO THEY ALL LIVE ON WELFARE???

IF THEY USE COILNS; HOW CAN THEY HANDLE THEM WITH HOOVES?

Why is it that Fridge Logic only kicks in when I am drunk off Cardhu because I have to finish the bottle before mom comes visit tomorrow? And why do I have to translate the German version of Hellfire to Spanish for my German class?

Is My Little Pony dubbed in German? Checks... NO. But fandom gets shit done, as usual...

...

Not Bad...

My kidneys hurt...

edited 12th Jul '11 3:39:45 PM by GoodGuyGreg

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

edited 12th Jul '11 3:36:05 PM by Hermiethefrog

Didn't those two boy ponies do stuff for her?

Yet how much was a lie?

Bits? So if bits are like pence, is a pound like a byte?

"Pinkie Pie, I want to buy a byte of your cake!" "But I can't sell you just one bite!" "Okay, how about I buy the whole cake?" "You'll bite the whole cake?" "...Er, Sure, Let's Go with That"

I'll finish that bottle even if it kills me.

Did "she" mention Harrenhall?

I still prefer Fluttershy's covers of Pinkie's songs... We need more Flutterguy, it's so freaking cute

edited 12th Jul '11 3:46:50 PM by GoodGuyGreg

I wanna know what spell Trixie used on Rainbow Dash. She turned a rainbow into a whirlwind. What? oddly specific spell

A Wizard Did It, New Powers as the Plot Demands. Magic is just not sufficiently explained or analyzed in this show.

I think it's a smart move. It kills Fan Wank in the egg. Lauren Faust: deals with fans (Like a Boss).

edited 12th Jul '11 3:52:43 PM by GoodGuyGreg

Snips and Snail;s bent over backward for her, yeah, but from the way she reacted I'm going to say it wasn't her idea. Not sure what you mean by 'how much was a lie', either.

And, uh, Greg...You may want to refrain from posting too much until you're sober.

While I allow myself to be a little silly, notice how I haven't made a single grammatical or spelling mistake.

My posts are usually silly, but that's because I'm a stoner, not a drunk. I still keep things coherent and somewhat to the point, out of respect for you guys. I also expect you guys to treat my posts at least somewhat seriously.

For instance, I genuinely think keeping things vague stops fan speculatio dead in its tracks, and protects the writers from having to justify their decisions. They are freer to a work that is focused on entertaining, rather than pandering to the obsessive Fan Boy's nit picking.

But if they pull a One More Day, I'm out of the show. (That was my token partially Left Fielder bit, just to keep it real... ).

At least the magic seems consistant if nothing else. You have to be a unicorn to use it, You need to learn it from a book or another unicorn, and it can be wordlessly invoked on a whim. Pinkie's Pinkie sense really did seem out of place compared to other magic in the show

Pinkie Pie is a paradigm of the impossible. She has Roadrunner-level reality warping powers.

Guys.

There's DVDs coming. And better toys supposedly: lookie

If the toys look more like the cartoon designs, I'm definitely buying them. Íf my parents ask "why do you have ponies on your shelf?" I'll say:

notice how I haven't made a single grammatical or spelling mistake.

speculatio

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I would think that while most spells are defined to do a specific thing (like give earth ponies wings), there are just a lot of them. There also has to be a certain amount of nonspecialized magic, as well, though - general-use telekinesis and stuff like that, making fireworks like Trixie, sort of thing.

...Nerd time. It'd be like the difference between wizards and sorcerors. There's structured magic that you learn by study, from books and Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns; then there's wild magic that works on intent rather than on a rigidly-defined set of instructions coded into the spell itself. In gaming terms, Twilight's a wizard, since she was taught... Trixie might be a sorcerer, depending on her education.