http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLCOc3lo6E

Welcome to hell.

I swear, the voice actress must've been in pain while she said those lines...

edited 14th Jul '11 1:27:57 AM by Pannic

Someone commented on how I mused hat the three ponykinds seemed balanced in a fantasy RPG, and disagreed, arguing unicorns would be way overpowered. Well, the disagreement continues, because unicorn magic for most unicorns is cantrip-level Mundane Utility. Twilight Sparkle can do powerful stuff because, still using genre terms, she is a wizard. Not all unicorns are. Notice that when Rarity, a non-wizard yet very talented unicorn, gets captured by orc-equivalents, she does indeed defeat them and take their stuff... by social manipulation. On a society scale, the fact that "all wizards are unicorns" might mean something, but not between characters: in old-fashioned D&D only humans could be druids, but that didnt make humans overpowered in an adventurer party. Besides, pegasi can FLY, which is usually considered a game breaker in these games.

Back to something more interesting: A show can combine slice of life comedy and magical warrior girl action - Akazukin Chacha did, for instance - but I think it would seep over so that one part becomes more dominant - in the example I gave, a lot of the enemies, despite being rather despicable, are also rather ridiculous, for instance. They would have to strike a fine balance to do both.

I got the impression that Trixie hadn't really learned anything at the end of Boast Busters. I mean, I guess she could have been using bravado to hide the fact that she learned something, but that just means it could go either way.

I also finished another comic page. Stuff is heating up for Twilight.

X To the Trixie vs Celestia discussion

Now I got the image of Celestia saying "From here you have a great view... of my HOOF" then kicking Trixie in the face.

Yeah, next season I'd at least like to see Celestia showing off her power a bit more. She's definitely a royal who does something, but so far that something always happens offscreen

Taco Wiz: I've seen that (as well as all your former irc-mates) and..

that fuck is that?!

Pinkie Pie must have completed the Fourth Wall Cannon.

At first I was going to be horrified, but the incredibly bored voice acting and the wanky poses have shifted me into full-blown hilarity.

^What do you mean? She doesn't need such a thing, to her the fourth wall might as well not exist.

Damn I love her eyes. They have that shape, like, so curious and open and so electrifying with thst slight hint of insanity... She's so mysterious I wanna know how her brain works. Usually I can follow, but the Griffon episode sent me for a loop, I had no idea what she was thinking at any given time...

edited 14th Jul '11 5:39:19 AM by GoodGuyGreg

Easy enough for Pinkie Pie, but the others aren't so gifted. That's why they needed her to tear a hole in the wall for them to cross through.

Princess Celestia took them back between scenes.

Man, Digimon kind of sucks without the Saban music.

Awesome! I'll have to watch through that later. Now if only I could find a complete recording of the G3 live show...

I did notice from galleries of the toys that Pinkie Pie's eyes are opened the widest of them all; that's a nice touch. But the way you described her eyes makes me think of the opening of My Little Pony Tales: Such a shame they don't really look like that in the actual episodes, though.

Oh God I think they were trying to do something there and failed horribly... But I can't figure out what.

As for the Digimon... the art from Adventure 02 on really sucked. It vaguely reminds me of Erfworld: there's something irritating about how bland it is. And I remember Tamers for really trying too hard to have the characters act all Darker and Edgier, especially in the Stock Footage, when entirely context-inappropriate. -rant over-

That said, gotta love the SABAN song, it really stands on its own, even today: very nice instrumentals.

DANGER, DANGER, Gurren Lagann parallels spotted, Drill-wielding Pinkie Pie imagined... DANGER, DANGER, GL Fanboy Mode on the brink of activation, will not shut up about it once triggered...

edited 14th Jul '11 6:28:24 AM by GoodGuyGreg

I don't know whether you were referring to the Digimon theme or My Little Pony Tales, but... Hey, do you think I should upload a video of the My Little Pony Tales opening with the Digimon song?

The first sentence was to My Little Pony Tales. Friendship Is Magic was already pretty surrealistic, but Tales. A bus? ROCK MUSIC?

Yeah, it's like, the fact that they're ponies in that show is completely arbitrary. Plus it must have been before Doug popularized the "Have unrealistic fantasies all the time" style for writing that kind of cartoon, so they tried to make the regular reality a little more surreal when they could.

@Taco: What the heck is that?

Pinkie's character design is interesting. Not only are her eyes pretty much always open, she stands so that her feet are closer to each other than any of the other ponies do - I guess it's to facilitate the bouncing or something like that.

Re: the live show and the G...3? opening: I have no interest in the earlier generations, but just looking at the still on that second video kinda creeped me out a little.

Is it just me, or does every pony in this video look psychotic?

edited 14th Jul '11 8:53:04 AM by JapaneseTeeth

I love how it has rock music.

THE THEME SONG is a rock song! They even segue into it from the more conventional "My Little Pony, My Little Pony" melody. It's such a welcome sound.

which thing are you referring to?

The G4, "Friendship is Magic" theme song.

@Azakazukin Yeah I agree magical girl stuff can coexist with slice of life.

We don't like this show because it's Slice of Life, we like them because of it's characters.The characterization is ao well done that Whatevever they do will be interesting.

Furthermore the pilot episodes are the most talked episodes by far.Everyone talks about the elements of harmony and Luna a lot despite their brief appearance

edited 14th Jul '11 9:52:09 AM by FallenLegend

Has someone made a pmv with the song snuff out the light for nightmare moon yet? That would probably be awesome.

In my opinion, I think it should stay a Slice of Life story at it's core, with maybe a light elements of a Magical Girl show. While it's true that the show will be watchable in any form for the most part, I think slice of life fits the series more. A slice of life series usually relies on the characters to drive the stories, and Fi M is all about the characters

However, I still think that there should be elements of a Magical Girl series, seeing as how that's how the show started, not to mention how Lauren Faust originally wanted the series to go. Not to mention that it admittedly would be fun to see more actual valiant villain vanquishing in the style of the second episode (and would also make it more fun to cross Fi M over with other stuff)

edited 14th Jul '11 10:30:37 AM by JackOfAllTrades

Okay, one good thing has come out of that Crappy LIVE video:

I currently have the top rated comment.

@Fallen Legend I think that is what I would ideally want from the show as well. I mean, yes the slice of life episodes have proven to be to be some of the best parts of the show but I would be rather disappointed if some of the elements (no pun intended) from the first episodes were never brought up again.

On the subject of the first episodes I find the dismissive some parts of the fandom have towards it kind of weird. Yes it wasn't the best written episode of the series but then again what pilot episode is, plus it was the gateway for a lot of people. It's kind of like the people who are treating Lauren Faust's departure from the show as an overall good thing.