It's because she can only do so many in her life time and when she used them all up she will lose her ability to fly.

edited 15th Aug '11 5:03:34 AM by RandomChaos

It created powerful winds, destroyed massive rocks, an seemed to produce tremors. The second boom didn't do anything like that, and it felt all around smaller as well

Well she was higher up also.

That must have been one fragile rock, then. Otherwise, that boom should have been enough to shatter eardrums.

well judging by the sheer amount of gems in that little rock I would say that it wasn't very structurally sound.

Maybe it did create a bunch of effects that we just didn't see.

Now I've got the image of equestria suffering untold ecological damage thanks to the sonic rainboom

Lesbian Pregnancy

Well who knows? Maybe babies really are delivered by storks in Equestria.

Edit: Oops, I think Word Of God contradicted that.

edited 15th Aug '11 7:43:56 AM by storyyeller

artificial insemination? Magical temporary gender swap? Ancient, long forgotten spirit desires to be born anew and latches on to the love held between a loving couple to give itself just enough power to take form and be born, leading to suspicion between the couple and rumors from the townsfolk, the negative energy of which corrupts the spirit as it grows, so even though the couple may or may not make up, when the spirit is born it always feels those negative thoughts and feelings, and must walk the edge between good and evil, constantly fighting it's own inner demons, until it meets another born spirit that was completely corrupted, and must decide whether to do defeat it or join it, and in the end it overcomes all it's negative influences to save Equestria, proving that, no matter how you are born, how you live is your choice?

Say, is ponychan down for anyone else?

I like to go with temporary gender swapping, at least for unicorn couples (it'd be awkward if a Lesbian pegasus went up to her unicorn friend and said: "Yeah could you turn me into a guy for a few hours?")

This brigs up a good point we neem to be more ready to put women in Leather Pants.

I just have it happen randomy if one of them is a unicorn or Pinkie Pie.

edited 15th Aug '11 8:11:58 AM by RandomChaos

For me it's his over all personality. He acted INFINITELY more smug (and arrogant) than Gilda ever did, or at least in a way that pisses me off more. Still, I love blueblood, and I'd love to see him come back and turn good just as much as gilda.

I just think Gilda's more interesting.

I think Gilda is better, but that's only because I don't have any opinion on Blueblood at all. Also, less people would care if Blueblood turned into a good guy than if Gilda became nice... she simply has more connection to the main cast via Rainbow Dash and her interactions with the others, while Blueblood only interacted with Rarity. Gilda also got more Character Development than Blueblood. Blueblood is presented as a royal snob and literally nothing else. Gilda, however, is a "cool girl" daredevil who likes mean jokes as long as she isn't on the receiving end, with a short temper, who used to be friends with Dash. We know more about her, which makes her more relatable and therefore more sympathetic.

Are you going to write that story? After going into that level of detail, you just can't not write that story.

edited 15th Aug '11 8:40:27 AM by KylerThatch

The thing with Prince Blueblood is that he really feels less like a character and more like a device to crush Rarity's dreams. We never really get a sense of who he is beyond "very ungentlecoltly" while at least with Gilda we get that she is/was very good friends with Rainbow Dash.

It does kind of make me wonder what Prince Blueblood does on a daily basis since his behavior seems to suggest that he is all waited on hoof and . . .hoof.

I don't even want her to become good really. Just kinda neutral. Someone who'll appear from time to time to help out Rainbow Dash in a pinch

edited 15th Aug '11 8:53:02 AM by gingerninja666

^Regarding that comparison picture from Ponibooru: Gilda never touches Fluttershy. She roars at her, but after that they don't interact directly again. She does grab Pinkie around the neck, though.

On various other subjects brought up: we don't really have any reason to believe that Pinkie's family aren't actually related to her. She looks a lot like her sisters (as far as ponies who share the same base can be said to have a family resemblance, at least) and genetics doesn't count for much in terms of coat color - we've seen that with Twilight's parents.

edited 15th Aug '11 8:53:53 AM by RedSavant

Count his money. what else?

I don't think the writers worry that much about genetics when deciding on a pony looks like.

edited 15th Aug '11 9:00:40 AM by RandomChaos

I was gonna mention the fact that Gilda never touched Fluttershy, but I was afraid that people were gonna counter with: It's technically verbal assault" or some crap like that

edited 15th Aug '11 9:00:05 AM by gingerninja666

"Verbal assault against Fluttershy is as harsh on her as physical assault would be against anyone else" would've been my argument.

edited 15th Aug '11 9:02:07 AM by Turtle

re: Mio's post *

^{(I don't want to say @Mio, I'm kind of just putting this out for everyone as opposed to one specific person)}

I'm tempted to say The Best Night Ever is a weak episode because of it, but when I think about it, it's almost like a group of six interconnected mini-eps. So I'm going to have to break it down:

• Rarity's mini-ep — Weakly constructed. Prince Blueblood isn't just a pain in the patootie, he's unbelievable. As in literally unbelievable. I remember thinking, "how does an ass like this even exist? It's like he's trying to be obnoxious on purpose!"
• Fluttershy's mini-ep — It's nice to see that Fluttershy has the capacity for terror-inducing rage. Something about the mood transition, though, doesn't quite sit well for me, but for the life of me I can't figure out what.
• Applejack's mini-ep — Not sure what to say, except that it was pretty meh. We see AJ being persistent, but we already know that about her.

I'll stop with these three because I'm sleepy and can't think of anything to say about the others.

edited 15th Aug '11 9:03:33 AM by KylerThatch

also it's unlikely that Gilda knew that Fluttershy was the one pony off limits for any amount of cruelty or meanness

Yeah, gilda wasn't in the right in any sense, but judging her more harshly simply because the pony she harassed was Fluttershy is just plain unfair.

Hold up, is this another discussion about how sympathetic Gilda should be? I probably oughta stay out of it, for my own sanity.