I could almost swear that looks like some kind of joke.

I'm going to assume that it's not.

Semantics deals with when and how a word should be used, or what the right word to use is when trying to express a particular idea.

Like the difference between a secondary and background character, for example.

^^Word order and differences in meaning between words, generally. In this case, people're debating whether Twist is a 'supporting' character, a 'background' character or a 'one-shot' character, all of which have shades of grey where she shows up.

edited 26th Aug '11 9:17:28 AM by RedSavant

it wasn´t a joke, I´d heard of the word, just couldn´t remember what it meant

edited 26th Aug '11 9:17:49 AM by gingerninja666

15693: This should answer your question.

Dáwwwww

Was it Faust who said that?

edited 26th Aug '11 9:26:21 AM by gingerninja666

I miss times when Lauren was answering queastions about show.

What are the odds that Pinkie´s origin story was just a bunch of BS?

edited 26th Aug '11 10:08:27 AM by gingerninja666

None.

What we saw in flashback was true. These show us what really hapen not what Mane Cast told (Flutershy dooesn't noticed Rainbow Dash doing Sonic Rainboom and we can se her in Flutershy flashback.

Well, there's never been any truly conflicting information, though it sort of clashes with the backstory given in "Giggle at the Ghostly". The only thing to really suggest that it wasn't true is that at the end she seems to not know what story she just told.

But flashback show us what realy hapen.

I wouldn´t be surprised if they went the Joker route, and gave her a different origin story each time she told it.

It´s just her story felt the most... unusual, the most fake. Like it was too over the top

I mean come on, A ROCK FARM!

Do you know what a flashback is even for?

It's because it's not that interesting to just listen to characters talk about what happened to them. So while that's happening, you have to show it also.

Flashbacks will, by their very nature, include some details that the character couldn't be describing - like, say, everything that's going on around them at once. This is because we're seeing it and not being told. Details are being filled in for us, because otherwise there would be huge blank places on the screen, or else it'd be limited to first-person view.

So, no, the flashback itself isn't something that's inherently true.

edited 26th Aug '11 10:24:37 AM by TurnwaysFlip

If I'm not mistaken, Rashomon had flashbacks of different versions of the same story, all of which contradict each other?

Flashbacks aren't always truthful. Especially if you can't trust your narrator.

Hey, someone needs to farm all those rocks.

Flashbacks can be wrong. Consider plots like the Rashomon, where none of the flashbacks are accurate.

Damn, that was some hardcore ninjaing.

edited 26th Aug '11 10:28:50 AM by Crowfall

In a setting with flying ponies, magical butt tattoos, and dragon belch-mail. I don't think this particular argument holds much water.

but those are all treated as things which hold a lot of significance. Rocks are still treated like ROCKS in this world.

Maybe Equestria realized they didn't need to farm rocks because they're rocks. So Pinkie's old lifestyle went out of........ style.

I'm still not sure why everybody thinks the "Giggle at the Ghosties" song contradicts the backstory she gives. I mean, just because we don't see Granny Pie doesn't mean she was never around. Maybe she only started visiting after Pinkie's family lightened up.

I actually saved all the youtube versions of the episodes onto my hard drive. I'm a bit reluctant to host them for downloading though. For high (itunes) quality episodes, we'll probably have to wait until the DVD comes out. Speaking of which, do we have any more info for that?

edited 26th Aug '11 10:35:14 AM by JapaneseTeeth

I saw a Haiku that suggested the posibility that the Amish Ponies adopted Pinkie when Granny Pie Died.

http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/47339

Here it is!

edited 26th Aug '11 10:34:21 AM by CocoNatts

Okay, let's go see what all the fuss is abou-

IMMA FIRIN MY FRIENDSHIP LAZOR BLAAAARGH

Holy crap, this show is awesome. My daughter likes it a bunch, too.

Yup. They did plan for parents of little girls to be part of the demographic, if I remember.

Lauren Faust better give audio commentary in ALL the episodes!!!

edited 26th Aug '11 10:42:30 AM by kyun

No, silly. All audio commentary will be provided by Pinkie.

^^^ The first time I read that, I accidentally skipped over "parents of" and totally read it as sarcasm.

edited 26th Aug '11 10:41:55 AM by CentralAvenue

It shows. I get a lot of the more subtle bits of dialoge, which leaves my daughter wondering why I'm laughing.

My wife was more "it's alright", and roughly equated it to the new Strawberry Shortcake CGI movies.