@Ginger: That remains to be seen, I think.

edited 30th Aug '11 2:49:50 PM by RedSavant

True, but Luna was still the BODY who got locked up in the moon, even if her mind was different. Luna´s remorse also indicates that she´s at least partially to blame for the whole NM mess. So until stated otherwise I think it´s best to not seperate the two completely

edited 30th Aug '11 2:47:53 PM by gingerninja666

My guess is that Luna had some capacity to resist, or whatever that force is that turned her evil simply amplified existing envy and anger. She's at least partially to blame for it. Not entirely, though. NM is basically "Luna under the influence".

edited 30th Aug '11 2:50:07 PM by JapaneseTeeth

(Posted this in the other thread as well) Lol, I'm reading an Fi M thread on the Bungie Forums, and there's this guy that claims that he's watched the entire series 3 times so he can accurately hate on the fans. He takes his hate on the series WAY too seriously, calling fans "enemies" and saying that he watches the show so he can know more about the enemy than the enemy does. Here's the thread if you want a good laugh, his username is "Verbatim": http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=65226489&postRepeater1-p=1

Wow, that's....the obvious joke is that he's totally in denial about how much he enjoys the show, but that's almost too easy.

I mean, I can see watching it through once to give it a fair chance and hating it. I can understand watching it again despite that, just to confirm your opinion. But after that you just don't go and watch and entire season of something that you utterly despise. It makes so sense. If what he's saying is true, then the amount of effort he's going to just to bug people pretty much confirms him as a troll.

Before I waste my time... does he actually raise any decent complaints?

edited 30th Aug '11 3:07:10 PM by gingerninja666

Totally agree!

I am a mythic member on b.net I am afraid to say it is a lost cause. I even tried to reason with Foman. Because he believed that FIM was just an annoying meme and Bronies were just attention seekers.

Trolls have already won :(

edited 30th Aug '11 3:09:25 PM by FallenLegend

Not really. At least not from what I've seen. You can read the thread yourself if you want, it's pretty funny

edited 30th Aug '11 3:09:32 PM by JackOfAllTrades

All b.net ninjas are tired of FIM. I am really angry to that troll that ruined FIM on b.net

What happened?

edited 30th Aug '11 3:12:33 PM by JackOfAllTrades

Ooh... The hatred is strong in this one!

Although, to be honest, some of the other posters do raise some valid complaints about parts of the fandom.

I hate fans who give decent fans a bad name

Yeah, they're right. The focus wasn't on them, more about Verbatim

I admit, I do post some pony stuff on other forums (though I don't really go to other forums recently) like reaction pictures and videos and stuff. But that's not to try to convert others or some bullshit like that, it's just because they really ARE good reaction images

edited 30th Aug '11 3:20:47 PM by JackOfAllTrades

Like that creepy guy who thought Pinkamena Torturing Fluttershy was "Clop-Worthy" and then wondered why the mods banned him from here. He was quite a nasty piece of work. And no, Im not naming him.

edited 30th Aug '11 3:28:26 PM by CocoNatts

Long story short. Bronies tried to convert the flood into MLP Fim

But the flood is like a bad copy of 4chan, were being banned literally means nothing. Some trolls got in and perverted MLP message.

The constantly post threads seeking atenttion and corrupt the show's message. with posts like "I want to be fluttershy's boyfriend" or "only nerds watch mlp" etc. the hatedom is pretty strong on the site, and any attempt to change the status quo has failed

There was even a proposal to remove mlp from the site due to the uncontrolable spam.

Mods (ninjas) got pissed and hate anything related to mlp, I even had to talk with one ninja (foman), to make him understant that we aren't just attention seekers). B.net is already a lost cause

edited 30th Aug '11 3:32:15 PM by FallenLegend

I´ll never understand trolls

edited 30th Aug '11 3:41:05 PM by JackOfAllTrades

I know what you mean. I just can't understand that "my sole purpose here is to make other people miserable" mindset that they tend to have. I mean seriously, if somebody doesn't like what you like, leave them alone.

Why we should care about that Flood board?

GIFT I suppose

edited 30th Aug '11 3:54:03 PM by gingerninja666

Well, you know how Lauren Faust has uploaded a bunch of pitch bible sketches (and more are on the way apparently)? If you follow her comments from today as well as the sketch descriptions, she's revealed some nifty triva.

Twilight Sparkle's original cutie mark was based on G1 Moondancer and was going to be named Twilight Twinkle (a G3 pony). Apple Bloom was going to be named Apple Seed. Fluttershy was going to have a mouse named Mortimer in place of Angel. All these were changed for copyright reasons.

Trixie was originally going to be a boy. A writer named Chris Savino suggested the boastful unicorn be female and her Large Ham personality.

Lauren originally designed the dragon and manticore to be prettier and dopey respectively because she thought Hasbro wouldn't let her get away with the monsters being "too scary". She was wrong! Hasbro thought they weren't scary enough.

Lauren has drawings of Discord. No, she can't share them with us (least not now).

We will see more pony families.

Fluttershy's "The Stare" was inspired by something Lauren's mom would do...

Lauren is lousy at background art, apparently.

She elaborated on the Rainbow Dash/Scootaloo relationship a bit and why they aren't sisters.

She also needs to check her grammar before posting :P

I think that covers everything! /trivamodeoff

More pony families will be awesome. I wanna see RD´s personally. I wonder if they´re anything like her?

I also wonder if Fluttershy´s mom is going to be anything like Miyuki´s mum from Lucky Star?

So Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo actually were going to be sisters? Interesting.

Not sure what she means by "that was treading a the mean line".

Where she said stuff about Trixie and Discord ? I must missed that when looking that stuff on Deviant (I hope she answear my questrion).

edited 30th Aug '11 4:18:20 PM by DeathCloud

Given that the episodes were all written and most of them were animated before they even premiered, I think it's safe to say that the fandom didn't have influence on the show beyond Derpy's eyes in the latter half of the season.