Dwayne Johnson: "Now that's just plain rude!"

Discord, at the end of episode 1: THIS WAS A TRIUMPH..

Long Miss Faust interview is LONG, but she's AWESOME. I'm really, really liking the personality she displays here.

edited 16th Sep '11 1:18:33 AM by JesusSaves

Lauren Faust totally deserves to have an alicorn avatar :3

I dunno, I always dislike it when the initial creator is given ALL the credit. Faust may have invented the world, but the episodes she wrote, while good, certainly weren't the best this series has to offer. So, no credit to the people who utilized this world to it's fullest potential?

It's kind of like asking: Who's more important? The Architect, or the construction workers?

Where are Applejack's parents? Do they just hate their kids and ship em off to Granny Smith as soon as they're born?

They are in Manehattan under name of Oranges

They went over to another of the Apple Clan farms to help out because they needed extra helping hooves?

but in "Chronicles, we only see Granny and Macintosh living with AJ at Sweet Apple Acres. Flash forward a few years, and suddenly Apple Bloom is there as well. If her parents really were helping other farms, wouldn't they leave any children they had at the farm they were staying in at the time, not ship them back to Granny Smith?

edited 16th Sep '11 4:35:49 AM by gingerninja666

Maybe Apple Bloom is adopted from another apple family?

That or Granny isn't sterile. (squicksquicksquick)

Nopony posted that yet?

So CR is not only Brony there.

@ginger: I guess they decided to let their children grow up in a less hectic environment like Ponyville.

^I think the prevailing theories either are that they're dead or that they're off starting another Apple Clan offshoot farm (like in Appleloosa). They would've had to come back to Sweet Apple Acres, which appears to be the Clan epicenter, to take care of Applebloom once Applejack's mother was pregnant; it could be at that point that Applejack got her hat from her father (another bit of fanon I really like. Is it fanon, actually?)

The second theory sounds most logical, since they were already missing in Chronicles, yet somehow spawned Apple Bloom a few years later (hard to do when you're dead)

This is first time I heard about origin of AJ hat.

edited 16th Sep '11 6:31:56 AM by DeathCloud

I saw a piece of fanart showing her getting the hat from a random uncle.

Here's to hoping we'll learn more about the Apple family (and Mane Cast families in general)

Didn't Faust say we were going to be seeing more Pony families in S2?

I so wanna see Fluttershy's dad. D'ya think he's dissapointed that she didn't turn out to be a strong flyer?

I saw fanart or fancomic where some female pony gives her that hat.

Flutershy dad need to be Earth Pony.

edited 16th Sep '11 6:45:48 AM by DeathCloud

It is. With no indication as to the hat's origin, the simplest explanation is that she got the hat somewhere, and she just really likes wearing it. (She works under the sun all day, after all.)

Hm... Maybe AJ's father gave her the hat when he was dying.

So she's half pegasus, half earth pony?

edited 16th Sep '11 6:55:44 AM by gingerninja666

She said she had never been to the ground before getting her Cutie Mark. The only way she would have an Earth Pony parent is if her parents broke up before she was born/too young to remember or if something happened to the Earth Pony parent that prevented them from living at Fluttershy's cloud home...

edited 16th Sep '11 6:58:49 AM by Calnos

Um... not being a pegasus, for starters?

edited 16th Sep '11 7:00:59 AM by KylerThatch

That's true. Unless they had a unicorn friend constantly casting spells on the dad.

All this talk of an Earth Pony father and the possiblity has got me typing. And yes, this sort of breaks some establishment. Like the "she had never been to the ground before getting her Cutie Mark" thing.

Cloudsdale Mayor: Would you people come to your senses? This mysterious land of yours doesn't exist!
Fluttershy: Like hell it doesn't! I've seen it myself! Down on the land, there's no walls, no ceiling, instead all you see around you is a bright blue sky!
Cloudsdale Mayor: A liar's daughter is a liar too!
Fluttershy: What's that?
Cloudsdale Mayor: Your old man did nothing but spout crap like that! And what did it get him? Dead and buried over a big pile of clouds somewhere!
Fluttershy: You're wrong! My dad lived on the land! And I know because I was there with him!
Cloudsdale Mayor: Then what are you doing here, smart guy?
Fluttershy: Well, I...
Cloudsdale Mayor: Okay, now get this: This village is all we have! For untold generations we've been told to never unseal the canopy that keeps us safe! People who don't understand that rule don't get to eat! To the stockade with you! Without food!

edited 16th Sep '11 7:15:48 AM by Psyga315

All races can mix , Lauren confirm that. And Flutershy is not only weak flyer byt also have strong conection with nature. So she must be half earth pony.

And it propably from father side because she would borng on ground if her mother wasn't pegasus.