I know we've passed the FOE discussion but I was dragged away to watch AGOT (The Spice Lord is the best character EVER!! XD) so one last rebuttal.

The only OC from that fic who seems to have gotten the Awesome-ify treatment is Goldenblood, and again, I'm not sure how the fic handles it

edited 8th May '12 3:20:29 PM by gingerninja666

Sheesh it was hand drawn.

I don't care for Trixie.

edited 8th May '12 3:20:17 PM by Chadaman99

I love Octavia so much. She gets all the best art.

Well Trixie had one of the worst audiences of all time, I wouldn't have blamed her for just shutting down the show. Instead she improved a way to entertain the ponies who actually wanted to see her, and shut down the ones that were pettily heckling her for no reason.

I have to admit this episode kind of bores me, but the Ursa looks pretty cool.

edited 8th May '12 3:21:48 PM by Bluespade

Pagetopper

What's AGOT?

@Blue Well, they were heckling her for a pretty stupid reason

An entertainer showing off? What kind of madness is that!!

A Game Of Thrones. (aka A Song of Ice and Fire)

edited 8th May '12 3:22:58 PM by gingerninja666

There was a cracked article recently about comedians who handed hecklers' asses to them. It was awesome.

@ Ginger: He has rapidly become my favourite character in all of Quarth.

@ Lurker: If they didn't want to see a showmare they shouldn't have gone to see a showmare.

The shot where the Ursa comes out of the forest is almost an exact shot-by-shot recreation of the panda spirit from that one episode of Avatar. I wonder if that was intentional.

Trixie's pretty cute without her cape/hat, and when she's all nervous.

edited 8th May '12 3:25:06 PM by Bluespade

I'm not condoning the audience's behavior. I'm just saying that it is even worse for an entertainer to actually respond to them.

edited 8th May '12 3:25:11 PM by PerpetualLurker

@Blue: Although, given that her entire show apparently consisted of her standing on stage and talking about how awesome she was, I can't really blame them. It would be like going to a Vegas show where instead of doing any tricks, the magician just stands on the stage and tells you about how awesome they are without ever performing any. And if you heck he challenges you to a fight. The closest she comes to doing actual magic is her lightshow, and even that's mostly pyrotechnics.

That said I think both sides have a point; the audience is taking Trixie's boasting too seriously when it's rather obviously exaggerated, and Trixie does get applause out of her attacks, so she's not a total failure. On the other hand, building your entire show around attacking the audience is a pretty jerky thing to do, especially when their criticisms are correct.

edited 8th May '12 3:25:33 PM by JapaneseTeeth

By the way, I saw those CRISIS Equestria pics earlier. They're very nice. I'm enjoying the fic. Some of the O Cs are pretty fun and it's nice wtching the Mane 6 react to this world.

She never HAD A CHANCE to do any tricks. She had just walked out on stage when the ponies started loudly insulting her in front of her audience. I think she reacted in the best way she could.

They were pretty cool. What is CRISIS:Equestria?

edited 8th May '12 3:26:48 PM by Bluespade

Trixie would have done a little better if she actually performed on stage, The fireworks are nice and all but they really don't make a show.

@JT um, IIRC she only stopped to tell the Ursa story because RD flew up on stage and DEMANDED an explanation for why she was so awesome. Before that, she WAS doing tricks (conjuring a bouquet of flowers)

Trixie's show isn't exactly built around humiliating others. We see her doing tricks in the background, it's when AJ, Rarity and Rainbow become extremely vocal that she tries to shut them down. And outside of the five main characters there the audience loves it.

Ninja'd

edited 8th May '12 3:28:23 PM by Badwolfwho

Still doesn't change the fact that she responded in the worst possible way to ponies heckling her. Both parties were at fault, and the fact that her friends were acting in such a way was actually the driving force behind Twilight refusing to step up, so it wasn't exactly pointless.

It's definitely a sign of bad writing when Rarity and Applejack are bigger assholes than Dash.

If you look closely, you can see her conjuring a boquet of flowers out of air. I think she actually did have a standard magician repitoire, it just got interuppted.

@ Blue: It's my favourite ongoing fic. Pinkie's a little annoying but outside of that I'm finding it very enjoyable. Copypasta summary.

edited 8th May '12 3:30:43 PM by Badwolfwho

Basically, the Mane cast were annoyed by the fact that Trixie was on stage performing (AJ said her showing off like ribbons line while looking at Trixie performing some tricks, implying that she took an issue with the tricks she was performing, not JUST the boasting)

meaning they COMPLETELY missed the point of a staged performance

Why? Is there some rule that Dash has to be the biggest plothole all the time?

@Badwolf. Interesting. But what's the appeal?