My favorite ship is the doctor and rose

@Apple I should hope that they don't introduce a love interest in a movie. That would just reek of forced romance. It would need to be a slowly developed thing if they do it ever, which I doubt.

@ JT

It could be a one off thing for an episode's plot that is resolved as a dead end or something by the end.

@ Lurker

Mmmm...I see your point...

@Jt thank you

That... would be so freaking cute!

But why no lover for Scootaloo? Poor Scootaloo never gets any attention...

Forever Scootaloo is the new Forever Alone.

Lauren said that she rather not have romance. but she isn't around anymore

Actually, that plot with the CM Cs could work. Could be really cute, and sort of reveal what 'experience' the mane six have.

I cannot see a mane 6 romantic plot doing well. No matter how you do it, it throws off the character dynamics. It's either within the mane 6, (which would never fly with moral guardians and would severely hamper the way the group functions) or with an outside character (which is even worse because it drags the cast member in question away from everyone else).

@Moe: Mainly because I wanted to keep the mane cast involved somehow. Although it might work even better if Scootaloo is the one with the crush. That was both Sweetie and Apple Bloom could help her, and they could still drag their sisters into it. Not to mention that Scootaloo's the least likely to want to show any interest in romance, so that's like +5 hilarity right there.

edited 25th May '12 9:40:51 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@Fallen Legend:

Well, she wasn't around anymore when Hearts and hooves day came out, yet her "No romance" rule was probably one of the reasons why none of the mane 6 appeared in that episode {Except for a short appearance from Twilight}.

edited 25th May '12 9:44:20 PM by marston

@JT It could work if they make the whole "dragging them away" part a plot point, making it a lesson in jealousy or commitments (or both!), depending on which side ends up going too far.

edited 25th May '12 9:42:06 PM by PerpetualLurker

I could take the romance as long as it isn't in the mane cast. Like if H&H had ended with Big Mac and Cheerilee hooking up, I wouldn't have minded.

I was referring specifically to the "slowly developed" thing you mentioned. I one time thing is doable, although it would probably be forced. Not to mention that it would be a forgone conclusion that it wouldn't go anywhere.

edited 25th May '12 9:43:42 PM by JapaneseTeeth

This it...all or nothing...the final resort...

@Moe: Promontory is one of the train puller ponies from the appleloosa episode. He was the one in the front - big, long mane, dark fur...

oh god I think I have my mother's taste in men

One ideas:

A rock star type pony in a big band does a concert. Pinkie the ultimate groupie pony is initially trilled when they notice her over the top antics in the crowd and wants to hang out with them. But when they ask her to join them on tour, she has to decline.

See, there's lots that can be done.

Oh him!

@ Idea with Scoots.

That could work too! All three CM Cs, plus AJ, Rarity and RD involvment!

edited 25th May '12 9:46:22 PM by ApplelightLimited

Now, a running gag with a background pony who keeps trying to impress one of the mane six over the season but keeps getting shut down, that would be kinda funny, in a cruel way.

That's not really romance though. That's more Friend or Idol Decision. Sort of like what Rarity had to do in "Sweet and Elite".

Anyway, the big question of the CMC crush plot: Who would Scootaloo get a crush on? Do we go the obvious route and have her crush on Rumble, because he's a proto-Rainbow Dash, or does she have affection for Truffle Shuffle?

edited 25th May '12 9:48:54 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Hmm romance. One unicorn siphons all of life's emotions, puts it in a jar, cultivates into a super emotion, puts it into a ponyroid, kill himself then.... profit?????

edited 25th May '12 9:47:36 PM by Chadaman99

@ JT

Well...yeah...but I think such an idea could be very funny and sort of sweet.

Nice running gag idea though.

edited 25th May '12 9:47:56 PM by ApplelightLimited

@JT I personally would find it to be quite refreshing if they did an episode about romance, and the romance causes the conflict, but the resolution doesn't end the romance. It wouldn't have to be brought up all the time, but it would be a great piece of characterization and continuity, like the Cake Twins or the cast's pets.

@ Lurker

Do you mean that one of the cast gains a boyfriend who is just a semi occuring supporting character? I guess that could work...

@ JT

Nah, got to be Rumble. TS has Twist.

Eh, I don't think that it would work well. For me at least, Romance tends to be an all or nothing sort of thing. Unless you're going to make it a constant element of the work, you're better off not bringing it in. I mean, your options are either have the relationship change how the cast functions, which I think would be a bad thing, or you have the relationship have no effect on the ponies most of the time, which is also weird. It would be like "Okay, Rarity has a boyfriend now, but absolutely nothing else has changed". Which is problematic because people do change when they're in a relationship. Inserting a major romantic element in a show that's not at all about romance would feel gratuitous. It's theoretically possible, but if the effects are so negligible that it doesn't really influence 95% of the show, I'd kinda have to question why you'd bother setting it up.

I'm also not sure that the analogies of the pets or the Cake twins work. In the Cake's case, they've actually changed a lot, we just don't see it because they're offscreen most of the time. As for the pets, a pet doesn't have nearly the same amount of social implication that a romantic partner would.

edited 25th May '12 9:54:41 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@JT Really? I don't think being in a relationship changes how you interact with your friends (so long as you've solved the commitment problem, which I'm assuming has already been done at this point). Having a significant other shouldn't warp their character like some sort of relationship black hole.

See what peeves me in shows of the whole "so and so has a bf or gf" is that I really don't care for that all.

I like to see devotion and sacrifice, not lovey dovey happy times.

Another idea:

Big Mac's lifelong best friend returns to town from, I don't know...the Equestrian Marines.

AJ has always had a crush on the guy, but RD takes a shine to him as well. Cue both fighting over him.

In the end, he explains that he could never go with AJ because she's like a sister to him, and he won't go with RD because she's just not his type. The girls reconcile, lessons learnt etc.

It's Been Done ... oh wait.