I did not even know this was on Netflix until recently - sometime soon I think I'll attempt some sort of binge (I have seen the pilot and two or three random season 1 episodes) and talk about it here.

Wow, right after I read this I saw on Recently Added they already added season 2. But I was going to say, the show only added sometime over a month or two ago.

Yeah Pinkie Keen stuck in a lot of people's craws.

Meh. When you're friends with a borderline Lovecraftian beast, you really should be ready to just roll with it every once in a while.

Nah, it's more "Don't let your biases cloud your judgement".

Oh, god, not this crap again. Ever since that episode aired, no one is able to shut the fuck up about it. The message was a bit more what says. Maybe they just couldn't get it through. Never saw anything wrong with that episode. But, of course, people won't shut the fuck up about it.

Funny little details.

• Fluttershy feeds her burd and mustelid friends with appropriate worms and fish in the cold open of Dragonshy, canonically showing she is not actually that scared of predators unless she's on the menu. She still makes a face after spitting out the meatstuffs.
• AJ fashions a crude bit and reins to ride Dashie when shrunk during Bridle Gossip, and Rarity's boutique canonically does fashions with bridles. Twi wears a bridle when playing the role of Clover and ferrying Princess Platinum across the river in the Hearth Warming play. Horse tack is canon in Equestria.

My Little Avengers: Equestria's Friendliest Ponies.

Ohai, Thread.

Bored...

Augh! Why would the train have anything resembling an engine if it's being pulled by ponies? That makes no sense at all!

edited 15th May '12 9:19:44 AM by MidnightRambler

You seem to be quite opinionated.

There's no smoke coming out of the smokestack, so I guess they either ran out of fuel or the engine failed somewhere along the way. Since they were too far out to resupply (in the former case) or couldn't make a field repair (in the latter case), the engineers had to pull the train to Appleoosa themselves.

Thanks for that bit of Fridge Brilliance. You saved Equestria from Failing Engineering Forever!

As if I'd let that happen.

-Like a Boss-

There's also the times in the Season 2 episodes where the trains ARE steam powered when going to the Canterlot, but it was only because of the cold and mountainous terrain of the city's location. I'm guessing the conductor merely pulled the train to Apploosa because it saved money on fuel since the entire area was flat desert.

Anyway, I find it very interesting to see that there are steam engines in Equestria. Steam engines imply an elaborate infrastructure of steel mills, coal mines and whatnot, which I... kinda want to see.

I bet the boiler sprung a leak, so they stopped the engine and got out and pushed.

Kind of just said that

For the record, I don't think FPK was anti-science either. The issue wasn't that Twilight was examining the Pinkie Sense, it was that she was doing it for the sole purpose of proving Pinkie wrong.

Allow me to quote from that episode's Dear Princess Celestia Aesop:

That's pretty explicit obscurantism to me. 'Don't understand it? Good! Fine! Don't analyse it, don't try to understand it; just believe in it! Now stop asking questions!'

edited 15th May '12 3:21:40 PM by MidnightRambler

Speaking as an apex predator, I'd probably make a face after carrying worms and raw fish in my mouth too.

But yeah, a lot of fanfiction authors play up the drama about carnivores in this setting, and completely miss that Fluttershy of all ponies would be the least disturbed by it as a concept.

Heh. Fallout Equestria had a field day with the trains. Poor Littlepip nearly had an aneurysm.

edited 15th May '12 2:38:05 PM by Pykrete

^^Yeah, the aesop was faaail.

I'm sorry, but I simply have to post this here

@Midnight: All I got from that episode was this: you shouldn't dismiss something that very clearly as untrue simply because you can't explain it. There are tons of things in this world we can't explain, but we don't disbelieve in their existence just because of that. In fact, science is all about taking something that exists but we don't understand and trying to analyze it. I never got the impression that this episode tells girls "never analyze anything, ever". But that's just me, probably.

@Midnight: Yeah, they phrased it really badly. But still, when you're only asking the questions because you're pushing an agenda, that's a separate issue.

This, pretty much. The episode as a whole was about not trying to say anything about analysis. Twilight wasn't even trying to analyze the Pinkie Sense; she was trying to disprove it altogether. Her approach wasn't "I don't understand this, so I'm going to find out how it works", it was "I know that Pinkie Sense doesn't really exist and I'm going to prove it". The morale was probably supposed to be more that Twilight should have acknowledge that the Pinkie Sense was real (because it rather obviously was), rather than explicitly disregarding something that she was a firsthand witness to.

edited 15th May '12 5:07:24 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Hooray! The presence of actually working steam engines in Equestria has been confirmed!

edited 16th May '12 4:07:11 AM by MidnightRambler