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Originally Posted by Lix Lorn
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Ditto? :smalltongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lix Lorn
There's a writing technique I came up with called 'seeding'. By using a small number of words and phrases you can communicate a huge amount of information by playing off popular culture and people's assumptions. If you start off a story with 'once upon a time' you've seeded the idea of fairy tales in people's heads - they know what to think, they make a whole bunch of assumptions, and then you can play with or subvert that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dromer
Another example of seeding is, for instance, dropping the word 'Bethlehem' in your opening paragraph. Now it's about Jesus, and the entire story is coloured by that. You can riff off popular culture and expectations to a great degree with just a few carefully chosen words or phrases.
So, to answer your specific query, seed some lines from the cold war. Reds under the Bed. East Germany. Space Race, whatever. The best way to communicate a genre is to couch the story in the language of that genre.
Er, thanks for the tip. I'm a bit concerned that they have the same watermark that'd be on the channel I'd watch, when my cable guide says it wasn't aired yet, but that's probably the cable people's way of doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by erikun
S2E2
Spoiler:smalleek: But but but but but but but but what about the CMC's report on Discord!? There's no way they can finish that now! :smallfrown:
So, a bit belatedly, I watched - well, it's yesterday's episode now!
SpoilerThat was hilarious! And Awesome! And hilarious!
I thought the pacing was a bit better, and that totally was written as a season closer, right down to the side-splitting Star Wars ending!
(I agree, they probably could have spun it out into a three-parter. My guess is that Hasbro wouldn't have let them, though - I mean, they didn't let 'em close the season out with this - which would have been a better capstone than Best Night Ever, I think.)
Additional thoughts:
Spike is the new Rainbow Dash. Therefore Spike must be shipped with everything and everyone, including the kitchen sink (happened with RD, so...)
This is, at least, an improvement over being the fanon punching-bag (and the canon-punching bag more often than not...!)
Spike/RD shipping is looking actually even more plausible (and, while Spike/Rarity is the best, Spike/Rainbow is a good second - heck even Bobcat ... Even Bobcat said he bought that one...)
(I suspect a fair rise in the amount of Spike shipping, even just from memetic mutation...)
Yay, mane six are now really famous! Blows that bit of fanon right out of the park. (And, honestly, I prefer them being Big Damn Heroes.)
Also, yes. Very much so...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kindablue
Bugger that. We've got enough "redeemable" villains already in this show, let's have at least one who is out-and-out villainous - about as Chaotic Evil as you're going to get in this sort of program...) I mean, for crying out loud, people are trying to redeem Blueblood and Gilda!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kris Strife
Also, on an unrelated note, as I watched Hero Factory and Thundercats before Doctor Who, I saw the Celestia advert, to which I found myself shouting "Why are you pink!"
It did, however, give me an amusing thought, whereby some entity kidnaps our dear sun goddess and replaces her with a clone (so as to rule from the shadows). Trouble, is they suck at it. Twilight and co are called in by a bemused Luna to find a pink Celestia, who keeps saying things like "I have pretty wings!" and generally being the Worst Clone Ever. It is fooling nopony (except perhaps, for comedic value, Prince Blueblood). Luna has to hold down the fort, dealing with an equally exasperated court as Pinkestia continues to follow her creator's "plans." Meanwhile Twilight and co have to search and rescue the real Princess, and find out what kind of idiot savant is capable of foalnapping and cloning a goddess, while simultaneously being the Worst Villain Ever. Hilarity ensues...
On an unrelated and unpony, but mind-shatteringly stupid note, among the other avderts was for one of these gimmick kid's games - you know the sort, some technicaly dohickey that they build a "game" around. Only this one was actually about cleaning up dog poop. No, I excrete you not.
I...I don't even...
Okay, I understand the need to educate people to clean up after their animals, but seriously? What. The. Hell!?!
I know far too many toy companies have long since stopped scraping the barrel in coming up with gimmicks (instead of creativity and playability) to sell toys, but this? This is excavating the ground under the barrel so far that you've gone into orbit on the otherside of the planet!
This idea is SO GOOD I'm totally stealing it. You'll get a fic the moment I have spare time (months away)Quote:
Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander
Go for it! I sometimes have a few ideas like this, but would never get around to coming up with enough - and the energy - to actually write something. I was hoping one of you would find the idea worth pursuing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Thanqol
(I mean, seriously, I have had a really silly Harry Potter parody kicking around in my head for months now, but it's likely to stay there - it took about two years for me to crank out Raman-Man (which is a (short) Naruto parody on FF, and yes, it is what you probably think it is, from the title!) Given my fanfic record is currently literally one every TEN YEARS, I think it's much safer in your hands!)
I have decided that it's TF2 time now. My steamname's on the bronylist :smallsmile:
Hey Esper! Look what I found.
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Maybe start with something like: "Two thousand years after Alexander of Maredon stomped his hooves in despair knowing that there was nothing left to conquer, two hundred years after John Hancolt signed the Declaration of Independence, etc, etc..."Quote:
Originally Posted by dromer
I think it's mainly this. She gets a little too much reverence and undying love for some people to believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by dromer
"spare time? http://i.imgur.com/jaolo.jpg thats not even a word!Quote:
Originally Posted by Thanqol
Hehehe, that's a great idea. Sounds strangely familiar though... :smalltongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander
Season 2, madness, extreme madness, crackpot theories, big
I forgot about that sketch. :smallbiggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyouhen
Is this annoying backwards to anybody else? The way it works is the company supplies the product, and the consumers buy, not the consumers buy some other products in the hope of maybe getting the product they actually want. :smallannoyed:Quote:
Originally Posted by Orzel
Besides, I don't have that kind of money. Hasbro is not getting any Pony money from me without show-accurate toys, because I can't (and I'm sure many others are in the same boat as me) afford to buy a bunch in the hopes of getting what I actually want.
Hadn't seen that one before, so I claim innocence...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyouhen
(Man, my Bluff has totally gone up! I said "innocence" when referring to myself and I totally kept a straight skull!)
Friendship is Witchcraft Background Music (the song titles are great)
How would we be able to... never mind, I don't want to know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aotrs Commander
Pretty much, yeah. If the demand for bad toys increases, they're just going to make more bad toys.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dark Fiddler
Personally if they don't want to make good toys for us to buy it's their loss. This fandom's making a killing off itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kindablue
I can see how that thinking is backwards, but I believe the logic that they're going off of is that lack of sales conveys the message of "We don't want pony toys at all" instead of "We don't want BAD pony toys" to the suits.
If that's what they think, then they aren't paying attention to the right stuff. We're pretty blatant about our desire for more show-accurate toys, so it's not really our fault if they aren't getting the message (which sucks because we're the ones that suffer for it :smallsigh:).Quote:
Originally Posted by PhantomFox
Season 2....sorta...kinda..spoiled anyway, involves shipping.
SpoilerSo.....Tom x Rocky anypony? :smalltongue:
Okay ponythread pop quiz time. I noticed something about the end of Ep 2 and its gag:
Spoiler
Six Main Characters in SW: Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Threepio, and Artoo
Six Mane Ponies: Twlight, Rainbow, Pinkie, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy
If the mane six were being cast in a ponified remake (for once a probably improvement) who would be who?
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Originally Posted by Soras Teva Gee
SpoilerLuke-Twilight Sparkle
Han-Rainbow Dash
Chewie-Applejack
Leia-Rarity
Threepio-Fluttershy
Artoo-Pinkie Pie
:smalleek: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Orzel
Season 2
SpoilerSo doesn't that "No Divorces" part mean that Rarity's still going to hang out with Tom? I mean, admittedly, I was rooting for him to be the guy that deals the final blow to Discord in some upside-down display of poetic justice, but I never expected him to be a continuing character! Maybe he just needs some time to chisel out some of his character traits.
Oh sweet Celestia, not the puns again...Quote:
Originally Posted by OracleofWuffing
Han Solo: Rainbow Dash - the aceQuote:
Originally Posted by Soras Teva Gee
Luke Skywalker: Twilight Sparkle - force/magic
Rarity: Leia - not so helpless princess
Applejack: Cheewie - the brute
Fluttershy: C-3PO - team diplomat, talks with animals (kind of like languages)
Pinkie Pie: R2-D2 - completely random ability set. Some days she is rocketing around striking fear and lasers into her foes, the next she is hangs around the group for the sole purpose of having the keys to the building.
Does that mean I get a shiny everything?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lix Lorn
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A. There's more than one, isn't there?
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Ah, the way you had it there, I was picturing a small town, and they were crowding around the local mailmare's house. Kind of like how you would go to the miller's house, rather than a miller's house, if that makes sense.
Alright, I'll finish reading and giving feedback in a bit. In the meantime, Ronin loaned me Rome: Total War and I need to go waste as much time as I possibly can. Haven't played that game in too long.
Season 2Quote:
Originally Posted by OracleofWuffing
SpoilerI bet if there are troubles it'll be because Rarity starts taking their relationship for granite.
S2E2 Gag:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gamerlord
SpoilerYep, this is what I'd peg everyone as too.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this thread's hit rock bottom. Hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gamerlord
.....Must...not....rage....must...not...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyouhen
I don't know about the puns. I think it's a long, rocky road that we take.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyouhen
.....Please do not force me to unleash my OCs on you, they are trained to kill and I have barely fed them in a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowy
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Originally Posted by Gamerlord