My Little Pony LXXIII: Luna's Sordid Dreams? I'm Not Googling That...

[Aotrs Commander]

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Yeah, was spot on that one!

Woo! Luna haz star-lazars!

Actually, this is pretty much not far off how a lot of the fanon has it (albiet rather more abbreiviated, but part of that could be the magic itself showing only the most important points.)

I'm guessing someone now is going to take screen shots and ascertain which element Celestia and Luna were carrying...

Friendship lesson was fairly mediocre, but that crisis resolved fast anyway.

Spike: "he may be reformed, but he's not that reformed!" Preachin' to the choir, buddy, preachin' to the choir...

Also big note, though: as canon butt-monkey as Digo says he may be - but I note this time he was with them all the way, element or not, and no-one said anything about it, and he was included in all the friendship parts. (And also, given how scared he probably was - given all the panicking feinting he was doing earlier (just like somepony else he's close to with a flair for histronics...) I think that speaks volumes to his character.) So yeah. Thank you, season four, for putting Spike where he belongs, front and centre with the rest (even if he is arguebly the badass normal by comparison.)

Give up Elements of Harmony (without having to discuss or outright state - thank you for show not tell!) Oh dear. That's not going to bode well.

Six locks. Pretty clear where this is going. But ooh! Story arc!

Aaand Discord.

Yeah, sure, he's totally reformed.

I'd say it was his plan all along - but it kinda was, wasn't it...?

Sure would be a bad time for Sombra to come back from the dead, wouldn't it...?

Right - back through thread!

[HamHam]

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The Good:
Luna/Celestia fight
Discord
Overall action quotient

The Bad:
Some of the dialogue seemed stilted.
Twilicorn
The overall script is meh. I didn't really feel why the others all suddenly wanted to send Twi away, for example.

[DigoDragon]

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Well, I can check that off my internet bucket list.

Oh yeah, also

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Another DBZ beam battle. Seems to happen between authority figures.

S4 Definitely

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Yeah, it was pretty cool. Finally get to see Celestia win a fight. Too bad it was that one. At least there was some nice castle collateral with it, and we saw the device that held the elements in action. Apparently Celestia abandoned the castle shortly after banishing her sister.

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Also big note, though: as canon butt-monkey as Digo says he may be - but I note this time he was with them all the way, element or not, and no-one said anything about it, and he was included in all the friendship parts. (And also, given how scared he probably was - given all the panicking feinting he was doing earlier (just like somepony else he's close to with a flair for histronics...) I think that speaks volumes to his character.) So yeah. Thank you, season four, for putting Spike where he belongs, front and centre with the rest (even if he is arguebly the badass normal by comparison.)

S4 Spike

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That reminds me a bit of Sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender in his earlier episodes. Maybe Spike will get some more respect this season? The upcoming comic-bookish episode might be another one for him to shine. He seems to be the savvy one for that.

[Soras Teva Gee]

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That reminds me a bit of Sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender in his earlier episodes. Maybe Spike will get some more respect this season? The upcoming comic-bookish episode might be another one for him to shine. He seems to be the savvy one for that.

Well since he's more/less the resident boy some savvy there would make a bit of sense.

[Deadly]

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Another DBZ beam battle. Seems to happen between authority figures.

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It would be kinda nice to see Celestia (and Luna) use something other/more than giant laser blasts in battle. Something a little more creative and varied like the Twi vs Trixie battle, only less silly.

[Pokonic]

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Alicorn Magic is what was previously called Dark Magic. Neat. Really, that makes Sombra a lot more interesting, giving that he was using the stuff all the time. A pity they didn't take five minutes or so in the flashback's to conform that little bit.

Nightmare Moon was rather toothy, and had a really nicely animated tranformation. Headcanon: Luna/Nightmare Moon obtained that throatier Kathleen Barr voice over a few centuries of screaming and yelling, hence why she didn't sound any different during the fight itself.

So, in the previous age, the Elements were CGI. Good eye, Twilight, they were different!

Apparently, much like how the Season 3 opener was Spike's time of glory, the Season 4 opener is Applejacks.

Also, Discord was really well used, especially given that he was technically the villain of the whole episode but really wasn't. I laughed at him throwing seeds at Celestia, mostly because I thought they were, like, chocolate covered coffee beans or something.

[Toastkart]

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Overall it was an enjoyable episode. Very nice animation and visual effects. A lot of sight gags that were really good. Applejack said 'what in tarnation' which is something I always look forward to. Discord was in top form.

There were definitely problems. I'd rate it the weakest of the season openers. Some of the scenes could really have used some shuffling around. We should have seen a few of the ponyville being overtaken by the brambles scenes prior to Twilight being informed of it.

If you're going to have the send Twilight away scene at all (I think it could have been handled better), then it should have come earlier. Have the first flashback scene, then send everyone off to the old castle to see what's what. Send Twilight back, have the scene with Discord. Then have a scene where there's actually not much for Twilight to do because hey, ponyville is apparently pretty good at handling itself while she gets to the root of the problem like usual so she goes to Zecora and has the next flashback scenes, which gives her enough info to warrant setting out after the others.

We could do with fewer damsel in distress scenes. Fighting off the brambles and tying them up was a pretty cool scene, but it didn't require it.

I'm intrigued by the thought of actual story arcs within the season as seems to be implied by the lockbox. There was an awful lot of exposition in this episode, almost so much that it felt like the characters didn't have much of a chance to interact with each other in a more natural way.

[Soras Teva Gee]

This pick has zero spoilers in it but sums up rather aptly my view on them:

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That's my view from the outside looking in of course.

[Anarion]

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Another DBZ beam battle. Seems to happen between authority figures.

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You see, long ago, before the first alicorn, the ancient unicorns developed telekinesis. However, discontent with throwing mud at each other (because it was too similar to how the loathsome earth ponies would fight), the unicorns endeavored to create a more noble, refined form of dueling magic.

After a few failures with ponies turned into 20 foot tall rabbit hyenas, and the odd reverse gravity spell that required a team of 20 pegasi to recover the lost combatant, the unicorns finally came up with the most elegant form of combat: the beam war. The beam, you see, is actually the concentrated hopes and dreams of the casting unicorn, modified by what the caster had for breakfast that morning (as an aside, Celestia had only had a single banana the day she fought Chrysalis, which is why she was unusually weak during that beam war, and also why her beam was especially yellow).

Thus, the beam war, far from just another earth pony contest of strength, pitted the mental fortitude and will to win of the using unicorns directly against one another.

Later, when the first alicorns were created, it was found that the inherent physical strength, speed, and control contained in the pegasus form could be used to refine the power of the unicorn horn, allowing for never before seen dark beams, multi-beams, and the especially rare curly-Q beam. This made alicorns the unmatched champions of the beam wars. The duels that established Celestia's dominance over the famed unicorn duelist Smile Daisy Sunshine, are the stuff of legend, and young unicorns still study the finer points of the combat in their dueling classes to this day.

[Aotrs Commander]

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Is it just me, or did the magic Twilight use to blast the potion look disturbingly like Sombra's dark magic?

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Yeah, I thought that immediately, too...

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Pretty good all-around, with things only getting stupid near the end (You could give me a week and I wouldn't be able to finish explaining why sending Twilight back was a bad idea.)

Indeed.

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*I give it a day or two before the dirty jokes about Pinkie dreaming about frosting start coming in.

If they haven't by the time I'm making this post, I will be astounded...

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So who get's first dibs on saving the Commodore?

*glare*

*sharpens short swords*

you
win unfortunately for you what you win is a visit from Darkspark when the Commodore sees this...

Pika!
*cracks knuckles*

And fetch Bleakling, Blitzkreig and Jubilance, too!

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An interesting thought is that Trixie using the Alicorn amulet also had a different visual effect. Perhaps that amulet was developed specifically as a way to give somepony "alicorn magic" who couldn't normally use it, and the reason it drives ponies to evil who wear it is precisely as you said: using that sort of magic if you're not an alicorn makes you start going "crystals!, slaves! blargh!" or some variation thereof depending on individual personality.

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Possibility.

Though I like better the idea that Twilight is being occasionally subtly corrupted by that use of Sombra's power (i.e. dark magic), and it's going to come to a head at some point, possibly when the Pony-Lich Hisself shows back up...

S4 Comic Art Already. Kinda Funny Actually (and tall).

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Pahahahahahahaha!

That's still not gonna help you, you know...

Harmony Cider

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*snerk*

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Also, as that brings it to mind, was it me, or was AJ just a bit more badass in the tree-fighting than usual today?

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I either agree with Thubby, or I thought it was sort of a tip off. Like, Zecora saying "turn this white" was enough information for Twilight, internally, to go "oh, that's a dark magic alteration spell, I know how to do that" and then externally we see the blast. Like asking someone to add a particular ingredient in a recipe, rather than needing a fully customized spell for the moment.

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I think thubby's idea seems the most interesting, especially if it call into the whole "corrupted Twilight" potential plot point which would be cool to see...

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Yeah, it was pretty cool. Finally get to see Celestia win a fight. Too bad it was that one. At least there was some nice castle collateral with it, and we saw the device that held the elements in action. Apparently Celestia abandoned the castle shortly after banishing her sister.

Indeed.

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That reminds me a bit of Sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender in his earlier episodes. Maybe Spike will get some more respect this season? The upcoming comic-bookish episode might be another one for him to shine. He seems to be the savvy one for that.

We can but hope.



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Great start!

DeLancie was... well, he was DeLancie, and I expect that standard from him at this point! (And I still do not buy his reformation! Have I mentioned that?)

The pesudo-valuable person crisis could have been handled better. But unlike some of the other two-parters, this didn't seem so rushed (probably because they were setting up), and the elegant use of show, not tell generally was excellent. I do dislike the idea that everything has to be verbally spelled out for the audience, as if they're stupid which you see often (and in a lot of cartoons), so it's nice to see some subtlety!)

I think I would probably be feeling more enthused, but after Day of the Doctor - and the Five(ish) Doctors - I think I am a bit burned out.

(It's a bit unfair, but I think a high-ranking pony episode (not the best ever, but definately up there) was a bit overshadowed by the Day of the Doctor, which I think is in the running for the best Who has ever been.)

[Soras Teva Gee]

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You see, long ago, before the first alicorn, the ancient unicorns developed telekinesis. However, discontent with throwing mud at each other (because it was too similar to how the loathsome earth ponies would fight), the unicorns endeavored to create a more noble, refined form of dueling magic.

After a few failures with ponies turned into 20 foot tall rabbit hyenas, and the odd reverse gravity spell that required a team of 20 pegasi to recover the lost combatant, the unicorns finally came up with the most elegant form of combat: the beam war. The beam, you see, is actually the concentrated hopes and dreams of the casting unicorn, modified by what the caster had for breakfast that morning (as an aside, Celestia had only had a single banana the day she fought Chrysalis, which is why she was unusually weak during that beam war, and also why her beam was especially yellow).

Thus, the beam war, far from just another earth pony contest of strength, pitted the mental fortitude and will to win of the using unicorns directly against one another.

Later, when the first alicorns were created, it was found that the inherent physical strength, speed, and control contained in the pegasus form could be used to refine the power of the unicorn horn, allowing for never before seen dark beams, multi-beams, and the especially rare curly-Q beam. This made alicorns the unmatched champions of the beam wars. The duels that established Celestia's dominance over the famed unicorn duelist Smile Daisy Sunshine, are the stuff of legend, and young unicorns still study the finer points of the combat in their dueling classes to this day.

Personal Headcanon Accepted.

Though seriously this IS an area where simplicity is actually a virtue.

[MCerberus]

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Yeah, was spot on that one!

Woo! Luna haz star-lazars!

Actually, this is pretty much not far off how a lot of the fanon has it (albiet rather more abbreiviated, but part of that could be the magic itself showing only the most important points.)

I'm guessing someone now is going to take screen shots and ascertain which element Celestia and Luna were carrying...

Friendship lesson was fairly mediocre, but that crisis resolved fast anyway.

Spike: "he may be reformed, but he's not that reformed!" Preachin' to the choir, buddy, preachin' to the choir...

Also big note, though: as canon butt-monkey as Digo says he may be - but I note this time he was with them all the way, element or not, and no-one said anything about it, and he was included in all the friendship parts. (And also, given how scared he probably was - given all the panicking feinting he was doing earlier (just like somepony else he's close to with a flair for histronics...) I think that speaks volumes to his character.) So yeah. Thank you, season four, for putting Spike where he belongs, front and centre with the rest (even if he is arguebly the badass normal by comparison.)

Give up Elements of Harmony (without having to discuss or outright state - thank you for show not tell!) Oh dear. That's not going to bode well.

Six locks. Pretty clear where this is going. But ooh! Story arc!

Aaand Discord.

Yeah, sure, he's totally reformed.

I'd say it was his plan all along - but it kinda was, wasn't it...?

Sure would be a bad time for Sombra to come back from the dead, wouldn't it...?

Right - back through thread!

Too late. Repasta for the undead

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Let's talk about the elements


That's Celestia with Magic, Kindness, and Generosity; Luna has Loyalty, Honesty, and Laughter. Make of that what you will.

[Metahuman1]

I've been waiting months to say this.

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God, Pinkie was in Rare for here! And Discord was top caliber pretty much all the way through, I particularly like the meta joke about Twilight bursting into song. Though I am mildly annoyed with the ease of cowing him since it was such a big, and legitimately so, concern previously.

Twilight having a hard time with something that is not a social skill and has an academic side. That's hilariously awesome!

Fluttershy and Rarity and even AJ got some good lines in there, and these are easily the most epic actions scene's we've had since Canterlot wedding.

Canon is remembered and Celestia and Luna both got developments that I like, given that I've always been a sucker for mentor/older sibling characters. Twilight at leader is good but adorable, and it appears were getting an over arching plot this season.

My only real beef's with this ep, truth be told, is that they had to give up the elements at all. I felt that was a bad move, particularly with out thinking to first try USING the elements to clear the plants. And sending Twilight back felt a tad forced.

As an aside, were seeing more action, I wonder if maybe this means there part of the game plan for making it a bit more grown up is to show them more frequently having to draw there line in the sand and fight, and watching them have to get better at fighting? Would be unconventional given the official target audience.

[DigoDragon]

Okay, had a short play session with my daughter. I was the CMC and she was the Ponyville petshop that tried to sell Spike off as an exotic pet. Since the CMC had no money, they decided to spring him free Thief-style...
...and by accident my daughter dropped something which caused the Spike figurine to launch like Team Rocket out of the living room.

Scootaloo: "Is that still a victory? I'm going to count that as a victory."
Sweetie: "Well Spike isn't in the cage anymore."
Apple Bloom: "Nor in Ponyville's zip code."

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Apparently, much like how the Season 3 opener was Spike's time of glory, the Season 4 opener is Applejacks.

Also, Discord was really well used, especially given that he was technically the villain of the whole episode but really wasn't. I laughed at him throwing seeds at Celestia, mostly because I thought they were, like, chocolate covered coffee beans or something.

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Yeah, Applejack really had a-- Wait.

Mmm, chocolate-covered coffee beans. I crave. It was indeed funny to watch him bounce the seeds off the sisters. And really, it's great to see the sisters doing stuff together as well.

They had cute saddlebags. Totally marketable.

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Applejack said 'what in tarnation' which is something I always look forward to. Discord was in top form.

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It's always a treat to hear Applejack curse in that cute way of hers. Also good to see Discord is getting airtime. Interesting that there's a Summoning spell for him. Is that spirit specific or could there be spells to summon any pony?

This pick has zero spoilers in it but sums up rather aptly my view on them:

That's adorable.


Wow, but tat's a complicated mane for a plush Cherry Jubilee.

[Aotrs Commander]

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You see, long ago, before the first alicorn, the ancient unicorns developed telekinesis. However, discontent with throwing mud at each other (because it was too similar to how the loathsome earth ponies would fight), the unicorns endeavored to create a more noble, refined form of dueling magic.

After a few failures with ponies turned into 20 foot tall rabbit hyenas, and the odd reverse gravity spell that required a team of 20 pegasi to recover the lost combatant, the unicorns finally came up with the most elegant form of combat: the beam war. The beam, you see, is actually the concentrated hopes and dreams of the casting unicorn, modified by what the caster had for breakfast that morning (as an aside, Celestia had only had a single banana the day she fought Chrysalis, which is why she was unusually weak during that beam war, and also why her beam was especially yellow).

Thus, the beam war, far from just another earth pony contest of strength, pitted the mental fortitude and will to win of the using unicorns directly against one another.

Later, when the first alicorns were created, it was found that the inherent physical strength, speed, and control contained in the pegasus form could be used to refine the power of the unicorn horn, allowing for never before seen dark beams, multi-beams, and the especially rare curly-Q beam. This made alicorns the unmatched champions of the beam wars. The duels that established Celestia's dominance over the famed unicorn duelist Smile Daisy Sunshine, are the stuff of legend, and young unicorns still study the finer points of the combat in their dueling classes to this day.

Also, as I nearly missed this, ahahahahahahahahaha!

Nice!

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Let's talk about the elements


That's Celestia with Magic, Kindness, and Generosity; Luna has Loyalty, Honesty, and Laughter. Make of that what you will.

Interesting choices...

[Rater202]

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Let's talk about the elements


That's Celestia with Magic, Kindness, and Generosity; Luna has Loyalty, Honesty, and Laughter. Make of that what you will.

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*With mad look in eye*

Laughter and Loyalty wielded by the same pony.

More proof for my OTP

[Deadly]

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Let's talk about the elements


That's Celestia with Magic, Kindness, and Generosity; Luna has Loyalty, Honesty, and Laughter. Make of that what you will.

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I think it's interesting to note that the Elements that Celestia and Luna use are generic gems and not fitted to them personally like they are with Twilight and her friends. We also see Celestia using all of them to defeat NMM. It suggests that they were not bound to them in the same way, or nearly as much as the Mane 6 and may not have had any personal "favorite elements" so to speak.

It makes it seem more plausible that both of them could have used any of the six elements equally well, or equally poorly.

[Dirtytabs]

What if this whole episode was just an excuse to have

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Discord literally "sowing the seeds of discord"?

[Aotrs Commander]

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I think it's interesting to note that the Elements that Celestia and Luna use are generic gems and not fitted to them personally like they are with Twilight and her friends. We also see Celestia using all of them to defeat NMM. It suggests that they were not bound to them in the same way, or nearly as much as the Mane 6 and may not have had any personal "favorite elements" so to speak.

It makes it seem more plausible that both of them could have used any of the six elements equally well, or equally poorly.

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Good point. As always, the show often is ambiguious on these sorts o issues, giving a lot of room for interpretation.



Completely different subject - did anypony else notice Discord talked about how the seeds had taken "thousands of moons" to grow, or was I just hearing things?

[erikun]

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Let's talk about the elements


That's Celestia with Magic, Kindness, and Generosity; Luna has Loyalty, Honesty, and Laughter. Make of that what you will.

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Honesty-Loyalty are close enough to frequently be confused, and that Kindness-Generosity are very similar as well. Laughter is a very vague "keep people happy" and Magic an even more nebulous "holds friendships together". It doesn't seem that odd of a split, really.

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*With mad look in eye*

Laughter and Loyalty wielded by the same pony.

More proof for my OTP

Your OTP is LunaxLuna?

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Good point. As always, the show often is ambiguious on these sorts o issues, giving a lot of room for interpretation.



Completely different subject - did anypony else notice Discord talked about how the seeds had taken "thousands of moons" to grow, or was I just hearing things?

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Good catch. He does say "thousands of moons ago." Of course, 12000 moons ago would be around 1000 years, and would still be "thousands of moons." Still, an odd phrasing.

[Rater202]

Your OTP is LunaxLuna?

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Luna was wielding Loyalty, honesty, and Laughter.

Which two ponies untill recently wielded Loyalty and Laughter.

Both elements wielded by the same pony implies that they go together pretty well.

which combined with my boat load of in no way shipping goggle tainted evidence, is purther proof of Rainbow Pie being Semi-Canon

[Theoboldi]

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This was incredibly awesome.

Got nothing else to say, really.

Yay for seeing the battle between Luna and Celestia.

Also, mysterious boxes. Does that mean overhanging story arcs, or just something that'll come up in the season finale?

[PhantomFox]

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Very nice, I like the history lesson. Good to see Discord being himself without being an outright antagonist. Sending away scene was kinda awkward. And yay! Quest arc! New Villain teaser!

I'm so glad it's back.

[Aotrs Commander]

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Luna was wielding Loyalty, honesty, and Laughter.

Which two ponies untill recently wielded Loyalty and Laughter.

Both elements wielded by the same pony implies that they go together pretty well.

which combined with my boat load of in no way shipping goggle tainted evidence, is purther proof of Rainbow Pie being Semi-Canon

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So I should avoid pointing out than Honesty and Loyalty were equally valid by that logic and the amount of RD/AJ shipping, then...?

Or is this a case of OT3...? (I learned term on TV Tropes yesterday on a - comparitively brief - accidental trope-time-browse...)

And on that note, I really must go meditate... All this excitement (and with my parents back, them taking up some of the slack again) has worn me out...

[DigoDragon]

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It makes it seem more plausible that both of them could have used any of the six elements equally well, or equally poorly.

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I guess they were just attuned to them in a different way. They were in their natural/original form then and perhaps that's how they originally worked. When NMM smashed them in the pilot, they had to reassemble themselves to reattune and picked a simpler form for that assembly. Thus, they fixed themselves, but the reduction in power meant they were locked to a specific pony in order to still work.

Maybe.

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Discord literally "sowing the seeds of discord"?

S4 Discord

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Well, that was certainly a loooooong wait for a payoff.

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Also, mysterious boxes. Does that mean overhanging story arcs, or just something that'll come up in the season finale?

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I believe the hints dropped by the show staff was that this is an overhanging story arc.

[Theoboldi]

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I believe the hints dropped by the show staff was that this is an overhanging story arc.

I wasn't really paying attention to those. Spoilers, and all that. Good to know that's more likely to be this way, though. Consider me hyped for the rest of the season.

Even more hyped, I mean.

[Aotrs Commander]

Just before I finally actually go...

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I believe the hints dropped by the show staff was that this is an overhanging story arc.

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I figured it was fairly obviously going to be an episode for each Element character, during which they'd have some sort of element-related epiphany or something which would produce a key.

[erikun]

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So I should avoid pointing out than Honesty and Loyalty were equally valid by that logic and the amount of RD/AJ shipping, then...?

Or is this a case of OT3...? (I learned term on TV Tropes yesterday on a - comparitively brief - accidental trope-time-browse...)

And on that note, I really must go meditate... All this excitement (and with my parents back, them taking up some of the slack again) has worn me out...

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I guess it would be OT4, given that there are now four FIVE former bearers of the Loyalty/Honesty/Laughter elements. And now four former bearers of the Generosity/Kindness/Magic elements.

Have fun with your shipping charts.

[Soras Teva Gee]

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Good catch. He does say "thousands of moons ago." Of course, 12000 moons ago would be around 1000 years, and would still be "thousands of moons." Still, an odd phrasing.

Given that episode offered further proof of something I've been saying all along...

... I think we can presume a degree of artistic license in the phrasing.

[Rater202]

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So I should avoid pointing out than Honesty and Loyalty were equally valid by that logic and the amount of RD/AJ shipping, then...?

Or is this a case of OT3...? (I learned term on TV Tropes yesterday on a - comparitively brief - accidental trope-time-browse...)

And on that note, I really must go meditate... All this excitement (and with my parents back, them taking up some of the slack again) has worn me out...

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I have found more Evidence to support Rainbow Pie than Appledash, and my glasses are not shipping tinted, how dare you say that?

Also, Dashie and Jakie are better off as friends, they would but heads way to much to have a chance at forming a proper romantic relationship.

the only possible OT3 I can think of that would work with those, would be RainbowFlutterPie, and that's only cause Explorer convinced me, though personally I get a "Sisters from a different Mister" vibe from the evidence he pointed two in support of FlutterDash, and I don't think shy is confident enough for a romantic relationship in the first place

Granted it's almost all irrelevant, because I'm not that militant a shipper, I'll read anything if it's well written enough.

I once read a BDSM clop fic and liked it cause it was well written, and I hate Clop

but yes, today has been an exiting day.

I kinda wish I had waited till tomorrow to watch the Doctor Who anniversary Episode.

My Body was not ready for the Combined awesome of it and the premiere in one day.