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2013-11-29, 07:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Random question that occurs to me... Do we know how many episodes there are this season? Have just got 13 or a full 26 this time around?
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2013-11-29, 07:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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They certainly will interact with each other, they just wont form any kind of relationship. Both Luna and Bastara are kind of outcasts, but Luna wants to be accepted by others, Bastara prefers to be alone (except for Meralin) Still, I must admit it could create some humorous situations.
"Why must this world be lead by silly princesses of love and the sun?!"
"Art thou imply that we are a silly princess?"
"What is your domain?"
"The glorious dark night and the dreams of those who sleep under it!"
"Hmm, glorious domain of the night you say? We might be able to tolerate each other. Shall we stalk the land as shadows..."
"And grant happy and comforting dreams to my subjects?"
"I was going to say slit the throats and shred the minds of your enemies but..."
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2013-11-29, 07:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Why would I do that?
I don't even demand Spike/Rarity is mandatory, and that could loosely be described as the only "ship" that I have a particular affinity for (and that's largely because the early fandom treated Spike like crap more than any other reason).
Heck, if I had that sort of power, you don't think my first move would be make no shipping mandatory (meaning that, reality-wide procreation would cease entirely, thus leaving the universe eventually to the most deserving, i.e. the Undead i.e. Liches i.e. me?)
Tell, you what, though, I'll combine my technology and pony powers and give you as close as I get offhand, which is to say Twilight and Pinkie shipping...
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2013-11-29, 07:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-11-29, 09:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cragodile, you just got served by the Applejack!
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I think the only plush I haven't seen yet is of Sombra... okay I just googled it and it seems his clothes aren't easy to do. Anyway, changeling fangs.. I think the fangs would look better if they were a non-furry material.
My wife was looking at those this morning.
The Build-a-Bear Fluttershy came out today and we plan on getting one for our daughter. Not the best manes as far as plush goes, but price-wise they're affordable (and we got a $10 off coupon so... yeah). It's for my daughter anyway. After a week all their manes look like Pinkie Pie.
Oooh, vodka.
It's like they're on intergalactic surfboards. :3
Yes, we tend to do that a lot. At least I'll know it wouldn't go hungry... though my daughter would probably grab her plush ponies and beat the stuffings out of it simply because that's what she knows.
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Probably takes them a lot longer than just replacing someone. Also, from what we saw of "Cadence"/Chrysalis, they already have enough trouble blending into pony society without needing to create an entirely new identity. If it weren't for the wedding she wouldn't have been able to fool a vegetable.
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2013-11-29, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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True, but they also stand a lot more to gain. If a group of Changelings made themselves into an entire family and one of them married the entire Changeling family (hopefully) gets love out of the deal. I guess it comes down to how much love a Changeling actually needs to survive.
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2013-11-29, 09:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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True, but they also stand a lot more to gain. If a group of Changelings made themselves into an entire family and one of them married the entire Changeling family (hopefully) gets love out of the deal. I guess it comes down to how much love a Changeling actually needs to survive.
Edit:I'm not sure how Chrysalis was shown to be bad at blending in with pony society? The only trouble she encountered was Twilight who is the one pony who probably knew Cadence the best.
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2013-11-29, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-11-29, 09:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-11-29, 09:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-11-29, 09:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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But isn't the whole point of disguising yourself as a specific pony being capable of fooling those who are familiar with them? I mean, if you just want to look like a pony, that will be a lot easier. Heck, you don't even need to look like a pony - look like a zebra or a donkey, and you can fool others easier.
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2013-11-29, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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If Chrysalis was trying to establish a foothold in Canterlot it would make sense that she would disguise herself as a higher up.
Actually, I had an idea. If Changelings are not limited to pony disguises what is stopping a Changeling from disguising itself as say, a fluffy puppy, and endearing itself to a young filly?Last edited by Humble Master; 2013-11-29 at 09:59 PM.
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2013-11-29, 10:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Size, probably. Also eating dog food.
[EDIT] Actually, the comics mentioned that changelings could only turn into a "pony" (although I'm sure there's some leeway there) but a different creature could turn any anything else... including a dog. So no dogs for changelings, at least by strict canon.Last edited by erikun; 2013-11-29 at 10:09 PM.
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The Build a Bear ones look terrible. I don't care how cheap they are, I wouldn't get one. None in the area anyway. 4th Dimension is the first ones I've seen from an official site (that's in the U.S.) that has fan-quality plushies. That's...a weird statement. "as good as fan made". Seriously, come on Hasbro.
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If changelings feed off love, showing love would be like regurgitating your food all over some one. Stands to reason why they wouldn't show it except maybe to changeling babies, hence the apparent bad attitude.
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Hmmm, if consider quite a few species of birds, then showing affection might be how they literally vomit/provide food for the younglings.
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Six ponies wept for six days during the formatting of this post, dying at the zenith
REIGN OF QUOTES
The first day
Sea pony is negative-five months old, and has already kicked me in the face. x_O"
You're swell~!
Seriously! I miss having you about, Kairaven Heavenly Doodles. We should hang out more!
That's actually TSR inc., previously TSR hobbies and before that, Tactical Studies Rules.
They really do! That last one, with shorthair Twiley...
Lookit me, talking about shorthair and longhair like with dogs. Twiley is not Marchande, silly SiuiS!
I was defenestrated! I had to crawl back in and get medical treatment first. u.u
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You'd think so, right?
I still think Twilight Velvet is a Victorian lesbian joke.
I also like to think, following from this, she actually writes erotic romance stories and she is just really gods-awful bad at it. That's where Twiley gets her inclination for bad fan fiction. You know, like when she wrote about their hips moving in time like an asynchronous set of binary stars?
Best fanfic, That.
ur a crystal empire!
HAHAHAHAHAHA IT IS PAST TUESDAY
SPOIL THIS, SUCKER!
I like to think that Celestia knows what she's doing. Twiley is like a black hole of productivity. Her perfectionism (admittedly flanderized over time am I the only one who remembers the nerd winning a foot race because she was smart and not intelligent?) creates numerous situations where being half as well-organized would create markedly improved efficiency. Spike follows Twiley because no matter how productive Spike can make the capital, the Twiley Zone in Ponyville would be a sufficiently large drain as to make it economically untenable.
I mean, look at the damage control with Spike Right. There. Imagine if he instead had to wait to hear about it through the inefficient pony post, and then deploy resources manually out to the pony boondocks.
Isn't the distance too far?
Pinkie Pie
Or Twilight is just THAT predictable to her.
First, was it ever called dark magic, as in "this is dark magic and what dark magic looks like is this"? Or is that an assumption? I can't recall.
Because clearly, this is Alicorn magic. You know, the magic only alicorns have?
Only, alicorns are royalty, right? And we see one male pony with this magic; Sombra. We see one clearly male royal; Blueblood.
I extrapolate that Princess-hood is a female trait (... Is it weird I have to spell that out?), and that male royals are not princesses. That is, not alicorns.
Sombra was an old royal, who craved the specific magics of the distaff, and somehow, mastered them. Bitter from a life of being second-rate through no fault of his own, he took this power and wielded it like a cudgel, enslaving ponies and ruling as a tyrant. He was a non-Alicorn alicorn.
Blueblood is a direct-line descendant, probably.
Alicorn magic, not dark magic.
It is. The princesses all have Griffon wings, as opposed to Pegasus wings. Twilight is in that awkward puberty phase where some parts are too long and some parts too short.
Well, that was sudden. Oh my, here comes the tentacle fics
Where .... Where did that seat belt come from? o.O
Huh ... that was a strange way to stop magic
Dark magic? Huh
Aye. Felt like the frieza fight. Suddenly, supersaiyan! And by suddenly I mean twenty minute gradual metamorphosis exciting everypony, and shocking Nopony.
Idiot balls for everypony!!
Seriously, that was stupid to sent Twi back. Elements need everyone present to work. I know they're all worried about losing Twilight and then Equestria being without a princess, but Cadance isn't that far in the background
They were returning them to a stationary place. They could have given them all to Pinkie Pie and said "stash these in a harmony tree in case of Harmony Emergency" and she would have done it.
Aye. But again, they didn't need everypony. They needed the physical objects in one location, and that's it.
It's too bad they couldn't build that up more, though. I hope the expound on this whole "you have responsibilities, now" thing.
I know!
Correction: the "elements" are the gems. Honesty is not an element, although there is an element of honesty.
It's understandable, but we seem to have compartmentalized things in this fandom along generic RPG lines very quickly, and are missing out on the wonder that is supposed to be inherent in mystical connections on emotional level that allows for massive magical conduction.
When sailor moon was big, no one was blasι about her friends in spirit helping to overcome Queen Beryl's might and end her with union and togetherness. So why is the same thing with ponies just "oh yeah, these six artifacts are attuned to six ponies and together they combine their readied actions for a single full round action magic nuke"?
It would be better to say they become the element harmony they embody, and could then harness their energies as if they were themselves physical elements. Although I don't think that's the best or most interesting possibility.
Oh, and of course Zecora would have elixirs of legend lore just lying around.
Oh, no. The energy is not itself corruptive, it is merely that those who were not natural heirs to it Sunset, Sombra, Trixie craved it for wicked reasons and acquired an approximation through wicked ends.
Koschie was an acanthus, and knew not death inherently though of it's magic he was a Master. He could do all the things Masters of death could do. He did not have the innate understanding of it, though; it's inevitability, it's used, it's place in the natural progression of things, the cycle if life, rebirth, and life. And so his raw talent was wielded in a flawed way. Cobalt, meanwhile, understood that death is a natural thing, and has it's place and importance whether you like what it is, or no.
Everyone who wanted Alicorn magic didn't want Alicorn magic; they wanted the fear and compliance of others. They wanted power. They wanted dominion. Alicorn magic just happened to be an already existing form of that raw level of power, and so they said "I want Alicorn magic". Really, it's no different than humans who want status, security and power over others saying "I want money".
I'm not buying it. The ancient contingency plan of an incarna has warred for passive millennia against you and finally come to fruition isn't 'oh you're helpless now'. It's the PC problem; the reason PCs are awesome is not because PCs are always awesome but because you pick someone awesome to be a PC.
Celestia and Luna obviously deal with weird stuff all the time. They have a busy life with their diplomatic envoys, ancient magical archives, continent spanning spy networks, cloak-and-dagger skulduggery and philosophical contests. You only seem them when **** hits the fan and things are so desperate they're willing to call in Twilight. That's not coincidental, and that's not Warfing, that's just how storytelling goes.
I mean, they were dealing with an epic coup attempt for how long before Twilight found out by accident because there was also a wedding? How long were the astronomers and sooth Sayers Gazing into the ether before Twilight was informed there ever was a crystal empire? It's heavily implied that both princesses are up to the elbows in crazy poop, and we only touch the surface of it.
It was good to see Luna kicking Celestia's tail in the flashback, though. Even if it was without Celestia fighting back.
I don't buy it. It's not specific to the amulet; power corrupts. If most people have someone bully them, and suddenly get power they're rich, or have bodyguards, or are a superhero or royalty, or something, they WILL react in a fashion consistent with not only winning but grinding the former oppressor's nose in it. It's an established trope and theme, it pervades literally every medium, and those of us who can manage not to so that, have that resiliency because we've already been there at least once and learned our lesson.
Trixie turned evil, at least in part, because rather than roll over and accept that Trixie was right and was right the whole time and they were so ashamed, ponies had the audacity to resists! She had to show them how wrong they were and how strong and secure she was! She had to!
Huh? That second one is too blurry, I don't get what we're supposed to be seeing.
I'd swear that was pointed out before though, and people dismissed it as just a shadow...
No, I still think they didn't have enough time. The problem with sending Twilight away and having her come back is that it was too sudden and then too quick of a turnaround. I think there was no way to do this in one episode because the flashbacks and the problem explanation almost took up a full episode slot by themselves. And even with two episodes, the new aspect of the conflict was handled very quickly and really was lackluster.
If anything, I'd have preferred they found a way to send Twilight Sparkle out of the group at the end of the first episode and then spent part of the second episode contemplating the conflict between her status and her desire to be in the thick of things with her friends. Had that gone on longer and we'd had more time both to explain why Twilight needed to separate and why it was a problem, it would have held up better than the less than 5 minute exile+rejoin that we got.
I don't get it. Explain?
Celestia and Luna came from the tree. They are it's fruit. The cycle of sun and moon is harmonious and fair. The tree that is Harmony bore them forth, budding when ponies were in need of stability, but they were not strong enough to truly oppose the chaos. Returning to the tree, they stripped it of its colors, it's essence, bleeding them away into separate but concentrated forms.
Also, is it just me, or does everything with discord remind you of the old sonic the hedgehog cartoons? Everything is crazy gems and weird checkerboard floors and colored backgrounds.
Spell? What spell? There is a difference between magic and spell.
Twilight was called upon to harness magic, an energy, at a level and rate and type that only as Alicorn can handle. In mage terms, it's not using an actual spell, just releasing mana touched by your watchtower.
Unless it literally was "turn this thing white" and nothing else, in which case ... why the overly dramaticdarkalicorn magic? Is changing the color of liquids something only alicorns can do?
Mm. I actually disagree! But that may just be that I don't like Moffat or his trends.
Because she is one of four known ponies to have natural access to alicorn-level magic? Just because someone can push a button and nuke a country doesn't mean they always will, forever. Restraint is very important, the most important part about personal power. You would not believe how irate I am at this weird trend to define how reserved you are by how off-the-handle you can fly.
Think about it. People are always talking about how much willpower they have, and that's why it means so much when they give in, etc., but you all do realize that willpower means nothing if you only have it when it doesn't matter? The guy who doesn't lift a finger to fight because of his morals until after most of his friends are dead isn't moral and restrained, he's stupid. He still gave in when tested. His resolve only exists when there is nothing to be resolute about.
Hyperbole, granted, but still.
"We're simply lost without you." Great. So you'll never do something that stupid again, right? Good. "We need our friend." And, ya know, the demigoddess with power over all magic.
Math also has difficulty built in in stages, and a good friend of mine, a mathematician I believe, has famously said "people think that you only like math or get into math because it's easy for you. But that's not true. Professionals still make mistakes."
Wait, so they can show up at the Summer Sun celebration now? Wouldn't Ponyville need them even more with the trashed town?
And a giant starburst... because.
Twilight is the liminal state of between. That's also why she is magic; if the princesses are elemental, fundamental, personified, then twilight is the gating moments when the wonderful and terrific can seep in between the cracks and infect our humdrum lives. She is the pony of wonder and mysticism, she is Princess of Transitions. Luna is the jovial witch goddess of passion and darkness on all it's meanings, from a warm tumble in the hay to a heated knifing as your purse slips away. Celestia is the constant, moreso than the northern star, warm and enriching and implacable and stable. Twilight is defined as undefined,the time both night and day.
When the sun rises and the moon sets, or vice versa, that is Twilight. And hence, her spark.
They haves established relationship. Spike bows because that's what he does. They are both comfortable with it and it probably means something different to him than the others. It's like calling someone 'mom' even when they stop holding that position. It's loving formality.
Twilight bows because OCD. XD
Conceptually yes. But they could have handled it better, because they failed to establish that leadership as valid or important. It works for children ("we need a princess! You're a princess! Lead us!" "Okay! Here are orders!") but there was room for depth there that never manifested.
If the guards had done that, and also tried to stop her until she delegated, and then ponyville was in an uproar and mayor mare looked to her when everyone looked to the mayor, that would ha established her importance. As it is, we are saving the important thing without importance. They never clarify the value they are so obsessed with.
Alicorn magic.
Coming from Faust is exactly why it is VERY clear; it is disproven.
"Anything not laid out in the show is open and here are my intentions. Anything laid out in the show is canon, even if it contradicts these intentions".
Faust has given the reins to others (intentional or no). They seem to have a coherent Schema. It is poor form to ignore that for disproven ideas when the originator wants us not to ignore that Schema.
That was my first response too. Haha. "What? Freeze frame!"
Nailed~ it!
Indeed. I had hoped that a fight between magic using monarchs would manifest differently, myself. Luna conjures clouds and thunder as an afterthought, and Celestia exudes a clarity and serenity seen by rocks at sea in a typhoon. Swirling thunderheads leveling the palace while in Celestia's vicinity they dissipated into a calm downpour as the two engaged in strafing guerrilla melee, with lightning, and shields and redirects. Would have made much more sense.
Still, Soras is right. In a fight, simplicity is key. That's why you never hear about soldiers of fortune learning capoeira; too flashy, not direct enough and way too complicated in execution. You don't spinning axe heel kick where a palm thrust or a gunshot would work.
Yeah.
... Fund it?
Yup.
Specific. It also utilized the elements of Harmony, did it not? That strikes me as a specifically built-in containment measure to restrain him enough to get him there.
Wow, but tat's a complicated mane for a plush Cherry Jubilee.
Yes. I liken this to the Sisters being part and parcel of the elements, myself. As part of their elemental nature. The more mortal ponies needed elements as such because their gross, dense world of science and matter didn't interface properly with the raw magic.
I like the fact that Twilight is basically being groomed to be the third and most beautiful Silmaril.
We have a weiner!
I would say honesty and loyalty can be frequently misunderstood, but not so much confused.
Your OTP is LunaxLuna?
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.
Lix is so rubbing off on you~
Why do you assume atunement at all? It's more likely that, like a cross before a vampire, you don't attune anything to you but must yourself attune to this other thing. As harmonious beings who brought peace to Equestria, Celestia was able to demonstrate all elements in her persona. Conversely, Rainbow Dash can't use kindness not because it isn't attuned to her, but because she herself does not resonate with Kindness as a mystic virtue.
It's nice, but it's not Twi/Mac. Not really. Those two artfully done, well drawn people could be anyone. There is no Twilight or Big Mac in there. It lacks their essence. It is in That regard sterile.
It's a freaking fantastic picture though! Don't get me wrong. I love it~
Jakhaivah! Nice to see you, sport!
I didn't catch that line. Ew.
*PirateNinjaWizardzorroswashbucklerPony Wizard log rests in Rater's arms, with a note pinned on it that reads "Ha Ha!" In the manliest, most over-the-top swashbuckle font possible*
*a pony gallops away in the distance, to the sound of raspberries*
Spoiler
Of course. Discord is chronally asynchronous. He has probably seen most of what will happen and just isn't of a mind to deviate from that. He knew this would happen and knew he could do all the chaos he wanted after all, he already knows the end result so what's the harm? No one got hurt!
It also makes sense with his irritation at Fluttershy. He knows she is going to give in to his magic in S2 opener, the fun is in how. Her resistance was probably very bothersome because he had 100% certainty and yet she still held out.
The first of two major gripes were that the whole "go home Twilight" bit felt wonky. Out of place, rushed, and too quickly resolved. However, moving it back to before they entered the forest probably would've solved all those problems. The other was that it felt like the Tree of Harmony's backup power magic thing was never really explained. What was its magic? Why did it go out now of all times? Did somepony tamper with it? Would have been nice to have a little more detail there.
Oof. And now I have six pages of ponythread to catch up on. Wish me luck, folks; I'm goin' in!
*dives headlong into a pile of spoiler boxes*
Got places to go
Gotta follow my rain~bow
Hype Train status: I have thrown the entire caboose into the boiler, dragon-kicked the throttle into the next zip code, and am currently swinging from the whistle pull.
I hope so, doubly so if it means we get more of Sombra. I've seen so many fan works take him in a lot of interesting directions (*cough cough Tea Party cough*) that it'd be a shame if that's all we see of him. Plus, we've already seen the results of one villain's disused contingency plan; who's to say the calculating, trap-clever Sombra didn't leave behind a few surprises?
More to the point, I find it massively impressive that she kept a straight face when she saw a little filly - all but bursting with magical potential - suddenly get a Cutie Mark from the Tree of Harmony.
Seriously. Why?
Shining Armor has the same thing. The spark just generically represents magic. Sunset Shimmer had a so. cutie Mark, that was on the tree of Harmony too.
I like it because it adds a air of mysticism to things. Prophecies hidden in old wive's takes, predictions, astral journeys... There's a lot to take in there and people are still focusing on DBZ blasts and solar system sham
It's mighty difficult to not have damsels be in distress when they make up nearly 86% of your main characters.
But in all seriousness, I didn't ever get the impression that Twilight was a damsel needing saving. With the facehugger-gas-vines, as soon as she got room to breathe she was blasting them away like they were nothing. As for the cragodile, she certainly could have handled it better, but then again it was an ambush. Twilight is by no means a combat-trained caster, and suddenly finding yourself face-to-face with an enormous rock monster is a harrowing experience at the best of times. She had a moment of panicked hesitation, then jumped in to help her friends tie it up. Seems about right for what we've seen of her.
There's a big difference between "Augh, I need saving!" and, "Augh! I got ambushed and didn't have my spells on a hair-trigger!"
You've got that backwards.
That Twilight only teleported as a last resort, across short distances, and could only brig herself and leave spike is probably meant to prove that Magic Is Not Panacea. It's hard. She's failed before. She has shown off during a song, under no stress, but hell! People can so cartwheels for days but still have trouble doing a side handstand out of the way of danger. His plot second precision timing under duress is hard.
Practical difficulties (which may or may not be a handwave) aside, thematically the episode was served much better by having Twilight fly. Becoming gradually better at flying is a sign she's becoming more comfortable in her new skin and her new role. An easy visual reinforcement of the dialogue which shows the same thing.
Balance is often misunderstood and always poorly represented. The 'balance' most people think of is actually Stasis, not balance.
Harmony is one of those things spread by sharing, not diminished. Having the world thrown out of whack because of Harmony would be rather silly.
Wait, how is it that Celestia and Luna could be overcome by the vines in Canterlot, yet the Mane 6 in the middle of the Everfree forest were able to easily best them?
I Dunno. I mean, Canterlot is a day away by train. Has Teilight ever single-shot teleported a day away? We've seen her struggle with a group in a hurry with a basic dimension door, and we've seen her short range teleport repeatedly, but never as I recall has she ever obviated story level distance.
We've been told that he's got a song in the season so I presume there will be at least one more appearance.
It did seem a bit odd that the vines were helpless to weaker creatures (Heck, a window pane chopped a thick vine in half). I guess the vines threw their A game at the sisters and then got lazy with the others.
I liked Zecora's statement of the Everfree being too wild now. I know it's the vines, but I like the idea that the forest was held in check by the tree of Harmony and when it was weakened the forest itself ran rampant, separate from anything Discord did.
Aye. People mixed up causation. One does not get extraordinary power by becoming an arch mage, one becomes an archmage by getting extraordinary power. Assuming that getting a promotion grants you bonus power is silly.
Yep. Night is it's own emanation from the moon. Total confirmation, there.
Huh. Somehow, I missed that.
[*] "We wouldn't go through your books without permission"? It's a LIBRARY for pony's sake. It's what ponies DO in a library.
The idea that she must work as a librarian because modern society only has libraries as public buildings where one checks out books is a mite bit short sighted.
[*] WAIT. Wait wait wait wait waaaaait. Alicorn magic looks just like the dark magic we saw Sombra use?
[*] THAT is a crocodile? Ye goddesses, man. I'm staying away from your version of Florida.
[*] Am I the only one who's worried about the giant crocodile that they've left tied up in the dangerous forest of doom and death?
[*] Nope. Nope! NOOOOPE.Avi. Twilight does not get a sonic Twiboom, and no amount of your silly show canon will persuade me otherwise!
Your loss!
It's sad because it's true.
I dunno. We know discord can make cycles and time wonky, but I don't think he can control the sun and moon. It's a more "everything is weird" thing, than anything else.
Plus this has happened before, and discord was very pointedly not doing anything. There was no discord magic; there was the world thrown out of whack because those who control the heavens were incapacitated and that which held the wild at bay was diminished and chained.
Still, the important part is that this exact thing has happened before with even less discord involvement; the sun and moon are confirmed to have their own separate emanations here, but the revalation predates discord.
That's actually been explained already.
100%. They have the resources now, they aren't going anywhere.
Man. I am totally going to make that pony feature in my next game somehow. O.O
Heh. That was... Something.
That's an actual, popular style of boot if you can believe it. It relies on the smallness of the foot, but you're basically still walking on the balls of the foot under the toes. It just looks weird because of the size.
At first I was like "WTF" with the fact that it's 73 chapters composed of only 50-100 words per chapter. But maybe it would have been good to mention that it's a "Choose your own adventure" kind of story.