en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/4938782 Comments by CptAdder http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/awesome-new-plushies-popping-up.html#IDComment575195982 I have three questions, no two Question 1 Given the fact plushies have been going for 500$ on ebay every single week why has this taken so long for some major maker to say hmmm we like money..., and people like ponies.... what if we combined the two? Question 2 Will 4th Dimension make one billion dollars next year in profit or one hundred trillion dollars in profit? Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:46:17 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/awesome-new-plushies-popping-up.html#IDComment575195982 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/magical-mystery-cure.html#IDComment572732236 Nine fanfic babies are made every minute, won't you please think of the children? Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:43:25 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/magical-mystery-cure.html#IDComment572732236 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/magical-mystery-cure.html#IDComment572717393 Okay the Season 3 finale is behind us lets look back it as a whole. First note, it was not until I was reviewing this post that I noticed my first line was "Alicron's a Twilight", let me correct that now. So Twilight is an Alicorn and as far as we know it's for good. The question is if she is a winged Unicorn or a goddess in pony form. AKA is she Cadence or is she Celestia or Luna? The worst part story wise from this episode is the simple fact it's not a finale, at least not yet. What this episode is... it's setup. As in Season 4 will be about what? Well Twilight's an Alicorn and a Princess, are we going to get an episode about her helping Pinkie babysit the Cake twins for Pinkie or an episode about her using her Princess powers to invade East Eurasia. And that's the take away long term from this episode. [b]What is Season 4 going to do with this?[/b] This is not like a standard season episode or even a previous finale. Best Night Ever for example ended with them going to a party, they had a bad time but in the end enjoyed themselves the end. The Wedding by contrast we met Cadence and Liquid Pride I mean Shining Armor (I could totally buy that as a pony name), but at the end of that episode it was not Twilight who changed it was just another new set of characters and a great new villain. This? This..... This is different. Twilight has fundamentally changed, for the better some might say... for the worse others would say. Either way she's a different pony than before and that should in the hands of a good storyteller change everything. If we spend Season 4 adjusting to new Twilight only for the Season 4 end game to change something totally different then I'd retroactively say MMC is great. But it's not addressed with, slowly over the next Season then MMC looks like a studio decision, and a dumb one at that. Imagine if you will your favorite sitcom. Now imagine if one episode one of the leads on the show wins a billion dollars in a lottery and at the end of the episode they still have the money. Fast forward the only thing that changes during the next season is that character dressing nicer (They have a billion dollars after all) but nothing else changes. If they have work they still go to work, they still hang out at the same crappy bars and keep the same friends without much being mentioned. That's what MMC could end up being, the shark jumped moment... but that's only if it does not act on Season 4 and beyond as the fundamental change it is. With all that out of the way let me say this. This episode itself was musically very good, I'm not sure if any of the songs will end up in my musical list besides the six part harmony but it's nice to see so much singing. Even if makes no bloody sense for Celestia to be bursting into song in the ether there. I could go on about each part of the episode but as I've said several times... I'm more interested in the "what's next?" than the here and now of this episode. The what's next of course is... nine months away... Well.... ....MMC succeeds in one important thing... ....I HAVE to know what happens next.... ....nine months from now..... ....Dang it..... Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:23:59 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/magical-mystery-cure.html#IDComment572717393 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/magical-mystery-cure.html#IDComment572703533 Running Commentary Opening Song? And it appears Rarity is already trying to run the weather Color me confused even if this bit was shown out of context in the only spoiler I accidentally saw. And we are back and second song So Rarity is Rainbow Dash, Dash has become Fluttershy, who has turned into Pinkie who has become Applejack who's become Rarity. And it's all Twilight's fault.... good job absentminded mare.... so what caused... THE BOOK! Starswirl the Bearded's little black book, 12 episodes it's been hiding in the background and we finally see it again. You sneaky writers you.... I had thought you had forgotten... ooh you tricksie writers. And another song, a sad song, because Twilight again fucked up And back for third song which lasts pretty much this entire second So I wonder if we can read in friendships from which pony goes to which? Twilight goes to Fluttershy then uses Fluttershy on Rainbow Dash and so Few things, first seeing Dash tied up with the animals branding dinnerware was hilarious as was the follow up with the "Ahem hello I'm still tied up here" as they go on singing. But not as funny as Rarity's little "I was having the most terrible nightmare". beat... "I might still be having it" And we are back.... and Twilight has drilled through to the heavens themselves Is this? Yes it is, this is happening, Alicorn Twilight is here and yet another song (after the last song) holy shit songs after more songs. Thank you Pinkie for the Spit-take So yeah... this is happening, huh. Well that's the end of the episode most of the stuff I'm not commenting on because I'm just experiencing it but I must take a time to mention the fact that Shining Armor's "Liquid Courage" was both hilarious and instantly dirty in my head. My more coherent thoughts later. Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:03:30 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/magical-mystery-cure.html#IDComment572703533 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/games-ponies-play-streamsdiscussionsdow.html#IDComment567224658 So the games pony play, a case of mistaken identity when the inspector pony gets left behind and a random yokel gets the tour meant for her. On the one hand the simple fact they never once asked her name bugs me, nor the fact they did not even know her coat or mane colors. You put that much time into your greeting but not spend two minutes making sure you know something more than her name? On the flip side this episode like it's twin Just for Sidekicks had so many great visual moments. The little calming gesture Twilight has adopted, the way Dash slides down the glass of the spa. The little ticks the animators put in for the ponies like Rarity's expressions as she over reacts. So my thoughts it was nice seeing Cadence and Armor again but ultimately this was a forgettable episode and Just for Sidekicks was better. However as part of a two part it does work well, who does not love the fact of what's going wrong for both parties at the same time. Spikes dilemma is simpler and funnier but the Games Ponies Play has several good moments. So final thoughts, it's a middle of the pack episode, on a top ten list of season 3 it would end up between the six and sevens spots. In the all time MLP episode rankings it's in the thirties. Not by any means bad but the mistaken identity inspector thing has been done better before, I'm partial to the Prussian folk tale version myself. Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:08:30 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/02/games-ponies-play-streamsdiscussionsdow.html#IDComment567224658 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/just-for-sidekicks-streamsdiscussionsdo.html#IDComment554926577 My stream skipped that, not at home to watch it today. Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:06:10 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/just-for-sidekicks-streamsdiscussionsdo.html#IDComment554926577 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/just-for-sidekicks-streamsdiscussionsdo.html#IDComment554738892 Episode thoughts Intro Oh look smart helpful assistant spike is back, and he's trying to make a cake. Can't wait for the sixteen re-mix dubstep songs of his tiny little song here. First part And he's still singing, but stops when Fluttershy drops by. Also Spike is genre savy with his inside joke Gems are Spike's Scoobi snakcs Spike is panhandling God tank is hillarious, and the incredibly slow dash lick was adorably And Dash, tank and Spike is hilarious Continued pan handling Spike is still hilarious And things go to shit in 3...2...oh we did not even make it to 1 and off to commercial ]So far this episode has been predictable but it's so well put together and the jokes so good I don't mind, watching Spike panhandling the ponies was so amusing in how blatant it was. But the interplay between Dash and Tank was adorable as well as the general problem of giving a non-flying pet the ability to fly, speaking of pets where the hell is Pewee? And Angel bunny is starting shit, and the CMC is adorable And Spike is trolling the shit out of the CMC and he's great Also remember when I said things went to shit in 3...2...1.. with the CMC we made it to 2 And random Zecorca wants spike's Booty And now Spike's paying protection money And then the CMC planned to jump off a bridge ...and now they are going to the Crystal Empire... is this a secret two parter? So second segment, this was fing hilarious. Again the setup is pat but what they do with it is hilarious. From the "industrial hair dryer poofy Wionna" to the fact Angel bunny does nothing but start shit in a deliberate effort to screw over Spike. You know it's bad when Angel is hoping trains, that bunny is evil! The money situation is a little confusing and oh hey we are back in the Crystal empire And Angel bunny is clearly trying to get back to Fluttershy And Angel is not evil he's just a dick Dawwable Sweetie Bell trying to hnnng her way out. Final thoughts I'm not sure it was my favorite episode of the season but what it was great. The jokes are spot on the situation while pat as I said several times was turned on it's head. It's funny how some of the pets mirror their owners like Winona while others have their own personality with some aspect of their owner that makes sense they would like each other. Rarity enjoys being spoiled, Opal enjoys being spoiled, Tank is loyal as is Rainbow Dash even if in him it's just him trying his hardest. Owlicious is great as a pseudo responsible one for Spike even if most of his stuff was minor and Gummy is still Gummy. The most interesting thing to me was Angel Bunny because he is the reason for 90% of the crap that goes down in this episode. At first I called him evil, evil bunny is what most people think seeing Angel most of the time. But the longer the episode went on the more I came to realize that Angel is just a bastard not evil. You don't see to my needs? Well fuck you I'm going to start some shit and see how you like it. At the end when he does not alert the Mane 6 to his presence and they all wait out the train ride is a very important point to the fact he just wants someone to care for him and ignoring him pisses him off and gets Angel to act out. Kind of like a fluffy needy six year old. The main thing for me and this episode was the amount of sold visual jokes and tiny little nods in there. Like Zecora taking a gem and from spike and instantly turning around and donating it to charity. Or Rainbow Dash and Tank's interaction, just because a turtle(tortoise!) can fly does not mean he will fly well. And the number of tank gags this episode was great. Scoots little joke about Tank was great. My favorite jokes remain the two times we cut back to find the pets destroying things... or the CMC helping the pets destroy things, just great visual gags. In the end a simple story well told packed with so many gags and visual jokes it will easily fit into any top ten MLP episode list... where on that list I don't know yet. ....also I guess Pewee is either dead or ret-conned out of existence.... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:13:37 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/just-for-sidekicks-streamsdiscussionsdo.html#IDComment554738892 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/discussion-where-did-you-hear-about-mlp.html#IDComment554313657 Where did I hear about MLP? After getting Fallout Equestria recommended to me. Fallout? I love fallout! Ponies? I... don't know Ponies... what Ponies? Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:27:32 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/discussion-where-did-you-hear-about-mlp.html#IDComment554313657 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/keep-calm-and-flutter-on.html#IDComment548401890 Well it might be me reading Discord wrong. I saw him as a Spirit, a thing of chaos from the raw material of the universe. Your Loki's, your Coyote or Puck. Your trickster who represents the element of Chaos. Note that word Element, we've seen Honesty, Kindness, Loyalty, Laughter, Generosity and Magic, toss in Love for Cadence and you have the idea of certain pony's embodying fundamental ideas. And Discord is the Element of Chaos, not the Element of Evil or the Element of Crystaaallls (Poor Sombra). He is change personified even if in Discord it's not a little Chaos but so much he's bending reality on a minute to minute basis. Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:22:18 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/keep-calm-and-flutter-on.html#IDComment548401890 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/keep-calm-and-flutter-on.html#IDComment548392363 My thoughts Mr Beaver Beaverton? Why Do I feel like there is a the 3rd or the 9th that Fluttershy was leaving out of that. So Celestia calls Discord evil, interesting point of view since he's Chaos which is neither good nor evil much like how order is not good nor evil just a state of being. Also evil bunny and evil squirrel were hilarious, but evil beavers will be great Second commercial break So many visual gags, discord eating spells, making the cottage rotate, Angel bunny not taking this shit and a tiny bit of Discord feels And that's the end Best episode? No, it's a functional one, I like the idea of reforming Discord but I dislike the fact they keep calling what he did evil. He's chaos not evil, neither good nor evil he simply is. Also I felt the 22 minute format limited things as the befriending itself was sudden, even if Dapper Discord was a fun dinner guest and the shear number of puns per minute were amusing. The most amusing thing was the end bit with Fluttershy saying Discord could be a good friend once you get to no him only for everyone to wince from Celestia on down. Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:06:45 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/01/keep-calm-and-flutter-on.html#IDComment548392363 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/12/wonderbolt-academy-discussiondownloadst.html#IDComment519929096 One question then my reply So how long till someone put's Spitfire's little introduction walk to the same walk from Full Metal Jacket? As for this episode, over all a good episode but they failed to teach the lessons they could have. Why even have Pinkie pie in this episode? That time could have been spent on Spitfire talking about the recruits, or the other recruits trying to get back at RD and Thunder Dust in the mess hall. This episode featured only Rainbow dash, Thunder Dust and Spitfire for the most part, they were the only Pegasus with lines. We could have used more speaking lines from the other ponies reacting to what RD and TD were doing, some comments from the trainers... something. Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:52:02 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/12/wonderbolt-academy-discussiondownloadst.html#IDComment519929096 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/12/sleepless-in-ponyville-episode.html?m=1#IDComment513847652 ....that ScripioSmith is at turns both crazy and brilliant. Therefor it's Brilliant! It begs the question how long Luna's been doing it and who if anyone did teach her. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 18:20:53 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/12/sleepless-in-ponyville-episode.html?m=1#IDComment513847652 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/12/sleepless-in-ponyville-episode.html?m=1#IDComment513766469 Okay my thoughts now that it's over. Watching the kids go camping with their respective big Sis was fun. Watching Rarity putting up with the outdoors to spend time with Sweetie Bell was comedy gold even if Rarity was abusing the heck out of her little sis. Applejack once again demonstrating why she's the best boy as she lacks any kind of mental problems. Also when she was dissecting the headless horse story was great. Watching Sweetie Bell sing and being horribly off key was still my favorite moment of the episode. And Luna can get at you in your dreams... well now that's an interesting bit of mystery, how does she manage that and how did she know Scoots was having issues? Is she a Dreamer in the Wheel of Time sense? Able to float in the vast nothingness between consciousness and dreaming and find people's dreams and she decided to come help Scootaloo? That's a bit of interesting and will be sure to spawn fan theories in abandon. So over all this episode was not my favorite of Season 3 and not going to make any top ten list (Bad Seed is my current number 1 for this season) of best episodes but I enjoyed it and it produced some good moments. Once again Applejack is best pony, being a good sister and has the best line of the episode the one that went "Rarity you've asked me that a thousand times" Sat, 8 Dec 2012 16:05:25 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/12/sleepless-in-ponyville-episode.html?m=1#IDComment513766469 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/11/one-bad-apple-streamsdiscussiondownload_24.html?m=1#IDComment499953652 Babs Seed? I like the few tiny things they do with her character before she has a full sentence. Like twitching her tail over her blank flank, the way she blows her mane out of her eyes and the facial expression she makes. The way the Cute Mark Crusaders lay it on so thick. Such hyperactive little fillies... And then Babs "joins the dark side" Do the ponies have the force? Oh Star Wars you end up everywhere. I loved the song less for the song than for the visuals which are hilarious, also The Doctor is going to movie with a pony who is clearly not Derpy but looks close enough I thought it was our Derpy spotting of the episode. Also did anyone else catch the fact that pony movies have a "Lets all go to the lobby" montage and Babs is later drinking the soda? And then there was a an A-Team montage And Babs was bullied the second act dash. However I have to disagree some that pooh pooh the lesson. The real lesson is that some bullies become bullies to avoid being Bullied, however we still have Diamond Tiara and Silver spoon who bully because they get off on it. No tragic backstory there, no filly abuse the two of them are just two little shits. Last comment, when Applejack sad what a hard time she was having in Manhattan I honestly predicted "Dead parents" before "bullies". Comes from the long running fan theory that Mr and Ms Apple are dead. Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:21:29 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/11/one-bad-apple-streamsdiscussiondownload_24.html?m=1#IDComment499953652 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/source-i-dont-think-intensedebate-has.html#IDComment371130948 I had to post a comment because I've reached the end of Chapter 44 as well as just about finished off comment thread two, counting the original comment thread plus thread 1, and thread two that's 14,000 posts and reactions I've read with 1437 odd posts to read. I did the same thing when I was reading Khat's Fallout Equestria but there I only had to read what 8000 odd comments? A quick moment to mention in no real order swicked, Fuzzy, Kim, silentcarto, Fuzzy Porcupine Paws, JeremyRush, and last winner of the most interesting comments award Sindri. Also like to give a shoutout to the fanriffic artists Mech and WavemasterRyx plus the proof readers O. Hinds... and the other one (Sorry but only O. Hinds had interesting little behinds the scenes comments so which made me eager when I saw one of his comments) And I'd like to take a brief moment of silence for the roughly 300 comments that Blogger ate in these four threads, we will never see their like again (Second monitor and note pad, for all your internet posting needs) and last a special moment of hate for swicked not because of anything said but because of the Avatar which is just close enough to Sombers to get me confused as who's writing which post, after a few hundred comments some of which are pages long in length I tend to skim right past the name and ID people by Avatars and I always had to squint trying to tell the difference between swicked and Somber. Finally before getting in my general thoughts of this story over all just a few notes, one I've just finished off forty four this morning as I was reading a chapter then reading all the comments to get caught up except when forty one rolled around I had to rush to the end because I had to know if Littlepip had set the bomb off in story yet. I got into this story only because I got the recommendation from Sindri over on the FoE comment thread to stick with the story until Chapter six. I came in late enough (Just a month ago) I never saw the original chapter 1 which judging by the comments about the first chapter 1 would have never caught my interest but Chapter Six did and once I hit six I had to keep going to know how things end up. That's a huge motivator for in my own life, once something catches my interest I have to know how it all turns out. This story however nearly lost me twice however once while reading, one was Chapter 11 when it fades to black and P-21 and Glory are gone, that greatly annoyed me but I was saved by Drunken Blackjack brawling to keep going. The second time was thirty three because at the time, having known rape victims have seen two of them take their own lives it seemed way to pat the way Blackjack just forgave them and sent them on their way. In my thirty odd years on this planet having seen the worst and best of people, I don't believe I've ever met anyone who could have spoken up and told her friends to let them go not out of fear but out of pity and forgiveness. To this day reading the comments it's one of three instances of author fiat where it does not strike me as in character for anyone to use a comic book analogy but frigging Batman. No matter how many innocents die, no matter how much chaos occurs or how many times the Joker escapes Arkham asylum Bats will never kill him or for that matter take the time to build his own private Joker prison. Blackjack was taking on that same mentality. At least geld the bastards before they go Blackjack! But I kept going, and you know why? Lacunae Not because she's my favorite charter but because in the back of my mind since she joined up during Chapter 19 she has grabbed my attention as a giant Chekhov gun. Each chapter... each day brings us closer to the point at which the Goddess meets her end. Every page we get closer to the point when her Unity is shattered but more than that it's not sudden, there's a time when the Goddess spends seeing her old self growing increasingly upset before suddenly she realizes Littlepip is freaking out because... you know big giant bomb. And in that space of time she saves her children as best she can. So what's going to happen to Lacunae? I've been waiting twenty five chapters to find out. Considering the pacing it looks like we will have about six more chapters to go. Somber, I may question your choices at times, find fault in sections of your writing or the actions of a charterer or two but know that at the end of the day I eager to see each new update, each new view the pages bring. And I can't wait to see how it all turns out. Thu, 31 May 2012 15:40:43 +0000 http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/source-i-dont-think-intensedebate-has.html#IDComment371130948