What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thread)

[Ariosto]

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20. It's about time
7 and a half minutes in: OCD Twilight is best Twilight, panic-prone Pinkie cracks me up. Also, time travel and a mention of

Spoiler: This episode

Tartarus like it's nothing... also, Cerberus exists

Poor Spike doens't get over his crush even after being friendzoned.
Skeptical Spike is best Spike.
Confimed, hell exists in this world... but who rules over it? This episode has been pretty strange so far, either it's the obligatory "all a dream" episode or something that will be utterly crazy.

EDIT: And finished... that was... strange, a nice twist... odd, really odd and nice. But I was distracted watching it, so I'll have to watch it again.

 

[CannonFodder]

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20. It's about time
7 and a half minutes in: OCD Twilight is best Twilight, panic-prone Pinkie cracks me up. Also, time travel and a mention of

Spoiler: This episode

Tartarus like it's nothing... also, Cerberus exists

Poor Spike doens't get over his crush even after being friendzoned.
Skeptical Spike is best Spike.
Confimed, hell exists in this world... but who rules over it? This episode has been pretty strange so far, either it's the obligatory "all a dream" episode or something that will be utterly crazy.

EDIT: And finished... that was... strange, a nice twist... odd, really odd and nice. But I was distracted watching it, so I'll have to watch it again.

It's probably more like a prison with him guarding rather than hell. Rampaging dragons, hydras and other creatures have to go somewhere. Since we haven't seen any prisons princess celestia probably puts them there for quarantine.

Luna was sent to the moon and discord turned to stone were probably extreme exceptions since they both have great power. Creatures that are still dangerous, but not all powerful are probably all crammed into there since celestia doesn't have to worry about them changing the very fabric of reality to escape.


*EDIT*
Anybody else think Rainbow Dash and Twilight sound different from season 1 voice? It's subtle, but it sounds like they're more mature voices.

 

[Imperial Impact]

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is dis naruto??

 

[CannonFodder]

Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr

is dis naruto??

*parasprite detected*

 

[FlynnCoyote]

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Why shouldn't hell exist relative to Equestria? Dragons and whatever still roam around, so there has to be a darker side to this universe no?

I think Tartarus and Cerberus should be in their actual context. No other myths have been watered down yet.

 

[CannonFodder]

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Why shouldn't hell exist relative to Equestria? Dragons and whatever still roam around, so there has to be a darker side to this universe no?

I think Tartarus and Cerberus should be in their actual context. No other myths have been watered down yet.

It'd be pretty dark for a kid's show.
Even if it exists not watered down I doubt they'll ever expand on it and we'll never find out.

 

[AlexInsane]

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Without My Little Pony, this Youtube video could not have been. God bless you, Lauren Faust.

 

[Aleu]

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Oh god I hate time loops.

 

[CannonFodder]

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Oh god I hate time loops.

Oh god I hate time loops.

Oh god I hate time loops.

Fix'ed that for you :3


Well I kinda expected the ending, cause I've seen so much science fiction that I knew within a about 3 minutes where it was going to go. That version of time travel follows a specific plot progression.

 

[Conker]

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I really liked the new episode, though I was hoping for a Terminator reference to go along with time travel

The conclusion of it was pretty easy to see, but I still liked it. Also, Cerberus was cool

 

[Aleu]

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Fix'ed that for you :3


Well I kinda expected the ending, cause I've seen so much science fiction that I knew within a about 3 minutes where it was going to go. That version of time travel follows a specific plot progression.

>:C

It's just trying to think about how Twilight Sparkle would even know how to time travel if her past self only knew from her future self but @_@

 

[Conker]

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>:C

It's just trying to think about how Twilight Sparkle would even know how to time travel if her past self only knew from her future self but @_@

There were a lot of time paradoxes like that in the Time Splitters games. I don't really think they were ever resolved in some logical fashion.

 

[Ariosto]

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Yeah, it's one big time paradox, and no consideration of time can possibly fix it. Still, I liked how it was resolved, even if the paradox made it feel really odd at the beginning.

On a note of criticism: "[...] I've become future Spike", this part of the line is cringe-inducing; it's practically undeliverable even in this context and overstates the obvious, much like Fluttershy's incredibly corny "[...] hole in our hearts".
Do you have any particular lines of dialogue you didn't like in the show, guys?
And to balance it out, which would be your favorite lines?

 

[CannonFodder]

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Yeah, it's one big time paradox, and no consideration of time can possibly fix it. Still, I liked how it was resolved, even if the paradox made it feel really odd at the beginning.

On a note of criticism: "[...] I've become future Spike", this part of the line is cringe-inducing; it's practically undeliverable even in this context and overstates the obvious, much like Fluttershy's incredibly corny "[...] hole in our hearts".
Do you have any particular lines of dialogue you didn't like in the show, guys?
And to balance it out, which would be your favorite lines?

Well the paradox did resolve itself in the end though.
Don't think of it linearaly, but rather as a mini timeline that looped back in on itself and then corrected itself.

As far as time travel goes this one was pretty simple compared to other models.

 

[Ariosto]

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Well the paradox did resolve itself in the end though.
Don't think of it linearaly, but rather as a mini timeline that looped back in on itself and then corrected itself.

As far as time travel goes this one was pretty simple compared to other models.

Mmmm... could you explain it to me, please? I know only of the timeloop in which everything is resetted, but what about this one? As in, how is one supposed to... start? Oh wait, that's thinking in it linearly. What other works present this particular model? Aside from this and Harry Potter, and HP's is even simpler.

 

[Conker]

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Yeah, it's one big time paradox, and no consideration of time can possibly fix it. Still, I liked how it was resolved, even if the paradox made it feel really odd at the beginning.

On a note of criticism: "[...] I've become future Spike", this part of the line is cringe-inducing; it's practically undeliverable even in this context and overstates the obvious, much like Fluttershy's incredibly corny "[...] hole in our hearts".
Do you have any particular lines of dialogue you didn't like in the show, guys?
And to balance it out, which would be your favorite lines?

Yeah. It's a time paradox with no beginning, since time travel has to happen for it to start. It's like in Time Splitters when you need a key, and your future self shows up to give you the key. It just doesn't make sense, because there's no beginning to the loop.

As to the line,"I've become future Spike", while it was corny, it was fully expected to happen, so I didn't cringe at it.

 

[Shà nwà ng]

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I really appreciated that spike had some form of ice cream in every scene.

 

[Roose Hurro]

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I really liked the new episode, though I was hoping for a Terminator reference to go along with time travel

The conclusion of it was pretty easy to see, but I still liked it. Also, Cerberus was cool

But why bulldogs?

 

[Conker]

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But why bulldogs?

Dunno. I'd have to go look up the original mythology to see what kind of dogs they are, but I'm guessing the dog is just described as a giant three headed dog.

 

[Roose Hurro]

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Dunno. I'd have to go look up the original mythology to see what kind of dogs they are, but I'm guessing the dog is just described as a giant three headed dog.

Yeah, original mythology doesn't specify, but this is the first time I've seen Cerberus portrayed as a bulldog.

 

[Ariosto]

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He's described as a "hound" by some Homer and Ovid translators, but "hound" here is used in a general context for "dog", since the word in Ovid's original text is simply "canis", and I assume it's the same in Homer's (who didn't even name it).

@Roose: Now that you say it, it's also the first time I've seen it with a less generic appereance, and seeing as Twilight mentions the Tartarus and drops Cerberus's name without any context, I guess it's just so kids can tell inmediately it's supposed to be a dog.

 

[Aleu]

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Bulldogs need love too

 

[Ariosto]

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On another note on Tara Strong:
I recently discovered Cindy from The Boondocks, also voiced by Tara. It's hard not to be reminded of Twilight, even if they speak in completely different registers. And there's also this, even if it's not all that well synched.

EDIT: I mean, the voice Tara uses is almost the same, but their manners of speech and dialogue are completely different.

 

[Roose Hurro]

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He's described as a "hound" by some Homer and Ovid translators, but "hound" here is used in a general context for "dog", since the word in Ovid's original text is simply "canis", and I assume it's the same in Homer's (who didn't even name it).

@Roose: Now that you say it, it's also the first time I've seen it with a less generic appereance, and seeing as Twilight mentions the Tartarus and drops Cerberus's name without any context, I guess it's just so kids can tell inmediately it's supposed to be a dog.

Possibly... I think I've seen Cerberus portrayed as a doberman, perhaps some other breeds. And "hound" covers quite a lot of territory, as you may have noted in the translation. Hound in many ways could be translated to mean "mutt". At least that's the general context I see it in.

Bulldogs need love too

They do indeed, but, like I said, I've never seen Cerberus portrayed as a bulldog, so it really caught my attention. I'd say it was a rather good choice of breed. Even though dobermans/rottweilers/German shepards are more thought of as guard-dogs.

 

[Milo]

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I saw an episode of my little pony.

....eh, I don't feel the bronyness that everyone else does