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Hurricane Fluttershy


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Hurricane Fluttershy (March 24th 2012, 22 minutes)

 

Summary: Cloudsdale needs water, and Rainbow Dash needs every pegasi to join into the effort, even Fluttershy.

 

Reference to an actual mule. That surprises me, actually. Mules are specifically the offspring of a male donkey and a mare. The offspring of a female donkey and a stallion is a 'hinny'. Technically they are infertile not because they are the offspring of two different species, but because the two parents have differing numbers of chromosomes which make it unlikely for the pairs to line up properly. It *can* happen though to have a fertile mule or hinny. Mules are considered far more intelligent than donkeys or horses, interestingly enough.

 

Interesting that this meeting is at the library, and not the town hall. You'd think the town hall would be more suited to this kind of thing.

 

Call back to the 'I'd like to be a tree' thing that became a meme. We've reached the point that episodes are referencing throwaway lines from it's own series.

 

Heh. I remember watching these Info-Films back in primary school. Yes, some of them were in black and white. The Ontario school system was stuck in the 50's for twenty years.

 

So they actually have a measurement of 'wingpower'.

 

Question is, is this considered modern film, or is this an antique even to the ponies? I have a projector that looks pretty much exactly like that stored away, along with a bunch of 8mm films that my mother made when she was a teenager on holiday in Europe in the early 60's. Pretty much unwatchable as she had a tendency to pan *with* the bus... light speed away!

 

Any case, ponies are aware of at least black and white moving pictures with sound, and this particular film was definitely animated rather than 'live'.

 

Ponyville isn't always the water source for Cloudsdale, it moves around. Probably as Cloudsdale moves, as Fillydelphia has to be a significant distance away from Ponyville, yet both supply water for Cloudsdale.

 

This is implying that Fillydelphia, while having a significant pegasi population, has a lower turnout for the water-raising task than what Rainbow Dash is trying to pull off here.

 

Pony pox. Right.

 

Flight camp, which we saw before with the Cutie Mark Chronicles.

 

Anemometer. Odd that pegasi aren't familiar with a standard wind speed measuring instrument. Here they've been around since the 15th century, and were developed pretty much simultaneously all around the world (including the Mayans).

 

Thunderlane put out 9.3 wingpower and RD put out 16.5 wingpower, both on a sprint with no real warm-up. And RD honestly thinks all the pegasi can put out 10.0 wingpower with serious effort. Thunderlane puts out 11.0 after training, which RD calls impressive. So what exactly is the measure of *one* wingpower? Horsepower is the measure of the amount of work a draft horse (not a riding horse or a pony) can put out steadily. It's pretty obvious that one wingpower is not the average output of one strong pegasis, but some much smaller value.

 

Interesting behavior from RD. She pawed and struck out with her back hooves at the air with upset frustration. This is a standard horse move that I've seen often when a horse is prevented from reaching something.

 

Okay, either Fluttershy is actually understanding the animals 'speech' or she's talking to herself using the animals as proxy. Given the way Fluttershy normally works, I'd say she's actually understanding, which means the animals do talk just with a different language. Which throws the dividing line between animal as 'sophont' out the window.

 

Feather flu, as different from Pony pox. Feather flu sounds like a pegasi-specific disorder.

 

Cool horn.

 

I'm not sure the math on all this wingpower works out, with the value dropping from 1,000 to 800 with the loss of 10 ponies? But I get the feeling the wingpower scale isn't directly proportional.

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Nearly a year or so ago we had a tournament to vote for the best episode in MLP:FiM to date.  At the time, Hurricane Fluttershy was my favorite.  :)  Return to Harmony Part 2 was the eventual winner though.  But still, Hurricane Fluttershy was phenomenal.  It showed great interaction between Flutters and Dashie and revisited some of her unpleasant experiences in flight school. 

 

And on top of everything else, it has the best actor allusion of the whole series:  "Do I look like I speak squirrel?"  :lol:

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