Astrobrony

I have sucessfuly integrated "Eeyup" and "Nope" in my everyday vocabulary!  I'm now challenging myself to throw out "Schmoopy Doo!" somewhere to finish the Big Mac trifecta.

"So my thesis is about the use of Adobe Flash in children's cartoons..." 

No plastic surgery for me, thank you. I'm quite happy with the way I am.  Ok, granted I'm far from perfect and I can stand to lose a couple of pounds, but I could live my life without plastic surgery if I can help it.

I perosnally wouldn't mind a change of pace for Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.  They're probably the flatest recurring characters on the show, and I'm amazed with all the learnings about friendship all over the place in Ponyville, that these two JUST DON'T GET IT!!!  Yeah I know, story convenience and all, but seriously if everypony else is learning about being a good friend and being an overall nice pony, then Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon should have learned SOMETHING by now.

To be fair, Iron Will should have included when and when not to be assertive in his lessons. With that said, it was still mainly Fluttershy's fault for taking things all the way up to bullying other ponies.

I read somewhere that Lauren originally envisioned the Mane 6 as having different body types, but they went with the same template because it wound up being less expensive for they toys having one standard pony template, and also it helps speed up the production of the show in terms of animation (also explains why all six are the same height in Equestria Girls).

I think that it is amazing to see how varied they can still make the designs for everypony while working off of one single template.

THAT'S CHEATING GAMER P0N3!!!

Mind if we start over?

You're just giving me more and more reason to hate EQG, dude. Sunset for me had the chance to be the "Dark Side" of Twilight Sparkle. A very smart and gifted unicorn wich hunger for knowledge but even more for power. What it may have been now is lost forever, and there is no comic book that will fix this mistake.

I wouldn't call it a "mistake", but I can understand the sentiment. I'm just saying that Sunset Shimmer worked fine as designed for the movie. Did she have potential to be a lot more? Definitely! I was fine with what we got, but I see where others might not.

Then why choose her for a villain? Or why don't change the character so that it may be more competent and be a better villain?

If you're making a ... ugh... movie about MLP you should make so that the villain at the levels of those of the main show, not someone who manage to get only a little minacing toward the end and for only 5 minutes.

I think you have to think of Sunset Shimmer more as an "antagonist", and not a purebred villain.  Keep in mind that the scope of Equestria Girls is limited to the high school, so having a full blown villain like Chrysalis or Discord show up at Canterlot High would have been too jarring, especially if we are to believe that this world is our own everyday world.  Any "villain" based off of a high school setting ("I want to be popular by any means necessary!") would even come close to comparing to the villains we saw in Equestria.    

And to answer your other point, I believe they DIDN'T need to create Sunset Shimmer at all.  To be honest, they could have easily used Trixie instead if it weren't for "Magic Duel", and IMHO, Trixie would have been a more engaging EqG antagonist if she was still in her boasting mode.  I am ok with Sunset Shimmer, but they really should have used Trixie. 

It's not the same thing for me.

When you're making a movie you (the author) should take the time to make the villain something special. And it should be made in the movie. In a comic sounds like they're sayng "Yeah, we were lazy about this character, so we decided to show him better in a comic instead to make in the movie, despite the fact that it would have made him/her more interesting in the movie. So give us your money, cause the movie and the dolls were not enough".

 I dunno.  I think for a 70 minute movie, Sunset Shimmer works fine as is.  Like I pointed out earlier, she isn't the strongest villain by a long shot, but at the end of the day, she didn't need to be.  

Keep in mind that Sunset Shimmer is just an average pony compared to Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis, and Sombra.  And also, being the same age as the Mane 6, she is nowhere near experienced enough to be a "Great Villain" like those others.  Like the Mane 6, she is still a young pony/young girl still learning about the world.  And also like the Mane 6, she is liable to make some really dumb mistakes when she really should have known better.  However, while the Mane 6 have each other, Sunset outright rejects friendship.  

That's part of the message Equestria Girls is trying to send (The magic of friendship is everywhere), and IMHO Sunset Shimmer helps execute that message effectively exactly as she was written, someone who destroys friendships in order to gain power.  Again, this makes her a pretty weak villain compared to the others, but that's to be expected.  She's just a teen/pony who just took things a bit too far (ok, she had sinister intentions, but the same principle applies). 

The pic doesn't come up: is that a pony? or a letter? 

Pony

There will be games and dancing, bob for apples, cut a rug!  And when the party's over we'll gather round for a group hug!

And don't forget Spike!!!

Applejack    

A lot of you keep saying that this movie is not canon.  Well, if it's not canon, why does it take place directly after the events of Magical Mystery Cure?  And why did it have so many nods to past episodes of the show, like Twilight's dance from Sweet and Elite?

All indications point that the events of Equestria Girls will NOT affect future events in 'Friendship is Magic', much like how fanfics and fanstories take place within a context of the show, but doesn't affect the show itself.  So if it is easier for you to think of it that way, just think of this as a fanfic.

I think they had a missed opportunity with the fight Twilight's human friends had.  It wrapped up a bit too nicely IMHO.  I felt that whole sequence could have been taken a whole lot further, especially if they wanted to contrast the closeness they shared in the poniverse or even in their own universe before Sunset Shimmer showed up. 

Ok, here are a couple of mine...

> Rainbow Dash is a better sister than Rarity.

> Too much of Pinkie Pie's antics can get kinda annoying.

> RD's and AJ's elements should have been switched.

> G3 wasn't THAT bad (Newborn Cuties was horrible though).

My favorite is a tie between Octavia and Lyra.  I especially love how one moment of her sitting on a bench ignited an entire fanon personality for her (HANDS!  MUST HAVE HANDS!!!).

And I don't really have a "least favorite", so..... there.  

IMO, Sunset Shimmer is the weakest of the major villains we've encountered so far, but I don't think that makes her "bad".  After all, unlike all the other villains, Sunset is just about the same age as Twilight, and she also shared the same status as Celestia's student like Twilight.  However, what makes Sunset Shimmer works for EqG was the fact that she rejected the magic of friendship way back when, opting instead to be a cold, power-hungry pony/human.  She didn't need to live up to the likes of Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis, and Sombra.  What we see with Sunset Shimmer is what happens when you live your life without the magic of friendship.  You become cold, selfish, and spiteful, going so far to drive everyone around you apart just to reaffirm your own "popularity".   And when she finally gets to wear the element of magic, it turns her into what she had become, a demon.

And all this comes back to my original point, Sunset Shimmer is still a young pony/young woman, and she's still has a lot of life learning to do, much like Twilight and her friends.  The difference again is that Sunset rejected friendship and went solo all this time while Twilight and her friends have each other to figure things out.  It's that simple contrast that makes Sunset Shimmer an effective antagonist for Equestria Girls.

Again, she is not in the same league as the other major bad guys, but she isn't meant to be.  That's just my two cents.

Personally, I would love it if they DIDN'T answer this question.  They could hint at it, but they shouldn't answer it flat out.  Just leave it open for interpretation for the audience.  I kinda like that aspect for this debate, and I hope they just leave it open ended for us to figure out.

I'm going to take the third option:  PONY SPIKE!!!

Seriously though, as much as Spike the Dog worked, I'm still more partial to Spike as a dragon.  Maybe I'm just used to him that way, but his personality fits better as a dragon than as a dog.  That's just me though.

People here keep telling me that Human Pinkie once met a girl and a dog who resembled Twilight and Spike, respectively.  That meant that if Twilight were to interact with her human double, she would have caused the human-world to collapse on itself.

 

If anything, that's what I want to see in the Equestria Girls comic.  Human Twilight moves to the town where Canterlot High School is.  As she spends her first day at the school, she is bombarded by five girls who mistake her for a "pony" who entered their world as a human.  Human Twilight gets confused by all this, and even rejects their friendship just because she looked like the Twilight they met!

 

Then, Human Twilight investigates the statue her pony-counterpart came from to see if the girls were right.  She accidentally falls through it and enters Equestria, and to her surprise, she became a pony, with her dog, Spike, as a baby dragon!  Then, Pony Twilight encounters Human Twilight, learns her side of the story, and eventually has her pony-friends teach Human Twilight about befriending the five humans she met, while Pony Twilight substitutes for her.  One week later, Human Twilight goes from reluctant to make friends, to willing to make friends, as she returns to the human world to make friends with those five humans, while Pony Twilight returns to her original world.

 

I pray that it becomes a reality.

There's just one minor problem with your dream synopsis.  The magic mirror stopped working at the end of the movie and it won't work again for another 30 moons, meaning that the human world and the pony world are pretty much split for the foreseeable future, meaning that there won't be anymore dimension hopping for a while.

At any rate, don't let this whole issue bother you that much.  It's just a movie.  Don't let the little things bother you so much.  Besides, if EqG REALLY bothers you this much, just pretend it never happened and continue waiting for season 4.