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    They might just be a person who really likes their privacy, but also wants to make pony animations? Sometimes the simplest answer is the correct one.
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    I finally set up a youtube account to watch a few age locked videos and my account is suspended after only just a few hours for no reason given. The heck?

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    Okay, so I don't want to judge something before I've even seen it, and considering so much of this trailer was just the toys set to a song, I can't judge much. That said, I really don't like the art style so far, it looks too much like every other "Wacky and zany!" kids cartoon ever from the last decade and it's just...not at all what I want to see from an MLP show. Maybe the show will be good otherwise, good writing can make up for a lot, but that kind of style immediately puts me off. Seeing the Mane Six sing "Good as Hell" though...never thought I'd see that.
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    I'd prefer the Pillars or Students get more development personally, before even considering adding Scorpan onto the list. The series is already full of characters that don't get enough time to shine, I don't want to toss another onto the pile.
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    Not understanding friendship very well doesn't necessarily mean you can't make any friends. It's not as if it's a black and white thing where you either fully understand it or you don't, there's a lot of grey in the middle and I'd assume that Starswirl was just in a darker grey area, he could make friends and understood the concept, but wasn't necessarily the most understanding of people, not like Twilight. We aren't really sure on how exactly the whole thing with Scorpan went down, we don't even really know what Scorpan is like.
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    I'd have been fine with this. I'm also fine with the Pillars returning like they did though, I just wish they got used more. The only ones who got any real attention were Starswirl and Rockhoof and even then not much. If we got more episodes in Season 8 and 9 featuring the various pillars and they actually got to put up a fight or play more of a role in the finale, I'd be pretty happy with them, they're cool characters and it's a shame to see them go to waste. Starswirl being the way he is actually makes sense though, one of the reasons his spell from the Season 3 finale didn't work was because he didn't really understand friendship, so it's not as if his attitude came out of nowhere.
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    I think that would kind of contradict Tirek's lines in the Season 4 finale, when he called Scorpan's amulet "As worthless as he is". Even if on some level Tirek still cares for him deep down, he clearly blames him for his betrayal.
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    And the Student Six didn't even end up getting used that much either anymore, more than the Pillars sure, but after Season 8 they mostly just kinda stopped mattering. They only got like 2 episodes and a few more minor roles until the finale. One of the big issues with these later seasons is that they introduce so many new characters at such a late time, that even if they tried to give all of them proper development they'd never really be able to do so. It probably would have been smarter to either do only the Pillars or only the students, not both.
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    They also got to help in the Season 6 premiere beating back some clouds. So apparently all Celestia and Luna are good for in the modern day during Crisis is holding back out of control nature. It's kind of weird because in all the flashbacks to the past they're beating villains even without the Elements, like Sombra and Tirek and yet in modern day they just can't do anything 90% of the time.
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    The Pillars and also the Royal Sisters really got the short end of the stick in the finale. Everyone else got some really cool moments, the Mane Six and Spike, Starlight, and especially the villainous trio all got some really awesome stuff, but the sisters just get immediately drained of their magic by Cozy and the Pillars don't even put up any fight against Tirek at all. Which is weird because the Mane Six+Spike manage to take on all three of them together later, and Starlight probably would have beat Chrysalis all on her own if it weren't for her having the Bell magic. I think for me the Royal Sisters defeat stings a little more though, because I'm more attached to them, and because they always get the short end of the stick and this was their last chance to get a moment of awesome and they didn't. I know they only have limited time, so animating more full fight scenes would take away more time from other stuff, but it's still sad to see. Kind of makes me wish it was a three-parter honestly.
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    Well, what'd they do in "Between Dark and Dawn"? Luna wants to relax and enjoy the simple things in life, Celestia wants to explore and go on crazy adventures and do all sorts of exciting things, and apparently they both want to do the stuff Twilight and pals do, get in on the action and save the day. So I imagine that's what they'll do, they'll spend time together as sisters and some time apart to pursue their unique interests, and maybe they'll actually get to save the day or stop villains themselves now that they aren't Princesses who need to be taken out for plot reasons. Can we get a spin-off series of them please? I'd kill for just a season or two of Royal Sister adventures.
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    It's possible, the writers were sort of hinting at that, though many of them have said they decided to leave it ambiguous for fans to make up their own minds. Just cause Discord brings her doesn't have to mean they live together though, it could just mean she was visiting him before showing up to the Friendship Council, or maybe just hitching a ride because having a friend who can take you anywhere in seconds, who wouldn't want to use that? So, they could be a couple or just a pair of very close friends, up to you to decide.
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    At least in the case of Big Mac, I'd like to point out that O&O nights also involve Discord. There is no need for "Travelling" when one of your game players can warp you to the other side of the universe with a mere snap if he feels like it. Other than that, this is a pretty good point. Spike is leaving behind all of his friends just as much as Twilight is, though at least from what we saw it wasn't affecting him the same way it was Twilight, maybe because Twilight and her friends tend to always be around each other, while Spike is a bit more used to not always being around his friends? The Mane Six are a bit more of a tightly-knit group, where as all of Spike's other friends are more mostly one-on-one relationships he has.
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    It looked to me like a combination of spellcraft and technology, she had to have the technical know how to put together that machine, not just know how magic works. It's not necessarily human tech, but if she can build that I don't think it's too far-fetched for her to figure out how a gun or something works fairly easily. The more complex stuff would certainly be harder though. That brings up another point though...they can probably combine spells with technology too, which opens up plenty of possibilities.
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    Just gonna point out, Twilight was smart enough to successfully build a device to take the magic from that journal and use it to open the portal again and did so pretty dang quickly. If they got their hooves on some of our tech I wouldn't put it past her or some other brainy unicorns to figure out how our technology works pretty fast. I wouldn't be shocked at all if they could reverse engineer that technology to work for other ponies too, of course it'd take time to train in their use and get used to them, but it's not at all beyond their scope. The thing is, one reason we humans dominated other species so much was because of our advanced intelligence, which is a trait ponies actually share with us. We've never had to deal with another species that has the same level of intelligence, and outcompetes us physically in nearly every way and some of them can control the forces of nature or even bend reality to an extent.
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    The way some people talk about Discord in the Season 2 premiere, you'd swear he was the most evil cartoon character they'd ever seen. A lot of people seem to have this exaggeratedly evil view of him where they interpret his as some being of pure evil who brings fire and brimstone and not a lunatic who makes it rain sweet liquids and turns reality into a surrealist painting.

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      @Kiryu-Chan I think to an extent it's because what better option is there really? Lock him up in stone seems good, but eventually he'll just break out again and probably go on another rampage, and what happens when he eventually wins? He's invulnerable to pretty much anything that isn't the Elements or having his magic stolen. Equestrians don't seem too enthused about killing, so that's probably off the table, and even draining his magic might be a concern taking that into account, because if he isn't chaotic enough he'll eventually fade away. With his "Reformation" he's at least restrained, he'll generally try not to do anything too terrible out of fear of losing his friends, and he's shown to be able to care about others and feel remorse for doing something wrong, so there's some improvement there, no matter how small.

       You're right that it's kind of a bad situation, but in-universe from all we've seen of the show, having him free but restrained and maybe eventually being...if not a good, at least a tolerable person might actually be the best outcome here.

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      Fair enough, but then again, I'm of the opinion that Discord's reformation retroactively got worse as the series went on, to the point where I honestly think it was one of the worst things to happen to the series, with the movie, and S8-9 being the breaking point

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      @Kiryu-Chan I like his reformation for the most part, but I tend to find Discord just fascinating as a character, mostly because I just like how much of a contradictory mess he is, I wanna know what the heck is going on in his brain and why he does the weird stuff he does, sometimes it's obvious, other times it feels like what he wants and what he's doing are conflicting. His later appearances are a mixed bag, because sometimes you can see the improvement, like in the season 6 finale or Discordant Harmony, or certain other parts of episodes, and sometimes it seems like he's either backsliding or hasn't changed that much.

       I do feel like there's some parts the writer's could have done a better job with though, I don't want him to be a saint but I think they could have done more to show him trying to be genuine friends with the 5 outside of Flutters. I actually think some of the early comics did a better job with making him sympathetic without necessarily making him a goody-goody two shoes.

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    I like to think that no, not every pony has a human counterpart, there are some beings who are unique to the worlds. Some humans exist on their own and some ponies do too. Even if the universes were more similar worlds at the start, the Sirens or Sunset coming into their world would probably throw their natural history a bit off course and move things around a bit. Princess Luna was banished to the moon for a thousand years, so here's a better question...how old are Principal Celestia and Luna? Because if they're ordinary humans, there's no way they're that old. As we've seen with Sci-Twi though, the humans and ponies lives might not match up perfectly, or else Sci-Twi would have already been at CHS and friends with the others like our Princess Twi. So, the characters are definitely not always in the same place.
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    Don't forget earth ponies with their absolutely absurd strength. Think of AJ somehow sending that massive boulder flying in the Season 7 finale or Maud Pie breaking a boulder down with her bare hooves. Rainbow can break the sound barrier and even slam into the ground with enough force to create a small rainbow colored mushroom explosion and get up perfectly fine, and we constantly see ponies taking extreme amounts of damage like crashing into walls or Twilight getting crushed under all sorts of things and getting up just fine. Not to mention weirdo's like Pinkie or Cheese have precognitive abilities and can just casually break physics. I'm mostly talking about exceptional cases here, but in general ponies have been shown to be extremely durable with earth ponies being very, very strong, the toughest being way, way above the strongest of humans. Even the least trained unicorns still seem to be able to at least lift things with telekinesis and shoot small blasts, and higher level unicorns have all sorts of crazy abilities and magical hacks. Pegasi can fly and control the weather by nature and the more athletically inclined ones are crazy fast, and you have the few who have weird or special abilities, like Pinkie and her cartoony nonsense or Fluttershy's stare, who knows what other weird powers certain ponies might have? In terms of natural abilities, ponies have us heavily outclassed in a lot of ways.
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    Or it could just be that Yona and Sandbar are her employees? The thing about her opening more shops is that even if she doesn't move away from Ponyville, it still means she has to spend more time away from Ponyville to deal with all of them, and considering Ponyville is housing a lot more than just ponies in the epilogue, I'd imagine it's grown and so there's probably more customers. It makes sense she might hire others to help manage her boutique while she's gone. I think that makes a bit more sense than her moving, personally. That said, I share your feelings on mostly ignoring the epilogue, since I'm not the biggest fan either. I mostly like to just think of it as a "Potential future" one of many possibilities that might happen, not anything concrete.
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    In the flashback, Rarity actually talks about opening up boutiques for non-ponies, so to me it seems like she followed through on that and probably just opened up a boutique in Yak-Yakistan. I kind of doubt Rarity would move away from Ponyville and if she did, Yak-Yakistan doesn't seem like the place she'd go.
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    Pinkie's used to Maud and seems to be able to understand her better than most, despite her lack of facial expression or outward emotion. Remember in her first episode where Pinkie says she's never seen Maud so excited when Maud isn't showing any outward difference? Pinkie can read whatever subtle changes are there to tell how Maud is feeling usually, she can't do that with Mud Briar who she's only just getting to know, and he's also kind of annoying in a way Maud really isn't with his whole "Technically" shtick. In a way, Pinkie is reacting to Mud the same way a lot of ponies might react to Maud herself, again, back to the first Maud Pie episode where most of the ponies were pretty put off by Maud, Pinkie likely would have been among them too if she wasn't already so familiar with Maud as it was. She takes it even more to an extreme though because Mud isn't just a new friend Maud is introducing, he's her boyfriend, she's dating this guy, and Pinkie is so used to being able to read Maud in a way, it's almost like she's blind to just how similar the two really are.
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