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I get the feeling he wouldn't be too interested into doing a voice role, even if it's a small cameo, for mlp:fim. I can't imagine him actually being interested in it, even if they went with the idea of inviting him on for a small part. Mark's a youtuber, I figure he's always busy anyways with his load and several other things he does.

It was a cute episode. One that seemed to have played straight without any twists and that's okay given the plot. Not exactly new, but pretty decent overall. Also, I realize now, Pinkie Pie is the real ponyville government (she keeps so much data on everypony in ponyville) Also, you now appreciate some of the difficulties related with Cheerilee's job as a teacher of having to write everything on the chalkboard..... by mouth And I'm sure others noticed. Twilight is BAE (best aunt ever).

No longer having to use an action oriented two part opener..... okay, I can roll with that I guess. Quick run down of my thoughts. Wow, this opener was hitting a bit of my snarky bone (well actually more towards all bottled up). So I guess starting with Celestia advice, this is actually a nice episode to finally have an excuse to bring Celestia back into the spotlight as an actual character. We've been stuffing her in the closet for some seasons now... This was a really good episode to finally have Celestia actually talking with Twilight and actually being part of the plot of the episode for once. I think though a number of people will enjoy this side of Celestia which wasn't exactly made explicit in prior seasons. This maternal side of Celestia that some have always believed that she had towards Twilight. The focus of having Celestia actually act like she feels like a mother to Twilight (albeit not actually a parent), gives her a lot more expression to be appreciative about. Spike was also good comedy relief throughout this episode (good light-hearted snarky, not Spikeabuse). Also, that meta joke about using Celestia's name as an expression, surprised we went there, seemed to be executed well. There were actually good jokes in this episode that kept the pacing nice and added to the episode. However, when Celestia looked up at the sky when pondering what to do with Twilight and saying, I should send her away... that was totally snarky to me. Those two events were totally unrelated from each other and the former does not have any sort of effect on the latter in terms of decision making, Wot?! And, Celestia totally didn't get Twilight to write to her to report on her friendship lessons as a teaching framework (well not the entire sole reason), she totally was wanting to know how she was doing throughout her move to ponyville. Although I found it a bit weird of how strange of a cop-out it was that Starlight is totally not leaving as well. Totally wasn't expecting that. I guess Starlight is here to stay for longer. though what a cop out for magical dimension sucking black hole conjured by Starlight and Sunburst All Bottled Up - this episode just kept hitting my snarky bone. Things like these quotes: "Yah, Trixie, you're so great at magic and having good hair" "Relax. If anything breaks, Starlight will just go back in time to fix it" "They're going to bond, share laughs and if I know them ... they're going to share a song" "This magical energy has to go somewhere. And if I'm not using it to fight a magical duel or bend my friends' will to obey my every command... ha I remember that" Many these jokes were actually good. Like, I'm surprised but I think this episode won me over easy because I like snark. Starlight isn't going to be the type of character to go full 100% good character and there's still a bit of her acting a little bit devious, but I oddly like that about her. Even though, Starlight actually plays the ethical character throughout this whole episode. So it does reflect that she has learned to be ethical as the episodes have passed (which is actual development for her.) I really do like seeing her get pissed off though. But now I can also see the point of others saying that Starlight is ridiculously powerful as a unicorn if she can literally bottle up her emotional magical energy and cause a side effect of ponies being affected by it. Like there was a lot good that I liked about this episode because we finally get to see the relationship between Trixie and Starlight develop between each and actually act like they're in a friendship. Though it's kind of funny, but I understand that the point of throwing the mane 6 on a retreat was to produce a sort of opposite dynamic effect of showing friends who have long developed good relationships to those who are just starting out now. I liked this episode a lot I can see why Seth likes Trixie now. He'll probably enjoy her a lot during this episode. But i really do like Trixie and Starlight as being a different type of friendship dynamic that we're getting to see compared to any of the mane6's so far. Also Spike was good snarky comedy as well, AND NO SPIKEABUSE too, excellent! This was a pretty good opener, I liked all bottled up more, but finally brought Celestia back to the front light for once. Hoping to see a bit more of her too. Also unicorns stop playing god and trying to bring every inanimate object to life

In previous topics that I had created or discussed, I used to be a lot more interested in wanting to have Equestria's story and lore make some logical sense or trying to look for more details on some theories. Not necessarily about wanting Equestria to be a real place however, but working out it's fictional elements to make sure it made sense from a world building perspective. I've let it go since then since I found some inconsistencies too difficult to unravel over the years. I also probably had waned interest that has now leveled out at least.

Background pony with a hijab would probably be the easiest neutral position that Hasbro could afford if they ever bothered with it.

I have no idea what to consider with Starlight anymore. I didn't think we'd go in this direction back with Starlight at the end of Season5. I didn't think originally they were going to keep her on for this long. So this has been a never-ending surprise to me. Truly not sure what they're planning to do with Starlight now "graduating" from Sparkle's lessons. So yeah, I'm still playing the "wait and see" game since season 5.

Season 1 had a two part opener however. So it's been the norm for 6 seasons now. Really, the first two episodes are only going to be loosely connected? In what direction are we going with S7 now? I'm wondering if this is some sort of transitional season of some sort.

I was talking and ranting about chronology. I thought that's what you meant too. I was going to complain about how the chronology has unfortunately been contradicted at times because of changing writers and due to Faust being thrown off years ago from the beginning. That just tends to happen when we no longer have a "bible" book from the original writer on the chronology of events. Those were my complaints since there have been contradictions that have popped up and countless threads that have tried to make sense of the chronology of major events in Equestrian history. But after so many problems, I gave up on caring anymore. Although I think there are still some who still fight the good fight on trying to keep things in order. But what is the topic that you're getting at? Which parts of Equestrian history are you referring that seemed to be fiction, now become fact (from an in-universe perspective)?

I have no idea. Actually, I think I might laugh a bit. Just sort of this big build-up that's been had with all the tragic backstories we could give to AJ and how she and Big Mac had to grow up strong to raise little AB so young and if they turn out to be alive all I can think is, all those tears.... lol. all of them... poof, gone. It's like feeling sad, angry and just having it come out as this maddening laughter. Bring on the Apple family then.

Ponies aren't automatically born experienced and wise for their age. It takes years for ponies to learn lessons. It takes time, patience, understanding and experience to actually realize that your opinion or approach, might not be the best nor might it be also correct or it might not be best suited for a situation. They were younger after-all, it only seems natural that they would try things out their way before finally listening to each other for a change.

Hey, it only took 7 years to get an appearance from AJ's parents. Casually side-stepping the other major question about their current presence, but you know, at least acknowledgement that they existed in a past flashback. At least that's something. Looking forward to seeing how Aj's parents were after all these years. On the other hoof, it feels like we got to see Dash's parents a lot more quicker. Hey, that will actually round up showing all of the mane 6's families at least once.... and no origin story for Spike This^

Are we still lacking an origin story for Spike? I've forgotten. I used to make snide jokes that Celestia foal-napped when he was still an egg or that she found Spike's egg lying on the side of the road and decided to bring it home with her. Going back to your topic. I want to say, that Spike was probably a lost dragon egg that by chance, Celestia came across/happened upon. Because Spike seems to be the only dragon born into Pony society, it seems like he come upon his situation through unique circumstance. I'd imagine that Spike's egg somehow got separated from the rest of his family's den and somehow Celestia managed to get a hold of him. Perhaps she didn't actually know what the egg was, but could determine that something was living inside of it, so it needed shelter. Perhaps Spike's egg was separated from his family's den through some sort catastrophic event? I wonder, if that was the situation, did Equestrian officials even know it was a dragon's egg that happened to come upon? What happens if they were trying to kill two birds with one stone. 1. We'll use this egg as part of our entrance test for our school for gifted unicorns... AND 2. We can learn what's really inside of the egg with the new applicants trying to hatch it open! Or did they already know it was a dragon's egg? I would hazard a guess, Spike's situation might very much be similar to that of his own pet phoenix, Peewee, where through some circumstance, the egg got separated from the family, but they may have not noticed. Or if they did, they searched in vein. So maybe there's a possibility that Spike's biological family does or does not know that he exists.

Should probably add proper spoiler tags to your thread so that people won't see it who don't want to get spoiled. Or at least I think that's what those tags do. Anyways, huh. Well, I'm kind of a bit surprised at myself, in the sense that past seasons ago I actually would've probably enjoyed a more "invading" kingdoms type of thing, but not so much now. Is that what's going to happen in the upcoming movie? An invasion? I'm at the point where I'm okay with clunky flank-pulls of lore being written up for mlp:fim. Heck, we didn't even know there was an evil dictatorship going down south of the Equestrian border. No one tells us anything around here (that's the excuse I'd come up with for Equestrian officials). That's the excuse Celestia can rely on (I'm almost half-jokingly expecting that to be the reason.)

I agree that they haven't really had Starlight build stronger relationships with the mane 5 and that the approach seemed more like friendship related studies to try and get Starlight to practice making friends. Starlight's relations with Sunburst, Trixie and Spike though can be further explored, since they seem to have a much better base to them and seem more natural for her. Those might be the routes they could better take with Starlight, if they don't end up developing much more for her relationships with the mane 5.

I'm trying to recall where Sparity went. Wow, it's been a while since I thought about it. I think, like originally I had said (can't remember which episode) that Spike at some point, came to terms with accepting that his relationship with Rarity wasn't going to go into a romantic direction and that he understood that. At the very least, he could still remain close friends but the love was never going to go further than a small crush and silent admiration for each other. It was an episode where I felt they actually did have Spike mature in that episode pretty well overall. But I can't for the life of me, remember which episode that was where it seemed like he was finally maturing. (I want to say it's the one where Rarity goes crazy with magical power). But I think of the last few seasons, they seemed rather inconsistent with Spike and Rarity on this relationship. I think they still wrote him like he was still having a crush and would still do anything for her, while Rarity still seemed to have admiration and feelings for Spike (but in a more family oriented way where she treats him more like a nephew that she likes). So, I'm not really sure where it's gone for the last couple of seasons, someone refresh my memory.

They'll keep making the omnibuses. It's just that they have a long time between releases. I don't think there is a hardcover variant of the omnibuses? There is some sort of hard cover variant that is floating around but I don't recall what it is and what's it in it. Sorry.

I'm kind of asking these questions out of curiosity, - Is it an archive? It kind of sounds like it's a big hyperlink database? It's possible that I have misunderstood what you wrote in your spoiler tags. - What are your scope parameters for this archive? Are you only focusing on content produced from bronies on youtube? Just specifically videos then?

Hello everypony, So I've been collecting the volume packs for the comics for some time now (I'm actually up to volume 11, the one that collects issue #43-47), for the main comics. The volume packs collect roughly around 4 issues in a pack, which was convenient for me when I first started collecting, because I didn't want to constantly get every single individual issue (and instead) wanted things in a pack. But due to a few other things, I've been thinking about switching over from collecting the volume packs to the omnibus. Can anyone tell me what I might be missing out if I switched over from the volume packs to the omnibus? The reason I'm considering the change is due to an effort to try and save some funds here and there (albeit, this is a low penny pinch, but still, something I'm considering). Is there other things that I should consider? I do notice, the omnibus versions are really far behind because they collect roughly every 12 issues into one omnibus (they're only up to omnibus #3 as of writing this, which is up to issue 25-37).

Kind of a question that I wanted to ask if others also could confirm this, Is there no holiday or annual release for 2016 this year? I collect these ones on the side of my pony comic collection and they're kind of annoying to find for me because they seem to fall under the radar a bit when it comes to releases. They also don't seem to be released every year? I'm talking about physical comic release (not digital). But just wanted to confirm, is there no annual or holiday pony comic release for 2016?

was initially thinking of Jubilee at first showing (I originally thought it had more of a firework type of effect) and sort of think it's a mix of gambit and jubilee's abilities.

I want to believe that Celestia has some actual secondary abilities that are similar to Luna's, in the sense that they are only unique to her as well. Like I said, want to believe... and that it hasn't been seen on the show yet. They also need to bring Celestia back into the foreground because they have seriously kind of left her a little too much in the background of many of the major events now in these past seasons. I wonder if we will delve into this a bit more with discussing about Luna's transformation and the Tantabus. Because these these two things questions have been kicking around for a while. What exactly was Luna's transformation into nightmare night? Was this possession via evil magic? Was this a very unique case of split personality or something else? That's the question that is always wondered about Luna. How much of Nightmare Moon was really Luna ? It's always been an interesting question that I was hoping the show would jump more into (same with talking about Tantabus, when did it suddenly have a mind of its own to try and escape from Luna. And why would it want to leave as well?). I haven't got any other ideas. But Luna still remains an interesting character to me.

Never really considered Starlight to be OP, powerful yes, but not OP. It's more interesting to know that Starlight is a capable high level magical unicorn to me. I figured her character should've been deeper after her initial appearance and the backstory we got for her was okay (not great, but I've accepted it at this point). I guess if not really focusing on her personality for this thread, and instead more about her "power level" - I don't really see it as a problem. I don't see her as surpassing Twilight though, maybe closer to her capable levels, but not surpassing Twilight in a way. But I do like the points that @@Cleverclover, has brought up. I kind of like it like this because Starlight started off in this unusual position of "now what?" and doesn't exactly understand how to socialize after being a former antagonist and having this looming guilt or some sort of stress that's been poked about here and there in her episodes. Granted, she does feel kind of inconsistent at times at trying to understand, but I kind of like this because, it potentially means we haven't really thought of her as being a little bit more complex than our initial judgement. About Starlight and Sunburst i can agree with. It does scratch my head when we look back at her backstory and Starlight ended up being the capable unicorn rather than Sunburst. A sort of funny twist of fate that I thought was more interesting to me when I was viewing the differences of how life ended up between Startlight and Sunburst. I can't really gauge a "power level" because magic has never really had well defined rules on this show, but I don't see Starlight as having surpassed Twilight since Twilight has a completely different personality and approach to things that she's done over these past seasons, she's been molded after all these years. I guess what I'm trying to get at, is that I don't view an intrinsic link that is mandatory to have between having the element of magic and being a gifted prodigy. Sure it's expected, but I don't think you have to be the best magical user to be able to wield the element. But like I said, I can't really compare and measure Twilight and Starlight's magical level because I can't figure out how to gauge them and I kind of view them as being very close to each other in terms of magical capability. I kind of was expecting there to be at least some capable high level magical unicorns that existed besides Twilight and we just haven't met them. Starlight though, being one of them. And I don't find that unsettling, cause hey, realistically, you're not going to be only one who is the best at something in the world. Starlight makes for a little bit more interesting dynamic of bouncing off of the mane cast to me. Although, I did not expect what they were going to do with Starlight, going into this season 6.

Sorry about being vague on what I wrote earlier. By Celestia's contingency plan I meant from the past seasons, making sure that Discord would became an ally to Equestria on the off-chance that things hit SNAFU. Since Discord's re-introduction from keep calm and flutter on, I saw this as an opportunity proposed by Celestia to try and convince a former powerful draconiquis to try and be allied/side with the ponies as an ally who would help out Equestria in times of desperate need. (A side back-up measure to besides relying always on Twilight). (going back a couple of seasons) It was a risky gamble, but I viewed it as Celestia trying to have an asset set up for Equestria as an extra back up and I thought this was actually a reasonable plan made by her. If it paid off, Equestria would have an extremely powerful ally on their side to better help protect the kingdom should the situation call for it. Yes, this goes back to season 4's finale with Discord betraying Equestria and helping Tirek, but Celestia gave him a full pardon in order to retain good relations (And the possibility that he would still help out in times of desperate situations with the state). Back in Keep Calm and Flutter On, the only thing that could hold Discord were the elements of harmony. Because afterall he is a draconiquis that can bend the very fabric of reality to his while (only limited by his conscious mentality) There is little to stop Discord if he were to go on the chaotic path again (Except for a few things, EoH and this anti-magic throne,). This was the main reason that Celestia had asked the mane cast to try and befriend Discord (or at least that's how I perceived it. Celestia didn't necessarily tell them that, but she was thinking ahead, because she does call upon Discord in season 4 finale). However, it worked again here, because Discord was largely disinterested in the situation. He seemed curious to want to find out why some things had changed, but at the very instance of hearing that Fluttershy was in trouble, he came calling instantly. And the finale would've ended instantly if Discord was able to use his magic to save the day. However, from a narrative perspective, I can understand why there should be a limitation put in place to prevent this. Still the main goal was to get Discord to help out the ponies if major trouble were to happen and in this S6 finale, it did occur.