HereComesTom

Well, the Tirek/Cozy Glow/Chrysalis angle is something they could pick up on in G-5 if they wanted to. I thought the animation was pretty good, and the comedy was absolutely terrific and up to G-4's standards, if not surpassing them. What stood out to me was the ending; I've heard it called "rushed", and that might be accurate. But what I really didn't like was how, out of nowhere, Sunny gives a speech about how bringing ponies together was the real magic---and then the crystals turn out to be magic after all. I felt like it jerked me around; if the crystals had really unleashed magic, it would've been more satisfying, but I had a separate thread with what I considered to be an even more satisfying way of handling it!

I've noticed a pattern about Equestria. We've never once seen ordinary police or military face down a threat and defeat it, or even heard about that happening offscreen during G-4: the day has always been saved by a small group of heroes who had something special about them. If you think about that from an in-universe perspective, that's actually really disturbing: it means the average citizen is helpless, that weapons and mundane magic are useless, and in general that, if the heroes are neutralized, everypony is in big trouble! Plus, villains keep popping up, whether they want Equestria's money, magic, slaves, or land. They keep popping up no matter how old the heroes get, and no matter whether anyone special happens to be available to stop them or not. So...how would a character who's responsible for the safety of the whole country respond to a world where these rules apply, and where these patterns keep coming up? Well, they'd probably try to find some permanent solution to stop villains from coming, and perhaps the most logical way of doing that would be to remove the stuff that keeps attracting the villains: the magic and the economic prosperity of Equestria. (Seriously, the way Equestria kept bouncing back from disasters, their economy must be really robust!) And since it's Equestria's unity that makes their economy so prosperous and magic so strong, getting rid of the unity gets rid of the villains---or at least gets rid of their reasons for attacking. With that context in mind, what worries me is that, after one very near victory for one of these villains---and/or possibly a Pyrrhic victory for the good guys---some monarch of Equestria in the past told his or her citizens, "We can't keep attracting villains like this; we'll never survive if we do. Our unity is what's giving us magic and a prosperous economy, so we're going to segregate ourselves into different cities based on which kind of pony we are, we're going to tell our kids that we've always been separate, we're going to invent stereotypes to teach us to fear each other, and from now on, we're not going to be united, anymore. That'll get the villains to stop coming." If I'm right, then there was no civil war, no aggression, no catalyst for hatred. The separation was an intentional decision to forget friendship and unity, and to pretend like they'd never existed. To me, that's a very sad way to respond to tragedy, especially when you think about what would have to happen to mixed families. Or to unicorns born to non-unicorn parents, for that matter---there'd be generations of parents giving their children away to strangers, siblings who'd have to say goodbye to each other and never see or even write letters to each other ever again! But...it also makes a cold kind of sense. Villains tend to do a lot of damage and get very close to their goals, so something to permanently end their continuous attacks is much to be desired. If I'm right that this is how Equestria's unity was lost, then I hope---oh so much!!!---that it's not Twilight who made that proclamation! Twilight's had a cynical streak once or twice in G-4, and in theory, if a deep enough tragedy happened to her, she might turn into the kind of royal who'd do this...but it'd also ruin her character, kind of like how Luke Skywalker got ruined in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Fortunately, considering that there were clues that earth ponies and unicorns visited Zephyr Heights at a time when it was called Zephyr Heights instead of Canterlot, I don't think it's possible that Twilight had anything to do with this breakup...unless, of course, she lived for centuries after her friends passed away... What do you guys think of this...I won't say "theory"; it's more of a thought about what might've happened to magic. I mean, it doesn't really explain why the sun, moon, seasons, and weather started to operate on their own, or why Everfree Forest hasn't grown over all of Equestria by now with no Tree of Harmony or Starswirl to keep it in check, so...it's probably not true. But it'd sure be dramatic if it were!

Those cool colors for the flame/wings, horn, and...I guess those might be hooves embracing the horn...well, the point is, that doesn't have to be sinister. And if it really was corruption, why would Sunny have it alongside the other upbeat drawings?

I thought I'd heard that bronies were steering G-5, so I'd have assumed they'd have deep, intimate knowledge of G-4.

I assumed they've all passed on to the great pasture in the sky, myself. I'd have expected Spike to still be around, though.

You know...something else, something with even more emotional torque that'd probably have bronies crying at the end of it, would be if Sunny, after she was dug out, appeared to be dead, with some kind of last words about it all being worth it as her eyes roll back and close. Then she has a near-death experience where she meets her father again, meets the mane six in the afterlife, gets to hear a speech about how they're all so proud of her, then she gets told her story isn't over, but just beginning---and then she comes back to life as an alicorn thanks to the crystals. That would be just a glorious tearjerker! Again: Hasbro and their licensees and whoever they give permission to have my express, written permission to use these concepts! Go ahead and retcon it before our eyes; it'll be worth it!

The ending felt like it jerked the audience around: first the crystals are important, then they’re not, then they turn Sunny into an alicorn. Make up your mind!! Sunny’s epiphany that bringing ponies of all three tribes together is the real magic also seemed to come out of nowhere. I have a whole thread on how the ending could’ve been done better and wrapped the movie up in a far more satisfying way. Apart from that, I thought the movie was good overall. I mean, there have been way better villains than Sprout, but he didn’t wreck the movie as far as I’m concerned.

I know nothing about professional writing, but feel free to steal my ideas from my post about how the G-5 movie ended! …But some part of me is thinking: It’s important to remember that the existing writers are bronies themselves, and likely have a lot of ideas of where things are going to go from where the movie ended. If you do get into the writing staff (and I hope you do!), you’ll need to be prepared for that, and you’ll need to be good at adapting your ideas to whatever they’re going to establish—or at letting go of your ideas whenever they’re incompatible with whatever-they-will-make-canon…

I know there's a thread for reviews of the movie, but...as I was typing there, I got an idea in my head for a resolution to the movie that, I think, would've made more sense and been a lot more satisfying. So I hit control-A, control-X, and started again in a new thread. The short version is that I thought the movie was overall good, but the resolution wasn't up the same standards as the rest of the film and left me disappointed. I just got done watching the movie, and here's what started as my hot take, but turned into a kind of a wish-fulfillment fanfic---the wish being that the resolution had been more satisfying. I'll give a few thoughts on the movie before I dive into what I wish the resolution had been, and what problems I saw with the resolution: The majority of the movie was well-done, and on par with G-4's quality and characterization. The gags were actually really good and well-timed: Sunny getting her comeuppance for her preachiness at the beginning (that really drives the point home about how preachiness doesn't change minds or accomplish anything!), Hitch giving a speech about "no clue too small" right when HUGE screens show Sunny's face, and of course the running gag with the poor earth pony who got dragged off by balloons! They did a great job with the comedy. The songs were good, some were terrific even, but...well, maybe it would've been better for the pacing of them if they'd been less densely packed at the beginning and less sparse toward the end. That's minor, of course. The conflict made sense, the character development was quite good (I loved how Alphabittle and Queen Haven were happy to help the main characters toward the end after seeing what a crazy adventure they'd been on and actually getting a bit invested in helping them bring magic back), and...well, showing what power can do to a pony who's not ready for it is...downright creepy. I mean, someday I hope to be a blogger with a lot of influence, and the thought that power can change someone from harmless to villainy is...ugh. It's as unsettling as all-get-out. Though maybe the real message is that fear can turn someone from harmless to villainy, now that I think about it... On that note, I liked the message, too. Fear is a big divider IRL, and they did an admirable job of keeping real-life politics out of the movie...as I should with this post. So...ending this paragraph here. There are a lot of worldbuilding questions that are left unanswered, probably intentionally: what caused the division in the first place? Why didn't Windigoes come back? (We've been asking that for over a year, now!) How did the sun, moon, seasons, and weather function without pony magic, when Equestria in G-4 relied on it to the point where they never moved without it? What happened to Everfree Forest, since it grows out of control without some kind of powerful source of magic holding it back, like the Tree of Harmony or Starswirl?? Hopefully the series will address these at some point; since bronies are running the show, undoubtedly they know we're wondering these things, and are eager to tease the answers. Actually, these unanswered questions are the main things that make me want to see the series, if I'm being honest: there's no telling from the movie where the series is going to go, since the movie seemed to wrap up its own conflict completely. ...Which brings me to the main hangup I have with the movie (and the ultimate point of making a separate thread): The Resolution. I found it deeply unsatisfying. Out of nowhere, Sunny realizes that bringing ponies together is the real key, when they'd spent the whole movie, and the climax in particular, trying to bring the three crystals together. The crystals failed, even though the lighthouse looked like it was specifically built to house the crystals, and had a pedestal that literally had openings to accept those crystals. Those crystals, by all rights, should've done a thing when brought together on that pedestal, when there's an artifact built to bring them together! And when brought together, those crystals...did nothing. I don't know who's more disappointed: the characters, or me! Then Sunny, in the ruins of her own home that she's lived in all her life, instead of angsting like she should at a dark moment like that, gives a speech about how the real key is bringing ponies together---who've been arguing with each other on sight just about the entire movie! Why did they suddenly decide to stop arguing and stop seeing each other as enemies for that speech, and not Sunny's speech at the start of the movie? At the start of the movie, the earth ponies didn't listen to Sunny because it didn't make sense for them to do so. But at the end (and right before Sprout unveils his Optimus Prime knockoff secret weapon), it also didn't make sense for earth ponies to listen to her...but they did anyway!?! Pegasi and unicorns make a kind of sense, since Alphabittle and Queen Haven were invested in the crystals for a bit, themselves. But earth ponies changing their minds?! Either Hitch has just as much influence as Sunny thought, or else this makes no sense at all! What also doesn't make sense is exactly how Sunny gets the epiphany that bringing ponies together was the real key. Where'd that even come from? Where's the foreshadowing or the explanation for how she got that idea?? If, at some point during the movie, she'd read in a friendship journal how much unity accomplished in the G-4 days, or how it's what Twilight realized at the climax of her own finale, then that might've been enough foreshadowing for her to get that epiphany. Even better, if she'd been buried in rubble after her house collapsed, and then gotten that epiphany after a unicorn and a pegasus and an earth pony worked together to dig her out of the lighthouse's rubble, that would've worked, too---heck, if the magic began to come back for the ponies who were digging her out precisely because they were working together to dig her out, that would've caused her speech about unity being the real magic to make loads of sense, since she'd simply be figuring out something that was already happening before her (and the audience's) eyes! I can see a lot of emotional torque from Pipp and Zipp jumping up and down to try to figure out just where Sunny is in the rubble pile, and suddenly finding they can fly. And from Alphabittle and Izzy discovering as they're pulling rubble out piece-by-piece that they can suddenly use magic again (especially if that turns into a joke where, after Izzy comments on magic returning, Alphabittle starts the "bing bong" gag and Izzy stops him), and Hitch discovering, as he tries to push a big chunk of rubble out of the way, that he's a lot stronger physically than he was a minute ago! Then, as this is happening, Sunny is finally dug out of the rubble, and then she says she realizes that the crystals weren't the only thing that needed to be brought together; ponies needed to work together, too, and then the crystals do their thing and bring magic back! (And reassemble Sunny's house!) That resolution makes sense, is emotionally satisfying, and honestly, I think a resolution like that would've been worthy of the quality of the rest of the film, and would've been the perfect cherry on top to turn this from a good movie into a great movie! (Seriously, @Pipp Petals, if there's a director's cut coming to DVD, then Hasbro, Boulder Media, and anyone and everyone who worked on this film have my express, written permission to use all and any ideas in this post! It'd make for an even better movie!) ...But all that stuff I posted about digging her out and making the resolution make sense? It was just an impromptu fanfic. In the middle of a review. What actually happened in the movie that got released today, was that her epiphany came out of nowhere...and then she becomes an alicorn. Because of the crystals. ...Wait, what? First, everything the movie tells us is that the crystals are important MacGuffins. The whole conflict hinges on getting those crystals together, and literally all the foreshadowing tells us that bringing the crystals together is key. Then right at the climax, out of nowhere, we're told the real magic isn't in the crystals: it's in bringing ponies together, which is an epiphany that comes out of nowhere, and unlike the bring-the-crystals-together thing, had zero foreshadowing. And then, after that speech and epiphany, the speech and epiphany gets completely nullified! ...You know, when I put it that way, I suppose it should've been satisfying to see such a badly-done epiphany get nullified, but it sure didn't feel satisfying at the time. Anyhow, the speech and epiphany get nullified when it turns out the crystals really do have magic in them! I mean, they have to be just as important as the rest of the foreshadowing told us they were, since they put a magic-restoring Aurora Borealis into the sky and turned Sunny into an alicorn! Now, a lot of other people posting about the G-5 movie have a problem with how fast Sunny turned into an alicorn: it took Twilight three seasons, but it took Sunny one movie. Personally, I don't mind Sunny turning into an alicorn that quickly: I've read enough of the books to know that Cadence's transformation took about the same amount of time that Sunny's did, and Cadence's good deed was saving one village, albeit saving them from a fate worse than death. Sunny's transformation involved reviving magic itself throughout Equestria, so it was bigger in scope and took a great deal more effort than Cadence's. The speed of Sunny's transformation is not what I mind. What I do mind is that I'm being jerked around: first the crystals are important, then they aren't, then they are---in the span of about two minutes, no less. I also mind that plot points and epiphanies are being pulled out of thin air. True as it may be that Twilight Sparkle would've been glad to see Sunny have that epiphany, and the epiphany would've made perfect sense from a G-4 perspective given everything the G-4 characters have seen and done, it doesn't make sense that Sunny would realize it, centuries later in G-5! If it had been properly foreshadowed and set up, the epiphany could've worked...but the setup just wasn't there. Plus we're totally ignoring that the main character just lost her home, aren't we? I mean, magic has created castles ex nihilo and fixed castles that were pounded into rubble during G-4, so why can't magic do that for Sunny? It'd show just how wonderful magic can really be in this setting if they had shown it fixing her lighthouse, and it would've added to the emotional torque of the conclusion, too. So...for the vast majority of its duration, the G-5 movie genuinely was a good movie. But the resolution really left a bad taste in my mouth, and since we remember the ending the most, it kind of marred the whole movie for me. I really don't want it to; I really want to like G-5 as much as I liked G-4! ...Maybe the solution for me should be to pretend that my they-dig-her-out-and-discover-the-magic-is-back narrative is what really happened in the movie, and that her epiphany actually made sense... What do you guys think of my proposed alternate resolution? Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? Or do you think that changing about five minutes of the movie the way I proposed here, to get a better resolution, would've changed it from a good movie to great movie?

I’ve seen it, and it’s a message against fear. No one group of ponies is analogous to anything in real life, to be honest, so I don’t think its message is a problem.

There’s a lot of world building questions that I think they leave unanswered intentionally—the series needs something to go on! What I was really wondering about what exactly divided about ponies in the first place; the implication is that Argyle himself didn’t know. But those are critical questions: the sun and moon should have stopped moving by G-4’s logic. Same with the weather. Hopefully the series will start to answer these questions!

I like it. It does make sense…you’re making more sense than the resolution of the movie itself! Fear is one of the biggest dividers in real life, too…and I’d better end that thought there.

I saw a clip where I was expecting Sunny to do and/or say something unbelievably preachy, ineffectual, and cringe, and...well, that's the kind of thing that makes me want to change the channel and stop watching. But the scene took things in a very different direction with well-timed and well-thought-out humor. So I think tomorrow, you'll get what you want!

I expect I'll remember the fandom as full of wise people who did amazing acts of kindness and generosity. Sure, there were bad apples here and there, but that's true of literally every fandom: what I remember is everypony coming together to bail out a con that was going broke out of nowhere, artists selling goods to help pay medical bills for families, and a lot of friendliness and understanding. And collabs. And imagination. And...oh, too much to tell!

I've been working on my platformer/shmup fangame with RPG/Metrovania elements since 2012! But the releases are so infrequent (often several months apart) that I rarely post about it, so...yeah :/

You'd think they'd have released him by now; it's been over a year since the game was out... By the by, I've had to update my dodo code since I had a network sneeze: 44L4L

@KirbyFluttershy I think I found you in my "recently played with" list; if you're KirbyShy, then I sent you a friend request. "longWriter" is my Switch screen name. EDIT: @Will Guide @KirbyFluttershy @ExplosionMare @Eren Jeager I finally have a high price spike on my island! Minimum 194, max 582 according to the ac turnip calculator. I’ll open my island once noon happens in my time zone! Edit: I seem to have gotten a real wild painting left half, and the turnip price is 512! Dodo code is 7025Q 44L4L

@KirbyFluttershyThat's cool. My Switch code is SW-3161-5667-6320 for future reference; it's just as well I'm not logging in tonight---it's really getting late right now!

@KirbyFluttershy I'm in the Eastern timezone, about to get ready for bed as I have work in the morning, but if you post the dodo code, I'll catalog a few items and snag a few star fragments. Thanks!

You know it! One of the benefits of having my island’s seed number is knowing meteor timing down to the second! Also, @KirbyFluttershy, @Eren Jeager, @ExplosionMare I have either a high spike or a low spike tomorrow afternoon. I wanted to give you a heads up earlier rather than later.

Will do; I pay very close attention to my turnip priced. So far, every piece of art I've gotten from other villagers has been fake, though :/ @Will Guide @ExplosionMare @Eren Jeager The dodo code is JVKSH. I'm keeping my switch on overnight so anyone can log in---assuming there are no network issues...sometimes there aren't!

@KirbyFluttershy @ExplosionMare @Will Guide @Eren Jeager I'll have heavy meteor showers on my island tonight! Of course, I'm posing this about eleven and a half hours before it starts, so I have no idea whether Celeste will be here or not. There's less point than you'd think saying what the meteor timings will be; I mean, there's so many of them---I'll see if I can copy/paste them from off of the MeteoNook app: 🌠 19:00 - :04, :10, :11, :16, :20, :32, :47, :59 🌠 19:01 - :07, :11, :31, :39, :41 🌠 19:04 - :11, :24, :29, :32, :42 🌠 19:05 - :01, :06, :16, :30, :33, :52, :56, :57 🌠 19:07 - :04, :05, :17, :57, :59 🌠 19:08 - :02, :16, :19, :32, :48 🌠 19:10 - :06, :18, :23, :39, :42, :48, :55, :57 🌠 19:11 - :29, :34, :36, :49, :59 🌠 19:17 - :13, :27, :30, :34, :41 🌠 19:18 - :00, :13, :20, :45, :52 🌠 19:19 - :04, :09, :22, :25, :37, :44, :48, :50 🌠 19:21 - :03, :09, :15, :36, :59 🌠 19:22 - :09, :13, :19, :54, :57 🌠 19:25 - :05, :25, :31, :36, :46 🌠 19:28 - :03, :09, :22, :24, :30, :32, :38, :51 🌠 19:30 - :20, :34, :45, :47, :53 🌠 19:32 - :03, :13, :20, :32, :34, :39, :40, :50 🌠 19:33 - :02, :22, :23, :26, :27 🌠 19:37 - :00, :03, :25, :30, :41, :42, :53, :56 🌠 19:38 - :01, :06, :18, :27, :31, :33, :47, :54 🌠 19:40 - :02, :03, :08, :21, :26, :35, :38, :53 🌠 19:44 - :02, :07, :38, :39, :45, :49, :55, :58 🌠 19:45 - :16, :37, :44, :45, :46 🌠 19:48 - :07, :09, :16, :19, :26, :42, :47, :50 🌠 19:51 - :00, :12, :22, :23, :50 🌠 19:55 - :03, :11, :17, :26, :46 🌠 19:56 - :02, :25, :40, :45, :55 🌠 19:57 - :09, :12, :15, :16, :20, :49, :51, :59 🌠 19:58 - :03, :33, :37, :39, :45, :46, :50, :59 🌠 19:59 - :11, :23, :32, :38, :53 20:00: 🍃2 ☀ Clear/Fine 🌠 20:00 - :03, :11, :14, :22, :51 🌠 20:01 - :04, :12, :14, :17, :23, :42, :43, :50 🌠 20:02 - :11, :14, :16, :18, :40, :47, :54, :56 🌠 20:05 - :04, :05, :20, :30, :35, :46, :57, :59 🌠 20:07 - :06, :32, :38, :47, :50 🌠 20:08 - :01, :05, :15, :17, :47, :50, :55, :59 🌠 20:10 - :07, :31, :32, :33, :42 🌠 20:11 - :04, :10, :27, :28, :34, :40, :47, :50 🌠 20:13 - :00, :36, :42, :49, :54 🌠 20:15 - :02, :06, :17, :22, :35, :43, :50, :57 🌠 20:18 - :17, :24, :30, :49, :54 🌠 20:21 - :04, :08, :18, :36, :39 🌠 20:22 - :02, :05, :07, :25, :34, :40, :46, :47 🌠 20:23 - :08, :18, :22, :27, :33, :37, :55, :57 🌠 20:26 - :21, :30, :34, :37, :50 🌠 20:29 - 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Wow, that's really putting it into perspective! Personally, I think it can surpass G-4, but it'll be difficult to pull off. It can take G-4's worldbuilding and run with it; it could show us locations we've only seen on maps before. But they'll need to be careful and really good at storytelling! ...Not to mention characterization!

I sure hope you're right about that. I figure there's about a 90% chance that you're right, between what I've heard from people who've worked on the movie and the fact that the books on other pony-tribes that exist in that setting genuinely are inaccurate!

I like what I see so far; there's a lot of potential, and I thought it was pretty well-choreographed. I tried to use Google Translate on my phone to see what the subtitles translated to, but...well, only about two-thirds of it even made sense, and it couldn't translate everything. Like, why did Pipp and Zip have umbrellas halfway through? The translations spoke of how they risked everything to go on their journey at that point in the song, but that doesn't do anything to explain the umbrellas. I expect it'll only make sense once we hear the English lyrics.