BornAgainBrony

This sounds so awesome! I don't see any way I could get there, but I wish I could.

I think part of it is the characters click pretty well with Ponies. The personalities of the TF characters, even the most agressive ones, are pretty sincere and charming. Like a lot of memes it somehow just works. Know what I don't get though? Shipping Twilight with that bird who looks like Falco from Starfox. I think we all have that one meme we don't understand.

How did Sombra make the Grogar ending stupid?

Actually, one could make a good argument that he wasn't even "technically" alive in S3 and was more like a ghost without a body. "Grogar's" spell that summoned Sombra might be what allowed him to have a physical body again. I thought his S9 characterization was fun. He needed a bit more depth to his character anyhow. Considering he got closer to winning than pretty much any villain, except maybe Tirek, was pretty impressive. I was disappointed by what happened in the throne room though. I wanted a chance to see "Mama bear" Alicorn Cadence go completely ape on Sombra. She's the only one we've never gotten to see at full power.

Now I'm reminded of how disappointing it is that we never found out what his military forces were really capable of. Ignoring the fact that the "Battle of Canterlot" was just handled REALLY poorly, we never saw the airships actually get used. Being that we were also given "Sky Pirates" I have to assume there were plans for an air battle somewhere during film development, and it got axed because, "too violent." So unfortunately, we'll never know what his nation was capable of, and what other toys he might have had in the homeland that never even got deployed. One thing that sticks out in my mind though that was mentioned in one of the books: the airships had a kind of cloaking device/smoke screen that would generate a literal storm, completely obscuring the ships from view. This explains how they were able to cruise across Equestria all the way to the capital without setting off any alarm bells. Adding onto that, The Storm King wasn't reliant upon magic. Far from it. He's a rare villain in MLP who not only has a military force that seemingly had been conquering other nations for a while, but also an impressive amount of technology. So... maybe Earth would pull off a surprisingly powerful offensive that catches the Storm King offguard? But it's just as possible it turns into "War of the Worlds" and we're using nukes on our own territory to try and repel the invasion. IMO, the Storm King's biggest weakness is his ego. Frankly, he's a blithering idiot who somehow attained an insanely disproportionate amount of power. One he got his hands on the scepter, after punching Twilight, he test-fired it and wiped out most of his invasion force in the process. He would have no idea when he's stretched his forces too thinly (same mistake Germany made in WWII). But if Tempest was orchestrating the invasion? Lookout.

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I always let the words of their finale song kind of slide by, because it's such an amazing act, but what they were saying really accurate? The rest of the show (as well as their origin story) described them as feeding off of conflict. Alright, fine. But once the Battle of the Bands actually starts, the mood seems to have changed. The crowd isn't fighting each other anymore. In fact, they're united, even if through hypnosis. They are now hardcore fans of the Dazzlings, who are singing not about competition, but adoration, and... perhaps... lustful adoration, at that. Storytelling usually tells this in "end of the world" kinds of scenarios, but is all of this really just about becoming worshiped as gods of a sort? It then feels more like a simple magical path to stardom, instead of some kind of literal world-conqueror. But where would the energy come from at that point? Can they also feed off of desire almost like changelings?

I burn pancake incense that is pleasing to Celestia, toss a scroll in the fireplace for the smoke to deliver it to Luna, and then kneel in prayer on a silken pillow depicting the Celtic horse god, Epona, as the LCD screen on my blood-anointed altar sparks to life. I pour a glass of Absinthe.

I was at Harmonycon. Just got my ticket for Whinny City. Ciderfest was my first con. Don't ever want to miss a year now.

Or Star Wars in general. Military shows up with overwhelming forces and advanced technology. 2nd in Command is a very powerful sorcerer in-spite of being crippled. Party goes to a run-down port town in the middle of a searing desert in search of a smuggler pilot who will take them to get reinforcements. Emperor only shows up in holograms until the finale when his ultimate weapon becomes operational. Yeeeeah...

The best diplomat I know. Well... maybe? I don't think the trauma had as much of an impact on his downslide as you might think. A LOT of people have gone through a "Sandpeople slaughtering" moment in their lives, albeit a less violent one. We all have a dark side in us, and sooner or later, we realize it when it just leaps out of us unexpectedly, and then we're left in shock, disbelief that we are capable of such things. He had remorse afterwards. He still hated the Tusken raiders, but he also hated that he hated them, because he knew it was wrong. But later on? Anakin had to CHOOSE to join the dark side. The Jedi are as much to blame for that as Palpatine. The people Anakin trusted, deceived him and used him for their own purposes, and then tried to murder his mentor. And then he believed his wife had even aligned herself with the Jedi who had now fallen from high esteem. So, yeah... a lot of Anakin's problems are actually friendship issues. If I were to compare him to any villain in the show, the closest match is probably Stygian. About immediately trying to slaughter them... that really doesn't sound like Vader. Unless you're an Admiral who really screwed up, or part of an army on the full offensive, Vader is usually shown to be a negotiator. Sure, he'll go on a rampage when Palpatine tells him to, but when left to make his own choices, he's more reserved. He'll try to talk you down and win you over. So it becomes then, a battle of wits and words rather than swords. Even in the middle of a fight, he doesn't really taunt so much as he debates. This gives the Ponies some wiggle room for correspondence, instead of simply having to go straight for the rainbow Kamehamehaha to avoid being slaughtered. From what I know of their theology, Jedi is actually no better. "Attachment" is forbidden. "Train yourself to let go of all you fear to lose." I find that the Jedi and the Sith are both far too one-dimensional in their dogmas. One rejects the human heart completely, while the other kowtows only to the most primal parts of it. Just as interesting a question would be, would the Ponies have tried to pull him away from the Jedi if they knew what he was going through? Trixie nearly committed suicide when Twilight tried to interfere in her relationship with Starlight, so the Ponies certainly know better than to try to tear apart people who care for one another, or worse, try to make someone STOP caring for another. Anakin was a creature of love, and the Jedi were suppressing it. There were problems from the moment Anakin and Padme had feelings for each other, and the fact that they had to keep it such a dark secret, is far too familiar to stories I hear about the crazy restrictions religious cults place on the minds of children.

In other words... stereotypical celebrities? They can be rehabilitated. Just give them some singing lessons. They can learn how to be famous without relying on magic. Kinda feel like this should have been a poll so I could see just how skewed this would be. Pretty sure Sonata Dusk has always been the favorite.

The episode very non-coincidentally-called, "Could Shredder kidnap Bowser?"

I... guess.... it depends on who he was depicted with? I've got nothing against lewd images. As long as they: A. Depict activity between consenting adults. B. Don't completely break the personalities of the characters to accomplish whatever is going on.

I thought Grogar was inspired by the "Red Bull." Not the energy drink. The scary-powerful spirit monster from "The Last Unicorn." Yeah, goat, not bull, but there's the common thread of unicorns mysteriously being snatched away to an unknown location.

Go figure. The Goths were the only group in school who never gave me any crap and treated me like a human being, in spite of me not being one of them. Noy buying it. But I think they're wrong. Clearly these ponies were Vampires. That explains the state we find the unicorns in. They're obviously missing a few pints of blood.

Lyra Heartstrings: "Hey, can I get some of that?!"

I feel like a better question is, where the heck do you find them? I've seen ornaments on Ebay but they're usually hackjobs of the toys. There seems to be a tremendous lack of official ornaments, which seems really surprising given how hard merchandising is pushed with IP's. The only ones I even know of were the lower-grade Hallmark ornaments that show up in Walmart every year. And now the two inflatables, if you can count those. Hallmark even has an official keepsake line of G1 Ponies, they come out with one every year. But they haven't even started on the Mane 6.