Ishmael

Just curious if you were watching the original 1960s Star Trek or the late 80s-90s Next Generation. If the latter, glad you had the DVDs. Paramount spent a lot re-posting the entire series, thinking they'd be a sure thing, but hardly anybody bought the DVDs. Glad to make this part of something real. I've rewatched a few favorite FiM episodes too many times, and they're edging into rerun-stale. Enjoying season 4 and onward with knowing it'll be a long time before I see them again, if ever. Still, it's been nice to connect with a few people on a serious level...about a kid's pastel pony show.

Thanks for the kind words and sharing your own experience with the show. It's interesting that you could have grown up with the show, but it passed you by for some reason. Maybe it's better this way for the reasons you said. With the hype having died down, you can appreciate it for what it is. And if you're going to have a guilty pleasure, this seems like a pretty benign one. :) I'm just into season 4 now. Just taking my time and savoring them, really sitting with them. I had the thought recently in terms of the OG Star Trek I grew up with--I thought I'd seen every Star Trek episode a dozen times, but it's likely I only saw every episode just once, and a handful of favorites just a handful of times. I think it was seventh grade when I spent my kid savings on VHS tapes, and my parents let me stay up late to tape them off TV. (That was 1982!) I kept those tapes for decades, but I never watched them. After I'd seen them all, and gone through the effort of recording them, I just lost interest. So that informs my paying attention and really sitting with FiM. Maybe I'll watch them again someday, but I sense it's time to move on. There's so much great stuff to read and watch. Happy to share and glad to know it helped you. Forums like this were what the internet was 25 (!) years ago, and what it was meant to be. I'm glad there are still little sanctuaries of humanity like this one that will hopefully regenerate something real, someday.

I'd be up for it, but I'm moving slowly. Still in the first few episodes of S3. Being present for each of them.

@NorthProductions Devi's setting up the discord meeting. Can you post your username here so they can add you?

Is Google Hangout the same as Google Meet? They keep changing the names/features of things.

Yes that's what we messily decided. :) I'm dex3703 there.

Zoom meetings run out of time before we could get started. @Deiv2008 is setting up something with Discord.

I've gotta get some work done before 5, but hoping to be on around 4:30 to help test things out. See you then.

I think we're all figuring that out. :) Presuming with Melissa starting the call, she'll project the video. We can make a rule about mics on/off, asking to pause for comments, etc. If we like this, I saw there are some plugins/apps that supposedly handle this more smoothly. I think Melissa assuming everybody has Zoom so just starting with that is a good place to start.

Interesting that Youtube people are cynical. Aside from some fan-made things, everything is labeled as kid's programming, and comments are turned off. Took me a while to realize fan videos have profanity or other material added so that comments are possible. Grateful to find a few people here to talk about this kid's show that appeals to us so. Some of the fan videos have a much greater emotional impact than I'd guess before watching them.

I only turn the camera on if absolutely required, so don't worry about having the camera on or not. I'll try joining 10-15 minutes early so we can see how it works. Is Pluto a TV service? I've been watching them on Youtube, on a channel called The Cartoon Archive. I like how whoever's running it includes the episodes in full, including the full credits, which the official Hasbro-MLP channel doesn't.

Hey everybody, 5pm Pacific works for me, though 6 would work better. I can make either work. If we're doing Zoom, maybe start 10-15 mins before the actual time, so we can figure out how to do it?

Do you want to try tomorrow evening still, like you suggested? I'm US west coast.

No response unfortunately. We can try organizing the 3-4 people interested on our own.

Thanks for doing this. Your idea for Zoom sounds like the easiest option. I'll try to find a way to start an event.... I found disputes@mlpforums.com in the site Guidelines, and sent an email asking how to set up an event. Will let you know if I hear anything.