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  1. I see what you mean. I guess they just liked female aesthetics better than male ones. Of course if the diamonds did have a creator it still doesn't explain why they have emotions. Emotions lead to mistakes and irrational thought. It would make more sense to have them act like robots. That way they could never inadvertently sympathise with there enemy.

     

    We don't really know if they had a creator or not, but yeah. Still, fiction's full of examples of artificial intelligences developing emotions, so perhaps that happened with the gems too. Maybe we'll find out someday.

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    Like There creators. But who created the diamonds. There inorganic life. They had to have a creator. Unless they abandoned there physical forms long ago. Which would make them functionally the same as A.I. at east in the sense that they would be stored as data on there gems.

     

    We can't really know for sure. But, if somebody else created the diamonds and the other gems, perhaps that person (or species) liked the idea of making them look the way they do. Still not seeing anything illogical here.

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  3. But what functional purpose besides aesthetics would there be to make them all female. Unless the explanation is that the gems creators prefer the female form.

     

    Well, if the Gems' creators were the Diamonds (who all look female) then it doesn't seem unusual for them to make female followers. And really, you don't need a justification for them all looking female any more than you would need a justification for making them look like robots, or any other more generic sci-fi alien appearance. It doesn't affect their ability to do their jobs one way or another, and they have to look like /something/. So again, we return to the question, what should they look like?

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  4. But wouldn't they focus all there time on combat? Why design inorganic beings with emotions? Beings whose sole purpose is conquest.

     

    Firstly, where did you get this "sole purpose is conquest" thing? We've seen plenty of gems who aren't designed to fight or conquer anything. And even though war is extremely important to gems, there are tons of jobs in any military that don't involve fighting.

     

    As for the gems' emotions, I can only infer that they aren't capable of designing intelligent gems that don't have feelings.

     

    Finally, even if every gem is designed for combat, I see no reason why it would be somehow illogical for gems to look like women.

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  5. I suppose. But they where designed for conquest. Why would aesthetics matter?

     

    Not all of them, as Pearl proves. And military organizations pay a great deal of attention to cosmetic details, like how you wear your uniform, your posture, how you salute a commanding officer, all that stuff. Doesn't seem all that ridiculous for gems to do the same even down to the appearance of their troops, since that's a thing they can control.

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  6. Yes but the gems don't solely interact with humans. Even gems who have never been to Earth are female.

     

    I don't see why this would refute my idea. They're just behaving in ways that seem natural to them, and humans (including the audience) perceive those behaviors to be feminine. Aliens looking and behaving like women really isn't any more far-fetched than aliens looking and behaving like giant bugs, or whatever other concepts are more common in sci-fi.

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  7. If you want to get really particular about lore or whatever, why do all the gems speak English? It isn't just Garnet and the main gems who do, it's every single one, even those who have never been to Earth at all.

     

    Now, if you want to explain this away, you could hypothesize that gems have some sort of built-in feature that translates everything they say into the language that the listener understands. This would make sense for a race that operates on a galactic level, colonizing, conquering, etc. If this is the case, then the gems all using female pronouns could just be an artifact of how the English language works. People traditionally refer to themselves with pronouns, and out of all the options, that label most accurately describes /to humans/ what gems are. It's true that an alien warrior race might not really have any use for the concept of a gender within their own society, but when interacting with humans, who fixate on it and use it to determine how they interact with people? Very important.

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  8. Let's face it.... there are two songs from Rainbow Rocks, (one sung by RD and one sung by ... ugh... Trixie) that are pretty pedestrian

     

    fite me irl m8

     

    At first I disliked Awesome as I Wanna Be for dragging RD's character through the muck, but then I realized that Rainbow Rocks did that to more or less every character that wasn't Twilight or Sunset. After that, I began to enjoy the song in a "haters gon' hate" way. Still don't care much for Tricks Up My Sleeve, though. It's basically Awesome as I Wanna Be minus the energy.

     

    At first I disliked Awesome as I Wanna Be for dragging RD's character through the muck, but then I realized that Rainbow Rocks did that to more or less every character that wasn't Twilight or Sunset

     

    This, incidentally, is why Friendship Games > Rainbow Rocks imo.

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    If Spike really was a more interesting character already, the writers would have explored more of it. But I at the very least find a character whose only purpose is to learn the same moral over and over again with little to no variation or acknowledgement of other character traits to be incredibly unrealistic. What if every Rainbow Dash episode had been a "Mare-Do-Well" rehash about her arrogance rather than her loyalty, friendship, even the way she learns as in "Testing Testing 123"? There would be little left to enjoy about the character unless she was taken out of canon. What if your only personality trait was the same? You wouldn't be an interesting person or have any friends, would you? That's where Spike is now.

     

    Spike's last three episodes were about the difficulty of calling out people you care about when they're going down a destructive path, the importance of self-confidence and giving oneself credit for one's accomplishments, and his desire to take on difficult and important challenges that he isn't quite ready for yet. That's a perfectly acceptable level of variety, and it's all within a dozenish episodes. While there are underlying similarities (which is a given, since y'know, they're all episodes featuring the same person) and some of the similarities aren't always pleasant, such as Spike being in awkward situations that he can't handle, I really see no basis for accusing him of being a one note character. A character who is often poorly written, sadly, but in his current state he's far from being defined by one or two traits.

     

    I was not a fan of Princess Spike and I'm not in a hurry to defend it, but it does sadden me when people oversimplify Spike by projecting traits from some of his lesser episodes onto his better ones.

     

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    As for the video, I agreed with sections of it and disagreed with others, but I'm glad you shared it LZRD. Spike is most definitely not a plot device, and I also wish people wouldn't let a few stinkers sour themselves to Spike and his episodes altogether. The quote from the Horseshoe dude also identifies something I've seen and disliked around various pone sites, and it baffles me that Sunset Shimmer (who I do like, mind) is held up as an example of wonderful character development while so many are content to rip on Spike, the CMC, and other prominent characters.

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  10. While I don't agree with many of the examples you use to back up your points, or with your theory of some kind of executive mandate, I heartily agree in spirit. I like Twilight as a character quite a bit (Particularly her portrayal in RR and Testing Testing) but also feel like her character hasn't been handled the best in recent seasons. The Castlemania, Rainbow Falls and Twilight's Kingdom examples were the ones I was bothered most by (though as a qualifier, most everything in Rainbow Falls bothered me :derp: ).

     

    The formula of >give Twilight magic wings and castle >sing songs about her journey as a character >send her through the portal alone/to fight the final boss alone and then go "She needs her friends! She's not special or better than anyone!" just seems a little... unconnected? I mean, I appreciate that they tag on that last part and all, but why not just cut out all that stuff in the beginning and just have a story about friends overcoming problems together? If you're trying to make the point that teamwork is important and that Twilight can't do everything by herself, why single her out so much before coming back to that?

     

    And yeah, she's the main main character. S' only natural that the main character would be more plot-relevant than most other characters. However, I also don't think it works very well when your main character is the most mature, intelligent, and plot relevant person all at once. Think of Avatar. Aang was the bridge between the human world and the spirit world, but he still needed Sokka to be the idea guy and they both needed Katara to rein them in from being morons. And sometimes they'd rein her in in turn too, because they all had their blind spots. That's an example of a group that handled the "They may be important, but they still need their friends!" thing much better than MLP, imo. Part of me wonders if I'd have liked things more if Twilight had taken longer to come out of her shell and warm up to people.

     

    I recognize that these opinions are my own and may not align with anybody else's.

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