ManaMinori 4,149 February 28, 2016 Share February 28, 2016 -Earh ponies? We've never realy been given a definite explanation on what their magic can do, like unicorns and pegasi. Even to this day, fans still wonder. And even though their power remais a mystery, it's been canonicaly confirmed that the more popular races of pegasi and unicorns would starve to death without earth ponies, at least. So what would your opinion be if DHX threw a season long earth pony arc at us, to flesh their race out a bit more? I can see earth ponies being shown to have some deeper conection to the tree of harmony, somehow, due to more of an implied conection to nature. So that's something I personally want to see. 1 Under the Jellicle Moon- a site with cuteness, cat boys, and comic strips / Star Dreams Fanclub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormlight 1,371 February 28, 2016 Share February 28, 2016 I would be interesting in seeing a season long arc about Earth ponies, considering how they receive less attention and popular within the community. Earth ponies are full of secrets we have yet to discover, and hopefully soon enough those will be unraveled, and be shown the love they have longed for. 1 Credit for signature goes to Eazyfries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlikeable Pony 2,700 February 28, 2016 Share February 28, 2016 I would be interesting in seeing a season long arc about Earth ponies, considering how they receive less attention and popular within the community. I tend to think that's mainly due to them being protrayed, more or less, WITHOUT magic. I mean, pegasi can fly and have some interesting societal traits, while unicorns are essentially like mutants in Xmen, having the ability to have any "super power" that the writers need a unicorn to have from their cutie mark and then some. But earth ponies just come off as kind of boring, yeah? And people naturally congregate more towards the more interesting races. -Earh ponies? We've never realy been given a definite explanation on what their magic can do, like unicorns and pegasi. Even to this day, fans still wonder. And even though their power remais a mystery, it's been canonicaly confirmed that the more popular races of pegasi and unicorns would starve to death without earth ponies, at least. So what would your opinion be if DHX threw a season long earth pony arc at us, to flesh their race out a bit more? I can see earth ponies being shown to have some deeper conection to the tree of harmony, somehow, due to more of an implied conection to nature. So that's something I personally want to see. I would LOVE that. Give us some lore about an earth pony of legend that was some incredible individual or whatnot, akin to what starswirl was to unicorns. Or show us some earth ponies that have a mastery of earth pony magic on par with what some of the super unicorns we've seen have been. Even if its just something like having them codifying things like psychic powers/pinkie sense being an earth pony magic type of some sort, give us SOMETHING. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer_KM 90 February 28, 2016 Share February 28, 2016 Well From What I can gather It's started, In the Harths warming play and the season one. The have the ability to grow plants(and food) faster then Unicorns or pegasi (Unless the unicorn cheats). They are more Intune with the land and know where the dirt is best to grow in. And they seem more resistant to physics pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyoshi Frost Wolf 42,202 February 28, 2016 Share February 28, 2016 I don't think the subject would need a season long arc, but some episodes to give us more backstory on Earth Pony history would be very welcomed. Hearths Warming Eve is one of my favorite episodes and one of the big reasons is because of the learning aspect that it provided, us getting to see this retelling of a part of Equestrian history was really neat to see and I would love to see more of that in general, but for the Earth Ponies especially. 1 Redeem me into childhood. Show me myself without a shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riganthor 484 February 28, 2016 Share February 28, 2016 A few episodes about this subject wouldnt hurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Testa 5,505 February 28, 2016 Share February 28, 2016 I'm quite passionate about this topic and have made a number of posts/topics on the matter of Earth Pony Magic. Considering the things they have established that they are capable of doing, I'd even go so far as to say that they are probably capable of the most diverse abilities out of the Three races of Ponies. Unicorn Horns may allow more access to magic, but the Earth ponies are much more in tune with natural magic. Tree Hugger, Maud, Pinkie, and Applejack are all good examples of the sheer variety of abilities the Earth ponies can have. http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Billy%20G%20Gruff http://billyggruff.deviantart.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPVpSXbUpDYTcaFHTPiPjYA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wind Chaser 4,768 February 28, 2016 Share February 28, 2016 I don't think this would be good enough for a season-long story arc, especially considering this season already has a theme. But it would make for some good episodes, if "Family Appreciation Day" was any indication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmarston1 5,964 February 29, 2016 Share February 29, 2016 Well if there were to going to be some kind of arc focusing on one of the pony races I would like to have it be on alicorns. For starters it would give Celestia and Luna something to do which would be nice, plus with Flurry Heart being a natural born alicorn and Celestia and Luna being confirmed to have also been natural born, while Twilight and Cadence were ascended, it would be nice to get more concrete information on alicorns really are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlikeable Pony 2,700 February 29, 2016 Share February 29, 2016 It'd be interesting to see a king arthur type earth pony in lore, IMO; kind of a character who, to the naked eye, was just a muggle but had an inborn type of destiny or magical protection that somehow let him persevere against odds or situations where he should on paper lose. Kind of like how Link in the legend of zelda seems to have absolutely NO magical powers on paper, but is protected in some ways by an unseeable magic with the triforce of courage that lets him defeat far more (on paper) dangerous and magical opponents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminance 2,187 February 29, 2016 Share February 29, 2016 I've really like this idea of an story arc in mlp. Imagine the more in depth story and focusing on certain ponies/characters for more character development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlikeable Pony 2,700 March 1, 2016 Share March 1, 2016 I've really like this idea of an story arc in mlp. Imagine the more in depth story and focusing on certain ponies/characters for more character development. They've had "minor" arcs in the show, like the keys of friendship thing in Season 4. Just, since the show is at its heart slice of life, its more difficult to do a "real" arc, yeah? I wouldn't mind a bit more seasonal arc stuff though, S5 was a huge step back from S4 IMO, since the only "Arc" to speak of was "Starlight gets beat; starlight comes back in the finale. She also plays where's waldo but otherwise is completely irrellevent" in S5. On the other hand, S4's arc episodes were referenced and important to the finale and its plot and resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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