MLP: FiM's Attention to Detail

[NavelColt 22,882]

I can certainly imagine that a topic such as this has been made before, but using the search feature, I didn't see anything like it, so if it exists, sorry in advance.

 

This topic is for pointing out, appreciating and discussing the many small examples of how the show pays attention to detail. As for myself, I'm going to give a couple examples of one of the themes I love most: The surrogate sister relationship that is hinted to in the show between Dash and Scootaloo, of which took off in the fanbase rather quickly.

 

Exhibit A: The Show Stoppers

At the end of the episode, when the CMC finished their number and to their surprise, when they actually won an award, Applejack and Rarity came backstage for their sisters to congratulate them, and then go home with them afterwords. Applejack says 'Apple Bloom, you did it!' Then, all three CMC run over to the three of them and say 'Did you see our award!? Did you see!?' in unison. The whole point of this is that Dash was there too, clearly meant as the 'guardian' figure in that line-up for Scootaloo, the only one of the three CMC that wasn't accounted for under AJ or Rarity. They had absolutely no obligation to put Dash there, for a shot that only lasted three or four seconds of screen time, but they did anyway, and to a Scootalove fan, that's really, really awesome.

 

Exhbit B: Owls Well That Ends Well

Now, this next example is not nearly as major of an 'attention to detail' moment as the last one, but I want to add it in anyway as a sort of anecdote to the Scootalove with Dash theme. In 'Owl's Well That Ends Well', all the ponies go to the Meteor Shower and watch together. This is also the scene in which Dash tells Scoot to go 'take out the trash' jokingly, but then later on, it shows them next to each other. Now the obvious thing here is 'Well Scootaloo admires Dash, so of course she's gonna want to be next to her', and you're right. But that's why this is an anecdote and not a real thing.

 

I enjoyed this shot because it's once again making that hint towards their relationship, by having them as a pairing along with the two groups of actual siblings of the same ages, AJ & AB, and Rarity & Sweetie Belle. This is similar to what they did in the first example, though that one was much more obvious that Dash went out of her way to go back there with the other two.

 

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So go ahead ponies, you can either give specific image examples like me, or simply talk about moments that you remember. I can think of many other examples, but I just wanted to keep it down to these two, for this first post.

 

Have at it~

[Strawberry Tart 161]

i think I found somewhere on this forum Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash's backstory; Rainbow is like taking care of her for the time being or something, because Scootaloo's dad let her...I don't know the whole story though.

[NavelColt 22,882]

i think I found somewhere on this forum Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash's backstory; Rainbow is like taking care of her for the time being or something, because Scootaloo's dad let her...I don't know the whole story though.

 

An interesting fan-made thought, but that's certainly not canon xP We don't even know anything about Dash or Scootaloo's parents or back-story at this point.

 

Do you have any moments you can think of, of which you were like 'wow, they really paid attention to detail here'?

[Strawberry Tart 161]

An interesting fan-made thought, but that's certainly not canon xP We don't even know anything about Dash or Scootaloo's parents or back-story at this point.

 

Do you have any moments you can think of, of which you were like 'wow, they really paid attention to detail here'?

 

I have found myself looking at the faces of the ponies; they really do pay attention to them, even the background ponies. If you look at a crowd of ponies in an episode, all of their faces aren't the same - they're all different. Also, in The Last Roundup, you could see a family of ponies; a dad, a mom, and a child. I think that's the first background pony family I've seen.

[Gikkleslick 41]

Well, our TV is small, thus the show doesn't look as good on it. But I recently watched it on my grandparents' TV, which is about 3 times as big, and it struck me how detailed the animation and backgrounds are. These people put a lot of effort into the show.

[Magicon 468]

i always found that attention to detail is what makes something really great. That's why I love the Disney Parks because of their attention to detail. The attention to detail, in both terms of objects and the ponies makes me love the show even more. I had never seen those perceptions and things from the show before so I thank you for showing them. That is really cool and makes me like the show even more.

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]

In Owls Well That Ends Well, Twilight's description of a comet is accurate.

 

The plot point for The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 is also accurate: Cider Season is a real thing, which only lasts a week when apples JUST START to be fully ripe. Fresh apples are picked and sold as non-alchoholic cider on the same day, since after one day they begin to ferment and become hard cider. (The process is different from making apple juice.)

[MVC NVMXD JVRXD 2,406]

My whole "Fibonacci Sequence" Parasprite Reproduction theory thingy.... That's very accurate, if they intended to do that.

[Guest]

The various little things the background ponies are always doing (even if some of them do appear very similar) always amazes me, it makes the show feel alive and not like they live alone in the town.