How long is 100 moons? And with it, how long since the first episode?

[Declen 118]

 

 

it was Applebloom's first such reunion

Wrighter's mistake. S%&t heppens.

Applejack's statement backs up, this one - doesn't.

 

Meaning the reunion in the first episode does not count, it was something else.

Just count those ponies.

[GreyScholar 1,584]

Wrighter's mistake. S%&t heppens.

Applejack's statement backs up, this one - doesn't.

 

Just count those ponies.

 

Honestly at this point I am beginning to suspect your trolling.

 

There wasn't as many, nor was there anything shown in Apple Family Reunion that was in the first episode apart from family members. What of the traditions, the activities, the family photo in front of the barn??!

Edited November 26, 2013 by EquestrianScholar

[Declen 118]

 

 

There wasn't as many,

You haven't count, have you?

 

nor was there anything shown in Apple Family Reunion that was in the first episode apart from family members

ORLY?

Have you considered the possibility, that AFR wasn't the topic of the pilot episode? Maybe that's why we haven't seen almost anything of it there, what do you think? (Well, right now I am trolling)

[GreyScholar 1,584]

-snip-

Sighs

 

Look, the fact is officially Apple Bloom has only been to one Apple Family Reunion, as such there has officially only been one Apple Family Reunion so far. Accept the facts!

[Malinter 3,064]

maybe there going off the lunar cycle where one phase is 2weeks? so 100 moons would be 200 weeks... which, wait, thats nearly 4 years! welp, my theory is shot.

[Declen 118]

 

 

Look, the fact is officially Apple Bloom has only been to one Apple Family Reunion, as such there has officially only been one Apple Family Reunion so far. Accept the facts!

Look, the fact is officially first one was a usual normal AFR. Accept the facts!

 

 

maybe there going off the lunar cycle where one phase is 2weeks? so 100 moons would be 200 weeks... which, wait, thats nearly 4 years! welp, my theory is shot.

Or mayby it is about a week, as I suggest. Fact is, we have no idea, and it could be anyhow long.

[John 793]

They could be making reference to a "full moon," or any specific equestrian moon cycle.  There are 12.37 full moons every year, so if their system is anything like ours then a reunion should occur once every 8.08 years, or approximately once every 8 years.

 

TBH, I think granny smith has just lost her marbles.

 

"I'm nutty!"

 

Or another way you could think of it to force it to make sense is that there is a full moon in Equestria every 3.65 days  (assuming they have a 365 day year).  This way, in 100 full moons, a full year would have passed.

Edited November 26, 2013 by John

[GreyScholar 1,584]

Gah, I give up, believe what you want to believe.

 

In real life the moon cycle is around a month, in the show it has been stated Applebloom has only been to one true Apple Family Reunion and analyzing the Season 4 pilot it at least strongly suggests its only been 1 year.

 

Take that as you will I'm done.

 

I'm honestly okay with the idea that they have a truly major family reunion every eight years because of how busy they all are.

Edited November 26, 2013 by EquestrianScholar

[BalanceBrony 259]

A moon can't be a week. Otherwise the 100 moons between reunions would be slightly over two years. And again, precisely one year has passed over the course of the show. Therefore, a week is too long to be a moon (unless you accept the glaring fact that the writers screwed up regarding the reunions, and they are null to the discussion).

 

And you ask where we are getting the idea that the S3 reunion is the only official one, since it is Apple Bloom's first. Throughout the episode, numerous lines of dialogue imply that AB has never experienced a reunion before. I won't point all of them out, as there are too many.

Gah, I give up, believe what you want to believe.

In real life the moon cycle is around a month, in the show it has been stated Applebloom has only been to one true Apple Family Reunion and analyzing the Season 4 pilot it at least strongly suggests its only been 1 year.

Take that as you will I'm done.

I'm honestly okay with the idea that they have a truly major family reunion every eight years because of how busy they all are.

Mm, except my math points out that it's every 10 years. Equestrian moon cycles are longer than ours, at 36.524 days between New Moons.

They could be making reference to a "full moon," or any specific equestrian moon cycle.  There are 12.37 full moons every year, so if their system is anything like ours then a reunion should occur once every 8.08 years, or approximately once every 8 years.

 

TBH, I think granny smith has just lost her marbles.

 

"I'm nutty!"

 

Or another way you could think of it to force it to make sense is that there is a full moon in Equestria every 3.65 days  (assuming they have a 365 day year).  This way, in 100 full moons, a full year would have passed.

Wouldn't work, because there are still phases to the moon. If it were a full moon every 3.65 days, it would mean there would be more than one phase over the course of a single night.

[John 793]

A moon can't be a week. Otherwise the 100 moons between reunions would be slightly over two years. And again, precisely one year has passed over the course of the show. Therefore, a week is too long to be a moon (unless you accept the glaring fact that the writers screwed up regarding the reunions, and they are null to the discussion).

 

And you ask where we are getting the idea that the S3 reunion is the only official one, since it is Apple Bloom's first. Throughout the episode, numerous lines of dialogue imply that AB has never experienced a reunion before. I won't point all of them out, as there are too many.

Mm, except my math points out that it's every 10 years. Equestrian moon cycles are longer than ours, at 36.524 days between New Moons.

Wouldn't work, because there are still phases to the moon. If it were a full moon every 3.65 days, it would mean there would be more than one phase over the course of a single night.

 

Yeah but it could still work.  There would just be jumbled intermediate phases, but as long as it has a synchronous 3.65 day full moon, there's no problem.

Edited November 26, 2013 by John

[Dr. Eggnog 203]

Didn't the season 4 premiere retcon this line?  I'm assuming the Summer Sun celebration is yearly, so I'd assume that the season 4 premiere takes place one year after the season 1 premiere.  The 100 moons line would indicate that the reunion was taking place either 100 days or several years past the season 1 premiere.  Either sounds completely ludicrous, unless you infer that Apple Family Reunion takes place at a much earlier time than the other season 3 episodes.  In a way, it DOES have a much more season 1-ish vibe and structure than a lot of other season 3 episodes.

[BalanceBrony 259]

Didn't the season 4 premiere retcon this line?  I'm assuming the Summer Sun celebration is yearly, so I'd assume that the season 4 premiere takes place one year after the season 1 premiere.  The 100 moons line would indicate that the reunion was taking place either 100 days or several years past the season 1 premiere.  Either sounds completely ludicrous, unless you infer that Apple Family Reunion takes place at a much earlier time than the other season 3 episodes.  In a way, it DOES have a much more season 1-ish vibe and structure than a lot of other season 3 episodes.

That was the whole debate we were having. This whole Apple Family Reunion thing was the point of contention. And the point EquestrianScholar and I were trying to make was that there was obviously a continuity screw-up on the writer's part, because the Season 3 episode implies that it is Apple Bloom's first reunion, but theoretically it shouldn't be, if we count the season 1 episode.

 

As such, using the Apple Family Reunion as a gauge of time won't work, because the show's continuity fails regarding the reunion. You can't use self-cancelling statements to prove anything. That's why I said we shouldn't consider the reunion when determining how time works in Equestria. It is a glaring inconsistency in the chronology of the show. Everything else works perfectly with the value of 36.524 days for one moon.

Edited November 26, 2013 by BalanceBrony

[GreyScholar 1,584]

Mmm, except my math points out that it's every 10 years. Equestrian moon cycles are longer than ours, at 36.524 days between New Moons.

Okay then, 10 years, I just wanted to finish the discussion.

[MinecraftBrony 0]

the 100 moons cannot mean 8 years and some months because in the beginning of the episode there is a picture of Apple Bloom (and some family members) and Apple Bloom is there just as old as now (minus some months) so it's not 8 years

 

if 100 days it means moon means days (nights) and that just 3 months passed but they already had 2 winters, so that couldn't be it ?

 

they probably have more winter for less time because they can control it and the food runs out?

or Hasbro just screwed up    

[StarlightGlimmer 0]

What if... like in Harvest Moon games where one month is 30 days and each month is one season. So the whole year is only 120 days. So, like someone else said, maybe it really has only been a year (or two) and there HAS been another reunion but they just didn't show it? That would make sense, right? If they have that kinda calendar that follows the seasons?

[Sonatina 1]

Just found a new semi-canon answer to how long a "moon" is. I just read the most recent "Friends Forever" comic, and read this:

 

"You must have become a legend in Equestria during the thousand moons the crystal empire disappeared..." - Twilight Sparkle

 

We already know that the Crystal Empire disappeared for a thousand years. So, according to this, maybe a moon=a whole year?

 

Only, this, of course, begs another question: if, in Equestria, a moon is a year, and an Apple Family Reunion happens every hundred moons... Not only is Granny Smith hundreds of years old (along with possibly many other characters), but if the first episode was a reunion...the series' duration has been at least a hundred years! Although, this would give some more sense to Twilight's comment in "Winter Wrap Up" about how long the Earth Ponies have been changing the seasons by hoof instead of with magic

 

So, either ponies age REALLY slowly, or, one of the writers of the comics flubbed. I lean towards the latter personally, but will not let the fact that the former might be canon slip away.

Edited April 10, 2014 by Sonatina