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Postby Olthar » Sat Apr 18, 2015 1:56 pm

So, when Apple Bloom got shocked by lightning and did that see-through skeleton thing, did anyone else notice that she has an apple instead if a stomach? I guess you could say thay she's an Apple to the core!
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Postby Wilgrove » Sat Apr 18, 2015 1:57 pm

Olthar wrote:So, when Apple Bloom got shocked by lightning and did that see-through skeleton thing, did anyone else notice that she has an apple instead if a stomach? I guess you could say thay she's an Apple to the core!


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Postby Amistrinal » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:03 pm

Ameriganastan wrote:
Frenequesta wrote:
How do you know that? We haven't even seen Babs since the third season.

Which means
it took her one or two seasons to get it offscreen, while these three still haven't got it after five. Babs Seed was a bitch who didn't deserve forgiveness or friendship, and she damn sure didn't deserve a Cutie Mark.

OBJECTION!!!
She was being bullied back home, and influenced by diamond tiara and silver spoon. People can become jerks because of bullying, and when I was being bullied years ago, I could be kind of an ass. Babs was a jerk, but her behavior is understandable, if not relatable.
Sure, it took her one or two seasons to get it off screen, but she is still around the age of the crusaders. In story, she's probably been trying to find her own cutie mark just as long as the CMC. She was being bullied in the first place because she didn't have a cutie mark, so she was probably working hard to get it too. She showed up in the first place to get away from her problems, they must have been hard on her.
We don't know what babs did to get her cutie mark, it could have been some kind of monumentally difficult task. Maybe she tried doing that special manestyling from that crystal empire games episode that has horrible audio quality on netflix?
And need I remind you of how some other characters got their cutie marks? Rainbow dash did something that was supposed to be a myth. Twilight had a massive magical surge. Applejack left home because "eh, wasn't feeling it." then remembered how much she liked home and returned. Poof, cutie mark. Sometimes cutie marks are big events, sometimes they are small events. The mere fact that all CMC members, babs and the other manehatten crusaders, have tried a ton of different things, which to their knowledge could be their talents, is astounding. They have a ton of perseverance to keep going in the face of all their failures, and down the line if none of them got a cutie mark, my reaction would be: "You know, It's amazing that out of every CMC member, and all the activities they tried, none of them ever happened to be a part of their talent. A bit unrealistic." Babs just happened to get luckily, potentially, or something else happened. Can you imagine how difficult scissors are to use with hoofs?
By the end of her original appearance, she reformed, and gave a nice bit of verbal ass kicking intimidation to diamond tiara and silver spoon.
Her next appearance in apple family reunion, she was good the entire time.
Didn't deserve forgiveness or friendship? ONE: Babs is still a kid. If it was an adult character acting like that, maybe be a little harsher on them, but seriously? Give the kid a break, I'm pretty sure all kids have done something pretty bad. And friendship? Everyone deserves a chance at friendship. My optimist shall not be silenced, everybody has some good inside them.
TWO: Treating a character poorly who has wronged all of one episode, with no indication given that she had acted like that before is just... no. Please don't do that. Even discord reformed, and he was a psychopathic tyrant that had to be frozen to stop him the first two times.

And in conclusion, the the subject of the CMC taking so long to get their cutie marks... cheese. Or wine. Eventually it will spoil, but if it happens soon it will be all the better. I hope it happens maybe in this season or next season, and potentially explores the friendship with the CMC past their crusading. Will they pass the clubhouse on to the next generation of crusaders? Who knows?
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Postby Wilgrove » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:03 pm

Amistrinal wrote:
Ameriganastan wrote:Which means
it took her one or two seasons to get it offscreen, while these three still haven't got it after five. Babs Seed was a bitch who didn't deserve forgiveness or friendship, and she damn sure didn't deserve a Cutie Mark.

OBJECTION!!!
She was being bullied back home, and influenced by diamond tiara and silver spoon. People can become jerks because of bullying, and when I was being bullied years ago, I could be kind of an ass. Babs was a jerk, but her behavior is understandable, if not relatable.
Sure, it took her one or two seasons to get it off screen, but she is still around the age of the crusaders. In story, she's probably been trying to find her own cutie mark just as long as the CMC. She was being bullied in the first place because she didn't have a cutie mark, so she was probably working hard to get it too. She showed up in the first place to get away from her problems, they must have been hard on her.
We don't know what babs did to get her cutie mark, it could have been some kind of monumentally difficult task. Maybe she tried doing that special manestyling from that crystal empire games episode that has horrible audio quality on netflix?
And need I remind you of how some other characters got their cutie marks? Rainbow dash did something that was supposed to be a myth. Twilight had a massive magical surge. Applejack left home because "eh, wasn't feeling it." then remembered how much she liked home and returned. Poof, cutie mark. Sometimes cutie marks are big events, sometimes they are small events. The mere fact that all CMC members, babs and the other manehatten crusaders, have tried a ton of different things, which to their knowledge could be their talents, is astounding. They have a ton of perseverance to keep going in the face of all their failures, and down the line if none of them got a cutie mark, my reaction would be: "You know, It's amazing that out of every CMC member, and all the activities they tried, none of them ever happened to be a part of their talent. A bit unrealistic." Babs just happened to get luckily, potentially, or something else happened. Can you imagine how difficult scissors are to use with hoofs?
By the end of her original appearance, she reformed, and gave a nice bit of verbal ass kicking intimidation to diamond tiara and silver spoon.
Her next appearance in apple family reunion, she was good the entire time.
Didn't deserve forgiveness or friendship? ONE: Babs is still a kid. If it was an adult character acting like that, maybe be a little harsher on them, but seriously? Give the kid a break, I'm pretty sure all kids have done something pretty bad. And friendship? Everyone deserves a chance at friendship. My optimist shall not be silenced, everybody has some good inside them.
TWO: Treating a character poorly who has wronged all of one episode, with no indication given that she had acted like that before is just... no. Please don't do that. Even discord reformed, and he was a psychopathic tyrant that had to be frozen to stop him the first two times.

And in conclusion, the the subject of the CMC taking so long to get their cutie marks... cheese. Or wine. Eventually it will spoil, but if it happens soon it will be all the better. I hope it happens maybe in this season or next season, and potentially explores the friendship with the CMC past their crusading. Will they pass the clubhouse on to the next generation of crusaders? Who knows?


Amistrinal, paragraphs exist for a reason.

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Postby Immoren » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:08 pm

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discoursedrome wrote:everyone knows that quote, "I know not what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones," but in a way it's optimistic and inspiring because it suggests that even after destroying civilization and returning to the stone age we'll still be sufficiently globalized and bellicose to have another world war right then and there

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Postby Olthar » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:08 pm

Amistrinal wrote:Will they pass the clubhouse on to the next generation of crusaders? Who knows?

The clubhouse is on Apple Family land, so I doubt it.
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Postby Ameriganastan » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:08 pm


Just when I thought that stupid cow couldn't annoy me any more...
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Postby Ameriganastan » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:11 pm

Amistrinal wrote:She was being bullied back home

Gonna stop you right there. I don't give a shit. When she got to town, AB and her friends were nothing but polite, welcoming and courteous. And how does Cunt Seed respond? By ditching them to hang out with two bitches. And spends the whole episode victimizing them. Fuck her. I have zero sympathy for that colossal twat.
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Fire the Ameri.
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Krazakistan wrote: He is a force of negativity for the sake of negativity

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Immoren wrote:When Ameri says something is shit it's good and when Ameri says some thing is good it's great. *nods*

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Postby Amistrinal » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:11 pm

Wilgrove wrote:
Amistrinal wrote:
OBJECTION!!!
She was being bullied back home, and influenced by diamond tiara and silver spoon. People can become jerks because of bullying, and when I was being bullied years ago, I could be kind of an ass. Babs was a jerk, but her behavior is understandable, if not relatable.
Sure, it took her one or two seasons to get it off screen, but she is still around the age of the crusaders. In story, she's probably been trying to find her own cutie mark just as long as the CMC. She was being bullied in the first place because she didn't have a cutie mark, so she was probably working hard to get it too. She showed up in the first place to get away from her problems, they must have been hard on her.
We don't know what babs did to get her cutie mark, it could have been some kind of monumentally difficult task. Maybe she tried doing that special manestyling from that crystal empire games episode that has horrible audio quality on netflix?
And need I remind you of how some other characters got their cutie marks? Rainbow dash did something that was supposed to be a myth. Twilight had a massive magical surge. Applejack left home because "eh, wasn't feeling it." then remembered how much she liked home and returned. Poof, cutie mark. Sometimes cutie marks are big events, sometimes they are small events. The mere fact that all CMC members, babs and the other manehatten crusaders, have tried a ton of different things, which to their knowledge could be their talents, is astounding. They have a ton of perseverance to keep going in the face of all their failures, and down the line if none of them got a cutie mark, my reaction would be: "You know, It's amazing that out of every CMC member, and all the activities they tried, none of them ever happened to be a part of their talent. A bit unrealistic." Babs just happened to get luckily, potentially, or something else happened. Can you imagine how difficult scissors are to use with hoofs?
By the end of her original appearance, she reformed, and gave a nice bit of verbal ass kicking intimidation to diamond tiara and silver spoon.
Her next appearance in apple family reunion, she was good the entire time.
Didn't deserve forgiveness or friendship? ONE: Babs is still a kid. If it was an adult character acting like that, maybe be a little harsher on them, but seriously? Give the kid a break, I'm pretty sure all kids have done something pretty bad. And friendship? Everyone deserves a chance at friendship. My optimist shall not be silenced, everybody has some good inside them.
TWO: Treating a character poorly who has wronged all of one episode, with no indication given that she had acted like that before is just... no. Please don't do that. Even discord reformed, and he was a psychopathic tyrant that had to be frozen to stop him the first two times.

And in conclusion, the the subject of the CMC taking so long to get their cutie marks... cheese. Or wine. Eventually it will spoil, but if it happens soon it will be all the better. I hope it happens maybe in this season or next season, and potentially explores the friendship with the CMC past their crusading. Will they pass the clubhouse on to the next generation of crusaders? Who knows?


Amistrinal, paragraphs exist for a reason.

I should probably begin double spacing, shouldn't I? Seriously though, am I the only person that likes babs seed?
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Postby Mad hatters in jeans » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:13 pm

Has it really come to the stage where CMC episodes are getting better than the mane six ones? :o

I'm liking the dream theme with sorting out each of the CMC issues.
Plus it's more Luna so the lunafans go wild. :p

The groundhog day reference is one of my favourite i've seen in mlp to date.

Plus AJ got a little song as well? How long have we waited for AJ to have a song?
About damn time. Even if it is just a little one.

Really enjoyed the episode, the way it screwed with the viewer when AB got a weird cutie mark in her sleep just vexed me so much.

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Postby Ameriganastan » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:15 pm

Mad hatters in jeans wrote:Has it really come to the stage where CMC episodes are getting better than the mane six ones? :o

No. And it never will.
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Postby Olthar » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:17 pm

Amistrinal wrote:
Wilgrove wrote:
Amistrinal, paragraphs exist for a reason.

I should probably begin double spacing, shouldn't I? Seriously though, am I the only person that likes babs seed?

She's not my favorite, but I don't dislike her.
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Postby Wilgrove » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:19 pm

Mad hatters in jeans wrote:Has it really come to the stage where CMC episodes are getting better than the mane six ones? :o


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CMC centric episodes are very formulaic and tend to focus on one thing and one thing only, the cutie marks. While the show creator does explore this same issue in new and interesting way, it's still a bit tired out for my taste.

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Postby New Naephak » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:22 pm

I-I liked the new episode.

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Postby Wilgrove » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:22 pm

New Naephak wrote:I-I liked the new episode.


So did I, I thought it was entertaining. :)

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Postby Socialist Czechia » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:24 pm

yup, it slowly started to be boring, cutie marks, cutie marks...they should really, finally get their CMs and then start new kind of crusades :p
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Postby Wilgrove » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:28 pm

Socialist Czechia wrote:yup, it slowly started to be boring, cutie marks, cutie marks...they should really, finally get their CMs and then start new kind of crusades :p


Clearly Princess Luna is setting up for a Lunar or Nocturnal Crusade against Princess Celestia and her reign of terror!

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Postby Amistrinal » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:29 pm

Ameriganastan wrote:
Amistrinal wrote:She was being bullied back home

Gonna stop you right there. I don't give a shit. When she got to town, AB and her friends were nothing but polite, welcoming and courteous. And how does Cunt Seed respond? By ditching them to hang out with two bitches. And spends the whole episode victimizing them. Fuck her. I have zero sympathy for that colossal twat.

Fair enough, I suppose we all have different opinions. I like characters partly because of the mistakes they make. Which is more interesting, a paladin that has never sinned or a paladin that fought to redeem himself? I'm not saying Babs is a super amazing hero to us all, but she does have potential.

And besides, being rude to the crusaders was it's own punishment. She didn't get to spend a time being friendly with awesome characters!
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Postby Immoren » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:33 pm

Amistrinal wrote:
Ameriganastan wrote:Gonna stop you right there. I don't give a shit. When she got to town, AB and her friends were nothing but polite, welcoming and courteous. And how does Cunt Seed respond? By ditching them to hang out with two bitches. And spends the whole episode victimizing them. Fuck her. I have zero sympathy for that colossal twat.

Fair enough, I suppose we all have different opinions. I like characters partly because of the mistakes they make. Which is more interesting, a paladin that has never sinned or a paladin that fought to redeem himself? I'm not saying Babs is a super amazing hero to us all, but she does have potential.

And besides, being rude to the crusaders was it's own punishment. She didn't get to spend a time being friendly with awesome characters!


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discoursedrome wrote:everyone knows that quote, "I know not what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones," but in a way it's optimistic and inspiring because it suggests that even after destroying civilization and returning to the stone age we'll still be sufficiently globalized and bellicose to have another world war right then and there

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Postby Mad hatters in jeans » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:34 pm

Wilgrove wrote:
Mad hatters in jeans wrote:Has it really come to the stage where CMC episodes are getting better than the mane six ones? :o


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CMC centric episodes are very formulaic and tend to focus on one thing and one thing only, the cutie marks. While the show creator does explore this same issue in new and interesting way, it's still a bit tired out for my taste.

Wilgrove wrote:
New Naephak wrote:I-I liked the new episode.


So did I, I thought it was entertaining. :)


If Wilgrove 1 could have a chat with Wilgrove 2 i'd appreciate it if you guys figured things out.
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Postby Wilgrove » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:36 pm

Mad hatters in jeans wrote:
Wilgrove wrote:
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CMC centric episodes are very formulaic and tend to focus on one thing and one thing only, the cutie marks. While the show creator does explore this same issue in new and interesting way, it's still a bit tired out for my taste.

Wilgrove wrote:
So did I, I thought it was entertaining. :)


If Wilgrove 1 could have a chat with Wilgrove 2 i'd appreciate it if you guys figured things out.


I enjoy the CMC episode for what they are, but if push comes to shove, I prefer the Mane Six episode over the CMC episode.

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Postby Mad hatters in jeans » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:42 pm

Wilgrove wrote:
Mad hatters in jeans wrote:

If Wilgrove 1 could have a chat with Wilgrove 2 i'd appreciate it if you guys figured things out.


I enjoy the CMC episode for what they are, but if push comes to shove, I prefer the Mane Six episode over the CMC episode.

The cmc episode had more Luna though.
More Luna though....
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Postby Amistrinal » Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:50 pm

Immoren wrote:
Amistrinal wrote:Fair enough, I suppose we all have different opinions. I like characters partly because of the mistakes they make. Which is more interesting, a paladin that has never sinned or a paladin that fought to redeem himself? I'm not saying Babs is a super amazing hero to us all, but she does have potential.

And besides, being rude to the crusaders was it's own punishment. She didn't get to spend a time being friendly with awesome characters!


Image

That picture reminded me... Vinyl and Octavia were right next to each other. It's sweetie belle's dream. I wonder... does she ship them?
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