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Maj wrote:I gotta say, I'm a bit disappointed that Luna never gets anything to do. She was so powerful that she took over everything, and now she's little more than a background character.
Hey Maj, have you seen Sleepless in Ponyville yet?
Luna seems to be a benevolent Freddy Krueger. Also, I'm dead now because that ending made my heart explode...
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I did! I loved it! Go Luna!!
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Cutest thing I've ever seen, and yeah, go Luna!
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Supposedly, there's a rumor going around that one of FiM's writers is bitching about Hasbro's decisions about the show. I don't know if it's true, but I'm spoilering it in case:
First off, it's been cleared for season 4.

Second, Hasbro saw the Derpy drama and decided the best thing to do is phase her out entirely. Honestly, I can't blame them, I remember the Derpy drama and it was one of those things where both sides were being stupid.

Third the writer had said that Hasbro had foisted an ascendancy arc where Twi becomes an Alicorn. I don't know what I think about it. On one hand, I do like it when characters on shows grow and change as the season progresses. On the other hand, I think that businessmen should be kept away from any creative artistic decisions upon pain of death, as those "people" aren't proper humans with feelings.
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can't blame the man for feeling like that . .
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Ted the Flayer wrote:Supposedly, there's a rumor going around that one of FiM's writers is bitching about Hasbro's decisions about the show. I don't know if it's true, but I'm spoilering it in case:
First off, it's been cleared for season 4.

Second, Hasbro saw the Derpy drama and decided the best thing to do is phase her out entirely. Honestly, I can't blame them, I remember the Derpy drama and it was one of those things where both sides were being stupid.

Third the writer had said that Hasbro had foisted an ascendancy arc where Twi becomes an Alicorn. I don't know what I think about it. On one hand, I do like it when characters on shows grow and change as the season progresses. On the other hand, I think that businessmen should be kept away from any creative artistic decisions upon pain of death, as those "people" aren't proper humans with feelings.
Kind of weird, honestly.
Point 1 is an unreserved 'hurrah',

don't really care about point 2, since the Derpy/Ditzy thing was stupid, and all it turned into was effectively a 'Where's Waldo, Equestria edition.

Point 3.... foisted seems the wrong word. Fans (or at least Bronies) were speculating about that from day 1. Or at least episode 2. And there has been a shitload of stuff going on that furthered such speculation here and there prior to the current season. Particularly the cutie-mark origins episode, where
Twilight effectively hit 'god-mode' as at the same age as the Cutie Mark Crusaders, which is hell of a scary thought. Personally I was glad to see what looks like the beginning of the Ascension Arc in season 3, even though it was a little early. Since the season is only half length, I wasn't sure if the show was going to continue, so I'd rather see it early than not at all. But it seems inevitable, not foisted.

And this way they can fucking explain Cadence.
Plus it has a lot of potential for character growth, rather than (plot)sticking Twilight as a librarian in a podunk town where no one gives two shits about the library anyway. She has a lot more potential than that, and frankly she's a terrible librarian.
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One thing y'all have to realize, the show was designed to sell toys. Every thing on the Hub, and everything produced by Hasbro, is designed to sell toys. That will always come first, for better or for worse.

It's caused a lot of poor story-writing and plot inconsistencies in Transformers and GI Joe as well, so I can identify with what your going through.
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Dont get me wrong, i think twi would look hawt with wings.

But everything but number 1 has been refuted already.
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Dont get me wrong, i think twi would look hawt with wings.

But everything but number 1 has been refuted already.
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I'm... not sure what you mean. You posted it, now you say it was all a lie?
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It would seem so. I guess anonymous images from flickr posted on the cheezburger network isn't a good primary information source.
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Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Spoilers!
Potentially massive spoilers straight ahead!
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_My ... .932013.29

It seems that is likely to be accurate according to the episode description on Wiki. Next week!
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Regarding the spoilers: YUS!

Also, I totally want to play a character like that now. ...it occurs to me that I'm playing two different wizard characters at the moment...
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Stahlseele wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF1aaxIUa3w
Applejack Episode is here
Yay, my favorite background pony!
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Stahlseele wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF1aaxIUa3w
Applejack Episode is here
Finally saw this. The only redeeming feature is the yearly 'Applejack grabs the idiot ball and goes insane' episode is out of the way.

However, I was expecting a Dukes of Hazard reference, not Jaws. Though a hay wagon going out of control seemed rather obligatory.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3lAcp8JBU
Episode 3x09 - Spike at your Service has been leaked in Full HD.
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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That's pretty nice O.o

My Favourite Scene of the last Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I6iCn1wJmY
Totally worth it for that one alone ^^
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Gentlemen, I have found evidence that Celestia's ass has been getting bigger. I approve.
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All that cake.

Plus she's got the biggest chair, and asses are like goldfish, after all.
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"The Plot thickens!"
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th »

the local wal-mart has Princesses Luna and Celestia, except they're actually the correct colors! They come in two-packs so I have to get repeats of Rarit and Pinky Pie, but they're the sexiest ones (at least until Braeburn gets a doll. Everyone is gay for Braeburn.)
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