MLP: FiM Thread 397: Taste The Rainbow Mother****er!

[Eunös ✈]

Correct.

They could do the same Scenario with Dash and Ity

Yes I know I go on about it but I don't give a f***.

So much potential there that has not been touched.

Why do they continue to hold back?.. Just f***ing do it already.

[Nikki Heyman]

Morning all.

Time to take a breath as we slow a little at work.

how is everyone?

[CMWaters]

I'm good.

Read the new comic today.

Wasn't too special, but was cute in its own way.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}And surprise appearance by Discord was an interesting twist at the end.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

I'm OK... Bit relieved now I know where @fsinfan 's headspace is at given that he's decided to take leave from the boards for the indefinite future.

[Nikki Heyman]

Taking the slow-downs as I can get them - shorter shifts tomorrow and Friday, working Saturday and Memorial day so far. I'll be around

did I scare someone away?

No, you had nothing to do with it.

[CMWaters]

May 21, 2014 9:43:18 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

I'm OK... Bit relieved now I know where @fsinfan 's headspace is at given that he's decided to take leave from the boards for the indefinite future.

*Catches up on that Twitter convo*

...well damn. Didn't think that it would have gotten that bad for her here. I liked having FSin's posts around here. But if she needs some time off, then that's her decision. Though I was looking forward to insight starting next thread, as I was thinking we could start doing those roundtable discussions about various things throughout the past season and such.

[Eunös ✈]

whatever Mean Crap I post..

Ok then

Don't rush back.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

May 21, 2014 9:48:26 GMT -5 Nikki Heyman said:

Taking the slow-downs as I can get them - shorter shifts tomorrow and Friday, working Saturday and Memorial day so far. I'll be around

did I scare someone away?

No, you had nothing to do with it.

I won't say anymore about the situation here unless I hear back again from him on Twitter. But if you want to know the situation, it's all on there.

[Eunös ✈]

I try to get on with Fsin I really do.

But it seems anything I f***ing ever do he decides to get pissy about it.

I can't draw anything without him finding something offensive about it..

Even saying something like "Except Roseluck" is enough to get him all upset

Truth is we are 2 very different people and it's pretty obvious we're not suppose to get along.

So whatever,

Why should i stop being me just to please someone else?

[Nikki Heyman]

Can't look it all up right now (at work) but all the best.....

[CMWaters]

You know what...screw waiting till next thread. Even though I'll be at work in about 2 hours and will miss most of the day, let's start up the roundtable discussions again.

We'll start with...



THE RAINBOW POWER BOX AND KEYS

Season 4 had to get off to a start that would (potentially) get people interested for the rest of the season, especially after the mixed reaction to Twilight Sparkle becoming an alicorn. Here, they gave us something to latch on to...a mysterious box with 6 keyholes after the Elements of Harmony were returned to the Tree of Harmony.

Now I'm sure most of us guessed, if not by the box's first appearance then by "Rarity Takes Manehattan" with the spool of thread that Coco Pommel gave Rarity that this was related to the Rainbow Power toy line, but that's a slightly less important thing to me. To me, the important thing was that, while not as majorly focused on as Season 1's season-long Gala story, we once again had something that was introduced early into the season that would be referenced throughout (either verbally like in Castle-Mania or on a wall chart like in Twilight Time) and build up to the payoff at the end.

I still wonder if the keys returned to their original forms or just stayed keys after this, and how they'll be able to activate the power that the box gave now that we learned it was also a seed for a new castle tree, but enough about my talks about it.

[Eunös ✈]

So it's going to be somebody else starting these threads from here on in yes?

[Nikki Heyman]

While it's was an epic way to start the season and the "Reveal" was nicely done, I felt that the arc went TOO far into the background. While yes, we had an image or two in the background, the old castle got more play/screen time than the box itself did.

A lot of this season tried to focus on the damage control plot point that while Twilight is now an alicorn and a princess, she's still the same pony. The advertising listed this mysterious box as "Equestria changing" but the only change I saw was that a Princess got a new castle and that the Mane Cast now have positions as "Consultants" to the Princess. They are still NOT equals as they were in the previous seasons and cannot be equals now.

"Twilight Time" was an episode that spells out what I fully expected this season but thankfully did not happen.

I'm not disappointed in the season in general - they handled Twilight's new status well, but she's still a princess and of higher status than the rest of her "friends".

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

May 21, 2014 9:59:02 GMT -5 Eunös ✈ said:

I try to get on with Fsin I really do.

But it seems anything I f***ing ever do he decides to get pissy about it.

I can't draw anything without him finding something offensive about it..

Even saying something like "Except Roseluck" is enough to get him all upset

Truth is we are 2 very different people and it's pretty obvious we're not suppose to get along.

So whatever,

Why should i stop being me just to please someone else?

That's the thing... nobody in these threads has ever told anybody to stop being anything, and I think we've prided ourselves on that fact. I mean, look at Nikki. She's manifested her own original character into a second voice as a coping mechanism with the direction of the show. Most other places wouldn't accept that. Yeah, I cracked it at you the other night for the shit-stirring, but that NEVER happens normally. I was just having a bad night with a bit of a sore back and I'd put so much effort into setting up the All-Star race and it turned out INSANELY boring in the end. It was really nothing personal.

[Nikki Heyman]

May 21, 2014 10:16:11 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

May 21, 2014 9:59:02 GMT -5 Eunös ✈ said:

I try to get on with Fsin I really do.

But it seems anything I f***ing ever do he decides to get pissy about it.

I can't draw anything without him finding something offensive about it..

Even saying something like "Except Roseluck" is enough to get him all upset

Truth is we are 2 very different people and it's pretty obvious we're not suppose to get along.

So whatever,

Why should i stop being me just to please someone else?

That's the thing... nobody in these threads has ever told anybody to stop being anything, and I think we've prided ourselves on that fact. I mean, look at Nikki. She's manifested her own original character into a second voice as a coping mechanism with the direction of the show. Most other places wouldn't accept that. Yeah, I cracked it at you the other night for the shit-stirring, but that NEVER happens normally. I was just having a bad night with a bit of a sore back and I'd put so much effort into setting up the All-Star race and it turned out INSANELY boring in the end. It was really nothing personal.

I'm just glad you put up with it, because yeah in a lot of other places people would think it "Stupid", "Silly", or "Unnecessary". But it's better than just growling and complaining about it (even if I did in a recent post)

You're welcome

Don't push your luck

[Eunös ✈]

The Box was a nice edition to Season 4.

and the key episodes were a nice feature
to

Plus it gave us Coco Pommel

So I'm not complaining

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

May 21, 2014 10:14:59 GMT -5 Nikki Heyman said:

I'm not disappointed in the season in general - they handled Twilight's new status well, but she's still a princess and of higher status than the rest of her "friends".

Why the quote marks? They ARE her friends. I don't see why that's in question.

As for me, the mystery box was an all right arc in the end, and I'm glad that it took all six in the end to get it open and beat Tirek. I know that, even though it never bothered me to start with, they're never going to be absolutely completely equal or "balanced" (unless the other five get wings and/or horns), but it's about as good as it can get in the situation at hand.

[CMWaters]

That's the thing to me...were they ever truly equal?

From the beginning of the series, Twilight Sparkle was a direct connection to Princess Celestia as she was her personal student before becoming an alicorn. She was the one (well, besides Spike since he burped up the letters) that got the first info on things, and it it wasn't for her the others might not have ever gotten to go to the Gala, or gotten some of the good things that happened to them.

Just an observation there.

Also, hopefully this season proved just because you're an alicorn doesn't mean you achieve godhood level magic like Celestia and Luna have.

[Nikki Heyman]

May 21, 2014 10:25:24 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

May 21, 2014 10:14:59 GMT -5 Nikki Heyman said:

I'm not disappointed in the season in general - they handled Twilight's new status well, but she's still a princess and of higher status than the rest of her "friends".

Why the quote marks? They ARE her friends. I don't see why that's in question.

As for me, the mystery box was an all right arc in the end, and I'm glad that it took all six in the end to get it open and beat Tirek. I know that, even though it never bothered me to start with, they're never going to be absolutely completely equal or "balanced" (unless the other five get wings and/or horns), but it's about as good as it can get in the situation at hand.

Still her friends and thankfully not her "Flunkies", something I've gone over quite a few times so I won't go over that again.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

May 21, 2014 10:28:21 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

That's the thing to me...were they ever truly equal?

From the beginning of the series, Twilight Sparkle was a direct connection to Princess Celestia as she was her personal student before becoming an alicorn. She was the one (well, besides Spike since he burped up the letters) that got the first info on things, and it it wasn't for her the others might not have ever gotten to go to the Gala, or gotten some of the good things that happened to them.

I never thought so. Twilight was always positioned as the de facto "team leader" to me.

May 21, 2014 10:28:21 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

Also, hopefully this season proved just because you're an alicorn doesn't mean you achieve godhood level magic like Celestia and Luna have.

...unless you are given THEIR godhood level magic, that is.