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LuminousNight

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  • Birthday 05/13/1989

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    White Mocha

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  1. Everypony has taken note of the "rainbow eyes" in the epidodes Rarity Takes Manehattan and Rainbow Falls, but I feel like nopony has taken note of the similarities in the frame work of these episodes. So here I am to share my observations in the hopes of sparking conversation. In list form, here's the framework the episodes are built around, which I'm posting seperate from the episodes themselves to make it easier to come back to later. 1. Failed Virtue: The main character finds her virtue (that is, her Element of Harmony) put under duress, and she fails to uphold it. 2. Commitment to the Course: The protagonist shows that she is commited to the choice she made in some fashion, showing this was more then a fleeting moment of weakness. 3. Realization (a.k.a. Rainbow Eyes): The protagonist has some new piece of information presented to her, shedding her actions in a new light, accompanied with a rainbow sheen. She immediately decides to try and own up to her poor choice and try to fix it. 4. Momento: Our lead pony is given a token of the experience, given to her by someone who learned something from her actions. This object is given a close up and a is shown with a rainbow sheen to end the episode. Now, I'm sure you realize which moments I'm speaking of in each episode, except possibly for 3, but I'm noting them here anyway for completeness. Rarity Takes Manehattan: 1. When Rarity gives a bolt of her specially made cloth to Surry, a comopetitor in a fashion competition, she finds herself looking like a copycat when her whole line is stolen. Desperate, she turns selfish and manipulative, coercing her friends into helping her make an entirely new line, knowing it's likely to cause them to miss the musical she'd originally given them tickets to as a gift. 2. She takes her new line to the fashion show, leaving her friends behind and asleep in the hotel room. 3. As her line is on display, clearly impressing the judges, Rarity notices her friends are missing. Though she seems to be likely to win the competition, all she cares about is what this victory may have cost her. She leaves in order to salvage the situation if she can. 4. Rarity makes it up to her friends by getting them an exclusive showing of the musical, which Surry's assistant shows up at to inform Rarity she won the competition and to thank her for showing her that it doesn't take ruthlessness to succeed. She mails Rarity a special spool of rainbow thread to end the episode. Rainbow Falls: 1. As Rainbow Dash leads a team of pegasi from Ponyville to qualify for an event in the Equestrian Games, Soarin of the Wonderbolts gets injured in an accident. The Wonderbolts (eventually) invite Rainbow to fly for them. Though it seems a simple conflict between Dash's loyalty to Ponyville and her drive to win, it's further wieghted by her loyalty to Cloudsdale (where she was born and raised of course) and her dream of being a Wonderbolt. She fakes an injury to avoid choosing at all, making it an interesting double failure since she chooses to be loyal to neither side. 2. Taken to a hospital, Rainbow Dash is presented with irrefutable evidence that the Ponyville team is doomed to failure without her, in the form of Derpy Hooves, but stays commited to her lie anyway. 3. Soarin turns out to be her roomate, and she discovers the other Wonderbolts lied to the both of them, hoping to get Dash, the stronger flier, to fly for them. Dash owns up to her lie, calling out the Wonderbolts on theirs, and steps back into the Ponyville line up. 4. Impressed with Dash once again, Spitfire gives Dash a Wonderbolt pin, mentioning they have a lot to learn frim her. There's more to both episodes of course, but I'm focused on the similar framework here.What I like about both of these episodes, and what made me see the pattern in the first place was their failure. They are not paragons of their virtues, they can indeed fall. But they come out the stronger for it, having learned something about their virtue they wouldn't have otherwise. Also, they both shift priorities even after showing commitment. An important lession that it's never too late to do the right thing. Just as a sidenote, both episodes contained an alicorn in the background. Coincidence? I really, really hope so...
  2. Oh, this is where my like came from. Thank you, sir. ^^ This is, in part, my way of crying out at the spin-offs. Not all of them, just most. So many (including some really popular ones) use the setting just to excuse grimdark ponies, and I feel like they're missing the point entirely. I'm just not one to single out something I don't like unless I'm asked directly, so I'm not mentioning anything specific. I couldn't even say any of this in the blog itself because I knew I'd hijack my own post. Thanks for giving me an excuse to add a comment by the way.
  3. The birth of a new pony! My first character is approved! Everyone please welcome White Mocha to Canterlot! (Both rhe site and the city.) Anypony have a party canon handy?

  4. And now for a public service announcement: Luna is best pony. That is all.

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    3. tacobob

      tacobob

      She does lose a few points for being evil and trying to kill us all..And also eating Pip's backside..But beyond that, she's an okay horse.

    4. LuminousNight

      LuminousNight

      Hey, hey. Come on ponies. There's no arguing with Three Dog. He always tells the truth, no matter how bad it hurts.

  5. Oh Gods. A month? Gah! Hey, you said yourself my feelings are valid. If I want to grouse, I will But really, I'm posting to say how much I appreciate the work you guys do. I was really impressed with this site after only a few mintues of looking around and it's beacuse of the high standards that you've clearly been keeping to. A month long wait would be worth it. If I manage to make it that long.
  6. [WARNING: Some spoilers will be included] Fallout: Equestria is more then the sum of it's parts. That's quite a statment in this case, I know. It's parts are one of the most popular gaming series of all time and the show that brought us all to Canterlot.com. I can be prone to hyperbole too, but I think this statement is dead accurate. And the reason why is quite simple. Fallout serves to bring the grit and darkness that provides a contrast that really allows the bright Little Pony heart to shine. There's no arguing that the story falls into the category of grimdark. In the first few chapters, we're shown in no unclear terms just what the Equestrian Wasteland has done to the ponies who live in it. From slavers who capture the story's protaginist, to the raiders who shoot at them just because, to the fellow captive who turns on her once they're free as a matter of survival. We're shown in no uncertain terms evey level of horror that ponies have fallen to in very short order. And that's just the average pony, never mind the other horrors. The Wasteland, even the Equestrian Wasteland, will beat you down. And it's relentless. But that's not all there is to the story, unlike many of it's spin offs. What brings the story together, what really makes it great, is the pony at it's heart. The story will tear your heart out, I'm not ashamed to say I've cried over events in the story, sometimes when I'm not even reading it. (Pinkie and Dash's fates get me the most.) But in the end, it's a pony story. Fallout: Equestria is better then the Fallout games. It handles aspects of the games in a way that a game simply can't. The horrors of what the raiders have done to Ponyville isn't any different then any raider nest you've seen in the games. But seeing it through Littlepip's eyes for the first time drives it home. Drug addiction is an annoyance in the games, but well worth the cost. Littlepip shows us what that -1 to perception and intelligence really means. Fallout: Equestria is more then Friendship is Magic. Because "Everyone should have a freind" isn't the same without "For longer then I've been here" proceeding it. Because "But that's my soul. Isn't it?" doesn't carry the same wieght without the image of the smallest of ponies nearly dead and ready to kill. Fallout doesn't have the heart because it was never supposed to. But it provides the contast that drives home the message that Friendship is Magic is sending in a way a kid's show simply can't. Don't take this the wrong way. I love both Fallout and Friendship is Magic. I simply believe that the two together have become more then what they could ever have been apart. Just my thoughts on something that so deeply touched me. I'll leave you now the quote that changed eveything. "Of course it is, silly. You're just looking at it wrong."
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