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I actually made an application for the Blanks. It got approved. Look it up if you dare!

Very well said! I think you're spot on here. As with anything, we'll have to see how this development pans out in due time. ...But that doesn't change the fact that next week is no ponies! The horror!

That's a strange time change, as that's no longer the "prime time" of Saturday morning programming. Why would Hub do this with their spearhead series? I'm sure there are several reasons or arguments for this, but to me it looks like they're trying to attract viewership to some of their other shows in that time slot. I know that's a shocker, right? Maybe they're trying to build the strength of the channel. It can't all be pony, can it? Maybe they're trying to demonstrate to the investors "Yeah, we can get watchers for this time slot using these shows. Our success doesn't hinge on one cartoon alone." Ha, are they in for a surprise! Or are they? I don't think this will inconvenience anyone, really, considering how fast a fresh episode tends to get put up elsewhere after airing on the network. It is disturbingly curious that they would do this time slot change, though!

I remember that 4chan furry business. They made a board for furries then mass-banned everyone who posted there, right? If it's not a trap, it is a nice thing to see, since it pretty much was the "birthplace" of pony culture on the internet. Furries and bronies have multiple definitions in my opinion. There's the technical one, and there's the "participative in the communtiy" definition. Both are labels, and you can choose to apply them or ignore them as you wish. And, as Brian pointed out, the haters on both sides are in the minority. A lot of us here are both furries and bronies/pegasisters/whatevers, myself included.

No worries, some Flutterlove is coming up soon!

It'll be interesting to see if the .mov series will follow this tread that Shadow is pointing out. It is a neat catch if it's true. Also I think Spike would probably be sloth, if you understand what I'm saying (and if you do, don't bother saying so -- forum rules and all).

I think Scootaloo sees RD more as a big sister. Speaking of sisters, I was watching Bridle Gossip this morning and -- in the opening scene with Zecora in Ponyville -- I spotted Berry Punch yoinking her little sister inside before, like, we understood she had a little sister (circa Sisterhooves). I'm sure this is common knowledge already, but I thought that was neat. Back to the topic at hoof...I understood the OP's question as an episode that explores a heavier and gloomier topic. As someone else said, the series already has -- but it's always accompanied with humor or something to lighten up the story and keep it in perspective.

Welcome! Winter is coming.

Welcome to the forums. You're quite well spoken! I have to agree with the sequelitis going on with gaming at the moment. The industry certainly is changing, and I think a lot of it has to with the mobile market changing how much and where people will spend money on a game. This, among other things, is causing investors to pull their funds away from original and new IPs because they are riskier than they used to be. Add that to the increased development cost of games and that leaves the industry is in a bit of a rut, especially with Japanese development contributions.

Yes it did. I can't resist using this again:

I don't really think so, no. The formula needs comic relief and lighthearted humor.

You do raise some good points, though I think it's important to realize that the creators are at the mercy of the fandom every Saturday regardless of who is in the episode! There's usually a debate du jour about the canon, animation, music, story elements, or perhaps how a character is portrayed or acts. I think that Hasbro/Studio B/DHX Media are doing a fine job with keeping FiM in line. I doubt it will go down the line of major fanservice, as they have a duty and focus to produce a great cartoon for the original audience that the show is intended for. Everything else -- with Derpy or shipping of certain BG ponies together -- is just a way of acknowledgement rather than blatant fanservice, imho.

A Batman villain!

Ooh an Aussie pony! So nice to see you here, mate! As I understand it, you've been getting lots of pony merch down there recently!

Hay there, cute name! Welcome to the forums.

My theory is it's a cartoon, and the creative powers that be will use whatever technology will fit into the story on an episode-by-episode basis. I also think FiM would be pretty boring if they really did stick to strict canon.

I see two distinct elements in this pony "hatedom" that you're talking about. The first -- and probably most important -- is the point that Lauren Faust points out in this reply on DA: She's basically saying that the haters (most of them presumably young or middle-aged males) were raised to dislike anything feminine, and the intolerance that we see is a product of that. Bronies are the antithesis of the expectation that males should shun anything girly, and reienforces that girly things can, in fact, be pretty fun and cool, and it makes the "hatedom" very uncomfortable because they were raised to behave that way. The other element I'm speaking about is the fact that people can anonymously say whatever they want on the internet. I'd really like to see any one of them walk into a pony gathering in real life and start laying down hate and rude comments. Some of them might, but I'm going to assume a lot of them are cowards that only have something to say behind a computer screen. The delight in all this is that all of the hateful stuff is easily avoidable, and most of it (that I've seen) is really only centered around a few internet hot spots, like chan boards.

I've been waiting, I've been dreaming, for the moment that Pon-3 takes off her glasses to reveal she has like, green eyes or something. I'd love to see more Derpy -- maybe this time executed and voiced a tish better so the neighsayers have nothing to neigh about.

I'm sure he'll get a new car soon. Chin up, eh?

Celestia is an alicorn, not a cow, silly!

I think it's cute and clever to have pony-flavored seasonal holidays that parallel our own. Sorry, but I don't have much else to say about that!

If I forget someone's name, I'll say like "Hey, you have a neat name! How do you spell it?" That can backfire, though, if they have like a three letter name. (And it has!) For your problem, Weesh, simple is best. Ask them if they remember what your name is, if it's obvious they don't remember. If they don't, tell them what it is, maybe give them some background information on it -- or a comparison to another well-known name so they can make a mental connection.

You're really smart. Will you be my Valentine?

While any sort of charity is a good thing, I think the HumbleBrony idea is a bit awkward, and it has all of the elements to turn into a scandal very fast -- seeing as they are, what? Giving money to one person to make one big mass donation to the site? Correct me if I'm wrong on that. During the VA interview at the last Bronycon, the guy running HumbleBrony came on stage to tell the VAs where all the money was going, and it was a three way divide between Child's Play/Red Cross/the Developers...it was all garbled so I had trouble understanding him, though his use of the word "mostly" when describing where the money was going caught my interest most of all. I know we're sailing into some debate territory here, so I'm going to drop anchor, hoist down the sails and pull out the cannons. Is there really a way to confirm where and how much of this mass donation is truly going? I think that the bravado of bronies working in mass together toward a cause (owning over a poll, charity, picking daisies) seems faddish and overdone, and has the potential to hurt the community in a very bad way once something really, truly goes wrong. Sorry if that's going off point from the OP topic. Hasbro depends on ratings on their network to get paid by their sponsors. I know they do charity donations themselves, so I doubt we'd ever see an exclusive release like you're describing, Sir Fox. It's also known business practice to garner sales by promising that some of the money will also go to a good cause. However, for the sake of "what would you do?", I would happily wait for someone else to pay and watch the reposted episode elsewhere -- if it was for charity, however, I would not mind paying. We "pay" for the episodes indirectly by watching the commercials and by supporting the purchase of merchandise. Hasbro will have my money for episodes when they release a real box set like the community has been asking them for over a year.

Welcome! Wow, you're from Puerto Rico? And it sounds to me like you're quite talented with music too!