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Apologies from myself for bugging about chat when your hands are full as it is, but the option to enter chat is gone, I can't even select it. Is chat under maintenance or have I been banned but I don't know it yet?

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I would take a wild guess and say the person who used the elements for an extended time and then taught a person could be the result of that person knowing about the elements and their powers.

Did I mention that Sunset Shimmer was only in Celestia's tutelage for a short time?

Even assuming that Celestia taught her, which is a big assumption considering that she never actually taught Twilight about the Elements but rather allowed her to learn about them herself (And Sunset Shimmer even suggests when she is telling Twilight about the EoH that Celestia never taught her but she figured it out for herself, as a means to show Twilight how much more brilliant and a better student she was than Twilight), it doesn't explain anything else in regards to her knowledge. Because again, the elements match the cutie marks of the wielders.

*tries to imagine*

Can gazelles lick their own back?

And I did once! Though it was when my shoulder was disjointed and thus the act was rather painful.

Well that's quite interesting. Knowing the kind of people that make up Hasbro though, them filing a copyright claim is not outside the realm of possibility.

You should really read the article...

Many of the patches submitted include pop culture references: The Hangover, Facebook and the “Got Milk” ad campaign have all been adopted in the past. Because of this, the Air Force has to seek approval from the copyright holders. Sometimes the holders approve it. Sometimes they don’t. My Little Pony and the Hub Network’s parent company, Hasbro, approved. The other patch designs submitted by the 14-05 didn’t get cleared.

Hasbro not only knows about it, but approved it. Had they not the patch wouldn't exist.

I can't be sure but I think it has more to do with the fact that if they allowed it, literally everybody would be applying for those roles.

Yes, many people would apply, but only one would succeed. If Discord was playable we'd hold a cast vote. Best application wins.

However, Bellosh explained quite well why it isn't allowed.

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OK, I can't convince you of the other ones. Though I still consider them to be major lapses in logic and thus plotholes (OK the email text thing was admittedly a stretch)

However... Let's dance with the Sunset Shimmer knowledge, because that is the biggest plothole.

Here is what we know from the show:

• The EoH disappeared for 1000 years, no one knew the status of them or what they would look like when they reactivated again (since they match the CM's)
  
• Twilight became Celestia's pupil when just a filly
  
• Twilight didn't reactivate the EoH until she was a full grown mare and sent to Ponyville for the summer sun celebration
  
• The elements, when not in use, were held either 1) in a vault that only Celestia (and presumably Twilight post Discord, other than Discord himself of course) can open or 2) in Ponyville with Twilight and Co. and the portal by that point was in the Crystal empire, too far to logically make the trip unnoticed
  

Here is what we know from the movie:

• Sunset Shimmer became Celestia's Pupil BEFORE Twilight
  
• Sunset Shimmer left her tutelage BEFORE Twilight became Celestia's pupil ("after I left, it is pathetic that you were all she could find to replace me" or something along those lines) -- Ergo she already left to the other world by that point, and was thus a filly at the time (and thus couldn't know what the EoH looked like to even make the switch)
  
• Celestia suggested also that she NEVER came back through either to seek help. (And before you suggest that she could have left when she was a mare, Celestia said she left to find her own path after she left her tutelage and had hoped that she would one day come back to her for guidance, suggesting that she used the portal as a filly and didn't return at any point after that)
  
• Sunset Shimmer, Celestia and Luna apparently knew that the EoH held great power in alternate universe, they outright told Twilight this, hence making her mission to get it back all the mroe pressing. However it is unknown if Celestia told Sunset Shimmer (this is possible) -- though, given what we know from the show... HOW WOULD ANY OF THEM KNOW? The EoH were lost for 1000 years!
  

So... Yeah... her knowledge... HUGE plot hole when you consider everything. There is just simply no way she could know everything like she did.

But how do you lick the chocolate of your own back? Or is that left up to the person giving the rubs?

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She told Spike the reason, which made sense without the crown only. Again, Celestia or Luna have seen the crown before, ergo, they would know it was the real one pretty easily. They barely looked alike.

Yes, but they didn't even hear of anything. Holding grudges aside, she never even heard a whisper about the softball team showing up on the wrong day. It wasn't like it only affected RD, and was thus selfcontained like the others.

It is harder to fake a text than an email. Email you can hack the account, text, unless you have webtexting, is much harder.

Which is a plothole. "Characters ignoring or avoiding obvious solutions to their problems." [from TV Tropes] (this also consequently applies to the crown thing. Another thing she could have done, had she not brought the crown for proof, is go back, grab the crown and enter into the world again. Sunset Shimmer did the same. So long as the portal was open she could have just done that. Obvious solution overlooked)

On top of that, considering that RD is the loyal one. Her not approaching AJ is also technically a plothole from a preexisting character trait which would make this relevant too "Characters acting completely Out of Character for no explicable reason." And you can't say that she isn't since she embodies it enough to react to the Twilight's crown.

Also Sunset Shimmer's knowledge is vexing as well.

"Characters suddenly having knowledge that was never passed to them, or vice versa; characters not knowing something they knew last week, or something that anyone in their position must know." I explained that too in my review. Only very shoddy reasoning can explain it. And how would she know what an element could do in an alternate universe, how could anyone unless it was tried. And according to the first episode they weren't used for 1000 years. (Which makes the entire premise of the movie suspect)

Not being good at her new body at a point where the plot later shows her not being good at her new body later on is not a plot hole.

Not bringing a useless crown on a mission where she has no reason to believe it would be useful, nor are we even shown a reason for it to be useful, is not a plot hole. If Twilight brought the other crown at most it would create an opportunity for her to say "I have a crown that looks like that crown" with no reason to exchange them or make anybody believe the crown the school has is her crown.

I am not sure what your gossip related plot hole is since the movie acknowledges that the characters never addressed the issues they had with each other, meaning there is an explanation for their actions.

Not throwing the crown into the portal is easily explained, in the heat of the moment people react fast and don't always do the best thing. Why when you were ten did you not make a three point shot at the school basketball game to win? Apparently its easy to know what to do and then do it after all. A character sucking at something is not a plot hole.

And she was shown at being good at her body MOMENTS before. They had shown she had acclimated. It isn't like the human body is ill designed. In fact they over played that terribly (that is more of a personal annoyance though).

Yes, don't bring the object that could be switched with the real deal if needed. You are now impressing your headcanon onto the movie. The crowns looked nothing alike. Again, the real deal looked, well REAL. A school would not be able to afford that it would have been an easy switch. Especially since Principle Celestia would have seen the original crown and known the difference.

You've never been to high school have you? Gossip travels fast. If the friends weren't talking to each other the softball team would have talked and even if RD wasn't talking to AJ the word would have reached her eventually. And again, most of that scene was forced and contrived anyway to create the situation where they were separated. Sunset Shimmer even admitted to there being gossip when she confronted AJ.

Edit: On second thought, the entire ploy seemed suspect. Assuming that the internet and phones work the same (we were shown how they function so I have no reason to doubt it)... That actually makes it worse... How did Sunset Shimmer gain access to their email accounts and cell phones? Pinkie even showed that she never sent a text. So how did she fake her number? And if she took her phone she must have deleted the text, but considering that she seemed surprised a text was even sent that means it had to be faked some how. Which makes no sense...

No it isn't. She literally closed her eyes and threw it backwards. She may not be good at things, but she isn't stupid. Closing your eyes and throwing backwards (when everyone is in front of you) is pretty dumb. Had she caught it off balance and fell backwards RELEASING the crown that would be different. That would show ineptitude. That is not what occurred though.

A plot hole is something that goes against what is established by the story. Being only okay with using hands is not a plothole. A person can somewhat acquire a skill but not master it immediately. If I super concentrate I can write somewhatlegibility with my non-dominate hand but if I lapse in my concentration I will quickly lose what little legibility I have with it. It was not established that Twilight had mastered her new form she only had for a few hours so being incompetent in it is not a plot hole or much of a plot inconsistency really.

So that is still only one example (which I don't agree with since, at least with the computer she was fully concentrating on it, in fact when she was not concentrating she used the tips of her fingers to type instead of her fists which goes against all logic)... And again it was a cheap ploy for more "I'm a pony not a human I don't know how to do things" and get those pictures. And on top of that, she was shown to not concentrate on using her hands in many other instances and she didn't use her mouth then either, like right after that when she was talking to spike about the yearbook, she wasn't concentrating on using her hands she just did it.

The others are still plotholes too. Two crowns, forgetting the second one. Ignoring gossip in a HS. Not throwing the crown through the portal, which is how the crown entered the world in the first place... The list goes on. Whether you want to admit to it or not, there were many plotholes in it, and I pointed out several.

How is the name Quicklime related to a deadly gas? My brain cannot science in summer sometimes.

QuickLime is the common term for Calcium Oxide (CaO), which is a corrosive alkaline crystalline solid. It is very much not a gas since the melting point is well over 2000C (which means the boiling point is even higher). However you can get a pretty decent exothermic reaction by throwing some water on it This would create a corrosive gas which can lead to skin irritation, but it isn't a poisonous [deadly] gas.

Since this is a question thread... I do good?

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Gah, having a bit of an issue with the boldness... It won't turn off. However, I made the titles bolder than the rest of the text, still. I hope this is okay... Honestly, I have no idea how to fix it anyways. Gah, or not. It looked like the titles were bolder in the editor.... Help?

Select all text in the original post, and click the eraser looking button. That will remove all formatting. You should be able to format it any way you wish after that.

Or if you want, select only the text you want to remove the bold from (say leaving the headers) and do the same. Though doing each individually might take longer.

You mentioned plot holes but I don't feel you really described any, as in the plot contradicted itself. There is stuff that characters do that isn't the most sensible in hind sight, but that isn't a plot hole

You don't need contradiction of plot directly for it to be a plothole. Just contradiction in general, including logic.

"[colour=#000000]A [/colour]plot hole[colour=#000000], or [/colour]plothole[colour=#000000], a play on the word "[/colour]pothole[colour=#000000]," is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of [/colour]logic[colour=#000000] established by the story's [/colour]plot[colour=#000000], or constitutes a blatant omission of relevant information regarding the plot sometimes even contradicting itself"[/colour]

[colour=#000000]I described several lapses in logic from what we know of the plot or relevant information. So yeah, they are still plotholes. Like the relevance of having that identical crown that was just forgotten about? Yeah that is an omission and thus a plothole.[/colour]

[colour=#000000]Knowing how to use a computer's keyboard and then not knowing for the sake of a picture? That is a plothole. The entire library scene was basically one big plothole because they established that Twilight had already acclimated to doing things with her hands. Then they turned around and nixed all of that for the sake of blackmail. [/colour]

[colour=#000000]Perhaps the other one wasn't a plothole, but it is still a serious lapse in logic.[/colour]

[colour=#000000]Heck, according to TV Tropes EVERYTHING I described with the logic of the film is a plothole. So both Wikipedia AND TV Tropes agree that this is a plothole ridden movie.[/colour]

Name: Short Fuse - Mistress of the Fire Flower

Gender: Female

Age: Mare

Species: Unicorn

Eye colour: Silver, with one eye being a eyepatch due to a childhood accident. Under the patch is a small hidden explosive.

Character colour: Blackish silver, similar to light gunpowder. She has scars all over the front of her body and face. Ponies would pity her, but she saw it as having a bit more personality!

Mane/Tail/Other: Red and orange, almost looking like fire. Her mane is medium length and kinda messy, but rather presentable most of the time. Her tail is usually the same. Her mane is sometimes singed due to explosions or tests with new compounds.

Physique: Thin, almost frail looking, but she isn’t entirely weak. She can run pretty fast and is decently athletic of a mare her build. She can at the very least run fast and far.

Residence: Aboard the pirate vessel FreeWing traveling the seas and skies of Equestria

Occupation: Demolitions expert for FreeWings

Cutie Mark: A tiger lily outlined in flames.

Unique Traits: Knowledge of volatile elements and explosives. Able to incite chemical reactions using magic, and activate incendiary devices remotely using magic. Also able to create small contained explosions using magic that look like flower petals (though they aren't as exciting or fun as the devices or explosives created). She also keeps an explosive under her eye patch.

History: Short Fuse was born to a relatively common family in Hoofington. Her father was a chemist/alchemist who would often create medicines for hospitals or for ponies or creatures just looking for general remedies. Her mother worked backstage of the local theater doing special effects and stage work if they needed help. Short Fuse spent most of the time home with her mother, as her father always seemed to be working. He’d be home on the weekends and at night, but because her mother’s job allowed her more time at home they spent a lot of time together. Her mother loved theatrics and jokes and that rubbed off on Short Fuse who was already a handful at that point, which is how she got her name. She’d be seemingly fine one minute then burst into a fit of energy like a bomb.

School life for her was pretty standard, made friends, everyone seemed to love her eccentric personality and jokes. She was basically the class clown. She didn’t play pranks, usually, but she’d be sarcastic, make up stories, and generally get people to laugh and be the center of attention. She always had a few friends around. She must have inherited her father’s brains because she excelled in most sciences and math most of all, and was pretty terrible at any artistic or history based classes. The latter more because they were boring than difficult for her. Like most fillies that age she had no idea why she was still a blank flank. Then the teacher announced that they’d have a day off to go to their parent’s job and would be allowed to choose. Naturally she chose to go with her father, since designy type things didn’t really interest her.

Her father brought her into her lab and showed her around, naturally telling her not to touch or play with any of the compounds. This was a simple enough instruction. And she did it, except for getting a glass of water. She figured ‘What harm could water do?’ She put it down and it knocked over into a dish of powdered potassium which made a small explosion. Shocked by this and also excited she jumped back and her father went to see if she was alright. He didn’t really yell at her because how was she to know that dust would do that? But he did tell her to be more careful… But she loved the explosion. She became obsessed with them. She began researching them, chemicals and everything she could. Eventually she started trying to mix things herself to get violent exothermic reactions, which eventually turned into explosive reactions. She learned that some mixtures were volatile and would explode readily and others needed something. She kept mixing and tinkering with things that she read in books and eventually became rather good at mixing, some would say too good. She made a really stable high explosive compound one day that wouldn’t ignite no matter what she did. She tried some of the more unstable ones but they wouldn’t make it go off. She had figured she had failed. She went off in a fit of anger yelling at it and her horn started glowing and from it came a little small explosion that resembled a tiger lily flower. And it went off in a huge explosion, unfortunately because she was yelling at it she wasn’t behind her shield or at a safe distance. Her mother heard the explosion and rushed her to the hospital.

She was quickly treated with her mother and father both yelling at her for doing such dangerous mixtures, but she was too shaken from the explosion. She was left with scars on her face and her right eye was damaged beyond repair due to shrapnel. So they had to remove it leaving her with a cavity that she had to cover with an eyepatch. When the shock wore off she was ecstatic. What an explosion! And SHE made it go off with her magic. After she went back to school her friends were worried about her and did the usual triad, telling her that she didn’t look THAT bad, and that the eyepatch even looked kinda cool. One of them however looked past the scars and noticed that Short Fuse had her cutie mark. In all that time she hadn’t noticed, she just kept thinking about that awesome explosion and that she could make smaller ones and set things off with her magic.

Since she was so good and loved reading she started making small explosives and traps using her more stable compounds because well… She read about pirates and zombies. She made contingency plans for both. Everyone called her a bit nuts for making a zombie pony plan and a pirate plan. But she was undeterred! She also began practicing her explosion technique more so she could use it (which was rather hard with her impaired depth perception, but she eventually got it). Her parents were none too happy but she didn’t mind.

She eventually became one of Hoofington’s leading pyrotechnicians, making fireworks and stage displays for bands, and plays. She was really good at making conventional pretty displays, but she loved making big explosions more. She took to keeping a small explosive device in her eye cavity under her eyepatch, I mean if anything it would be great for an impromptu demonstration or defense against some creature or something (you never know when you’ll see your first zombie pony and she’d be ready darn it!).

And then it happened…. An airship appeared flying a Jolly Roger flag! It was her moment of triumph! Everyone thought she was crazy and those stories were fake and would NEVER happen. She quickly took out her emergency explosive and used her magic to throw it at the pirate captain who had disembarked. Little did she know that it was Gangplank of the FreeWing pirates, who was just following up on a rumor that a talented pyrotechnician lived there [short Fuse] and had no nefarious intentions what so ever. In fact while Short Fuse was running setting off all the traps, he was strolling and taking note that this was probably the pony he was looking for.

When all the traps were set off he finally approached her offering her a position as the FreeWing pirates, explaining who the FreeWing pirates were and what they were all about (Freedom and fun, with a side of thievery and hijinx). She liked most of those things, and not having people tell you “no that’s too dangerous to make, you’ll blow out your other eye or worse” would be a nice perk. In fact they’d probably encourage that! She was sold! She accepted the position and boarded the ship to live a life of adventure, intrigue and fun. It suited her almost perfectly! And thus her new life as a pirate had begun. Because of her unique talent of creating flower shaped explosions, the crew quickly took to calling her "Mistress of the Fire Flower."

Character Summary:Short Fuse lives up to her name, she is a short fuse. She doesn’t get angry but she explodes with energy. This can be directed in any way at almost any time, and it usually manifests in her eccentricities, or in just messing with crewmembers or others. She is quick with her tongue and it is almost as explosive as her works of art. She loves her crew members and being free. Her captain is her moral compass though. She respects his wishes, usually, even if she wants to do something different, after all he was the one to offer her freedom from monotony and entrance into the great big world.

Explosives are her life, but that isn’t all there is to her. She loves reading (though admittadly, she loves reading things about new explosives or compounds she can use to make bigger, better or otherwise new explosions). She also loves music, granted though her concept of music is skewed since she thinks that explosions are music if done right. She’ll even intentionally create in her lab small contained explosions of different sizes and set them off in tandem to create what she calls “explosive music.” This doesn’t always please her crew as they sometimes think they are under attack. But they don’t mind because she does get the job done and well. She even developed new and more efficient black powder for the captain’s flintlock pistol, creating a container system even so that it can be reloaded even quicker and easier.

Her biggest flaw is her disregard for her own safety. So long as no one is around her she’ll take a few shortcuts and take more risks. She doesn’t do this on the ship, but usually when they are docked and she has room and freedom. She isn’t as reckless as she was when she was a filly, but it is still dangerous nonetheless.

She is fiercely loyal to those she considers friends or family, and to her the crew of the FreeWing are her family. She still remembers her parents but they are so far away now. If she ever meets them again she’d probably run the other way. How do you tell your parents you became a pirate for the sake of freedom anyway? If she ever met them as a pirate though she’d make sure that they were kept safe though.

*Shameless plug to blog entry review of movie*

Star Swirl's Review of Equestria Girls

I tried to be as fair as possible.

(BTW, I agreed with IMDB in that 6.5/10 was a fair score)

Now that I RP as Pvt. Flash Sentry, I'm inclined to use up my third and final slot to have him help Alexandrite Tilt keep a watch over the festivities.

That works for me. It's up to you if you want to have him use up the last spot or not

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