Whitehawke

Tabitha St. Germain thought Derpy was male (she never saw a drawing), and based Derpy's voice on a neighbor boy who was going through puberty and growing like a tree (and thus awkward and clumsy).

Also she stated she got mostly positive feedback from fans and the hate mail was just a minority. Its all here.

Aaaand another synopsis update for Hearts and Hooves, this one which changes things quite a bit.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders create a strong love potion in the hopes of making Miss Cheerilee and Big Macintosh fall in love, but when they discover the serious side effects of their concoction, they quickly regret their actions.

I guess Fluttermac fans can breathe a sigh of relief now

We've got a Hearts and Hooves synopsis update.

The five-hour programming mareathon will consist of fan-favorite episodes of the popular animated series “My Little Pony Friendship is Magic” as voted by the show’s devotees, culminating with the premiere of the all-new Valentine’s Day-themed episode, “Hearts and Hooves Day” where The Cutie Mark Crusaders try to play cupid, but soon come to regret their actions.

Sounds very similar like that Powerpuff girls episode where the professor gets together with the teacher for an episode.

Read It and Weep got a synopsis update, doesn't reveal much, but spoilering it anyway.

Rainbow Dash discovers the joys of reading when she lands in the Ponyville Hospital, but she must keep her new found hobby a secret from her pony friends because of her former pension for mocking it as an "egghead" pursuit.

This one's tricky. It's easy to think you know the answer, but close observation is required to confirm it. Or something.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/episode-announcement-friend-in-deed.html

Sounds like another Fluttershy Pinkie Pie episode. Looks we're gonna get a plot-relevant donkey now.

No skip week yet again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFj9Cxt4oD8

Original post:

http://www.tvguide.c...eo-1042050.aspx

The above contains a sneak peek to an upcoming episode. The problem is...which one? I'm guessing that it's supposed to be "The Last Roundup", but I'm not sure so this gets its own topic.

EDIT: It's on youtube, on the HUB channel, and it's titled "The last round up clip". What a twist!

Season 2 will supposedly have 28 episodes, and the last 3 are a multi-parter apparently. If true, that's about the length of a Direct-to-DVD movie right there.

It's only rumoured right now, though.

That was my initial thought... but the synopsis says '... Make Big Macintosh and Cheerliee fall in love'. Not 'Try to make', or 'Attempt to make', or any other synonym... So unless the Synopsis People are trolling us?

The second one was "Applejack has a bad day when she accidentally causes mistakes that get her friends mad at her and be hard on her, but the next day, she goes missing. Her friends think that she ran away in sadness due to their anger with her. So they set out to find their cowpony friend and make amends before she gets hurt." A lot more detailed.

But then, the third one comes out and "After attending a rodeo competition being held in Canterlot, Applejack mysteriously disappears without a trace, so it is up to the friends to travel all over Equestria, searching high and low for their missing pony companion."

As you can see, the third one (probably) contradicts the second one a bit, while the first one is too vague to really be contradicted. So it's not 100% guaranteed that the CMC are really going to succeed at the "making fall in love" part. Newer sypnosis' will likely add info that suggests something slightly different.

Though we are getting an episode soon that focuses a little more on Big Mac than usual, there was apparently an episode devoted entirely to him when Lauren was still on the team. Unfortunately, it was turned down.

What are your thoughts on this? Would you prefer this episode to the upcoming Hearts and Hooves episode where he shares the spotlight with at least 4 other characters? Or is the opportunity to shoot down FlutterMac too good for you?

Discuss.

Huh, I actually checked to see if you updated, but I must have skipped over your post. Laggy browser was laggy.

Concerning Hearts and Hooves, it appears to be about Big Macintosh and Cheerilee falling in love due to the crusaders.

I can hear the FlutterMac fans readying their battleships already.

This one required some thinking, but I know I got it.

New sypnosis from this site.

The Flim Flam brothers challenge the Apples to a Cider Making Contest and the winner of the showdown gets to take Sweet Apple Acres, so with the farm in peril, the Apple ponies must come together and muster all their cider making skills.

To be quite frank, a lot of the popular fanfics of this fandom aren't nearly as good (or as bad) as the fans make 'em sound. For example, I'm having trouble getting through "Past Sins" due to its long and drawn-out chapters, and the fact that the mary-sue main character isn't all that interesting doesn't help either.

I haven't read "My Little Dashie", primarily because I already have tons of fics to read already, but also because it sounds too much like a self-wish fantasy. Using one of the Crusaders instead of Dash might have not driven me to avoid it.

It's been a while.

http://www.dragon-mango.com/ponygame/

AJ finally gets to star in a game! And it's looking to be the best one so far.

Mostly a platformer: Z to jump, X to buck. Press shift for Rarity.

You can buck trees for apples, which restore health and refill your "appleshield" if you have one.

Still just a demo, but it does contain a boss (aim for the head), so there is a sense of accomplishment for getting that far and beating it.

Remember this?

Now there's a new level and boss.

The Verizon summary updated a bit. Though similar to its previous version, it adds an interesting point.

After attending a rodeo competition being held in Canterlot, Applejack mysteriously disappears without a trace, so it is up to the friends to travel all over Equestria, searching high and low for their missing pony companion.

I like this summary a lot more than the previous ones, since it suggests some neat adventury stuff and AJ participating in a competition like RD in Sonic Rainboom. Note that it doesn't mention that she loses/win. Hopefully we'll see her compete at least, though.

About AJ's parent's: Lauren Faust said that she thought about having them passed away, but figured it would have been deemed too sad for a children's show. They also had a brief discussion about making them explorers/traveling salesponies, but it was not needed in any episode and therefore never made official.

So it's still up in the air whether they are gone or not.

Ohmygosh, I just noticed something.

Applejack was the ONLY pony out of the mane six to show up this episode.

Imagine, if you will, an episode without ANY of the mane six. Because we're getting close to such an episode.

I really need to watch this episode again, just for the history lesson. The dump of information is too much to take on a first viewing.

Fanfics!

Fanfics. SCREAMING!

New Big Macintosh line: "Woooowwww."

hi hi

Hey, that was a legitimate use of a double negative! The negative phrasing implies avoidance.

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I would like to see a background ponies episode. Lots of series have done things like that, where they show the "other guys," for a day, and how their perspective is a little bit different. Hasbro would probably go for it because it would give them a chance to market new characters as toys. ( I mean, they already kinda do this with the CMC. )

But for my own dream episode. I would like to see an episode where the moral involves learning how to deal with people who exploit other peoples' generosity in a way that doesn't involve not being generous anymore. That, as much as just about anything else, would be a truly worthy lesson.

Edit: Actually, reading the post more carefully, the joke doesn't really work as well as I thought. Oh well.

According to the EqD post, Hasbro has always been the one trying to take down Youtube streams, including that one time they misspelled the company name "Habsro".

If this is their level of efficiency, then I'm more or less unfazed by this. I have a contingency plan if I can't get the episodes off youtube anyway.