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S03 E06 - "Sleepless In Ponyville"
Ginger Mint replied to brianblackberry's topic in Friendship is Magic Series
hi hi After thinking about it, I'm pretty sure that final dream sequence at the end -the one feels kind of extraneous- is there to disarm little kid's fright about the scary old mare with the rusty horseshoes. They don't want little kids to actually have nightmares about this character, so they probably felt they had to reveal her as being harmless before the end. Also, now that Luna has had a couple of episodes involving her playing a significant role, I suspect that we may be seeing an episode where Celestia gets to take center stage for a bit, rather than just saying a few lines and then having to go off and do princessy stuff. -
S03 E06 - "Sleepless In Ponyville"
Ginger Mint replied to brianblackberry's topic in Friendship is Magic Series
hi hi I can only really speak for myself, but I think part of it was that they didn't try to do as much with the episode. They picked something and stuck with it, and focused on it. Most of the scenes related to that theme in some way (or were played as a counterpoint), and because of that focus, they didn't leave as many gaps in the narrative. And it had a happy, positive ending, rather than a "well it could have been worse," ending. -
hi hi I think what they were trying to do when they had Rainbow Dash of all ponies go to fetch Twilight, was to show just how dire the circumstances were. Rainbow Dash is typically headstrong, charging right in without a second thought, so when she's running to Twilight for help, that tells me that they already tried everything they could and were at the point where they knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that they needed help. But that was just my impression, nothing concrete... (To be fair, the ponies in Ponyville faint at the sight of rampaging bunny rabbits, and the royal guards get fooled by a nearly featherless bird in a mustache. )
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S03 E06 - "Sleepless In Ponyville"
Ginger Mint replied to brianblackberry's topic in Friendship is Magic Series
hi hi This is now officially my favorite episode of Season 3. I was smiling like a big goof the entire way through it, even though I got a bit teary eyed in a few places. I might be a little bit biased because I was absolutely terrified of the dark as a kid, like seriously beyond words. (also, Luna's dreamwalking was a personal hypothesis of mine ever since Friendship is Magic part 2, but I'm not counting that for points.) An excellent episode where we got to see some real interaction between ponies, and they really took some time setting things up, which made the payoff at the end so much better. Sweetie Belle and Rarity were great comedy relief considering how intense some of those scenes got. (I think Sweetie Belle knew what she was getting herself into when she pressured her sister into going.) Also, they had my all time favorite background pony in there too! I was so thrilled when Applejack got a few lines. I'm sure something controversial will crop up though and I'll have to explain in depth why I think this episode is excellent, but for now, there are no more words. -
Thanks, I tried hard to find expressions and flowers that fit with each character. -
B-but posts are good, right? Thanks everyone, Rarity has some difficult eyelashes, and I wanted to make sure they were better than "nice." Possibly even fabulous. -
I was not familiar with bachelor buttons... but they do sound like they would fit. Also, Rainbow Dash is seriously the hardest pony to compose a colour scheme for. But white is usually a safe bet in any scheme. -
This is Pinkie "Chocolate Fountainy Goodness" Pie were talking about here. -
This was the second one I made, but once I started, I realized I would have to make one for all six before I would be done. -
The markings may be complex, but they are soft and they dont clash with each other. That gets points in my book. -
hi hi I also choose to believe that the alicorn amulet is thus named because of its effect on the material of a unicorn's horn, or because it is made out of a unicorn's horn. Now, other people are certainly free to call them whatever they like, but there are other things that I don't call by the generally accepting name too. Some people call it soda, some call it pop, but its the same thing in the end. Applejack being a total pushover bugged me too, but on the other hoof, Fluttershy's woodland creatures never yielded. Also, Twilight Sparkle did tell her friends to "keep an eye on Trixie." I figured that they were selflessly trying to put themselves through hardship to spare the townsfolk and to try to see if they could find out something that might help them win.
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From the album: Ginger Mint's Thingamajigs
Are there actually lilies that come in that shade of purple? Probably not, but who cares! -
From the album: Ginger Mint's Thingamajigs
Turns out that purple roses are quite rare, or at least that's what the great oracle tells me. -
From the album: Ginger Mint's Thingamajigs
How do you pick a flower for Rainbow Dash? Something simple I guess. -
From the album: Ginger Mint's Thingamajigs
Are you prepared for pink? (So much pink!) -
From the album: Ginger Mint's Thingamajigs
Fluttershy, why are your eyes so hard to draw? Maybe some day I'll find out the answer to that and other ponderous mysteries. -
hi hi This makes me sad, I can think of some alternatives, but none of them are any better.
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hi hi I didn't want to cut in line too badly, but I wanted to get something down before the weekend, so I kept it short. Besides, there's not a whole lot going on, so hopefully you can build on that.
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[colour=#BFBFFF]hi hi[/colour] [colour=#773344]"...And then I s-said, 'Are you crazy!?' But he d-didn't wait..."[/colour] Ember Spark used her new helmet to push the door open, which in her current state, was a whole lot easier than using her hooves. Between the metal plate and her fluffy mane, she barely felt a thing, which along with her cloaked back, was a sharp contrast to the sharp stinging, burning sensation she felt in her limbs once the feeling had started to return to them. Ember Spark wasn't so oblivious that she missed Commander Gale and her guards, but she was in the middle of telling a story, so she just politely nodded circled around to face Pocket Change and Emerath so she could emphasize the finale. [colour=#773344]"...He j-just smiled and proceeded to eat-t the whole thing, right there on the spot. T-the. whole. thing. All by himself. My s-stars, I couldn't even believe it."[/colour] After she'd finished her story, Ember Spark turned her attention back to Commander Gale and bowed deeply, which allowed the helmet to slide off her head and clatter across the stone floor. Before it rolled to a stop though, she was already following suit, and with a set of wobbly legs, she lowered herself to the ground and flopped onto her side. Looking up at the now towering griffin, she was glad the world had stopped spinning quite so much. [colour=#773344]"A moment for me to rest, please give. A warm bath later, I can find..."[/colour] She wasn't sure she was making any sense, but the journey back to the living, breathing Stormfast had taken a lot out of her. Right then and there, she wouldn't have worried if the sky was falling, she just wanted to sit still and bask in the warm glow of the flickering lamplight.
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hi hi I thought that most of the fan service was in the extraneous stuff, a lot of which is put in during the animation phase. Episodes do take a long time to make, so right up until the end, they're still working on making them. And as we know from season two, its never too late to make changes, even after an episode has already aired. I'd be curious to know what the full life cycle of an episode is, but I know that animation didn't start until this year.
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S03 E01-02: "The Crystal Empire"
Ginger Mint replied to brianblackberry's topic in Friendship is Magic Series
hi hi This actually doesn't surprise me at all. I'd said from the very beginning that the technique of keeping a villain at the edges of the story, hiding in the shadows and lurking as an ever-present but rarely seen threat, is a classic suspense/horror movie technique. It might have worked better on adults if they hadn't thrown in the confrontation at the beginning with Shining Armor, which lessened some of the "unknown factor," but I can see a child's imagination taking the role that was left unfilled and filling it in with their imagination. -
I just wanted to make it soft and relaxing to look at, so I tried to keep it as simple as I could. -
hi hi I'm pretty sure their technology isn't emotionally impaired. Seriously though, its magic. Our own classic iconography was created as is for a reason, in that the symbols are easy for anyone to understand. And speaking of icons, what about cutie marks? We've seen ponies with arrows on their flanks, and Trixie has a magic wand on her rump, even though we've never seen a magic wand in the show yet. Perhaps somewhere in the musty old tunnels beneath Canterlot sits the ancient Luminiferous Engine, which can be powered by unicorns to tabulate polynomial functions, and the arrow and trash imagery is the old interface for removing unwanted answers.
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hi hi Rock farming is a profitable business.
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S03 E04: "One Bad Apple"
Ginger Mint replied to brianblackberry's topic in Friendship is Magic Series
hi hi While Griffin the Brush-off did involve some bullying on the part of Gilda, it really wasn't the core of the episode. Griffin the Brush-off was about choosing your friends wisely; not letting yourself be used or isolated by people who only have their own self interests at heart, how loving and tolerating someone who isn't very nice doesn't mean you have to enable their bad behavior, and in Twilight's own words "finding the difference between a true friend and a false friend."
