Equestria Girls - Valentines Day

[Darth Wedgius]

Hey how is Celestria Alive if she was born the same time as her Equestria counterpart shouldn't she have died centuries ago or is the principal the great great granddaughter of princess Celestria human counterpart?

One can only hope. Being the principal of high school for a thousand years is something that would give Dante pause.

[Thebestoftherest]

Hey how is Celestria Alive if she was born the same time as her Equestria counterpart shouldn't she have died centuries ago or is the principal the great great granddaughter of princess Celestria human counterpart?

One can only hope. Being the principal of high school for a thousand years is something that would give Dante pause.

I just think it be cool if both worlds had characters that only exist in their own that the other didn't have.

[BunBun299]

I think I would agree with the notion that season 6 was probably MLP:FiM's weakest season. I wouldn't go so far as to call it bad. There were worse individual episodes in seasons 1, 2 & 3 than any I can particularly recall in season 6. But overall, it was lackluster.

Seasons 7, 8 & 9, however, I thought were MLP is proper form. Quite a few good episodes in those seasons. I'd probably need to rewatch to really lay out what I consider the particular standouts. What happened in which season does tend to blur a little after 9 seasons. I got into the series about half way through season 1, and watched all the way through season 9, though I've not seen the finale. For some reason, my DVR did not record it, it's not on On Demand, and so I'm left waiting for Netflix to get the last season, which they still did not have as of this morning when I checked.

As for Equestria Girls, I am not a fan. I don't hate it. I don't view it like I do Discovery, which I think should not be viewed as even an alternate timeline that proper Star Trek could even interact with, but rather should be discarded as bad fanfiction.

Equestria Girls is a fun side adventure, but I don't really care to see Twilight keep visiting it for further adventures. Though I do think Rainbow Rocks and the Friendship Games are better than this one. Though that's as far into the spin off as I ever got. I may see the rest eventually, but it's not a huge priority for me. I came for the magical land of talking candy colored ponies, not a high school where occasionally odd things happen.

[BunBun299]

Two things one why didn't Twilight just grab and run, two was Sunset bluffing about the mirror? Because if not she be trap as well, and that wouldn't work with her plans.

Not only was she bluffing in intent, but in capability. The portal was open. Swinging a sledge hammer at it would just put the hammer through the portal.

[Deledrius]

Two things one why didn't Twilight just grab and run, two was Sunset bluffing about the mirror? Because if not she be trap as well, and that wouldn't work with her plans.

Not only was she bluffing in intent, but in capability. The portal was open. Swinging a sledge hammer at it would just put the hammer through the portal.

That would have been hilarious as a result of calling her bluff.

[BBally81]

I think I would agree with the notion that season 6 was probably MLP:FiM's weakest season. I wouldn't go so far as to call it bad. There were worse individual episodes in seasons 1, 2 & 3 than any I can particularly recall in season 6. But overall, it was lackluster.

For me Season 3 is the weakest season, mostly because it's not all that memorable with the exception of moments like Twilight becoming an Allicorn and some other moments, other than that Season 3 is the most forgettable. Season 6 at least had more memorable episodes and a better finale.

[CMWaters]

The funny thing for me about this review is his comment on their boots. While it can be interpreted the way he suggested with them resembling hooves...I think it was more that the artists hadn't had enough practice at that point drawing human feet (or as close to human as EqG characters are, with their "Doug" style skin-tones).

That obviously changes as time goes on though:

[Thebestoftherest]

I do wonder if someone suggested the girls shouldn't wear clothes like their pony counterpart.

[stryke]

Hey how is Celestria Alive if she was born the same time as her Equestria counterpart shouldn't she have died centuries ago or is the principal the great great granddaughter of princess Celestria human counterpart?

Obviously this is headcanon but we know that equestrian magic has been leaking into the Girls world before Sunset Shimmer ever crossed over. Perhaps it is more corrupting to humans than we had suspected beyond manifesting pony features when playing music. All this time insidiously moulding those nearest to the portal without their notice into similarcarum of this other reality intruding upon our own.

Would also explain all the odd pastel skin colours and the other age discrepencies. Rarity for example is likely to be in her 20's to own multiple businesses and has long left schooling behind while Granny Smith is implied to be around 300 due to being in her youth when Ponyville was founded.

[Aotrs Commander]

I, initially, was very against the idea on basic concept. I went on record of saying that, even with the considerable skill of the DHX, they couldn't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, i.e. slapping Pony into Earth and making everyone human teenagers. I believe I even have likened it to the ending DLC of Mass Effect, as I had and have said of which they polished that turd until it was golden, but it was still a turd.

(I was all ready to throw a screaming fit that they made Spike - being one of my favorite characters - into a dog and how just SO WRONG that was, but the first viewers reported back to me that he was not, in fact, a non-sapient dog and I was Sufficiently Mollified.)

I did, however, watch it.

And then proceeded to, on record, eat my helmet, because I thought it was actually *good.* Not "tolerable or okay at best," I actually liked it.

So let it not be said that I am unreasonable.

(The majority of my local ponythread seemed to concur and far more ripples were caused by Twlight's ascention and the finale of season five once we'd actually seen it.

And Spike, in practise, did a frack-ton of the heavy lifting, honestly!)


I found Sunset's redemption more credible than Starlight's, myself, simply because Harmony Lazors were involved and I'm willing to give that to genera convention. (Also, interesting take on Chuck, but I get the impression he watched the latter first, which might skew things a bit. We, watching as stuff came out, were by the point Starlight came around, used to the Rainbow Friendship Beam beingthe SpiritBomb of MLP and having it not there even as a prop with Starlight merely highlighted more the flaws in Starlight's redemption.)

Sunset, of course, became immediately the best thing about EqG in the media that followed - though Raobow Rocks was particuiarly good, of course - and remains extremely high on Best Pony and it's just a crying shame she only appeared in static montage image form in the show proper (really, it wouldn't have killed anyone to have her show up in the final battle!)

Special nod to the art-work for sticking with everyone's pony colours. Transitioning them to human ethnicites would have been outrage and bitterness just waiting to happen (it's contentious enough as it is, and was even when people had first started to draw humanised ponies and picked an ethnicity).


I think there is a bit of an arguement this was a better pony move than the actual pony movie, unfortunately (RR definitely was). The artistry that went into the latter seemed to be a bit lacking. (FAR too many humanoid races, for a kick off, when the show had, bar dragons and minotaurs, had an almost unilateral quadruped set-up.) But the movie is a debate whole to itself. (I didn't think it was BAD, it just... Did not achive a high enough level, in my opinion. It was just the positive side of okay.