Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[OneMoreDaySK]

To be honest, I kind of hate Rarity.

I'll admit, I've not gotten the chance to watch the newest episode yet, but it seems to me like Season 3 is really sucking it up right now.

this lastest episode had a lot of fanservice, take that as you will...

Eh...

Despite the fact Meghan and M A Larson wrote it in the Summer of 2011, before those two had any contact with the bronies or even knew they were bigger than "just a few hundreds guys on a forum"?

[Stringtheory]

Eh...

Despite the fact Meghan and M A Larson wrote it in the Summer of 2011, before those two had any contact with the bronies or even knew they were bigger than "just a few hundreds guys on a forum"?

really? it was written that far in advance? it makes sense, but there was so much apparent fan-service that I assumed it had been written late 2011 at the earliest

[O. Hinds]

For a simple run test modification of an existing engine to that extent won't be needed. it's just a voltage output check so having to modify the whole set up for hydrogen is kind of pointless unless one plans on total conversion and to actually use it outside of lab experiments. Besides the proposed changes look more for hydrogen cell cars not water to fuel conversion.

...What? The information I sent you was specifically about making hydrogen-burning spark ignition combustion engines. That's what you wanted to use, right? And why does the fuel source matter for the engine design?

Though, since you've brought it up, why do you want to use a combustion engine rather than a fuel cell and electric drive system?

[Cptadder]

Well, it can't be any worse than that Pinkie episode, that's for sure. Though my opinion may be skewed by my rather intense dislike of Pinkie

Does not like Rarity, does not like Pinkie Pie, okay so did you enjoy Bad Seed with was CMC focused or the season opener?

[Caoimhe]

I'm not a fan of Pinkie either. She's basically used mainly for one off jokes and sometimes the pacing is hurt by requisite Pinkie scenes. S3 is very good so far but there hasn't been enough focus on RD or Rarity so far, reverting them to "RD is a dick" and "Rarity is melodramatic" two dimensional characterization. I know it'll get better but we don't have to constantly use Pinkie for a one off joke.

[Frost]

Well, it can't be any worse than that Pinkie episode, that's for sure. Though my opinion may be skewed by my rather intense dislike of Pinkie

Does not like Rarity, does not like Pinkie Pie, okay so did you enjoy Bad Seed with was CMC focused or the season opener?

Season opener: quick! Everyone protect this Crystal Heart! It will make everyone in Equestria happy, and being happy because you have to is way better than being happy because you legitimately should be. Free will, who needs it!?

CMC: it's alright, you were bullied back home. That means you can physically abuse members of your own family, up to destroying their property and invading their clubhouse and get off with no consequences!

[Cptadder]

So this season has been a wash for you so far Frost? Of the past two season then what's your favorite episode then.

Trying to get where your coming from.

[CamoBadger]

Lol, consequences in MLP. Those don't exist for any character except the actual villains.

new episode:

Spike destroys half of the city as a full-grown dragon. Nobody cares because he learned a lesson about greed. And gets kisses from Rarity.

Twilight causes a swarm of parasprites to eat the entire city, oh well, build a new one without getting mad at her.

Sombra fills a city with sharp rocks and gets vaporized. (Overly simplified, but whatever)

[O. Hinds]

Twilight causes a swarm of parasprites to eat the entire city, oh well, build a new one without getting mad at her.

Speaking of parasprites, apparently she can now conjure and dismiss them at will.

[Ironmonger]

[Stringtheory]

I just heard the best analogy, 'I don't have a one track mind, I have a 8000 track mind, it's just that the conductor is drunk and forgets which track he's on'

[Ironmonger]

Yo Frost, didn't you say once that you didn't like the show at all, though? Or have you just liked the newer episodes less and less? I just seem to recall you saying something to that effect at some point...

I think he means the latter. He usually says "This show is going downhill fast." which would imply that it was at one point uphill. He's okay with the show I think but he just doesn't like the stuff that happens sometimes.

[Valikdu]

Well, it can't be any worse than that Pinkie episode, that's for sure.

I dunno. I liked that scene, where



this happened.

[Ironmonger]

NEEDS MORE LUNA:

[Ironmonger]

Of course, Zecora is pretty much my favorite now, but Rarity is still up there.

Of course, Zecora is pretty much my favorite now

Zecora

Freakin' foreigners are taking our jobs and now they are taking our fans! Couldn't resist. x)

[Valikdu]

[Ironmonger]

^C'mere, girly! *draws bowie knife*

[Harmony Ltd.]

Iron, I have the feeling you might like the following picture :

Spoiler:

[Frost]

My review of Episode 5:

Spoiler:

[Icy Shake]

I felt like the season got off to a shaky start, but has been looking up for the last two episodes.

The opener probably suffered in my eyes because I had come to expect more fleshed-out villains, but Celestia's actions kind of soured me as well. Didn't help that it was so Twilight-focused (not that that's necessarily bad--she's one of my favorites among the Mane Six, but normally the event episodes are more Mane Sixy, and I like that), but Spike getting at least a little chance to shine helped.

Too Many Pinkie Pies I disliked primarily because I don't like Pinkie Pie, and I usually don't like Pinkie Pie episodes.
Babs, I thought, was great. Honestly, I initially missed that it was basically a "very special episode" because I thought it was just very well done. The CMC were great in it, and the only part I really disliked in the episode was the utterly painful "good-bad not bad-bad" sequence at the end.

Magic Duel, I think probably doesn't stand up all that well to close scrutiny, but was mostly an enjoyable episode to me. But at a surface level, I thought the plot was okay, even if Trixie didn't face many real consequences--but I think that the real issue there is that the amulet shouldn't have been available in the first place. But the fights themselves were fun to watch, Trixie was hilarious, Twilight and Zecora's training was both interesting and provided some development for Zecora, and finally, Trixie went up several notches for me when she took away Pinkie's ability to talk. Sadly, we did have "RD is a Dick" front and center in the planning meeting--but that really wasn't just her: that was "The Mane Six-ex Fluttershy (and possibly Spike) are Dicks".


On consequences, I'd just note that I think that Spike's case should count more as a natural disaster--or royal negligence--than something Spike could be blamed for. After all, nobody knew that that could happen, including Spike. He was put in a situation in which the very core of what he is, something he had no preparation to control, was brought suddenly to the fore. Maybe he should be expected to aid in the cleanup--and maybe he was; we never really saw the aftermath, as I recall--but I hardly think that there were grounds for punishment as a consequence of his actions.

[Ironmonger]

Iron, I have the feeling you might like the following picture :

Spoiler:

*speechless expression*
...AM I REALLY THIS OBVIOUS?!

[Valikdu]

Watching...
I think this is the first time the word "alicorn" was actually spoken in the show.

[Harmony Ltd.]

*speechless expression*
...AM I REALLY THIS OBVIOUS?!

... Yes ?

[Frost]

let me just sum up my opinions of this season thus far:



I don't know what it is, but at some point over the summer, I just found myself starting to question everything about this show while every little aspect of the characters got deeper and deeper under my skin. Of course, it doesn't helpt that 99% of fanworks are either sappy nonsense or shoddy attempts at comedy (i'm not even counting the at least 85% of the fanworks that are pretty much all clop). It's no help, either, that the Hidden Depthstm that we're promised only show up in maybe 3 episodes a season for each character, so we're left with mostly "a dumb farmer, a bitchy weather manager, a cowardly animal watcher, a whiny fashion designer, a neurotic librarian and a methhead baker do random, pointless shit around their podunk town"

no, i'm not cynical at all

[Ironmonger]

*speechless expression*
...AM I REALLY THIS OBVIOUS?!

... Yes ?

[Harmony Ltd.]

... Should I tell him everyone knows he like Warhammer 40K ?

[Ironmonger]

Well I know that everyone knows that I like 40K. Hell like aint the word for it. You just floored me with that crazy-ass redneck-dozer though! X)

[Harmony Ltd.]

Well, I know you like internet memes, so once I saw this picture seemingly consisting of distilled and concentrated extracts of 4Chan, I thought about you.

[Ironmonger]

4Chan is like the internet equivalent of New Jersey.
...or and exile to Siberia.

my kind of mare:

[Kippershy]

I come from 4chan.
I mostly browse /g/ rather than /b/ these days though, but I still pop in and see the old crew over in the /b/reads from time to time.

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