MLP G5 Discussion and Speculation Thread
Background Pony #6FC9
Maybe it’s just me, but the Mane Five’s personalities are more fleshed out and distinct now. Like, Izzy’s kind of a nervous wreck, and Pipp likes spooky things.
Background Pony #78BB
Could we have Spike in Chapter 5? Please let this become true! It would be so cool to have him back. Though the dragons will need to be extra careful, Opaline is coming for all of them and I don’t think dragonfire can harm her.
Icicle Niceicle 1517 
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
“I can’t beileve we haven’t done anything with Canterlogic, it’s like we forgot about it”
Glad to see they finally acknowledge this building. Not sure if the wording was them breaking the 4th wall or not lol
Background Pony #6FC9
Chapter 4 is, without a doubt, a MASSIVE improvement over the previous chapters.
Applepie2010 
Nostalgia Nerd
> Dreamlands are g1 ponies???
-Man now I love Dreamlands, best song!
This is my jam
TheQuietMan 
House of the Arcana
@Applepie2010
Pretty much, they’re back after many centuries. Reimagined in a new world.
Pretty much, they’re back after many centuries. Reimagined in a new world.
GoodVibesGorgeous
Grumpy and antisocial
Just downloaded all Chapter 4 episodes… But they’re torrent. I’m trying to find a way to open it.
GoodVibesGorgeous
Grumpy and antisocial
Just downloaded all Chapter 4 episodes… But they’re torrent. I’m trying to find a way to open it.
Tried uploading directly from YP, but for some reason I just got the audio. Trying again.
CetusSantis
I m curious about one thing. In MLP TYT Misty had her necklace which was broken. In MLP MYM there is no mention of it. We can pretend that those TYT events were before the newest MYM chapter, but in the newest series ponies said that they haven’t seen Misty for quite a while, so it couldn’t be so. How are TYT and MYM connected then?
Background Pony #BA12
Chapter 4 is, without a doubt, a MASSIVE improvement over the previous chapters.
C4 ep.1 “Bridlewoodstock”: appropriate; very little educational, the troggles are just too stupid.
C4 ep.2 “Top Remodel”: More reminiscent of a TYT episode, interesting. But severely hampered by stiff animation.
C4 ep.3 “The Jinkie Games”: Wild, these Bridlewood unicorns are… just too wild. As if Pinkie’s spirit had taken up residence in them, especially Izzy.
C4 ep.4 “Sunny Side Up”: The episode is really two episodes in one, instructive when it comes to Opaline and her past.
C4 ep.5 “The Manesquerade Ball”: Good, and a little more grown up than the rule in G5, the royal library in Zephyr Heights seemed to have Twilight’s hoofprints all over it from head to toe.
C4 ep.6 “A Little Horse”: Good, Opaline had to work hard on her part to achieve her ambitions.
C4 ep.7 “Missing the Mark”: This isn’t even a final episode, so it means that Hasbro meant seriously that they won’t have “seasons” for the G5. Much faster pace than the other chapters when it comes to the action.
G4 is better than all the chapters that had come before, although the 3d animation is obviously a very big problem. The background is very little detailed - we don’t see transport, new buildings, new scenery, new cities or even new landscapes. So little, that it is a very big problem because the first season of G4 was deeply influenced by a magical background around the ponies. Only a tenth or less of this has so far been seen in the G5. World discovery is completely absent.
Instead, the focus is on social interaction, personality development, the role models and just seven ponies in all - Sunny, Izzy, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp and Misty and their nemesis Opaline. Others like Queen Haven and Alphabittle (it’s possible he knows something when he first saw Misty, given his reaction) had their time in the spotlight.
There are controversies as well; the royal library is unusual in having a ton of books when the ponies are supposed to be ignorant of their past from when Twilight ruled, after Equestria collapsed. The book “Alicorns of the Ancient World” is very interesting, but we see that the MYM writers did everything they can to keep the viewers away from the content and deep insights in contrast to what was the rule in G4.
Celestia and Luna may be partly to blame for Opaline becoming evil, as they treated her poorly when they were living in the city of Skyros - which did not exist in G4, with the possible exception of “The Journal of the Two Sisters”, which depicted a tribe of alicorns, as Opaline suggests that she and the royal sisters cannot be the only alicorns back then. We know that Celestia and Luna came to Equestria when they were just filles, and were raised by their mentor Starswirl.
That could mean that Opaline could be over two thousand years old. What happened to the royal sisters - and Twilight - remain unanswered, although Opaline herself revealed that she lost her magic several hundred moons ago or just a few centuries. C4 ep. 4 has confirmed that the alicorns are immortal.
The New Mane 6 is informally formed, but as Misty has not lost Opaline’s trust the Mane 5 can continue. Sunny chose not to expel Opaline because she realized that it was not possible to draw the authorities in when it comes to an alicorn, and thus left with promises that she will protect her friends (and ponies) from Opaline in the future. Her friends’ support had been crucial during the first battle between the two alicorns. Misty can be the spy for Sunny while Opaline will seek out other dragons.
Regardless, it’s clear that Opaline grows stronger magically over time, but her physical strength is weak. She will get her magic back without stealing other people’s magic - within a couple of decades. She couldn’t wait that long, and wants to steal dragon magic and other magic based on fire. Opaline also revealed that she cannot take the Unity Crystals without having an alicorn’s strength, which Zipp also concluded in her research.
C4 ep.7 was supposed to be the finale, but it won’t be like that, and then it means that the map showing a sea pony can in reality be about the whole of G5. Then the G5 is very dangerously close to the AU stamp as an alternate future after the original G4. And G5 is still childishly more like G3 than G4 in the end.
The biggest problem with MYM is that the MYM team did not cooperate with the TYT team. So C4 should be the last time the MYM team will have the freedom to do as they please on their own.
CetusSantis
@icicle wicicle 1517
But they do share some stuff, like when ponies got their flying ehhh car?
But they do share some stuff, like when ponies got their flying ehhh car?
DerpyFast
Chapter 4 reinforces why I like the TYT/MYM split: it means you know what you’re getting. Rather than 26 episodes that could be about anything, there’s a bunch of short stories, and then seven or eight 22-minute episodes that tell a coherent story.
@CetusSantis
I’ve always interpreted it that thematically similar things from TYT and MYM happened at roughly the same time, even if you couldn’t easily place them on a timeline. The necklace doesn’t really gel with MYM, but it’s a convenient way for Misty and Opaline to communicate, and it gives Misty a way to turn on Opaline in TYT.
I’ve always interpreted it that thematically similar things from TYT and MYM happened at roughly the same time, even if you couldn’t easily place them on a timeline. The necklace doesn’t really gel with MYM, but it’s a convenient way for Misty and Opaline to communicate, and it gives Misty a way to turn on Opaline in TYT.
Dustcan 
Dogs
It’s clear TYT operates on the assumption that you have seen MYM. mYM doesn’t necessarily do the same.
That said though I’m almost curious if both teams making their respective series are given some sort of plot outline and told to do their own spin on it. Some of the episodes in Chapter 4 basically retreads plot beats if not entire episodes that TYT did.
northern haste 
Enter if you dare
@Dustcan
We’re literally getting different versions of the same event.
If they’re in the same continuity that means zipp and pipp found out about the 2 twice
We’re literally getting different versions of the same event.
If they’re in the same continuity that means zipp and pipp found out about the 2 twice
Dustcan
Dogs
Granted, they very clearly would’ve tried to erase it from their memory the first time.
Background Pony #E7BC
Weirdly, Opaline seems to think that Misty somehow earned and then lost her cutie mark? Even if she’s a narcissist who doesn’t believe in friendship and all, she should know you can’t just unearn a cutie mark.
Icicle Niceicle 1517
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
@Background Pony #E7BC
i mean we already know from Starlight that you can remove cutie marks, and CM’s seem to work differently here compared to
G4, so maybe she just meant using magic to remove it
i mean we already know from Starlight that you can remove cutie marks, and CM’s seem to work differently here compared to
G4, so maybe she just meant using magic to remove it
Dustcan
Dogs
She doesn’t know Misty got her cutie mark. She was just saying that Misty “failing” to keep the Mane 5 contained means Opaline won’t give her a cutie mark after all.
Really, the more interesting factoid is that apparently Opaline was honest in wanting to give Misty a cutie mark. That or she was really committed to the bit even as she was for all intents and purposes 2 minutes away from getting her power back.
Lord WyrmSpawN 
Lingering Wyvern
So what’s this about Opal knowing the sisters when they were all little?
Icicle Niceicle 1517
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
I want it to be true becuase the thought of the Royal Sisters acting like a bunch of cartoon bullies towards Opaline is kinda funny to me
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