Season 8 Episode Discussion [Spoilers, possible leaks, rumours etc.]

@naganofan99999
 
Probably the one with Starlight’s village. Of the ones I’ve seen anyway

@naganofan99999  
I do.

||The type of issue that Starlight and Sunburst’s hometown was facing is all too familiar with those who live or frequent places with historic neighbourhoods.  
On one end, old neighbourhoods that are falling apart and crime ridden need to be cleaned up and refurbished to make them economically functional again. But gentrification also drivers out long time residents and often inadvertently destroy historical characteristic identities of such neighbourhoods.
 
I like how both sides whether it be Firelight’s preservationist historian approach, or Sunswirl’s progressive up-scaling of neighborhoods to attract new life into the village. Both have their equal shares of merits and flaws. ||

I only wish fans didn’t brag about watching the leaks in social media. Like Toxic-Mario did on twitter. It’s bad enough the episodes were leaked, no need to rub salt into the wounds of the creators or fans who want to watch them but decide not to out of respect for the creators.

@Background Pony #396C  
What’s the problem with that? Most comments I’ve seen about the leaks have been positive, so the staff should feel reasonably happy to see how their stuff, incomplete and all, has been well received.  
isn’t as if the leaked episodes were received with complete hate and then all of their work had been deleted from their hard drives.

@Anonycat  
Problem is, is that this might cut into their profitability.  
One of the key strategies TV shows go for is anticipation.

@SeraphimDawn  
The show only exists to advertise toys and people who’s into that now knows what new toys and sets to expect from Hasbro.  
As I see it, this leaked stuff was nothing but free publicity for the franchise and free hype for S08. Hell, it has been years since I purchased S01 and 02 on DVD and now I feel like I could buy another DVD if the other Spike episode turns out to be good.

Hehe wow! I just read through all of the conversation about the leaks!  
That’s definitely been some good conversation!  
I’ll try to keep up with the developing news throughout the week!  
I watched most of them on YouTube, I’ll check back tonight and tomorrow morning to see if anything new is posted on YouTube.

||I really like how Twilight basically explained the entire plot of the movie to the CMC in Surf and Turf. Even mentioning the Storm King. ||

@SeraphimDawn  
I haven’t even watched the movie yet!  
I’ve got it pre-ordered on Google play though,  
I’ll get around to it once it’s released,  
spoilers never bothered me. :p

can we talk about Gen 5 leaks/rumors and speculation here?

@SeraphimDawn  
I like how Firelight and Stellar Flare are introduced as rivals. One wanting to preserve the town’s past, the other wanting to develop the town for the future. I showed it to my sister. She’s like are they gonna “Perfect Pair” Starlight and Sunburst now? I am surprised that neither parent pried into their children’s business like why are they still together after the circumstances of leaving Sire’s Hollow all these years.

@Ranch  
People already have been, but I don’t know if there’s another discussion set up elsewhere specifically for gen5.

@hironakamura
 
Lol why are you spoilering in the spoiler chat.

@Ranch  
Aren’t we supposed to?

@gingerninja666  

 
The comics always put her and unicorn Twilight on the same level, so it looks like they were right.

@gingerninja666  

 
She’s invited to perform in Saddle Arabia and brings Starlight with her. But something is strange about the synopsis. It says “Not all friends are meant to travel together.” It may not be what it sounds. I think Trixie finds her happy ending by staying in Saddle Arabia because she becomes a success there. Its not far fetched. Trixie deserves a happy ending and it seems like they’re wrapping everything up. Starlight heads back to Ponyville knowing Trixie has found her calling.

@hironakamura  
I don’t really understand why, isn’t there a spoiler free version of this thread?

@Ranch  
I want a version of this thread where we can discuss spoilers without hiding them. The spoiler warning would be on the thread title.

@Dogman15  
You have no idea how tedious it is for me to manually type in those spoiler tags in my comment box using my fat fingers on my Android smartphone, I rarely ever access derpibooru from my desktop or laptop computer. :p  
In fact the last time I did get on it from my laptop, I couldn’t understand why at first my Firefox web browser wasn’t auto completing what I was typing. :p

@Ping_chan  
Are we allowed to start a thread where we don’t have to type spoiler tags? Put the spoiler warning in the title of the thread?

@Ranch  
Because the mods want us to.

@Ping_chan  
Just copy and paste the spoiler syntax that’s there as a reference.

@hironakamura  
That would make me so happy.
 
And sad.

@PonyPon  
Same, but mostly sad.