Season 9 Discussion Thread [Warning: SPOILERS!!!!!]

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@Philweasel  
Still, it could be alternate timeline. One where magic of friendship wasn’t used to beat Windigos, which made it impossible for Unified Equestria to exist.
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They really are doing that gen 5 thing aren’t they?
 
Bye-bye equestria. Was nice knowing you.
 
Well, maybe it’ll give EPs a chance to shine. I always thought that it was ironic that Fluttershy and rarity actually had what I’d consider to be good earth pony abilities.
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Luna’s really wacky in a lot of those though. Like ADHD levels of exuberance. It’s really hard to marry that with broody ‘Royal Problem’ Luna, even when Royal Problem outright stole one of her stories.
 
Well she was the previous Element of Laughter…
 

 
I think the Journal of Two Sisters also backed this up.
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@Philweasel
Still, it could be alternate timeline. One where magic of friendship wasn’t used to beat Windigos, which made it impossible for Unified Equestria to exist.
 
Looks like they’re set to actually be in separate dimensions, with no contact with each other.
 
…I bet $50 on Twilight being the one to inadvisably bring down the walls between worlds with mad science.
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I don’t know about this breaking down of the naming and tribe conventions. I quite liked the way earth ponies typically had food, plant, mineral or animal names for example. But “fluttershy” being a unicorn? That’s going to take some getting used to.
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Okay, I guess.
@Philweasel  
The only one who always receives the recognition he deserves is Spike wherever he visits the Crystal Kingdom, where everyone literally worship the ground under his feet.
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Maybe they can call her Posey again?
 
@Anonycat  
Which just makes it even wierder. Spike jumps off a roof holding a McGuffin and he’s hero for life, the others face down the embodiment of evil thirteen times and they can’t hail a bloody taxi?
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The crystal empire is just grateful that Spike didn’t eat them all and their houses… you know, dragons and sparkly gem-like things …  
Okay, I’ll see myself out :P
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@Philweasel  
Posey is more of an earth pony name imo. Which makes me wonder why they didn’t make this new version an EP.
 
And that’s a good point; they really can’t get no respect with a dozen or so triumphs under their hooves?
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@Philweasel  
@Applelight Limited
 
That’s what made the ponies admiring Princess Twilight at the trade exchange so great, and in Princess Spike they also all loved Twilight. Very well deserved respect I say.  
I also liked that part about Fame & Misfortune, all those fans almost everyone of them got were a cool thing to see
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I can see I missed something big. From my experience with other franchises, I treat the comics as secondary but canon to the show. Anything said in the show is 100% true, but if the show has nothing the secondary media fills in the gaps. Hence, Sombra never reformed, but Trixie once fought Daybreaker. It’s a pretty common setup.
 
In regards to G5, I’d rather that they don’t do the three dimensions thing because it separates characters from each other, meaning a really cool supporting unicorn will never meet a really cool supporting pegasus. Yeah yeah, alicorns will be able to move between dimensions at will, but something is lost with that setup.
Philweasel
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@Philweasel
Posey is more of an earth pony name imo. Which makes me wonder why they didn’t make this new version an EP.
 
Well other names considered for Fluttershy were “Summer Azure”, “Spring Blossoms”, “Petalwing” and “Meadowbrook”.
 
And the issue was they wanted to change up the cast somehow, but you need to keep race balance. So if you change one, two more also have to rotate. Earth pony Twilight was very popular in the writers room, but that means you have to change up an earth pony, then a pegasus pony. No one was really that keen on a unicorn Dash, Applejack (what?) or Pinkie Pie, but Fluttershy got some murmurs of interest when it was suggested.
 
Let’s face it, half the point of her character is that she’s a terrible pegasus who should have been an earth pony. Now she can be a terrible unicorn who should have been an earth pony instead!
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