@Background Pony #17EC
I don’t think so. Around LOE, Ishi said the girls are between junior and senior year(junior) and says by FF, they were not seniors,so it’s end of junior year.
@Background Pony #2AA2
Uh no, all the movies have taken place since one school year. In LOE, here:
Rarity: [sighs] I’m just after some R&R. The past year has all been a bit too much for my tastes.
Pinkie Pie: I’ll say! We fought three evil sirens who tried to hypnotize everybody with their singing, one ridiculously competitive rival school, and two demon friends! [to Sunset and Twilight] Uh, heh-heh, no offense.
As shown here, “Forgotten Friendship” takes place after the Fall play, which has to be after the Fall Formal, and at the end of the school year given their making yearbooks, and Summer because beach.
That works out to two school years, 1 3/4 years having passed since the first movie, Which happened around the Season 4 premiere and Summer Sun Celebration. If anyone interested.
Big Mac could have graduated by “Forgotten Friendship”, which would still leave everyone else undergrad. My impression is that freshman and senior refers to their first and last year in school as opposed to actual grade, and will stay that way until the writes decide otherwise.
@Angrybrony
I assume. Almost all of my graduating class was a bunch of seventeen year olds, and these girls seem to be seventeenish (except for Sunset because she’s undoubtedly older then them).
Please keep in mind that the characters are “age appropriate”, and what that means varies across the planet Earth, where the show has to comply with many diverse media content policies.
If the studio defined the specific age of each character, then they would have to make the behaviors of the characters in the show comply with the media policies of every legal jurisdiction they want to broadcast in. Just by saying “This person is this many years old”, they might not be able to broadcast in some countries because of the character’s implied or demonstrated relationship with others.
So, they are the “appropriate” age for the activities that they participate in together. Some are shown as “older” and others are “less old”, but with Age Of Consent varying from country to country, and what age people are or aren’t usually in which schools, and what they call those layers, is less difficult to deal with.
For example, some want to define the characters as “Seniors” - but what is a “Senior” in every country where the programme airs?
In the Philippines school is K–6–4–2. In Japan it’s 6-3-3-4. In the US it might be K-4-4-4, or it might be K-5-3-4, or K-5-4-3, or K-6-3-3 … In the US “Seniors” are usually 17-18 years old and may not be legally able to date Sophomores. By contrast, in Japan “Seniors” may be anywhere from 14 to 18 depending on the school and how it structures what a “Senior” is and where the student begins college, and can legally date anyone in Junior High.
So, they’re “Age Appropriate”.
What that means largely depends on where you live on the planet Earth, and is defined by your country’s laws.
@tuypo1
I mean the book that was based on the movie script. Lots of movies have these kind of novelization books.
Here’s the source for proof. I can understand where you’re coming from since they did make it seem like he was an adult. They really botched writing him. They should have said he was a student from their school (or another school) to avoid making it seem like he was an adult.
