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[Evest]

Soduh_Man, on 10 November 2012 - 04:47 PM, said:

I guess it does take more than 47 minutes to upload an hour long premiere...

Patience. If you can wait several months for a new season you can wait a bit for a new episode.

[Vividkinz]

Huh. Missed the livestream. Not that I care, I value my sleep over the premiere episodes of Season 3. I hope this new villain has a good execution; Discord raised the bar, in my opinion.

Soduh_Man, on 10 November 2012 - 04:47 PM, said:

I guess it does take more than 47 minutes to upload an hour long premiere...

Patience is a virtue.

[Terratethspy]

Well, I'll have plenty of time waiting, I probably won't be able to watch the episodes until Friday anyways

[quadren4]

So...... what should be our first topic of discussion?
I'm guesssing it's time for a [/spoiler]  bananza huh?

My thoughts on the new episodes

Spoiler:

FIrst off I got to say, the sing song/music to show time raito was just absolutely perfect!  There where not great numbers of songs, and I liked this greatly.  For me the songs get annoying after awhile; Having one song in a episode is ok, but having +2 its a bit over welming.  Plus, not the song type person.
Second: You have to know something, I didn't really get all into the hype, I think that is one my specialities; I can just burrow my emotions deep down inside of me, to darkest corner of my brain where it never has any hope of seeing the light of day.  That being said, I kinda watch it on a clean slate: no hype, no expections, I just watched it.

Score: fairly decent
The plot started out good, they where on to something.  Half way through, I think the writers forgot what they where doing, dozed off a bit, woke up and relized their time limit.  So I pretty sure they left out a lot of coolness they where hoping to add, and just try to end it as best as possible.
I'm glad the plot was decent, because they left out A SHMIT TON of humor.  Yea there where some "heh" parts, but no " AHAHAHAHAHAH" parts.  It was lackign humor wise and the plot barely made up for it.

Humor score: I've seen funnier

The bad guy:  I felt his power, I really did.  He could of been a great enemy, and a evil one at that.  Ultimately (do the forum no longer have the "I'MA UNDERLINE THIS WORD, BECAUSE IT'S WRONG" thing?) his motive was lacking a bit.  I was waiting of a catch, as to why he wanted to rule over the crystal ponies and not because he just wanted to; there had to be some sort of back story.  To bad, there wasn't: no "my father was killed by them" or "my life was ruined by them" it was just "I want to rule over these losers (not bad mouthing them)."  If he wanted power, why not try to take over, oh i dunno, ALL OF EQUESTRIA?  He could of been better, add more story to him, add more power

Bad guy score: The others, HELL even trixie was better.  I guess the bad part about this bad guy is it left no room for people to think up of a backstory.  with Discord, people where like "discord use to love celestia, but she didn't love him back, so he tured evil, blah blah" and stuff like that.  THis is not the case with Sumbra (that's his name right?) and it wouldn't even matter all that much anyways.

Some big huge, extreme, MOTHER  ­FUKING (sorry for language; EDIT: YOU CAN'T EDIT MY CURSING OUT) foreshadowing.  I GET IT FIRST 2 EPISODES, TWILIGHT IS GOING TO DO SOMETHING THAT IS GREATLY LIFE CHANGING AND BE AN ALMIGHTY POWER. I get it.  I am interested to see what the writers have plan, and hopefully it will be at the uttermost awesome in the whole universe compared to this episode.


OVer all:  meh, episode, was ok could of been better.  Also, I don't think it is the best episode to start with if you are new to the fandom.  IT didn't really touch up on all the characters as much as I wanted it too.


SOME TALKING POINTS

They said Sumbra, ruled 1000 year ago.  If I remeber right, Discord ruled 1000 year ago.  Do you think by any chance they knew each other? Could they have been woking together in effort to take over Equestria?  Did they dislike each other?  It would make an interesting topic if Sumbra was a bit more well made.

Also, every bad guy seemed to have took place/started out 1000 year ago;  WHAT exactly happened 1000 years ago that made evil spread across the land?  what happened to the Alicorns?  Who is responsible for all that evil?  IS there some kind of supreme disastrous evil master mind behind all this?

Twilight's Gravity spell: SCIENCE, WHERE U IZ AT.



I do belive that is it, glad I came in before people start typing walls of text: which is another thing, where is everyone?

[Melsaran]

freddyJkruger3, on 10 November 2012 - 04:35 PM, said:

I was just on TV and I saw a commercial with something weird.
WARNING : GENERATION 3 :

Spoiler:

Here's the scene :
PP : Bet you can't make a funnier face then THIS!
R and FS : Uh...

I'm a bit scared.
Do we have to spoiler Season 3 stuff still?

EQD has videos+images of that

(warning, spoilers)
http://www.equestria...ssion.html#more

[Blazevoir]

Spoiler: S3E1 thoughts (sorry, no summary)

- First of all, OMIGOSHOMIGOSHOMIGOSH!!!
- What, no new opening?
- Panicking Twilight this early in the episode?
- Spike apparently doesn't have any bones.
- ...Aaaaaaaaaaand Twilight exploded.
- LUNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Yay, moar history... and the new villain which I don't really care about.
- Serious Woona is serious.
- And now cue one of the previously leaked songs!
- I swear I still can't get over Spike's singing voice...
- (off-topic) WHY ISN'T THERE A MLP:FiM GAME FOR ANY OF NINTENDO'S SYSTEMS YET?!?! They had a previous generation as a game for the DS... (and GBA, I think)
- A non-pony-pulled train... or did they show that already in the previous seasons?
- Ohai Shining.
- Rarity, contain yourself >.>
- Ohai Cadance as well as her and Twily's little dance.
- Rarity... CALM DOWN! DX
- *facehoof* Twilight... You and tests...
- Rainbow Dash, calm down when interrogating >_>
- Fluttershy, y u so adorable when interrogating.
- Pinkie spyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
- Rarity... Of course you'd try to look like the crystal ponies *facehoof again*
- Twilight freaks out over a library. Nothing new. *epic facehoof*
- Cute sound effect, yey~
- And now for the other leaked song.
- (off-topic) When's RD and AJ gonna get their own songs? >_>
- Pinkie, leave horn blowing to somepony else
- Rainbow... You need to work on your social skills >_>
- And now to part 2!

Rating: 5/10. All I can say is, I hope part 2 will blow my mind, because this episode/part was just... meh.

Spoiler: S3E2 thoughts (again, no summary)

- I feel so bad for Cadance...
- Awkward lying Rarity, lol.
- Rainbow acts like a guard dog. Wat.
- I swear, I think they're using a bit of 3D now *points to AJ guarding the crystal heart*.
- Twilight clo--clapping. How cute~
- A plot twist with Celestia... or IS it...
- Spazzing Spike is spazzing.
- Aww, Twilight and Spike <3
- Wait, how are RD and FS holding lances?
- ...Never mind, they were being held up on the side.
- Twilight sure is having fun sliding upside-down.
- (off-topic) CHIBI PONIES!!! /commercial (I'm a sucker for chibis, by the way.)
- I'm surprised AJ didn't make that one face when she lied.
- Daaaaaaaaaaang... I didn't think Shining would throw his wife, but hey, desperate times call for desperate measures.
- Boooooooooooooo... Anti-climatic defeat FTL...
- Aaaaaaaaaaaaand cue the first song again, though it continues.
- Wait, what was that book Luna pulled out?

Rating: 5/10. That... seriously was a disappointment. It kinda reminded me of the first two seasons' premieres. I'll admit I got overhyped just to be disappointed, but I don't really care. They still have 11 episodes to go, and the premieres aren't all that great to begin with anyway.

Anyway, (off-topic) DID PINKIE GO G3 IN A COMMERCIAL?!?!

Spoiler: Littlest Pet Shop thoughts for MBM

Wait, DID I SEE THE MLP:FiM LOGO?!?! Anyway, I'm not gonna go too much into detail this time. So far, it just seems like a typical girl teen cartoon... till it gets to the talking pets. (I still think Tara should've been the dog due to similar character design, but whatever. I bet they'll do an MLP:FiM parody in a later episode, though. Right... ) So the animals don't want Littlest Pet Shop to close, so they try to get Blythe to help them.

Next episode/part, still looks like a typical teen cartoon, still following the "saving LPS" theme. (Just a feeling, but I'm guessing each/most of the episode(s) will focus on trying to save the shop.) The show seems to use a lot of upbeat music, so I guess that's a plus. The animals seem to be anthro in nature to all humans (not just Blythe). Anyway, not sure if I'll be sticking around for this series. Not saying I hate it, though.

On a final note: Gak. That is all. (I blame the commercials while watching the livestream.)

[Evest]

Melsaran, on 10 November 2012 - 04:58 PM, said:

EQD has videos+images of that

(warning, spoilers)
http://www.equestria...ssion.html#more

Spoiler:

Evolved Earth ponies.. Brilliant.

[BJtheweatherman]

HERE! IT'S PROCESSING!

[BJtheweatherman]

I'm just noting that I didn't watch the new episodes yet.

Blazevoir, on 10 November 2012 - 01:12 PM, said:

It's two MLP episodes then two LPS episodes. Man, this is gonna be one heck of a weekend.

Indeed so.

Dinh AaronMk, on 10 November 2012 - 04:24 PM, said:

I'm currently taking bets on how long until "Gak" becomes a thing in the bronyverse.

Yeah... That was on during all the LPS commercials too.

freddyJkruger3, on 10 November 2012 - 04:35 PM, said:

I was just on TV and I saw a commercial with something weird.
WARNING : GENERATION 3 :

Spoiler:

Here's the scene :
PP : Bet you can't make a funnier face then THIS!
R and FS : Uh...

I'm a bit scared.
Do we have to spoiler Season 3 stuff still?

Yeah, you have to spoiler new episodes for three days.

And I saw that commercial during LPS too.  It definitely caught my attention.

LPS Review:

Spoiler:

Short version: It's not nearly as good as MLP, but it's not gen 3.5 either.
Longer version: The animation's nice enough, the irises really stick out. Blythe is just Mary Sue. Doesn't have flaws. The other 'mean' girls are just evil for pretty much no reason. And oh gawd, the texting language. Not just omg and lol either. That was quite annoying. Russel (The hedgehog) is pretty much Twilight.  The monkey (Can't remember names.) is definitely Pinkie. Zoey (The Twilight dog) is Rarity. You can recognize the VA's fairly easily. The music is good. Like Blaze said, really upbeat. Overall, it just feels too much like it's trying to copy MLP. The preview for next week's episode looked like another fashion themed episode. And these two episodes were solved by fashion, so yeah. I probably won't follow this. It's not too bad, it's just meh.

The HD version is still processing, just wait.

[Blazevoir]

Spoiler:

I'll be honest: waking up this early for a livestream wasn't worth it considering how low I rated both the S3 premiere and LPS premiere. If MLP S4 ever comes out, I'll just wait for a YT release since all the premieres seem to be generally meh (yes, even S1 despite the show introducing the cast).

Btw BJ, I just love how your video's getting so many likes before it gets finished processing XD

[Melsaran]

So there's already art for gak:

Spoiler:

I know it is a commercial of something, but why has it become such a meme, just a lot of commercials about it on the livestreams?

edit: also, I have a link to the episode of mlp processing, anyone know if someone is doing the same with LPS too?

[Evest]

Ask Gak already.

http://ask-gak-pony.tumblr.com/

[Melsaran]

Already in 720p and no commercials. A lot faster than that other one. Anyway, enjoy.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Melsaran, on 10 November 2012 - 05:50 PM, said:

So there's already art for gak:

Spoiler:

I know it is a commercial of something, but why has it become such a meme, just a lot of commercials about it on the livestreams?

edit: also, I have a link to the episode of mlp processing, anyone know if someone is doing the same with LPS too?

Damn, I got beaten to it.

And it's like the Gyrobowl, the saturated commercial breaks for it during important, viewer heavy episode periods. So we've turned annoyance into humor I guess.

[OpelSpeedster]

I'd pay four hundread thousand dollars for the Season 3 finale have a crossover with Spore on which the Grox are related...for twelve seconds.

Is there alterady a youtube video about Season 3 that includes ACCURATE subtitles? Like I said, my main langauge isn't english, so I can't understand vocal english, only text english(and just barely).

freddyJkruger3, on 10 November 2012 - 04:35 PM, said:

I was just on TV and I saw a commercial with something weird.
WARNING : GENERATION 3 :

Spoiler:

Here's the scene :
PP : Bet you can't make a funnier face then THIS!
R and FS : Uh...

I'm a bit scared.
Do we have to spoiler Season 3 stuff still?

G4 Fluttershy meets G3 Rarity?

MUST SEE((Even though I am not a big fan of G3))

[Soduh_Man]

That's what was bothering me, they have SHADOWS on their faces now.  They didn't have those before.

Edit: My thoughts on the Premiere:

Spoiler:

First off, I liked it, but I'm noticing more human-like actions like when they were searching for books, I'm okay if they're flying or if it's Pinkie Pie, but with unicorns, that's just illogical.
I thought the plot was weird though, it had unnecessary things put in just to make it fit the time slot.  I also don't know why Twilight still thinks that Princess Celestia hates her and wants to make her fail for every little thing she does wrong, doesn't make sense to me, must just be a plot device.

Edited by Soduh_Man, 10 November 2012 - 07:08 PM.

[Heimopomo13]

*sigh* I hope that even one of you has atleast somekind of an idea how it feels when you miss the happening that you've waited for last 2 months more than anything, and then you can't do it before 1 more hour of waiting from now... well that's what happened to me, If I'd have been in home 5 minutes earlier today I would have made it in time, but I was late and now I'm waiting so I can start the video (I'm doing a reacts-vid so I'll have to wait for this place to calm down, right now there's TV and 3 people making uncomfortably loud noises).

Well, atleast I have time to think my Hardstyle beats and melodies and listen to some Alex S.
...
I'm really depressed but so hyped at the same time :S

[TehAlphaMiner]

I'm only six minutes into the first episode, but I feel like I want to lay down a thought or two:

Spoiler:

-The beginning reminds me of a story I was planning with Dimondium (What happened to him, anyways?) and SandvichParty, of course...Until that happened.
-Is there an explanation why Luna is in a pissy mood in the beginning? She seems angry about something...

[darkness7879]

Assertive Fluttershy put up a gak remix of "boooooring!". Dam this fandom is fast.

[Lord_Dominic]

Huh. That just happened.

Thoughts:

Spoiler:

Pros: The Silverlance Theory rings true again, Special Beam Cannon is now plausible, thanks Shining Plot Device!
A bit of insight into pony weaponry, and how to attach lances to ponies. Will draw later. Also, the wisdom of putting armor on the chest was proven by the joust.
So, when it comes to pony OC development for a single character, it kinda sorta canonized crap I was doing or thinking anyway.

Cons: WAY too many... so the magic thing is the same thing as Cadance's mark. Okay...

This epic villain, but no fight whatsoever. Okay... What's the point? Might as well have had it be "you have one day find the Crystal Heart or the kingdom will vanish again".

TwiMary Suekle has proven that her Sue Level does, in fact, exceed 9000. She just happened to know every single spell, including what appeared to be very high-level magic that alters how the rules of the universe work. Okay... Also, they are just flat-out saying that TwiMary is the Chosen One now. She's not just some exceptional student with great potential that has been taken in by the Princess, she IS the Chosen One.

The whole "you put the future of others ahead of your own" thing was to be expected, and I am actually OK with this.

Epic villain, Luna, promise of some really cool stuff? Wow, talk about false advertising. "Luna, we don't need your help, it's already a 50-Sue pileup down there."
Luna just wanted to help...

All in all, I think I dislike this episode almost as much as "It's About Time", if not more. It failed to really entertain or engage me in any way, and just wound up being sort of frustrating to watch.
1.5/10.