Season 6 Episode Discussion [Speculation/Theories/Beware of Spoilers]

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@MadVillan  
“despite dragons fluently speaking their language and knowing about their leader. “  
Well when you consider that many people in other nations can speak English, and know who the president is. Yet know absolutely nothing about US culture besides what TV shows them. [which is often highly inaccurate] It’s not that hard to believe~
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@Zebasiz  
Are you saying that the MLP world has exactly as much globalization as our world? That dragons have access to the same technology we have? Even if that where the case so you could make that comparison it doesn’t explain the ponies having virtually no recorded history of dragons. In you’re comparison it would akin to to the entire United States having no written information about Australia.
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Well, I probably should have said “one of my favorites” Many of the ones you listed I also love: Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, Eddie Izzard, Brian Posehn, David Spade, Chris Rock, etc.
 
But Patton does has that level of geeky nerdy pop culture knowledge, frantic energy, and dark surreal WTF vulgarity [rape goblins and how he announced his wife was pregnant: “Bring forth my doom-spawn from your stink-crevice AND PROVE THE GYPSY WRONG!” ] that he’s definitely in the top five for me…this morning I actually had a choking fit after making the mistake of listening to this gem while drinking a glass of lemonade though it did clear my sinuses! xD
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@MadVillan  
I don’t know why they’d need to have the same technology as us in order to hear stories about another species and thus not actually know anything about their culture properly. Heck we had misunderstandings about other cultures back before light bulbs and the like.
 
Twilight said that Ponies were too afraid to go and actually study Dragons. And given how the Red and Green dragon they met acted. [Extremely territorial, attacking on sight.] It makes sense ponies would avoid them.  
So far, the only times we’ve been able to see further in Dragon culture is through Spike going to Dragon specific groupings. Given how the teenagers responded to the ponies. I don’t feel it’s unreasonable to believe the adults wouldn’t be as accommodating either.
 
And I used the comparison to Today’s world to show that, even WITH our current Globalization and communication technology, the average person can still know nigh on nothing about another culture.  
Going back to before the current levels of technology just makes the issue worse.
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Well, when we found the title, I was expecting a Rarity episode where Rarity was good at a thing very un-Rarityish against ponies who probably try very hard, and I wasn’t looking forward to weeks of saying her dad was good at it, and I was therefore wrong to call bullshit on it.
 
But now, instead, it’s Fluttershy. Whom is not only even less athletic than Rarity outside of desperate situations(which a base/football game most certainly does not count), but has the narrative ability of never-ever being outmatched by anyone. Or at least it feels like that. So instead of the halfway decent argument of Rarity having a football dad, I’m going to have to deal with either ‘Fluttershy does goofy thing with animals so is totally strong because of it,’ or ‘it’s Fluttershy, so shut up’.
 
These skills out of nowhere have a limit to how much I’ll take from a non-comedic character.
 
Pinkie, I’m almost fine with, I mean she’s hyperactive and nimble enough I suppose there’s not alot wrong with her in there.
 
So yeah, the episode COULD set it up so that none of this matters and I can enjoy it anyway, but initial impression of the premise does not sell me to the idea.
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Now that I think about it, the episode is probably going to be the cliche “Opposing team builds up a big lead, but our heroes rally with a come-from-behind victory at the last second”.
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@Background Pony #DBC4
Well, when we found the title, I was expecting a Rarity episode where Rarity was good at a thing very un-Rarityish against ponies who probably try very hard, and I wasn’t looking forward to weeks of saying her dad was good at it, and I was therefore wrong to call bullshit on it.
But now, instead, it’s Fluttershy. Whom is not only even less athletic than Rarity outside of desperate situations(which a base/football game most certainly does not count), but has the narrative ability of never-ever being outmatched by anyone. Or at least it feels like that. So instead of the halfway decent argument of Rarity having a football dad, I’m going to have to deal with either ‘Fluttershy does goofy thing with animals so is totally strong because of it,’ or ‘it’s Fluttershy, so shut up’.
These skills out of nowhere have a limit to how much I’ll take from a non-comedic character.
Pinkie, I’m almost fine with, I mean she’s hyperactive and nimble enough I suppose there’s not alot wrong with her in there.
So yeah, the episode COULD set it up so that none of this matters and I can enjoy it anyway, but initial impression of the premise does not sell me to the idea.
 
I’m sort of glad it doesn’t focus on Rarity this time.
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Okay, I guess.
@PonyPon  
Pinkie Pie I can understand, but Fluttershy?
 
The one pegasus who’s canonically weak, meek, clumsy and unathletic at the point she barely could lift a tiny weight and that even after grinding herself through a brutal training montage she is still weaker than an average pegasus?
 
Yeah, that episode is telegraphing a bullshit excuse for a last minute victory.
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@Zebasiz  
We still had printed text on other cultures before the light bulb though. There’s a difference between having a few misunderstandings to not being able to find any research on them at all. Even if their scared of them it’s still preposterous at this point. It would be like humans having no known information about bears just because their dangerous. Twilight isn’t the average person, at the time she was a scholar, the princesses student, and acting librarian, and she couldn’t find anything.
 
As for how the other dragons reacted that’s a completely different matter. But the Red and Green dragons didn’t attack on sight. The Red only attacked after Rainbow hit him, and the Green chased Spike out of his cave after he caught him stealing his things. Also, they have names||you racist.
 
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@PonyPon  
Oh, it’s gonna be one of those episodes. Where AJ and Rainbow get too caught up in winning and forget that having fun is more important. But how do you turn out to be the best at a sport? The synopsis makes it sound like it happened by accident somehow.
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@Zebasiz
We still had printed text on other cultures before the light bulb though. There’s a difference between having a few misunderstandings to not being able to find any research on them at all. Even if their scared of them it’s still preposterous at this point. It would be like humans having no known information about bears just because their dangerous. Twilight isn’t the average person, at the time she was a scholar, the princesses student, and acting librarian, and she couldn’t find anything.
As for how the other dragons reacted that’s a completely different matter. But the Red and Green dragons didn’t attack on sight. The Red only attacked after Rainbow hit him, and the Green chased Spike out of his cave after he caught him stealing his things. Also, they have names||you racist.
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@PonyPon
Oh, it’s gonna be one of those episodes. Where AJ and Rainbow get too caught up in winning and forget that having fun is more important. But how do you turn out to be the best at a sport? The synopsis makes it sound like it happened by accident somehow.
 
Shouldn’t Rainbow and AJ be past doing that by now?
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Okay, I guess.
@PonyPon  
We all saw how she struggles to keep her hold on a horseshoe before passing it to her tag partner.
 
I’m not buying she can suddely ignore her fears, display sudden athlethic skills and keep enough stamina to play during a whole game.
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@PonyPon
We all saw how she struggles to keep her hold on a horseshoe before passing it to her tag partner.
I’m not buying she can suddely ignore her fears, display sudden athlethic skills and keep enough stamina to play during a whole game.
 
Right, because the main characters getting new skills for an episode is unheard of.
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