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Patty
Well, I assumed Rainbow Soar and Fancily Rare were shipteases. Maybe Spikey Belle too.
Ooooooooooh, that's what you meant :P, those ones (excluding spikey belle) would be believable at least. Well, spikey belle (ugg...these name mergers.....) would make more sense than rarity/spike, since, you know, spike's a baby dragon (despite his maturity and intelligence level) where as rarity is an adult pony, and sweetie belle is arguable the same age as spike.
There's still the
mayfly-december issue
in any case with ponies who aren't alicorns (and that opens up questions about Cadence and Shining Armor, seeing as Celestia and Luna are, well, millenia old).
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Well, Celestia and Luna might not be the only alicorns other than Cadence, or might not have been at some point. It's also possible that Cadence is a weird relative like.. I dunno, second cousin or some ^&*!, so saying neice is easier. And Princesses Luna and Celestia are co-rulers of Equestria, but as a member of the royal family, Cadence might be called a princess too. Of course, that would make more sense if Luna and Celestia were Queens, but as it stands... I couldn't tell you what the ranking system would be. It's much easier just not to think about it.
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Cadence wasn't originally supposed to be an alicorn, iirc, in the same vein as Prince Blueblood. Might have been executive meddling that made her one (actually, I think the whole concept started as executive meddling, but I won't get into that now). As far as canon goes, I figure there are pony gods , e.g. Celestia & Luna (in the order of, say, Helios and Selene), and whoever their immediate family is, and then, perhaps, if one of them were to have kids with a normal pony, the child would be a demigod e.g. Cadance (in the order of Heracles or Perseus). Perhaps Blueblood's blue blood is even more diluted, (one demigod parent and one normal parent, perhaps?).
That allows for Cadance to both be an Alicorn and also consort with normal ponies, as demigods did.
Also, Twilight's parents must be pretty well-frickin'-connected. Twilight went to Celestia's school, Shining Armor becomes Captain of the Royal Guard, Twilight was foalsat by a PRINCESS, for buck's sake!
Edit: Another note to make is that Celestia's defeat is justifiable, imo. I would wager that Queen Chrysalis and the changlings are not merely another races of mortals. They seem more demonic or vampiric (escaped from Tartarus, perhaps?), and I could easily believe that Chrysalis is a primordial spirit like Discord. Add in that she's been gorging herself on Shining Armor's love, and it's quite easy to accept her defeating Celestia. Celestia is very powerful, but not all-powerful. Her domain is the Sun, and those powers might not extend to other aspects of life.
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Patty
I know, but come on. It's the
one time
that she actually tries to get her hooves dirty on-screen. And she gets &*!@ing curb-stomped right after a moment of awesome Mama Bear-ness. :/ It seems like Celestia in double bills only serves the purpose of getting Worfed.
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I know, but come on. It's the
one time
that she actually tries to get her hooves dirty on-screen. And she gets &*!@ing curb-stomped right after a moment of awesome Mama Bear-ness. :/ It seems like Celestia in double bills only serves the purpose of getting Worfed.
I wouldn't say she got curb-stomped right away. If you paty attention to the
ancient egyptian
laser beams you'll see that she was actually winning their little power duel, but Queen Chrysalis (is that a fan name or did I miss it in the show?) turns her power up to eleven at a moments notice afterwards and then and only then beats Celestia. Element (heh heh) of surprise and all that.
Could also be that Celestia is just not as experienced in fighting as she once was. You have to think about it; it's been at least a couple thousand years since she had to battle creatures like Discord, and even back then she was using the Elements of Harmony, not her own alicorn powers. It is quite easy to state, though, that the Changeling Queen uses her abilities on a regular basis.
I stopped watching for awhile , just after the start of season 2, anyone got somewhere i can watch and catch up?
Youtube, they're all over the place. Every episode from Season 1 too.
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Morec0
I had a thought: what if Alicorns are not genetic in origin, like the pony traits then embody, but magical in nature? I'm pulling a note from a fan-made parody here, but:
Magic law dictates the number of Alicorns that can exist at one time. If I want any powers of my own I have to convince Luna to give me hers.
It could be that, just like how FiW explains it, Alicorns are created not by genetics but by magic that is transfered upon the death/reliquishing of their powers. This could explain why Prince Blueblood, although he is related to Celestia nad Luna, is just a normal unicorn; no Alicorn gave him the abilities/he did not inherit the Alicorn power from a fallen one.
However, this still does not explain why Luna and Celestia are immortal and unaging while Candace apparently does age; although I think that is because of their roles as physical goddesses and their ties to the Sun and Moon.
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Morec0
I think hasbro just wanted another alicorn toy to sell, sadly.
Oh, I'm not debating that; I'm just putting out a possible answer to a question that seems to be bothering those who are interested in such elements of the show's world.
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My.... my heat... I... need... insulin...
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Patty
My.... my heat... I... need... insulin...
:D Are there going to be -licious vids for like, every character now? I love Twilightlicious more though, because it was actually Tara. >.>
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I think hasbro just wanted another alicorn toy to sell, sadly.
Oh, I'm not debating that; I'm just putting out a possible answer to a question that seems to be bothering those who are interested in such elements of the show's world.It's actually pretty impressive how well Studio B and the rest of the FiM cast pulled off the finale, if it went the way I think it did.
I imagine that it was Hasbro's idea first: play off the royal wedding and do a wedding event from which they could make lots of new toys. They couldn't marry off any of the Mane cast, obviously, so make some new characters and marry them.
It would have been the show's team that took that executive meddling and used it to create Twilight a brother and even make him likable right off the bat (I swear, I was looking for reasons not to like Shining Armor, but thwn that song... Man, that song totally disarmed me... :|).
They managed to take a marketing oriented event and turn it into a mini Disney movie. And I would be surprised if there were a few continuity nods in Season 3, either (I love the way this show maintains continuity).
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Morec0
I think hasbro just wanted another alicorn toy to sell, sadly.
Oh, I'm not debating that; I'm just putting out a possible answer to a question that seems to be bothering those who are interested in such elements of the show's world.It's actually pretty impressive how well Studio B and the rest of the FiM cast pulled off the finale, if it went the way I think it did.
I imagine that it was Hasbro's idea first: play off the royal wedding and do a wedding event from which they could make lots of new toys. They couldn't marry off any of the Mane cast, obviously, so make some new characters and marry them.
It would have been the show's team that took that executive meddling and used it to create Twilight a brother and even make him likable right off the bat (I swear, I was looking for reasons not to like Shining Armor, but thwn that song... Man, that song totally disarmed me... :|).
They managed to take a marketing oriented event and turn it into a mini Disney movie. And I would be surprised if there were a few continuity nods in Season 3, either (I love the way this show maintains continuity).
Continuity! boom
As I said; can't wait for Season three. Although I can't help but wonder; will Studio B create a villain to open it up with or has Queen Chrysalis taken control of that for the time being? And will they instead just open Season Three with a normal episode? Will there even be a season three? That last one is based mostly off of I can't remember seeing anything about it.
And I completely agree on the mini-Disney movie part, and they did it
perfectly
.
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