11:32 AM
@b_jonas long discussion is looooooong, trying to read the other comments too.
btw, this one image from the page before is above average.
glad I checked to see if anyone already posted any comment
btw, on a side notice, one of the other users said something interesting about Iron Will.
> "Satisfaction Guaranteed or you pay nothing" for assertiveness lessons can't really be taken advantage of except in Fluttershy's specific case. Either it didn't work and you're not assertive enough to claim that you're not satisfied or you assert youself that you're not satisfied inwhich case the argument can be made that the seminar worked and you owe Iron Will his fee.
^ just to add to that, this is simply an example of the old
Catch 22.
ok, @b_jonas, think I have read all the comments on the premiere. Or I hope so.
Opening scene, as you said...
nice for them to actually acknowledge the movie (now, if you please would also acknowledge the existence of Radiant Hope I would be very happy, thanks writers), yet I don't really understand why the map would decide to display the location of just one random pirate ship and ignore all the other flying ships that must exist in the world.
Is the map so smart that now it just display thing to remind Twilight to write them down / tell them to Starlight?
Will it soon start to also remind them of any appointment? Will Rarity cutie mark start buzzing to remind her her next hoof-polish session?
Also, thank you for inviting Tempest, my dear Twily, but I should remind you there is someone else that need to be invited in an episode of the MAIN show.
Little clue: she has bacon hairs and is very close to this message...
anyway, she wants to open a school.
won't comment on this for now.
let's leave it for later...
but probably there is a "reason".
Anyway, excluding out-of-world writers motives, in world this seems like an odd thing to do.
little ago she was "what do I do with Starlight" and now she wants an entire school.
so, she asks Celestia for suggestions.
and Celestia pulls out the usual "rat from the hat" reply.
It seems that Equestria has some form of weird education association that somehow "controls" school structure and rules. And somehow they don't seem to be under the two princess control.
Mind you, this wouldn't be much surprising at all, but since even now Celestia seems to vaguely hint that she finds said association a little "old styled" it is somehow weird to think that she didn't try to interfere with it before. Unless she is actually plan to have Twily do all the manual work as usual ^_^'
also by this point I was already asking myself something.
The EEA is an association that "controls" education, but based on what they show it is clear that they only medle with basic school education - I mean things like math, history, geography and so on.
Twilight school is basically a 24/7 campus that would only apparently focus on friendship.
Basically, on one side you have math, numbers and science. On the other you have "Ethics and Moral Precepts" class - something that actually exist in Japanese schools but probably isn't a thing in the USA
It is like comparing apples to oranges as AJ would say, and it is clear as the morning sky from the start that trying to apply the "Teaching math" handbook to teaching Ethics won't work at all.
But they are cute little candy colored ponies after all, they won't notice this until premiere episode 2.
> ponies need to bang their head in a problem before recognizing the obvious solution and can't be expected to notice it from the start. Having affronted the same problem in the past does not influence a pony response to the same problem representing itself in the future.
so, Celestia hands Twily a big old dusty manual to use as a reference for the school building thing.
Twily then uses the old Reductio Ab Nauseam technique and produce a 20k pages long relation about her pland to give to the association members. You say this is just Twily being Twily, I say this is Twily being Twily while also being sure that no one will actually read the book she wrote.
(wouldn't be so surprised if the central pages of said relation where actually a collection of Pinkie Pie songs...)
Anyway, she appears in front of the Education Cabal.
> So Copernic I mean, Twilight Sparkle. Do you still insist in your heretic claims that the sun is in the center of the universe and Celestia is actually moving the earth to turn around it? This is BLASPHEMY!
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call the thing EIT? Equestrian Inquisition Tribunal?
also, bonus point for having the totally-not-evil Mephistopheles impersonator as the council head member. I mean, it must have been a shock for everypony when in a totally unexpected turn of events that character will turn out to be a "not-so-nice" guy just a little later.
and just one more little thing....
just under Neysaygh ... the orange pony one the left.
Have we finally found where Scootaloo father was all the time?
Please, Mr Unamed Pony, you have a little one waiting for you in ponyville.
please, drop this association thing and return home so that we may finally see Scoot sleeping in something that doesn't seem an orphanage dormitory.
Back to the story, using the boredom tactic Twily manages to get a temporary approval stamp. Back on this later, but I wonder why she need it in the first place.
I mean, the thing only seems to cover "how to teach science" rules. Considering that she won't teach those....
it is like an martial arts school trying to get an accreditation for "best architecture school".
Are ponies really so crazy that -by comparison- they need a dress designer stamp of approval on their apple cider or they won't buy it?
the way the association is portrayed seems to suggest that the regulations does not even include other more generic suggestions like school building safety rules or other similar things - basically the only ones Twily could make actual use of since they would still fit her plan.
either way, armed with Hasbro Head council stamp of approval Twily can finally build the school.
how the school is build will be a mystery.
Did they plant a seed? It is prefabricated building? Did they just order the new "Twily Friendship School" playset Hasbro is bound to have on Amazon and waited for delivery???
But no time to wonder: school is open.
And the first students are here.
Conveniently enough, each of the main races in the latest season sent a student. So we get a yak, a changeling, a griffon, a seapony , a dragon, and a passerby pony
So, basically, Twilight school acceptance requests are a LIFO - Last In, First Out.
only the latest arrivals gets a place.
Buffaloes will have to wait till next seasons, and so will Diamond Dogs (not to mention the comic-only races)
A pity if you ask me. They should have also included Little Strongheart, but I guess the writers forgot about her existence.
Anyway, it is pretty clear that some of the characters DON'T want to be there.
But it is handled somehow poorly on their part.
I mean, the more credible ones to use would be Dragons (they have to do as Ember says but not everyone likes it. Smolder could have been Garble smaller brother, and that could have been used for a future episode with Garble finally changing ways - wasted opportunity 1)
Or changelings, since we already saw the same thing with Thorax brother.
Even the yak would have been more credible.
Instead, the "don't know why I am here" guy is the griffon.
Mind you, not saying that the griffon being grouchy is less credible. The fact that buzz me off is that said griffon was coerced into going to school by the usual old, far grouchier griffon that we already saw in other episodes. Was he at least somehow related to either Hilda or Gabby I could have understood, but this seems a little forced.
In S1 E23 “The Cutie Mark Chronicles”, we learn of how Twilight Sparkle got her cutie mark. She got it on an entrance exam to Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, in which she had to cast a spell to make a dragon egg hatch. Twilight was eventually able to solve this task, and this un...
