I'm so glad these ponies will never actually get old in the show. (Assuming Twilight doesn't screw up an aging spell in some episode, since she apparently can't cast complex spells without ruining something!)
Anyway, have it after the break!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Memories: A Rainbow Dash 'Tail'
I'm so glad these ponies will never actually get old in the show. (Assuming Twilight doesn't screw up an aging spell in some episode, since she apparently can't cast complex spells without ruining something!)
Anyway, have it after the break!
115 comments:
Fir*gets shot*
I luved that comic SOOOO much!!!!!!!!!
A pretty good adaptation of the comic. I like. ^^
Oh my god. I cried.
AND THE VIDEO WASN'T EVEN FINISHED.
I don't see why people think that comic was sad. Rainbow Dash was reminiscing her happy, fulfilled life.
Awesome. I cry...
Amazing :D
blah! the original comic was sappy as it was (in a good way)! why'd did they have to go and up the sappy/nostalgic feel? 100/100 for awesome.
I saw this a while ago, made me so happy. i don't think its sad she lived her dream! (could have had more of a midlife, and maybe a crysis) but very good art and story anyways
And of course I have to say that motion comicking it made it 20% cooler. :D
Dash's life in four minutes
Those were the least manly tears I've shed in a while
Jeez, that comic was both so happy and sad. Same with the video. I was starting to get teary-eyed watching it. Nicely done.
I am currently having trouble seeing through the manly, manly tears that are blurring my vision right now. That's just not f*cking fair.
It was nice. It didn't make me cry twice like Up's actual opening did, but it was nice.
Dammit... how am I supposed to be a emotionless bastard when these ponies keep on reminding me that I actually have feelings!?
<3
Manly tears have been shed.
:"D
It's so beautiful, I cried tears of joy.
So sad, yet so perfect. The music makes it show a whole other side to Rainbow Dash's personality. So brilliant. I won't cry...
Funny: When I first read that comic, that same song from Up played in my head. Wonderful adaptation of a bittersweet comic. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to wipe my manly tears for a moment...
@Ace2401
Tears aren't always shed due to sadness.
On topic, this is just as beautiful as it was in comic form. Props to whoever put it together.
@Ace2401
That's exactly why it does make me cry. The unrestrained joy of such a passionate dream lived to the fullest, and the quiet dignity of reliving the memories years later are... staggeringly beautiful. In much the same was as the 'At the Gala' song left me a quivering mess, this comic and now the video version expertly pushes all of my squishy sentimental buttons.
In other news, splicing the clips from the show with the comic scenes really does an amazing job of showing just how on-model the artist was with Dashie. It's pretty darned amazing.
wow it's even better now and i swear to elestia i didn't cry no i didn't
No manly tears here. This was quite a nice adaptation of a very heart-warming and contentment-inducing comic. A long life lived to the fullest should not be mourned, but rather celebrated.
Now, that opening scene from "Up"...god, I'm getting misty-eyed just thinking about it...
@Phoe
Well, when you put it that way, then yeah, I can understand tears of joy being shed.
And yes, original artist is credit to fandom, as is the video maker.
@Ace2401 "Sad" is a pretty bad word to use to describe it. I don't think "bittersweet" even fits it, it's just extremely heartwarming to see something so positive like this, to see an example of someone who worked hard and managed to live their life to the fullest and fulfill their dreams.
Only the sound of a distant cricket, and a soft whirr from my computer could be heard for several minutes after that video ended.
I needed some time alone...
@Phoe
It's not people crying, that I totally understand. I just remember people saying that this comic made them sad when it was first posted.
I'd probably get all misty eyed if I wasn't so damn dehydrated from overindulgence in coffee and this frickin' cold. But I gave a smile, and that was enough.
Wonderful blend of the truly great comic and scenes from the show and Micheal Giacchino's score *sigh* Gosh I hope I get to hear him conduct this live when he's at my local symphony later this season.
I feel that the real core of this comic was the panel where RD reacts to getting the acceptance letter.
Her quiet - almost restrained - tears of joy really hammer home how much that moment would (will?) mean to her.
Ohmygosh^10 is fine for general good news, but the idea that achieving her life's goal would be met with something more internal and profound just seems to...work.
And the addition of a little motion and some suitably sentimental music only serves to emphasize that.
A slowly-building round of stomped applause to all Ponies involved. Bravo!
Admittedly this and the opening scenes to Up remind me quite a bit bout aging and dreams... flying and all.
Nice comic put to nice music. Though this made me happy, while Up crushed me.
Just watched, and manly tears were indeed shed. Best video comic ever.
Manly tears.
They have been shed.
@shibboleth
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I can feel the tears trying to form, but one's body can only take so much pony before an immunity is built up. I swear, back in June this would have made me ball my eyes out.
This was great! Thumbs up for the creators.
This made my soul hurt D:.......Well the good news is; DUE TO MY DENIAL PONIES NEVER AGE OR DIE! *goes and has mental breakdown in a corner*
Oh my, How awesome was that. The end for me... That was the same as the first time I read "The last Sonic Rainboom" from the "Nightfall" series. *sigh* Why is it so hard for me to forget that series of stories. :'C
It was that face of elderly Dashie that totally broke my composure there. How can a "cartoon" figure like her have this much effect on others. Maybe it's the extra life we breath into them every day with our stories, drawing, and overall imaginations...
there's something in my eye... very touching and well done...
I cried from the comic. Now I cried 2 or 3 times to this...Me Gusta. I am running out of manly tears here, man!
Oh Pixar, you and your mortality themed movies. Many manly tears were shed throughout the years, but it was worth it.
The beginning of Up was definitely tough to watch, but I think the award for greatest tear-jerker goes to Toy Story 3's ending. Maybe because the whole series was built for my generation, or just the concept of it all. Had me and my many manly man friends trying (and failing) to not show any signs of weakness during that sucker.
Oh Celestia, this is why I love this fandom. No matter how much I expect beautiful things to pop up, nothing could've really prepared me for this.
Near the end there, I was actually moved to sob a little bit as a happy laugh escaped my lips.
You did a great job Spikero2, and you're officially 20% cooler now.
This is too beautiful for words...
My Heart, My Heart, ... She breaks.
I pray My life elicits such emotions when its done.
I will not cry.
I will not cry.
I will not...I will...I...no...NO...
...shut the fuck up and hold me, you bastard. >.<
@Flygon16
I kept it together pretty well during the opening scene, although I was thinking the whole time, "Holy shit, I thought this movie was gonna suck..."
But when he opens the photo album once his house is on top of the falls...it was rough, man. It was rough.
Listen to the 'Time' theme from Inception while watching this.
I think I have something in my eye, forever...
Awwww. I loved this!
Wait till someone does a Scootaloo comic of her learning to fly with Rainbow Dash. Buckets of tears will flood the land!
Very well done. One of my favorite comics ever.
Stuff like this is what makes this fandom so wonderful. Thank you.
I think the fact that we are all so familiar with Dash is part of what makes us react to this the way we do, but it's also something we can probably all relate to ourselves. We all have dreams, we all want to be that satisfied Dash at the end of her days who looks back upon her life with satisfaction and pure bliss. We are sad because those times that provided so many good memories will never come again, but we are thankful that we were given the opportunity to have those times.
*sniff*
And that song from Up fits amazingly well, I must say...
Gese, I had to pause as soon as the music started to take a minute to ready myself. A test for androids and sociopaths? Yeah, pretty much.
Darn, I really thought I wasn't going to cry but then I cried like no other.
Adding up that song is simply CRUEL.
Yet, it will make one person very happy. I shed a single manly tear (only a single one!), which was carefully filled into a flask. It will be mixed with a virgins blood, a dragons scale, a pinch of gold and a tiny fracture of a diamond the size of a head.
This mixture is very rare (it contains a mans tears!) and said to cure cancer.
This gave my heart mixed Emotion, mostly happiness that Dash fulfilled her dreams. The song fits this perfectly. =D
Just an FYI, you can now purchase the soundtrack for UP on CD. Released by Walt Disney Records, co-branded with Intrada Records:
http://oat.nu/bklqc
I agree with Seth. Combining music from Up with this comic is just unfair.
I felt so good and so sad that my heart just shattered into crystalline needles. Actually, it just stopped altogether, Someone call an ambulanshvroevnaqv a n vqa encqfentbrj ikvav nyu8ftdaw6eft *drool shorts out keyboard* Holy friendship! I'm alive! It's a miracle!
Been reading Fallout E. this doesn't make me sad, in fact it's quite the pick up after reading that fan fiction lol
oh, gog. I didn't cry with the original comic, but this one did it for me. ;_;
Someone beat me to it, but to use SCIENCE! to explain this emotional reaction, well, it can be predictably "coached" because it taps one of the only things every single person has to face:
Mortality.
When you combine it with something that you admire or love and use it to provoke those feelings, man, it hurts.
Not saying I escaped the knot in my stomach either. I myself always get hit by these types of things because thinking of the "End" hits hard on me.
Goddamnit Michael Giachinno your emotional pieces of music will be the death of me. This comic is Futurama levels of sheer emotion.
Click through, and do what the top rated comment says. Ugh, it makes it soo much better.
It's not tears from Sadness, so much it being bittersweet, and....Happiness for a life weel spent.
-Delta-
this is so touching and more so with the music and extra bits added... oh I only wish my dreams could have come true as hers did, sadly life tends to deal you a poor hand
@Scribejay Yes, I'd say it's got Seymour level going on.
Confound these ponies, they drive me to feel...
Okay, this is going to be a long one, but wow.. this video has done something to me. Like almost everyone else, it made me tear up, especially elderly Dash. For me, it made me realize I'm wasting time, I'm not working on accomplishing my ultimate life goal, and lives to short to be doing that. Ive got a terrible habit of procrastinating, and I've been putting off what i truly want to accomplish before my time is up
I want to eventually be like that last panel, looking back on my life knowing I've fulfilled my dream. Ever since filly Dash discovered her goal, she's spent her life working towards it. She never let go of her dreams of becoming a Wonderbolt. Even when times where tough and everything was against her, she never let go of the dream. Eventually all that work payed off for her.
I've let my dreams slip for the past few years, I've been putting them off. Ive become conferrable at my day job, but have stopped thinking of my dream job. I haven't felt the passion i once had for my future in so long, until now. Ive just realized how much precious time I've let slip past me, doing almost nothing productive. I could be working at my dream job right now, instead of nightshifts at a convenience store. After spending the past few years trying to convince myself to get back on the ball, but quickly losing interest, its an animated pegasus that really wakes me up. Ive got a feeling i'm not sleeping tonight, Ive got some long overdo work to catch up on. (This video has also convinced me to finally comment on something, guess I'm not a lurker anymore.)
D: so sad. just as bad as the comic. -manly tears-
I hope to see that. I love it when RD is a loving big sis to Scoot. It makes my heart feel warm.
That was a cute and very well done motion comic.
But hearing the Up music....;________;
Never Forget...
Tears of joy falling down my cheeks.
She had her dream come true and memories of it. I need a handkerchief, brb.
...Ow my heart.
Seeing the comic may have pull a tear for me, but adding the Up intro was just...
Excuse me a moment, I seem to be leaking from my eyes.
Bravo! Bravo to Cptn. Nemo for producing such a high quality comic, and bravo to Spikero2 for enhancing that comic's quality by showing the show alongside it.
Very nice and touching.
I remember first watching Up and thinking after that heartbreaking opening, "Disney/Pixar, who gave you permission to make me feel things?" Truly, a beautiful vid.
GET THESE EMOTIONS OFF OF ME!
Manly tears over this comic the first time. Even more with that music to go with it.
I thought Up was highly overrated and easily the worst Pixar movie.
This though... Celestia, I love this. Not sure why they left out her camping for a ticket for the show though...
A life well lived is infinitely better than one with regret. That was the point of Up and shown in practice here. Damn these emotions.
I actually can't imagine her being old. Come on, we all know that she has to time to get old between being active and napping!
On the realistic side, I agree that thinking about either their lives (those of the ponies, whom we all know and love) changing or an aspect of it ending is saddening, no matter how you approach the topic.
I better man up and not think about it; else I'd could ponder about it for seemingly endless hours.
Happy dash = happy kaboom and when kaboom is happy, he cries rainbows.....rainbows of joy, pure fucking joy man....*rainbow man tear*
Manly tears, big time. That was awesome.
http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/49/dawson_crying.gif
My response.
That's evil in the best way possible. I must've read this comic 50 times, and it makes me tear each and every one. This video made me straight up bawl.
ZIS IS ANONYMOUS
RAINBOW DASH MAKES ME CRY
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Confound these fulfilled lives... they drive me to... cry...
I honestly don't think that song went well with the comic, it didn't flow right and seemed kinda awkward at times. The comic stirs up a lot of emotion in me, and that got me like it does whenever I read that comic. But this adaptation really didn't stir anything more like I was hoping it was going to.
Good effort though ^^
UP was a movie that made me tear up several times throughout the course of it all. The beginning especially.
Combining it and this comic is just...wow.
That was an amazing vid.
I would have to watch that at least another couple times
cause of the awesomeness.
I cried when Rainbow Dash had her suit in a glass case,
but it made me kinda happy to see she was still happy too.
10/10 =)
Nostalgia is a beautiful thing, especially with a happy life. It gives us the courage to go on, it gives us the ability to follow our dreams...
It gives meaning to life.
Our friends, and families are there to help us along the way: That's what they're there for.
So, so amazing, both the comic and the video.
Epic manly tears.
I would also suggest doing that the top commentator on the vid says: Mute the vid, play "Time" from Inception at the same time. Be AMAZED
WHY DID I MAKE MYSELF WATCH THIS? I mean, it's great, and I knew it would be great, but... -sobs-
i nearly cried...only just held on
Awwing right now. That was a sweet little adaption. Much props. No tears though, as many others stated a life well lived shouldn't be mourned. :)
Up theme is now stuck in my head. Thanks. I'm going to go insane, as I always do when a song this expressive and dynamic gets stuck in my head. Heck, I nearly went insane when I mastered Everlong on acoustic and started to figure out how it sounded with a REALLY slow section in the middle.
And I've now got two problems. I don't currently have a dream job, or dream accomplishment, or dream anything.
And I've also realized, neither does Twilight. I was thinking of how some kind of sequel would go, with even more realized dreams. Most emotional moments possible: RD joining the WonderBolts, RD leading the WonderBolts, RD having to leave the WonderBolts. FS getting too old to take care of the animals, and the animals take care of her, or she finds a replacement (even odds it'll be Angel). AJ sees Granny Smith die, AJ meeting a lover, and her kids taking over the farm, as she slowly becomes like Granny Smith (who always came across to me as not quite realizing that AJ has become matriarch of the family). Rarity...I can't think of anything for her. Her dream of becoming a dressmaker already happened, I'm fairly sure she's at least known in Canterlot, her entire prince fantasy went out the window in ep 26. Pinkie...She's living her dream. The only thing I could think of is throwing the hugest party possible across all of Equestria (and meeting every pony in Equestria at the party if it lasts longer than 5 minutes.) Twilight doesn't have a goal from here. She's just having fun with her friends and fulfilling royal duties. I could see her taking a ridiculously Mary Sue route and becoming equivalent with a royal sister, but that'd be really hard on her friendship master status, what with the immortality thing.
almost makes me cry
i should say that this made me tear up a little.
well more like make me consider tearing up while doing squats and grunting like a man.
...definitely...*snif*
shu'up i got sand in my eye...
Rainbow Dash there's a simple cure for crushed dreams! It's called a cyanide pill. A noose works as well but for more fun just strap a bomb to your chest and press the button. Quick painless and FUN! Just remember to yell FOR COMMUNISM! Before you press it.
@musicssound
I've always thought this captured Rarity & Spikes future well.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gEqrG66LfOw/ThpHwPG8MgI/AAAAAAAAHkM/bGtgd0CRIX4/s1600/33198+-+artist+sarcatsic+C4tspajamas+old+older+rarity+spike.png.jpg
Argh, no, dammit. Enough angst, enough wangst, enough "in the dwindling light of their final years" crap. I don't watch the show to imagine them all GROWING OLD AND DYING. It's frigging MORBID.
I stop the video to make me not cry i have to get this out of my head again
You got to do better than that to take my tears.
That said, well made comic with spot on Dash.
won't cry, won't cry, SCREW IT, :"D. This is so happy, but it's also sad to think of times that have passed and won't come again. This whole video leaves me with a feeling of reliving the past in memory. The Up starting song, just gave it a 20% boost in nostalgia.
Wish I knew why folks keep thinking of crushed dreams. Probably their own.
Still..beautiful piece.
Outstanding!!!!!!!!
Damn it! I've got something in both my eyes...
Her eyes were riveted on the Wonderbolts!
I cried tears of Joy and I wasn't even half way through. Confound these Bronies they drive me to tears.
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