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This is going to be epic for all the pony history people out there. I guess Equestria actually did have some conflict between the different races.
And the new synopsis:
In “Hearth’s Warming Eve” the six friends are honored to put on Canterlot's most important play of the season, the Hearth's Warming Eve's holiday pageant that illustrates how Unicorns, Pegasi and Earth Ponies put aside their differences and founded Equestria.Maybe we will get a bit more information on Earth ponies?
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135 comments:
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd that's how pinkie pie got her cutie mark!
ReplyDeleteAwesometastic!
ReplyDeleteMbisonyes.avi
ReplyDeleteWait I thought Pinkie lived on a rock farm and found her special talent?
ReplyDeleteAWESOME! I bet it has that leaked song that will not be named. Also, second? Who cares.
ReplyDeleteEverypony was a little bit racist.
ReplyDeleteI so hope Pinkie Pie ends up saying "and that's how I got my cutie mark".
ReplyDeleteNice...A promising deep story. I only hope it includes Discord.
ReplyDeleteMore like we'll learn the systematic oppression of the earth pony proletariat by the magic-using bourgeois.
ReplyDelete@CesarThat was perfect
ReplyDeleteOVERTHROW THE PROLETARIAT!
ReplyDeleteEpisode summery according to me:
ReplyDeleteIn some odd way our six heroins end fighting about which side was better(Rainbow Dash of course) then Celestia and Luna get involved or not, song will be awsome, ending will have them apologizing for fighting only to have the crowd cheer because they thought it was part of the show.
Moral: Those that don't know history, ate doomed to repeat it.
Hitler Pony!
*are doomed
ReplyDeleteSo pretty much the iPad storybook app plot, with the blizzard. I just wonder whether there will be much more detail than the brief bit we got there.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one reminded of the Decemberween pageant?
ReplyDelete@CesarAll my internets to you, my friend.
ReplyDeletebrohoof/)(\
@Homfrog
ReplyDelete*overthrow the bourgeois.
It's okay, though, you're a revolutionary-in-training. We'll get you there eventually.
@Travis Smith
ReplyDeleteLong ago, earth ponies, pegasii, and unicorns all put aside their differences and thus did Pinkie Pie get her cutie mark.
Hmm, definitely interesting. All I (or we) know is, many questions will be answered or created with this anticipated episode.
ReplyDelete@Ford
ReplyDeleteYes
This is going to be SO AWESOME! *squeals like a little girl*
ReplyDeleteI mean uh... looking forward to it.
I hope we get an awesome history lesson from this! Fanon be damned!
ReplyDeleteA cookie says somepony in the new episode freezes to death.
ReplyDeleteI'm calling Christmas "Hearth's Waarming Eve" just like how I called Halloween "Nightmare Night."
ReplyDeleteAnyway, this episode sure does look promising!
@Fon Shaolin
ReplyDeleteNo no no, overthrow the proletariat. They deserve it, the peon buttmunches. Also they're already kind of in power.
@Crimson_Wing This crossover must be done.
ReplyDeleteAh, I keep finding new reasons to put off writing that fanfic. First it was, "Well, we need to find out what Luna's like, first!" Now it's, "Better find out about pony history first!" (Between the two it was, "Ohmygoodness so busy."
ReplyDeleteSounds like an ep with some great potential, though!
In before 17% of all fanfics are made irrelevant.
ReplyDelete@Homfrog Strong Bad is best pony?
ReplyDeleteSomebody invent the time machine right now! I'm not going to be able to wait until December friggin 17th to watch this! But alas, I must.
ReplyDelete@CityFlyer502 ask Doctor Whooves, I think he can hook you up
ReplyDeleteso this is rasicsm in Equestria
ReplyDeleteThey'll teach us the secret to eradicating racism, then we can apply it to the real world.
ReplyDeleteSweet. I'm pretty psyched for this episode.
ReplyDeleteFor pic
ReplyDelete"I don't think we're in Ponyville anymore Sweetie" then a half pony half man walks out in his front hooves. "Welcome to Narni, nothing like Narnia, but were no one can sue!"
Am I the only one reminded of Past Sins?
ReplyDeleteThis is probably going to be my favorite episode, squee!!
So, this is basicly the iPad game, only more detailed? Nice. Can't wait to see it. :)
ReplyDelete@Travis SmithI call your cookie and raise you a chocolate cupcake!
ReplyDelete@Homfrog
ReplyDeleteHow are they in power? Most of the Canterlot ponies were unicorns (Canterlot being the seat of power).
Cloudsdale, the Pegasus capital, controls all the weather. Non-unicorns or pegesi can't even go there.
Clearly, earth ponies are the majority in Equestria outside of these areas. Most of Ponyville is made up of earth ponies as well as Manehatten and Applossa. However, do these ponies have any say in government? No, says I! They are dependent on unicorns for manufactured goods and pegasi for weather for which to cultivate their crops! They are being held in check, like sheep, by the system and government propaganda (so-called "friendship")!
Hmm... will this end up making "Twilight Sparkle, Teacher For A Day" more solid in canon?
ReplyDeleteSo then that iPhone app was full of bad vectors AND spoilers?!
ReplyDeleteNeat.
@Fon Shaolin
ReplyDeleteOh you were talking about Equestria. I was thinking of something other than here, with no relationship to anything. :twilightblush:
During the upcoming civil war, the Steel Empire would like to invade Equestria.
ReplyDeleteOoooo, I'm liking this a lot. Hopefully we do in fact get some more detail on how the earth ponies are balanced with the other types.
ReplyDeleteThis has Charlie Brown Christmas all over it. Pinkie better do the snoopy dance.
ReplyDelete@Flutterfan it really takes guts to air a cartoon that even hints at racial issues. luckily, MLP is a gutsy show. just look at "Over a Barrel".
ReplyDelete@Cesar
ReplyDeleteClearly! Strong Bad is best pony, closely followed by Homsar and then Pom Pom.
@Jack Knox
ReplyDeleteFor reference, your playing a three time county poker champ.
But I'll raise you three cupcakes and a lol-pop
@Grez
ReplyDeleteI guess it was. :D
I am hoping for something with a song that uses all the mane six as aposed to just 1.
ReplyDelete@Homfrog
ReplyDeleteSB: Strong bad email, one two three, strong bad email, sing with me (click)
"Dear princess celestia, blah blah blah, your faithful student, twilight sparkle" Wait what? that's a new one. I know you people have some crazy nicknames for me, but this one... wait... ooh. (typing) Dear Vampire Novel, wrong freakin address!"
Heh. I kindof had a feeling that the holiday would have more in common with Thanksgiving then Christmass.
ReplyDeleteThen again, lately some of my predictions regarding MLP have come true (superhero episode, before I knew much about Mare Do Well, predicted airships in MLP on Friday, before the new episode with an airship in it), and it's kindof scaring me.
I am always impressed by how the show teaches its viewers morals without being too preachy.
ReplyDelete@Travis Smith
ReplyDeleteI don't think there'll be drugs in the new episode.
It's "Heroine" (a female hero), not "Heroin" (a kind of drug).
I knew it!
ReplyDeletePlay the iOS app "Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day"
It says that Equestria was founded the same way!!
Did anybody actually ever look into the MLP iDevice app that was reviewed here a while back? It told the story that this episode's about.
ReplyDeleteSoo...was this founding before Discord's original rise?
ReplyDelete@XTUX346
ReplyDeleteThanks for catching that I typed it to quickly and I've got autocorrect. But it would explain Pinkie some what.
And it will end with Derpy receiving a Red Ryder BB gun from under the tree
ReplyDeleteCannot Wait! Hope this has some connection to Luna and Celestia
ReplyDeleteOr Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to give a kid a doll
ReplyDeleteI predict this episode will answer all our questions, and raise so many more. I wonder when we will get the episode Celestia's VA mentioned that would talk about the EoH and how Luna and Celestia obtained them.
ReplyDeleteEarth Ponies have magic that allows them to use their forehooves and tail as prehensile limbs. Really, CardsLafter explained it perfectly in Eyes of Another Pony.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be very interesting indeed. I can also foresee some rage over some fanon being ruined. But that happens often enough to where it's hardly anything new anyway. lol I'm very interested in this episode and seeing how all the races set aside differences to setup the foundation of Equestria. It's like Equestria's Founding Fath... err, Ponies.
ReplyDeleteHOLY CRAP
ReplyDeleteAw, thought it would be a Celestia episode... it still might be, but it sounds a little less likely now.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's how Equestria was made.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Bronies.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Trollestia.
And Merry Christmas Discord. Discord is best secret santa.
@Fon Shaolin
ReplyDeleteEarthies have everypony else by the balls since they are the only ponies that can grow food, no pegasi in Apaloosa.
And more importantly, I take it First Winter Wrapup is now canon if this holds out?
ReplyDeletesince its held in canterlot, i hope we see celestia AND luna in this
ReplyDeleteCannot wait! It sounds so awesome!
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOD THEATRE PONIES ARE COMING.
ReplyDeleteSince the mane 6 is putting on a play, does that mean it'll be a musical play? Please make it happen!
ReplyDelete@SoGGy
ReplyDeleteOh god yes.
@Cesar
ReplyDeleteYou gotta share, you gotta care?
I still call my earlier synopsis
ReplyDeleteMaybe Pinkie was alright and her story was really how Equestria was made... or at least more accurate than everyone gave it credit for.
ReplyDeleteSounds like this'll be an epic one
ReplyDeleteMy prediction: Best episode of the season.
ReplyDelete@Travis Smith
ReplyDeleteActually, heroin is a sedative, so it only explains Pinkie if her natural state is living in the Speed Force. Really, cocaine or even meth aren't enough to explain the elemental force that is Pinkie Pie
Twilight: ...the resulting earth pony genocide claimed the lives of nearly half a million ponies. The perpetrators of this slaughter were never brought to trial and now their descendants are among the nobles of Canterlot.
ReplyDeletePinkie: GOD BLESS US. EVERYONE.
Huh. The synopsis of this one actually puts me in mind of where Paradise has been hinting it would go.
ReplyDelete@D.Mcarthy
ReplyDelete0_o
ogives logic makes since, that might be why Celestia banished some of us that meliniea or so ago.
But we're at least coming back
this is gonna to be EPIC!! I can't wait for it.
ReplyDeleteAll i want is Pipsqueak dressed like Tiny tim.
ReplyDeleteIsn't this episode the same as the iPod app Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day? O_O
ReplyDeleteHey, bronies I have an excellent idea: let's not APPLY real life events and politics in here, okay?
ReplyDeleteNot even as a joke, this could lead to nasty stuff.
I still hope we got some Royal sisters history. Like you know where they and discord came from?
ReplyDelete@Haileo That's exactly what I thought, and the episode title makes it seem all the more likely.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably gonna spawn more fanfic than it deconstructs... Really looking forward to this one :D
ReplyDelete/)^3^(\
@Shaun Hegney
ReplyDeleteI'm envisioning a set like an animation studio with the mane 6 dressed as animators and Celestia in a red wig.
I look forward to watching the ep for what it is, and I anticipate fuzzy feelings and happiness. Can't wait!
ReplyDeleteI just hope this doesn't spawn disproportionate reactions from fanfic authors who don't understand that canon > fanon, and that the writers are not beholden to them in any way.
SQUEE! Soo excited! I love learning about history!
ReplyDeleteDo I sense the death of the 'master race unicorns' fanon...
ReplyDeleteHot damn, this one's got me excited! :D
ReplyDeleteIt's gonna be the story from the iPod app. There is a big winter until their friendship makes it summer and they create Equestria, no mention of the Princesses.
ReplyDeleteohh ma gawsh xD yessss
ReplyDeleteThat will be an AWESOME CHAPTER!
ReplyDeleteI want to watch it now!
I'm calling it now: Luna plays Baby Jesus.
ReplyDeleteThis gonna be sweet.
maybe pegasus, unicorns and earth-ponies join to fight Discord.
ReplyDeleteThis has a tendency to slam a great deal of fanfiction tot he ground...... I am leaveing room to edit.
ReplyDeleteYES.
ReplyDeleteEpisode: Ponies putting aside their differences
ReplyDeleteLeaked song: Wanting to make others smile
... Could it be? Is this... the anticipated release of that song?
@Fon Shaolin
ReplyDelete>They are being held in check, like sheep, by the system and government propaganda (so-called "friendship")!
Earth Ponies are low on the pyramid, but they're hardly at the bottom; hasn't it been shown that Earth Ponies have themselves enslaved other sentient species like the mules, cows, and most recently the literal sheep? Not to mention their unwanted encroachment onto buffalo tribal territory? Zebra civilization is possibly too advanced or too geographically foreign to have run ins with, but it seems any four-legged, hoofed being in Equestria falls into some sort of hierarchy of dominance.
My god. The fics this will generate.
ReplyDeleteWAIT!
ReplyDeleteIs the story in the MLP iphone app gonna be canon D: ?!?!?!?!
@Flutterfan
ReplyDeleteGotta do it like the original Watchmen comic and fake a pretend alien assault or some other such calamity that forces people to stop being complete utter douches to eachother if they want to survive.
Its kinda like how this episode will play out with the "super winter" I am assuming.
I hope the alluded to 2nd villain of season 2 is the ICE YETI OF EVIL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ORIGINAL SUPER WINTER. WOOOOO!
;)
^^^^^^^^^
ReplyDeleteAnd it is released by non other then Trixie. Lulz
Oh dear, this is going to be great! Can't wait to see this. Does anyone have the story from the iphone app written somewhere? I don't have an iphone :S
ReplyDeleteAlso, this talk about earth ponies being inferior to other ponies makes me think about Fallout: Equestria... Yeah, I wonder who were the ones to advance technology and why in that fic? :S
Can't wait... It's gonna be awesome.
ReplyDeleteMy bet on that Starswirl The Bearded is involved into the founding of Equestria, and somehow looks like Abe Lincoln. :D
ReplyDeletethe hype is eating me from inside X3
ReplyDeleteEquestria World War between the 3 sides? :D
ReplyDeleteFOUNDED Equestria.
ReplyDeleteFOUNDED.
Equestria is a place, not a planet.
Maybe this ep will clear this up.
Awwwww yeeeeeaaaaahhhh
ReplyDeleteSo looking forward to this, I crave backstory!
This episode alone could decide the fate of about 5-10% of the fanfics.
ReplyDeleteI see a bunch of fanfics and Fanart from this episode.
ReplyDeleteThere will be a baddie B/G char that will be involved. (Disqord maybe??)
I think we already know this some of this info, don't we? Wasn't it revealed at some point?
ReplyDeleteIt's like, Equestria was a bleak and barren place. Then, all three races put aside their differences and became friends. And together, they all founded the city of Canterlot.
inb4 PMVs of Avenue Q's Everyone's a little bit racist
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping to some Discord backstory...
ReplyDeleteI was hoping for some Celestia/Luna backstory, but if we find out what makes Earth Ponies Speciall, I will be just as excited.
ReplyDeleteAnd has this been confirmed as episode 11 now, airing on December 17th?
For those curious about the app, the story goes like this:
ReplyDelete"Long, long ago the Pegasus ponies, Earth ponies and Unicorn ponies did not live in harmony."
"Their hearts were as cold as the mysterious blizzard that overtook the land."
"Each group of ponies decided to find a new place to live. By accident, they all arrived at the same place. The blizzard arrived there too."
"They learned that there was one way to end the storm. It was to treat each other warmly. That's how Equestria was born!"
"The unicorns used their magic to build the city of Canterlot."
"Once the city was finished, they invited all the Earth and Pegasus ponies to a party!"
"This party was so much fun that it became a tradition to hold every year."
"The party is now known as the Grand Galloping Gala. It's the biggest social event of the year! Everyone hopes to be invited."
why do I smell Christmas ep all over this ep
ReplyDelete@Crimson_Wing
ReplyDeleteAnd after 10,000 years and billions of deaths from the endless wars, the ponies finally realized buffalo were the real enemies!
;3
Face it, if the three races go to war, the Unicorns would steamroller everyone else.
ReplyDeleteWith magic, you can make wings and enable flight. (Sonic Rainboom)
With magic, you don't need brute strength (Twilight pulling the cart in Winter Wrap Up)
So unicorns effectively have the best qualities of the other two races combined.
HO.LEE.SHEET.
ReplyDeleteOH MAI GAWH
ReplyDeleteI really hope they deal with this episode well, like how they did with "Over a Barrel". What I imagine to see is that the production of the play reopens old wounds between the different races and they begin debating over whose race was, say, the one in the right in the past, or who has been the most privileged or most wronged. Here's how I imagine how they saw themselves and the other race:
ReplyDeleteThe Earth Ponies - they saw themselves as a hard done by race who do all the hardwork as a proletariat yet treated as inferior by the other races, who see them as uninteligent, money oriented and politically volatile. Their direct conflict is with the Unicorns.
The Unicorns - they saw themselves as the most inteligent and superior race of pony due to their mastering of magic. They see thesmelves as the natural leaders and find the other two races as inferior and troublesome. The other races see them as domineering, pompous and egotistical. Their direct conflict is with the Earth ponies.
The Pegasi - whilst the other races have more conflict, the Pegasi keep to themselves more. They see themselves as the "cool" and relaxed species, keeping out of the affairs of the other races, unless it benefits them. The other races see them as completely duplicious and self-serving (the later certainly true to an extent), siding with whoever makes them the best offer.
Of course, things start off okay, but the debate gets heated and they start arguing all over again, displaying the traits as mentioned above. Chaos ensues and naturally, Celestia and Luna (I'd love to see these two working off each other) come and set them straight.
But that's just my view. Take it for what it's worth
I will be really happy if there is Tiny Tim Pipsqueak, and he says "Celestia bless us, everypony!"
ReplyDeleteThat would totally make my day. Also it would make the episode awesome. Also, Luna. I really hope Luna is in the episode.
@Angel's Aegis There are already at least 10 comments about it, soo... yeah.
ReplyDeleteDiscord ensues, eh Wormtail69? As in, the argument releases Discord again?
ReplyDeleteCould be feasible, but I don't think they're going down that road just yet. ;3
Maybe it'll reveal more about Celestia and Luna...
ReplyDeleteI've seen Twilight telekinetically grab & move Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, but I have never seen any unicorn do anything magical to any Earth Pony, unless it was a VERY simple and rather beneficial spell such as artificial cloud-walking.
ReplyDeleteFor this, I have the reason to believe that Earth Ponies are very resistant to magic.
I think the social pyramid just changed. Oops.