#thodust

[camthewizard]

The "Look Hooo's Talking" segments aired immediately after each episode up to episode 10, and discuss the episode that they followed. They aren't needed, but if you want to watch them they're best when the episode is still fresh in your mind, so you should probably include them in your reactions for the episodes (after you catch the ones you missed) The "Owl Pellets" shorts aired weekly during a brief midseason hiatus after episode 10, and should probably be kept after episode 10.

I just watched the first three Look Hooo’s Talking and I’m inclined to agree with your assessment. I’m not going to liveblog because they basically just recaps of the episodes with 5407 owl puns thrown in for good measure. 

Anyway, Owlbert and Hooty are the most important characters in the entire show and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. 

[mandareeboo]

I don't think Rose had to shapeshift back, she may not have shattered but she was poofed which means she had a chance to alter her base form to match her former disguise.

Is that possible, though? We’ve seen Amethyst attempt to change her base form, but Garnet said it was unstable. Can a Gem change their base form with enough time? We just don’t know.

[jinjojess]

The bulk of the problems I've seen people express wrt dr3, or any dr installment, are things that either; a) Make sense individually but fall apart when looked at with other parts of the narrative, b) Would make perfect sense if DR was a plot-driven work, or c) A+B. Dr2 kids brainwashed? B. No DR1 survivors dying in DR3? C. Recurring elements? B, maybe C. Characters treated as interchangeable? B. Saihara Shuuichi? A.

That's actually a pretty handy formula. Thanks!

[mandareeboo]

While I'm sure there are some limitations, Amethyst's base form was unstable in part because it wasn't really who she was inside, PD/RQ had the opposite problem. Also Amethyst was trying to make her's bigger.

True, true. Have we ever seen anyone attempt to make themselves smaller before? For a long period of time, I mean. Amethyst’s turned into birds and cats, and the Ruby ship, but otherwise I can’t recall.

[ponett]

"[Lauren Faust's] comment about how she doesn’t believe gay relationships have a place in a children’s show like mlp" - I've seen you say this before, but I don't recall ever hearing about her saying that from anybody else and I don't know where to look for it. Do you happen to have a source?

the source is this deviantart comment. it’s old but it’s what she was thinking when making the show and to my knowledge she’s never changed her tune

in the same breath she pats herself on the ass for making rainbow dash a butch character who isn’t explicitly gay, then wheels out the old “gay romance is too adult for a kids show because it’s about sex and sexuality (but straight romance is okay)” nonsense

[incorrecteahquotes]

I already mentioned this in a reblog but; I think someone has to put each destiny in the book in the first place, but since the book had destiny-stealing powers it covered up any mistakes. What we're seeing now are them following their true destinies, not the destinies that others chose for them.

Oh I could definitely see Headmaster Grimm trying to play God and write in destines into the Storybook.  At least with the fake one.  

The real one though… I think the names are just magically put in from birth?  It’s a lazy explanation, but it works. I would think the real Storybook has protection to keep it from being tampered with.  Although it can be tricked with magic, as Way Too Wonderland showed. But now like you said, everyone’s destinies belong to them, and they can do with them as they wish.

~Admin Tye

[ursineknight]

The girl with Marty was named Vidalia, which is a type of onion.

Thanks for the catch! ;w;

[rabalogy]

That could be Magic Man in the back there, or Shoko's dad.

Oh yeah, both of those would probably make more sense than Death. I wonder if that’s something we’ll ever get an answer to, or if it’s just a scrapped idea that we’ll never see again. 

Kind of like the storyboards for The Lich that were never included…