So I'm now drawing Fluttershy!
It's going good... now.
I had an awful time with the eyes, but I've finally got the correct size and shapes for them. Holy crap were they hard to draw correctly! But that seems to have been the hardest part, it should be smooth sailing here on out! I'm excited for you guys to see it.
So here's my first ever attempt at drawing a pony:
I think it turned out pretty good, especially for a first try!
It looks especially good on the 3DS screen and in 3D - so I encourage you to check it out on the 3DS gallery if you can!
EDIT: Actually, it seems the gallery is really nice and you can download the 3D image! So you can see it in 3D as long as you have a 3DS, you don't even need Colors! 3D! Thanks, Colors! Gallery!
EDIT 2: If you're on the 3DS Internet Browser, you can just click the above link and it will display in 3D!
Daring Don't was a decent episode with a contrived (forced) plot. This makes it an absolutely amazing piece for analysis. I discovered I could write and write and write about it. It is very interesting. I swear I tried to contain myself. I would like to talk about a more general topic before I go into Daring Don't though. I think this will clarify why I like all but one episodes of the show.
You people know I love the plot (lol), no seriously, I love stories that have a cohesive story from beginning to finish. I have purposely analyzed how stories work since I was 4 or something, specially TV shows, and even more animated shows. I almost have a TVtropes inside my head. I learned to move my standards depending on what I am watching or reading. MLP: FiM is a show for kids. That doesn't mean in any way that it shouldn't be criticized for its flaws, but there are many factors that affect the quality of the a story in a show for kids.
First and foremost: The time. How many times I have mentioned how rushed some episodes feel, it is hard to understand how good these people are, and how hard it is to put a complete story arc in 21 mins and made most of the audience feel satisfied. Proof of this is we are still watching the show.
Second: The show is supposed to be funny and lighthearted. Now, depending on the writer and the episode, this means we can't have themes considered too mature, we can't have heavy emotional scenes to be too long (even for the time restriction), if comedy is what an episode is about apply the "the rule of fun", if adventure is what the episode is about... forget setting it up and get to it fast, you only have 21 minutes darn it!
You got the idea. You are not going to use the same standards to criticize the story of a Fanfiction novel with zero restrictions to criticize our lovable little show for kids; you just DON'T. Now, all of us move our standards, I'm not special, I'm just pointing out something that is mostly done unconsciously.
Yet, as seen lately, some people sometime gets to much into the cartoon and start criticizing it for every single little thing, whining and demanding and... well you know that part of the fandom. I am NOT doing that here, and even when being opinionated gets the best of me, I only get deep analyzing the show because it is fun to do it, and honest criticism is good for the show.
Well, that took too much space sorry.
TL;DR: Cartoons for kids have too many restrictions that affect their plots and DHX does a great job so people shouldn't criticize them as much. I liked the episode but let's point out some of its flaws for fun.
Spoilers for Daring Don't
Daring Do is real, and she is her own author. In itself this is no big deal, cliche but no big deal. All Daring Do adventures and enemies have always been real. So she has been saving the world over and over but no one knows about it. Now, this starts to get contrived. There is a tribe of ponies with a magical temple that can take control of the sun... wait what? How the heck has Celestia not done anything about that?! Are we even in Equestria still? Check footage of the map That map makes no sense, hence is just part of a joke... Ok, let's say they are not in Equestria anymore. Oh look the author said in a Tweet that Celestia knows about Ahuizotl and everything, she just have faith in Daring... Ok, so Daring Do is an agent of Celestia that no one knows is real, but she writes her adventures into novels... as they happen... O.K.
And now Equestria as we know it has completely changed canonwise. Yay. Well, not really, it is just a little cartoon for kids, I wouldn't be amazed if we won't see any repercussions to this madness. Besides every detail could be explained by filling the holes with a lot of well thought headcanon, which proves it is contrived but not terrible.
Did Polsky wrote this thinking about worldbuilding? Nah, he just wanted to write a fun episode with Daring Do for the kids. He picked a fast way to present the story to get to the action scenes soon, then just went along with the archeology adventure tropes and did it quite well. Of course he was asked to have some Dash acting like a crazy fangirl (something I liked to see again) so they could put the moral at the end. End of the story.
Here I could start analyzing Polsky's work, in MLP and otherwise, and I probably could make a good argument of how all of it influences this episode. But I won't because I already wrote too much. So I'll just say Polsky, Imho, is imaginative and great with action scenes and slapstick, but can improve in other areas.
Overall, I think Daring Don't is an ok episode, an entertaining adventure, funny, with great animation, and the music was the best of this season. I did like it, but, wow random and out there story. At least it still felt character driven, as in everypony was in character and the situations in that aspect made sense; as long as they keep that in mind, I really can just not take the plot behind it all seriously. Note that doesn't mean I liked or hated said plot, but it is definitely something to criticize.
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted nevermore!"
"I'll just have to STOP. TIME!" - Twilight Sparkle
This was a wonderful episode. So many Scootaloo feels... I really hated Diamond Tiara a lot more than usual, honesty, bullying because of something like what Scootaloo was going through is something that I hate a really big lot. And Dash had a few funny moments here. Good song, too. In my opinion, CMC episodes are getting better every season. This episode might just be my favourite of the bunch.
Please put spoiler tags around anything revolving around new episodes, at least for a couple days. I have yet to see it and probably won't until tomorrow.
A very, very busy Saturday for me. A friend invited me to party and after that I have a special session with my RP group. So very early post (for my standards).
New episode yay. A CMC episode that was good enough imo. I am not the biggest fan of the full CMC with school kids problems episodes, but, that is my taste, I don't think it was a top notch CMC episode, but it did well.
Spoilers for Flight to the Finish
Good things: Used the lacking of flying from Scootalloo well, the bullies, and it had a new song. It was good, it just didn't do anything special for me. The tropes where clear after the song, the CMC were going to try their best to win, the bullies were going to try to prevent that (I like how Diamond Tiara thinks, she is a good villain) but the girls were going to win anyway. A way it could have gone I would have preferred because they won the last time they were on a competition, is if they had lost because somepony else (not Diamond Tiara of course) did a better routine, and they could still have gotten a reward in some way. But I'm guessing the point of this was for them to show when the -already mentioned enough to be a thing- Equestria Games are finally shown.
And those are my thoughts. I doubt I can say much else about it even if I watched it several times, but who knows.
FoTW
Tonight on the ==Fic of The Week== I'd like to advertise a new fanfiction that just began this week: Infinite Harmony by Alchemystudent
[On Fimfiction Crossover Incomplete Teen]
While searching through the Canterlot library, Twilight Sparkle discovers a book detailing the legend of six gems of power: the infinity gems. Curious, she goes off in search of answers about the mysterious gems and the one who wishes to wield them. Little does she know, deep in the multiverse, two beings begin plans to make a grab for both the gems and the Elements of Harmony, plans that will have rippling effects on three worlds. Friendship, Justice, and Courage must unite to protect the fates of three worlds.
A JLA/Avengers/MLP crossover. Counting with one chapter atm, it was a very entertaining read, and promised a deep story with a very good understanding of all the universes it plans to touch (DC/Marvel/MLP:FiM), I specially like the characterizations of what seems to be the main villains. I just have a good feeling about this one and wanted to share..
Nice writing so far.
And I can't believe no one has posted this one.
It even has a bit of SCEPTER!
OK finished watching.
And yay! It's my new favorite episode this season!
...of course I'm hoping the superhero one next week'll blow it out of the water~ I'm so excited for that one!
Anyway, my full thoughts on episode five:
I, personally, really like cutie mark crusaders episodes! They're just so cute - nothing compares! It's just cuteness overload - I love it!
Only thing that bugged me was that bugged me was that Diamond Tiara's and Silver Spoon's cutie marks kept changing sides... they never stayed on the same side for too long... this was especially noticeable when they did the "rump bump" and they clearly had them on opposite sides and then directly afterwards they were on the same side again... I suppose this could just be "artistic license" rather than "continuity errors", but it still bugged me, lol.
Had a very catchy song, too! And, speaking of which, they mentioned horses in that song... did I just miss it, or have horses never been mentioned before? If so, that'd mean that somewhere out there, there are horses... presumably larger than the ponies... interesting...
But anyway, I really liked this one a lot. It was so much fun!
How many tries does it take to get a cutie mark? The world may never know...
remember the constant appearances of butterflies in todays Scootaloo centric episode?, well, look at this image which was found with the Hub's promotional images a long time ago image
Just encountered this show today after and I gotta admit. It's legit and so disgustingly cute. It kinda gives me more respect for stuff like this. I blame you Gioku.
Was Mariobro4. No, I'm not taking off my backpack...it's important.
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