
| Anonymous #494631 10 months ago |
... stop thinking so hard. |
| Anonymous #494636 10 months ago |
Please don't judge the whole site by fanwank like this. |
| JP #494638 10 months ago |
I WILL NOT OPEN THAT LINK
I WILL NOT OPEN THAT LINK I WILL NOT GO TO TVTROPES AND SPEND THE NEXT NIGHT READING IT |
| AdrianBrony #494654 10 months ago |
#494636
actually I think this isn't much fan wank. all the reasons do kind of make sense. fan wank would be if there were fanon incorporated by it like someone tried to explain derpy was off screen distracting him |
| Scumbag_Crowley #494655 10 months ago |
Crap, I opened the link!
Everyone, it's too late for me, save yourselves..! |
| Geldon #494657 10 months ago |
Neither. Adaptation Induced Plothole due to time constraints on 60-80 minute story being crammed into 40 minutes. |
| Anonymous #494668 10 months ago |
Anon1 here again. It's a bloody cartoon. Let's enjoy it as one, and not dissect it like you would a college dissertation. |
| AdrianBrony #494689 10 months ago |
#494668
what if we derive enjoyment from analyzing shows we like? there's a difference between "Hey! I think I see what they did there!" and "NO YOU GUYS THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED! |
| Geldon #494695 10 months ago |
Anon1, you lose a bit of your credibility that over-speculating pony is bad when you linger on a pony-related comment thread trying to make a point. |
| cthulhlu #494696 10 months ago |
Tvtropes will consume us All!!! |
| Anonymous #494699 10 months ago |
He was defeated because he's Color Blind!
Anypony that gray = under Discords control Anypony in Color = Not under his Control As soon as he seen the main 6 IN COLOR, He should have Known that something was up. Color Blindness...Discords True Weakness. |
| AdrianBrony #494714 10 months ago |
#494699
well he WAS wearing sunglasses... |
| Anonymous #494718 10 months ago |
True, but fanwanking should be like ordinary wanking. Done in moderation and preferably done in private. At least those are my two bits. |
| AdrianBrony #494731 10 months ago |
I guess we just have varying definitions of fanwanking. |
| GreyAcumane #494735 10 months ago |
Um... Why are they saying that he thought applejack was trying to call his bluff?
Applejack was brainwashed to be a liar. If the "liarjack" says that the friendship is back together, it would just as likely mean that they're still dysfunctional so he has nothing to worry about. |
| Anonymous #494737 10 months ago |
Honestly, he seemed to be waiting for it throughout the episode. He may not have been totally sure when it was coming and how long this freedom would last, but when the time came he just sat there and told them to go ahead. It seemed pretty obvious that his spell over the mane 6 had been broken; the presence of Rainbow would've been enough to indicate that.
Perhaps he's just come to accept this as a natural cycle, the best compromise that can be achieved between himself and the more ordered world. He spends long periods confined (though maybe he has a whole world to himself to play with inside the statue), with the occasional break-out to re-infuse a bit of randomness into the wider world before going back. |
| marioandsonic #494741 10 months ago |
BRILLIANT! |
| AdrianBrony #494766 10 months ago |
#494735
that's the thing. in the confiusion he made of the world, he lost track of who was under his spell and who wasn't for a brief period of time. |
| Anonymous #494781 10 months ago |
But from what Spike (asking why everyone looked "so... grey") and Pinkie (laughing about how she turned grey) it seems as if the desaturation wasn't just for the benefit of the audience. Their colours were back to normal; Discord would've known his influence over them was broken.
He was probably just surprised he got locked up again so quickly. I much prefer the idea of him not necessarily wanting to go back, and recognizing that it's necessary he only enjoys brief intervals reigning over chaos in Equestria, since he isn't capable of moderating his own behaviour. Either that, or it's a "well, we needed an ending so we ripped the end of S1E02 and banged this one out in 2 minutes". |
| AdrianBrony #494898 10 months ago |
#494781
he could still have also thought that the elements were broken anyway. |
| AdrianBrony #494911 10 months ago |
but now I AM getting into fan wank territory so I'll just leave it as a way to think that the writers DIDN'T phone the ending in. |
| Anonymous #496217 10 months ago |
^^^^^^ Then explain the "NO!" and the frightened look on his face as he was being petrified. If he knew it was coming he wouldn't have reacted like such a coward. |
| Anonymous #496273 10 months ago |
#496217
Dude, coward? He was caught in a blast that guaranteed he was going to be turned into stone. Freakin' STONE. I, as a true coward, would have been sobbing and flailing. I think he handled it rather well. |
| Doctor_Whooves #496287 10 months ago |
Yea, there are always certain things you just don't enjoy, even if you recognize them as necessary.
I hope we see him back sometime, though. |
| Anonymous #496294 10 months ago |
^ Because statue with non-frightened look wouldn't be so awesome. So he did it. |