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The My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic Thread

Animeboye

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^Wait is that actually Babs? Wow she looks pretty close to what I thought she'd look like.


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Also, seeing the look on Diamond Tiara's face, I KNEW she was involved somehow.  Doesn't that bully EVER learn? :)


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So far I've guessed that:

1. Babs Seed would have a bad girl look to her

2. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon would be involved/Babs would befriend them

This is how I bet the episode's going to end: Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara are going to do something terrible to the CMC(make them cry for instance) and it's going to make Babs realize just how terrible she's been to Apple Bloom and her friends. She's going to stand up to Diamond Tiara and she and Apple Bloom will either become friends or they'll be on better terms with one another.

Also I bet Babs will have a valley girl accent.


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As long as her portrayal is deeper than that of Gilda, I'm all for it.
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God Babs' voice is terrible. She sounds like Joey in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series.


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Over the last few days, I've been thoroughly searching fimfiction.net for all of the MLP/Bionicle crossovers there are (I've found less than a dozen so far). While I was in the middle of that search earlier this week, I got sidetracked by a recent fanfic (unrelated to my search) that was featured and I found it to be quite interesting.

Hello, Sedna

I won't spoil anything, but I will say that, the way I see it, it kinda reminds me of an Arther C. Clarke short story.
(What can I say? I love science fiction, especially when it's in space.)

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My first fanfiction: Quest for the Energy Stones
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My currently ongoing fanfiction series: LEGO Equestria Girls



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Quote from: Animeboye,Nov 19 2012 on  11:41 PM
Sure. It's never too late to join. Welcome and I like Spike too, but my favorite character is Rainbow Dash.

So when did you get into the show?
Well,i was watching Tv one day,got really bored 'cause there was nothing good and found MLP FIM.I decided to give it a chance and found myself hooked to it.It's so cute and wonderful!!!


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It sounds to me like Babs is supposed to have some kind of Brooklyn accent or something


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Eh, I thought her voice was okay. Sheesh. They sure made her vicious.
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Quote from: WeirdRaptor,Nov 22 2012 on  12:59 AM
Eh, I thought her voice was okay. Sheesh. They sure made her vicious.
Though, she did sound a bit like one of Rainbow's bullies on Cloudsdale


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The problem I have with Bab's voice is that it just sounds kind of weird. She doesn't really sound like a kid to me.

Also, I'm a little torn about tomorrow's episode. On the one hand, Babs does seem like a pretty interesting character but on the other hand it feels like this might end up being the My Little Pony After School Special. I've seen plenty of bully episodes in the past and none of them have ever really felt different from one another. Who knows? Maybe this will be the rare, non-generic bully episode. I sure hope so.


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From the preview, it seemed to me that Babs was being pressured by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon into bullying them. So it looks to me like there's going to be a peer pressure center to this episode as well


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I wouldn't say she was really pressured. More like she decided to join the "cool kids". I wonder if Babs might have been bullied while she was in Manehattan.

Maybe this episode won't be that bad. If the clip was anything to go by, maybe this'll be the first bully episode to actually give bullies more depth than just being douchebags.



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And now everyone will start asking why Doctor Whooves was with Lily


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Hey, good news, Animeboye, in light of Babs Seed, people might start to forget about Gilda!
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I never really had a problem with Gilda. She was a good character in the sense that she wasn't supposed to be likable. Babs...well I can't say too much about her right now since her episode hasn't aired yet. Maybe she'll be a good character, maybe she won't. Besides I never said I disliked Babs. I think her character design's pretty cute. I just don't like her voice.


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Also in regards to Babs, this seems like a much bigger bully episode than Gilda was. While Gilda was a bully, the focus was more on the value of relationships between old friends and new friends, and expectations of them meeting. As Rainbow Dash pretty much said "If you can't treat my new friends nicely, it's over between us"

This one is really, truly about bullying and you could see what Babs was doing to harass the CMC in the song. Gilda was just mean spirited in general and, except for the antic with Granny Smith, you could say it was probably in her nature to steal the apple or yell at Fluttershy for bumping into her (yes, I had to bring that up, but it was a good example), or being a jerk to Pinkie, probably out of jealousy that Rainbow has other friends. Babs is deliberately being nasty...maybe out of pressure from the other two girls, but we'll have to see.