THE SCRIPTS SAY SO, My Response
to Bronycurious’s Equestria Girls livestream
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| Bronycurious by Bronycurious source: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Six-Months-Progress-359875860 |
Several days ago Bronycurious one of
my favorite analysts streamed Equestria Girls and he watched it with some
friends on a Skype call. Bronycurious really didn’t like it, got angry, got
loud, bashed it, pointed out flaws, plot holes, etc. I on the other hand really
liked Equestria Girls and it’s alright if others don’t like what I like, but I
felt the need to point out where he was wrong and to response to the statements
and questions made by Bronycurious and his friends. I’m going to list the points I want to respond
to, put time stamps from the link below and I’m probably not going to quote
directly. I couldn’t read the chat, I didn’t watch it live, I watched the
recording and the chat was blurry.
1. [35:35] Twilight could have grabbed Sunset
Shimmer in a magical aura.
Shimmer would have just teleported out of the hold, Twilight
couldn’t have know, but her first instinct was probably to chase Shimmer and
use a quick spell like teleport to help her to catch Sunset Shimmer.
2. [37:33] Why is the mirror out in the open because
the plot said.
Technically it’s because Celestia was hoping Sunset
Shimmer would come back seeking her guidance and locking the mirror in a crate
would have probably stopped Shimmer from coming back.
3. [38:18] Luckily Twilight Sparkle doesn’t exist in
this world because the script says so.
Twilight does exist in the other world because later
human Pinkie Pie mention a girl and a dog living in the city that looks like
the changed Twilight and Spike.
4. [39:35] Why is Twilight freaking out over having
hands when she knows what hands are?
If you never had hands before and your fore legs
were suddenly replaced with arms and hands you would freak out too.
5. [44:20] Why didn’t Sunset Shimmer recognized
Twilight the first time.
Shimmer may not have expected Twilight to follow her
into the human and Shimmer wasn’t sure what Twilight would look like in the
other world, also Shimmer isn’t perfect and she admitted her mistake later.
6. [45:10] How was the dog allowed into the school?
He isn’t allowed into the school, Twilight hides
Spike most of the time and she was lucky enough to not get caught.
7 [45:42] Why doesn’t Twilight tell the true about
the crown to get it back?
This point is brought up a few times in the stream
and she tells the true later, but not to Principle Celestia. Twilight doesn’t
want to tell the truth until later because they don’t think anyone will believe
them and she told that to Spike later. They could show the mirror to Principle
Celestia or have Spike talk to her, but that could upset the balance between the
two worlds.
8. [46:05] I wonder how Fluttershy feels about
animals being put to sleep at the shelter
It’s possible that Fluttershy goes to a no kill
animal shelter and if not Fluttershy probably just feels sad that some animals
are put down.
9. [46:28] The crown uses dark magic in the human
world because it is more evil than Equestria.
Someone in the Skype said that the element of
harmony reacted to the corruptness in Shimmer’s heart and then Tommy Oliver aka
Bronycuroius said that doesn’t make sense an element of harmony wouldn’t react
in a disharmonious way like that. Also Tommy said it shouldn’t act
independently, but I don’t see why a good magical item can’t a negative effect
on a bad person, magic can have weird rules sometime, like how Star Swirl’s
spell can somehow make the elements switch cutie marks.
10. [48:06] How did Shimmer win the crown 3 times
over, she should have graduated by now.
If this a 9 – 12 grade high school she could have
won the crown in 9th, 10th and 11th grade and
now she is in 12th grade.
11. [52:30] Why does Big Mac have normal skin color?
Pony Big Mac has a red coat and if human Mac had
skin to match he would have red skin and it would have looked weird.
12. [Many Times] THE SCRIPT SAYS NO! THE SCRIPT SAID
SO!
I’m not sure how to feel about this phase half of me
thinks this is funny and they’re good lines while the other half says of course
the script said no or so movies are supposed to follow scripts and please stop
yelling into microphone I like to wear headphones.
13. [1:06:00] Why would Sunset Shimmer break up the
human version of Twilight’s friends she couldn’t have known that they were
Twilight’s friends in the pony world.
I think that Sunset Shimmer did a lot of mischief
while in the human world and probably affected a lot of student to get her
feared reputation. Twilight’s human friends were just another victim of Sunset Shimmer,
maybe one of them might have crossed Shimmer and she decided to break up their
friendship. At the end it’s implied that Rarity opposed Shimmer in the Spring
Fling so maybe that’s why Shimmer broke up the friendship.
14. [1:13:35] What’s with the skirts and giant
boots?
Maybe that’s just the fashion trend right it’s not
just the human mane 6 other girls like Trixie have giant boots and a skirt,
this point was addressed later at [01:24:21]. AppleJack and Rainbow Dash may
not be super fashionable, but they still might want to go with the trend. Later
Tommy asks Rainbow Dash is wearing shorts under the skirt it’s because a skirt
over shorts is a common tomboy fashion choice, take Chie Satonaka from Persona
4 as an example.
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| source: http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-22/p4a-chie-satonaka.html |
15. [1:26:20] Twilight should’ve stolen the crown in
the first place.
I’ve talked about this before on reddit, but I
wanted to say what I learned from the comments. Celestia said that she told
Luna to put the crown in a safe place, that could be anywhere and that means
that neither Twilight nor Sunset Shimmer knew where the crown was and they
couldn’t have stolen it before the dance.
16. [1:29:48] Why didn’t Twilight get powers or
transform when she put on the crown isn’t that what the crown does in the other
world?
She might have got powers when she put on the crown,
but not use them and Twilight didn’t transform because she doesn’t have
darkness in her heart like Sunset Shimmer. It’s weird that the element of
harmony can do that, but it’s explained later and no one said that the element(s)
couldn’t be used for disharmony. At around [1:31:00] Tommy brings up the point
that elements didn’t work when four of the mane 6 were discorded instead of
transforming them. I believe that being discorded is different than having evil
in your heart.
17. [1:31:42] The teenage army would turn into
ponies and the demon powers would revert.
We’re assuming that would happen because Twilight
turns back into a pony by going through the mirror and that Sunset couldn’t turn
into the demon in the pony world. Now that Sunset has the demon powers she may
be able to negate the turning into ponies transformation and keep her demon
powers in Equestria.
18. [1:34:00] Twilight and her human friends can use
the power of harmony without the crown, so why is it important?
It’s important because evil people can use it to
become demons and she may not be able to use the power of harmony without the
crown in the pony world.
19. [1:38:21] Equestria Girls was made so people would
calm down about Alicorn Twilight.
I’ve never heard this before and it doesn’t make
sense, Twilight isn’t an Alicorn for most of the movie, but she is still an
Alicorn in the beginning and end. Equestria
Girls was made so that Hasbro could compete with Monster High and Tommy
mentioned that earlier in the stream. Also how is possible that this movie was
made to calm people this movie has the opposite effect on a lot of people like
the people in the stream.
20. [02:09:38] How is it possible that Sunset
Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle never crossed before both were Celestia’s
students, they seem to be about age, and Sunset was a student before Twilight
did she turn evil and go to the human world as a filly.
Tommy asked a lot questions here, but I think I can
answer this. Sunset was a student of Celestia’s before Twilight, but turned
evil and left to the human world years later. It’s possible that Celestia
teaches some students one on one and some in a classroom, Sunset and Twilight
could have gotten separate one on one time. That would have taken a lot of
time, but Celestia may have given them a lot of homework or solo work.
It seems that I had a lot to say about this live
stream so thank you for reading the whole thing. One of the reasons I wrote
this was because I’m passionate about Equestria Girls, I wanted a MLP FIM movie
for a while, and I wanted to defend it. . Despite the fact I wrote this article
to say Tommy Oliver was wrong I have a lot of respect for the man and I greatly
enjoy his work. To prove this I’m going to show you readers what I made sure to
get at BronyCon this year. So thank you again for reading, my next blog post
will probably be about BronyCon sorry if you couldn’t make it, and goodbye.
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| I got the autographs from the MLP analysis panel |
