The Doctor and Derpy, IDW comic analysis (spoilers)

The Doctor and Derpy IDW comic analysis (spoilers)

            The My Little Pony IDW comics include a lot of great background events and background ponies such as Vinyl Scratch and Octavia. The latest non-micro comic issues #9 and #10 featured Big Mac and showed more background events and ponies than usual like when Doctor Whooves and Derpy are talking to each other in the background, but the talk is a bit weird. The picture below from issue #9 has Derpy asking Doctor Whooves “Do I know you?” after the Doctor showed her a fob watch and saying “This watch is me”. Does this mean that Derpy never met the Doctor despite the fact they were seen together in the episode titled “Hearts and Hooves day” and in an issue #10 alternate cover? I don’t think that writers would want to tell people that the Doctor and Derpy never met before so I have a few theories about this panel.

1. Backwards Doctor Who reference

This mostly likely a reference to a Doctor Who Series 3 episode titled “Human Nature” where the Tenth Doctor hides from aliens by putting his essence of a time lord into a fob watch by using a piece of technology called a Chameleon Arch. This turned the Tenth Doctor into a human and he mostly forgot his time as the Doctor, but his companion at the time Martha Jones remembered who the Doctor was. If we assume that Derpy is supposed to be the Doctor’s companion here she should remember who Doctor Whooves is and Doctor Whooves should not remember who he is. The writers probably got who remembered who backwards, but they got the quote “This watch is me” right.

2. Doctor Whooves met Derpy in the future

In Doctor Who people sometimes met a person before their first meeting because one of them or both of them are time travelers. For example, if the Doctor met person X in 2009, time traveled to 2007, and met person X in 2007, person X wouldn’t recognize the Doctor. This could have happened in the comic even though the comic takes place after season 2 and Doctor Whooves and Derpy were seen together before the end of season 2, but time travel can be confusing and complex.

3. Big Mac or Doctor Whooves created a time paradox

A lot of weird things could have happened when Doctor Whooves was time traveling such as time breaking down or aliens messed with time and they created a time paradox, but Big Mac is also a time traveler. Two pages after the Doctor and Derpy scene a full page scene shows Big McIntosh traveling and doing stuff around the fair like eating a ton of food and jumping on a trampoline. In one part of this scene Big Mac goes into a science fair, accidentally enters a time warp, saves ponyville from mutant apes and comes back 5 minutes later. Who knows what happened when Big Mac time traveled he could have changed the future, created a time paradox, and stopped Derpy from meeting Doctor Whooves the first time. Doctor Whooves probably remembers because he is a time traveler or he was in the Tardis while time was changed.

            Thank you for reading this article and please tell me what you think about the Derpy and Doctor meeting, I think it’s a backwards Doctor Who reference. I know that my theories may fall into head canon territory, but I feel that they are interesting theories.    

Equestria Girls final thoughts

            I had a lot to say about “Equestria Girls” I wrote several posts and comments on http://www.reddit.com/r/MLPAnalysis about the movie and one really long article on this blog because the movie means a lot to me. Months before the Equestria Girls was announced I hoped that a MLP FIM movie come out and I’d be able to hang out we other bronies at a theater, but I thought it would not happen. When it was announced I though the human thing was weird, but I didn’t panic because I was used to fandom crisis like pink alicorn Cadence and princess Twilight. Now that the movie been out for a while and aired on TV I feel there are a few things left to say and analyze before I move on to other analysis.

            A while ago on www.BronyState.net I was listening to some of the moderators talk after an episode of My Little Pony and they were talking about whether or not a My Little Pony Friendship is Magic movie would work. I don’t remember the exact words, but one of them said people would get bored watching flash animation for more than an hour. I’m not sure if this is true, but it got me thinking, would a normal pony movie work instead of Equestria Girls? A lot of people would say that a normal pony movie would work and they would prefer it over Equestria Girls, but many would call a normal pony movie an extra-long episode. The Simpsons and Aqua Teen Hunger Force movies were called long episodes and some people thought Equestria Girls felt like a long episode, but Equestria Girls is different than a normal episode. Also a normal pony movie would probably feel similar to an epic My Little Pony two-part story like “A Canterlot Wedding” which can be a good or bad, but I think it’s a good thing that Equestria Girls is different. You may not like the movie, but it probably peaked your interest and got you emotional or passionate about something. What’s better a boring movie you barely remember or a movie that really pisses you off, gives you something to talk about, and gives you something to remember? So what I’m trying to say is that it’s a good thing that Equestria Girls because of all the positive and negative emotions and reactions it gave us.

            I enjoyed watching Equestria Girls in theaters and talking about it, but I didn't like what some people were saying about it. I understand and accept that some people won’t like it, but I didn't think it deserved all the hate it was getting because it was being judged before it was released and it could have been a lot worse. For example, the Twilight and Flash Sentry relationship won’t be explored in season 4, they didn't kiss, and Flash Sentry had a few funny moments. Also there are way worst movies based on animated series like “The Last Airbender”, that movie did terribly, but the series it’s based on “Avatar the Last Airbender” kept going with comic books and a new series called “The Legend of Korra”. The My Little Pony franchise would have keep going if Equestria Girls failed because the series, comic books and merchandise were doing well enough that a bad movie wouldn't stop it. I do have a few more things I want to say, but I don’t want to repeat more of what I said or wrote elsewhere.

            Thank you for reading and I’m glad I got this stuff off my chest so I start writing about other things. If I find the time to write I’ll probably write about the comics, most likely issues 9 and 10 they are the issues about Big Mac.