Let's discuss timelines
Which one was your favorite?
King Sombra one was perfect.
Futuristic ponies, war, evil king trying to take over Equestria.
Movie, now.
>>25578061
Discord's. He not only won, he even made the princesses his personal clowns. It's a world devoid of hope.
>>25578061
Nightmare Moons future honestly didn't seem that bad
Ewok poners
STOMP THE BUGS
>>25578061
I liked Nightmare moon and Sombra. Imagine the number of fics, enough for hiatus
>>25578061
Tirek's timeline had Tirek burning villages 24/7.
>>25578061
>Sombra time
>perfect
>100% edgy fanfic tier
>>25578061
Discord one of course. why? because it's not so bad, you just have to join the fun
I think the Bug one was the least edgy, i liked that one
>>25578061
Sombra is based. BASED.
>>25578061
Sombra was the most autistic
Discord was too short but made the most sense
Chrysalis didn't make sense at all (how did any of this happen with an altered timeline?) but looked kinda cool I guess
Fucking dead Equestria was alright
Flim-Flam what the fuck?
Tirek was pretty much just a copy-paste
NMM was cool, tourists? Can't be that shitty
Forgot the other ones
At least the Sombra one presented them a CHANCE of ending the war. In basically all the others, hope was just right out fucked.
The Sombra one was the best in terms of execution and being explored to some worthwhile extent, but the Discord timeline had the most potential for me. I would have loved to have seen more of it.
>>25578061
This. But then again, that's only cause we had the most development with that timeline.
It was pretty cool tjhough
>>25578458
and what exactly do you expect WAR to look like?
>>25578061
Discord and Nightmare Moon
>>25578458
What i liked was more the backgound WWI vibe
>>25578547
>Chrysalis didn't make sense at all
>Chrysalis takes over Canterlot
>Chrysalis begins conquering rest of Equestria
>Zecora takes as many ponies as she can it the Everfree
>Chrysalis hears of her village
>Chrysalis goes to en slave them for their love juice
How does that not make sense?
>>25578547
>tfw no Trixie future
>>25578557
I'm guessing cause the war with Sombra was conventional, while the others had supervillains. I wouldn't think Chrysalis's army would be worse than Sombra's, though.
>>25578061
There should have been a Shimmer future instead of a FlimFlam future.
>>25578547
None of them made sense. No elements -> NMM wins -> everything else is completely derailed
>>25578748
I think because the ponies could actually have time to fight against sombra because it was a traditional full scale war. But they probably never saw Chrysalis coming and she took them apart from the inside.
>>25578801
Wouldn't a shimmer future require a change before the cutie marking?
>any other timeline than Sombra Wars
do you even edge?
>>25578748
Sombra is a blunt hammer; he leads from the front, and wins with numbers and force. But he presents a big, obvious evil target for the resistance to rally against.
Chrysalis sows distrust and suspicion, forcing ponies to not help strangers, which would have lead to the complete breakdown of society almost instantly.
>>25578061
I felt like this episode was Fallout based for some reason.Now i really wanna play Fallout 4 right now
>>25578876
The "Everything is dead" was pretty edgy, as well as Tirek one.
>>25578730
See >>25578814
Literally none of shit should have happened
Haber is still a shit writer even if the episode was pleasant to watch, overall, it was fun and entertaining, but not all too great to finish a season with since it's just going to give us endless time to nitpick and see where it falls apart
>>25578814
Celestia made it work somehow a few times I guess, Luna was even already reformed in the discord one without the need of the elements.
>>25578357
this.
I would live in NMM's future.
>>25578920
Its not specifically fallout, just falloutfags going ape over a sci-fi setting
I liked Flim Flam's future, just for the fact I'm curious of how the hell it happened.
>>25578061
I'm a bit confused over this scene.
This scene can't be from the time when Discord first emerged (and thus would not have ever been defeated by the Elements of Harmony) because the Mane6 didn't even exist by that point yet, so this must be from his second emergence.
But that means that this was after Nightmare Moon escaped from the moon, and if Starlight's interference made sure the Mane6 never met the way they were supposed to, they could not have been there to stop Nightmare Moon. Thus, Luna should not be in this scene. She should at the very least rule Equestria as Nightmare Moon in this specific timeline. That would likely also mean that Celestia could not be there either.
The only possible way for this scene to occur is if Discord somehow made Nightmare Moon into Luna, saved Princess Celestia from whatever fate befell her at her defeat of Nightmare Moon, and made them both his personal clowns. But does that really have anything to do with the Mane6 when it's gone that far?
>>25578920
Nah, not enough nukes going off and lesbian protagonists that don't fucking shut up about how being lesbo is such an issue in a wasteland.
>>25578061
I don't care which one you pick, any future where spike is dead is a perfect future.
>>25579008
#rekt
>>25578814
>>25579000
>Implying Celestia couldn't stop some of the villains in an infinite amount of tries in an infinite amount of time lines
>>25578814
>>25578960
Presumably the threats before Sombra were overcome somehow.
That's what Twilight was talking about at the ending - it wasn't necessarily that the mane 6 had to be the heroes. But, the more damage was done to the timeline, the more friendship weakened, and less likely heroes were to rise at all no matter who they were.
>>25578994
Flim: Let me tell you something brother, A big thing right now fellow, Everything is great in Flim Flam Fields.
>Flam: That's right my dear brother, we sold cider cross the nation, from canterlot down to dragon city
Flim: And thank the heavens for the dragons, gave us all the gold we need, for the Magic apple cider max 27, we strip the forest to the ground, apples to the dragons.
>Flam: Super rich, master sales, FLIM FLAM BROTHERS.
>>25579008
lesbians are pure and superior and are allowed to complain all they want.
>discordcane
>>25579000
Why are we assuming that in every alternate timeline she actually did escape from the moon?
>>25578814
Celestia could do have something to do.
GUYS
Celestia DID something in those timelines!
She isn't so useless!
>>25579000
Or Celestia could have stopped NMM without the elements. This whole thing at least gives some credibility to the theory that she wasn't 100% riding on twilight in the opener. Took a couple of different timelines for NMM to actually succeed and seemed to be a pretty slim chance for her to win.
>>25579316
Even after only watching the opening and no episodes other than those first two, I always got the impression that Celestia was just sort of hanging out, waiting to see what Twilight would do.
>>25579302
>>25579316
So the timeline where the Mane6 actually meet is one of the few occurrences in possible timelines where Nightmare Moon wins over Celestia?
Seems like a fairly weak argument to me.
>>25578061
The parasprite one was kinda cool, I'd go mad max in it
>>25579316
tbph doe, her timeline seemed alright. The kingdom was doing well enough that they had tourists.
>>25579113
"Flim and Flam, I must stop you from your wreckless disregard for nature and pony alike!"
What's this, dear brother?
>Why it appears to be Princess Celestia, fresh from her conquest over Sombra, the changelings, and Nightmare Moon.
By golly, with all those fistihooves she must be very, very thirsty...
>A pity she's so against us and our sweet, delicious, fruity apple cider
"I-"
A cider that not even the gods themselves would turn down, dear brother.
>Yes, a pity. I guess all this cool, refreshing cider production would have to stop, and we'd be out of business
Oh without a home or job, brother, back to the cold, unforgiving streets
>How about one last glass brother, before we have to return to scrounging meals from the bottom trash cans, the Equestria Dream in tatters
One more glass of this nourishing, delicious, absolutely wonderful homestyle cider would make all of this all feel a slight bit better, brother
>Care to join us for one last toast, dear princess?
>>25579375
That's not what I said.
What if the time of her escape just wasn't precise?
Maybe in some alternate timelines she doesn't come out for another 20 years.
>>25579375
Time traveling, Anon.
You fix something in the past or mess something, you could fuck up for real.
As example, try saving someone life in the past, and in the future there could be a big change.
I'll give you one example.
Imagine if Hitler was killed as a child
There wouldn't be WW2
Thus, let's say 9/11 never happened because of this.
And with that, we don't get a reference in Metal Gear Rising where Sundowner says.
So we wouldn't get Metal Gear Rising.
And now that's a sad future without memes.
>>25578061
I'm inclined towards the Sombra timeline but maybe that's because they spend most time in there.
>finally we got the Epic Pony War
The fact that Haber wrote this I think is more proof that Meghan is most likely not working on Season 6 at all
I think wasteland equestria was a versión were twilight became evil without friends repeating the actions of human twilight
>>25579513
I think we'd have to worry about more things than Metal Gear, like, maybe Soviet Union still existing.
The Sombra future was a really interesting idea.
Im like picturing WW II style propaganda reels for it.
>>25579610
Kirov reporting
>>25579610
Because heaven knows Gorbechov and Laser Eye surgery is so terrible.
>>25579639
There were Sombra posters in some buildings I believe
So that could do as propaganda
>>25578061
I cringed quite a bit over the Sombra timeline.
>>25579513
Without ww2 we would be at best in 1960's tech, America would never be a super power, Child labor would be a thing because we never got out of the depression. Germany would have fallen to socialism, and in the end, USSR, not America, would be a superpower.
>>25578977
>>25578357
This to be honest family. Life under NMM's ruleship wasn't all too bad, considering she didn't even have to mind-control pones like Sombra did, and they willingly served her.
>>25579375
>>25579455
NMM had a set 1000 year stay in the moon according to the S1 opener so in all of those timelines she already had to have appeared and lost. She was even reformed in the Discord timeline. The worst for her was probably the Sombra one seeing as she wasn't by Celestia's side helping with the war effort meaning she was probably either back on the moon or dead.
>>25579733
>implying America didn't become superpower after WW1
>implying technology race between USSR and USA during the Cold War isn't one of the main reasons of humanity's fast technological advancement
Do you even history, comrade?
So I'm gonna be that guy and ask where the future where Sunset Shimmer's plan succeeded was.
>>25579846
America was in the great Depression, we wouldn't climb our way out, thus the Ussr would have no one to compete against,
>>25579901
>no elements
>sunset plan is taking the element of magic
there isn't one
>>25579943
>economys always stay the same
>USSR was killing its self
>>25580003
To be honest, Germany invasion crippled USSR economy quite a bit.
What could cause this? Everything is just fucking obliterated.
>>25580031
>Terik lazer cannoning everything til the planet died
>Eternal night
>Changelings sucked Equestria dry and moved on
>War torn area after the war between Equestria and the Crystal Empire
>Discord being careless
take your pick
>>25578740
Without Twilight showing her up, she'd have been able to continue being just a show pony and have no reason to seek the corrupting power of the Alicorn amulet.
>>25580018
So if Hitler was killed as a child, USA wouldn't have been a superpower and we wouldn't have a capitalist horse show now but a communist one in which Starlight is the main character?
I kind of wish Tirek's was explored a little more, just to explain what the hell he was doing.
Was he reshaping the environment to make it the same hell on earth as the Badlands were supposed to be? Was he trying to split the barrier between Equestria and Tartarus open? Was he just murdering everyone because 'fuck ponies'? He was doing that same shit in the season finale, I was really curious what his endgame with that was. Now, I'm only more confused, because apparently he never STOPPED between the S4 finale and this one.
>>25580031
>the future we chose
>>25580132
Discord would be like...
>"Okay, i'm bored. Time to move on another timeline, ta ta everypony!"
And poof, obliterated world.
>>25580031
War....
War never changes.
>>25580031
skynet
>>25580031
Hasbro
Is the Faust original canon timeline, with her dreams and hope included
>>25578061
>They literally skipped Tirek part
NNNNNNGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA
>>25580140
Red Alert would happen.
>>25580031
> bronystate
>>25580031
Megaspell
>>25580328
But Tirek timeline has literally nothing to do in it.
They could have made a 1-minute montage of Twilight trying not to get fried, but that's literally all this timeline has to offer.
>>25580313
>Is the Faust original canon timeline, with her dreams and hope included
Please stop.
>>25580328
Woah, Wojak calm down. You're gonna give yourself a heart attack
>>25578994
I don't understand how they're supposed to be evil anyway. So they're con-ponies in one episode, it doesn't make them evil, they didn't try to rewrite history. Wheres their redemption?
>>25580144
>I kind of wish Tirek's was explored a little more, just to explain what the hell he was doing.
Rewatch the ep, that's literally what he starts doing once he gets the princess magic. He really hates forests or something
>>25580328
Pretty sure Tirek timeline would've been similar to the Chrysalis timeline but with less survivors
>>25580386
Nah man, they could've definitely done something better with that. Am I supposed to believe that's ALL Tirek wanted to do with Equestria's magic? Fuck some forest's shit up for no reason?
Here's a better version, straight off the top of my head;
>Tirek reshaped the world with fire and brimstone after the S4 finale, and the sky is polluted in black ash
>the ancient evils of Tartarus were unleashed upon the world, most resembling the guards from Midnight Castle
>Twilight hears terrified screams for help, thus justifies a decision not to leave immediately
>what she witnesses is the ultimate bad end; an Equestria completely dominated by an absolute evil
>this is what scares Twilight into reasoning with Starlight instead of continuing on in their stalemate
>>25580031
>What could cause this? Everything is just fucking obliterated.
H.G. Wells, "The Time Machine." On a long enough timeframe, all timelines suck. The message is that it's what we do in today and the distant future that matters.
>>25580031
The Elements of Harmony were utilized, but were destroyed at the height of their power. Their magic wreaked havoc on the landscape and weather system, causing endless sandstorms and blocking out the sun for days at a time. Trees were stripped bare, crops were destroyed, ponies were forced to migrate in a hopeless attempt to escape an unending catastrophe.
It is said that, moments before the elements shattered and eternally blighted the land, seven words were spoken. Seven words to herald the end of everything. Seven words that, if one listened closely, could still be heard in the destructive winds that now enveloped the world:"I just don't know what went wrong."
>>25580768
>>25580144
He wasn't doing anything specific, just aimelessly rampaging, besotted with the immense power he just received.
>>25580774
>On a long enough timeframe, all timelines suck.
The thing is, whenever Starlight changed something in the past, the present was altered, not the future. That wasteland happening in some alternate present by something we don't know.
>>25580888
I guess Harber just doesn't give a fuck about Tirek what a shame
>>25578061
Unlike Sombra, Discord actually won and own entire Equestria.
>>25580957
No one gives a fuck about Tirek.
>>25580996
Discord is the strongest entity in Equestria though, bar the Elements of Harmony. He only needs to flick his fingers to change the world.
>>25580933
Haber doesn't have to do anything with it, it's the same shit that was in S4 finale. Tirek blasted everything around him for no other reason than 'oh shit yea I'm so fucking powerful now'.
>>25578876
I recognise Shadow and Dante but what edgy character Eddy is dressed as?
>>25581037
I know...I know...
>>25581056
I think it's the Kill la Kill protagonist
>>25578061
Sombra, definitely.
>>25579000
Mane6 still were born you dingus. Possibly Dash or other hero might have helped them against NMM in this timeline. However none of them could defeat Discord.
>>25581078
That show isn't edgy so much as a creepy jap's fetish fuel.
>>25579551
She edited this shit. Haber probably would put less edgy shit and focused on sitcom jokes.
>>25581111
Hardly just fetish fuel but more on the deconstruction on japanese cartoon tropes.
>>25580031
Discord opened interdimensional vortex and called Cthulhu to destroy everything.
>>25581140
Nah, Larson would have probably.
https://youtu.be/TUktBarg7YQ?t=3m21s
>>25578458
>Sombra time
>WWII
You realize it's this made cannon, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1XpTzLn0A
>>25580031
one last battle
if equestria isn't for any of them, no one will have it.
>>25580031
Trixie future
>>25580313
Damn Anon, that could be true
>"But there is nothing here" Starlight Glimmer says
"Indeed, nothing my dear"
Faust come from the sky and greet both ponies
"This is the place where my hopes and dreams rest"
clownlestia and clownluna are qtpies
>>25580031
anon
this is his future
when he came to equestria, instead of friendly ponies, had to fight to survive
he slowly learn, to the point he manage to do magic through amulets, canes, and zebra potions.
by the end, he created a spell that will grant him immortality
with no earth pony, pegasi, unicorn, or alicorn able to defeat him, he decided to say goodbye the same he came to equestria: killing himself.
the explotion reach the hole planet, with no survivors
>>25580031
Twlight not going the EG universe and stopping Sunset Shimmer.
>>25582589
kek
nice one m8
>>25582589
>implying Sunset's plan don't fail in every simple timeline
Seriously, her plan was plain stupid.
>>25578061
I'm a little upset Tirek was only referenced instead of getting another ebin batte.
>>25578061
I liked the "Discord wins" timeline.
Play this for full effect with the .gif: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
>>25582833
>Those raised balled up tails
>>25578061
The one where Trixie wins and destroys everything.
Sombra's future really makes the amnesia the Crystal ponies had in S3 that much more grim in retrospect. Who knows what Sombra had them do before Celestia and Luna put him down
>>25579738
They probably only willingly served her because they'd face her tyrannical punishments otherwise.
>>25582833
Whoa, I never noticed how smouth the animation was in that scene
>>25578960
At least it was not the s3 finale.
And I am not saying that because of problems with Twilight turning alicorn. I say that because the episode was really badly writen in order to reach that point.
Also, Starlight confirmed for biggest troll
>>25583050
Yeah. Just look how uncomfortable they all seem the moment Celestia is mentioned.
>>25582925
Cushion for the pushin'.
>>25578061
>Sombra Timeline
War and chaos, ponies forced to submit by mind control
>Chrysalis Timeline
War and chaos, ponies forced to submit by force
>Discord Timeline
Chaos, everything is his plaything
>Tirek Timeline
Chaos and Destruction
>Nightmare Timeline
No war, no chaos. Stable government and willing, healthy, loyal subjects.
Nightmare Moon did NOTHING wrong.
>>25582833
>discordcane
>>25583147
I dunno, maybe Tirek was simply removing trees so that cities could be build?
Applejack said they had een fighting Sombre for years, but not that much time had passed in universe since the Crystal Empire resurfaced.
The concept is great, but there were too many flaws and shit that didn't make sense that it would have been better written by soneone who knows how time travel works and doesn't just assume 'it doesn't matter because it's cool'.
>>25582467
R34 when?
>>25583147
>Nightmare Moon did nothing wrong
nice meme friend
you know... this just shows how much of a cripple Equestria is. I mean for fok sake man all those guys had alot more power than equestria combined and the only thing that stood againts them was a myth about friendship magic. If only king Arthur had that kind of shit.
>>25583156Brings the pain
>>25582833
>Twilight destroyed the only timeline where Screwball exists
Granny Smith died in this timeline, that's probably when Applejack decided to go back to the farm from Manehattan
>>25583369
No she didn't. Applejack went back to the farm to help with the war effort.
>>25578061
Sombra one felt a little too fanfiction-y if you know what I mean. I thought the Changeling one was pretty cool.
>>25582795
>Seriously, her plan was plain stupid.
Which is why her plan would ultimately fuck everything up.
That one where absolutely everything is gone was my favorite. What caused that one?
>>25583428
It was a bit much, I agree.
>>25583428
Yeah it was a little edgy with stuff like the robo wing, but the whole WWII was pretty cool. This finale is probably giving content creators lots to work with
>>25583317
fuck didn't even realize that
These feels.
Nightmare Moon world seemed pretty comfy.
Other than moving the capital and acting scary she didn't really seem like an irresponsible ruler. I'd like to see how the rest of the world looked under her rule. Plus she was literally right in that she did to her sister exactly what was done to her. NMM did nothing wrong.
>>25583147
Well unless she banished the sun or something
I MEAN
You can't have a whole night for all the world
Unless Equestria is flat
So an eternal night is only a thing if you turn off the sun.
>>25583474
>What caused that one?
Not sure I wonder if dragons did it. Specifically I am thinking of the episode where FS tells the polluting dragon to move along.
>>25583147
Considering how long it has been from the Ponyvile Summer Sun Celebration to there, I'm surprised Luna figured out that no sunlight no crops deal.
>>25578357
This. NMM didn't seem pointlessly cruel. Heck she even had public viewings of her castle. It's night all the time but they found a way to keep plants alive.
>>25583680
Huh, could be that. My mind was jumping to it being foreshadowing for some future villain (total annihilation seems movie-tier dangerous) but that makes more sense with the given info.
What I don't get is how in every alternate timeline one threat succeeded but something stopped all the other threats. Like in the Sombra world, who stopped Nightmare Moon? Why didn't whoever it was stop her in the Nightmare Moon world? Same for all the others.
Time for some headcanon.
Even though the rainboom was stopped, each timeline was different and Twilight was sent back by the spell to see the effects. The only one we didn't see return was Starlight. What if it was a one way trip for her, leaving her stranded in the past. It is possible she continued to meddle in the past which is what caused the dramatic changes for each timeline. Then something happened which prevented her from meeting with Twilight again. In the one timeline she wasn't left behind in and went with Twilight, everything was pretty much dead. Without her to meddle anymore in the past, everything somehow went to shit.
>>25578814
Presumably she was able to rekt NMM those few times. Look how less and less ponies are part of the 'resistance' too as the timelines go along (first all the mane 6 are involved in the war. Then only like half are with Chrysalis, to finally all of them working with NMM.
Then of course in the last timeline all life fucking dies
>>25583680
Nah, Celesetia could have dealt with that dragon without the mane 6, she just gave the job to them because they live in Ponyville and maybe she wanted to test Twilight or something.
>>25578547
>doesn't know what autism is.
>>25583702
Yeah, she seems like a crazy hard ass, but she actually does want the best for her subject. She wasn't about power like KingGhosthorse.
I bet it would have been fine. A couple shitty laws, the whole night thing. Worth it forsexiest princess. Those fangs man.
>>25583714
Let's say this
>Sombra timeline
Celestia turned good her sister, Discord never showed up or they stopped him again but Cadence never got to the Empire/never married Shining Armor.
>Chrysalis timeline
Same start, except this time the wedding takes place and Chrysalis win.
>NMM timeline
She isn't turned good and prisons her sister to the moon
>Tirek timeline
All going good except that he escaped, and shit.
>Discord timeline
NMM got his sister to the moon, but then he escaped and made good NMM and bringed back Celestia to Equestria, but he was the king now.
That's how I see it.
>>25581104
>>25578061
I love that Luna must be thinking "I came back for this."
>>25583825
And Flim Flam?
>>25583825
I wonder what caused the Wasteland timeline. Maybe S6 villain?
>>25583714
Well Discord is stronger than all of them so him escaping means he wins so there has to be another set of element bearers in the alternate timelines. Now whether you headcanon that Sunset got her shit together for a few of these threats, There was a mare after Twilight that just couldn't bat the 1.000 of Twilight or Celestia just re-banished Luna and got lucky on Discord is how this goes. Because we will never get an explanation.
The real question is though, how did Luna, Sombra, and Chrysalis stop The threats once they gained control?
>>25578061
The Fucking-Obliterated one, you just have to wonder what the fuck even caused it. All the other villains have goals or plans, Tirek is just an angry man full of magic and anger. Who the fuck would just obliterate everything entirely?
>>25578458
>edgy fanfic
I realize ponies fighting with fruit-tossing and pie throws kinda messed up our perception of what an actual pony military conflict would be, but, come on. That wouldn't fly in a serious situation.
>>25578357
She blows up dogs and doesn't afraid of anything.
>>25583922
That's the timeline where the bronies made it to Equestria. The ponies were all raped so many times that they were overcome with exhaustion and died. The bronies then became enraged by the lack of sexual partners that they rioted and burned down the entire region before collectively committing seppuku.
>>25583922
>>25583852
Use actual business since to use the Apple Monopoly they won from Granny Smith to create industrialism. All went well and since they were not technically evil, just mechanically inclined con artists, then whatever stops the respective threats in the other time line applies here.
>>25583995
Who let 9fags in?
>>25579000
I guess in the Discord timeline, his statue was broken some other way, or at some other point in time and he possibly used subterfuge to get the elements away from Celestia.
>>25580031
Full on war between all the villains resulting in mutually assured destruction of all parties involved.
>>25583852
The Flim and Flam one was literally a look at a world run by jews.
>>25583979
>implying it wasn't just one bumblefuck anon who actually tried to make himself canon
>>25584017
>>25584048
This is actually quite sensible and works with FoE.
>>25583922
Trixie with the alicorn amulet, with no one to stop her.
Why no timeline for the Everfree forest taking over Equestria thing that happened in the season 4 premiere?
>>25584174
Because that is too lewd for a little girls show.
>>25584174
I thought the Crysalis timeline was that until they mentioned Changelings.
>>25583858
Nuke
>>25583936
This. A thousand times this. Just because it's not ponies throwing pies at each other doesn't make it grimdark and edgy.
>>25582833
Dude... I love you for this
>>25582833
>instead of Twicane it's a Discane
Nice little addition there.
>>25584262
>Just because it's not ponies throwing pies at each other doesn't make it grimdark and edgy.
>Rainbow Dash has her wing amputated and ear bitten off
>not grimdark and edgy
>>25584262
I think we're missing the point here, this episode was not intended for little girls. Like... At all.
>>25583936
What serious situation? This show consistently fucks up basic stuff that we only handwave because it's a show for little girls and then it wants to have that cake and eat it too by pulling this phony stuff out of it's ass for cheap drama?
It was garbage. Even the actual armor design didn't fit with the setting.
if all this shit is edgy to you guys you clearly are some youngsters that never watched lord of the rings.
>>25584404
>show is for little girls
>episode is not for little girls
>>25578994
Sweet Apple Acres is the hearth of Ponyville, so they bought out whole Ponyville as time went by.
>>25584449
Little girls want to be Ripley.
>>25578443
TROGDORRRRRR!!!
>>25584404
I swear Starlight actually murdered RD in a few of those loops.
>>25583936
If you want edgy you just see Tirek melting everything i sight with muh lazers and the desolate wasteland at the end. The "battle" was a cutsey slapfight.
>>25584449
>Rainbow Dash has her wing amputated and ear bitten off
>War
>Slavery
>Destruction
>Clowns
>For little girls.
Yeah. Sure. Seven year old girls are really gonna look at war scarred Rainbow Dash and understand that shit? Faggots like you seem to completely forget that the people who make these shows are adults. Take your reaction image for distance, you ever seen all the sex shit in Disney movies? Put in there by bored animators.
>>25584446
This.
>>25584262
>>25583936
>those fucking armors
>using slaves as soldiers with ebil hypnotizing robot spike armors
>main characters have to fight
>rainbow lost a wing and ear bitten off
In the context of the show, yes it's fucking edgy, just that fucking armor made me cringe. None of this shit fit with the show
>>25584174
The plunder vines were Discord's original escape plan, to get rid of the Elements of Harmony and break the spell that kept him imprisoned.
He probably poofed away the clutter they made and continued on with his usual routine as soon as he escaped.
>>25584495
>Shot her with a laser
She did get a bit rough in the end. Also did anyone notice Twalot almost hitting on Rainbow there?
>>25584517
A clown burned down my village and my sister be of raped by the honky-honks as well.
It be of scarred me to this very day.
>>25584517
>Yeah. Sure. Seven year old girls are really gonna look at war scarred Rainbow Dash and understand that shit?
Who's to say they won't? The main problem with MLP pre-FIM is that the creators of the show basically thought kids were stupid so they could get away with making a shitty show. I can appreciate that in recent years this show and others like it don't pull punches because of "t-the kids won't get it!"
Faust's whole point in creating this current generation was that little girls aren't retards. Not everything has to be a fucking cozy little tea party for them to enjoy it. Stop acting like it should be.
>>25584262
By little girl show standards it is. I was cool with the DBZ battle in the last finale but I feel like this one went a little too far.
>>25584597
I'm not, but face it, neither are they going to pay as much autistic attention to detail to it as we do.
>>25584597
>The main problem with MLP pre-FIM is that the creators of the show basically thought kids were stupid so they could get away with making a shitty show.
I mean, they weren't wrong.
>>25584597
There's a GIGANTIC fucking distance between "treating kids like idiots" and "loss of body parts in a war setting that doesn't even fit the show's tone". We could've had a good medium, could, if the current staff weren't full of witless hacks.
You exaggerate as fuck because otherwise you have no point, but that kind of argument is worthless to anyone with half a brain, try again.
>>25584670
I was pretty smart as a kid, dunno about you.
>>25584694
And now you browse 4chan.
>>25584597
It's the explicit demonstration that i thought was stupid, show a ran out of town village or how people have to contribute to the war effort, it's much more interesting than the actual war since the ponies just look edgy, cringy, fanfic-esque, and overall retarded doing it.
>>25584694
My point is they did get away with making a shitty show, that's why MLP was popular enough to warrant a revival in the first place.
>>25584670
Yeah, they weren't. But just because they could do it doesn't mean they should.
I mean, the original MLP G1 had ponies fighting dragons and an evil magic blizzard that turned ponies into beasts.
>>25584687
>There's a GIGANTIC fucking distance between "treating kids like idiots" and "loss of body parts in a war setting that doesn't even fit the show's tone"
Uh, wasn't the whole point of the alternate realities was that they DIDN'T fit in with the show's tone? That it was overall completely different than what we expect from the universe? It was shown to be bad.
And then the heroes fucking redeemed the bad guy at the end anyway. Doesn't that stay safely within the show's "tone"? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole point of the show was that shit gets bad, but the magic of friendship always prevails. To this end they haven't strayed from that once.
>>25584768
They could've showed bad futures without pulling the phony shit the Sombra timeline showed. In fact they did. 3 times. In fact they did it better too since we saw Twilight actualy interact with the other awful worlds instead of just listening to it in a infodump.
It was a shitty scene. Really shitty scene.
>>25584517
>Rainbow Dash has her wing amputated and ear bitten off
Finn from AT has his arm ripped off by his own father
>War
Star Wars: Clone Wars has numerous unnamed characters up and die mid-shot
>Slavery
Prince of Egypt didn't pull punches
>Destruction
Powerpuff Girls regularly dealt with Townsville turning into a shithole.
>Clowns
Pic Related
Kids love all of it.
>>25584832
Sombra has them enslaved in his debut, but lil' girls didn't go mad.
>>25584839
I've gone and forgotten my point, Anon, thanks.
>>25580031
Zebra war.
>>25580031
And now I'm imagining Twalot, spek, and <noun> <verb> #3 stuck here forever.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59g5R8rwqpY
>>25580031
It was an alternative timeline where the show was so edgy that the show was canceled.
I have a question, how come Flim and Flam went from "Ponies who just wanted to speed up production" to "EVIL CORPORATE BUSINESSMEN WHO WANT TO CUT THE WORLD DOWN"?
>>25585057
Bits.
>>25584839
>any of these are shows for little girls
>implying any of those fit within FiM
>>25585057
Because Captain Planet villains are easier to write than multi-faceted antagonists who simply hold different priorities than the protagonists.
But I hear you, they really shouldn't have gotten their own timeline at all. Especially not the one after fucking Tirek.
>>25585057
They were kind of implied to be evil in their first appearance even though they did nothing wrong.
>>25585057
It was a joke.
>>25585057
They doubled the power.
>>25585057
Because they are the heels anon. It doesn't matter if they were in the right the first time. Thinking about it, they were not even con artists in this timeline since the cider machine legit worked and in this timeline they beat the Apples fair and square. The only thing they didn't do was become snake oil salesmen for AJ to learn nothing from.
>>25578814
>No elements
Maybe another group of adventurers took them in some timelines.
>>25579306
Or she just found another student to do shit for her.Young Starlight Glimmer, perhaps
>>25585057
They're Hasbro's execs personal self inserts.
>>25578357
Rainbow Dash also looks good with a mohawk.
>>25584645
Meh, Precure has girls in frilly dresses fighting monsters with martial arts and getting slammed. That's still considered a show for little girls in Japan.
>>25585616
>getting slammed
That only happens in my Precure doujinshi
>>25580031
well, that's one more future where the Golden Oaks Library is gone
F
>>25583369
I thought granny was one of the factory worker ponies
NMM timeline.
Now i may be a little bias on account that NMM is a total badass in my opinion, but i love the whole eternal night motif and how well society (as far as we saw) was stable and functional under her rule
Am I the only one who wanted Twilight to grab Nightmare Moon, take her back in time and somehow use against Starlight?
>>25585878
Was kinda hoping to see what would happen with Luna getting shot ineffectively by Starlight;
>>25585878
Yeah I though that was going to happen.
>>25578061
>Screwball
Holy fuck I just noticed this.
>>25585778
figures, Golden Oaks destruction is a fixed point in time
>Rainbow Dash is sexy and badass as fucking hell in every timeline where she is alive
Best pony.
>>25583147
Yeah I felt the same way. Didn't seem that bad.
>>25586086
I want to stop Rainbow Dash to make her Sonic Rainboom so Sombra get's to win and she is sexy as fuck and cum inside of her
>>25585997
Same with the castle and the wings. Which is why she remained an Alicorn and the map of exposition stuck around everytime.
>>25586158
NMM's is better. It is just if Celestia liked actually preparing for war and controlling knowledge.
Oh hi screwball.
>>25586204
>Which is why she remained an Alicorn and the map of exposition stuck around everytime
I think that was more the fact they were at ground zero for the spell
>>25585878
I was hoping Nightmare Moon's time travel ambitions would at least go a little further than they did, if nothing else. At best: she could've complicate Twilight's goals to a point where even Glimmer needed to help intervene, or something.
She was seriously 10/10 in that episode, easily the best written iteration of NMM the show's ever done.
>>25585878
Hell grab all the villains and sick them on Starlight. IMO Starlight is a pretentious brat piece of shit. Reminds me of Azula from Avatar in that she's a villain Sue. Except that now all of a sudden she already is best friends with the Mane 6 and Spike (who doesn't really count).
IMO the best fate for Starlight Glimmer should have been she being locked in a loop living the worst moment of her life ala Justice League, you know the Time Travel villain episode. And don't say it's too edgy, King Sombra was KILLED OFF. This is perfectly in line with a show like this one.
>>25582833
>>25582925
Fug thats lewd
>>25586086
She looked like a dyke in all the alternate timelines.
>>25586264
>Implying she didn't already
>>25579513
WW2 was inevitable as soon as the treaty of Versailles was signed.
How'd you get a vector of this so quickly ?
>>25586253
I think it would've been fair if she was marooned in a splinter-timeline where the specific circumstances that led to her earning her own cutie mark were averted by her own meddling, and they couldn't be recreated again. Then she'd have to live out her life as a perma-blank flank, much like she forced others to live.
It would have been a fitting punishment that'd keep her from tapping into her dangerous magical potential, and give her a taste of her own medicine.
>>25583147
Dindu nuffin
>>25585057
I'm sure their bet "if you lose we take over the orchard" combined with their disrespect for quality would not have slipperysloped into mass fabrication and exploitation.
>>25580031
>ponies use up all of the remaining resources.
>desolate rotting land because no pony has the skills to care for it.
What if this Starlight Glimmer's future?
>>25580031
according to Emulpee that timeline is where /mlp/ won its second star
