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Quote from: SpacePinto on August 09, 2020, 03:32:44 PMWhenever I watch the "Slumber Party" episode of My Little Pony Tales, i can't help but think that Squire was originally supposed to die in it, but it wouldn't fly past the censors so they had to change that. Just think about it, Patch's ghost story doesn't really make much sense, seing how ghost stories are meant to be scary and there's nothing scary about a dragon simply walking away while the protagonist was temporarily stuck in a hole, plus when we actually see Squire's ghost at the end he's still the same age, implying he never got any older than he was in the story. Now when you see the scene where Patch's story ends with him falling into the hole, imagine that she says something like "and then he fell into the hole and was never seen again, but some say his ghost is still out there" instead, and now the whole episode complete with the twist ending suddenly makes a whole lot of sense!Oh ... oh no! I wonder if you're right!! Welp, goodbye sleep!
Whenever I watch the "Slumber Party" episode of My Little Pony Tales, i can't help but think that Squire was originally supposed to die in it, but it wouldn't fly past the censors so they had to change that. Just think about it, Patch's ghost story doesn't really make much sense, seing how ghost stories are meant to be scary and there's nothing scary about a dragon simply walking away while the protagonist was temporarily stuck in a hole, plus when we actually see Squire's ghost at the end he's still the same age, implying he never got any older than he was in the story. Now when you see the scene where Patch's story ends with him falling into the hole, imagine that she says something like "and then he fell into the hole and was never seen again, but some say his ghost is still out there" instead, and now the whole episode complete with the twist ending suddenly makes a whole lot of sense!
Quote from: Snapdragon on August 11, 2020, 05:49:55 PMQuote from: SpacePinto on August 09, 2020, 03:32:44 PMWhenever I watch the "Slumber Party" episode of My Little Pony Tales, i can't help but think that Squire was originally supposed to die in it, but it wouldn't fly past the censors so they had to change that. Just think about it, Patch's ghost story doesn't really make much sense, seing how ghost stories are meant to be scary and there's nothing scary about a dragon simply walking away while the protagonist was temporarily stuck in a hole, plus when we actually see Squire's ghost at the end he's still the same age, implying he never got any older than he was in the story. Now when you see the scene where Patch's story ends with him falling into the hole, imagine that she says something like "and then he fell into the hole and was never seen again, but some say his ghost is still out there" instead, and now the whole episode complete with the twist ending suddenly makes a whole lot of sense!Oh ... oh no! I wonder if you're right!! Welp, goodbye sleep! I was thinking about asking George Arthur Bloom himself for clarification on that, but I don't know if he is available anywhere online
I'd love to hear more production stories about both G1 cartoons. But yeah, Tales is a bit of a mystery. I want to know how they ended up calling the Glow 'n' Shows "Glowing Magicals", which is almost the UK name. I wonder if they got renamed halfway through production, and Hasbro UK/the Tales crew just didn't get the message? Or something.
Can you imagine if the Rainbows, Twinkle Eyes, Brush n Grows and Rainbow Curls had their hair horizontally striped like the UK Family Ponies? That would be so gorgeous
Quote from: SpacePinto on August 12, 2020, 08:17:38 AMQuote from: Snapdragon on August 11, 2020, 05:49:55 PMQuote from: SpacePinto on August 09, 2020, 03:32:44 PMWhenever I watch the "Slumber Party" episode of My Little Pony Tales, i can't help but think that Squire was originally supposed to die in it, but it wouldn't fly past the censors so they had to change that. Just think about it, Patch's ghost story doesn't really make much sense, seing how ghost stories are meant to be scary and there's nothing scary about a dragon simply walking away while the protagonist was temporarily stuck in a hole, plus when we actually see Squire's ghost at the end he's still the same age, implying he never got any older than he was in the story. Now when you see the scene where Patch's story ends with him falling into the hole, imagine that she says something like "and then he fell into the hole and was never seen again, but some say his ghost is still out there" instead, and now the whole episode complete with the twist ending suddenly makes a whole lot of sense!Oh ... oh no! I wonder if you're right!! Welp, goodbye sleep! I was thinking about asking George Arthur Bloom himself for clarification on that, but I don't know if he is available anywhere online I don't think he is. The guy is in his 70s and has worked on a huge amount of cartoon movies and episodes over the course of his life. I doubt he'd remember such a minor detail from a cartoon episode he wrote nearly 30 years ago. But yeah, if it's a scary story and Squire's ghost is supposed to be haunting, it'd make more sense for him to die in it (although if the story took place a long time ago he'd be dead either way). Falling down a hole is a pretty safe and child friendly way to go in a cartoon, but maybe even that was considered a bit too much.That said, I'd be really interested in learning more about the production of Tales in general. Like who created the main characters and for what purpose. If it was mainly for the cartoon or mainly for them to be made into toys (considering the toys never released in the US). What the intended market was and why it was such a departure from earlier pony cartoons.
On the subject of the Glow n' Show Ponies and the Rockin' Beats, I wonder why they had different designs in My Little Pony Tales to what they did in the toyline? I noticed it with the latter, when I started checking out the toyline, but it took me time to realise this with the former, for some reason. I mean, why would you advertise a toyline by including them in your cartoon, and then redesign them? I knew for a long time that they made Dazzleglow an alicorn, but I assumed that was because they couldn't think of how to make her fly and use magic (G1 Twilight could fly without wings in at least one book, but maybe they didn't know that?), but they actually changed the look and pony type of all of them (Starglow remained a pegasus) for some reason. In fact, they look different on their shared backcard as well - the Glow n' Shows have at least three designs!
I don't get why some people have this strange notion that Friends didn't have cohesive stories?
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on December 22, 2020, 06:34:23 AMI don't get why some people have this strange notion that Friends didn't have cohesive stories?It's mostly just bronies bashing older generations without knowing anything about them, as always.
I am not sure if you really have that with Tales either, tbh. Or with FIM in the bits I've seen - it seems like a series where it doesn't really matter a lot which series the ep is from or if they're in order because aside a few notable things (Twilight got wings!?!) there's not a lot that carries over?