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My opinion of Mane 6’s age
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It’s more fun if you pretend it’s not (p. certain it was an /r/drama op back before they were forced to be reborn as the orange cat website)
Is that a parody site?
Twilight Sparkle- 18 years old
Applejack- 20 years old
Fluttershy- 18 years old
Pinkie Pie- 17 years old
Rarity- 19 years old
Rainbow Dash- 17 years old
@mjangelvortex
I’ve got the same HC as you: Rarity and Flutters are the oldest two. Do you also place Dash as the youngest?
While we know that Fluttershy is one year older than Pinkie, I view Pink, Twi, & AJ as very close in age.
It kinda does. I do like the idea of Rarity and Fluttershy being the two oldest ones in their little group of friends too.
Comics and EG are canon, now. Events in the show have been in the comics and vice versa. EG is canon with the return of Sunset Shimmer.
I agree with everything you said in that second section there. The writers still have one more season (assuming that S9 really is the end of FiM) to redeem themselves either by showing Celestia or the Royal Guards defeating evils in the time of Luna’s banishment or just do some hand-waving by saying that when the M6 used the Elements to defeat NMM, it unleashed magical energy that upset the equilibrium of magical containment fields and started a chain reaction where all kinds of previously-imprisoned villains are freed and the magical energy to re-imprison, banish, or reform them only makes it that much easier for the next season’s villain to escape. Honestly, that’s why Starlight as the antagonist was such a refreshing change of plot.
With Twi being a princess in the S3 finale, the writers made it blatantly clear that they were just as clueless as Twilight as to what she was supposed to do now that she’s a princess. I think that’s also one of the weaknesses of TV: it’s typically written a season at a time and it’s uncertain when the ride will end, so you can’t get too involved with any cross-season story arcs (which are kind of against the spirit of MLP, the world’s #1 toy commercial, in the first place).
I’m not expecting MLP to be The Wire, but it’s definitely at the point where I say that the show itself can no longer be considered a reliable source of canon. There’s no reason to drop any individual episode from the lineup (except maybe Ep100 or moving Twilight’s coronation until after she defeats Tirek) but, as you said, the chronology of the show as-is is simply nonsense.
Yes, and that can still easily be true with a two year timeline.
I think you’re giving the writers too much credit. They’re good… Well, they’re decent at making a dramatic story; but not so good at making it make sense, chronologically. There’s a reason the closest thing to a timeline is “This all probably takes place within two years of each other”, and that reason is that any attempt to more clearly define the order of events would fall apart in spectacular fashion.
But even if that weren’t the case, I don’t think that adding a few extra years on would make the timeline any less rushed.
Three years is still absurdly fast for someone to go from shunning a subject entirely to being an expert in the field. I have said, still do say, and probably always will say that Twilight should not have become a princess in season three. Hasbro jumped the gun. They wanted to cash in on MLP’s hype before it started fading. It makes sense from a financial standpoint, but from a narrative standpoint it was a horrendous mistake.
As for the villains coming too quickly, again, five years is just as unbelievable as two.
Imagine a different, perhaps more logical fantasy setting. If several ancient evils who had laid dormant for over a thousand years all came back to wreak havoc even in the same decade, it would be referred to for centuries after as “The Decade of Darkness”, or something like that. People would speculate if there was a conspiracy behind the scenes. People would accuse the old rulers of being incompetent, for not trying to prevent the evils from all coming back at the same time.
Again, the show writers’ strong-point isn’t making a coherent timeline. That’s not why Hasbro hired them. Hasbro hired them because they’re relatively good at making dramatic (and marketable) things happen to cute ponies.
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There isn’t an episode for every single day, only the days worth sharing.
Anyway, it cheapens the world-building by having Twilight being sent to Ponyville to becoming a princess within about a year. It’s less that it doesn’t feel that Twilight earned it so much as much as that the story in the opening episode strongly implies that Equestria had 1000 years of relative peace after Nightmare Moon was banished and it’s suddenly now that Princess Luna has returned that all the sealed evil in Equestria suddenly chooses the same year or two to return. Either there is some larger force compelling everything to happen all at once or the writers need to show ponies before the M6 fighting off threats to Equestria.
That’s true. Though I find it odd it’s the only one going back, IIRC all the others are going forward…
Well, I mean… Not really.
Assuming that pony years are the same length as IRL years, that’s 730 days to show. We’ve got fewer than 200 episodes.
Some episodes do take place over multiple days; but then again, some episodes could (and indeed, at least two definitely do) take place on the same day.
A two year timeline is actually very roomy.
I don’t even. How so?
@Wiimeiser
It’s important to note that the comic is non-canon.
To keep sanity, I just assume that any annual events may happen off-screen multiple times between the times they’re the focus of an episode.
It’s the writers not thinking things through. If the Simpsons timeline (Or worse, the South Park timeline) can be arranged better than your timeline, maybe you should throw it out and start again…
That’s an extremely compressed timeline for everything that happens in the show, which either means that the ponies live about as long as IRL horses (~40 years max) or that the writers just didn’t think things through. Everything in FiM happening over only two years really cheapens the whole world-building.
According to the Sisterhooves Social, no more than two years. And based on the annual camping trip, it’s one year between Seasons 3 and 7.
The “20 years earlier” IDW comic (which is notably the only one going back in time) seems to support this age lift theory, though Rarity obviously isn’t as old as Velvet Remedy. It debunks the idea of the CMC being biological sisters, though. Scootaloo already wasn’t, and there’s evidence strongly suggesting Apple Bloom was born after Bright Mac and Pear Butter bought the farm…
Then how long does OP think passed between S1 and S5? I can see these (with the exception of Rarity) being their S1 ages, but not S5.
Season 5, if the upload date is correct.
Season Potato. :3
I have sources to back up mine:
http://marinesciencetoday.com/2017/01/19/why-do-orcas-go-through-menopause/
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150305-killer-whale-menopause-ocean-animals-science/
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/study-suggests-surprising-reason-killer-whales-go-through-menopause
Sources please.