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>>574
>Prank war between Lynn and Rose!

Pic related.

That face in the top right.

>>576
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

>>574

The waiting is worth, seems. :)

They improved much the lighting, now the coat of Rose gives better the volume of her body.

The new scenes confirms some impression that I had on the writing, is more close to a animated film (or better, TV series from animated film) than a cartoons from Disney, or something like FiM. Some stuff seems quite "neutral", will skating as a crazy, childish pranking, things that fit in a story for a general target.
I'm also curious if the choose of some scenes was done to gives this impression: near all have male characters, that goes again the conception that in a girls cartoon you see only females. Will' skating scene strikes well in this sense.

@zejgar probably you right that many scenes are from the first episode. The skateboarding scene seems the first time Will and Rose meet; the landing is when she come at the school, and the teachers are for the opening of the new year.
That means also the episode numbering on the website is only a placeholder, as I suspected, becouse, if they want do a nice job, the first episode should focus on the simple task to show the characters personalities, than use a complex story that requires more of half of time to develop.
Probably there will be an adventure already at the start, but I'm expect a very quick plot in this sense.
The monster episode is a good candidate to be the 2nd.

I wonder only if the first episode will shows the house of Bella or Amoria. Would be nice.

>>574

Checking the rooms in the pranks scenes, I made a "technical" supposition.
I think that the dormitories have cluster of three room, connected with a central lobby. In one of the picture with Lynn and her "messed" mane becouse the mirror, there is Bella, and behind Rose in the late scene there is what should be the Isabella's room; if that one was the Rose room, I would not have reason to think that Bella "belongs" there.

What is the matter?
There are only two males in the main cast, but we already speculated that Zack was tought as one of it. He has also a room in the concept arts.
If we think that the boys' rooms are arranged in the same pattern, three rooms with a central lobby, that means Cedric and Will are togheter, and they should have a third roomate.
But WHO is he? We have Zack and Fabian as best (and only!) candidates.

Fabian seems a secondary and recurring characters, judging his very particular design (but we know he is only in one episode for now, so I say that without believe is a sure thing). He does not appears a character for a single use only.

Zack has a room in the concepts, and also has an Episode that introduce him. And while the episode list could not be in order (and appears is not, looking that the Monster episode sounds like a different ones than the firs) probably his one is between the first.

Now is possible that initially Cedric and Willow are without a third roomate, and that this position will be filled by Zack later, explaining that, for some reason, he wants remain in the academy; or maybe, for some reason he can't come back to Skyla and forced to lives in the school for some time.
Putting him as third roomate gives him a good probability to be a very recurring character, without need to include him in many stories: a position very close to the original one.

I think that seeing Zack "blocked" to Funtasia against his will an interesting way to put some kind of narrative arc, where the other friends try to find a way in some episode (only a small part of them) for help him to find a system until the last episode.

The main point is: the third roomate for the boys is a good position for a long recurring character. Is very close to the protagonists, and at same time, they haven't need to give him larger screentime.
Zack position of "main character cutted off in development" fits well with this solution.

Time will show us.

>>580
>If we think that the boys' rooms are arranged in the same pattern, three rooms with a central lobby, that means Cedric and Will are togheter, and they should have a third roomate.
>But WHO is he? We have Zack and Fabian as best (and only!) candidates.

**

They looked in the general direction of the room as Sparkle explained the day schedule. Cedric nervously interrupted her and asked: "whose room is that?", pointing at the sealed doors that looked as if they hadn't been opened for ages. Sparkle stopped her rehearsed speech and gazed over the subject of the answer. She sighed and turned to the remaining students. "I don't want to talk about it. Not now, not ever. Let us move along."

**

>>581

And so the myth of Edward the Gargoyle Filly continues.

Seriously, though, it's looking pretty awesome overall, and any remarks I'd have on the thing are nitpicks at best.

It is very likely going to be more slice of life oriented than big adventure or 'destiny'-oriented, which would certainly not be a bad thing. The designs of the rooms actually making it into the show is really nice, too. Makes the Academy feel more like a home away from home, whereas certain other shows will stick to showing only one character's bedroom, or not being very consistent at it.

Also, just a thought, but how much actual studying are we going to see, you think? There's room for some emotional weight towards testing and whatnot, and we have the rooms set up as student rooms: chairs, tables, we could see our protagonists actually struggle with mere schoolwork, if the show decides to go that route.

>>582
>I not sure if the boys are in the same floor or not, but I'm starts to think of yes now. Using the orientations of the steps in the concept art's rooms, and taking the positions that we already determined, that means also Zack, Will and Bella are in left wing, and Lynn, ROSE AND CEDRIC ARE IN THE LEFT! O.O


>>582
>Is a sign that those two really will stay togheter after the Love Potion episode? :D

The reason why I'm hesitant to assign rooms to locations is because the building seen on the concept arts and in the third trailer has multiple floors - our beloved students might be scattered all over the building.

I am glad that such analysis can be done and can yield proper results, though, especially after seeing attempts of creating a stable picture of the interior of the Golden Oak Library from Friendship is Magic. The thing keeps changing from episode to episode, if not from scene to scene.


>>582
>What instead if Zack is really a main character too, but he not figure in the main cast poster and shots for now becouse he missing in the first episode, and join up later? That could be a good reason: if we would see him already in the pictures, we would wonder why he's not in the first episode.

I would love this twist! And since we already know the episodes on the 'official' website have a fair chance of not being in the correct order, the episode where Zack appears might be much, much later into the show. I wonder why they're including scenes from that episode in the trailers, though.

Maybe that episode is a part of the introductory story arc. Hell, we don't know what the structure of the show is going to be, maybe Every Single Episode is a part of a unified story arc, and the synopsises given to us are at best misleading or don't tell the whole picture!


>>582
>he can't come back to Skyla

I've already made a joke about this on Twitter, but the correct name is "Skylia". Skyla is a character from a different universe. And I'm glad you didn't write "come back in Skyla" this time. :D


>>584
>It is very likely going to be more slice of life oriented than big adventure or 'destiny'-oriented, which would certainly not be a bad thing.

I am drawing parallels with another cartoon called "The Raccoons", which too was a slice of life show. However, risky adventures with stakes of various proportions were present as well, since the show was happening in the woods, and the adventure kinda encroached on the lives of the characters by itself. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing will be here, especially since there's magic here.


>>584
>Also, just a thought, but how much actual studying are we going to see, you think? There's room for some emotional weight towards testing and whatnot, and we have the rooms set up as student rooms: chairs, tables, we could see our protagonists actually struggle with mere schoolwork, if the show decides to go that route.

I'm not sure if I have been brainwashed by reading Harry Potter, but my guess is "not so much". Class rooms might be used as scenery for dialogues after/before/during the studying, and I bet there will be at least one scene where the lecturer will go "shh" at our heroes for discussing their problems too loud.

>>584

>It is very likely going to be more slice of life oriented than big adventure or 'destiny'-oriented, which would certainly not be a bad thing.

I think will be a 50%-50%, more mixed than FiM looking the new scenes with Battwig in the last trailer.

Battwig appears more nasty and dangerous than we tought, too. Still, I don't think he's really "evil" in the true sense of the word, but does not mean he can't really try to do something of really naughty!

>Also, just a thought, but how much actual studying are we going to see, you think?

The common room seems quite flexible in this way.

The academy seems hold near thirdy students (24). The classrooms seems hold also 12 of them. That mean there are just 2 classes that study in the different zones of the Academy.
That could be a simplification, but what if they really take in count in the setting? If the Academy is an elite school, could explain that they took only very few, choosen student from all places of the Filly World, and that many of them will have a costant background presence in the episodes. I didn't counted them to see if they are ever the same in any promos we saw.
The low number could be a nice way to use them more times as secondary recurring characters. That would be nice, there are many good models that would be a pity if they were use just a couple of times.

>>585

>The reason why I'm hesitant to assign rooms to locations is because the building seen on the concept arts and in the third trailer has multiple floors - our beloved students might be scattered all over the building.

I haven't done for now, but the last Promo shows some more shots of the rooms. Appears that our characters are all on the same floor, and that the position of the rooms is what we guessed: Bella exits from the first in the left.
(Errata corriage: Rose rooms should be in the RIGHT wing).
Also one scene confirms that there are more bedrooms connected.
A thing: in the same scene, there is also Fabian with the girls. May he the 6th roomate? In any case, we went very close.

>I would love this twist! And since we already know the episodes on the 'official' website have a fair chance of not being in the correct order, the episode where Zack appears might be much, much later into the show. I wonder why they're including scenes from that episode in the trailers, though.

And now we know that he is a student from start. :D But that also would confirm the 6th room still in use and he is with the others, if they haven't changed with Fabian.
But, anyway, I think remains open the idea of a story arc after some episodes, or near half season.

>I've already made a joke about this on Twitter, but the correct name is "Skylia".

I really missed the "i"? Whops. :p