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>>556
Also: tailhole, in the Sparkle's chair.

I also always found it interesting how Filly uses more royal titles than "Princess" which Lauren also wanted but was overruled on.

http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/1932962564
https://twitter.com/fyre_flye/status/633362831316877312

>>567

If I not get wrong, Hasbro changed becouse it thinks that "girls dislike Queens", in some classical Disney the queens are the "evil ones".

My guess is that the guys in Hasbro have no idea what a nobiliar title is or how it works, while kids yes.

>>570
Honestly, I think Faust is a bit overrated.Not that she's bad in any way, just not the shining example a lot of people make her out to be. I mean, I've read some of the stuff on Them's Fightin' Herds, and it's not bad, but...

Maybe it's a genre thing. I'm not a fan of the fact that according to her, reindeer are basically cats on hooves like ponies were, even if it is a step up from mice on hooves, like they're usually portrayed as.

Fillies at least look like they have working bodies, and they've got more of the Littlefoot snout than the kittyfaces we're so used to. Gotta give'em credit for that.

With regards to the princess vs. queen: it's the old unspoken rule that every girl wants to be a princess, something Megan McCarthy said herself (I think it was her, when they were announcing some castle toyline... and Twilicorn on the side). Queens are evil in old faerie tales, sure, but so are witches. Fillies have both, ponies have neither, except for maybe Chrysalis. Princesses are idealised, more so than queens.

Of course, one can argue that knowing that, maybe adding some variety would help expand the catalogue and sell more toys, but we'll let the marketing departments fight that one out, eh? ;3

I've had a closer look at how the arms are set up for Fillies, btw, and if I saw it right, they have to twist at the shoulder joint to spread their arms, and their necks might be extruded backwards rather than curling (so their body's an L-shaped Tetris block, not a bent long one). If that's the case, then they're not designed to copy all the biped motions of ponies.

Which would mean they're literally not able to do it 'wrong'.

Looking forward to seeing it all in action, in any event.

I gotten busy in the last weeks but I wanted add a thing here.

>>572

>Honestly, I think Faust is a bit overrated.Not that she's bad in any way, just not the shining example a lot of people make her out to be. I mean, I've read some of the stuff on Them's Fightin' Herds, and it's not bad, but...

She is, but at least is not an her fault if the fandom idolatrize her (and for me she is quite clever use the fame for his endings).

Lauren Faust has a good creativity, but average writing skills. While she finds good characters, situations, and undestand what things could be really interesting to see, she lacks of deep.
Lauren focus only to show the situation, but doesn't create a thick context for it and the roots (the causes) that explain why these things exists. Is a sign of two things: she does not grasp well the writing basics, and she lacks of creativity on the plan of "worldbuilding" (the collection of main events, characters stories and origins, and usually all "reference points" that you need to keep in tracks the various stuff you will add later).
If you have even heard some of her interviews, or the streaming of Them's Fightin Herds, you can hear that she replies too much time "I haven't figure out yet" on too much stuff, and also on criticals points. Them's Fightin' Herds backstories shows very well her limits, expecially the Oleander one. Cartoon and Short Stories could be a different medium with different paces, but the basic concepts of storytelling are universal.

I like her work, and I could appreciate what she usually tries to do, but she is not my favourite author. Despite that, I have a big interest on Them's Fightin' Herds. Somebody could says that is "FiM without Hasbro Ponies": I not contrast but neither approve this affermation, becouse while the style is clearly very close to the children show like FiM, setting and characters are very much different (the background stories demostrate that very well).
But this is the point. Usually a "children setting show" is underrated that nothing of serious or heavy can be done with it, when is just a language that must be mastered as any other. Is not the presence of Lauren or the origins from FiM that are really interesting, but if they will be really capable to use what the style can really offer.

I think the preference of Lauren to keep the Ponies more "animalized" in behavior does not come for some specific interest into the genre, or for some creative use about them; simply she does not see them as deep or complex creatures, or more simply, she does not see them much more than "fun stuff". Them's Fightin' Herds for example show this much better than FiM: it has a "dark" vein in it, but seems put to give a much better fun or adventurous feeling than having some "serious" moral.

>Maybe it's a genre thing.

No, is not, is just Lauren to being limited; but also, for me, she does not studies the inner working of the genre as a dedicate writer usually do. You can write a sci-fi story with many tropes and do a good story too, but does not mean that you really "understand" the founding roots of the genre.

>(I think it was her, when they were announcing some castle toyline... and Twilicorn on the side).
Hmm yes, I get the source: http://family-room.ew.com/2013/01/29/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-exclusive-twilight-princess/

Usually I'm not disturbed by stereotypes, not when they have a reason to exist in a story and can employed for a large range of human emotion or iteraction, than only the dispregiative one. I'm more disturbed when I see that these words went disregarded under a bad development and management. I'm not sure if the Twilight' story after the S3 has a reason to exist, when she, as character, has no longer a true function of being a "student".

>>557
>Also: tailhole, in the Sparkle's chair.
This tailhole, which is present in all Funtasia chairs (from what I've seen in trailers and on the concept art), is probably my favorite detail in the FF trailers so far.

>>619
>Lauren focus only to show the situation, but doesn't create a thick context for it and the roots (the causes) that explain why these things exists.
I assume this had to do with relatability. The audience is indirectly informed that all that is not clearly defined by the author should be replaced with a similar thing from their past experiences, be it a different art piece, or real life occurrence - this way, the audience's expectations & imagination kinda fuse with the incomplete background of the author's work, making it all relatable.

>I think the preference of Lauren to keep the Ponies more "animalized" in behavior does not come for some specific interest into the genre, or for some creative use about them; simply she does not see them as deep or complex creatures, or more simply, she does not see them much more than "fun stuff".
I personally think the opposite - that Lauren's desire to keep them as horse-like as possible reeks of her wish to directly play on the fact that the characters of this new universe on her hands are quadrupedal horses. This, if done correctly, would make them horses not just visually, but in behavior as well. This, while not as deep as one might expect, is still deeper than simple "fun stuff". Or maybe I'm just projecting my thoughts onto her efforts.

>Usually I'm not disturbed by stereotypes, not when they have a reason to exist in a story and can employed for a large range of human emotion or iteraction, than only the dispregiative one. I'm more disturbed when I see that these words went disregarded under a bad development and management.

The best way to create a good story is not to try to avoid tropes, but to ignore them, writing under the influences and rational thoughts. The thing about stereotypes and tropes that people tend to forget is that they are natural - they inherently stem from things that make sense. So if an inexperienced writer does their best to avoid tropes, they are in a risk of avoiding the common sense these tropes were born from. And the result would be a story that makes little sense and comes off as a youngest during the transitional age, screaming "I'm mature now, I'm not a kid!"

And if people scream "how dare you use an outdated trope!" after you write it without knowing that it was a trope, it just means that this trope has some merit to it.