Anonymous4(1): I thought it was an okay episode. Maud really sold it for me though! She is really unique and cute. Also, her design is really pretty! ;)
I had a feeling that the contrast between a bunch of brightly-coloured, happy ponies, and a dull, monotone one would be funny. And it was. It was even enough to carry an entire episode, for me at least
@speedy05:
I think you mean Sediments make me sedimental.
Faptacular: It's a wild exaggeration and I have no interest in rocks/poetry but I more or less am like Maud in that I'm not particularly enthusiastic/sociable (at first) and people generally don't know how to deal with me.
Of course I have no problem with that as I don't really want to deal with people either.
So the social awkwardness here: Pretty much every day of my life.
Roflcakes: So Maud basically has the same kind of social disorder that Pinkie does (can't really read people/social context clues, not very self aware), only her interests are severely limited to all but one thing: Rocks. Sounds pretty autistic to me! This only fuels my belief that the entire Pie family are a bunch of disturbed individuals raised by the Amish.
But yeah... Idunno, the episode was pretty cool but I'm not entirely sure what I'm supposed to take out of it. "Some people are as dull as wet blankets and you'll never be able to connect to them, but that's ok?" "Don't force yourself to like someone just because you both share a friend"?
...Or maybe it was "Rocks are fucking awesome and being obsessively interested in them doesn't mean you're a serial killer".
Faptacular: @Roflcakes: I might be definitely am reading too much into the psychology but I see a family dynamic that a lot of people fall into.
If Maud was the oldest she may have been also pressured hard to be the great success of the family by their parents. As a side effect she may have gotten all of the best things their parents could provide (like a private education, which might explain her absence in The Cutie Mark Chronicles.)
Pinkie on the other hand being the baby (Presumably) was still repressed as the only expectation for her was to "behave yourself young lady!"
Once they were adults the force of habit had become part of how Maud dealt with the world while Pinkie ran wild in rebellion and just stayed that way.
Regardless of all that we did get to see that despite all that Maud still loves Pinkie to bits.
Anonymous6: @Faptacular: Maud wasn't absent in CM Chronicles, she simply didn't exist back then and should have kept it that way.
An earlier S4 episode showed her on the family group photo at the same party which Pinkie arranged in the Chronicles, where we already know she wasn't present at. Would it be that bad to use one of the two established sisters instead and give them some personality? Maud Pie - Element of Pointless Goddamn Retcon.
This and many other contradictions and dubious directions the story has been taking lately make it impossible for me to threat anything past Season 3 as canon.
Roflcakes: @Faptacular: I can kinda see that, yeah. She might be a brick wall to everyone else but I'm glad she at least shows some kind of affection towards her sister.
@Gomenasai: Yeah, that really disappointed me too! There are already two perfectly good sisters the staff could have used in her place, and they didn't even get a mention in the episode! Not one.
So, does it come down to Hasbro wanting more characters to sell more toys or are the writing team walking on eggshells so that they don't ruin people's headcanons/perceptions of background characters? Personally I don't like either of those things.
Voslar: The funny thing about this episode is that I didn't hate it. I hated Power Ponies, and I hated Daring Don't, and I REALLY hated Spike at Your Service, but this episode was just like Maud herself: dull. There was nothing to really get excited about, for good or ill. It just kind of... exists.
Faptacular: @Gomenasai: I've pretty much felt that way since they retcon'd in Shining Armor and Cadence. Passing mentions of them anywhere in season two would have fixed the problem but here we are.
At this point it's like the Legend of Zelda timeline. I try to make sense of what they give me (much of which doesn't make too much sense anyway) and let my headcanon evolve to fix the problems.
Anonymous7: Anyone else sorta wondering what the heck you farm rocks for anyway? I mean, Maud can apparently eat normal rocks, so...Part dragon or something? Do they farm rocks to grow gems? what the blue hell do they do it for!?
@Gomenasai: @Roflcakes: A little looking, I think I found that she's mentioned as the oldest sister in one of the books
Thrakerzod: @WhiteWhiskey: It's a pre-industrial Quarry, they are mining/ farming low-grade uranium to make glowing glassware like they did back in the 1940's.
Anonymous9: @WhiteWhiskey: Glow probably comes from the uranium (or radium) salts. Unicorns could have crafted them though, while earths supplied the raw materials.
Roflcakes: @WhiteWhiskey: I imagine they need stone as a building material, but... rocks, however big they might get in Equestria, don't exactly seem like the best source of good quality stone.
Anonymous11: This comments section is like a mini-/mlp/ in that it's chock-a-bloc with asps under the delusion that their faux-edgy 'critiques' and opinions have any value whatsoever.
Rock
You are a rock
Grey
You are grey
Like a rock
Which you are
Rock
Rocks
These are my rocks
Sentiments make me sentimental
Smooth & round
Asleep in the ground
Shades of brown
and grey
Worst part: The Pinkie-Rainbow-Rari-Twi-Apple-Flutter-Maud fun time is kinda over doing a bit, but nothing special. No major flaws.
99.9/10
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I had a feeling that the contrast between a bunch of brightly-coloured, happy ponies, and a dull, monotone one would be funny. And it was. It was even enough to carry an entire episode, for me at least
@speedy05:
I think you mean Sediments make me sedimental.
Thanks, goobington.
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Of course I have no problem with that as I don't really want to deal with people either.
So the social awkwardness here: Pretty much every day of my life.
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But yeah... Idunno, the episode was pretty cool but I'm not entirely sure what I'm supposed to take out of it. "Some people are as dull as wet blankets and you'll never be able to connect to them, but that's ok?" "Don't force yourself to like someone just because you both share a friend"?
...Or maybe it was "Rocks are fucking awesome and being obsessively interested in them doesn't mean you're a serial killer".
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might bedefinitely am reading too much into the psychology but I see a family dynamic that a lot of people fall into.If Maud was the oldest she may have been also pressured hard to be the great success of the family by their parents. As a side effect she may have gotten all of the best things their parents could provide (like a private education, which might explain her absence in The Cutie Mark Chronicles.)
Pinkie on the other hand being the baby (Presumably) was still repressed as the only expectation for her was to "behave yourself young lady!"
Once they were adults the force of habit had become part of how Maud dealt with the world while Pinkie ran wild in rebellion and just stayed that way.
Regardless of all that we did get to see that despite all that Maud still loves Pinkie to bits.
An earlier S4 episode showed her on the family group photo at the same party which Pinkie arranged in the Chronicles, where we already know she wasn't present at. Would it be that bad to use one of the two established sisters instead and give them some personality? Maud Pie - Element of Pointless Goddamn Retcon.
This and many other contradictions and dubious directions the story has been taking lately make it impossible for me to threat anything past Season 3 as canon.
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@Gomenasai: Yeah, that really disappointed me too! There are already two perfectly good sisters the staff could have used in her place, and they didn't even get a mention in the episode! Not one.
So, does it come down to Hasbro wanting more characters to sell more toys or are the writing team walking on eggshells so that they don't ruin people's headcanons/perceptions of background characters? Personally I don't like either of those things.
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At this point it's like the Legend of Zelda timeline. I try to make sense of what they give me (much of which doesn't make too much sense anyway) and let my headcanon evolve to fix the problems.
@Gomenasai: @Roflcakes: A little looking, I think I found that she's mentioned as the oldest sister in one of the books
1. Eat rocks.
2. Shit concrete.
3. Profit.
Pretty close, yeah. http://tiarawhy.deviantart.com/art/Why-was-pinkie-farming-rocks-anyway-flash-312481176
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I used to hunt on it
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