A few thoughts on pegasi and Scootaloo [warning: highly spoilery for S3 EP5]

[profbutters]

Ahem.  Professor Daring Do and I would like to share some little-known facts about Pegasi children and a certain young denizen of Ponyville in particular.  Our previous entry crashed, as it was getting to be furlongs too long, and it's better to have it as a separate entry, anyhow.  So, putting on our sober professorial velvet tam here:

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[porkwithbones]

I have never seen an episode of the new MLP series. I'm not sure I ever saw the original series, either, despite adoring the ponies I owned. (I didn't and don't watch much television.) This entire post made me laugh, though. You have made me care about these characters, even at this distance.

[insaneladybug]

Oh, this is lovely! Essays and speculations are so fun to tinker with. I do that sort of thing a lot. I enjoyed reading every bit of this. The points you've made are very sensible and logical, and the speculation on Cloudsdale life and the falling Ponies also makes sense and is sad at the same time.

I adore the idea of bringing G2 into the mix. People talk about G3 getting no love, but I think the situation is far worse for poor G2. Sometimes I feel like I'm about the only one who loves that line!

I've speculated on the idea of Scootaloo's backstory myself. I've never considered the homeless orphan thing, I don't think, and I didn't even realize it was that common. Wow. Since apparently you don't have to be a Pegasus yourself to have Pegasi genes and pass them to children (re: the Cake family), I wondered if Scootaloo's situation was similar to that. But just about anything goes, I imagine.

[profbutters]

Thanks! I think I was going for baby birds, and at the same time thinking of a response to some tropes and fandom memes that make me kind of unhappy

[insaneladybug]

I love responding to such tropes and memes myself. :) Lots of fun to be had.

I've never seen the G2 cartoon myself, but the Ponies themselves are very dear to me because of how much I was in love with the G1 Ponies when I was a kid. I was heartbroken when there weren't any more. Seeing those G2 Ponies on the shelves, even though they didn't look like G1s, pretty much sailed me over the moon. I felt like old friends had come back to me.

I would love to see your "respect" picture with Babs! That would be awesome. Yes, seriously, people should at least consider that they owe G4 to the past generations. I always try to keep that in mind when I'm complaining about the Perry Mason books versus the TV show and other such things. I may not be that happy with some things the books did, but there wouldn't be the TV show without them.

Yeah, seriously. That's a fine and poignant message right there.