My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Page 696

FRESH OFF THE PRESS KIDS

That was a lot of fun, totally happy with that episode after a few sluggish episodes. I thought it would be a 2 parter but I thought it worked well.

Your digital download of Bronies Core Edition is now available at Scrnland!

But first, a message from John de Lancie:

Dear Contributors,

At long last the documentary is finished. It was made possible by your generous contributions and the work of many professionals. When we first started, we were asked by many a concerned Brony if their parents, friends, and loved ones would find the documentary appropriate for viewing. Most emphatically, yes. As promised, the film is respectful, insightful and entertaining -- we present it to you with love.

Now, to a more down-to-earth matter: Please enjoy the documentary with family and friends but, please, do not upload the documentary to the Internet (YouTube, etc.). Why? Let me explain.

When we first had the idea of a Brony document ary, it was budgeted at $60,000. We figured two days of shooting with two cameras, followed by six weeks of editing. However, when the response to the Kickstarter campaign resulted in five times the original goal, Mike and I felt duty bound to expand the scope of the show. Immediately, this translated into four more cameras at the convention site in New Jersey. It also meant including four additional cities in the United States as well as traveling to Israel, Germany, Holland, and England. Of course, with this major expansion, we were now dealing with hundreds of additional hours of raw footage that necessitated the need to hire yet more editors, sound engineers and video engineers. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

As is customary in the film business, one tries to defer salaries so that all the money is put on the screen. Of course airlines, hotels, restaurants, camera operators, sound techs, video and audio post houses do not defer their costs. Neither do law yers or insurance companies. These people are paid up front. The people who traditionally defer their salaries are the writer, the director and the producers. There are six of us who have worked on this film for over eight months with the hope that our efforts would be recompensed AFTER the film is released. Mike, in particular, has worked an extraordinary twelve hours a day, every day for the entire eight months. This is why I’m asking that you not upload the film to the Internet. If someone, other than yourself and close friends, would like to see the documentary please direct them to www.BronyDoc.com (or directly at our online distributor, www.scrnland.com). It’s a modest amount to pay and it would be greatly appreciated. Also, while we are on the subject of the Internet (YouTube in particular), we want to take this film to the next step in distribution because we think the Brony message needs to be experienced by the general public and not just Bronies. However, for festivals and film distributors to take the film seriously and to give it a wider viewership, the documentary cannot have been available on sites like YouTube.



Please honor our request.



Thank you,

John de Lancie

Interview with Faust, writers and actors as well as the animated parts were really well done.

Trixie gets her comeuppance and starts playing nice. Discord (maybe) decides it's kind of lonely being the lord of chaos by yourself. Babs comes around. Even Pinkie realizes you can have too much of a good thing...
Conjecture - Chrysalis shows up in the finale

I suspect there is more to it than it seems.

The episode implies that Discord hasn't turned nice just because of Fluttshy. He is capable of time travel, yet he does not mess with the timeline, which is like the ultimate source of chaos. He neither just do a *snap* and make the Elements of Harmony disappear. All this implies he is not the spirit of pure chaos he is portrayed. He might have a genuine interest in saving Equestria from a future threat bigger than him, of which Celestia and Luna are implied to be aware as well.

The mention of "friend" seems to have a profound effect on him. This implies he did not have, or has neglected his friends in the past. If the Discord == Starswirl theory is correct, he most probably neglected Luna (and/or possibly Celestia) in favor of focusing on improving his magic. However, without friends, he could not unlock higher levels of magic, thus is powerless against aforementioned threat. Realizing this he either went mad, resulting in the Discord we all know, or less probably, he started to seek alternative solutions, testing ponies, including the Mane 6, trying to strengthen their friendship.

Either way, he realizes that while he has no chance of rebuilding burned bridges, he can help Twilight to reach her "next level of studies" and to "bid farewell and adieu to all those pesky little voices in her head that are trying to make sense of everything", freeing her of the OCD-like need to understand the explanations behind everything, all the while maintaining the friendship of the Mane 6 and unlocking the true potential of the power of her and her friends, saving Equestria and redeeming him of the lost friendships and consequences of his madness.

Or I'm just overanalyzing things.