S4: Rambling About "Bats!" · 6:02am Dec 29th, 2013
Yay, Flutterbat! Someone needs to write a comedy story where Fluttershy now has to reclassify her citizenship status to a minority, and have of Luna's batponies come down to Ponyville to induct her into their group, only for them to find out that she's actually a pegasus and not a batpony, and many shenanigans ensue. Also: Fluttershy slowly begins her descent into madness as she's now part fruit bat, and works to hide her increasingly dangerous addiction to fruit from her friends, nearly destroying the relationships she has with her friends and her animals; Angel tirelessly works to bring her back into the fold because we all know he's totally a tough love mofo like that.
Next on the list: giant fruit. I can see it now: Applejack and the Giant Apple. Just doesn't have the same ring now, does it? The title's there, though, so I'm sure someone will use it eventually. Still, though, it's not entirely outlandish. There's a few farmers here on Earth who can grow some pretty big stuff, and maybe with a little magic, they could probably get as big as that apple. Is it a MacGuffin, though? The apple's sole purpose of existing was strictly so it could be destroyed, like the inferior fruit it is (everyone knows peaches are better).
Moving on to: magic. I'm just going to state that magic is entirely open to interpretation now given how the spell that Twilight used in this episode seemingly goes wrong in a way that not even Twilight can logically explain. That leads me to believe that magic is randomly disobedient and illogically vague as opposed to direct and intuitive based upon the user's intent. I doubt this part of canon will be taken for value, if at all, given how it only seems to cement the fact that magic has a chance of going wrong with a result that you did not expect at any point due to circumstances that were completely out of your control. It'd essentially be the equivalent of a science experiment going wrong because someone was staring at it, which, in essence, is the reason why the spell somehow went awry in this episode.
Finally: hazmat suits. I feel like the writers are just pulling us fanfiction authors' chains with all the anachronisms.
Magic does what you tell it to, or what it wants. What it doesn't do is what you 'want', because most of the time you just want some peace and quiet, and really, that's too vague when yer' bending reality like a piece of red licorice candy. It's quite finicky that way.
EDIT: Clarified my little rambling there.
Also, it was a Merriwether Williams episode, so I wasn't exactly expecting the episode to be top-notch.
The writers are going to let the cartoon be as flexible as they need it to be.
Magic can go 'nah, lemme do this instead?' Check.
The tech available wildly fluctuates based on a need basis? Check.
It is a fictional world, based on the whims or writers most likely worried more about getting paid that fan reactions? Ding ding ding.
1659631 Yeah, I just didn't like how it was portrayed given how I've had a lot of exposure to other systems of magic in fiction that held consistency in how magic worked.
1659641 True, that's why this is a rambling and less of an actual objective piece of the episode.
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Ramble me this.
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I could have sworn I saw that on Adult Swim once.
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Have you accepted the awesome might of the KEYTAR SWORD?
1659682 Only if I get one, too.
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I agree, Magic is a fickle thing, just like Time Travel. Well unless you have a Tardis, then it just does what ever the hell you want, with a few hiccups of course.