May
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2014
MSB Topic vote blog · 9:25pm May 1st, 2014
Alrighty guys, been doing a bit of research into the topics from the original shows. I've categorized them into five groups below. After each episode, You guys will vote in the comments here or on the chapter on a topic in that category. For the sake of keeping it simple, I'm only going to do topics the show has already covered.
Now, the next Field Trip category will be (in bold):
Nature (systems)
Biology (indiviuals)
Physics
Chemistry
Other
Get to voting!
I would vote biology, simply to see how the Magic of the Bus would interact with magical physiology (seriously, imagine if the Bus drove through a patch of Poison Joke), but...why is it in bold?
Drat. I suppose I can't request ponykind's various magical organ systems.
Let's go with cells then. I can cross my fingers for
midi-chloriansmagical organelles.2067885 It's in bold because that's the category i'm working in. The bold will change between field trips.
2067906
Ah.
I say nature! I still have the idea of a bus being a better flyer than Scootaloo
Yes, I'm voting that purely for that reason
2068171 no, im doing biology, so vote in that category (i.e. digestive, microbes, etc) use link for help
2068251 Dang, if that's the case then I ask for the topic on bones and muscles. Which is also a potential Scoots episode
Have them go inside Cherilee, and observe firsthand the magic of the immune system!
Take a good ol' trip through Discord to see what makes him tick.
Physics will be fun! We would just need Pinkie as Miss Frizzle's assistant since she's so good at breaking them anyway.
Bats!
With Cherilee being sick, you have already set up the prefect, first field trip. The immune system.
I think a ride through the Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems would be great...and as part of it they run into Cheerilee's Immune System
Ooh, can you do the bat episode? I loved it to absolute death as a kid!
Go inside Discord, Hilarity ensues.
Water cycle via pegasi?
2068984 Discord doesn't tick, though. He phawitzles.
outer space
Only doing topics the show has already covered? Aw, that's no fun, though I suppose doing enough research to make a field trip on an entirely new subject would be difficult, but you'll have to do that anyways in order for one on an already covered subject to not be a total retread better served by watching the original episode... or, in some cases, to avoid repeating out of date or disproven info.
That said, you've clearly set us up for an immune system episode, considering Cheerilee's predicament. I'd vote for multiple chapters per arc; gives you more chance to correct errors, especially factual ones, before you get too far out in the plot to deal with them.
2144318 I'm still going to be watching the original episodes for their info (and level. so i don't make it seem something for high schools) and possibly do a bit of extra research for any extra bits i might want to add in.
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I know you'll be watching the episode; I'm saying that for a given arc to be worthwhile in its own right as opposed to being just a novelization of an episode with tweaks(in which case the reader would be better off just watching the episode), the show itself can't be your primary source of research... and even if the intent is to be a retread, lots of information from the show will be out of date on account of the 20 year gap - science marches on, and all that. You need to know a lot more about the subject than the show tells you to do anything different from it, and even if sticking to the rails stuff has to be verified through independent sources to stay true to the spirit of the show.
After doing all of that, the amount of additional effort needed to do an arc on a subject not covered by the show instead(such as, say, the immune system of horses) would be comparatively small. Either way, it's no small undertaking, and I applaud the sheer balls you've got for going for it.
2144338 Thanks
I'm excited to write this too
as soon as my fucking summer classes give me a chanceOf course, I'm going to try to keep this both in the educational/informational sense while trying to keep it a good story. There might be some devices I can't change due to their nature (i.e. white blood cells attacking the bus), but i'll try to do my best to vary the plot devices from the show.
to the immune system
The fillies go into Diamond's body and learn about digestion.