Nov
28th
2015
The most jarring mistake in the season 5 finally (spoiler warning) · 8:36pm Nov 28th, 2015
Considering that the topic was about how the mane six not getting their cutie marks, they all got THE SAME CUTIE MARK in every timeline!! This is either an oversight on the behalf of the animators or intentional.
Anyway, it sets a new canon to the story that states that a pony's cutie mark is genetically inherited... That's a bad news to those who hated the crusaders cutie mark. That means that those (I would say jarring but that's just repeating the title) cutie marks were predestined from the moment of their birth.
They got them but not together, so they never met.
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That's not what I meant, they will get them eventually, that's lore. But after the first sequence, we find out that neither of them succeeded in their original talents, Applejack never returned to the farm until after the war, Rarity couldn't possible have a three gems cutie mark since she never discovered her gem seeking talent, I can't imagine pinkie getting balloons after her debut, and so on and so forth.
By logic they should get different cutiemarks for each timeline, but they didn't.
Cutie Mark's have always been paired with the word "destiny" in the show (an interesting view for a kids show, really). We seem to be left to assume that events will unfold to give them their same cutie marks over time, even if it's not by magical-surge/large geode/etc. And to play a different sort of devil's advocate, the writers/animators/execs above them may simply not have wanted that level of subtly. While the fandom my pick these things apart, I have to assume they still pitch it to their bosses as a children's show. With Cutie marks being so 'inseparable' with a ponies identity (and a nice visual confirmation), they may not have thought that detail would have meshed with the target audience, or distracted from the narrative.
But you do have an interesting point. Really, I'm curious how Pinkie Pie would ever get her Cutie Mark in the alternate timelines? No change in her daily routine occurs, unless it's all-out-war, but none of that is a happy thing.
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In my personal views, a creator or an artist is the king or, more dramatically, the god of his own creation. What the creators do with that content is up for them and any mishaps, whether accidental or intentional, should be taken as canon in the eyes of the fan artist.
What I was trying to understand is how such happenstance, the same cutie marks regardless of the universe in question, means for the lore of the hundreds or thousands of fan-fiction writers out there that will have to work on the content to make it work.
This also goes into the line of questioning about the reliability of the creators being the actual creators of their stories. Are the fans the true kings that dictates how the show works? Or should the show be part of it's own art and the creators going with whatever original idea they have conceived? Taking these question and asking for a show like MLP and you complicate things even further with the addition of a third ringleader called the studio that is constantly making adjustments to the content to suit the original target demographic and ignores the entirety of the fandom.
And now I'm babbling, which would have been fun if it were on a video... or not (sorry about that).
Returning to my original point, I liked the uptake reality check had on the issue of cutie marks and the ponies' names in one of his chapters in the story, the alicorn hunt. He said, and though I'm not sure which chapter, I know it's there, that mother's have a certain sense toward the magical characteristics of their foals which is why they can name them to something similar to what their cutie mark is about to be.
In that choice of thoughts, he inadvertently defined that the cutie mark is something that comes with baby from birth, and the only traits that are given at birth are hereditary in nature. You can see where I'm going with this, right?
My final thought is that cutie marks are becoming something of a predestined and not something the characters have any control over, and that is something that can make or break the cannon of a lot of stories.