That One Little Girl's 'Pony' Cartoon that's Slowly Devouring the Internet

[Raefire]

Facebook page pic from yesterday:



And spoilered pic from today - don't click if you want Discord's design spoiled for you:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Raefire]

Final Facebook page teaser pic!



Less than 24 hours now....

[Relaxing Dragon]

Folks seem to be expecting some Labyrinth references with this one. I'd be down for that, no not as much as an Overlook dig...

[Henry88]

i guess i can add this to my list of Cartoons that i did not think would make it

pass week one.

[Raefire]

...and that was awesome. Worth avoiding spoilers for, and worth getting up at 5:45 am for.

Though I'll never be able to look at unicorn horns the same way again. Thanks for that, Princess Celestia...

EDIT: For those who missed it, follow this post - it'll update throughout the day as links go up: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/season-2-episode-1-return-of-harmony.html

[Rainbow Dash]

Funniest thing is that this episode was a hold-over from season 1 by HUB.  They made this before the fandom.  Without any fandom input they just thought "What if we had Q on our show?"

[Raefire]

Funniest thing is that this episode was a hold-over from season 1 by HUB.  They made this before the fandom.  Without any fandom input they just thought "What if we had Q on our show?"

Actually, no, in the interview with Equestria Daily ( http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/exclusive-season-2-audio-interview-with.html ), Jayson Thiessen - the Supervising Director and now Showrunner - mentioned that it was always intended for Season 2. It's just they got the greenlight for Season 2 before Season 1 was over, and because they wanted to keep a lot of the crew the same, they went straight into producing Season 2 after finishing Season 1.

Although you are right about no fandom input. Lauren Faust told ED that they were already working on this premiere episode when the Brony thing started to take off (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/exclusive-season-1-retrospective.html.)

[Rainbow Dash]

My mistake, must have misread it.

[Relaxing Dragon]

Great opening episode. My girl Fluttershy still shows she's resistant as can be to everything; Discord had to flat out get frustrated and cheat on her (kinda sorta Rainbow Dash as well, but he didn't seem to be trying as hard with that one). And Discord made for an excellent villain, probably my favorite of the show so far. He's got the perfect voice and style for it, even if I don't much care for his physical appearance (and full disclosure, I'm not a Star Trek watcher and had no idea who the actor was before I watched the episode). Also, CMC's ruin everything. As usual.

Like everypony else, I can't wait for next week now.

[Raefire]

Also, this is cool - especially the end:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vAjhwvv-_Do" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/vAjhwvv-_Do</a>

If you don't get the ending: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/magneto.html

And remastered theme song coming with Episode 3: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/remastered-theme-coming-with-episode.html

[Rainbow Dash]

[Raefire]

So that was awesome. Flutterbitch is my new favourite character.

Episode is up in 720p, commercial-free on ponyarchive: http://ponyarchive.org/seasons/s2.php

[Rainbow Dash]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/k4wh4FnwiAg" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/k4wh4FnwiAg</a>

They even did the correct wipe at the end.

[Raefire]

Next new episode won't air until October 15th, apparently, but in the meantime - Rumoured future Season 2 screenshots! Holy crap!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/season-two-screenshots.html






LUUUUNNNAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Relaxing Dragon]

Seriously though, good to finally see her again. Now all we need is a good reason for her season-long absence.