Unpopular opinion time

@Mildgyth  
She’s only temporarily in a wheelchair because after having the piano and co. dropped on her head, she’s in a better state afterwards having regained the ability to walk. She should have been in a full body cast after that, if the writers didn’t flick the slapstick violence switch back into the “harmless” position just before.
 
@Philweasel  
^Is the above realistic too? Dropping an avail/piano on a paraplegic’s head and having them feeling better afterwards?  

 
According to RD, the rest of the M6 falling out of a hot air balloon would have resulted in them being “smashed to pieces”. Or Spike’s comment in Secret of my Excess about not “making it” while falling with Rarity. I wish you were right in that regard, because that’s another thing I find odd: The characters are fine colliding with a hard surface at high speed just so long as it’s from any direction except below. Crushed by something hard from above (piano)? No worries. Slammed against a wall (Rainbow Crash, or Fluttershy in Rainbow Falls)? Hunky-dory. Hitting the floor from up high (Sonic Rainboom, SomE, Wonderbolt Academy)? Don’t even think about it. They should be fine, but the writers tell us they won’t. They will never ever show us though, especially this late in the game. It would be disastrous if they did show that they’d be fine, though. It would show that the apparent stakes in the aforementioned scenes were far lower than were being reported.
 
@EquusStorm  
People are far more pedantic about far more inconsequential things. People get pedantic about the way ponies hold cups, for Pete’s sake.

@Background Pony #7951  
Lol, fair point

I should make clear too that I don’t dislike the CMC episodes at all. I just like them as individual characters a lot more :D
 
@Background Pony #7951  
I do like how that pedanticness led to the theory that ponies exist in a post-apocalyptic post-human scavenger world. Then Equestria Girls kind of implied the humans live in a post-apocalyptic post-pony world, which is the coolest thing ever XD  

@Badumsquish
 
But the Gabby situation is actually impossible from their point of view. For the CMC they had the basis of the entirety of ponykind to make them believe they would get their marks eventually. With Gabby they have no reason to believe it could be done.
 
That’s why it works with scootaloo’s wings. The Gabby situation is an impossibility, and in Scoots’ eyes her flying is looking increasingly like an impossibility too, so she vicariously conflates the two.
 
Scoots was by far the one most effected by Gabby.

@Badumsquish  
Oh yeah, I don’t mind pedanticness in itself. It wouldn’t be a fandom without it. I just wish some of that pedanticness could be redirected away from, say, getting pissy because a pony sat on a chair the wrong way, and towards something that actually impacts the story like slapstick violence.

@Background Pony #7951  
I kind of took that as Spike and Rainbow Dash being overdramatic, which to be fair is not out of character.
 
A terminal velocity fall should certainly hurt a pony, quite seriously, since it’s hinted that they’re rather heavy. I doubt it would be as leathal as it would be for a human, but they would likely end up in traction, and it’s certainly possible it would kill them.
 
Spike on the other hand is nearly invincible, and much smaller and lighter, so he was certainly freaking out for nothing (he’s bellyflopped onto lava at near terminal velocity).

@gingerninja666  
I dunno, dude. It’s a world where a portal turns ponies into people, dogs into people, dragons into dogs, bunnies into bunnies, and goddesses into high school principals, where ponies can be cloned with ponds of water or pieces of wood, where ponies control the weather except when they don’t have to, and literally everything Pinkie Pie does. “Impossible” is something Equestria does often and without fanfare XD

The CMC always worked best when they were on their own or when the episode focused on their relationship with their sisters

@Badumsquish
 
I never really liked the idea of “arbitrary skepticism”
 
For instance, if you brought a person from the past to our time and showed them all the stuff we can do. Be it cars or planes or smart tvs, they’d think that anything is possible… but it isn’t.
 
Just because MLP is in a world where magic exists, doesn’t mean the characters should just not care and believe anything can happen.

@EquusStorm  
Like with Twilight’s ladybug fear.

@gingerninja666  
I don’t know if it was intentional, but I actually really like how the show did that. Like, season 1 the characters were fairly firmly rooted in a “this is possible, this isn’t” skeptic mentality, but as the series has gone on and they’ve seen and done increasingly “impossible” things they’ve apparently lost that skepticism and tend to just take stuff at face value. It’s like a series-long meta case of character development :D
 
Also, I like how the show established “rules” for magic, but frequently breaks them. I think when magic has firm rules it ceases being magic and just becomes mundane. When there’s that level of “well, it IS magic so ‘impossible’ can happen” it keeps the magic alive :D

@gingerninja666  
May I simplify? Switching Scootaloo and Apple Bloom’s dialogue doesn’t work as well as having Scootaloo say it because Scootaloo has a goal of achieving something hard to reach that the other CMC don’t have to deal with.

@Badumsquish
 
I don’t think they HAVE lost that skepticism all that much. Just last season we had Twilight and Star saying they couldn’t fix Rarity’s mane with magic.

@gingerninja666  
She’s the same character who spontaneously decided she was terrified of ladybugs now for no reason, though. That’s probably just a rule of funny kind of thing :P

@Badumsquish  
I think magic becomes hard to care about when it has no rules. If everything is possible, nothing really matters.
 
There’s no rules, and concrete rules, and somewhere in there is the entertaining balance of knowing a becomes c, but not having the pleasure of knowing where b ran off to to make this transaction.

@Vivace  
Funny we choose now to believe they follow a human psychology.
 
Terribly convenient, you might call it.

@PonyPon  
Picking and choosing what aspects of real life apply is far from new in the show.

@PonyPon  
Totally true, but the magic actually plays a fairly small part in the series overall. Usually it’s about the characters and their interactions with one another and the magic’s just a plot device. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t matter, so to speak. All the show’s lore is like that, actually :D

My favorite of the CMC is Applebloom.

My fave shifted from AB in S1, to Sweetie Belle in S2, and Scootaloo in S3+… they had very defining episodes in those seasons, though, that probably tipped the balance in their favor.

Which was the most confusing moments that you had during this seasons? Moments that makes you question why that happened, or why they are doing this or acting like this?

@Background Pony #AE4B  
Pinkie in Yakity Sax was incredibly dumb and bizzare, going into severe depression just because she was upset that no one liked her playing the…whatever the hell that thing was

@Prowl  
The Yakpipes.

@Background Pony #AE4B  
Discord’s behavior in “A Matter Of Principals”, none of that “It’s just Discord being Discord” BS.
 
@Prowl  
Yovidaphone.