the irony?
he did this meta as fuck and sort of lazy page of describing why he can not show and say who the dad is in order to stop the drama…
but there is drama anyway.
lol
@441TheSecond
you get the feeling that if vavacung reveals who the father, that guy (the character) would deliver a speech slamming all the ‘she’s my waifu’ fans/admirers that instead of being happy for her, they made her miserable?
@441TheSecond
What Twilight is going through is not a joke, but the obvious brony parallel could be considered one. If you want to get technical lets call it a “reference”.
@Roboshi
Is that what the author is doing? Because as far as I know he just made this strip as a tongue and cheek meta joke about the fandom, and people got so defensive that now he has to stop reading comments.
so anyone else having a feeling that even if they manage to give both flashes interesting and well thought off stories, people will still dismiss them as ‘bland,no substance’ characters?
aquaman and superman have been suffering under that assumption for decades (aquaman’s the bigger victim of the two thanks to the ‘superfriends’ cartoon)
I agree it can be annoying when people get overly angry. But it’s not an excuse to just dismiss the reason people don’t like something.
This just turns the comic into a mouthpiece telling everyone “I’m right and you’re wrong you’re making twilight cry you’re so wrong” and that’s just dumb.
@CronoM
When you have a bunch of people yelling “you are wrong and this is why” over and over I can understand why he would stop listening.
Like it or not what this strip is alluding to is not so crazy, it’s actually one of the most reasonable occurrence in Vavacung’s comics.
While I agree that Flash was a poor excuse for a love interest, you can’t deny that the sh*tstorm that hit all brony sites when he first appeared far exceeded what you could expect from an undeveloped character. And that was before the movie even came out. We didn’t even know what he was like and “Brad”, as he became known, was the most hated character in mlp. I know that we don’t like to admit that a lot of bronies can be irrational about their ponies, but the argument that Flash wasn’t hated just because he stole people’s waifu is just not true. A lot of people resented him just because Twilight stumbled into him in the movie trailer. We can’t revise history to make the fandom look better.
Fans acting defensive of their idol is not such a crazy thought, it has happened IRL and it’s not so crazy to think that it could happen to Twilight. If fans of a singer can be deluded enough to try to kill themselves for their idol, imagine what fans of a pretty all powerful immortal princess who saved the world numerous times could do.
Sorry for wall of text.
We don’t hate Flashlight because he “stole our waifu” he hate it because flash sentry is a dull character. No one was complaining about fluttermac earlier and fluttershy is probably the one with the most people claiming her as waifu.
Don’t pull this bullshit on us just because we don’t like your OTP.
We don’t hate Flashlight because he “stole our waifu” he hate it because flash sentry is a dull character. No one was complaining about fluttermac earlier and fluttershy is probably the one with the most people claiming her as waifu.
Don’t pull this bullshit on us just because we don’t like your OTP.
..the writer has basically clammed up and started mass blockings for people with reasonable arguments against this strip, along with replies that mostly consist of…
@PonyPon
True. I hope the writer has good enough sense to not draw too much attention to this in future strips…
…but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be his mindset :( Going by the replies he’s been giving the commenters on deviantart, he wants us to believe Twilight was so loved by the people over her ‘lesser hero’ friends, or even Cadence (who was married btw), when Flash Sentry was alive that quote: “this ISN’T breaking the 4th wall”…and her extreme importance and popularity to the people and the jealousy of suitors, even back then, is actually something he’s trying to pull off as fact.
I fear this writer wants to fuse his misguided finger waving at the fandom with his actual story.
I thought this story arc was trying to be clever and create a post generation arc for the sake of exploring the possible future of Equestria, like new chosen elements of harmony….
Not to post meta-shit that is based on missing the point entirely.
In fact I can’t help but feel that this page in particular felt very off kilter, as if a knee-jerk reaction to something. I’ve noted before that this writer is putting an ‘aura of unflawed and perfection’ around Twilight in this comic in place of in-show Celestia. This story-arc is based on the end of S4 and its theme right? Then Rainbow Rocks came along and pulled the rug out from under that theme’s feet. Rainbow Rocks did a shockingly good job in removing the show’s focus off of Twilight as the ‘one and only important’ protagonist for major conflicts, a minor and resolvable issue in S1 and S2, but a major writing problem in S3 and S4.
Twilight mouthing off on how loved she is and how that’s the reason Flash is so hated seems so artificial and bs in this strip, it almost feels like the the writer is in denial, even with the meta-shit.
I’m not sure what this writer was thinking, this was the equivalent of shooting your own story in the foot. How was it worth it?
People didn’t hate Flash Sentry because he dated Twilight, people hated him because he was a bland, one dimensional boring idiot whose only purpose to exist was to give Twilight something to lust after.
Don’t try to waggle your finger around and try to shame us for disliking him, he was a shitty character.
@DJDerpy2013
Well, taking this particular yarn seriously was never in the cards anyhow. And yet here we are watching the comment section go Chernobyl for the fiftieth straight time. It’s reassuring in a sick way.
Kinda hypocritical for Twilight to practically force Spike’s daughter to live in poniville, even with the supposed risk there was, yet herself conceal the identity of her lover to Rarity.