Season 2 Episode 4 "Lunar Eclipsed" Discussion, ***SPOILERS***PONIES***LUNA RETURNS*** Options

[Dvandom]

Celestia has always seemed to be a "throw 'em in the deep end" sort of teacher.

Fan art we need: Luna with Dr. Whooves and Derpy, saying "We are not amused."

---Dave

[TM2 Dinobot]

I'm not sure in the pilot that no one knew who she was, but rather Twilight was the only one with enough courage and hootspa to speak up.

Zecora and Chickenpie were the best parts for me. I loved Pinkie laying that egg. I LOL'd. And Pinkie's 'I'm almost as big as her' speech made the episode for me. Pips was great as well. We need to make him an honorary CMC.

And man, I was so freaking happy to see Nightmare Moon again. I missed her. New footage for PMVs!

Over all, great episode, one of the better ones, and almost makes up for not having Luna even mentioned for 26 episodes. Almost, but not quite.

[LoomX]

I guess Rarity was too exhausted from making everypony's costume (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-hotrod.gif)

And while I Liked Pipsqueak, I hope he doesn't become a regular character with the CMC's. An occasional appearance yes, but not as a regular character. More like Zecora, who only appears every so often.

[Rezo]

And man, I was so freaking happy to see Nightmare Moon again. I missed her. New footage for PMVs!

Oh, indeed. I forgot that. Shame on me.

We saw NMM's design reused. I approve so much ^^

[Rezo]

And while I Liked Pipsqueak, I hope he doesn't become a regular character with the CMC's. An occasional appearance yes, but not as a regular character. More like Zecora, who only appears every so often.

The thing with pipsqueak is... They could've used Applebloom instead, for exactly the same result, so he's kinda... Superfluous. And his introduction seems remarkably forced.

Is there a Hasbro toy for him? That'd explain (And excuse) it. If not... Quite pointless. Not annoying as such (Though as said, the fandom is devided on this) but quite superfluous.

[Masked Toaster]

If Luna keeps the plural moniker, it'll be alluding to Night Mare actually returning. But that's only likely if she's a separate entity now or Luna gets possessed.
Much like Spawn's way of talking plural.

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• Being rather fond of spiders, the spider scene probably lost something to me. I thought they were cute :<
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• Luna has Rarity's VA and Rarity's sarcasm. No Rarity in this episode. The conclusions are inevitable :x
• More seriously, apparently Rarity was cut out of the episode (Compare episode with previously-released screenshot of the Apple-diving, pre-season). I guess it's to avoid clashing with Luna due to the shared VA. Still a pity :<

I'm fond of spiders to the extent I let them crawl all over me sometimes. Mostly, I do it to get them out of places they'll be killed. The scene didn't really off-put me, though. I just laughed as ponies, and Zecora, had spiders all over them.
Fluttershy's small scene and Dash's few lines could support that.

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Over all, great episode, one of the better ones, and almost makes up for not having Luna even mentioned for 26 episodes. Almost, but not quite.

She was mentioned four episodes ago, and that makes it twenty-five episodes.

[TM2 Dinobot]

I think my favorite part was Luna's hair being tugged by Pips. That was so freaking cute!

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Also...

(IMG:http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/TwistedMetal/luna2.jpg)

SWEET CELESTIA, THAT FACE!

[Blueshift]

Good grief what is wrong with people?

Yes, traditionally royalty speaks in the third person! I thought everyone knew that!!

[DrSpengler]

I really liked this socially awkward but well-intentioned version of Luna over the depressed crybaby from all the fanart I've seen in the past year. Her "voice of god" thing was hilarious, especially during the scene with Fluttershy (my favorite part of the episode).

Another really cute and fun episode.

[LoomX]

I'm more curious why she uses "we". is that some parody on old British royal "accent"/ manner of speaking?

Pretty much. I know Queen Victoria was famous for speaking in such a manner, with her famous "We are not amused" line.

It's known as the Majestic Plural, or the Royal We.

[TM2 Dinobot]

Good grief what is wrong with people?

Yes, traditionally royalty speaks in the third person! I thought everyone knew that!!

Me too. That's why I didn't say anything.

[Rezo]

Good grief what is wrong with people?

Yes, traditionally royalty speaks in the third person! I thought everyone knew that!!

It's still odd to hear when the God-Princess stopped doing so several generations ago.

[Pocket]

This episode must have been hell for the animators. All the background ponies, even the palette swap ones, had their own unique costumes. I didn't see Lyra anywhere though. Did anyone else happen to notice her?

Also, the ponies pulling Luna's chariot have bat wings and matching seahorse-like fins for manes. Presumably she magic'd them into this form just for effect. That's hardcore, right there.

But if you visit ponychan... ohh, those tears.

I haven't noticed any. But then, I haven't ventured outside the episode general thread yet, so I guess they're keeping it to their own threads. (Figures the biggest whiners would be the ones who need to be attention whores by making their own threads. Fine by me!)

[Blueshift]

Good grief what is wrong with people?

Yes, traditionally royalty speaks in the third person! I thought everyone knew that!!

It's still odd to hear when the God-Princess stopped doing so several generations ago.

No-one sends memos to the moon (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-screamer.gif)

[Nayuki]

This episode must have been hell for the animators. All the background ponies, even the palette swap ones, had their own unique costumes. I didn't see Lyra anywhere though. Did anyone else happen to notice her?

It was a lot of work, but all the late nights were worth it. Lyra actually shows up in 2 different costumes, the pony in the mummy costume is Lyra. There is also one scene with the town running in terror where she's not in the mummy costume and is wearing a bonnet (I think one of the other artists just took her running from one of the other episodes and added the bonnet in afterwards).

[Dvandom]

Also, the ponies pulling Luna's chariot have bat wings and matching seahorse-like fins for manes. Presumably she magic'd them into this form just for effect. That's hardcore, right there.

My Little Valinor!

---Dave

[TM2 Dinobot]

This episode must have been hell for the animators. All the background ponies, even the palette swap ones, had their own unique costumes. I didn't see Lyra anywhere though. Did anyone else happen to notice her?

Wasn't she dressed as Cleopatra?

[LoomX]

This episode must have been hell for the animators. All the background ponies, even the palette swap ones, had their own unique costumes. I didn't see Lyra anywhere though. Did anyone else happen to notice her?

(IMG:http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/1734/unled2zz.jpg)

That could be Lyra. Would need to confirm it when the HD version is uploaded.
EDIT: Looks as though it's probably not.

And I did like the fact that there were no duplicate background ponies. We didn't have any last episode either so I hope it's a running trend.

This post has been edited by LoomX: Oct 22 2011, 11:10 AM

[TM2-Megatron]

Wasn't Lyra running around with a bonnet in a shot from Over a Barrel? I'd need to see today's episode to compare, though; and I'm waiting for tonight.

[Rezo]

Also, the ponies pulling Luna's chariot have bat wings and matching seahorse-like fins for manes. Presumably she magic'd them into this form just for effect. That's hardcore, right there.

The question came up in another forum, too - yeah. same conclusion.

I mean, Twilight mentions a transmorphing or something spell, and Luna transmorphes herself... Tranformed batponies totally make sense in this context.