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(?) · by **ReDead** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:35 pm

It's probably just Pinkie and Rainbow pulling a prank on her. :v:

(?) · by **Headless Horse** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:37 pm

She thinks she's stuck in a time loop like Groundhog Day, but it turns out everyone is just really boring.

(?) · by **Mordja** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:51 pm

Maybe we'll end up with multiple versions of Twilight coming from different points in the timeline, all of them bothering her about different things.

(?) · by **Mr. Big** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:59 pm

Mordja wrote:Maybe we'll end up with multiple versions of Twilight coming from different points in the timeline, all of them bothering her about different things.

Heh. It's just like that one "Duckman" episode, where different versions of future Duckman start pestering him over every little decision he makes.

That'd be awesome :smirk:

(?) · by **Mechanical Ape** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:30 pm

A Groundhog Day loop would be fantastic. And just before every commercial break, the library explodes.

(?) · by **The Doctor** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:50 pm

Filly on the Edge of Forever

Oh man, I'm going to be on a Star Trek kick all week...

Mechanical Ape wrote: And just before every commercial break, the library explodes.

And at the end we get a Kelsey Grammer pony!

(?) · by **drunkill** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:13 pm

ANd then a montage of Twilight and Spike doing things differently each time loop as they are the only two effected, including hitting golf balls and spike sends them to Canterlot.

They could do anything, for as long as they want without consequences... :lol:

Click here to view video.

(?) · by **Wayoshi** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:22 pm

For a serious post - my main curiosity about this episode is how any plot holes will be resolved.

(?) · by **Mordja** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:42 pm

Wayoshi wrote:For a serious post - my main curiosity about this episode is how any plot holes will be resolved.

Pinkie will fill them up with cement. :cheese:

(?) · by **Momar** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:54 pm

Personally I'm hoping for a Sapceballs "then and now" schtick with Twilight trying to explain this to Pinkie.

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(?) · by **Herr General** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:56 pm

Twilight needs to send herself a videotape so this can happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeZ9HhHU86o

OH GODDAMMIT YOU FUCKER

(?) · by **Headless Horse** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:57 pm

Well that was sure somethin'.

(?) · by **Damathacus** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:53 pm

I doubt that there is actually any time travel involved, I bet it's either some stupid mistake or some pony just plays prank on her.

I just hope this is something more than just Lesson Zero v2.0. :-/

(?) · by **Ragnar** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:12 pm

Damathacus wrote:I just hope this is something more than just Lesson Zero v2.0.

I was thinking the opposite, but, now that I'm really considering the idea, that would make Lesson Zero a little less special. I do want this one to have as unique a texture as LZ, though, just like with any other upcoming episode.

(?) · by **Mechanical Ape** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:17 pm

"Three billion pony lives ended on August 29, 1028 A.C. The survivors of the magical fire called the war: Judgment Hay.

They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the Cider Squeezies."

"The computer which controlled the machines, UrsaNet, sent two Ponynators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the pony resistance, Apple Bloom ... my friend."

"The first Ponynator was programmed to strike at Apple Bloom while she was still a filly.

It failed.

The second was to strike at Apple Bloom later that same year.

As before, I was able to send a message back to my younger self, along with a lone warrior, a protector for Apple Bloom."

"It was just a question of which one of them would reach her first ..."

(?) · by **The Ghost Of Ember** (?) » Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:34 pm

Well, I was still trying to think of an absurd speculation to throw out there, but too late. Mechanical Ape already made the best possible joke. Time to wrap it up here people. Last one out hit the lights. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **Pocket** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:17 am

This reminds me: Didn't someone post a ponyfied version of that "Wanted: Someone to go back in time with me" ad not too long ago? I know I saw some sort of parody of it recently.

Damathacus wrote:I doubt that there is actually any time travel involved, I bet it's either some stupid mistake or some pony just plays prank on her.

That's what I figured too. Introducing time travel as a thing that's actually possible seems like a stretch, even for this show. Though my second guess is that it'll end up working like the Time Turner chapter in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where the past is unchangeable and the most anyone can do is make what already happened happen, but it will also turn out they had just misinterpreted the events.

(?) · by **Bag of Magic Food** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:21 am

blonk wrote:I hope that at one point we see more than one Twilight from the future pop in to make warnings/corrections.

Mordja wrote:Maybe we'll end up with multiple versions of Twilight coming from different points in the timeline, all of them bothering her about different things.

Mr. Big wrote:Heh. It's just like that one "Duckman" episode, where different versions of future Duckman start pestering him over every little decision he makes.

I don't know Duckman, but I did see that episode of Tek Jansen.

(?) · by **MochaBean** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:41 am

Pocket wrote:This reminds me: Didn't someone post a ponyfied version of that "Wanted: Someone to go back in time with me" ad not too long ago? I know I saw some sort of parody of it recently.

You mean this?

(?) · by **Durandal** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:47 am

Mechanical Ape wrote:
"The first Ponynator was programmed to strike at Apple Bloom while she was still a filly.

It failed.

dang you ape; i'm dying over here

(?) · by **Grilox** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:48 am

MochaBean wrote:
You mean this?

Dang it internet. I can't see a picture about that picture without this song playing in my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D-QD_HIfjA

(?) · by **Durandal** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:52 am

Oh, and also, this was the video that came into my head when I read the ep. synopsis:

Click here to view video.

(?) · by **blonk** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 2:22 am

Bag of Magic Food wrote:I don't know Duckman, but I did see that episode of Tek Jansen.

Yeah, I think I'd be okay with this happening.

(?) · by **Doctor Wheeze** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:59 am

Pocket wrote:This reminds me: Didn't someone post a ponyfied version of that "Wanted: Someone to go back in time with me" ad not too long ago? I know I saw some sort of parody of it recently.

That's what I figured too. Introducing time travel as a thing that's actually possible seems like a stretch, even for this show. Though my second guess is that it'll end up working like the Time Turner chapter in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where the past is unchangeable and the most anyone can do is make what already happened happen, but it will also turn out they had just misinterpreted the events.

Well, we already know from Cutie Mark Chronicles that fate exists in the ponyverse, so the past being immutable seems likely.

(?) · by **thatbastardken** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:27 am

Doctor Wheeze wrote:Well, we already know from Cutie Mark Chronicles that fate exists in the ponyverse, so the past being immutable seems likely.

Unless, of course, it is your fate to change the past. :facehoof:

(?) · by **Brunellus** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:53 am

In The Hundred Light-Year Diary by Greg Egan, there is a deterministic universe that allows for the possibility of backwards communication. However, there is no guarantee that any particular message is the truth. Not that I would suggest that Twilight would intentionally lie to herself, but perhaps she sends the warning in haste and then realizes that she can't send another message to correct the first because she already didn't send such a correction.

Really looking forward to this episode.
:ponydrugs:

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:51 am

I can't wait for this episode. I love time travel stufffffffffffffff.

:ponydrugs:

(?) · by **MetalSonic** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:32 pm

I want her future self arrive in a train of some sorts. Maybe with a whole family :v:

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(?) · by **Kanthulhu** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:59 pm

I think I'm going to like this episode :flattered:

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(?) · by **shotgunbadger** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:01 pm

Twilight will go back in time to her last birthday to warn herself that she's about to dance like an idiot.

Or to turn the idiot dance into a duet.

(?) · by **Coyote** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:17 pm

Do not use
the
interdimensional doorway spell
There is a monster inside!
Love Twi.
~~

(?) · by **Mr. Big** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:19 pm

Bag of Magic Food wrote:

I don't know Duckman, but I did see that episode of Tek Jansen.

Okay, that's hilarious. I need to watch Colbert more often.

Who made that? One of the TV Funhouse guys?

EDIT: Huh, apparently it was.

(?) · by **kidcoelacanth** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:48 pm

So yesterday's episode had Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie.

I hope this one has only Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack, and is implied to be happening concurrent to yesterday's episode.

I don't know why I want this so bad, but I think it would be cool as heck.

(?) · by **Bag of Magic Food** (?) » Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:40 pm

shotgunbadger wrote:Twilight will go back in time to her last birthday to warn herself that she's about to dance like an idiot.

In stopping herself from dancing like an idiot, Twilight discovers that that idiotic dance was indirectly responsible for the safety of all of Equestria, and in the end she's forced to go back and do the dance all over again. :-/

(?) · by **Chaos Sonic** (?) » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:30 am

Man, how am I gonna get through this whole week when this is at the end of it :ohgawd:

(?) · by **Whitenoise Poster** (?) » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:09 am

Just get your future self to send you the episode back to your present self like I did.

Episode owns by the way just so you all know.

(?) · by **thatbastardken** (?) » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:25 pm

That's strange, my future self only sent back a message:

thatbastardfutureken wrote: Don't trust Whitenaaaargh

I'm not sure what it means though. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **nuclearsuplex** (?) » Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:23 pm

I'm also really looking forward to this episode.

Twilight discovers the mechanics behind Pinkie Sense and is able to synthesize the effects with magic. It would be "telechronokinesis", and Twilight will have to vibrate her past knees, shoulders, plot, etc., to send a message. Unfortunately, she forgets all the combos and signals the twitch of the end of days.

But seriously, my biggest hope is that they don't completely destroy logic with this episode. They need to keep it simple. I'm expecting the message to be a contained paradox, where the message is only necessary because it existed in the first place.

(?) · by **Pink Himalayan Salt** (?) » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:34 pm

thatbastardken wrote:I'm not sure what it means though.

Future me says to trust Whitenoise and not turn around if you hear any weird sounds.

(?) · by **Aramek** (?) » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:55 pm

Hey, all the people saying this:

A foo wrote:I sure hope this isn't like Lesson Zero/I'm sick of crazy Twilight.

Slap yo' selfs. :-/

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