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Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by SigmasonicX (?) » Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:29 pm

Several episodes from season 8 have been leaked in mostly complete form, only lacking background music and using placeholder sound effects. They are episodes 6-11 and 13.

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Update, leaked episodes are 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13.

EDIT: Also some leaked EQG information. Most of which isn't that notable, but there is one big thing.

EDIT: Also episode 8 I guess.
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Re: Season 8 Synopses (yes, all of them)

Post by Dal (?) » Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:45 pm

:sweetielarm: Possible (huge?) Spike spoiler https://i.4cdn.org/mlp/1513478942593.png :sweetielarm:
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Re: Season 8 Synopses (yes, all of them)

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That is huge indeed. :here:
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Re: Season 8 Synopses (yes, all of them)

Post by Bremen (?) » Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:47 pm

Dal wrote:
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:sweetielarm: Possible (huge?) Spike spoiler https://i.4cdn.org/mlp/1513478942593.png :sweetielarm:
Thanks, M.A. Larson!
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:05 am

I watched the Celestia episode, because I had to watch the Celestia episode to start forming an opinion about how bad it is.

:allears: It was great.

Yeah, she acts like a goof when she's being a bad actress, and I do think they went a bit overboard with it. Celestia has faked enjoying the Grand Galloping Gala for a long time so I can't imagine she would be absolutely awful at acting and dancing.

:gotcha: Do have a head canon that Celestia taught Twilight to dance.

What worked for me is that she pull it all together and rescues the play at the end. Competence. She owned the situation and solved everything in a Celestia way (knowing everyone's strengths). That's all I ever really wanted and this episode delivered. I would still like an episode where she solves a big threat problem, but for a slice of life episode, this was really good.

Plus we got the return of Flutterestia.
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:08 am

Split this out from the S8 synopses thread.

So somehow 4 accounts' info (login/password) to DHX's FTP server were found. Based on the timing, maybe it was in an email from the earlier leak. The server has now been pulled, but the damage has been done as leakers organize the content now into torrents.

As the first post said, those episodes were in the server at the time. A couple (eps 6-7) are complete and "locked", others are all set besides background music I believe. As for EqG stuff, there's a couple of shorts, animatics for shorts, etc. nothing huge. There's also plenty of concept art for things including the shorts mentioned along with Season 9, and the holiday specials I think that are coming this time next year.

Anyways, S8 isn't even going to start until March (believe that was in one of the emails from the first leak). So let's confine discussion of any spoilers from this leak to this thread, tightly. Thanks!

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:11 am

Episode 7 was not complete. There was absolutely no background music and I'm pretty sure it was using placeholder sound effects.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:14 am

Were you watching the 600 MB version or the 6 GB one? (Probably a dumb question, I bet you got the smallest one.)

Pretty sure there are two fully locked, 6 GB files hanging around. Obviously a fluid situation though.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:14 am

one of got was a 500mb file.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:17 am

regardless I checked out a EqG file that didn't have BG music and it's definitely watchable. It will be interesting to think of how Anderson will score the episodes and then see the result.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:26 am

I found a screenshot of Twilight giving a pissed off looking Chrissy a smug look. Needless to say, I'm very curious.
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Adiwan (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:36 am

I NEED TO WATCH IT NOW :sweetielarm:
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:12 am

The new opening is interesting. They are going all in with the Friendship school.

While I can't say I'm too excited about them seemingly taking friendship and making it a factory like with the CMC and cutie marks (Seems these things should be individual journeys, not something planed out), this seems like the direction they should have gone when Twilight got her wings. Something to really change things.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:54 am

I started with episode 9 because why not? while my other downloads are going.

Non-Compete Clause - very average RD/AJ ep. If you've seen Fall Weather Friends, you've seen this episode. Mostly.
Break Up Break Down - surprisingly good episode! used Discord & Spike really well. Glad they did the boys episode again kinda.

I don't have the names of the starring students down yet (episode 9 was all about the school, episode 10 entirely not), but there's a token character for every species there. The designs are good but I can't say the characters are notable at all yet - I'm sure the premiere will give us more of a starting point.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:51 am

Molt Down - standard puberty ep. Amusing enough. Hi there Pee Wee. Thanks MA Larson, still a meme in 2017 (er, 18).

Mean 6 - underwhelming but fine. Obviously Return of Harmony did this concept better. I was really hoping they wouldn't do the trope of somehow they never find out Chrysalis, but...

As far as Chrysalis goes, I think this is setup. She has to be Cozy Glow and teams up with Tirek or something in the S8 finale. Or they'll just punt it all to the final season. :pinkieshrug:

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:02 am

ok it's actually episodes 8-9 that have scored music copies available.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:08 am

I'm not ready to start playing the leaked episode game before the season even starts. :negative:

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Adiwan (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:16 am

Watching the leaked episodes in the unfinished stages is highly interesting to me.
I mean it's highly fascinating to observe in which creative state the episodes are, what sounds they have included as temporary placeholders.
I'll watch the episodes again when they'll officially out to compare them to, especially for cut scenes and reworked animation or else.
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Re: Season 8 Synopses (yes, all of them)

Post by Applepie2017 (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:29 am

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:57 am

Surf and/or Turf - stuffed a lot here as far as narrative firsts - obvious sea pony post movie tie-in, and CMC first map. Ep did its job, not much else to say.

Horse Play - a Celestia episode Doctor liked? It must be good, and it was. It was also a pretty strong ensemble episode in the background. Although I can't believe Luna was heckling...

Parent Map - haha, what a great job of subverting all the usual map episode tropes. Plus while we had RD's parents just a season ago, this really didn't retread any ground. I loved this episode.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Adiwan (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 7:37 am

I'm through all of the leaked episodes. What a relief to have seen them all so I'm safe from being spoiled.
So far every episode was very solid and some of the concerns I had when reading the synopses didn't come up.
I had the feeling that the students would take over more of the screen but it wasn't the case. To be fair: the leaked episodes had a far different focus. So that's good.

As I said before, I'm looking forward to watch them again but in their finished form.

I've also had a glimpse on the Equestria Girls animatics, which were great! The bodies in the animatic sketches look so much more pleasant than the end result.
Best EQG moment from the animatics:
Sunset Shimmer raging at video games.
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 9:32 am

The new intro looks good.
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:07 am

Molt Down - 0/10 worst episode of anything ever made.

Spike gets wings. There is not a single "you're a Princess" joke. :applejargh:

It was cute and fun

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:12 am

So I watched Mean 6 and Horse Play. I have to admit Chrissy left me a little underwhelmed - she was more comical than threatening in that episode. But obviously she's coming back, so we'll see what happens then.

Horse Play was a blast. Celestia was so good in both her humorous and serious parts with Twilight. Nicole must have had fun with that one.

Heckling sister :speakest:
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by SigmasonicX (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:01 pm

I need some clearing up about the timeline. A guy leaks a bunch of emails and slides and such, but that's all they leaked themselves, right? And then username/password pairs were discovered in the emails, and other people used that to leak the episodes and season 8 info. So the original leaker only intended to leak information about the show ending and G5, and maybe didn't realize there was also account info? Or did they point out that information to others?

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:24 pm

From what I'm hearing now, the same hacker also hacked and got the login info separately from the emails, and just dropped it in a pastebin sometime yesterday as well.

The guy just seems to relish in the thrill of it, I guess.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by CastletonSnob (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:36 pm

Rank the leaked episodes, from best to worst.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:48 pm

:allears: tier
Parent Map
Horse Play
Break Up Break Down
Molt Down

:pinkieshrug: tier
Surf and/or Turf
Mean 6

:-/ tier
Non-Complete Clause

Nothing top-tier for me, but it was consistently good as well.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Adiwan (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:54 pm

Wayoshi wrote:
Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:48 pm
:allears: tier
Parent Map
Horse Play
Break Up Break Down
Molt Down

:pinkieshrug: tier
Surf and/or Turf
Mean 6

:-/ tier
Non-Complete Clause

Nothing top-tier for me, but it was consistently good as well.
My opinion is in accordance with that list.
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Applepie2017 (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:22 pm

The Breakup Breakdown was like a fic of mine becoming an episode. And Button Mash came back.
But...
This one's too young

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 7:25 pm

Watched Molt Down and Parent Map. Both pretty decent, and congrats to Spike on getting his wings. :here:

I take it Glimdad dosen't know what his daughter had been doing in the past.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 7:51 pm

The Parent Map -
I'm mixed on this one. On it's own, the episode was quite a bit of fun (while carefully avoiding what happened to Sunburst's Dad and Starlight's Mom). Townponies were a lot of fun.

:unenthused: But, at the same time, Starlight's already flimsy backstory leading to her becoming a Pony Dictator gets flimsier by her having a loving parent.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 9:01 pm

Eh, Haber recently said Starlight's parents were the type to not be around at home much. I read it like the parents started treating their kids like this out of fear of repeating failure.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:15 pm

Wayoshi wrote:
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Eh, Haber recently said Starlight's parents were the type to not be around at home much. I read it like the parents started treating their kids like this out of fear of repeating failure.
He was responding specifically to a question about his writing of The Cutie Re-Mark, right? After seeing Parent Map, it doesn't seem that's the direction they decided to go.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:56 pm

Oh, I didn't know that might have been a quote from years ago.

Then yeah, it's a bit iffy. I think it can still be read as consistent though. I mean, it's implied both raised Sunburst/Starlight as single parents, for one.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:47 pm

It's a recent comment, but it was specifically about him writing that S5 episode.

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Niels Olof (?) » Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:28 pm

Well, this about sums it up.
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Applepie2017 (?) » Mon Dec 18, 2017 6:20 pm

I waited over a year for Spike to get wings.
But...
This one's too young

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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:45 pm

Watched Non Compete Clause, Breakup Breakdown and Surf and/or Turf just now. All very good - Big Mac was terrific in Breakdown. The song clips in Breakdown and Surf and Turf (Take My Breath Away/Breakfast Club) were a nice surprise. :eeyup:

Interesting variety of students at the school.
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Re: Season 8 Leak Discussion

Post by Applepie2017 (?) » Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:24 am

PonyHag714 wrote:
Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:45 pm
Breakup Breakdown and Surf and/or Turf just now. All very good - Big Mac was terrific in Breakdown. The song clips in Breakdown and Surf and Turf (Take My Breath Away/Breakfast Club) were a nice surprise. :eeyup:

Interesting variety of students at the school.
Breakup and Surf is my favorites so far
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