Calvin:Well, Hobbes, I guess we learned a valuable lesson from this duplicating mess.

Hobbes:And that is?

Calvin:And that is, um… it’s that, well… OK, so we didn’t learn any big lesson. Sue me.

Hobbes:Live and don’t learn, that’s us.

Thus ended one of the classic storylines from Calvin and Hobbes, one of the best comic strips of all time. The ever mischievous Calvin created a duplicate of himself. The equally mischievous clone proceeded to clonehimself, eventually leading to five copies of Calvin running around. These Calvins got the real Calvin in even more trouble than he usually gets into himself. In the end, Calvin was able to find a solution that kept his duplicates happy and out of his hair, which led to the exchange above.

Of course, the idea of duplicates is not an unfamiliar theme in speculative fiction. If I remember correctly, Heroes, The Batman, and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command all featured minor characters who could duplicate themselves. Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends had an episode that featured a multitude of nearly identical copies of Bloo. And just this year an episode of Gravity Falls (written by MLP’s own M.A. Larson) aired in which Dipper made duplicates of himself. However, this week’s episode of My Little Pony seems to resemble the Calvin and Hobbes story the most.

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This season’s off to a great start, in my opinion. We’ve got more Luna, more Shining Armor and Cadence, more impressive magic, and hints of an epic ongoing storyline. All in all, I think the season premier was excellent.

However, it did have a few problems. There’s one thing in particular that I didn’t like about the episodes. No, it’s not KingSombreroSombra. I’ll admit that he’s the least interesting of the four major villains we’ve seen so far. But his role in the episode was to raise the stakes and to be a menacing threat to the empire, not to be a personal adversary. In other words, he was more like Sauron than Saruman. I think he was very successful in that role.

No, the biggest problem I had with the premiere was actually the ‘Success’ song at the end of the second episode.

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I don’t really mind spoilers, in general. I don’t object to reading descriptions of episode before they air, or watching short preview clips. But when you show an 8-minute preview of a 44-minute season premier, you’ve exceeded the bounds of good taste, in my opinion. So I’ve avoided the recent spoiler videos, and I was annoyed when I saw a spoiler today in an official MLP tweet.

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I just started playing the first episode of MLP Online, and it’s incredible! It feels like I’m playing an old-school Squaresoft RPG, but with ponies! The presentation is beautiful, and it seems full of brony references and humor. That’s not to say that it doesn’t have any flaws. It has a number of bugs and incomplete features, and the whole game crashed on me. But as a whole I think it’s great, especially considering that it’s a free fan-made game. Hopefully future releases will fix the problems. I’m looking forward to more!

By the way, even though it’s called “MLP Online”, all that has been released so far is the first episode of the offline, single player campaign. Just FYI.

theologymettaurs:

Hi there. This is LockeStockeAndBaryl. I didn’t have much of a goal in mind when I joined tumblr. I just wanted to follow a few people who were on tumblr but not Twitter, and maybe post a few things. I haven’t been terribly active since I’ve joined, but I have shared some of my music and ideas. That blog has focused on My Little Pony, since that has been one of my primary interests for the past year or so. Recently, however, I’ve been wanting to write in regards to another subject that’s close to my heart: theology.

For anyone who doesn’t know, theology means “the study of God”. As a Christian, I love learning about God and how he relates to the world. I haven’t yet had any formal training in theology, but I make a habit of studying the Bible and listening to theologians. This is a subject I care deeply about, and I really want to share what I’ve learned. I also want to respond to various things I encounter online from a Christian perspective.

Because my other blog has been focused almost exclusively on MLP, I thought I should start a new blog for theological discussion. That way anyone who follows me because of one of the topics won’t need to deal with the other topic if they don’t want to (though I may reblog occasional important posts, like this one, on my main blog). If you’re interested in learning about my plans for this new blog, keep reading. Otherwise, thank you for your time.

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