some hero

no they are not horses gosh

winter wrap up is episode 11. that song man... i cri evry tim

zebras are not horses wtf (but they are in the equus genus)... she was from the ponyland equivalent of africa I guess

the princess isn't all knowing but she's thousands of years old and wise as shit or something. I like to think she knew what was going on and was just messing with twilight (twilight tends to freak the shit out when it comes to looking good for her teacher, see s2e03)

she's only a jerk in the first two episodes, at this point she's just really happy to have friends even though she doesn't know anything about friendship

episode 9 is the first bout of pony racism, and is also full of puns

what the fuck orange =/= yellow cmon man

well applejack doesn't get too many episodes, sorry :( ep 8 is ok and has her a lot but none of the other episodes in s1 really follow her

huh? the princesses in the story in ep1 aren't named but they're the same ones as at the end of ep2. the white one is princess celestia, the dark blue one is princess luna.

there's a founding of equestria episode where they talk about the history of the place, but it's "controversial" because it doesn't even mention the princesses yet. most people like to think of the "god" of the world as the ponified version of the person who created the show.

"apple jacks" are the cereal, "applejack" is an alcoholic beverage. it's pretty clear that's what they made her as a reference to, because in one of the episodes coming up they refer to her as "appletini" (apple martini)

the tattoos are interesting, because they aren't born with them (the little chillins don't have them) but in some instances they share a name with what their tattoos are of; like celestia and luna mean star and moon, and applejack is a type of apple flavored alcohol (but that's a special case because her whole fucking family is good with apples)

also very good on calling out that twilight as a mix of day/night thing, that took me much longer to get

the first two episodes are full of symbolism. ie when they're talking about the dark princess in the storybook they say "the stars will aid in her escape." PLOT TWIST, twilight's butt tattoo is a big star surrounded by five small stars, just like her and her five friends

my mind was blown when I figured that one out

well they're not gods they just live thousands of years and raise the sun and moon and shit

it's not something they've really gone into much detail about but yes the premise of today's episode (like literally 12 hours ago) is purple pone getting wings


if you don't care to watch them in order episode 23 shows how they each got their butt tattoos as children and how twilight became the princess's student, it's a pretty good episode but 7 is better

but what about the GREAT and POWERFUL TRIXIE?


7 is all yellow pone (fluttershy is best pone)

it's ok I found DERPY

one of these days I will tell you her story, it's really quite interesting

how do you deal with your conflicting NFL and yugioh sundays? if ponies was on tv on sundays i'd have to kill myself


ps the season 3 finale is tomorrow morning and i'm so hype!!! if you care about spoilers i'll probably be changing my avatar into one so stop caring about spoilers dammit

you implied that the falcons lose to the saints all the time. while the saints are 7-3 the past five years against the falcons, every single game bar 1 has been really close. the falcons were only 5 yards away from beating the saints again this year, which would have made it 6-4 the past 5 years and 3-3 the past 3 years, but it was not meant to be :(


not all poni ponis are good and you will learn that in episode 6. they've shown canterlot (the capital) a few times and all the royal ponies there are DICKS. especially the prince. he's in the finale of season 1 if you're interested (you can just skip around if you want to, I suggest watching episode 1.25 ASAP because you will shit bricks)

the nephew (prince blueblood) is thought to be like a few hundred years removed from the adoptive kid of the princess, so he's not actually "royalty" in the sense that he's her sister's kid or something. the nobles are just total asswipes though

the first nod to the fans was derpy hooves in episode 15, but that's a story in itself.


ingram is not a very good running back, and while they might be more talented than NE's core NE uses theirs way more effectively. for the 'aints, it's either a boring run with ingram or a pass route with sproles out of the backfield. maybe it was just because payton was gone, but they were really super predictable last year.

falcons were only a couple yards away from sweeping the saints this season, but the saints have won more recently. almost all of the games have been really really close though: the saints have won 7 of 10, but 5 were by 4 points or less, and 1 was by 8 points

dude fuck the saints let's talk about PONIES

have you seen episode 3 yet??? you said you were going to. episode 4 was way better though imo (really 4-7 are all awesome)

also there's no need to watch them in order as long as you stick in season, because there generally isn't a lot of continuity besides the 2 parters so feel free to jump around. if you like the yellow pone then ep 7 is definitely awesome

Green Bay and Atlanta have better receivers, New England has better running backs and playcalling, and the Peyton Mannings are more efficient. I wouldn't crown the Saints the best offense in the league at all.

New Orleans allowed "only" 28.4 ppg this season, a massive outlier considering how far they led the league in yards allowed. They lost their 8 games by the following amount of points: 8, 8, 3, 1, 20, 10, 10, 25, 6. Even allowing a TD less a game (21.4 ppg allowed would have been 12th in the league) would have only gotten them to an 11-5 record!

It doesn't really matter who between the Falcons and Saints are better, because they're likely to split their games next season and every season because they're so close. Who makes the playoffs is really going to come down to how they do in their out of division games, namely the NFC East opponent (Saints are vs Cowboys, Falcons are vs Redskins), the Patriots (Falcons at home, Saints away), the NFC North opponent (Falcons @ Packers, Saints @ Bears), and the NFC West opponents (Saints vs 49ers and @ Seahawks, Falcons @ 49ers and vs Seahawks). Both teams are going to have trouble having a winning record against those five teams.

This team went 3-3 in division this year, how could you say 5-1 is worst case? They are $20 million over the salary cap, so they're going to have to cut some good players this offseason. They'll have a lot less talent, at the exchange of better coaching. They have no elite pass rusher, so they'll have to blitz a lot to create pressure - Ryan will be wishing he could see Demarcus Ware's face under his command just one more time.

What makes the Saints the scariest team in the league? They have Brees, Graham, and Sproles; every other position they have is average. Colston's good, but that's about it. Thanks to Brees they can score a lot of points, sure, but you saw how much good that did them this year.

The Falcons can spread the ball around just as well on offense, and they had the 5th best scoring defense in the NFL. They also will have enough cap room to probably slightly improve their defense, at the cost of losing Gonzalez. Saying that people aren't scared of them is absurd! They were probably one missed holding call away from making the Super Bowl after all.

around the same time, actually, give or take an hour.

let's see... best case, Saints go 4-2 in division (they went 3-3 last year), and win all their "gimmes" against the Cardinals, Bills, Dolphins, Rams, and Jets. That's 9 wins right there. For the past 5 years, the champ has had at least 12 wins, so they'd have to go 3-2 against the last five teams on the schedule: vs 49ers, vs Cowboys, @ Patriots, @ Seahawks, and @ Bears. I don't see them going better than 2-3 against those 5 teams. 11-5 can win the division, sure, but the Falcons are going to be in that range as well, and the Panthers will be if they continue on the streak they were on at the end of the season.

Also Rob Ryan is not a good defensive coordinator. He's basically Gregg Williams lite, plus a big attitude. He'll be an improvement over last year, only because last year's defense was (literally) the worst ever.

cmon though, raiders had the 70s-80s. the falcons were ALWAYS bad before 2007, with the one highlight being the one time we made the super bowl.

more like "at least you're not the lions"


schedules will be out in 2 months and 3 days. check it. the opponents are already set, though, for example the Gents play Packers/Vikings/Broncos/Raiders/Seahawks at home, Bears/Lions/Chiefs/Chargers/Panthers on the road. plus the three divisional games home/away.

what he went through? what about what we went through ??? #joeyharringtonneverforget

really I guess it was the best thing to ever happen to the falcons though, since it indirectly led to the golden era of 5 consecutive winning seasons (you know your franchise sucks when that's it's greatest accomplishment)

*blush*

and no I hate brees, he's just FUCKING AWESOME and oh I hate him so much for it


not as much as vick because he's a dick AND fucked the falcons while brees is only 1 or 1.5 of those things (he was pretty dickish this past year what with the bounty scandal and all)

remember when you thought I was a saints fan ???

oh some hero you so cray cray

teehee how long has that been your sig

don't worry I could quote lots of posts before the year about how the eagles would go 12-4 ish :)

I've seen the first three episodes tyvm

one day I might