It’s time for part two of “that thing I started yesterday that I didn’t realize was going to turn into a multi-part thing”. Turns out pony had a boatload of stuff going on these last few years that you don’t really remember until you sit down and think about it.
Yesterday we covered the world of season one, complete with all of its oddities that had the majority of the internet saying “WTH?” as their situs judi slot online resmi favorite websites suddenly ended up covered in ponies. Little did they know what madness was about to be unleashed. This newfound subculture and its “Bronies” had a long wait ahead of them until new episodes arrived, and they weren’t at all interested in seeing their favorite new hobby bite the dust.
And with that, let us journey into the post-season one hiatus, and delve into the madness that was season two of the most surprising new isu terkini the internet has seen in years.
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ponies
With Winter Wrap Up and At situs slot terpercaya The Gala blasting situs slot online away on all of our MP3 players and playlists, It was time for our first great hiatus! The fan content was already something keeping us thriving between episodes, and with people like Eurobeat Brony, Pinkie Pie Swear, and Makkon stepping in, we even had a growing scene of music makers to take the songs mentioned above and remix them into all sorts of interesting genres. Not to mention all of their original work. For the New Lunar Republic is still one of the most memorable instrumentals in the situs judi slot online fandom.
Something massive was about to happen though that would shake our developing fandom to its very core. Horrible stuff just didn’t happen in ponyland! We were not prepared!
Just two days after the big season one finale, the brain behind this amazing world announced that she would be stepping down from her role as executive producer. Lauren Faust was somewhat of a hero for all of us in the early days (and even now a few years later!). While Hasbro was pumping out pink trucks and Nightmare Fuel Pinkie Pie dolls, Lauren was our guiding light, promising us a future that would keep our beloved ponies intact and free of rampant product placement. Her great departure has always been shrouded in mystery and rumor, and while she has returned for conventions as a guest of honor , the actual story on why she left is still not set in stone. Was it the pink alicorn princess mentioned later in this post? Or something we wouldn’t see for years in the future? The world may never know for sure…
Luckily, we still had one more season of near-completed episodes that were originally guided by her careful hand, and the guys at DHX and Topdraw were prepared and coached to take her place. It wasn’t the end of the world, in fact, we were just getting started!
Many expected a decline during the first great hiatus of 2011. Here at EQD, we were all prepped and ready to bust into full on onion news for the summer. Something weird was happening though. The submit box was not slowing down, in fact, every single day it would be larger and larger. A huge push began from the fanfiction community especially. While the episodes were no longer airing, we still had a form of “episodic” content via epic length fan-built stories. Fallout Equestria arrived on the scene in April, and people flocked to it like a swarm of starving animals desperately seeking a grimdark pony world. Every single week was a major event, with chapter updates releasing periodically along with their massive word counts. It lasted all the way until the end of the year, and spawned an entire sub-fandom of its own that still lives on to this day.
Grimdark pony wasn’t the only fanfiction doing incredibly well though.
Many more fics were also quite popular during this age, covering Comedy, Romance, and just about anything else you could think of. Stories like Progress hoped to give a fanon interpretation on a character many of us were pining for throughout the last 26 episodes. Yes dear EQD readers, Luna was already wildly popular even with less than 30 daftar situs judi slot online terpercaya seconds of air time. The pony was a completely blank slate, with some seeing her as sad and lonely after 1000 years locked away on the moon, and others more comedic via stories about her struggles to fit in with terbaru technology and societal norms. If you have read the Luna micro, that was the basic jist of it, with an abacus and microwaves thrown in. We kept ourselves entertained in some very creative ways.
Enough about fanfiction though! We had another major event happen, this time in a much more positive light than that scary one way up above.
The Hub released a promo called “Equestria Girls” (up above), a Katy Perry parody that clocked in at around thirty seconds as a TV spot on their channel. What we didn’t realize, was that this was actually just a clip of the full version. On May 27th, The Hub fired off an email to us here at Equestria Daily with the MP4 file above. It was the full 90 second song, complete with our very first major acknowledgement from the people we were hoping would notice us from the start. Not only are “Bronies” straight up mentioned, but Vinyl Scratch makes an appearance to finish it off. This was huge, and it wasn’t over yet. While waiting for season two, the fandom absolutely exploded.
Meetup groups started popping up in just about every major city. It seems the show’s primary moral of Friendship was something your average fan was more than happy to embrace. Pony was the perfect ice breaker, and something that worked much better with a class of like-minded individuals. There was still a big societal cacat, and being able to see that the people you have talked to for months exist outside of the interwebz helped a lot of people get over the fact that the target demo for FiM was still little girls.
We didn’t stop there though. The New York brony group took it one step further, renting out a space for the very first BronyCon in June. While it was a shadow of its current self at 100 attendees, it was still the beginning of a concept that would once again spread across not only the USA, but the rest of the world. 100% pony focused conventions were now a thing!
During the second BronyCon just a few months later in September, The Hub once again threw us a bone via a live-showing of the 2nd season two episode in front of the now 300 strong group. This also marked the beginning of show guests appearing at our community events, with the director Jayson Thiessen in attendance.
Meanwhile, back in the electronic space, a new army of artists was grinding it out for a monthlearning how to draw here on EQD under the guidance of Phoe. Quite afew of them grew up to be some of the most famous artists in the fandomtoday. Who would have thought the pony form would be so much fun to study?
Lets get to the next major topic though. I think you have all realized by now that this fandom was more than ready to keep itself occupied. It was EPISODE TIME.
Season Two – The Chaos Has Just Begun!
Something that really helped keep the ball rolling was the staggered release of the first two episodes of the season. For whatever reason, they decided to drop the two-part Discord opening a month early. If any of you at Hasbro Land are listening, this was an awesome idea. Instead of waiting long into November like the current show cycle, we had a massive bit of content and two of the best episodes of the season right when things were starting to get a little stale.
John De Lancie’s role as the Q’esque Discord was a MASSIVE hit, and expectations for season two skyrocketed. Any worry that it wouldn’t live up to its predecessor were instantly dashed.
It didn’t end there though. This wasn’t your little sister’s show for little girls.
Lesson Zero aired a month later, and Hol-E-Celestia was it not at all what we expected from the synopsis leaked a few weeks earlier. Meghan McCarthy already showed us in the previous season that she could bend the rules on what they could get away with in Party of One, and this episode right here took it above and beyond.
Lines like “DID THEY JUST DROP A RAINBOW NUKE” and “OMG FLUTTERSHY IS A BADASS” were two of many “OMG” instances that were born out of it. Twilight Sparkle went absolutely insane. If there was an episode to turn your “too cool for ponies” friends on to the series and prove to them that this wasn’t the show from the 80’s they probably thought you were watching, this was generally it.
And what was this? Do my eyes deceive me? Is that a Halloween episode on the horizon, and is that a LUNA in the title?
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