MLP:FiM Megathread: Does anyone even watch this show anymore edition

[NeoCracker]

In Process of editting clips, I have found the creepiest picture of Twilight Sparkle to date.

(SPOILER)

She has the look of a pedophile who has just succesfully coerced his pray to follow her into the back of a van.

Poor, innocent Pinkie Pie. ;_;

[Tigmafuzz]

In Process of editting clips, I have found the creepiest picture of Twilight Sparkle to date.

(SPOILER)

She has the look of a pedophile who has just succesfully coerced his pray to follow her into the back of a van.

Poor, innocent Pinkie Pie. ;_;

That. Is. Marvelous.

[Værn]

She has the look of a pedophile who has just succesfully coerced his pray to follow her into the back of a van.

Poor, innocent Pinkie Pie. ;_;

No, poor Cutie Mark Crusaders.

[NeoCracker]

Well right there TS is just crazy and may eat them.

No where near the levels of Big Hands displayed against Pinkie.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

The roller coaster of the Brony's love/hate relationship with hasbro continues. Scant days after the brony-loving new toys reared their heads, fans rejoiced to find that The Last Roundup had returned to iTunes. Quickly, confusion and disappointment replaced joy as we all realized that Hasbro had totally edited the entire scene featuring Derpy. They changed her voice to sound like that of a generic pony (ie: removed the derp-ness of it) and replaced RD's line calling her by name, effectively sterilizing the scene for political correctness and slapping Derpy lovers everywhere in the face.

For shame guys, for shame.

[Shlup]

Waitwaitwait... What's not politically correct about the name Derpy?

[Agent Proto]

Despite the change in Derpy's voice, I think it sounds better and more suitable for her, but that's just my opinion. You can still tell it's Derpy since her speech still has that Derpy-ness to it. Though, they should have kept her name being spoken by Rainbow Dash.

Also, here's a video of the new voice if anyone wants to hear.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

The name was really my only point of contention. The voice... honestly, i was kinda uncomfortable with it initially. The original voice acting came across sounding like elementary school kids making fun of people with Downs Syndrome to me, and i could see how some people could find that voice coupled with extreme clumsiness offensive. The new one still doesn't sound quite right to me, but it's further from being a caricature of mental illness. I do take a lot of offense at the her name being cut though. There's no reason for it, and it clearly shows they have more fear of a couple people being mad than love for their fans.

I still don't understand how they could justify making a big deal out of Derpy though. Cartoons have ALWAYS had stereotypical clutzy, dim comic relief characters. Dopey from snow white? Disney's Goofy? Ed from Ed, Edd, and Eddy? Patrick Star? Spunky from Rocko's Modern Life? Ralph Wiggum? I could do this all day. None of these characters were ever redacted for fear of offending someone, what makes Derpy so much more offensive?

[Værn]

I don't see a problem with the name, though I agree that the voice was a bit overdone for my liking.

It looks like I've encountered a problem in the last few seconds of my PMV rough draft. My episodes aren't all the same format. It wasn't a problem until I got to the final clip, but that last bit is all messed up...
Oh well. I'm getting new copies of the episodes I need in a uniform format. I know where all the clips I need are, so it shouldn't be too hard to recreate this video if I need to.

[NeoCracker]

I'm curious what program you are using. The one I'm running is giving me issues.

[Værn]

I "obtained" Adobe Premiere CS3 a couple weeks ago. The project preview window with it is horribly laggy for me, but the export quality seems just fine after clicking some random buttons in the settings.
The episodes I just downloaded are .mkv and it doesn't like that, though, so it's back to the drawing board

[Pike]

So I guess there's no new episode today. This saddens me.

EDIT: But not as much as this saddens me. Derpy has been un-derped.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Derpy! D:

[Agent Proto]

My opinion?Fluttershy won. She nailed it with her last line.

[MJN SEIFER]

Hopefully this is the worst thing that happens to Friendship is Magic even though it dissapoints me to some extent. I listened to Derpy's new voice, and... it's okay I guess, though I'm happier with the old voice simply because it's how I imagined her to sound. I didn't find her offensive at all, it didn't sound like Downs or anything when I heard it, and I was shocked when I found that's what some people thought. To me, Derpy sounded like a stereotypical "goofy kid" from an old cartoon series or something, not offensive at all. Furthermore, as soon as the Derpy debate started, most people who Derpy was suposedly meant to be offensive towards spoke in favor of Derpy, once again the PC editiors are not paying attention to the people who suposedly matter. If anyone's interested, here's something I said on her voice on the wikia;

The only thing that really annoyed me about the Derpy uproar (other than the fact that it was supposed to be a fun moment for Bronies, that got ruined) was the way people thought her voice was offfensive - her VOICE?! Obviously enough for someone to redub it, people thought her voice was offensive, to who exactly? If it's people with mental problems then thinking that was more offensive because it implies they all sound the same which they don't, and even if they did - I didn't hear any of that in Derpy's voice. Hell, Tabitha even based the voice on a friend of the familly ot something so it was never intended to be offensive to anyone.

If the debarcle had never happened, I would have hoped that Derpy remaind background for the most part, but occasionally gained center spotlight, but not every episode or even every other episode, just when it was needed, so it wouldn't get over done - yeah, she's a character now, but still not a mane character, but she's now important enought to SOMETIMES have lines. That's me, who knows what would have happened if we had all just been grown up about it?

At the end of the day I supose it doesn't matter too much, the episode is still good, but it's kind of a shame that something was supposed to be a gift to the fans was stated as offensive when it wasn't at all, like I say the new voice is okay, but it could be anypony saying the lines, and as a side effect, Dash doesn't sound right in the clip anymore - I think it's still her, but, it doesn't sound right to me... Dash sounds off.