Something I've been thinking about over the past couple of weeks (and I'm just NOW remembering to start a thread about it!), but what would you all think of an episode where the mane six (just the mane six in this situation) get turned in to colts for an episode? I got this idea from sometimes seeing fan-made pictures of the mane 6 as colts. Say it's a spell Twilight was trying out on all her friends and it backfires? Near the end of part of one of this episode (in my head it would be a two-part episode) is when this transformation actually happnes. Then most of part 2 is (male) Twilight trying to find a spell to turn them all back, while the 5 others try to go about their daily live as colts, with possible wacky hihjinks ensuing for each one! A possible episode title for this could be: "Spell 63" Why? Because (I think I have the right internet rule here) Rule 63 has something to do with anything can have the opposite gender that it already is. (I hope that got that right!) What are your opinions on this? Could the writers pull this off? Or would it shy away too much from the target demographic it's intended for?
I'm not sure it would work given the target audience. I'd like to see it, but....I don't know. Something seems off about it. ....now I want to make a female Zephyr Wind for some reason...*shudders*
I think rule 63 only applies to males being females i'm not sure, but it would go for an interesting episode, even though i dont like the idea of Fluttershy being a colt it just makes me sad thinking about it.
Can't say I'm a fan. There is a youtube channel and deviant art devoted to the colt versions. I don't know the links, but a simple search could fix that. I think the episode would just come of kinda weird.
Rule 63 works both ways Twilight's spells going wrong is WAY overused in the fannom and doesn't happen as often in the show as they tend to think it does, IE it's pretty much a crux people use when they can't think of any better explanation to get to a story plot which is pretty far tangential to the norm in the show. If anything, Discord would've been a great opportunity for that, but it'd bring up some odd questions of gender differentiation which would be hard to pull through for the show's target audience - and he's gone anyways. But yeah, this is something people tend to think of a lot - the colt versions of the main cast have become pretty popular.
There's a recent episode of Futurama in which the genders of the Planet Express crew are switched around. The problem is, is that we are talking about sexes here, and the whole thing becomes too sexualised. It's never the intention, but the whole situation just starts to mess with your head when the main thing the show is based on (an appealing feminine cartoon based on ponies) is blown away.
