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The show didn't create the rabid fans, the rabid fans attached their identities and egos onto the show because apparently it's impossible to like (or dislike) a kids product without justifying it to hell and back , which can happen to any piece of entertainment but when it's about kids cartoons it becomes extra weird because we are not the target audience.
I wonder if Starlight Glimmer was introduced to try and change that a bit, but it didn't work? I haven't seen any episodes with her in so I can't be sure...
The thing that bugged me most about season 7 is they brought back Iron Will, which is something I've been worried about since his first episode way back in season 2. His episode would have been better served with the Flim Flam brothers as the villains, in all honesty. I like Iron Will - he was a motivational speaker who believed in himself just a little too much. And when Fluttershy said 'no' he left. No scheming to get revenge. No 'I'll get you next time, Gadget!' He just left. Now he's another money-grubbing get-rich-quick schemer like the already existing Flim Flam brothers. Sigh.
I got to the beginning of s5, I think, and stopped watching. I haven't seen anything for about two/three years, and I'm not fussed. It's gotten very meh.If you want other cartoon recommendations, I hear Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters is really good.
The relationship between the Mane 6 is unhealthy. The Mane 6 as individuals are unhealthy. If this a random cartoon, we'd just chalk it up to being random cartoon fun. However, this show continues to present itself as the instruction manual on friendship and these six are guides for little kids.
Quote from: Taffeta I wonder if Starlight Glimmer was introduced to try and change that a bit, but it didn't work? I haven't seen any episodes with her in so I can't be sure...As someone who has seen most of the episodes and is biased towards Starlight: Starlight is a reformed antagonist who in my opinion works in favor of the show.
When it was over, I thought to myself "We'd never get that kind of nuance from Friendship is Magic. No one is ever allowed to be friends with anyone who isn't pro-Mane 6 and those that aren't converted must be ridden out of town on a rail."
The thing about a show that is seven seasons long, is that you're going to be able to find plenty of examples that support a sweeping generalization like this, but also that there's plenty of examples that prove the opposite, if you bother to look. For example, did you forget about the episode where Twilight sent Starlight out to make her own friend and she makes friends with Trixie, whom Twilight doesn't like (and the feeling is mutual?). The entire point of that episode is that your friends are sometimes going to be friends with people who you don't like, and that you have to accept that. That's just as nuanced as the lesson you cited in the Tales ep.