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Messages - Al-1701
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« on: October 19, 2019, 04:02:48 AM »
The vest and shirt soften the blow so much. They should have done the same for Twist.
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« on: October 18, 2019, 01:24:41 PM »
Yeah, Twist does not look good at all. Do they even check these designs before they're given the green light?
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« on: October 17, 2019, 02:03:16 PM »
I thought that term was rubbing me the wrong way.
Yeah, Flurry Heart not showing up was a bummer. This is why so much time showing the Mane 6 once again botched an event irks me. This plot has been done to death in FiM. I want to see the future and explore some new ground.
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« on: October 16, 2019, 04:37:21 PM »
When you consider they did make "Over a Barrel" and the mess that was (and written by Dave Polski too), the deer is probably best left in the ash bin of history.
I do believe Hasbro did not want do anything that could offend parents when it came to My Little Pony. Really, as much as it fans will scream in disagreement, FiM is more an elongated advertisement than Dream Valley (that's what I'm going to call the specials, movie, and 1986 series) or Tales were. It's designed to be completely inoffensive to the parents who will buy the toys. That why they hid their gay characters, never mentioned death outright, and anything that seemed to be a swipe at the conservative agenda was distracted from.
And the thing is, they could have lived within these restrictions just fine. It's a show targeted at young girls and presented as a light comedy. They didn't need to do these things. Applejack's parents don't need to be dead. Maybe they left to help Granpear once Applebloom was weaned and left Applejack and company because they didn't want to uproot them, and come back when Granpear decides to reestablish in Ponyville. I'm shocked they gave Scootaloo living parents (though I imagine the bronies have a thousand fics about a fateful encounter with a stingray somewhere).
Speaking of Scoot's parents, that episode showed what is really wrong. Status quo was God to the point of this show's detriment. Like, it's the final season, and yet they couldn't break up the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Her leaving wouldn't have impacted any of the future episodes. Growing Up could have been while she was visiting. Hey, it would have given a reason for their sense of urgency because they want to go to the fair while she's in town. But nope, they have to be together forever. And this show is filled with them pounding the magic reset button so hard, it makes Star Trek Voyager blush. It's not just the big things this series copped out on, it copped out on the little things that the young audience would understand.
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« on: October 15, 2019, 02:53:50 PM »
Leave stuff ambiguous for fans to debate strikes me as weak writing. Your job is to tell a story, not leave a bunch of loose threads for the fans to pick at.
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« on: October 14, 2019, 04:56:31 PM »
I've said it before and I'll say it hear. I think, as a total body of work, history will not be kind to Friendship is Magic. It started with a lot of promise, but sadly the bulk of the series seemed more interested in placating bronies than its target audience. It hurt its storytelling, characterization, humor, and the morals it put forward. There were several questionable decisions they doubled down on like Daring Do being real. The revolving door of writing talent certainly didn't help. It was also just on for too long as everything seemed stale, especially as the only MLP property with nothing else to draw a fresh perspective from (I'm not counting Equestria Girls since it's the same characters only human and barely any interaction between the two worlds).
And beyond the series and related media, this generation was when Hasbro seemed to decide its flagship brand for girls is disposable. It was treated like something that will only have a child's attention for a couple years and low and behold that's exactly what happened.
I'm afraid Friendship is Magic has eaten My Little Pony from the inside out since we're just going to get the six same characters in the next generation. Still think this has Transformers Generation 2 written all over it.
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« on: October 13, 2019, 03:13:55 PM »
I love how they just blew up Gummy rather than make him look like a more mature alligator. I wonder if he finally grew teeth.
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« on: October 13, 2019, 09:53:18 AM »
Which I would agree with if she was a teenager. However, they essentially took a psychotic teenager and put her in a cute little filly's body for shock value.
Last season I also didn't like she was used to get the stand-in for Betsy DeVos off the hook. They were getting into a discussion about racis...SQUIRREL!
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« on: October 13, 2019, 09:18:08 AM »
And that's the issue with Cozy. She's presented as a little pyschopath as if they wanted us to be okay with them doing these things to little girl. It didn't feel right last season, it doesn't feel right this season.
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« on: October 13, 2019, 05:01:00 AM »
The G4 did finally reach the station. And, as we should have expected, it overshot the platform, hit a wall, and exploded into flames. Spoiler Let's deal with the mismatched abomination of nature first. I was really liking the plot related to Grogar and his Legion of Doom. It's some of the best writing this show has had in years. But then they pull this, and not just in the finale but to start it off. It was a dumb move by Discord, but it was also a dumb move by the people running the show. You had created an excellent character with a mythos behind him not just from what he referenced but within the series itself. And it turns out to just be Discord is disguise? It makes me feel like they didn't know how to use Grogar for a final fight even though the conclusion for dealing with the Trio is the standard get everyone together, give the same old power of friendship speech, and smash them with a rainbow laser.
The Trio at least showed they were competent at villainy and Starlight Glimmer actually had a fight that was interesting with an interesting finisher. It didn't work, but it was more enjoyable than Friendship Spectrum Attack.
However, I have to wonder about Celestia's ability to rule since she apparently couldn't even keep the ponies united. They were willing to work together when times were good, but the moment even minor inconveniences start, they fracture. Me thinks they could learn for the G1 ponies where being attacked by an eldritch horror is called Tuesday and they see themselves as ponies first, not their particular species. This almost makes me feel like Faust was wrong to give the ponies their own kingdom, or at least did a bad job of developing it. I mean, sure, our current politics shows people within a nation can be deeply divided, but I want to escape that when I'm watching candy colored ponies.
The final fight was sadly what we've seen before. They reach their darkest hour and Twilight gets pulled out of the fire by her friends at the last minute only with more of them. Then she makes her speech and hits the bad guys with the Rainbow. There is no denying it, for a supposed intellectual, Twilight is an idiot. Wind Whistler, Bright Eyes, and Kimono are just standing there gobsmacked at how incompetent she is and yet she is going to rule a country. I'm mean, I guess she wouldn't turn her back on the Kurds, so she would be an improvement over what we have in real life, but we're living in the worst possible timeline at the moment. (I need to stop with these political tangents.)
And can we just kill the bad guys? You turned them to stone? Remember when it was the bad guys who turned things to stone? I do.
And then we get the epilogue and predictably they botch the coronation because of course they botched the coronation. Characters botch a ceremony is a trope with this series and we just did that plot last week and arguably the week before. I have no opinion of Luster Dawn because she seems to just be a stand in for Episode Twilight. And I see what you did there, you followed the celestial occurrence synonym for Sparkle thing only you reversed the order. How clever.
I also wanted to see more of the future, not a rehash of a tired plot on this show. Make the coronation the ending of the two parter and spend the epilogue in the future. Make Luster Dawn an actual character. Show some creativity. The show ended as it ran, so much potential but in the end played it safe and stayed on the well beaten path. Of course, it and its fans will act like it's the superior MLP show, which on bare mechanics might be true. However, I think it lacked much of a soul in its storytelling. It had so much but decided to do so little with it. Here's hoping G5 is more ambiti...who am I kidding? They're going to use the exact same characters again because Hasbro has decided the My Little Pony is just six ponies. I'm going to go back to the G1 camp. There's something about MLP I do enjoy, but I'm not holding out much hope for its future. I might be surprised, though.
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« on: October 08, 2019, 02:20:07 AM »
That's true. It started being that a boy and girl could not be in a platonic friendship, there had to be romance there. Now, even two people of the same gender can't be in a platonic friendship, there has to be romance there. People can spend a lot of time together not be in a romantic relationship, but I guess the shippers need to be appeased.
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« on: October 07, 2019, 06:03:17 PM »
It's the problem with bronies and the staff's willingness to placate them.
Also, Hasbro is not about to jump all in on a lesbian relationship. The LGBT community is willing to patronize something that doesn't necessarily give them representation (especially something where romance is purely tangential), but the right wing freaks will flip out at even the hint of a same sex couple. The latter group is thankfully dying out (but still prevalent enough to make the more skittish shy away from going too deep into LGBT representation) and the lifestyle of the former is becoming more accepted and understood as normal. Sweetie Drops and Heartstrings has been a cop out for years and the bronies are willing to give the staff all the praise for it.
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« on: October 06, 2019, 04:44:03 PM »
Spoiler Well, this should confirm to everyone that you shouldn't trust Discord with ANYTHING!
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« on: September 30, 2019, 04:11:18 PM »
I still want to know how her wings can produce the thrust needed to push her scooter through the dirt, but not to get her off the ground.
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« on: September 29, 2019, 05:03:08 PM »
The Dorothy reference was a given with a tornado monster.
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