Things You Wish Hasbro Hadn't Done With FIM (TV Show or Toy Line)

[StarSwirl05]

I dunno if the EqG Shorts count but I've noticed that Rainbow Dash is almost always associated with Daring Do, like the writers can't come up with anything else. Can't we have Rainbow Dash NOT obsess about that other pony? We even have an ep with that pairing this week. We get it. She likes Daring Do.

[Zapper]

The word "Mary Sue" should be purged. Or forever applied to Batman

[Ponyfan]

Something came to mind watching the leaked episode, letting the show writers name ponies.  I can't hear J.K. Yearling and not cringe.  Everything has to be a joke with them, a bad joke.

I thought Thorax's name was unique for a character but I'm not sure  what I think of the name Pharynx yet. I guess it's a joke but not every character name has to be a pun.

Ponyfan

[bright rabbit 1]

Less appearances of Rainbowdash as she's getting on know nerves.

[centaurette]

Truthfully, i started watching fim with my younger brother when he was young and he was obsessed. we both had ponies growing up and so it was a nice bonding point for the both of us. i liked watching each of the mane six come into themselves (rarity was a vain diva and my favorite, and i like how she's become much more compassionate, etc) and grow into their roles as the guardians of harmony or w/e, and while i liked that and i liked alicorn twilight, just like everyone else in this thread, i think it came way too soon. like, way way way too soon. as it's also been said in this thread, i think this should have been like, the final plot point or the end game. 'all our adventures and lessons led up to this!' kind of thing.

discord was an interesting villian but now just seems like an abusive jerk who hangs around meek fluttershy and causes her stress, lol. i'm not a fan of discord as a 'redeemed villian' and i truthfully don't have any sympathy for him and think they could have given fluttershy a much better 'companion'. or, better yet, leaving her be and have her come into herself as the ponyville matron of flora and fauna? idk, i don't think discord does anything for fluttershy as a character whatsoever.

however, the thing that perhaps irks me most is the bronies. there's nothing that put a worse taste in my mouth than helping my younger brother google [with safe search on] and print out cute pictures of pinkie pie and rarity, only to find hard-core pornography (of horses???) and have to quickly cover my sibling's eyes. not to mention most of them are horrifically elitist, as if they deserve a nobel prize for watching a children's show made for young girls, and then swiftly taking it away from them. i was furious with hasbro for catering to them, as if they were more important than the young children that the show was intended for, or even relevant at all lol?

i am an adult and of course i love chlidren's things, but watching grown men and women shove aside my younger brother for some pinkie pie merchandise at a con? seriously? get a grip. it's for kids. nobody is upset if you, an adult, enjoy it, but please remember who it's originally for and please remember to treat kids with kindness!

i really love baby flurryheart, and she was the reason i decided to start watching the show again, after passing on a lot of the previous seasons. i think she's adorable and it was an exciting twist to have her with these big wings (it reminds me of dumbo!) and born as an alicorn! i can't wait for them to delve into her storyline some more, but it seems like that's at the bottom of the priority list, what with all of the pointless (?) cutie mark crusaders, discord being an ass to fluttershy and then feeling semi-sorry about it and fluttershy forgiving him despite him having caused her genuine grief, and poorly-written thunderbolts episodes. oh well!

[Mami Tomoe]

i hate discord being reformed cause as a good guy hes creepy and hes implied to be celestias age im estimating in human years 40 years old hanging out with the main six that i estimate to be teenagers
theres nothing inherently wrong with that but the problem is is that he breaks so many boundries with them and has very poor social skills he makes them so uncomfreratble

[Leave a Whisper]

Truthfully, i started watching fim with my younger brother when he was young and he was obsessed. we both had ponies growing up and so it was a nice bonding point for the both of us. i liked watching each of the mane six come into themselves (rarity was a vain diva and my favorite, and i like how she's become much more compassionate, etc) and grow into their roles as the guardians of harmony or w/e, and while i liked that and i liked alicorn twilight, just like everyone else in this thread, i think it came way too soon. like, way way way too soon. as it's also been said in this thread, i think this should have been like, the final plot point or the end game. 'all our adventures and lessons led up to this!' kind of thing.

discord was an interesting villian but now just seems like an abusive jerk who hangs around meek fluttershy and causes her stress, lol. i'm not a fan of discord as a 'redeemed villian' and i truthfully don't have any sympathy for him and think they could have given fluttershy a much better 'companion'. or, better yet, leaving her be and have her come into herself as the ponyville matron of flora and fauna? idk, i don't think discord does anything for fluttershy as a character whatsoever.

however, the thing that perhaps irks me most is the bronies. there's nothing that put a worse taste in my mouth than helping my younger brother google [with safe search on] and print out cute pictures of pinkie pie and rarity, only to find hard-core pornography (of horses???) and have to quickly cover my sibling's eyes. not to mention most of them are horrifically elitist, as if they deserve a nobel prize for watching a children's show made for young girls, and then swiftly taking it away from them. i was furious with hasbro for catering to them, as if they were more important than the young children that the show was intended for, or even relevant at all lol?

i am an adult and of course i love chlidren's things, but watching grown men and women shove aside my younger brother for some pinkie pie merchandise at a con? seriously? get a grip. it's for kids. nobody is upset if you, an adult, enjoy it, but please remember who it's originally for and please remember to treat kids with kindness!

i really love baby flurryheart, and she was the reason i decided to start watching the show again, after passing on a lot of the previous seasons. i think she's adorable and it was an exciting twist to have her with these big wings (it reminds me of dumbo!) and born as an alicorn! i can't wait for them to delve into her storyline some more, but it seems like that's at the bottom of the priority list, what with all of the pointless (?) cutie mark crusaders, discord being an ass to fluttershy and then feeling semi-sorry about it and fluttershy forgiving him despite him having caused her genuine grief, and poorly-written thunderbolts episodes. oh well!

Somebody shoved your kid brother to get to a toy? Wtf is wrong with them?  Oh I would have had strong, nasty words for that kinda rudeness. There's no excuse for that crap.

[Pierlala]

I doubt this show is even for kids anymore. They cater to bronies all the time. And I honestly think the show just keeps running as it is still profitable and the bronies rather not see their favorite show go.

Because nowdays when I watch an episode I usually get bored halfway through. It is not exciting anymore as it used to be. It's like they just try to come up with minor issues every episode to milk out the show.

And my goodness...Rainbow Dash is sooooo annoying. Same goes for Pinky Pie as I feel she doesn't really serve a purpose (never really had).

[Al-1701]

FiM is also the only thing justifying Hasbro continued (even if no longer controlling) interest in Discovery Family.

I don't like Rainbow Dash's involvement because her presence forces the writing to be dumbed down.  Things are more blunt and black and white than episodes where she has little or no contribution to the plot.  You can even tell there is a more clever and nuanced story here, but it had to be boiled down to its most basic parts to suit Rainbow Dash.

Something I've noticed is episodes that seemed to have been developed backwards.  There is an idea for the climax, and then the episode is written around it, and it mus lead o the climax even if the developing the story would have been better without it.  Take "28 Pranks Later" where Rainbow Dash spiking the Filly Scout cookies would have led to be a better lesson about having empathy (something Rainbow Dash desperately needs to learn) if the CMC were the ones who got in trouble and Rainbow Dash would have to fess up when she realized her behavior was hurting others.  However, this started with zombie ponies, and they were going to have their zombie ponies come hell or high water.

[MJNSEIFER]

That would have been a much better way of doing "28 Pranks Later", Al.  It would have been a great moral, and fits in with the show more.

It wouldn't surprise me if at least that episode was built around the climax, the way it was all structured, and I didn't think much to the build up either.  One of my complaints towards the later seasons is that the morals, at the end of the day, are good, but the journey towards reaching them are too extreme and all over the place, it's sometimes hard to even see what the moral is.

[Al-1701]

I think it's because only Faust and McCracken can do Faust and McCracken.  Many have tried to imitate their style, but they all come off as obnoxious as they just don't have the ability to execute their particular brand of humor.  Then add a vocal fanbase who seem to love the most obnoxious aspects of this show (the disgusting facial expressions, over the top conflicts over minor things, the fact the idiot ball is the planet they're standing on, etc.) and these writers just keep doing it.  FiM has become a caricature of itself.

[Zapper]

I doubt this show is even for kids anymore. They cater to bronies all the time.

It is definitely for kids. But I never liked the Brony catering. There is no other kids cartoon that felt the need to work in so much fanon and shout-outs to adult fans.
The moment they couldn't decide on an official name for a silly cartoon horse without fearing it would turn off half of the adult fanbase, I jnew they had jumped the shark and it only got more intense from then onward.
It's as if Rescue Bots got changed to cater to the adult female fanbase, which I know exists.

I gave up on FiM for almost three seasons because I didn't get the in-jokes and was tired of the fights that resulted from that.
I guess I have to give credit to Hasbro for not giving in to the calls of killing off any new character the adults don't like (winged Twilight, Sunset Shimmer, Cadence, Starlight, Baby Flurry, the list goes on).

[Leave a Whisper]

I doubt this show is even for kids anymore. They cater to bronies all the time.

It is definitely for kids. But I never liked the Brony catering. There is no other kids cartoon that felt the need to work in so much fanon and shout-outs to adult fans.
The moment they couldn't decide on an official name for a silly cartoon horse without fearing it would turn off half of the adult fanbase, I jnew they had jumped the shark and it only got more intense from then onward.
It's as if Rescue Bots got changed to cater to the adult female fanbase, which I know exists.

I gave up on FiM for almost three seasons because I didn't get the in-jokes and was tired of the fights that resulted from that.
I guess I have to give credit to Hasbro for not giving in to the calls of killing off any new character the adults don't like (winged Twilight, Sunset Shimmer, Cadence, Starlight, Baby Flurry, the list goes on).

OT:
I think the Rescue Bots are just adorable! I've got a few myself.Still need Salvage and Brushfire.

To be honest Al, a lot of American cartoons have been following idiotic, low brow humor since Cartoon Network made it all the rage and even before then with Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life on Nick. Even Disney has sullied its quality with CN style crap like Gravity Falls.

It only makes sense for Hasbro to follow suit I guess. I wish they'd stop with the brony catering.

[Lady Frostbite]

2. Seeing Princess Celestia's weak side. I hated the episode where you saw Celesita being all crazy/freaking out like Twlight did when she had to teach Starlight about "friendship". To me Celestia was always a bit mysterious. But seeing her act like Twilight or anyone else was just a downer.

This! It's always disappointing when mystique is stripped away from a character like that  There's such a fine line between humanising and rendering mere mortal

[centaurette]

Truthfully, i started watching fim with my younger brother when he was young and he was obsessed. we both had ponies growing up and so it was a nice bonding point for the both of us. i liked watching each of the mane six come into themselves (rarity was a vain diva and my favorite, and i like how she's become much more compassionate, etc) and grow into their roles as the guardians of harmony or w/e, and while i liked that and i liked alicorn twilight, just like everyone else in this thread, i think it came way too soon. like, way way way too soon. as it's also been said in this thread, i think this should have been like, the final plot point or the end game. 'all our adventures and lessons led up to this!' kind of thing.

discord was an interesting villian but now just seems like an abusive jerk who hangs around meek fluttershy and causes her stress, lol. i'm not a fan of discord as a 'redeemed villian' and i truthfully don't have any sympathy for him and think they could have given fluttershy a much better 'companion'. or, better yet, leaving her be and have her come into herself as the ponyville matron of flora and fauna? idk, i don't think discord does anything for fluttershy as a character whatsoever.

however, the thing that perhaps irks me most is the bronies. there's nothing that put a worse taste in my mouth than helping my younger brother google [with safe search on] and print out cute pictures of pinkie pie and rarity, only to find hard-core pornography (of horses???) and have to quickly cover my sibling's eyes. not to mention most of them are horrifically elitist, as if they deserve a nobel prize for watching a children's show made for young girls, and then swiftly taking it away from them. i was furious with hasbro for catering to them, as if they were more important than the young children that the show was intended for, or even relevant at all lol?

i am an adult and of course i love chlidren's things, but watching grown men and women shove aside my younger brother for some pinkie pie merchandise at a con? seriously? get a grip. it's for kids. nobody is upset if you, an adult, enjoy it, but please remember who it's originally for and please remember to treat kids with kindness!

i really love baby flurryheart, and she was the reason i decided to start watching the show again, after passing on a lot of the previous seasons. i think she's adorable and it was an exciting twist to have her with these big wings (it reminds me of dumbo!) and born as an alicorn! i can't wait for them to delve into her storyline some more, but it seems like that's at the bottom of the priority list, what with all of the pointless (?) cutie mark crusaders, discord being an ass to fluttershy and then feeling semi-sorry about it and fluttershy forgiving him despite him having caused her genuine grief, and poorly-written thunderbolts episodes. oh well!

Somebody shoved your kid brother to get to a toy? Wtf is wrong with them?  Oh I would have had strong, nasty words for that kinda rudeness. There's no excuse for that crap.

right?? my dad and i had very.... strong words. it's really too bad; i'm obviously fine with adult collectors (what with being one and having met plenty of pleasant ones), but it is a show for kids... so like back off and let kids enjoy it in peace! apparently that's too tall of an order to fill for some collectors!