@Deserter  
Because anti racism is just racism with another name.
 
 
@Psy Key  
They want to. These people don’t LIKE the fact that we like something, they want to tear it down and push an agenda. That agenda being:  
~Cops are bad no matter what  
~society has not progressed the “right” way, it needs to constantly be ruined so “it can progress the right way”  
~Friendship and everyone getting along though overcoming hardships is a big no no, wins just need to be handed out like welfare checks, especially to those who don’t know the first thing about friendship.
 
 
@Anonymous #AC95  
The problem with your argument is that it hinges on G5 being it’s own thing. IT ISN’T.
 
It is 100% piggybacking off of G4’s world, lore, and setting, meaning it’s STILL G4, thus connected to anyone and everyone associated with G4.
 
Why do you think the entire plot is to go “Twilight and friends completely failed at making a long standing unified friendship and G4 was for nothing. Get fucked.”?

@Deserter  
Same reason the black actor is playing a dark pony with basic colors.

Why is the Asian dude voicing a pony with slanted eyes and a color scheme reminiscent of China?

I want that Milf Phyllis

@Psy Key  
The official materials describe him as “the sheriff of Maretime Bay”.  
What do you honestly think the chances are, that the production staff on the show won’t be agressively woke from the start, and how do you really think the advocates of “mostly peaceful protests” and “ACAB” chants are going to treat a character who’s a cop?  
Personally I’m surprised he hasn’t been cancled already…

@Psy Key  

 
To be entirely fair, Hasbro’s biggest MLP fanbase is girls between the ages of seven and… well, whenever they stop being interested in horses and switch to boys instead. To the suits at Hasbro, bronies are an embarrassment and a sideshow. There’s a reason Jim Miller spent so much time taking potshots at us. Do you think the suits didn’t give him the green light?
 
I’ve said this before elsewhere. Don’t be sad because it’s over, be happy because it happened. When they took a talent like Lauren Faust and put her in charge of a property she’d loved since childhood, they caught lightning in a bottle. It shouldn’t surprise us that things deteriorated when she left–and I don’t want to imply that she somehow owes it to us to devote the rest of her life to entertaining us, I fully grasp that she has a real life.
 
But to get back to the show, it also shouldn’t surprise us that this kind of circumstance, where the creators are passionate about the material and genuinely interested in creating art and not just punching a clock and making toy commercials–it’s vanishingly rare in American popculture. It happens once or twice a decade, if that. The planets have to line up just right. Someone with real talent, and more than that, a real overarching vision, has to be the show-runner. How often do we see that? When Leslie Stevens created “The Outer Limits” in 1963, maybe. When Herb Meadow and Sam Rolfe created “Have Gun, Will Travel.” When Roy Huggins created “The Rockford Files.” When Steven Bochco created “Hill Street Blues.” When David Lynch created “Twin Peaks.” It’s magic. It’s vanishingly rare. Blink and you’ll miss it. These shows shine like diamonds in the vast wasteland of American television.
 
So don’t be angry that it’s over. Be glad that it happened at all.

@Daneasaur  
I really fuckin’ hope not, or else we’re completely boned. It’ll be spitting on Hasbro’s biggest MLP fanbase.

@Anonymous #4C94  
They will just portray him as a total idiot who can’t do anything right and will be “corrected” by “strong independent progressive nu girl”.

Looking through the filmographies of the new cast raises some questions for me. G4’s cast was mostly old experienced VA veterans with tons of range and experience.  
Vanessa Hudgens is the most experienced of the new female VA’s, but only like 2 dozen minor roles in movies.  
Kimiko Glenn, Sofia Carson don’t have much in the way of resume’s, and Liza Koshy is began her movie and television career 5 years ago after being an e-celeb.  
And then James Marsden, who headlined the Sonic the Hedgehog movie and has an actual career in movies, Phil LaMarr (Samurai Jack and over a hundred other voice roles) for a minor side character and Michael McKean from This Is Spinaltap.  
And out of those, Marsden’s character is a cop and is inevitably going to get severely gelded because we can’t have competent, confident and capable male role models (let alone cops) in a progressive show in “current year”.
 
I can’t imagine Marsden being cheap compared to the caliber of VA’s for the female main characters either. Especially for a character who is bound to draw the ire of the activists on Twitter and the like.

Oh boy, I can’t wait to see all the guys play either gay males or straight males who exist only to be belittled and abused while our MC just magically solves every problem with her incredible “diverse, inclusive, activism” because twilight completely failed and the world has turned into a shitheap.

James Marsden? That’s quite the unexpected choice.

@Acres  
Yes, even I am surprised.
 
I really hope this doesn’t crash and burn. All of this makes me incredibly nervous as to how they’re gonna fuck it up.
 
Also, I can see them pulling a Fallout 2 and having a scene where they say, “See Phyllis.“

@Acres  
I remember him from a music video.

Wait, ken jeong? From the hangover??