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@Anonymous #BA43
Fuck, wrong picture… if it hadn’t been a repost I wouldn’t have cared.

I got into the show because horses are sexy. No way I would have watched if the script was the same but the characters were human.

I’m mainly here because the characters are likeable and there’s a robust fandom constantly churning out new artwork of all kinds. If it weren’t for all of the fan works, I wouldn’t have stuck around for more than one or two years.

That is certainly true. The 2010’s in general are often described as a “renaissance” of sorts for western animation.

That being said, I think the growth and development of the characters over time adds a lot to the show and makes the ‘learning about friendship’ thing an actual meaningful theme instead of just a plot contrivance. Seeing characters achieve their goals is also satisfying.

In particular, I appreciate how Fluttershy became more assertive over time (early on her shyness was so extreme to the point of being downright contemptible, in my opinion) and how characters like Luna, Sunset, and Starlight whose backstories are largely defined by massive life-ruining failures found ways to learn from their mistakes without letting said mistakes define them.

@UrbanMysticDee
Equestria has non-Euclidean geometry

I just watched “The Cart Before the Ponies”.

The CMC want to do their own thing, because it’s their race, but the older ponies they recruit push them into doing things they don’t want to do. It feels like I’ve seen this before, with Fluttershy building that animal clinic, and the stuff happening with Applejack fixing the plumbing at the spa, and probably other episodes too. It’s the same old story all the time about asshole adults who can’t step aside and let kids grow up and have their own responsibilities. It pisses me off. Of course, the kids don’t get to do any of the work, the adults do everything because they’re assholes all of a sudden, not the ponies we know and love.

Rainbow Dash’s cart crashes into all the others and ruins the race because who builds a 4-leaf clover shaped race track with 8 lanes intersecting?

They rebuilt all the carts, with the kids getting to do it this time, and we never saw who won.

No thanks, I hate it.

F. I’m not even giving it a number grade, just F.

And if these things are gravity powered and the race track continuously loops onto itself how the fuck are they continuously falling downhill in a circle?