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Episode Discussion » (Neigh! Winny!) Unpopular Pony Opinion Thread! » Post 252

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Star Swirl the Bearded was introduced as “obscure unicorn history”, but then they made him the only ancient wizard.
Many such cases. The show can’t imagine what truly expansive history would look like (or, for that matter, that in-universe fiction would actually be fictional).

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UrbanMysticDee
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@Fleur de Lis
I didn’t see what they did to him (glad I didn’t) but they probably made Starsworl into some worthless, feckless, all men are stupid and can’t do anything and need to be rescued by unstoppable girlbosses like they do to literally every male character on the show.

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Fleur de Lis
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déanaim seitreach
The writers also picked the stupidest things to make real. The one episode was a Christmas Story parody and they made it a real literal part of Equestrian history that actually happened with the very obviously stupid parody characters were real ponies that really existed. And the other mythical stupid dude bros of harmony who invented the elements of harmony with the magic hat and the magic shovel and all the other stupid shit, they weren’t just stories, they really existed. And over time what started out as a magical land of mystery and magic became smaller and less interesting as all the mystery was stripped away with answers that could never satisfy.
I love the episode Hearth’s Warming Eve, it’s first episode I saw and what immediately hooked me on ponies,
but it was better when its historicity was uncertain.
Star Swirl the Bearded was introduced as “obscure unicorn history”, but then they made him the only ancient wizard.

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Anonymous #AE00
Newborn Cuties is a masterpeice. It’s the only generation of MLP that I like.

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UrbanMysticDee
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Bae > Bay
@πʊßƛįϰ
Daring Do was the absolute worst. She was a recolor of Rainbow Dash because RD was using her imagination reading the book, but then the show sharted out Daring Do being real and being a RD recolor AND going on all these other adventures in these places that have all this stuff that contradicts established lore like the magic bullshit macguffin that controls the sun even though that’s Celestia’s job, AND the stupidest one shot parody character is not only real but writes down these adventures and sells books and everyone is too stupid to realize it, they think it’s just fiction.
Almost everything they did after season 3 just pisses me off so much. Maud and Moondancer were the only things they did later on that weren’t shit.

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@UrbanMysticDee
The fuckin’ Power Ponies were the one piece of in-universe fiction that the writers managed to keep fictitious. The biggest stinker of them all was Daring Do being an autobiography.
became smaller and less interesting
You could say that about all the places the cutie map called them to exactly once and never again. It made Equestria feel like a series of dioramas torn down between takes instead of a living nation.

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UrbanMysticDee
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Bae > Bay
@πʊßƛįϰ
The writers also picked the stupidest things to make real. The one episode was a Christmas Story parody and they made it a real literal part of Equestrian history that actually happened with the very obviously stupid parody characters were real ponies that really existed. And the other mythical stupid dude bros of harmony who invented the elements of harmony with the magic hat and the magic shovel and all the other stupid shit, they weren’t just stories, they really existed. And over time what started out as a magical land of mystery and magic became smaller and less interesting as all the mystery was stripped away with answers that could never satisfy.

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@Fleur de Lis
TIL the word oneiric.
In the absence of long-range planning, the show’s continuity caused more harm than good
IMO, the writers picked the stupidest things not to retcon. Just because a visual gag made sense in S2 or a poetic turn of phrase made for impactful moment in S4 does not mean that rigidly remembering those details in S8 will make for a better story.

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Fleur de Lis
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@πʊßƛįϰ
In the absence of long-range planning, the show’s continuity caused more harm than good. It is kind of nice for events in the show to have permanent consequences, but is it worth it when most of these make following episodes worse?
The weaker moments of G1 cause much less impact on my perceptions,
because they feel more like oneiric suggestions rather than facts in a consistent canon.

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As for the movie, it was far inferior to what the show, even by that time, deserved.
The G5 movie was a better movie than the G4 movie. G4 movie was overstuffed and relied on characters being morons to force the plot along. It tried too hard to have the Disney aesthetic.
age up the writing with the audience
Sadly, that would’ve required the showrunners to know that the show would last more than 3 seasons. They seemed incapable of any form of long-range planning.

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Anonymous #C7B6
I always thought introducing Sunset to FiM proper was a terrible idea, mostly propped up by her fans who wanted her to have more screen time without consideration for what that would do to G4. She was a flat character who likely benefited more from the high school AU she was in and her character stalled after her redemption arc completed. Perhaps she would have been made to grow if she were introduced to FiM and become more rounded, but if that had happened I believe a lot of those same fans would come to insist that FiM had ruined her.

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Fleur de Lis
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@RavenandWritingDesk
Not sure why you made this a reply, but okay.
EQG inherently caused damage to FIM, in undermining both the uniqueness of its fantasy setting and in presenting no-context flattened inferior in appearance and personality versions of the characters as being equally legitimate. I remember a time when I could type the name of any FIM character into any search bar, and actually get that character as the results.
This, along with the C&Ds against many legitimate fan projects,
is why half this fandom is just for detached from the original show premises porn now.
Sunset Shimmer is only a decent character who contrasts by being surrounded by cardboard cutouts. The only two things I like about her are that she distracts EQG fans from paying attention only to characters I made the mistake of caring about, and there are about ten good arts depicting her as a pony.
I think the map table was awful. If an adventure requires tossing out logical character motivations, it is an adventure not worth having.
Especially in a show like FIM where the characters are so fundamental to the basic appeal.
On second point, I at least mostly agree.
As for the movie, it was far inferior to what the show, even by that time, deserved.

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RavenandWritingDesk
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

@Fleur de Lis
EQ Girls was worth it for Sunset Shimmer, but they should of stopped at three and moved Shimsham back to the main universe.
The Show stumbled heavily in S3, that whole season should of been about Twilights rise to godhood as a higher state of consciousness and being an Alicorn is what should of opened things up to a wider, game of thrones for 12 year olds style world. The show should have moved from a kids show to a young adult show, each season getting progressively more adult to age with its target audience.
They needed to do something Watership Down/Rats of Nimh tier edgy and scary with the Movie to make audiences sit up and pay attention. The original idea of Cele and Lulu’s older brother returning and him being a space-fascist was the best idea, have him turn Luna and Celestia into Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker, having them rain terror down on Canterlot and blow cloudsdale out of the sky. Twilight having to stand up and take on her own mentors to prove herself capable of being a Princess.

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earlier seasons are better, dragons sucked as soon as they introduced the juveniles
Neither of these are unpopular
the CMC are extremely boring after they get their cutie marks.
That must be why they banished DT&SS to the shadow realm after their big episode
Friendship School
Ruined by execution, not a bad concept. Twilight runs a finishing school for future diplomats of allied nations. The lessons are formalities; the school’s true purpose is to provide the students with opportunities for connection.
  1. The rest of the M6 had no business being instructors there. Perhaps AJ could be a guest lecturer during the off-season to earn some extra bits. The other ponies all have their own lives to live.
  2. Students had zero personality b/c they had zero solo time. Not only were they ignored half the time, they also were always shoved into ensemble casts. No wonder they’re so bland.
  3. The school needed to be scrapped or given full-time buy-in.
M6 shipping
Agree it has no place in canon.
anthro ponies = furry
I want to agree. However, there is still a difference in how they’re assembled when compared to actual furries. Actual furry art looks way better than the vast majority of anthro pony art, especially the 3D models.

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Fleur de Lis
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Earlier seasons are much better than later seasons.
I enjoy both spikelove and spikeabuse.
Dragons start to suck in season two.
I miss Applejack’s creative countryisms from early seasons. She wasn’t just the background pony who says “y’all”.
I don’t like Babs Seed.
The CMC cutie mark designs were uninspired, but I am not bothered by that.
However, the CMC are extremely boring after they get their cutie marks.
Starlight Glimmer is insufferable, but I find it fun to watch her mistreat her new friends.
The Friendship School is an awful and stupid idea. And making any of the mane six except Twilight a teacher is stupid too. And I don’t like the students, especially the yak. Yaks would have been fine as a one-time joke, but they are not a legitimate culture. Sandbar is the second worst, a contemptuous and ignorant parody of ponies and their way of life.
Princess Luna is not overrated.
I ship mare/mare only, however I do enjoy straight pairs from the canon, including Maud with Mudbriar.
Shipping the mane six with each other should just be fandom fun. It absolutely does not belong in the show itself.
I don’t like rule 63.
If you like “anthro” depictions of the characters, you are a furry.
The epilogue is the worst episode of the series.
I would rather watch Newborn Cuties than Equestria Girls.
Pony Life is extremely forgettable.

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  1. The show should’ve doubled down and embraced new protagonists instead of beating the dead horse of teaching Fluttershy to be assertive for the tenth time.
  2. Rainbow Dash had no business being in the Wonderbolts. Not due to a lack of skill, but because she’s better off as a solo stuntmare.

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