Rants About MLP

The first Pony Life thing is out. It’s mediocre as hell.

This is kinda off topic, but did you see Rise of Skywalker? If so, what did you think of it?

The problem with Anon's strategy is that endlessly producing content and branching out also causes people to tune out. Look at Lego. They made the Lego Movie, everybody loved it and then they just flooded the market with tie-ins, specials, games, and spinoffs. Then when the sequel comes out everyone's like "Eh, I can just watch this stuff on Netflix." I think that more than anything crippled the MLP Movie. The opinion that you can just watch any season premiere/finale and get the same effect.

I think Pony Life might be more than just filler. I think Hasbro's going to apply the Transformers multiple branch approach to MLP. They watched Guardians of Harmony fail, the movie disappoint, and decided that slice of life and adventure can't work together in one show. So, one toyline/show for the target demo and one for everyone else. Can't really fault them for this line of thinking.

Which was the best Cutie Mark Crusaders episode. And which was the worst?

This is a selfish thing to ask, but could write a list of your expectations for Pony Life? A best case/worst case scenario for the show?

I have a hard time feeling sorry for EqG because even though I didn’t like it, it also got to stick around for six years. If they didn’t cover something in that time, oh well. They had their chance.

It sucks that they had more plans for Equestria Girls (apparently, they were going to introduce the native, human Sunset), and we never got a proper ending; it just stopped, and instead of putting those resources into continuing EG, they're going to do a G4.5.

The sad thing is if they do right by [insert poorly used secondary character here], I’ll probably jump onboard. FiM is such a mess, I’m ready to reward basic competence.

You know that generic unicorn merchandise where it’s like unicorn poop or unicorn farts or whatever? “Isn’t it edgy/ironic that we did this?” That’s those character designs.

Equestria Girls already did that, but mostly took place in a crummy AU.

I think they feel doubly betrayed. The show’s barely in the ground and Hasbro’s already throwing out what a lot of people liked about it.

That’s a pretty unhealthy like to dislike ratio for that teaser.

Filler and cash grabs, like tangerines and oranges.

Even if this turns out alright, they’ll still cancel it to put out the real G5. This is a cash grab. There is literally no other way to read this.

This will do as well as that Unikitty show, cancelled after two seasons, but at least that had the benefit of airing in a network that was readily available. The really annoying thing is this isn’t even about making a cartoon anymore. This is just filler so they can guard shelf space until the movie comes out.

It reminds me of Teen Titans Go!, which says everything that needs to be said about the franchise at this point. That six years late, My Little Pony is ripping off Teen Titans Go!