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I hope to get more G5 coms in the future *^*

This was my first one

I have not bothered to see the new MLP movie for the same reason I haven’t seen ANY of the MLP movies throughout the existence of the franchise - they always manage to dumb it down (even the ones made for Gen3). MLP’s problem, prior to Gen4 (Friendship is Magic), was that Hasbro almost invariably wrote insipid material aimed at an audience they didn’t think very highly of - pre-teen girls. Gen4 broke that mold by treating its target demographic as thinking (albeit young) human beings, which meant NOT smacking them over the head with blunt, trite, saccharine nonsense. Sometimes, Gen1 and Gen 2 managed to do the same thing even though they hadn’t been blessed with the initial direction of someone like Lauren Faust.

Unfortunately, Gen5 appears to be reversing Lauren’s course.

The new movie (WELCOME TO SPOILERSVILLE, POPULATION: YOU) was apparently written by people who did not watch Gen4 even though Gen5 is supposedly a sequel. In Gen4, the “three tribes” had legendarily distrusted and feared one another in ages past, a state of affairs which almost got them all killed by an emotionally-predatory species called Windigoes. The resolution to this problem, the unification of all three tribes into a single nation, became celebrated as the pony version of Christmas, complete with gifts and pageants.

So, at some point in the apparently distant future relative to G4, absolutely all of that is forgotten and thrown out the window with not a single reason given. The movie never explains it, although it does take pains to make clear that the heroines of G4 have legendary status - which only one pony seems to know about. The closest we get to an explanation is that magic just stopped working one day for no apparent reason, and BECAUSE of that so did friendship. Which, again, is something that happened in G4 when all the tribes had their magic taken from them AND THEY FIXED IT BY REFUSING TO STOP BEING FRIENDS.

So you have this incredibly pointless situation which appears to have no rhyme or reason and exists solely to give the one pony who remembers G4 even happened a goal: reunite the tribes in friendship.

Um. We did that already. Multiple times.

And then we have a bunch of special morons out there who have decided that anytime there is the appearance of a “military dictatorship” - which itself apparently is a matter of somepony wearing a military uniform (hello, Wonderbolts, hello Commander Spitfire, guess G4 Pegasi are Nazis now) and other ponies standing in ranks as though part of a military organization (hello, entire Royal Guard, guess the Earth Ponies and Unicorns in the Guard are also Nazis now and Celestia was running a military dictatorship the whole time).

idk if the generalissimo is “supposed to be” Trump or not, but if he is that’s even more retarded on at least five levels, starting with the fact that Trump didn’t use military troops to lock down the Capitol out of fear he would be ousted from power by American citizens: Biden is. You know, that whole “insurrection” that the FBI ended up saying never actually existed.

But it’s not just retarded because the (apparent) target is misplaced: it would be just as idiotic of a move to make the character a parody of Biden. Contemporary politics never age well, often because more information later comes to light, making such on-the-nose attempts at portrayal fall flat with future viewers. In the current year, it’s not considered socially acceptable to air or even watch cartoons which propagandized the Axis powers of World War 2. Including actual Nazis, on the argument that laughing at cartoon Hitler getting pied in the face somehow denigrates the Holocaust.

Even more retarded is the argument going around that ANY of this is “fascist imagery”. Those sorts of takes are from people whose only understanding of “fascism” is a style of uniform and a general tendency towards militarism. 

It would be more accurate and appropriate to say these are indicators of totalitarianism. Instead, we are told that the following are full-throated displays of Fascism (directly from one of the schmucks trying to make this argument):

* a leader fearmongering

* dressing in military attire

* use of propaganda posters

* the military marching and assembling

* big posters of the villain being shown during the leader’s speech

Problem: all of these criteria also directly apply to Communist governments throughout history. A Soviet-era May Day Parade is hardly what one would call Fascist, but any number of those Parades matched up with every single item on this list.

Nor is this the first time there was an argument in the fandom about “Nazis” and “Commies”. Fans trying to push their real-world politics on other fans insisted this video was all about either/or - depending on which bunch of totalitarians they wanted to be the “real” villains “the show was speaking against”.

In G4, they were smart enough NOT to try and wedge IRL politics into the show. All of this is specific to circumstances revolving around an attempt at a social revolution in Equestria, where all ponies would lose their “destinies” (as determined by their “cutie marks”), and thus be free and equal to pursue whatever future they “really” wanted.

But Starlight Glimmer never promoted National Socialist ideology, nor Communist ideology. She just wanted to take over Equestria using psychological abuse and mind control.

The new writers don’t appear to be that creative or intelligent. Instead, they’re just trying to map current-day social commentary onto Gen5, at least according to outlets like the New York Times . These were the same sorts of imbeciles who previously claimed MLP fandom “has a Nazi problem” (The Atlantic) or was a haven for school shooters (Rolling Stone).

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Is the Haxs-R-us still available? :v I haven't drawn haxorus is a long time, so figured I draw 'em again, and ye, they're fun to draw. Just for anatomy practice Haxorus (c) Game Freak, The Pokémon Company