The Pony Thread (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

I enjoyed the premiere, all said and done. Putting Spike in the hero role like that was definitely unexpected, and I got a few giggles out of the jokes here and there. It seemed to amble a bit, though; gonna have to rewatch it to make sure I didn't gloss over anything.

Alright. This episode was nice. Shiny crystal ponies, lots of songs, and a dull enemy.

Synopsis: Celestia is informed of the return of the Crystal Empire, and King Sombre. He sends Twilight and her friends to help aid Shining Armor and Princess Cadence in restoring the Emipre to former glory, and ward off King Sombre.

First of all, the songs were amazing. This might actually beat out "Love Is In Bloom" for me, especially with remixes like this.

Secondly, I like the end results of the ponies in Crystal form. Really, how do you beat Crystal Twilight?

Third, disappointment came a bit from Sombre. There's no real characterization to him aside from evil. He's just this ominous enemy with some transfiguration to himself. It did however bring me to this conclusion. Each season get progressively more gritty. Season 1: Nightmare Moon vanquished, all is forgiven. Discord is imprisoned in stone. Chrysalis... well, WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN! And Sombre... Dead. He is dead. That's a bit scary.

I might have missed the lesson telling, but I can easily presume that Twi was willing to fail Celestia's test so long as she saved the empire. While she was the one who should "ultimately save it," she took the risk in an act of selflessness. Gave the crystal heart to Spike and allowed him to take the heart to the Crystal ponies. At least, I figure.

This wasn't a half-bad premiere, especially when you consider Lauren Faust is no longer on the crew. Whoever replaced her, they're doing a pretty good job, I think.

I've seen more people complain about how Sombra is souless than people complaining about the GAK commercials.

This I wanna get it straight out of the way: Sombra didn't need as much characterization as the other villiains in the show. He's just a steel-heart dictator who made the crystal ponies' life worse than hell. What else can be said?

Robotnik didn't need much characterization either in order to become a wicked dictator bent on robotizing everyone and taking them their freedom away, all the while making those who were still un-robotized a living hell with swarm of swatbots patrolling every corner in search for them.

What I mean is, King Sombra did his role well and that's all that needs to be said about him.

"Or else I'll tell your parents!" Ooh, burn.

I guess it started in late 2011, when I got internet service at my house back. Ponies, everywhere I looked. It was sort of stupid to see. Everywhere I looked, there'd be related videos, references, music, art, all that crap. It drove me insane.

The very first post I made in this thread was a stupid joke regarding Fluttershy and Tails with some crude paint down to signify murder. It was childish, and I found the flaming to be a big role in getting me to reconsider. However, Youtube aided. I caught myself looking more and more at ponies. At first, I can only figure, it was from sheer irony. Then I heard this. Not surprisingly, the fanbase is able to deliver. That song, I loved it. I figured, "If the fanbase can make this kind of stuff, I may as well see how it's causing it." From there, I entered the series.

I despised it at each moment. I thought, "I'm watching a show about talking horses, what am I doing?" And then, reality strikes me with the fact that I've watched Lucky Star, Azumanga Daioh, Powerpuff Girls Z, and Honey & Clover. So I persevered. I was keeping up with the fandom, watching videos, listening to music, seeing awesome fanart, the usual.

And I stopped seeing it ironically.

They'll criticize me, sure. They'll harass me, alright. But who cares? I like the show legitimately. That's that.

So basically, if you feel the fault is in the content itself, and you actually take it on, know that there's actually a lot of people who started it out with the same thought. Some will give up, some will give in. Just try it, and you'll see where you stand.

THE FACES


THE GIF POTENTIAL


THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT


...*squee*

I really liked the episode. Really liked it. As in "even better than Ponyville Confidential" liked it. Luna's appearance was kind of forced and a rather hasty way to shoehorn the moral in, but otherwise the only way I can express my pleasure is with noncoherent sputtering and reaction gifs.

edit: Also, gotta go fast

You know, you could say "Anybody" instead of "Anypony? Frankly I don't see the what the point of that is. . .I would have known what you have meant if you had said "Anybody". Seems to me that's the kind of thing that everyone is doing just because everyone else is doing it. . .