(I'm pretty sure EVERYONE hates the sleepover episode, ugh).necromanzer52 said:Ok, I'll try not to go off on a rant. Most of the plots seemed to revolve around one or more of the ponies deciding to be a massive ***** for no real reason, and they spend the episode doing that, and at the end they learn a lesson, and decide to be nicer to each other from now on. And then what do they do in the next episode? They start being bitchy again, and learn another lesson.chadachada123 said:It certainly isn't for everyone, but I'm wondering about your statement on plot lines. Compared to an actual little girl's show, I thought the plot lines diverted pretty far from the norm. Most shows for girls tend to do the "someone is upset, let's all hug out our differences" bullshit, while MLP actually uses advice, advice good for people of all ages. Even for the major villians, most shows for girls tend to use the "use happiness and the bad guy won't hurt you" crap while MLP encourages actually talking shit out.necromanzer52 said:And while it had a few funny jokes, I mostly found the characters to be annoying, and the plot lines to be stupid, cliche, and predictable. So I gave up on it.
Cliche, sure, but it's almost like a parody more than a cliche with how often MLP totally switches the direction the episode appeared to be going in.
I'm not disagreeing with you objectively, I'm just wondering what your thoughts on it are, if you remember enough about the plots and want to discuss it.
The one that sticks out most in my mind is the sleepover episode, but I'm sure there were more. It just always seemed to go against character, and created problems for no reason other than to learn a moral at the end.
Now, to be fair, there was one episode I liked (winter wrap up). This episode didn't create antagonism, or previously unmentioned character attributes out of nowhere, and instead focused on Twilight's search for where she fits in, as the new pony, when everyone else already knows where they're most needed.
When you put it that way, yeah, I can concede that the premise is a bit silly for most episodes. To be fair, the whole first season is set up around discovering truths about friendship, so it kind of HAS to reset every episode, at least for the beginning. Otherwise they'd have to introduce a new character every episode or otherwise use tricks in order to set up the "lesson" of the episode. Even then, most of the problems are things that the character themselves would probably do, an example being the episode Sonic Rainboom, where:
Rarity becomes a giant show-boating attention whore, very fitting with her personality.
True fact: The creator, Lauren Faust, wanted to have each episode build upon previous ones, with a bigger adventure and full character development and everything, but Hasbro forced her to make every episode self-contained.
But yeah, I can get now why it wouldn't be someone's cup of tea in that respect. Then again, you could say the same exact thing about Family Guy or practically any other non-anime cartoon.
And again, I don't want to drag you into some argument or anything like that, I'm just interested in hearing other peoples' reasoning and detailing my own.