>Decide to rewatch some of the show since it’s been over a year>realize I’ve become a season one puristGod damnit.
not even season 2?
I stopped watching around 2016 but Im currently slowly catching up where I left off. Everything post season 5 is utter shit, I hate nigh every episode and those I dont hate I can hardly finish because they're so damn boring, neverending exposition, gay contrived plots, awful character match ups and stupid universe extensions. Then I go back and watch season 1-3 and am reminded why I love this damn show. fuck anyone who vouches for the later seasons, they're bad, they're boring and they don't represent a miniscule of what the shows original vision was.
>>41832547I thought season three was pretty weak after a rewatch. Probably weaker than 4 and 5 imo.
Season 1 is just that damn good. It's better than entire other shows.
just watch in japanese, at least S2 has some really good songs
man the emotional strain of being right all the time bust be immense
I'm watching the series for the first time and S2 definitely felt different than S1, I don't know if it's a downgrade but it's definitely not an upgrade either.
Guys I have literally only watched the pilot episode when i saw the thread way back in le epic oldfag days in 2010 on /co/ (I knew mßßt personally btw) and I have just decided to watch the third episode it is called Ticket Master (fucking stupid name) and it was fucking awful. Such a whiplash from the pilot it has nothing to do with the episodes I watched before in 2010 it was utter trash. omg. i don't know how it was possible for such a fall in quality to occur so early but i am so fucking glad i didn't decide to watch it back then oh god it was soulless and boring and i hated it. don't even begin with the OCC moments - like one moment Flutterfuck is shy and so and then the next moment she MUST be angry for the fucking shot were they all nag Twilight (<3) because she just must ?=??. anyone who sees this and has not yet watched the show I can only recommend you to stop watching the show after episode 2 (2)!!
>>41832681/threadPurityfags are autistic.
>>41832681>I can only recommend you to stop watching the show after episode 2 (2)!!True. Nightmare moon killed Twilight and her friends at the end, so episode 3 onwards never actually happened and should be considered non canon
>>41832383BasedEventually you see how much momentum carried you through the latter seasons. And that everything you love was pretty much cemented right there in season 1.
Season 1 was boring and still modeled like a show for children. It only started to pick up around season 2 and peaked in season 5. Nostalgiafags BTFO.
>>41832383That's just the natural trend for anyone capable of learning.
The show is actually bad, ponies just have snowpity so it can be ignored.
>>41832794This is a solid argument. The natural endpoint is accepting the show has never been good and that our autistic hyperfixation on ponies has nothing to do with the quality of the show.
>>41832794>ponies just have [le circlejerk] so it can be ignored
>>41832821I mean yea, that's just true, the show was never very good, the colorful horses are just pure sex.
>>41832547for a while I thought scare master was a s2 ep come to realize it was s5 this whole time. I really like that episode in particular or at least parts of it. some of doesn't make sense given previous episodes.
>>41832932>some of doesn't make sense given previous episodes.I'm pretty sure throughout the entirety of FiM's run, at no point were the writers expected to actually keep track of what was happening in the show. Writers just grabbed whatever elements they remember writing in previous episodes (or from hearing a fellow writer talking about it) and used those while ignoring the rest of canon.
>>41832776Season 5 was the peak. Later seasons were fine but really nosedived once Twilight got her School of Friendship
Blowing up the treebrary still angers me.
>>41833276Ok, but who asked?
>>41833289I asked!
>>41833276You didn't like the Castle of Friendship™ playset available now at your local Toys-R-Us® for only $29.99, includes Twilight Sparkle's Balloon© and Princess Twilight Sparkle© with Pony Brushable Hair™ and super wing-spreading action button? Why not?
>>41832383What's wrong with season 2?
>>41833290Liar. No one did.
It's funny to think that almost 15 years later, people are still talking about a silly little flash cartoon that was a complete fluke. If Hasbro had been a bit more restrictive or if Faust got a little bit more creative control it would be an entirely different show.
>>41832383Sucks to be you, you're missing out on a lot of fun in the rest of the show
AAAH I'M TOO RETARDED TO COMPREHEND THAT DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT TASTES FROM ME ME AAH YOU'RE MISSING OUT FROM NOT ENJOYING THE SAME PONYSLOP AS ME ITS OBJECTIVELY FUN AND GREAT YOU HAVE TO ENJOY IT COME ON JUST WATCH STUFF YOU DONT LIKE BRO YOU'RE JUST NOTWATCHING THE SHOW RIGHT BRO JUST LOOK AT THIS EPISODE DUDE ITS SO MUCH BETTER THAN SEASON 1 WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONT LIKE IT COME ON DUDE SEASON 1 IS A KIDS SHOW NOW SEASON 5 HAH THATS A KID SHOW THAT FAILS AT BEING EITHER A GOOD KIDS SHOW OR AN ADULTS SHOW THATS WHAT IM LOOKING FOR SEE HOW RETARDED U LOOK WHEN U MISCONSTRUE OPINIONS LIKE THAT YOU CAN BE A FAGGOT AND ENJOY SEASON 5 FOR WHATEVER RETARDED REASONS U CITE AND I CAN LIKE SEASON 1
>>41833442I don't think Applejack would say that.
>>41832383S5 >> S2 > S1 > S4 >> S3 >>> S6 > S7 >>>> S8 => S9
I look like this>>41833442And I talk like this
>>41832547one day the image will be recovered
>>41833455https://voca.ro/1hKp4PmuXmBI
>>41832547>>41833548This fucking image is legendary, I can't believe it remains unposted to this day. David, come out of hibernation and post it already.
>>41833548>>41834538Did anyone try searching it in yuki.la image dump?
>>41832383Funny how it sneaks up on you, huh?
>>41832383I actually hadn't watched s4 onwards until recently. There's some good stuff, some bad. Ratio skews toward bad in later seasons.
>>41832614A lot of season 2 usually focuses on one pony at a time, Baby Cakes for Pinkie, Read it and Weep for Rainbow, compared to season 1 where a lot of episodes have the characters hanging out together.
>>41833463Opinion based purely on trying to mimic what you've heard other people say.
>>41835560>s5 at the top>s6 above s7>mimic other peopleNigga what
>>41835578"S5 is the best" is the most generic opinion.
>>41835583>introduces poochie and yiggers>soulless plastic castle>shit on Luna/CMC/griffon lore>has 2 Neal Dusedau episodesGuess people are extremely retarded then.
>>41834538>This fucking image is legendaryWhy?
>>41835616Yeah.
>>41835583Because its from some early bronycon including the one and only sgap together with saberspark, andrew wk and some dude I dont know. this picture is cool because andrew wk is somewhat famous and him getting a picture together with sgap, the most obscure and niché musician ever, is actual nuts especially since it doesnt even have a high res upload but you can definitely tell that its andrew wk because hes white
>>41835616sorry to burst your bubble anon, but the camel's back was broken long before this for long-term storytelling. You can't judge anything past Best Night Ever based on what dogshit it added to the canon without getting depressed, so the only way to enjoy the show is as it is: one episode at a time and S5 had good episodes
>>41835724I don't know who any of those people are
>>41835732saberspark is a childrens show enthusiast who's now popular with normies. andrew wk is a normie rock musician turnt brony when it was popular. sgap is a niché obscure vocalchop musician who disappeared a decade ago.
>>41835560No, if I was trying to mimic opinions it'd be more like:S2 => S1 >>> S4 > S5 >> S3 >>> S7 => S9 >> S6 >> S8I honestly have no idea where you got the notion that a lot of people think S5 is the best. Maybe people thought that back in the day, but I didn't get on the ride until very recently, so I wouldn't know what was the consensus in the past.I love S5 because half of my top 10 episodes are in it; because it has some of my favorite character moments in the entire show; because it has some of the best songs in the series. It definitely has issues, like >>41835616 said, just like every other season, but it also reaches highs that no other season (except maybe 2) does.
>>41832924The was good for the majority of its runtime (things really only started to fall off hard post Season 5). The fandom genuinely wouldn’t have the staying power it had and honestly still has to an extent if it wasn’t people genuinely enjoying the show for what it is. People loved the characters and the world, and that’s what made the show a modern classic. It’s just that because Hasbro execs are soulless bug-men, the writers had to constantly battle with their corporate meddling in order to make the end product the best that they could make it.It still baffles me to this day that Hasbro struck gold with FiM, and yet despite the show’s immense popularity, they didn’t start making products targeted towards the adult crowd sooner. Imagine if the FiM movie or a FiM AAA vidya dropped during 2011-2016. It would have sold like crazy.It’s actually a miracle that DHX put up with such stupid management for so long.
>>41832547There are a few really good episodes sprinkled. Like the one with kirins is really good. Everything else is shit though.
>>41836489>It’s just that because Hasbro execs are soulless bug-men, the writers had to constantly battle with their corporate meddling in order to make the end product the best that they could make it.This is a very overstated problem. Many of the main problems with the show came entirely independent of corporate meddling.
S1 > S2 >>> S3 >>>> S4 >>>>> S5 >>>>>> S6 >>>>>>> S7 >>>>>>>> S8 >>>>>>>>> S9 > Pony Life > G5
>>41836630It's hard to fully separate its problems from the corporate meddling but yes, they could've made a far more cohesive show even with Hasbro's endless obnoxious demands.
>>41832547Similar boat. I stopped watching at the end of season 6 because I hated the skittlebugs so much, and have only recently committed to watching everything now that it's all settled. Season 7 had some strong moments but was full of the same stuff that made me drop season 6 like "fame and misfortune", but watching season 8 now, and it's unexpectedly good. Like, it's not perfect, but it feels like the charm is back. I'm still not sure how to process it, since everyone says this is the worst part of the series and I was sure they were right, but I'm loving it. It just seems like the mane 6 are more tuned in and expressive. I thought the school would come across as forced, but Twilight's enthusiasm about it is infectious, and of course it is, why did I never think before that book horse would love running a school?Wish they would stop saying creature though. It sounds degrading.
>>41832383What's so pure about season one?
>>41837890Less continuity build-up gumming up characterisation, less need to pander to audiences because it was new. Every form of media is purer when it's just starting out.
>>41837890Nostalgia goggles.
>>41837890Self sufficient world with no pandering. I fell in love with a show for little girls, not with a show for obnoxious nerdy teenagers.
>>41837890It has the most sovl and is universe-establishing which means it must be well made and atmospheric to be sucessfull.It had childish innocence but still did a great job at showing the world of Equestria and its inhabitants.
>>41832383Whats wrong about seaon2?
>>41834538Been looking for years, we even asked saber and paleo both after interviewing them
>>41832383That's how it always happens bro. I did the same thing years ago, in like 2017. I just realized what I want to watch was Season 1.
Idk why season 1 dudes hate season 2 even tho it has the bette villian and is still made by lauren
>>41836489Idk why they didnt make a triple AAA game for us.Then again...they used the mobile market to scam out of our money...
>>41839077I don't hate it, but it gets too fast paced in comparison like any regular cartoon. The world is still great but small details like that start ruining the immersion.
>>41837984It's the best because it wasn't a show for obnoxious nerdy teenagers, but also transcended any labels like little girls show. If anyone liked a typical little girls show they are an actual retard.
>>41839077It has plenty of good things about it but it has some pretty bad stuff too (lots of scattered bad moments throughout episodes, Dragon Quest, MMDW, and ACW in order). I don't hate it. It's still a very good season. I just don't think it's as solid as season one. Though I can understand someone preferring it if they feel its highs are high enough to overcome its failings and put it ahead of season one (like Hurricane Fluttershy).
>>41839077I don't hate it. I like it a lot. I just think S1 is better.
>>41832383Welcome to the light, brother. I will prepare a cushy sofa for you in my Discord>bbbut-butt discord is for TranniesNot while I'm there.
>>41839296Then you wouldnt say "season 1 purist"
>>41839357I think it's fine. It just means that Season 1 in particular is what gets a special place in their heart and mind, and nothing else.
>>41839077ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkLCR7TT3s&ab_channel=Jakub
>>41839324>>41839379Kill yourself you disgusting 3rd world unwashed ape.
>>41839386Oh please project harder, mehicanoooooooo
>>41832547>>41835724It's so fucking cool that real celebrities get to mingle with obscure horsefuckers. Would never happen without the internet.
>>41837890no retarded shipping, no retarded fandom, less out of character shit, more comfy slice of life hoerses, no retarded writers who didn't even bother learning what they were working with before making episodes and entire seasons. seeiously though, why would the new writers not watch the previous seasons before continuing the show, I can see why people say half the show isn't canon.
>>41840883I disagree with every point except writers not watching the fucking show, which should be the bare fucking minimum to do your job.
