Do you still love the show just as much as you did 10+ years ago?
>>42572421About the same, though I deffo love it in different ways.10 years ago it was still new to me and it was the excitement of a brand new world that was still being tinkered with.Now it's the comforting familiar world that's I'm always happy to come back to.
>>42572421I still love it. But, for me MLP FIM is just a stepping stone for my own imagination. I love it more because of how it inspires my imagination than what it it. That's why I just shrug about a lot of the bad writing
>>42572421I don't really enjoy anything anymorePony is just one of those things that makes me almost feel something positive
>>42572595This except I actively hate the bad writing because of its potential to have been good and expanded on an interesting world in equally intesting ways that could've been enjoyed by both its target audience and its unintended audience.
>>42572421No, I love it more. I create and commission infinitely more than I did a decade ago.
>>42572421Ponies will always be in my heart and the show is still fun to rewatch, but I often feel like I'm chasing a high I'll never catch.
>>42572421I didn't even like it back in the day. I was always here for the stuff surrounding the show rather than the show itself which really is just a regular old show for little girls -- nothing that special.
>>42572421I’m still revisiting old pony stuff from exactly ten years ago on a daily basis, so I’m still enjoying it in that sense.
>>42572595>>42572602>>42572680This
>>42572680>Fag of the fandumb
>>42572421Image brings up a good point. I cant separate the show from my headcanons which mostly date back to when I was in middle school, so in a way my praise for the show cant be trusted.
Only retards claimed the show was an absolute master piece, when in reality it was the craze of the fan base that blinded their true perception of quality content. The show in and of itself never received a ridiculously high amount of attention, the fandom did. Do people really think more than half the "fandom" is here for FiM or even mlp as a whole? No, more than half of our shitty following consists of other fandoms, most of which hopped onto the ride in its hayday from 2012-2015/16 or onward.FiM was only the basis for a community that took both the Internet and the real world by surprise. I won't deny that it is a shitty show and the movies are even worse, but at the end of the day it holds a special place in our hearts. THAT'S what matters to a fandom.
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>>42572421I started watching the show when I was 12. It would be impossible for me to have the same childlike wonder I had for the show back then. I still love it either way, just because I have so much history with it. Makes me feel good, very little things make me giddy like this show does.
>>42573607if we, as a collective, laid down on the copium as to see how faust jumped the shark all the way back to the literal SECOND episode of SEASON 1 when she completely undermined nightmare moon's backstory and twilight's conflict of making friends in just a single fucking anime flashback powerup asspull that was neither earned, properly setup nor build up in the slightlest but instead just given to her by the writers because she happened to notice the strangers she just met being useful to her cause and thus, realizing"huh, having friends can be useful, never before in my whole life did I never stop to make that connection despite being characterized as the autistic nerd".problem?Nightmare Moon's struggle with being overshadowed by Celestia?Boom, gone! She was just being a whiny bitch that needed some rainbow tasting spanking to be set back on the right place.problem?Twilight's inflated ego and lack of social skills being the very things keeping her from making friends?Boom, gone! Friends just... come to her...willingly! She is actually flawless and just needed to learn how friends can be useful.problem?Celestia's failure with her sister being the cataclysm to her corruption and the error of the past that had to be corrected somehow if Celestia were to ever hope to get things back to normalcy with her sister?Boom! Gone! Thanks to floaty magic rocks going YEEE, Luna gets back with Celestia just fine, in fact, it's Luna who feels any kind of guilt or remorse for her past, as if she even had the opportunity to do anything wrong before being sentenced a 1000 years on the moon with no trial.They don't even attempt to make a connection between the main conflict and the protagonists, Twilight just wants to stop Nightmare Moon because hurr durr she is evil and eternal nights are bad, that's it! Nothing about that motivation relates to making friends or learning about friendship. What about Nightmare Moon's backstory relates to Twilight in any way? There's nothing! It's just generic evil backstory for generic evil villain that generic protagonist must defeat by overcoming their generic problem and save the day.The show only shines in the isolation of single episodes of contained narratives because it couldn't really go beyond that, it was, in fact, made primarily to sell toys and done so in a restrictive budget reflective of this fact.Lauren Faust did not revolutionize girl's media, she just struck gold in a time where there wasn't much competition and internet hype culture was up for grabs, all she really had to do was make a cute show with cute ponies in wholesome moments with nothing too annoying to scare the adults away and she would've won!Had she done nothing beyond the bare minimum of this formula, the results wouldn'tve differed.If you pay close attention, you would realize just how unremarkable the show is at everything else it tries, including comedy. It's a show made to be enjoyed, not really thought about.
>it's another "offboarders who don't actually like pony are here to tell you that it's bad" episode
>>42574384NIGHTMARE MOON DID NOTHING WRONG
>>42574396They don't even try. No effort whatsoever. Kids these day can't troll for shit.
I only watched it for the first time 2 years ago, but so far I still love it just as much. The fandom definitely makes it better and worth staying interested in it as well
>>42574396>>42574404you are watching for the "plot" don't you?
>>42572421it does but I've grown to be a very emotionally stunted person in life so of course anything for literal pantshitting retarded toddler babies is bound to make me clap and giggle like said retard babies.
>>42574488the show is really great for its intended audience and it may possibly be the best piece of media entertainment for little girls in history (i genuinely belive that to be the case) but it's not a master piece with deep characters and super mature story telling for all people of all ages to enjoy and that's perfectly fine, I'm happy with it for what it is-a passion project, great cartoon that many people put thier whole heart into it about silly ponies in thier day to day happy life and occasional adventures for the future of thier world. So yes, My Little Pony is just a silly cartoon for little girls no doubts about it and that's exactly what it needs to be.
>>42574533>i watched the show 'Casue i liked it, hell i loved it! And im just itching, itching to watch it again and you want to call me a brony!?
>>42573607take your happy pills
>>42574575Thanks
>>42574460Go be a retarded esl somewhere else.
>>42572432>goth twilyUNF
No, but my hatred of it has not grown quite as much as my hatred of the rest of the world.
By now I've consumed fan interpretations of the characters & world 1000X what the show contained.Many variations of every character, exploring topics & plots the show writers couldn’t even dream of.I still enjoy the show, it's comfy & nostalgic, but it lacks much of the depth that the early fandom thought was there.
>>42574533>>42574694This
>>42574533>>42574694Agreed. As someone who didn't watch the show 10 years ago, and only got into it in 2024, there's a lot of takes and commonly held beliefs among the fandom that I just don't see any real basis for. It really does seem to be the case that people just had certain ideas during the first season or two, then held to those ideas for the rest of the show even when they weren't really supported. Just as an example, everyone who says Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are childhood friends is wrong. That's literally just a headcanon, there's nothing in the show that supports the idea they were close friends for a long time. They barely interact for a few seconds in a flashback, and they may have been in the same class, but that's it. Dash was closer with Gilda than she ever was with Fluttershy, but somewhere along the line this fandom had the idea that they were childhood friends, and everyone still continues to echo that line even though it doesn't actually have any foundation. There's a lot of memes and takes that seem really confusing and nonsensical to me, looking at the show and fandom from a more outside perspective as a newfag.
>>42574773These things emerged when the fandom, and its members were much younger. We were all 15 years younger with much more joy and whimsy than we are in our current years. All of these things you speak of are hold overs from the early years that never faded away because the first ideas and theories last the longest and will always influence anything after it. The show was never deep or thought provoking and it never strived to be so, but many people (autists, in the nicest use of the word) needed something to latch on to. There wasn't much to choose from, you had Sonic and ya had Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. People didn't watch the show because it was some high class storytelling or entertainment, they watched it because it made them feel good, with a fandom that was (mostly) very welcoming. That has sort of declined after we got all old and bitter, but for a while it was a great place that promoted creativity.
>>42574837Exactly this plus at the start a lot of trolling, spamming ponies and then clopping.
I haven't watched the whole show again since 2019, but I still enjoy watching and creating pony content. I love this stupid and comfy fandom.
I do, but haven't rewatched it as much as I should. I got on the ride in May 2012. I've been rewatching and writing my own reviews for personal use. I think a lot of the characters really fall apart in season 2. I think most of our waifus are the character in their ideal conditions. I guess you have to have conflict to make a show, but it often means the ponies have to be mean or deceptive. I watched Putting Your Hoof Down yesterday. The episode is entertaining, but I wouldn't 'want' to have the three mares acting the way that they did in the episode. Pinkie's deception at the market. Rarity manipulating the nerdy stallion. Perhaps these characters are better suited to be in G3 or something with very mild conflicts.
>>42572421Yes, but it's different.
