>introduce a bunch of nonponies to say nondiversity and cultural ethnocentrism is bad>nonpony always yells her species and culture is the best>never gets reprimanded for itwhat the actual fuck were they thinking?
The fandom just accepting a bunch of random furfag, creature OCs getting more lines and screentime than characters introduced in the pilot is what disturbs me more.
>42943572you clearly don't want a pure pony only world so why would you care.
>>42943562>>never gets reprimanded for itYona did nothing wrong.
>>42943572Just consoom the slop bro
>>42943562Ponified Yona is really hot. But yeah, the species influx was cringe. Something like the diamond dogs is fine, because they are an adversary. The problem is when species replace ponies in pony roles in the show. This almosts sounds like something else I know of ...
>>42943562>writers in S8-9>thinking
>>42943764>Yona did nothing wrongShe exists
>>42943577It would make a boring and predictable concept
>>42943989yeah cause you're a boring and predictable faggot
>>42943562They took inspiration from the UK.
>>42943572A lot of people didn't accept it, the ratings for season 8 and 9 plummeted from what they were in season 7, and that was already pretty low from the years long decline after season 3.
>>42943577True, but the usage of other species was better when they didn't make it about the world but the character. Gustave le grande wasn't there to make the episode about Griffonstone and anti-grifitism. He was a chef who just so happened to be a griffon.
>>42943914We had tons of non-adversary non-ponies before the Student 6. The problem is them replacing ponies, like you said.I wonder if this development was rejected as much by the target audience as it was by us. I sure hope so.
>>42944199The creatures barely got toys and those toys didn't sell well if that's anything to go by.
>>42943562>what the actual fuck were they thinking?What do you think? It should be pretty obvious. These are the final threshes of a civilization collapsing in on itself.
>>42943562>'The Heartswarming Club' premiers>Expect a happy little episode featuring different cultural holidays coming together to be celebrated>The writers instead opted to have Sandbar get yelled at and shamed for trying to share Hearth's Warming with his classmates>Episode gives off very strong "FUCK YOUR HOLIDAY! BE RESPECTIVE OF OTHER CREATURE'S CULTURAL DIVERSITIES YOU INSENSITIVE CHUD!" vibesEasily the worst holiday special in the series.
>>42944378>very strong "FUCK YOUR CULTURE! BE RESPECTIVE OF OTHER CREATURE'S CULTURAL DIVERSITIES YOU INSENSITIVE CHUD!" vibesThat's all episodes with the Creatures.
>>42944192>Gustave le grande wasn't there to make the episode about Griffonstone and anti-grifitism. He was a chef who just so happened to be a griffon.sounds like a common complaint with token characters in media lelbut yeah before S8 there were only two episodes where griffons were specifically used for their species' properties>Griffonstoneto show why friendship > short term profitand>Gabbywith cutie marks being exclusive to poniesall other instances of griffons I can recall had them only because the team wanted variety in their characters
>>42944939The late 2010s were a dark time.
>>42944975We're still in rough water though
>>42943562Sorry, Yana, I'm going to have to kill you now (because you're worst creature).
>>42944378It sucks to say because it wasn't a bad episode, but Hearthbreakers is kinda the episode that already started us on this precedent. Difference was it was two pony family's instead of ponies vs creatures, but it still had that very progressive "your privileged and need to kowtow to diverse pocs and their experiences chud".The sad reality is that accepting that progressive messaging on decent episode like Hearthbreakers is what leads to shit like this. Hearthbreakers moral was just the stage 1 to this episode's stage 4 cancer.
>>42944980Not really in that sense.
>>42945068>pocsI love how close this acronym is to what we all think of when we see these "people".
>>42945068That's the message you got from Hearthbreakers? It's actually quite, I'll give you that.
>>42945137>quiteQuite what?
>>42945518Just quite.
