>>43413056
I just don't care anymore.

>>43413056
Princess Luna is best princess!

>>43413056
People don't appreciate all the work William Anderson and Ingram did with all the little musical cues that play throughout the show.
G% makes their absence painfully loud.

>>43413056
Did spitfire eat a spicy pepper or something

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Misty should've become an actual alicorn.

>>43413207
G% isn't the show or the fandom

>>43413056
I think the show was ok.

>>43413056
Spitfire is the hottest pony in the show.

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>>43413056
diamond tiara>cozy glow

>>43413220
Heh igi

>>43413201
>William Anderson
Yes. Thank you. He's an underrated part of the show.

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Trixie is best pony.

>>43413207
She can't even fuck and cum.

Hot take. Dragons in G5 are trash. G4 dragons are depicted as bullies and jerks. Chrysalis isn't that sexy, either, unless you get into kinky ass bug stuff, and at that point, it's just a fetish. Also, Dragon OCs are closeted scalies.

>>43413056
The show was better before Lauren Faust left, and Mcarthy and MA Larson ruined the show with alicorn twilight and redeeming discord

Hottake getting popular via g4 fandom as an artist (in any form) should be easier, although for dragon scalies, and chrysalis lovers, and some other general categories there should definitely be “obstacles “

>>43413692
>Chrysalis isn't that sexy
She really isn't. I think it's the whole irredeemable villainess shit that gets people going.

>>43413713
No its because she's black

>>43413716
And old

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>>43413692
>Hot take. Dragons in G5 are trash.
Woah woah woah, hold your horses. It's getting TOO spicy with those takes!
>>43413696
>The show was better before Lauren Faust left, and Mcarthy and MA Larson ruined the show with alicorn twilight and redeeming discord
I'M BUUUURNIIING!!!!1

>>43413056
I prefer horse pussy, but a lot of HVOP images still keep ponies cute despite it being porn, whereas a lot of 'accurate' ones are just OOC porn or hardcore fetishism.

>>43413305
Is this fucking official?
The juice between the legs is... definitely a choice

Hot takes are a meme

>>43413696
>The show was better before Lauren Faust left
Not a hot take newfag
Try again

>>43414729
I could forgive pre-2015 pics for HVOP, but in the current year HVOP comes off as retarded and amateurish to me and not very cute, I agree on that horsepussy often forgets the cuteness.
Most post-2019 pony porn is really awful.

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batponies are not canon and all those slut OCs should be ridiculed

>>43414844
TRVTH

>>43413064
FPBP, everything good has already been made or discussed, and outside of adaptations of more media or OC faggotry, we don’t have much left.
>but hasbro’s G6
I don’t want to touch that with a 12 foot pole, there’s going to be nothing really redeemable from it.

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>>43413220
Obvious to anyone with common sense

celestia sending cozy to tartarus is worse than the trio stoning her. basically shows how the entire of the school idea failed because cozy learned more about friendship with chyssi and tirek than twi and the others.

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>>43413056
Chryssi did nothing wrong.

>>43414857
...except make a threat to Canterlot. And blow her cover. And "just fuck it": Send in the drones. And not killing Starlight. And not killing Thorax. And not clipping Spike's wings.

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Batponies are sexy and all those slut OCs should be PLAPPED.

>>43414844
Truthnuke. Boy am I glad that they canonised AppleDash relationship though. It being official and canon is so good!

>>43414844
another hot take, wing hands look like shit.

>>43414736
>>43414723
My take gets me ridiculed so it is a hot take in the wider fandom.

>>43415035
Rarijack is better

>>43415114
even without the takes you'd have been ridiculed anyway
just look at you...

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Post your hot takes you have regarding certain Anons.

I'll start by saying that this Anon >>43413706 is alright looking but not really my type.

>>43413056
Applejack is not a lesbian. No way in hell a mare like her, growing up in a traditional home, surrounded by family values, would not want to start a family herself.

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>>43413056
Perfect Pear is the most overrated episode of FiM

>>43415675
True, but Anons will seethe now that you've said it.

>>43415689
I dunno nonny, everyone else agreed it was overrated in another thread.

>>43415699
There's also people defending it. Back when this episode premiered you would get dogpiled on for even hinting that you didn't like it.

>>43413056
It went bad the moment it tried to become the next Adventure Time

>>43414730
yes, it is an official internal document with fanart that some intern just picked randomly from derpibooru

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Flurry Heart never existed. Cadence was never an alicorn. She and Shining Armor are married, yes, but they never had any alicorn foal. They were both high level functionaries. Since they were highly trusted, they were sent to the Crystal Empire to be its regents until new rulers could be selected.

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>>43416153
She's a unicorn right, nonny? She'd be a unicorn and not a pegasus, right?

>>43416160
Yeah, unicorn. Not alicorn, not pegasus, not earth pony.

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>>43416161
And it'd be Crystal Kingdom instead, right? Since she's not an empress and it's not an empire, right?

>>43414730
Look at the bottom of the page
>What's hot

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>>43416162
NTA but she's unicorn petty noble from one of the royal houses and ancient family lines that existed way before Equestria was united, which Celestia let be as they swore loyalty to her and Luna.
There is no crystal "empire," silly. If somepony would be even close to an emperor, a king of kings, that would be Celestia. And she is not one, but a princess.

>>43413056
22-minute toy commercial.

>>43413056
Applejack did nothing wrong in Non-Compete Clause, and people only act like she's also in the wrong here because the fanbase was categorically allergic to admitting when Rainbow Dash was at fault for something without also shoving off some blame onto someone else.

>>43413056
The Cozy Glow/Flurry Heart shit is stupid and has no merit and would just be Discord and Fluttershy all over again.

>>43416714
Truke

>>43413305
Reminds me of that VA reposting a picture of Celestia and Twilight with cum in their mouths lol

>>43416834
It was Celestia voice actress celebrating thanks giving on Twitter.

>>43416836
Yeah I just looked it up. Huge autism war in the Furpi comments too, but that's to be expected there.

>element of loyalty
>call you a friend
>sell you for a material thing
the element beam should not work by that point

>>43413056
S3 is the best season overall, even in spite of the botched finale.

>>43416894
...and all the other botched episodes.

>>43416894
S3 doesn't have Luna Eclipsed, so...

>>43413056
Hot take. It has shitty ass fans with shit taste. The fact that the fandom at large enjoyed the final seasons and were satisfied with the shows direction really fries me.

>>43416923
>shitty ass fans with shit taste
The fact that Dashie was and still is by and large the most popular pony is proof enough of how shitty most of the fans taste was.

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>>43416934
Sounds like someone's boyfriend was stolen by best pony!

>>43413056
How how a take is depends on the community we're talking

for TikTok/Twitter:
>You weren't traumatized by the fandom, you're just a mentally undeveloped zoomer
>Trixie is not trans, Chris Savino thought of her without any in-universe implications of a transition
>If no real animals are being harmed, drawing horse-pussy and clopping to it is completely fine
>Mare Fair has had a much more positive impact for the pony community than any convention you were groomed in when you were a child

for Reddit/Derpibooru:
>The show's finale sucks and having a bunch of previous characters appear at the end as if this was Avengers Endgame doesn't make the conclusion less forced and the story any less unbearable to watch
>Glimmer is an awful character and Trixie should've never been brought back if she was only going to be her sidekick
>The Perfect Pear is a decent, but it's uninspired and overrated
>You deserve G5 being as bad as it was for being complacent to the many awful changes made to the show pushing it further away from what made it good

for /mlp/:
>Season 7 is the second worst season of the show (season 8 is obviously the worst) and the lady writers are as bad as the rest of the new writers, season 9 is bad but it at least took some risks and had more interesting plots.
>Non-Compete Clause is over-hated, and based on what people say during the anni re-watch, there are worse episodes that deserve way more hatred
>S9 faces aren't bad because they're wacky or off-model, they're bad because the artists are afraid of making something that look genuinely ugly and/or they never commit to whatever expression they're supposed to be emoting
>Most of your complaints about retcons and out-of-character moments aren't real, you're just so obsessed with your headcanons that you can't grasp any form of deviation from it

for everyone:
Your waifu is crap

Hot take: Thread quality is getting devastatingly low

>>43417002
>Flag
I guarantee you're part of the problem.

>>43416162
Yeah, I'd be fine with that.
>>43416509
I'd be fine with this too. I get the idea that Celestia is not an Empress and so on. That's why I said Cadence and Shining Armor would be regents only (not king and queen, or emperor and empress). It's just that governance of the Crystal Empire (or kingdom if you prefer) is only temporarily vested in Cadence and Shining Armor. Celestia and Luna appointed them so that no threat or ponitarian (using this word instead of humanitarian) crisis developed on the Equestrian periphery in the short term. Maybe Celestia and Luna were unsure of what the solution to the problem would ultimately be.

>>43416714
>Non-Compete Clause
I don't think I finished watching that one, but I liked that Fluttershy was always Teacher of the Month.

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>>43416939
AWOOOOOOOOOOGA SEX WITH RAINBOW DASH UNF UNF UNF PLAP PLAP PLAP!!!

>>43416160
as faust intended

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>>43416714
>>43417000
I've never really understood why Non-Compete Clause is so hated. It's just a standard "AJ and Dash have a rivalry" plot that's mostly inoffensive. Like it's not good but I can think of a lot of worse episodes

>>43413056
Princess Twilight Sparkle Pt. 2 is the worst episode in the entire series.

ACW is when the show started to turn for the worse.

Seasons 5 and 6 are on average better than seasons 3 and 4.

All of the Flim and Flam episodes are shit.

Fluttershy is the most consistently written character.

Starlight was a great addition to the show.

Reformed Discord was a great addition to the show.

Maud is unfunny and overrated.

CMC episodes are better than M6 episodes on average.

Equestria Games is one of the best episodes in the series.

Ponyville Confidential is one of the best episodes in the series.

Simple Ways is one of the best episodes in the series.

To Where and Back Again is the best two-parter in the series.

Flutterdash is the only M6 ship that isn't dogshit.

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>>43418194
oh boy...

>Princess Twilight Sparkle Pt. 2 is the worst episode in the entire series.
there are plenty of worse episodes. just take your pick from S9
>ACW is when the show started to turn for the worse.
not really a hot take
>Seasons 5 and 6 are on average better than seasons 3 and 4.
is this even a hot take?
I mean, only the first two seasons are really great and only the ninth season is irredeemably bad, so I don't really pay attention to season rankings like this
>All of the Flim and Flam episodes are shit.
Super Speedy Cider Squeezy is obviously not shit
>Fluttershy is the most consistently written character.
is this a hot take? I mean, this might be true but it is mostly because she's the least developed of the 6.
>Starlight was a great addition to the show.
I agree. this is only a hot take on this board though aka contrarian central
>Reformed Discord was a great addition to the show.
I kind of agree; again, this is an /mlp/ specific hot take
>Maud is unfunny and overrated.
she is funny; whether something is overrated or not is a matter of opinion, but I will say that yours is wrong
>CMC episodes are better than M6 episodes on average.
there are way less CMC episodes than M6 ones, so it's not really fair to compare them
>Equestria Games is one of the best episodes in the series.
sheesh. which one is this again?
*checks*
oh. the Spike one. I mean, it was okay, but it's not one of the best episodes of anything
>Ponyville Confidential is one of the best episodes in the series.
this is kind of a hot take. I mean, it's one of the best S2 episodes for sure, but I don't know about the whole series.
>Simple Ways is one of the best episodes in the series.
It's really not; it's predictable as hell and full of story cliches, which would make it a mediocre episode of television in any other show, but the FiM characters elevate it into being better than it actually is
>To Where and Back Again is the best two-parter in the series.
it's one of the better ones. Return of Harmony is the best two-parter tho
>Flutterdash is the only M6 ship that isn't dogshit.
every M6 ship is bad

A lot of the flanderization people talk about doesn't actually exist, and some of these characters have been like that since season 1.

>>43413056
Hate the show.
Hate /mlp/
REALLY hate anon, fuck that faggot.
Hate OP.
Hate every pony.
Like Spike.
I think friendships are gay. But I'd be friends with Spike he's the exception.
Season 6 was the least worst season.
G6 will actually be the first good generation.
Celestia isn't fat and she smells good.

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>>43419433
Shitty person, great body!

>>43416923
>fandom at large
hugboxes like reddit don't let people genuinely criticize shit

>>43418163
>I've never really understood why Non-Compete Clause is so hated. It's just a standard "AJ and Dash have a rivalry" plot
their bullshit endangered others

>>43418194
>>43418313
>>All of the Flim and Flam episodes are shit.
>Super Speedy Cider Squeezy is obviously not shit
nah the story centers around both Apples and F&F being retarded with their property
Leap of Faith is kino, though

>>43418771
>A lot of the flanderization people talk about doesn't actually exist
late season Twilight is flanderized because nu-writers weren't required to watch the whole show, with Lesson Zero being Sparkle's "definitive episode"
literally can't deny the flanderization when it's cause is public fucking knowledge

>>43419518
>>43419528
I want to cum inside crazy Twilight!

>>43419528
>but the episode alone was perfectly fine for its purpose.
I didn't deny that the episode is good for showing THIS part of Twilight's character, flanderization happens exactly with
>using that episode as a basis for her character
that we know did happen

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>>43419498
Correction, Rainbow's bullshit endangered others. Applejack's event plan was entirely fine until Rainbow screws it up.

>>43413056
Show is meh.
Fandom is toxic.
And yet, fanworks are really good.
The fandom often takes the setting into a less safe environment that the show is too afraid to explore. The show has the right environment to have these extraordinary tails and handle deep emotional conflicts. As much as I hate the fandom for their cult like "love and tolerance" policy which only extends to their fandom, I'm only in it for the amazing works of art they create.

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>>43413056
Rarity is the goat but the show forced her to be minimized as a crybaby drama queen.

She's VERY hardworking, she never asks for anything in return, she's very generous and even bites her tongue sometimes to not hurt the other pony and even tries to see their side. She's not afraid to make huge sacrifices but the show overshadowed all those good qualities for the sake of using her as a joke...

Also rarity in My little pony: Pony life looks DOGSHIT, what did they do to her bro... i hate how she looks in there SO BAD.

>>43419614
Love and tolerance my ass, are you in the same fandom i am???

>>43419614
Some retards took love and tolerate literally. Nobody in the modern era actually knows what it means, and that goes double for Anons here.

>>43419663
love and tolerate has never been board culture until we got a bunch of limp wristed refugees
You do not need to be a complete fairy faggot to enjoy the show, some people disagree though

I love and tolerate all your hot takes.

>>43413056
My hot take is that Maud is an uninteresting character and an unnecessary addition to the show.

>>43419642
So... she's the best if you ignore anything that isn't completely glamorizing her and treating her as flawless?

bumping

>>43421366

>>43413056
Unicorns are superior to every other race

>>43421970
That's not even hot take. They did as single tribe control both sun and moon in pre-unification era. It wouldn't mattered if earth ponies or pegasi did go extinct, because spells n' shit. Literal chosen tribe.

>>43421970
obviously.

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>>43419498
Many characters have done that in other episodes, and even worse because their poor behavior is rewarded and the lesson is awful to teach kids, almost any Glimmer episode is worth a place for "Worst episode ever". At least Non-Compete Clause's "lesson" isn't actively harmful:
"If you see people being jerks to each other, learn from that so you do not repeat their mistakes."
There are way worse episodes in this shows, but especially on this same season. Concluding a episode about suicide with "Just say people to not kill themselves, it's that easy." is as terrible of a lesson for kids as it is tone-deaf to what means to be depressed.

>>43422351
>pic
oh yeah, the second My Little Pony episode that features suicide ...
Desu Non-Complete is probably SO hated because it used M6 as mains just to shit on them

>>43422370
Yeah, it seems to be a case of an episode having a problem that isn't the worst yet it is the hardest to ignore. Meanwhile, episodes like the ones I've mention have worse flaws but they require you to understand nuances that most people don't have the brains to even know they exist.

>>43413056
Her season 1 voice is among the top 5 most attractive voices to me.

>>43413056
Slut

>>43415162
She did start a family. With Rainbow Dash.

>>43418163
Them endangering the students felt off but I also don't like the students so I found it kinda funny until dash and AJ needed saving

>>43419642
The show stopped using rarity almost completely by the end. I think she only got one episode in the final season and it's the one where she simps for spike. I guess they really just didn't know what to do with her and didn't feel like doing retreads like they were doing with every other pony

>>43418194
All flim flam episodes would be greatly improved if they were mares instead of faggots

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>>43424246
This Anon is going to get scammed out of his virginity

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>>43424246
All episodes would be greatly improved if they were faggots instead of mares.

>>43424293
Rainbow Blitz wants to come inside (YOU)!

>>43413056
Hot Take posts are a meme, OP is a nigger and everybody in this thread is a flaming fagula.
That hot enough for y'all?

>>43424293
MY hot take is that Bubble Berry is the hottest of the R63'd Mane Six.

The fandom became significantly worse as people started taking the show more and more seriously.

>>43424330
Nah, that's quite reasonable.

>>43424344
That could be said about most fandoms for episodic cartoons from the 2010's. People wants to feel mature so they try to take more seriously what they enjoyed for its weird creativity and comedic value. That was one of the first things I've noticed about FiM when I first saw an episode of it: It felt like something they could broadcast in Cartoon Network, sadly it was on Discovery Kids so my first instinct with it was cringing at it, even if there was something that kept me watching for longer than I wanted to at the moment.

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>>43413269
These two being recruited to out-bully and out-manipulate Cozy during School Raze would have been a way better payoff than the student 6 getting special powers. Since Cozy's arc started with the cmc, DT and Silver were built to be Cozy's mirror rivals as an extension of the cmc's good will. Plus Babs if they can squeeze her into their plans. The cmc deserved to take down one serious villain after a decade as the B team, but they got cucked by literal who teens when it came time for an actual filly villain.

Also, since they shoehorned the cmc into interacting with Twilight's students, they should have shown Cheerilee's class graduating and an end to "Twilight Time" before all that.

>>43413076
That's not a "hot take". That's a scientific fact.

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>>43413056
I really like Jay Fosgitt's art style. I'm not excusing his use of clip art or griffin characters that don't resemble their show counterparts, but I find the way he draws ponies the be extremely cute.

Rainbow Roadtrip was the closest the show ever got to feeling like S1/S2 era FiM

>>43425078
The fact they did nothing with Diamond Tiara or Silver Spoon after S5 was a shame.

I do not want to cum inside Rainbow Dash

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>>43425455

>>43425455
Do you want her to cum inside of you?

>>43425455
Now THAT'S a hot take

>>43425455
What are you, a faggot?

>>43413056
Rainbow Dash episodes have always been the worst of the series.

>>43427721
How'd you misspell Spike that badly?

>>43427721
Not a hot take at all. I'd argue she has more bad episodes than good and mediocre ones combined.

>>43413056
faggots from both twitter and here makes the fandom insufferable to be apart in

>>43427721
>>43428102
I'll do you one better. Rainbow and Scootaloo episodes are overrated as hell and their dynamic is incredibly shallow. People give it a free pass and hype up their relationship far beyond what is reasonable because it's one of the only redeeming traits Rainbow was ever given.

>>43428512
Is that you, "quality /mlp/ posts"? The bitching stinks the same.

The show didn't get worse with each season. It was always terrible actually.

>>43427721
Rainbow dash episodes are bad mostly because the wonder bolts are lame as fuck

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>>43429873
Damn, you're kinda right. The only time they were allowed to be cool was in that edgy war timeline, and they got absolutely mogged by earth pony special forces.

>>43429516
don't worry, he'll make another tweet bitching about anons critiquing Haber

>>43413056
The moment the show died was when it tried to take itself seriously and have more in-depth world building.
The amount of good that came out of this decision is outweighted extremely by how much garbage was bagged and thrown into a landfill.

Princess Twilight, Flurry Heart, Changedlings, Friendship School, Castle replacing Golden Oak Library... you get the idea. It started to try too hard.

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>>43430066
>golden oak playset
>middle finger castle playset.
>baby flurry heart with alicorn mommy playset
>school of friendship playset
>Twilight "Isn't this amaaazing? Now I have princess wings!" Sparkle
>toyetic 'lings
Applejack's hat not being pink is taking itself seriously. Hasbro being Hasbro is the opposite.

>>43430098
>permanent physical changes in the show are things that aren't taken seriously
It's not about if (You) think it's serious, Anon. Decisions being made for toys doesn't make those decisions taken any less seriously by the show.
I repeat, the SHOW.

I COULD have rephrased my point. It's more like the writers trying to make it more than it was. Like another Anon said, it tried to become another Adventure Time.

>>43430060
My hot take is that the quality /mlp/ posts guy is a fucking faggot.

>>43413056
This board overrate the earlier seasons the same way the outside fandom overrate the latter seasons
The more obsessed you are with porn being anatomically correct, the higher the chances you're actually just a furry
And the most important one, the show is nothing spectacular, it's a good kids show, but it's also filled to the brim with every single cliche known to man, everyone simply ignores that because they have this fantastical version of the show they made up in their heads

>>43413056
People concentrate too hard on Josh Haber and don't properly distribute their hatred towards other writers that are as much deserving of hate, if not more, like Nicole Dubuc

>>43430123
The show only caught off-demographic interest because Faust took MLP seriously.I object to this belief that not taking it seriously would yield better results. The show would turn out like Pony Life and g3, with the same near non-existant fandom. If the serious parts were nothing but good, that anon would be comparing FIM to LOTR x Sailor Moon instead of AT. Wishing the writers had lowered standards reads as doomerisms wishing nothing good ever happened.

>>43430123
I think there's a difference between taking the show seriously and going for DEEPEST LORE, which is the trap many stories fell into in the past decade or so. I wouldn't say MLP fell into that, at least not completely, sure you have stuff like the Pillars of Equestria, or those random mcguffins from Season 8 that sealed Starlight or whatever, but at the same time it also demystified a whole lot of things, the Everfree Forest went from a mysterious forest filled with unknown magic and creatures to just some forest that Scootaloo's monster hunting parents thought was too common to stay and study, Canterlot became just another city, the Wonderbolts are closer to a sports team than they are of being part of the military, etc.
It's a weird mix, I can see your point but I think the show's lore went one step forward, two steps back for most of the time

>>43413056
Lightning Dust is just Rainbow Dash without plot armor. Literally the same character.

>>43430214
>>43430239
It's interesting to see the complaints about what changed in the show, because my gut reaction is that many of the changes were necessary to fit with how expansive and (in-universe) developed Equestria actually is...
...except that when I step back, and consider Season 1 & 2, Equestria really was less populated & developed based on what's presented (or at least, that was clearly the intended vibe; obviously stuff like the instant electric lights in S1E1 got in, or the arcade cabinets in S2E17, which *technically* pushed things well into the 1970s even during the Faust era).

And so I think arguments on small, individual changes will inevitably fall flat, because people are making their arguments from fundamentally different views on what Equestria *is*.
The Faust-era lovers see Equestria the way she did: a roughly early-industrial nation that has very limited tech and a lot of unexplored land.
Meanwhile, the people who are more chill with later seasons see Equestria the way it was presented in those seasons: a late 20th century industrial superpower.

And so, what's stupid or not about the setting changes depending on which of these two Equestrias is the one you think is "normal"/"correct". Is what we got correct, or is what Faust wanted correct?
Neither of these answers are correct unto themselves, as it boils down to opinion, but it is interesting to see that people discussing how "right" or "wrong" the setting became may not even be using the same baseline as who they're talking with.

So yes, the Everfree being barely anything, Canterlot being a smaller-than average city, and tech being more common all goes against the "Faust intended" Equestria.
But it also makes complete sense for the industrial superpower we *see* Equestria to be throughout the show.

Idk if this is hot take, but I would divide the show into four eras: Ascension, which includes the first 3 seasons and Eqg 1, Redemption which is everything else Eqg before Rollercoaster of Friendship, Journeys, which is seasons 4-7 and the Movie, and the woke era, which is everything else. I think that is the best and most concise way to categorise the show. You can have subdivisions too, like dividing Ascension into Classic and post-Faust, but these four mane eras have pretty consistent themes and character/story arcs.

>>43416894
That finale was perfect you faggot ass normie, and Eqg 1 was the best possible way to finish off her arc! I hate you!

>>43413056
The Crusaders' cutie marks are dogshit and any anon who draws them should be castrated in public.

>>43430388
The cutie marks are second to how retarded their career counselor destinies are. The entire first half of the show hammered home how they were missing the point by throwing random shit at the wall, then the second half invalidates this by having them teach other ponies to throw random shit at the wall anyway. Crusaders of the Lost Mark really was the Magical Mystery Cure for the CMC, and not in a good way.

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i completely see why g4 got all the recognition and love it did and all of its merits and stuff but i just really prefer g1 and g3, especially asthetically speaking. g4s artstyle is very very cute but the g1 ponies [toys, artstyle, and designs] are just adorable to me in a way g4 just doesnt meet the mark on. g3 too but less so, also im really mad they didnt include minty more in g4 >:[ idk if this is still a hot take desu but last time i checked everyone hates g3

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>>43430492
like BWAUGH just lookit their dumb little faces

>>43430499
>horses are silly-looking
Uh, yeah. Have you ever seen a horse?

>>43430504
yes i love horses thats one of the reasons why i love g1 so much they look like more like horsies

>>43430388
I'll be the real hot take contrarian and start drawing them more often. I've been lazy when it comes to cutie marks.
>>43430449
>hammered home how they were missing the point by throwing random shit at the wall
I don't know, waiting for your special talent to come to you by magical rainbow destiny, while romantic, is a godawful life lesson that the m6 impart. Twist wasn't sitting on the couch while eating potato chips when she realized she enjoyed baking candy. It's important for kids to actually try shit to see if they're good at it, or if it's something they're passionate about learning. Unless you're Cheerilee, then it comes to you in a dream. The irony of s1 was that the cmc were already doing what they liked, they just didn't realize it's their special thing yet, exactly like Twist's story. Even in Magical Mystery Cure, Twi solved the curse by getting her friends do shit, rather than staying miserable with what their newly given careers were. The show was really schizophrenic in telling cutie mark destiny lore while imparting lessons about finding your passion.