@Aelvir
Yeah, but its the same as a lot of G4 fans disliking for example Daring Doubt, the plot was carried in a controversial manner that a lot of people like to pretend it never happened. G4 did some contradictions regarding the overall plot and actually suffered from it so if anything the feeling that G5 isn’t fully connecting actually results in a similar sensation rather than a sudden turnaround.

So if they don’t feel G5 satisfying then they’re just simply gonna disgregard it unless they get a reason to do it.

@Background Pony #7F46
That is very true. It will be compared to it, but when people focus primarily on G4’s plot instead of G5 for G5, the whole point of a continuation is lost.
Plus in defense of G5, some retcons aren’t entirely their fault as the G5 movie was being written in the middle of Seasons 8 and 9 of FiM, so of course some continuity would inevitably be lost there.

But even without that G5 isn’t perfect but the amount misinformation about overexaggeration surrounding it doesn’t help.

@Aelvir
Man, no offense, but continuations inevitable will get compared to the predescesor since you are continuing from the roots of something else, you are essentially being carried by someone or something else in said situation. If it were a reboot or a totally different continuity maybe that could do it, but a continuation will always carry the burden of having to make a credible build from the ending of the past products. And prequels have it even worse mind since prequels have the extra weight that nothing they build upon there would make unnecesary conflicts with the original product.
And in fact even people who liked G5 often would pretend that G4 is not exactly connected to G5, at least not the way the writers want it. So if something like that happens, is worth to ask why it happens.

@Wynter Skye
Once again…you just literally repeated the same you just said earlier but with different words.
You have to pretend G4 didn’t exist for it to make sense? The continuity with G4 in G5 isn’t perfect but it’s nowhere near that bad. I’ve seen all of G4 and most of the retcons people point out are not even that important to the plot. In fact G4 did the same thing several times.
Also if you have to pretend G4 didn’t exist, you clearly never watched anything from G5 as Twilight’s existence is crucial to Sunny’s entire character. Without her that falls apart.

But instead of saying it makes no sense, how about explaining WHY you think that instead of saying it over and over again, hm?

@Aelvir
You have to pretend that G4 didnt happen for G5 to make any sense.

How so? The plot of G5 itself is fine when you eliminate G4 continuity. For what it is, it works. It’s also pretty ignorant of its most painful issues to claim that plot is its most glaring issue, when these issues are far worse:
•The main show is only on Netflix, which means extremely limits viewers (most children probably won’t be using Netflix because most parents don’t use Netflix for kids shows when YouTube exists and is free and Netflix is struggling as it is). Doing that basicaly aready doomed the show as 60% of people that watch it are pirating it.
•Because of Netflix the animation department suffers due to time crunching and and too small of a team for the 3D animation. Some of the animation is really good but there are a lot of moments where it appears awkward or are just straight up tons of animation errors.
•The TYT shorts’ artstyle is downright ugly and some ponies straight up look nothing like their 3D selves.
•Going from movie to showcase the majority of Hitch’s character and personality is tossed into the bin for no reason.
•The episode structure harms the show the most because of the “handful of episode ~ 1 40min special ~ handful of episodes ~ 40 min special” episode structure. For the amount of time between content you get less content from the main show than you would get from 1 season of FiM. At best it should’ve been at least 12 episode seasons instead of the mess of a episode structure it currently has.
•Most G4 fans never gave it a chance, a lot of whom straight up made lies about the series before the movie even came out, some of which are perpetuated to this day. Sure it has issues but so did G4 (which has retconned itself constantly but it’s apparently only an issue when G5 does it)

But yeah…PLOT is the most glaring issue…sure…
The most glaring issue is that most people can’t watch it without pirating it, the episode structure and being exclusive to Netflix doomed it to struggle, and most people do not like the artstyle of the 2D shorts, the 3D animation suffers because of a small team and time constraints as well as corporate meddling because of Netflix.
I love the crap out of G4 and I still do, but I’m caught caught up with G5 as well and the plot itself isn’t terrible as people claim it to be. Chapter 2 is pretty slow and has some meh episodes, but Chapter 4 has set MYM in the better direction. The plot by itself is perfectly fine for what it sets out to do. Most complaints about the plot are just people desperate for more G4 content or are just salty because Faust isn’t involved (not like she actually did much in terms of story writing beyond create the characters and world of G4 and the first 3 episodes…), because apparently she’s a deity to G4 fanatics.

@Wynter Skye
What parts don’t make sense then? Most people’s claims about what doesn’t make sense are either people who never paid attention in G4 or just automatically assume that because something from G4 isn’t shown in G5 or explained it’s miraculously an egregious retcon. While there are some serious retcons like the creation of the Unity Crystals contradicts Twilight’s character and G5 stating that Earth Pony magic never existing in G4.

As for nothing in G5 makes sense at all? I don’t know, the plot is Twilight messed up and Equestria is in disharmony and Sunny tries to bring magic back and harmony itself back and succeeds. Makes sense. Opaline wants Sparky so she can steal his magical dragonfire for power and has been manipulating Misty to do her bidding but questions her when she makes actual friends even if it was to stew their friend. Also makes sense. What is so confusing about this? Oh but I get it you think it doesn’t make sense compared to G4. That’s fine I guess. A lot of stuff isn’t consistent with FiM. Why? Well obviously because it’s continuing off of a show that has over 200+ episodes spanning 9 years. Considering the developer of G5 only worked on a handful of FiM episodes and the other writers of G5 had no hand in anything in FiM but only worked on Equestria Girls and Pony Life means they would either have to chronicle all the minute details of the lore in a concise list or watch 9 seasons of a show just to make a new show. I’m sorry even I wouldn’t do that. Sure a lot of the continuity is wrong, but at the end of the day it still follows the same mentality of G4: that friendship is the whole driving force and that it can be serious when it wants to be.

This might be a hot take here, but I’ll say it. G5 has no obligation to explain the status of stuff we remember from G4. The story isn’t about the locations, ponies or anything from G4. It’s about the ponies in G5. If they feel the need to explore it, they will. G4 was not meant to be the focus of G5, G5 is. G4 was used as something to build off of for G5, a starting point, and I’d say they did a decent job of it. It’s not perfect but it certainly could have been way worse.
It honestly could have been worse they could have made the new main cast be carbon copies of Twilight and her friends with no originality but they didn’t.

@Aelvir
Plot is 100% the most glaring issue with G5

@Aelvir
G5 does not make sense at all.

@Wynter Skye
The idea was to have G5 as a continuation from the get-go, if they did it that way it would piss a lot of people off by making it so G4 wasn’t real and and no longer canon. Thats more something you’d see in a bad fanfic.
G5 makes more sense for what it is, minus the 2 main retcons in the show. Plus f e whole “G4 was just a show in G5” thing wouldn’t really add anything to the plot whatsoever, which is obviously why they never did it. G5 is a mess for many reasons but plot is not one of them.

@Aelvir
I wish that was the reality of G5, not the travesty we have now.

This aged poorly…

@MaresFillies  
Uhhhhh, no. It means G4 was nothing.

@Background Pony #BEA6  
How so? It would protect the integrity of the G4 at the same time bolster the standalone aspect of G5 while keeping a loose link to G4. I say it’s a win-win.

@Background Pony #BEA6  
It’s the one you came up with and I don’t think it’s what happened

@MaresFillies
 
@Wayneponeth  
It is an absolutely awful idea.

@Background Pony #BEA6  
Then it IS meta. It’ll be so weird to see how a magical pony show works in a magical pony world.

@Background Pony #BEA6  
I would love that! XD Holy Celestia that would be the biggest meta ever.

@Wayneponeth  
So far, from the leaks, it appears Friendship is Magic, is not real in g5. G4 was apparently a show in G5 so Twilight and her friends are all not real and cartoon characters.

@Background Pony #C25C  

 
I think so too. Not sure though. But in a show that contains magical elements, we shouldn’t be too surprised about small lapses like that. Maybe it’s just sufficiently advanced bag technology.

@Edhelistar  
Pony Life wasn’t meta. It was a bunch of bedtime stories told by Pinkie Pie to her kid.

That said, she is a pony herself and the G4 Mane Six toys are based real people (equines?) in the context of this universe, so it doesn’t completely work either.

@Background Pony #285D
 
She doesn’t seem to be a filly though and instead fully grown like the G4 Mane Six.

@Background Pony #C25C  
In higher quality close-up of her face, they are, indeed, eyelashes. And yes, indeed, there’s a strap crossing through her chest.
 
@Wayneponeth  
As meta as Pony Life?