Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

There is another way diversity in fiction can work, it’s called “Show; Not Tell.”

@SombrLiz  
Isn’t that just a rule of writing in general?

@TheHappySpaceman  
Yes, though I’m assuming that people haven’t been following it recently, especially with diversity.

@LightningBolt
 
True. Plus the franchise was basically floundering on the anime side of things until they started doing more Adventure stuff.

@Jarkes  
To be fair wasn’t that because The Fourth Season turned a lot of people off?

@SombrLiz
 
@Count Adramélekh Sear
 
I think forced representation, judgmental people, and under representation are all kinda dumb.
 
For instance, colleges that lower entrance standards for black people so that they can have more representation are being racist to both black people and other races. It’s not fair to the intelligent, hard-working people out there, regardless of race, that have learned enough to get into a college without having a handicap setting on the entrance test.
 
At the same time, working as a society to try and right the wrongs of the past in other ways is good and understandable. I’m all for black history month and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I understand why we don’t need a white history month, and if it ever became evident that somebody was actually discriminating people based on race, they should be fired, fined, and blackballed from their industry. It just bothers me, because I’ve known a few successful and intelligent black people over the years who it would be very insulting to if they knew they were accepted into college not by their test scores, but because of their race.

@Broken Adam
 
Yeah, and then there was a long gap between Frontier and Savers/Data Squad, and THEN Savers underperformed so there was a gap between that and Xros Wars/Fusion, and THEN Xros Wars did so poorly (especially the third season, “Hunters that Leapt Through Time”, which didn’t even get dubbed) that it almost killed the franchise completely.

||the “Geeky Guy artsy girl” tropes is way overused ||

@Broken Adam  
Example? o.o

@Marx  
Manic Pixie Dream girl as a whole  
“Goth” girl love interests  
somewhat different but Anime Harem as a whole although that also includes a lot of type of girls whom are attracted to a plain “relatable” guy at once
 
I don’t hate those kind of pairings but how common and Pandering it has become

@TheHappySpaceman  
Nah, sometimes telling is better than showing  
See: Marriage Story as I thought it was very cool that SPOILER FOR MARRIAGE STORYwe didn’t see the background of what led to Charlie and Nicole separating, making it a much more he said she said situation like in real life  
That being said, generally, showing is better than telling  
Generally

@Commune  
You need to master the rules before you can break them properly.

Telling can be done well. Showing is more prone to overwriting.

Tammers was the best Digimon ever got, it’s the best mons anime period, and would be one of the all time greatest anime ever, if Ryo wasn’t there,

@Thanotos Omega  
People claim Ryo was a Mary sue. :0

I think the word “incel” is thrown around too often as some kind of insult these days. I think it’s a pretty new word anyway, or new to me anyway, but now I’m seeing it tossed at random people that someone just doesn’t like, or people who don’t have a job, or people who the one throwing the insult around views as lazy. That’s not what it means. People are weird.

Its pathetic to change yourself purely in hopes of getting women

The sequels don’t make the prequels any less fucking garbage  
Also, the world building in those movies fucking sucked  
The prequels problems weren’t a problem of execution

@Commune  
 
WHEN I SAY PREQUELS YOU SAY SORRY  
PREQUELS

@Commune  
No

@O. Hancock  
People are lazy and use whatever they know is used as an insult as a generic insult, hence why calling people “gay” and “autistic” were a thing.
 
@Commune  
The prequels’ problems were pretty much in execution, mostly how the actors were told to say their lines.
 
@Broken Adam  
No. I stand by the sequels being better than the prequels.

@Meanlucario  
Like cuck

@Meanlucario  
Eh, I prefer prequels myself.

@Scrabbleman  
And that’s fine, as long as either one of us are assholes about it.

@Scrabbleman  

 
Same.