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> Really, the show got extremely lucky that it managed to be good enough to attract an adult fanbase at its start, they just thought that that luck would continue as they stuck around and the show developed more. It's like you said, it's a cartoon about tiny colorful horses made by a toy company whose sole intent was to market toys and merchandising, it wasn't like Avatar The Last Airbender or Adventure Time or even Steven Universe which can do so much more with their premises and ideas. [/bq]
I think that's something a good chunk of YouTube bronies need to realize.
MLP wasn't about interconnected lore and grandiose adventures. It was about the interpersonal relationships between the 10 MAIN characters and solving friendship problems, with big adventures being saved for the premieres and finales.
Really, the show was at it's best in Season 4. After that, the new writers thought that the show had to be the next Avatar (when it didn't), and caved to the demands of lore and moving outside the "Mane 6 click" (despite the fact that they're the MAIN CHARACTERS). All the while also having to dealso cave with Hasbro's own contrasting demands.