Unpopular opinion time
rdibp 
Kerfuffle lover
Whereas anyone can enjoy MLP FIM, Equestria Girls is more so marketed towards the tweenage girls (age 11-14) audience.
LightningBolt 
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Undead inside
@rdibp
Which means it’s bad because we’re all adult MEN and we don’t like things not targeted towards us.
Which means it’s bad because we’re all adult MEN and we don’t like things not targeted towards us.
CronoM
@rdibp
Honestly besides the 1st one, I found the EG movie’s to not only still target all ages, but hit a broader, older range then 11 or 12. Personal traumas and issues were exposed but weren’t eliminated in a nice little bow, learning that neutrality is the best one can achieve with certain people, like the depowered dazzlings, anger and misgivings don’t just go away even with non cartoonishly evil villains, etc.
Honestly besides the 1st one, I found the EG movie’s to not only still target all ages, but hit a broader, older range then 11 or 12. Personal traumas and issues were exposed but weren’t eliminated in a nice little bow, learning that neutrality is the best one can achieve with certain people, like the depowered dazzlings, anger and misgivings don’t just go away even with non cartoonishly evil villains, etc.
Latecomer
I quite liked EQG back when it was movies. When it fragmented, it seemed like most of the quality was lost though…
LeoNero 
Shine On U Crazy Diamond
@Latecomer
I agree. Rainbow Rocks kinda cemented my love for the series
I agree. Rainbow Rocks kinda cemented my love for the series
Background Pony #3279
I loathe “Daring Doubt” and will absolutely never accept it as canon for how much they ruined Daring Do.
Wiimeiser 
(Foil Hat)
@Background Pony #F50C
What about The Big Mac Question and Growing Up is Hard to Do?
What about The Big Mac Question and Growing Up is Hard to Do?
Vinylshadow 
Megalomaniacal toaster
I’m still working my mind around the fact Growing Up confirmed that the CMC were still pre-teens (still considered foals by society rather than mares) by the end of the series, which makes them about five/six years old in their first appearance. Which given their Calvin (& Hobbes) level of doing stupid death-defying stunts to figure out their purpose in life, makes way too much sense.
Or maybe they’re older than we think because the writers stopped caring about coherency after Season 5.
Or maybe they’re older than we think because the writers stopped caring about coherency after Season 5.
Background Pony #3279
@Wiimeiser
I liked The Big Mac Question and I’m okay with Growing Up is Hard to Do.
I liked The Big Mac Question and I’m okay with Growing Up is Hard to Do.
Background Pony #3279
@Vinylshadow
I always thought they were around 10 in S1, so I figured they’d be around 14-16 in Growing Up is Hard to Do.
I always thought they were around 10 in S1, so I figured they’d be around 14-16 in Growing Up is Hard to Do.
Wiimeiser
(Foil Hat)
@Background Pony #F50C
@Vinylshadow
7 in Season 1 according to the Faust Bible, but I don’t think this was ever used, and Jim Miller said 9 at some point. Also, the episode was intended to be in Season 6* and probably fits better in Season 1.
*In fact, it was likely scrapped because of the Not Allowed to Grow Up law of TV and replaced with P.P.O.V. (which I chose because it seems to have been rushed.) This would perfectly explain why the second half of S6 had no CMC episodes so The Fault in Our Cutie Marks had to be moved to the second half to fill the gap. Incidentally, both are episode 22 of their respective season. Coincidence?
@Vinylshadow
7 in Season 1 according to the Faust Bible, but I don’t think this was ever used, and Jim Miller said 9 at some point. Also, the episode was intended to be in Season 6* and probably fits better in Season 1.
*In fact, it was likely scrapped because of the Not Allowed to Grow Up law of TV and replaced with P.P.O.V. (which I chose because it seems to have been rushed.) This would perfectly explain why the second half of S6 had no CMC episodes so The Fault in Our Cutie Marks had to be moved to the second half to fill the gap. Incidentally, both are episode 22 of their respective season. Coincidence?
Wiimeiser
Incidentally, this means GUIHTD was pitched before any Season 6 episode except PPOV and The Crystalling, but was the last episode of the entire show to finish animating, airing September 28 2019, being finished June 22 2019 (final day of production), and being pitched August 20 2015 (which was during the S5 hiatus, PPOV was pitched in early October 2015).
(Foil Hat)
@rdibp
You could put it in Season 6 as is and only the mentions of Starswirl would be wrong (Buckball Season was Season 6, right?) though the easiest solution would be to use Sunburst. At one point I actually said Growing Up is Hard to Do took 1000 days (A little under three years) from pitch to airing, maybe I should have said 1337 days…
You could put it in Season 6 as is and only the mentions of Starswirl would be wrong (Buckball Season was Season 6, right?) though the easiest solution would be to use Sunburst. At one point I actually said Growing Up is Hard to Do took 1000 days (A little under three years) from pitch to airing, maybe I should have said 1337 days…
(Not including completion and airing dates, between days only)
Longest gap from original concept pitch to US airing
- Growing Up is Hard to Do (1500 Days)
- Fame and Misfortune (911 Days)
- 28 Pranks Later (777 Days)
- Yakity-Sax (666 Days)
- The Beginning of the End (420 Days)
- The End in Friend (420 Days)
Longest gap from completion to US airing
- Feeling Pinkie Keen (470 Days)
- The Ticket Master (420 Days) (Not too sure about these two, which one was finished first then?)
- The Last Problem (367 Days)
- The Ending of the End Parts 1&2 (364 Days)
- Common Ground (351 Days)
Shortest gap from completion to US airing
- The Last Roundup (-1 Days)
- Growing Up is Hard to Do (97 Days)
- Look Before You Sleep (99 Days)
- Yakity-Sax (100 Days)
- Non-Compete Clause (101 days)
6*. Bloom & Gloom (104 Days)
*If you exclude The Last Roundup
Incidentally, this means GUIHTD was pitched before any Season 6 episode except PPOV and The Crystalling, but was the last episode of the entire show to finish animating, airing September 28 2019, being finished June 22 2019 (final day of production), and being pitched August 20 2015 (which was during the S5 hiatus, PPOV was pitched in early October 2015).
Latecomer
@Vinylshadow
Ugh. i just ran into a fic which tried to incorporate that along with “each season is a year”.
@Wiimeiser
Honestly, i do have to wonder what they were smoking - even if I apply somewhat exaggerated levels of competence, they don’t feel like elementary school students save in their earliest appearances. Yeah, maybe I’m putting too much emphasis on cutie mark as a puberty/coming of age analogy, but they were the ones who came up with the term “cutiecenaera”. And don’t forget that Apple Bloom is older than Spike!
Ugh. i just ran into a fic which tried to incorporate that along with “each season is a year”.
@Wiimeiser
Honestly, i do have to wonder what they were smoking - even if I apply somewhat exaggerated levels of competence, they don’t feel like elementary school students save in their earliest appearances. Yeah, maybe I’m putting too much emphasis on cutie mark as a puberty/coming of age analogy, but they were the ones who came up with the term “cutiecenaera”. And don’t forget that Apple Bloom is older than Spike!
Mildgyth 
Senior Moderator
Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta
@Vinylshadow
It’d be very unlikely. we know what 5 year olds look like and they were nothing like it:
It’d be very unlikely. we know what 5 year olds look like and they were nothing like it:
TheAmazingPeanuts
Is there any evidence support that claim? I very much doubt that any of the CMC is older then Spike, considering nobody in the show never treat Spike as a kid or dragons just mature faster then ponies.
And don’t forget that Apple Bloom is older than Spike!
Is there any evidence support that claim? I very much doubt that any of the CMC is older then Spike, considering nobody in the show never treat Spike as a kid or dragons just mature faster then ponies.
TheAmazingPeanuts
@Latecomer
That didn’t really say anything that Spike is younger then the CMC, since he not even in those flashbacks.
That didn’t really say anything that Spike is younger then the CMC, since he not even in those flashbacks.
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