Dusk Raven 
Have Opinion, Will Write
[bq@moonlightaveger](/1448166#comment_6678288)
> And then there is another thing: this is My Little Pony. It’s a cute and fun, but ultimately stupid children’s cartoon. The best it can half do is "child turns to monster because friend left". This is not Westworld, or Rick and Morty where you can find significance in the way characters act subtlety. Or even try to provoke real thought beyond "this is cute".[/bq]
At which point we irrevocably disagree. If you see "significance" in one show but not another, if you think any subtle details in MLP are just the fans seeing things that aren't there, there's nothing I can say to that. Except that, if it really were just another "ultimately stupid children's cartoon" we wouldn't be here talking about it. The show was intended from the beginning to have deeper things than your average little girl's cartoon, and it's paid off.
> And then there is another thing: this is My Little Pony. It’s a cute and fun, but ultimately stupid children’s cartoon. The best it can half do is "child turns to monster because friend left". This is not Westworld, or Rick and Morty where you can find significance in the way characters act subtlety. Or even try to provoke real thought beyond "this is cute".
At which point we irrevocably disagree. If you see "significance" in one show but not another, if you think any subtle details in MLP are just the fans seeing things that aren't there, there's nothing I can say to that. Except that, if it really were just another "ultimately stupid children's cartoon" we wouldn't be here talking about it. The show was intended from the beginning to have deeper things than your average little girl's cartoon, and it's paid off.