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You’ll have to forgive me than since I have heard nothing good spoken about Gen 3 from anyone. I have seen them and find them to be quite awful.
 
Also, I am surprised to here people bash Gen 1 since I usually hear positive things about it. I have only seen the original tv pilot/special/movie so I can’t really say much about Gen 1 as a whole but I did enjoy what I have seen.
 
Oddly, though, Gen 2 seems to be forgotten about in conversations. This has lead me to believe people are mostly indifferent towards it
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@superfun  
My opinion (and the fact this needs special clarification is tedious as hell): Every season (except 8) has been better than the preceding seasons. Including S3. They have steadily and often suprisingly gotten better with every season.
 
It has taken them until the current season to falter and fail to provide a density of outstanding episodes. Every season (even S1) has at least an episode or three that I can point to that I really like. Each has an episode or three (even S7) that I really dislike. Most are packed with medium, rather forgettable episodes.
 
In addition to the great finale of MMC, S3 also had Wonderbolts Academy, Magical Duel, Too Many Pinkie Pies, Keep Calm and Flutter on, Sleepless in Ponyville, Apple Family Reunion (one of the few Appul-episodes I like) just off the top of my head. It’s really only the Crystal Empire garbage with Sombra and the Equestria Games arc that suck, and we didn’t get to know how badly that arc sucked until it ended in a dumpster fire. Ms. Harshwhinney was a delight, though I liked Peachbottom from Mustangia way more. S3 may have been short, but it was packed with good episodes, and not very low lows. Sure, it had a Spike episode in it, as has every season. But we can’t really fault the entire season for paying that tax.
 
S8, so far, feels like a reverse S3. It has a lot of medium, forgettable episodes in it, but several memorably bad ones like Noncompete Clause, Mean Six, A Matter of Principals, Yakkity Sax, Molt Down (there’s that Spike Tax at work), and Grannies Gone Wild. The “highs” of the season barely reach above the medium with Surf And/or Turf, Horse Play, The Parent Map, and On the Road to Friendship.
 
Overall, it feels like a long-running series should. It has its flaws, a rough start, but they eventually figure out how their own creation works, and get better at it. Faust may have had a good idea, but she had plenty of bad ones too. Let’s not forget that her plan for “Friendship” was to focus more on shooting badguys with laser beams. We can honestly thank M.A. Larson for his focus on the actual friendship in Friendship. We can thank Meghan McCarthy for her better rapport with Hasbro in steering their IP the way they have, rather than fighting them the way Lauren often did. We can thank the team for taking this elaborate toy commercial and making it into the thing we love over the years. Lauren for her good ideas, but also everyone else on board for their contributions and pieces of the whole picture.
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I used to be a Faust loyalist because I still hold Season One above many other seasons, but then I took Starlight to the heart.
 
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@hollowblade  
Fair enough, that probably goes some way to explaining why pre-S4 doesn’t count as fanfiction to you, given you haven’t seen the material its based, but have seen the material post-S4 is based on.  
Please don’t claim no one liked G3, it absolutely has its fans, even though I’m not one. It’s comments like that which breed resentment for exclusively G4 fans from the people who liked MLP in the 80s seeing G4 fans bash the 17 years of content that existed before many G4 fans were even born. It only builds upon the arrogance some G4 fans display when they brag about getting into the series in 2010 and acting like they have some level of seniority when it comes to MLP, when 2010 is 17 years after the series started, but will gleefully turn their noses up at anyone that joined merely 3~ years after them.
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With the exception of season 3, every season post Faust is better than the first two.
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@Background Pony #6A08  
I come from the perspective that the Season 4 finale was the end of Twilight’s character arc that had started at the series premiere, and so in relation the end to what Faust had started. So I few Seasons 5+ as Magen and Co. doing their own thing, to both good and bad results.
 
Also, the first 2 Gens where before my time and no one liked Gen 3. It’s the reason why it took me untill after the 2nd season finished and recommendations from family members for me to even give FIM a chance. I ended up binging it over my 3 days off work.
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@marik_azemus34  
It’s all fine. It’s easy to get riled up about something you genuinely care about.
 
That’s also the best way to describe the show as it is now, which can lead to a very love/hate relationship. For example, I’ve always wanted have Twilight’s parents in an episode proper ever since The Cutie Mark Chronicles and have a full Twilight Family epsiode. So when I heard about Once Upon a Zepplin I was estatic and I did like Night Light and Twilight Velvet. However, it took me a couple months to finish the epsiode because my reaction to the episode’s cold open was not one of my prouder moments.
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@Background Pony #24DE  
You can dislike something without bashing others who like it.
 
Sure, sometimes there are Faust purists who really can be toxic, (especially when things change to the point of popularity-losing risk) but there is one thing that everyone does forget called IGNORING THEM
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@hollowblade  
It’s certainly needlessly selective to decide only the last 5 seasons of G4 are fanfics when everything past G1 is. In the event you like G5 season 1, will that be fanfiction like you consider G4 post season 4 to be? Were you a fan of G1-G3, per chance?
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@hollowblade  
To me it seems like YOU’RE the hater here, just like every other people who overidolatrize Faust herself. TROLL.
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@Background Pony #ACDF  
Yep. All true.
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@hollowblade  
In that case, I deeply apologize. I shouldn’t have assumed the worst and should have instead asked what you meant. I too agree that many of the later plots in the series have been fan fiction given life; things that fans wanted explored. The way I see it, the show gives us what we want, but never in the way we expect. I genuinely love that.
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@Background Pony #24DE  
I didn’t know anything about this, is it true that she hate EQG for being in school setting but she making DC superhero girl which is a school setting. I’m confused.
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@Background Pony #6A08  
True, but doesn’t invalidate my half-hearted comment. Also, I never specified whether I thought Season 5+ was good or bad fanfiction. Just that it felt like it in general.
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@marik_azemus34  
I can see how it seems I am exagurating Faust’s accomplishments, but I’m trying not to. I’m just trying to give the proper credit she deserves for creating the show. Many people have done great things with the world she created, but it’s still the world she created.
 
The best way to describe it would be to call Lauren Faust the George Lucas of MLP. A great world builder, but admittedly not the best storyteller.
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@hollowblade  
G4 is a glorified fanfiction. Lauren liked making up stories for G1 (i.e. fanfiction), and eventually got to bring her stories to TV. G4 is Lauren’s modified G1 fanfiction.
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@Background Human  
Yep, if there’s something that fandoms never lack of it’s bs and flame wars.
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@Background Pony #4F28  
They deserve it, because either they are blinded by the love for someone that is actually not what they claim her to be… Or they are just troll who only want to ruin the fun of others, and I just can’t stand people like those.
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So many twisted words and intentions. I never claimed to hate the show, nor did I incinuate that people shouldn’t enjoy it for any reason. I haven’t discredited anyone either, only attempted to credit the one person who created the show in the first place.
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@Background Pony #24DE  
Woah dude.
 
I do admit that I agree with some of your points and agree that Season 1 is overrated, but to call anyone that likes it idiots and to go fuck themselves is going too far.
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