@PonyPon
Well… it’s a fantasy world, isn’t it? I don’t know, for example, how a hive of love feeding insectoids achieve metamorphosis or whatever because they don’t bloody exist!
@Background Pony #2A23
Probably “The Perfect Pear”, and the before that “The Fault in Our Cutie Marks”.
Jesus, that’s S7 and S6. I personally don’t recall any standout great episodes in S8 or S9. Even the season premieres and finales felt meh.
It’s kinda strange. Plot holes usually ruin my enjoyment of an episode of MLP, but with this one I didn’t even remember how Ahuizotl used to be straight up villainous. Even after being reminded of it by the comments here, for one reason or another, contrary to my previous feelings towards plot holes, I find myself unable to care about it. I liked the episode and I especially liked that they didn’t go with some sort of “two-side-ism is wrong!” message. Maybe my relief because of that last part was what makes me like the episode despite the Ahuizotl weirdness. Plus I’m a sucker for all and any reformations and having previously villainous characters interact normally with others.
@Binkyt11
Similar issue happens in the Star Wars fandom recently, people getting super angry over the Last Jedi (Yes it has ALOT of issues but threatening the director and CEO over it? WTF guys)
@Binkyt11
I just think it’s kind of sad that in an episode in the ninth and final season of a show known for better writing than this, we’re getting what appears to be a writer unfamiliar with the three episodes the characters being written have had.
@Background Pony #F3AD
Well of course! I’m not saying you shouldn’t care or take the show a bit seriously because well for a kids show you hit all the points on the head! Doubly so for what is essentially a giant toy commercial. My gripe is that some of the users here are taking it too seriously. Either for the iffy writing or somehow it’s almost perfect as it is. Seriously, does “unless they’ve never watched an episode or they’re actually retarded” sound reasonable to you?
@Binkyt11
MLP has always been an outlier in kids shows, in that on average, it’s more consistent, has more character growth, and has writers that care about the story.
It’s always funny how when a writer makes an episode that goes against that and acts like a bad kids show where no one cares about quality, people come out and go “stop caring about quality, it’s what you should expect”.
I think it’s good to criticize when writing is bad, not just accept that we’re going to be getting low quality writers who don’t care about the content they’re writing for. Why treat adult content creators working for a massive corporation like babies?
MLP is over now, and I fear that this acceptance of low expectations is going to be the attitude in whatever they make next for G5. People will simply accept whatever they do, because “it’s for kids”, the exact thing MLP has always subverted, and is why it became popular in the first place.
All the ponies seen in the valley actively aided Ahuizotl in trying to start an 8-century heat wave, so it’s not unreasonable to think he had a high approval rating there. Want proof?
