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I made a slight mistake, actually it was Glimmering Shields. Still pretty close.
No artwork of this guard?
That’s right, Gleaming Shields.
The Daring Do books are actually aimed at a higher level. I’m 14 and I didn’t know some of the words.
I presume brony sales of Berrow books are about 10, 20%. :3
You know, if you had actually bothered to read the comments you would see there’s at least a few people who’ve bought them and even enjoyed them, to some degree.
Well. I thought that the first was weak but okay. Clearly targeted at young children. I really only bought Celestia’s because I wanted to see a story with her front and center. But this one really disappointed me. Well, like I said, I won’t be touching these again.
And I’m glad you do. :)
I did.
Bought the first, with Twilight and Cacance’s story and Celestia’s one. See, I’m one of these guys that has faith in the writers.
I have read all her MLP books except the Daring Do ones.
They were all pretty good. Except the Rainbow Dash one, I just can’t figure out what is going on in that one.
Despite the claims of the other BP in here, the use of language in her books is not low at all. I’d say it’s the same level as the show. In her latest book, Discord’s, she was talking about “thespian ponies”. Tell me what young infant uses the term thespian? None, I tell you. Just like the show the books are pro forma aimed at younger children, but it doesn’t show, the quality is good, and the difficulty level is not kept low. Sure, it’s no Shakespeare or Tolkien, there’s no Middle English or archaic literary language, but it’s absolutely no “toddler speak”.
Even more importantly, her ponies all stay in character, they’re the personalities you know and love, and the style of the book mimics whoever the focus is.
G.M. Berrow even impressed Meghan and her writers, she was offered to write an episode in S5. That alone already says a lot.
I definitely recommend her books.
Luna did stuff in Celestia’s book?
Huh, guess I’m going to have to pick that one up now…
I never understand complaints of children’s products being targeted at children or even products labeled “fun for the family”. Like this and Pokemon and TT’s LEGO series.
Unrelated: Still haven’t found info on LEGO Marvel 2 besides the stuff from three months ago. :T
your current filter.MLP:FiM has some nice design and animation, appealing characterizations, and frequently-amusing dialog, and that’s enough to justify people outside the target audience watching it. But it’s still aimed at the 4-to-6-year-old crowd, as evidenced by the straightforward characterizations and standard plotlines that are nearly always played perfectly straight; there has yet to be an episode that I would question letting someone in that age bracket watch, even if a few lines of dialog might go over their heads or a few plot points may dig deeper than they realize at that age.
The G. M. Berrow books, from what I can gather, seem to do OK on characterization and to continue the tradition of simple, common plots played straight; what I’m wondering is, is she able to transcend the stereotypes of writing aimed at kindergartners and deliver amusing dialog and enjoyable prose, or are those elements of her books merely competent at advancing the story?
Man… I’m not touching another one of these ever again.
The show is not and will never be primarily for the adult fans. That includes its paraphernalia. We’re lucky to get fairly sophisticated shout-outs in things like the card games, and Episode 100 was truly generous of them.
Besides her origins. X3
I’d consider them decent but you do need to take into account that they are written in such a way that a kid could read it. The plots and the writing are fine but theres just something a little off that you notice.
Oh and the first book ‘Twilight and the Crystal Heart Spell’, whilst not as bad as people make it out to be, isn’t all that great. Aside from that the only real downsides are some not great horse puns and one of the books having a Donut Steal just suddenly show up.
We’re not in S1 anymore. FIM has done episodes that are far too mature to be labeled a “kiddie show”.
My point is that the books have really simplified plots and the general writing level is very clearly aimed at a younger crowd. To claim that is also true of FIM is simply wrong.
And yet this show is for elementary school kids, what’s your point?
What’s so wrong with that? That just means everyone can read them.
Pretty meh tier. Some bad, some a little good, but never greats
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