Season 7 Episode Discussion [Speculation, Discussion, Spoilers] (SPOILER YOUR LEAKS)

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@Poison Trail  
Hell, to further go meta, have all of the mane six have suitors trying to hit on them, on guy even trying an illusion spell to make him a gary stu alicorn.  
You know what? Fuck it, let me have the meta episode on shipfics. You seem to be on the right trail for this one.
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@Spinny
 
I know, right? We got most of them before the hiatus even started, though that was likely partially because everyone thought that Treehouse would blow through the entire season in 3 months, so Zap2It revealed a bunch of them earlier than they normally would have.
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Man S7’s finale is like the opposite of S5. We had about a dozen different things spoiling details of The Cutie Remark but we still don’t know any details on Shadow Play beyond that it maybe will have the Pony Of Shadows.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there is a difference between “expecting a kid’s show to be good” and “expecting a kid’s show to be something it’s not.”
 
Not every kid’s show needs to be “deep” and “complex” like Steven Universe or Adventure Time to be considered good.
 
And it’s frankly insulting to insinuate that the staff “doesn’t care” when they point out who the target audience is.
 
In fact, if anything, it shows that they DO care, because they continue to put in effort towards something that little girls can enjoy, AND something that others can enjoy as well.
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@Jarkes  
Faust never even intended for the show to be oriented towards older audiences. She just wanted to make a cartoon that little kids can watch with their parents without them wanting to blow their brains out.
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@rdibp
 
Yeah, but people take the “and their parents” part out of context and assume that it was always meant for older audiences as well.
 
She probably also intended it for those who had grown up with the G1 series.
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@Poison Trail
Hell, to further go meta, have all of the mane six have suitors trying to hit on them, on guy even trying an illusion spell to make him a gary stu alicorn.
You know what? Fuck it, let me have the meta episode on shipfics. You seem to be on the right trail for this one.
 
I would like an episode of this but have all six stallions be clones of each other. Just blank slates with slight physical differences. No personalities whatsoever, just stereo types. Why? Because its hard to write a male character in this franchise so why bother? Remember that Somnambula episode in G1? Yup, male ponies.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there is a difference between “expecting a kid’s show to be good” and “expecting a kid’s show to be something it’s not.”
Not every kid’s show needs to be “deep” and “complex” like Steven Universe or Adventure Time to be considered good.
 
Case in point, Chowder, S1-3 Spongebob, etc.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there is a difference between “expecting a kid’s show to be good” and “expecting a kid’s show to be something it’s not.”
 
I’m not expecting it to be something it’s not, I’d just like there to be less glaring flaws in the writing.
 
And it’s frankly insulting to insinuate that the staff “doesn’t care” when they point out who the target audience is.
 
When people say that, they’re referring to things like Jim dismissing criticism with “it’s a little girl show”.
 
Defending bad writing with “it’s a little girl show” is the very thing that Faust wanted to get away from when creating G4: This idea that just because it’s a show for kids, means that it’s okay to have bad writing.
 
You can have a childrens’ show with good writing. Shows like Yo Gabba Gabba, Sesame Street and FIM’s earlier seasons prove that. Just because it is a “little girl show” doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t criticize the writing.
 
I mean, look at other “girl shows” like Barbie, Monster High, etc…..they’re direct-to-DVD garbage because minimal effort is put into them because “oh it’s just a girl show, we don’t have to try!”
 
I don’t want FIM to share that same fate.
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@rdibp  
Not really, no. Objective bad writing exists.
 
Like how in S1, Pinkie was very cautious about pranking Fluttershy, saying that she’s too sensitive.
 
And then in S4, spends a whole episode screaming in her face over and over, clearly upsetting her, and then doing it even more.
 
Not all bad writing is subjective.
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