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It’s like a meta thing, and not just MLP either; a lot of stories and shows do that and it’s always gotten on my nerves. Writers always use those kind of sob stories to downplay how honestly effed up the person was being, in a way that feels manipulative like they’re trying to garner sympathy for the character and make it seem like it wasn’t truly that person’s fault deep-down. Characters don’t hold grudges, or mistrust them, or seem to really put any real responsibility or consequences on the character, and of course the character has no real problems changing (except for a few hilarious little mishaps that will all be instantly forgiven) because they weren’t actually a bad person, just a good person driven by a bad event who “made some mistakes in the past that they learned from”. Those kind of redemption stories are always like a thousand times more interesting when it’s actually a bad person at heart changing for the better, yet they just go the easy way out and slap some kind of sob story on them because it’s easier I guess :/
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And you know what? They could’ve kept her backstory as is if they just changed it so it was what inspired an ideologue, instead of being her entire motive. Such a small change, but it would make it so much better.
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Celestia is okay and I do like what did they to her on the later seasons and I never cared that much for Luna so Cadence gets my vote. If we included Twilight in the mix, then she’s my favorite by default but since she’s not a “princess” princess.
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I dont understand why some people despises a MLP with more adventure-oriented stories. That thing worked on Generation 1 well, with plenty of different villains with long arcs that took 4 episodes each another, with also some Slice of Life episodes here and there.
Why people want it to be 100% slice of life?
 
Could’ve fooled me. I see way more people getting mad that every episode isn’t some grand world-building adventure.
 
Meanwhile the movie did exactly that, yet then some of those same people instead complained about it “not fitting the world” or “it wasn’t good enough” (read: it wasn’t what THEY wanted).
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Personally I’ve thought that the show has always had a decent balance of adventure and slice-of-life. Though hopefully G5 will lean more towards the adventure side of things.
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Meanwhile the movie did exactly that, yet then some of those same people instead complained about it “not fitting the world” or “it wasn’t good enough” (read: it wasn’t what THEY wanted).
 
This is true, but at the same time the movie had crap world building and plotting so…
 
-does balancing hand gestures
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Even without it at all she’d work better. Like, she’d be a way better character if she actually was just this extremist and bad person at heart who changed for the better. Like, that’s a WAY better character :D
 
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Honestly I’ll never understand why people expect fanbases to think so alike. Of course there’s going to be people who want more slice of life and less adventure, and other people who want more adventure and less slice of life :D
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The most annoying thing about the movie to me was suddenly anthros everywhere.
 
The pirates could have been actual oversized talking parrots with wings. The klugetowners could’ve hobbled around on all fours with very little change in their designs, like the diamond dogs do. Capper could’ve been a part-time biped as well.
 
It really fundamentally changed the entire expectation of what the world was like beyond Equestria. Before the movie, fans had created vast continents inhabited by all sorts of different talking animals. Post-movie, it’s anthros all the way down. Were I running an RPG campaign in Equestria, I think I’d ignore a lot of that movie canon.
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I feel like the movie’s main priority was making it flashy and entertain the kiddies more than telling an original story.
 
Storm King is the best character in the film btw.
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Thank you.
 
Everyone was telling me to suck it up and accept it because diamond dogs and catrina, but that was the second worst part of the so-called world building.
 
No interesting creatures outside Equestria’s borders except goddamned anthro animals.
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Honestly, my issue was always how they made hippogriffs and seaponies one and the same. It just seemed like a cheat.
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I feel like people always ignore this one line from near the end of Cutie Map.
 
“They think they can come to my village and disrupt my life? “My” Not “our”. Even though the Mane Cast’s actions were disrupting the lives of the entire village. Starlight’s ideals were never truly given weight by the show, even during her first outing. And that kind of line alludes to what was ultimately her deep seated reason for her crusade. She wanted to create a world where she would never be hurt again. I don’t think this means that she didn’t THINK she was helping people, but her having a motive that wasn’t related to her spoken “ideals” was hinted at in her first appearance. I prefer the reason we got to the other reasoning it likely could’ve been, which was her wanting power for the sake of it.
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Yeah. I’m not against anthros, but I always found the charm of the show was most of the characters leaned much closer to being quadruped animals and often used creatures from mythology. The creatures in the movie are literally just “normal animal, but anthro” :/
 
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Probably they had to or felt they had to to appeal to a more broader audience. Like, Capper is LITERALLY just Danny from Cats Don’t Dance XD  
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Never really cared about anthro in the movie, iirc, they’ve been a thing since G1, not to mention they were already in the show with the likes of dragons and the Diamond Dogs
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Honestly, my issue was always how they made hippogriffs and seaponies one and the same. It just seemed like a cheat.
 
See I found this fascinating, clever, and pretty tragic. There’s still room for other species of mer-ponies in fanon, too. They were one of the best features of the movie canon.
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