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I'm really terrible at discovering plot holes and such, but what did annoy me was that towards the end when (I can't remember exactly how it happened) the element of magic is rolling on the ground and I think spike was after it, the entire mane six were just watching it go, and not doing anything about it. It was like they vanished from existence for 10 seconds or something. I can't remember exactly how it happened, but I do remember just sitting there, staring blankly and thinking "why isn't anybody doing anything?!"

I was a part of the whole "bronies are weird" thing for a while, mostly when the fandom first started out. I'm not ashamed of admitting that, and I've never actually been a "hater" but to be honest, I think the reason some people hate bronies (other than the sheer fact that everything gets protested against by somebody, it's just inevitable) is because they genuinely don't understand the show, probably because they've never seen any of it. I flat out refused to watch the show until probably late last year I can't really remember, and when my boyfriend dumped me that was when I really started to like the show. That was also when I realised that it's really not weird to like MLP, because it was pretty much the same idea and style as all the other cartoons me and my (non-brony) friends love, like Adventure Time and Gravity Falls. MLP, although legendarily associated with little girls because of the toys (which, to be fair, were what spawned the original shows and thus FIM) is not a "girly" show, not really, there is genuine conflict which was rare in the 80's MLP and other "girl" cartoons, and it's not about being a girl which is what most "girl" shows are about, it's about a group of friends doing everything from saving the world to helping each other out- which, again, is very much like other cartoons which are considered normal for people to watch (at least, "nerdy" people to watch.) The facebook page in question, I've had a look through, and basically it has proved everything I've theorised since coming into the MLP fandom. I mean, the description for the page is "I don't care that you like MLP, I care that you obsess over a cartoon for little girls." It shows that the guy running it obviously doesn't have much knowledge about the show or it's inspirations. The truth is, even though MLP is marketed towards little girls, when you actually sit down and watch the show you realise that it's really more of a family-orientated show which can be enjoyed by adults and teenagers, not just six year old girls. I don't like going to the pop culture argument, but the amount of internet and pop culture references in MLP is amazing, and certainly not intended for little girls to understand and laugh at. My overall point is that I used to understand where brony haters were coming from (I still understand really, when they protest against cloppers and rule 34 and stuff like that) but now that I've actually seen both sides of the argument, brony haters, to me, are just ignorant. I don't hate them, and I certainly wouldn't get worked up about them. If anything I pity them for wasting their anger and energy on a group of people that don't deserve it.