Tyroq

Well said. We'll love and tolerate the crap outta ya no matter what. So cheers for being all Hipster with the Barbie stuff. Maybe someday it'll be mainstream too.

I think a more appropriate question would be... "why do you even know about that Barbie adventure!?" MLP is acceptable girl stuff. Barbie is not. I kid, of course. Regarding the OP question, and this may surprise some, but I will explain my answer, if MLP broke the 4th wall I'd compare them to Sailor Moon. you respond. Yes indeed. Take the pilot episodes from season 1, you have a group of friends, perfectly normal ponies who have never known any special abilities, but it turns out they possess the elements of harmony within themselves, which give them special powers when combined allow them to defeat the sinister evil, Nightmare Moon, who had been imprisoned for a thousand years. Now, compare that to Sailor Moon, where a bunch of teen girls, perfectly normal in every way (well, if you don't count Usagi's incessant whining) discover they are actually Senshi with unique powers and combine their forces to fight a sinister evil, Queen Beryl, who had been lurking in a shadow dimension for close to a thousand years and was trying to steal energy from earth, etc... The girls in Sailor Moon don't always get along, but they do learn a lot about friendship along the way. They face enemies and hardships, but they grow closer because of it all. They argue and quarrel, but deep down they really care for each other. In MLP the ponies have issues each episode, they sometimes quarrel, but they really love each other too, and every time they face a challenge they grow closer from it. It's not a perfect comparison, but there's enough there to see a lot of similarities.

This should have been a poll. Overall, I'd say rarity has the best singing voice. Which makes sense, since her VA is a professional singer. Runner up is Rainbow Dash, and only because she hardly ever sings. The only time I ever heard her sing, that tiny part of 'At the Gala' was the best part of the entire song. I WANT MOAR! Following that I'd go with Sweetie Bell. She needs more 'good' songs. Hopefully they'll have a CMC episode at some point where she finally earns her cutie mark, and we get to hear her sing something awesome.

You didn't like the episode last week? Come on, how often do you get to see Twilight pull a Pinkamena and go crazy?

It's like the snowball effect. Once something starts to grow it continues gathering momentum and mass in the same direction faster and faster. With most fandoms, the early fans influence the direction of the fandom as it grow by gathering more like minded people into the mix who continue to spread the fandom in the same way. With MLP, the fandom was born with a lot of creativity and expression as a central part to it. This attracted more people who enjoyed that sort of thing, contributed their own creativity, and so on. I personally was attracted to the show because of all the art and comics. I'm not much of an artist, but I'm already working on giving back by writing a fanfic. And so the snowball effect continues. We see the entire fandom generating creative original content, and we're impressed, and we want to be a part of it. So we work hard to contribute stuff of our own and keep things rolling. The show itself is awesome. But it's the fan community that really keeps this going. We've made the hole fan experience about 20% cooler.

Same.