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I feel like the "90s cartoons were the best!!!" argument was very sound throughout most of the 2000s but it has definitely lost steam since 2010. As someone who grew up in the 90s and adores that decade and everything from it, and especially loves cartoons, I can say with certainty that the majority of cartoons that came out (especially during the first half of) that decade were indeed, in general and overall, of a higher quality and level of heart and charm than (most of) the faire in the decade that followed. There are a number of reasons for this, not the least of which wast he shift of animation studios away from America and to the cheaper lands of outsourcing to Asian nations on the cheap, the struggles of trying to transition more and more into digital animation alternatives, and many other issues that kind of muddled the industry at large. But with the advent of shows like Adventure Time and MLP itself, there's been a steady rise in overall 'care' seemingly for cartoons and the people who come up with them, with more and more proof that hiring people who genuinely care about creating a good cartoon and giving them the leeway to make it how they'd like truly makes a more quality -- and yes, more profitable -- product. So right now we're in quite a renaissance of Western cartoons, I'd say -- if the late 80s-early 90s was the Silver age, we've reached the Bronze age.

I was the type of fan who adored watching and talking about the show but didn't really wanna get into the merchandise. When that 4de Twi was announced a couple years back though, i just had to have it. And so I did. And it was good. But when the Pinkie came out I just EXTRA had to have that one since she's my favorite of the mane6 after all. So then I got it... but it kind of made my Twi look a bit iffy by comparison; the Pinkie is pretty much perfect while the Twi has a weirdly shorter snout, just an overall slightly less show-accurate face compared to the Pinkie. Needless to say I love them both but the Pinkie is obviously of a higher quality (As I'm sure they all are by now). I don't want to load up my room with pones or anything but I will say here and now that that Derpy by them is as good as mine.

Yeah. I get that this is a serious issue with some people now and then and should be treated with respect and dignity and all, but I do find it a bit bizarre that these days it seems like 75% of teens and young adults seem to have some form of gender dysphoria. I mean, it's okay to be a tomboyish girl or a sensitive guy, y'know? I kinda feel like any kid who has even slight inclinations toward anything dealing with the other gender think they have serious gender dysphoria and it's become quite a... thing.

Love and kindness. It's an easy feat! No but really. Positivity, even when it's so 'cool' to be negative these days. Love and happiness and kindness and warmth and all that corny stuff that people roll their eyes at and think is so yesteryear. Being good to each other even when things are bringing you down and people aren't perfect. Those are the only real principles that matter and that will improve the world; intelligence and the will to make things happen being second-place.

Considering I'm 28, I can't say I know any teens at all. Except the people I know online who may or may not be teens. I don't know anyone irl who's around my age who likes them, though I wish I did and would love to meet some. When I was a teen, no one really did, either; I was the ONLY person in my entire peer group I knew of that was into almost anything I was. I was in a part of the country where 100% of guys, even the 'nerdy' guys, were all into trying to be 'tough' and 'manly' and 'too cool for that kind of thing', even anime was lame to all of 'em by the time I was 14 or so. It sucked.

it's like just sideburns. I love facial hair and have tried growing it in all kinds of ways since i was able, and indeed i like many styles including many that i myself can grow and maintain, but just plain good ol slick sideburns is what i've settled upon as my favorite. it looks great, is easy to maintain, and doesn't interact poorly with my insanely sensitive neck.

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Monarch. A) the whole "moving the sun thing" is likely not nearly as crazy or godlike of an ability as we make it out to be given the fact that Equestria is a storybook children's fantasy setting. It's probably less that Celestia is literally magically moving an extremely massive celestial body millions of miles away and more that she just so happens to be the one pony who was given the magical gift of simply causing the sun to magically, whimsically rise into the sky each morning. As the canon has shown time and time and time again, she's not even really that powerful outright, or in combat, or anything like that. She's more of a gentle sweet queen-figure that definitely has a good deal of magical power, but any and every truly fearsome adversary out there with any kind of gimmicky power or just a lot of plain ol' strength can and does easily knock her aside. C) I just personally dislike the idea of deities in fiction, especially childrens' fiction, like this. That kind of thing should be for every child to decide about on their own (or perhaps their families depending on your view of things), and not shoved around in their face, especially in the form of non-omnipotent horse ladies in cartoons. I can accept Discord as a god of chaos (though even he is shown to not be omnipotent) but nothing else.

I'd say, for me personally, even though I LOVE the whole show and think Season 4 was great, anything after Season 1 still lacks a bit of some kind of magic, some kind of spark that was unique to that season. It was just the right mix of cartoony and fun with sweet and soothing, and it'd be nearly impossible to beat as my favorite season, unless the very same team, Faust and all, were able to make a new one some day. That being said, Season 2 was still great, 4 was similar in quality and 3 was definitely fine. I just feel the ever-increasing level of zany Saturday-morning-cartooniness is... well, while not wholly unwelcome, and while making the show even more inviting to young boys and not just young girls, and possibly an ever-broader fanbase in general, it just lacks something wonderful that Season 1 had for me. Add onto that the sometimes downright silly levels of fanservice these days and over-the-top obvious cash-in weird Hasbro decisions like alitwi, Equestria Girls, Rainbow Power and now Cutie Mark Magic and it's becoming a bit of a mess. Still a good mess, though, and a mess I'll love 'till the very end.

I still think Bridle Gossip probably keeps this honor after so long, but Applebuck Season, Feeling Pinkie Keen, Lesson Zero, Putting Your Hoof Down, Ponyville Confidential, Too Many Pinkie Pies, and Maud Pie are definitely up there.

I generally don't think 'haters' are welcome at all in any fandom involving anything within the fandom; it's never fun when people start getting so negative about things relating to the source material. Opinions are fine, but hate is quite overboard. However, if there's one canonical, major character in the entire series that strong negative feelings are pretty understandable and expected for, it'd be this guy; he was thrown in for an already divisive movie, one that the original creator of the series voiced strong distaste for to begin with, and he seems to exist solely to be a romantic foil for the main character of the entire show, Twilight Sparkle. This is a show that was likely never meant to have any kind of heavy romantic involvement concerning any of the main characters like that, and of course the guy's got the personality of a log and is in every way the predictable 'Cool Likable High School Boy' for these kinds of tween-girl series... and on top of that he's one of the only characters that have barely AT ALL actually existed as a non-human in a show about non-humans. He's kind of the poster child for everything wrong and weird about Equestria Girls and all the reasons people may have a problem with it. That all being said, I think he has a cool enough visual design, he's definitely a decent dude, and he has a really cool name.. but as far as him being canonically Twilight's significant other in any capacity, that's just all kinds of messed up and would certainly pass my threshold for what I'd even be willing to accept as canon -- even moreso than things like Twi's alicornification, which didn't even really bother me that much.

A city full of perfectly equal ponies so that no one is better or worse than any other, the villainess has a way to steal cutiemarks (or rather just remove them and 'store' them on that thingie in the cave) so that no pony is anything but equal with one another; the moral will be about how differences are good and it's good that not everyone's the same etc etc. It's actually a pretty good idea for an episode though. Only problem is how normal and uninteresting the villainess looks when season opener/closer villains in FiM tend to look ludicrously awesome and unique. Hopefully she'll have another "form" that fits that bill.

I always thought of this as the CMC theme since it played during the cutesenera(sp?) where they first met, plus that long 'adventure scene' in Show Stoppers. Well, and the fact that my old friend uploaded this video of it and straight-up called it their theme so it kinda stuck: But yeah, it's one of my favorite background songs in the show. In fact back in the old days there were lots of good small/BG songs but I hardly notice them anymore.

considering how many times i've watched and rewatched s1 since 2011, especially those first eps which are two of my favorite, this is the kind of question that keeps me up at night we used to get so in dept with every single frame of every episode when these were new and it was just so wild. to even see a question like this again from the very first ep makes me smile honestly. i like to think if twi had had the level of social stability she needed at that point celestia woudl have likely seen no need to send her to ponyville in the first place -- of course NMM might've won then so it wouldn't have been great, but if we pretend that whoel thing didn't happen or the other pones were able to stop her (or gasp, another element of magic like trixie or sunset had had to be used instead) ... and we imagine a whole alternate-timeline universe in which there was a whole show dedicated to twilight's misadventures throughout canterlot makin' friends and studying/mastering normal good ol' magic the normal way without all these shnennigans interrupting it, so perhaps a more stable and gradual mastery of it rather than her shaky uncertain show-self with random extreme jumps in power/control now and then... yeah, seems fun

i was egged on to sign in for the first time in months just to vote for Luna here. Well, y'know, despite how much I hung out the Rarity thread and how much I love her, if we're coming down to straight-up visual character appeal Luna does have her beat. Thougghhh on that line of thinking, I'd have voted for Nightmare Moon or Celestia if they'd have been choices, haha. But yeah, season 2+ Luna = the clear winner here. Sorry not sorry. Also maybe I should post here more again. Fun place.

For the first couple years or so of pony being a "thing" I was very protective of it and its fans, I knew it was a very 'abnormal' thing to like, especially for adults, and I was a big white knight of the show itself, the whole community, and the very idea of it being okay to like things of such a good quality despite who you are or who the target audience of that thing may be. I don't think I ever out-and-out "flamed" anyone, but I definitely had many arguments with people who seemed discomforted or put at unease in some way (or flat-out angry etc. of course too) by the whole concept. If they plainly disliked it in a mature way, though, not minding that anyone else liked it, I generally didn't mind at all, though in the very early days even THAT made me feel a bit off because I felt they simply hadn't given it a good shake themselves yet and it made me kinda sad to see people so opposed to it lol. These days though? Well besides the fact that the community's so huge and full of such a wide variety of people, many of whom certainly don't deserve any kind of defending, I have mellowed out much more about the show itself (though I still do and always will love it to death) and how people feel about it, though I'd still recommend in a heartbeat people try it if they haven't yet.. and by this point I realize most everyone knows about the whole pony deal and have their opinions more or less set in stone, so y'know.

I think someone's a brony whenever they want to be called a brony. Or, by generalized standards if you want to call any pony fan a 'brony', I'd say it's by the time they start watching and enjoying the show, such that it seems they're gonna like it for awhile and not immediately flake out on it in a few days.

I wouldn't worry. I think DHX got all the 'cringe' out of their system in certain eps of Season 3 (and friggin' Equestria Games...)and rewatching them now event hose episodes aren't quite as bad with it as I remember; and with them advertising so long in advance that this is gonna be a treat for us, rather than just any random episode where they might try new things they only HOPE we like, I think we can pretty safely assume that it'll be rad. I mean, look at Rainbow Rocks which no one expected to be good but everyone's loving it; look at the excellence of Season 4 overall and especially its finale. I think it'd be hard for them to screw this up. And think of how well they've been handling the popular secondary characters lately; good, fun, enjoyable cameos and almost never giving them voices or anything the fans would be divided over. I'm thinking this is gonna feature a lot of dialogue-less, fun, humorous scenes between our favorite BG pones and I'm very excited.

Love and tolerance isn't even really something that pony fans have ever agreed upon or anything from the show or anything, it's just a thing that SOME of them started going on about in the early days and it kinda stuck. Of course like 90% of bronies don't actually practice it, even those that preach it, but it's a wonderful thing to say and even ATTEMPT to go by. It's something every human being should attempt to strive towards, or even just the "love" part, but it's one of the most difficult things to actually practice, even if it gives peace and happiness and all that good stuff to anyone who does so.

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