SomeRetroGeek

The newest installment of my somewhat popular 'My Little Pony In Brief' series is here! This one features an amazingly talented voice cast, including Wubcake, Sonicrules831, FateMLP, JamesTheBrony and Irish O'Conner! Enjoy, and let me know your thoughts!

1. The romance sub-plot between Twilight and Timber is entirely pointless. It adds nothing to the movie. It doesn't develop Twilight's character in any way. It's there for the sake of being a romantic sub-plot.

2. The whole demon form thing is getting old now. Out of four films, three have done it, and I can guarantee you that it's going to happen again in one of the next two films. At least with a character like Chrysalis they waited a while before bringing her back and raising the stakes. Whenever a demon form of a character pops up, it's nothing new. It's exactly the same as before with very little difference.

3. Gloriosa's reasoning for not wanting to shut down the camp down is stupid. She really doesn't want to because of some predictable guy in a suit who wants to turn it into a mall. Speaking of the predictable guy in a suit, why is Filthy Rich so nice and friendly despite being incredibly rich, but in the film,  why is he such a douchebag who wants to build a mall in the middle of nowhere? Aren't the human characters meant to be similar or outright the same as their pony counterparts? Maybe because he's so underdeveloped they couldn't think of what else to do with him. Maybe there's two Filthy Rich's in both universes. One who's nice, and one who wants to build pointless things because he needs more money.

4. Stop reminding us that the characters were evil at some point. It's been done with Starlight in Season 6, several times with Discord throughout the series, and with Twilight and Sunset in the films. Just say it once in a throwaway line, not six times in every movie since Rainbow Rocks and making it incredibly unsubtle.

5. Gaia Everfree doesn't show up until about twenty minutes into the film. The Dazzlings were established in the first two minutes of the second film, Sunset was established seven minutes into the first film and Principal Cinch was established around the ten to fifteen minute mark in the third film. Everything before Gaia's introduction is bland, cringeworthy filler. And not only that, Gaia isn't even the real antagonist. It's a mystery box of which of the camp leaders is the villain. It's not Timber, because he keeps getting caught doing suspicious things. They try to mislead you into thinking Timber's the villain, and although it's got a good dilemma for Sunset to try and tell Twilight her suspicions, but it boils down to either Gloriosa or Timber, and since they play up Timber as the bad guy, I guessed Gloriosa, and hey, I'm right. No shock there.

6. Why are the human Main 7 given superpowers now? It's a stupid idea, and I want Equestria Girls to be different from the show. Now the characters can talk to animals, run super fast, have super strength, can make shields, have exploding balloons and read people's minds. Why is it making the characters more like the show counterparts with this change, and why was it done in the first place? Urgh.

"That would have been much more dramatic and better suited to Starlight"

 

You sound like you are stating this as objective facts.

 

I don't think that would have been interesting, having Starlight want only revenge against twilight so she could start AGAIN with her out of the way was far better in my opinion

Twilight wanted the mane 6 gone so she could live her life in peace. And making her a direct parallel to Twilight made me far more interested than if she was just doing the same thing over again but on a bigger scale.

 

When doing a reoccurring villain, I don't want to see them do the same thing again and again, even if they approach it differently, it's still the same.

I did make it clear before stating that it would have been better suited to Starlight, as well as many other times in the video, that these are solely my opinions. None of my opinions are factual. I apologise if it came across as though I was stating something was factual.

Starlight getting rid of Twilight by using time travel makes no sense to me. Why time travel? There are multiple other ways she could have gone about removing Twilight. Like I said, her coming back and convincing/brainwashing others into believing her way is right, and ultimately leading a revolution against the princesses and taking over as the sole ruler, forcing everyone into her way of thinking, removing cutie marks from everyone, including Twilight. That way, Twilight is left powerless, but her determination helps her through and allows her to succeed.

With your third bit, I'm assuming you mean Starlight. Twilight can't be a parallel to Twilight unless there are two Twilight's with opposite personalities and share the same name. Joking aside, Starlight is a great parallel to Twilight. It makes the conflict more interesting, hence why I can't stand her reformation, as there is so much more they could have done with her. Her reformation is my biggest issue. It's a cheap way of writing your way out of a situation like changing history and destroying a spell that could set everything right if you just reform the character.

And your final point, I agree. That's why I said if they were going to do the time travel thing, they should have done it with a different villain, and not Starlight, who, in my opinion, isn't suited to messing with time considering the events and what we learn about her in 'Cutie Markless'. I don't mind things being done the same but on a bigger scale. It makes it much more dramatic and shows how far the villain will go to get her way of thinking. It's conflict. Twilight and Starlight. One representing democracy, the other communism. Raise the stakes as high as they can go, I'm invested, I'm on the edge of my seat, I'm enjoying myself.

So here is my proposed question, is it possible to hold unrealistic standards or overanylize a show to the point where you lose enjoyment in it?

Absolutely. Take a look at any TV show or film. 'Doctor Who', 'Lost' and 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' for instance. These things all have one thing in common. In the case of 'Doctor Who', both it's fans and it's head writer and showrunner keep wanting story arcs and new characters that never go anywhere. These characters are believed to be a popular character from the past, and when it turns out to be someone else, people get disappointed. This is a result of the series using the mystery box formula way too much. Same with 'Lost'. They created a bunch of loose plot threads hanging around that never got resolved, and people set their expectations way too high, leading to disappointment. 'Batman v Superman' was believed by many DC fans to be the film that would beat Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Titanic and Avatar at the box office. Aaaaaand then Rotten Tomatoes gave it a big thumbs down, and it failed miserably.

People set their expectations too high with MLP too. It's a kids show. It can appeal to all ages, but at the end of the day, it's a harmless, slice of life cartoon about talking colourful ponies who occasionally go on exciting adventures to solve a friendship problem or save the entire kingdom. People have to realise that not every episode is going to be good. Look at 'Newbie Dash'. A great concept, terrible execution with unlikable characters, awful writing and abysmal morals. It's gotta have bad episodes so that we as fans can point out these flaws, and then writers can take our feedback into account so they know what they can do to improve next time they write an episode. Weather fans like it or not, there's always going to be bad episodes. It can be one, or it can be a lot. There's going to be a lot of disappointing episodes that had you hyped up, but failed to do what you wanted. Look at the Changeling episode from this season. Many people were over-hyping it and it got a lot of hate because it wasn't what "we hoped for." This just goes to show that this series can get over-hyped,and can lead to major disappointment, but we have to deal with it and move on, because guess what? It's a kids show. It's certainly a bold one for using communism back in Season 5, but it's still a kids show, and it always will be that.

Yeah, Season 6 has been one of the more weaker seasons, and I'd say it's been a bit of a dud. I stopped watching the series for six weeks straight after the Changeling episode, and out of the six I missed, I've only enjoyed two. 'Dungeons & Discords' and 'The Fault in Our Cutie Marks'. In fact, they may be the only ones I've fully enjoyed this entire season other than 'Gauntlet of Fire'. All the other episodes have either been flat out terrible or just forgettable. If I'm not hooked on the first episodes of Season 7 next year, I might just give up on the rest of that season. We'll have to wait and see.

I have to agree with Mesme and others that it doesn't work that way. We do all have different opinions about characters, and I'm one who really hates Starlight because of her reformation, the way it was handled and how it didn't work. All of my thoughts regarding her reformation can be seen here:

I'm thinking is there more people who hate Newbie Dash than Mysterious Mare Do-Well. It's a very hard question for me to answer, as both episodes are terrible.

You get kicked out because you put a space between 'for' and 'got'. It's all one word, darn it! 

Just ten minutes ago I started watching Doctor Who: The Aztecs. Pretty good stuff so far, I like it!

Luna's easily one of the stand out characters for me. Very likeable and gets a lot of development, but I do think she's a tad overrated. She's a great character, but either I'm not seeing what others are and she really is the best character in the show, or everyone's going a bit overboard about how great she is. 

I did an episode on Luna for my 'MLP In Brief' series a few days ago that parodies what I think is an overreaction to her greatness (don't get me wrong, she's still second best pony for me )  if you're interested. You may get a laugh, you may hate it and think I'm a big stupid-face for not seeing the hype in her character, but hey, it's Luna, and she's still second best pony imo.

Fans are for the weak. In British Summertime, I open my window slightly if it's above twenty degrees.  No need for fans in my room! A warm radiator would be more useful since we're coming up to winter!

As ever, the British Empire triumphs!    Expect spoilers in the Poniverse Skype chat, Mesme!

Death is inevitable and I've grown to accept that. I previously feared death, but as time goes on, you learn that it's going to happen sooner or later, so you may as well make the most of life before the end occurs.

I honestly think a lot of people who do MLP reviews can be far too nice on their reviews of episodes and tend to have the positives outweigh the negatives. So I decided to take a unique approach to reviewing MLP and analysing it, and I made this video on Starlight from a somewhat pessimistic point of view and why I felt her redemption was pointless and how she didn't work as the villain for the Season 5 finale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-6B4GIbxaY

I intend to do more of these. I currently have these planned out:

Why Newbie Dash Was A Failure

Joanna Lewis and Kristine Songco Did Spike Justice

A Fourth Equestria Girls Movie Is Unnecessary

So, for the meantime, enjoy my current editorial, and stay tuned for more editorials that will be posted upon completion! It'd also be great to hear your opinions on my video. Feel free to reply to this topic or comment on the video, feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Shit Flyer. Calling it now, right here.

Honestly, Starlight is one of the most boring, mundane and frankly lame characters we've seen in the series so far. She's not interesting, they keep bringing up her past as if making up for everything wasn't good enough, and it's generally getting annoying. I don't fully hate her, but I think she's a copypasta of Sunset, except she's in Equestria.

I've just become sick of MLP redeeming it's villains. I was okay with Discord's reformation, but after they reformed Sombra in the comics and Starlight in the show, I just facepalmed. Sombra's turn to evil was amazing, and gave him so much more character. Starlight was a perfect pony villain, but now she's literally Sunset Shimmer in the pony world. I would've preferred Sunset to go back to the pony world at the end of Friendship Games, and occasionally return to the human world to help human Twilight. But instead, we get a fantastic villain go to waste, and be reformed. Seriously, wouldn't it have been awesome to see Starlight break the spell, and have the Season 6 opener be Sunset coming back and helping Twilight restore time?

Yeah, he did come across as a bit of a jerk, but we'll see what happens in Camp Everfree. Chances of him showing up again are pretty high, so maybe something will happen there that explains it?

I think this could actually be possible. It could be like Palpatine in the prequels, manipulating behind the shadows, whilst acting kind and polite, only to seize control of the galaxy when no one expected it. While it would never happen, if they did this with Celestia and made it work, as well as build a story around it, I would give the people at Hasbro medals for having the balls to even try a thing like that in the show.

the best thing would be if they made sunset shimmer canon(hopefully in the movie they make her canon)

But she is canon? Equestria Girls is also canon and co-exists with the show, but in another universe.

EQUESTRIA GIRLS ARE A GOOD SERIES. The only people who wouldn't like the films would be g1-g3 bronies, and furries

Cool, if that's your opinion. G4 Brony here, I am not a fan of Equestria Girls. The best thing it did was Sunset Shimmer, who has basically been replaced by Starlight Glimmer for the show. Now they are pointlessly continuing the Equestria Girls movies, when really there isn't any need to do so when all the characters are perfectly fine to be left where they are.

They made FIM and Transformers. Besides the god awful Michael Bay films, they are in my good books. That is until Rebecca Black and Justin Bieber make guest appearances on the show as overrated pony singers. Don't do that Hasbro. And please stop making Equestria Girls movies. The show is fine as it is and doesn't need an excuse for girls to buy more of your products.

Anything's possible in the world of FIM. Changing one scenario can have a huge effect on that world as a whole, and that's something Season 6 should try and explore. Alternate universes are fun, for example, imagine a version of that universe where Discord, Chrysalis, Sombra and Tirek rule Equestria and all of it's surrounding nations. Amazing.

I certainly believe Sunset would have been trusted to raise Twilight and would have helped stopped Nightmare Moon. Sunset would likely not be the element of magic, and that role would belong to Twilight still, but she would be trained by Sunset up until Season 4, if we change that event.

It's the MLP: FIM movie. Of course I'm going to see it! I'll probably see it with a friend who's into ponies, as I would look weird sitting in with a bunch of adults and children watching it and do not wish to express my Brony self except in clothing and on the internet because I'm that guy.

Spider-Man 3

I really, really like this movie! It's actually my favourite in the Maguire trilogy, and yes, it has flaws, but so do the other movies! I thought Venom was great, Sandman was perfect and New Goblin was a great build up and worth the wait after the last two films.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Yes, the film definitely has problems, and people say it's not fun...but it is! It's also a character study into Superman and Batman, and really gets the audience thinking about these characters and builds up to a damn good fight scene that leads to DOOMSDAY! Seriously, Doomsday is badass in this film. Nothing wrong with the CGI on him at all! Ben Affleck is the perfect Batman, Gal Gadot is perfect as Wonder Woman and I instantly loved Eisenberg's Lex Luthor.