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Unlikeable Pony

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  1. Call of the cutie marks. Every pony is just so adorable, it gives us a great amount of info about the mane cast, and it focuses on all six of them. I think its very hard to find a person who DOESN'T Like Hurricane fluttershy; its probably one of the most positively recieved episodes out there. It might not be someone's "number 1" episode, but its hard to find a person whi dislikes it.
  2. >views results HECK YEAH. Nice ot see Dashie winning! Tired of her losing all the polls (She wasn't last place in the Ponychan ones that were done, but she'd usually end up third everytime). Anyways, Dash is my favorite character. I LOVE her color scheme. love it. Rainbows and blue just go together so well, and her shape/design is well done. I actually have always been very partial to Spectral/rainbow colored designs, regardless of social stigma against them Additionally, she's got alot of personality traits that I like. She's got a real can do attitude, she's a dream seeker, and she never lets life get her down. She's got alot of spunk, and deep down she DOES care about her friends. Plus, her meat head attitude can lead to some funny jokes (like Testing Testing 123). Adding onto that, her wonderbolt aspirations give her a real sense of a goal and progress in who she is. She's got episodes that can be built up for real character development. Now, the aspect of her that I actually have come to love the most is a strange one as it wasn't there from the start. Specifically, I really like her team leader/coach aspect they've been building up in episodes like Hurricane fluttershy and WA. Its a real nice touch to show her dealing with others and acting as a team leader, and it works well. I know its hard to work in alot, but I'd like to see more focus on that aspect of her for pegasi episodes. Number 2 is Rarity. Rarity is just great, she's a comedy gold mine. Much like Dash, she's got a dream, and you can tell she REALLY cares about it. Its not just some flippant focus on fashion like alot of shows would do with such a character, where they like fashion with no actual purpose in life to liking fashion: its actually her passion and what she wants to do with her job and her life. I can respect that. Plus, her drama queen antics lead to some of the absolute BEST jokes in the series whenever she freaks out. Tabitha is an incredible VA. Its kind of funny, thinking about that, how often she's been made evil (Nightmarity and inspirarity). her large ham tendencies work very well in that role (I LOVED inspiration manifesation). Third is Fluttershy. She's about as moe as you can get and a real asset to scenes where she interacts with others. Her shyness and timidity lend itself well to acting as a foil to the more aggressive characters, and her passive aggressive moments are always chuckleworthy. 4th is AJ. Dangit, She used to be my 3rd favorite in S1/S2, but they've really gone off track with her. Specifically, they hijack HER episodes with her family isntead of focusing on her, like Applebuck season and fall weather friends. her episodes tend to end up as "Granny smith or Applebloom's whacky antics, co-starring applejack". Its saddening, because she's got REAL potential: The mayor mare/AJ comic for example is one of my all time favorite MLP comics. I also wish they'd play up her straight man aspect more, like in the comics where they'll put her into something of a deadpan snarker role with her facial expressions at the idiocy of others around her. She really works well in that role. 5th is pinkie. I really think they've let themselves get away with themselves with pinkie, as she was much better in S1. Specifcially, she's best when there's a method to her madness, where she "talks" instead of screams her jokes. I loved her in the S5 premier for example as all her jokes felt natural. half the time nowadays though her "Jokes" are just "Pinkie screams something really, really loud". being an ADHD character isn't funny as your only schtick. Twilight is 6th. Ah man, how the mighty have fallen. back during S1 she was my number 2 pony (couldn't top dash though). But now, she's by far my least; she tends to hurt scenes she's in rather than help them. Back during S1, she had spunk, she had snark, and she was an adorkable OCD type character. Alot of scenes would have incredible humor in that she'd be set up soapboxing or snarking with pride, only to be humbled in a rather hilarious manner (The "Did you two PLAN this?!" line for example is still one of my favorites). Plus, she'd constantly have mentaly breakdowns over her nerdy OCD aspects, like in Swarm of the century or Lesson zero. Additionally, I'd think to myself "Dang, less talented writers would make the mane character a black hole sue who everything revolves around and sucks in all major plotlines to be about herself; they're actively AVOIDING that her to give the other characters room to breath and also make Twilight more accessible due ot not having too much attention." and then, S3 hit, and it seemed that all went out the window. Additionally, twilight had her entire personality vaccumed out to make her a perfect paragon with virtually no entertainment value and pretty much ONE defining "flaw" and none of her earlier snark or pride. She just wangst now about not being good enough or not living up to who she is supposed to be (or wangsts about NOT being important enough) until she inevitably does it and gets a congratulatory pat on the back. They took all the worst aspects of Gohan around the Cell arc and rolled them into one character. now, they have seemed to have realized this somewhat as there have been breaks in this pattern, such as Testing Testing 123 (where she was back to her S1 glory, and it was great), but by and large, she's sitting at the bottom of hte garbage can with no sign of climbing out.
  3. Pinkie pie is weird, in that she shows both why she can be a good character and why she can be a BAD character IMO. At the start she was pretty good. her starting jokes were nice, and her diving for the pancake were funny. Unfortunately, the writers have a tendency to devolve pinkie's modus operi into "Pinkie screams, and that's the joke" more or less. After about the first 5 or 10 minutes, she began to devolve more and more into just screaming things really loud, and she stopped being funny at that point; which I found really disheartening, because she had been a real asset to the episode at the start. (By comparison as well, I feel she was really good in the premier too since her jokes were her just talking rather than screaming-- there was Logic to her comedy, if that makes sense). Eh, I just didn't think it looked good on Twilight. Maybe for dash, but it was too spikey IMO to fit twilgiht (or any of the other 5 for that matter) well.
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