Concerned Bystander

It's an interesting question, with as many different answers are there are Bronies. A lot of people have thrown themselves body and soul into this fandom, and a lot just hover around the periphery of it. Some have been a Brony but left it all behind and moved on, some have moved on but have incorporated things from their time as a Brony that will remain with them forever. The true test for the fandom as whole will be to look at it five years, or ten years after the show itself has ended. I have no doubt there will still be people making their own animations, and doodling ponies on the corner of their notebooks during boring staff meetings. But how big it will be then, and how big a cultural legacy it leaves is yet to be seen. As for myself personally? I have no idea. But I'm sure that my ponies will always have a place on my altar of geekdom alongside toys from Transformers, Star Trek (and Wars) and whatever else I choose to add to it over time.

I pay no attention to fanfic, fanons or memes. I do like Celestia, I just like Luna more. The reason is that we have seen development in Luna that we haven't seen in Celestia. I love the whole background story of the two sisters, the younger in the shadow of the elder becomes bitter and resentful, and is banished because she crossed the line and went over to the dark side. But mostly, since her return we've seen her struggle to come to terms with her place in the modern world. In 'Luna eclipsed' we saw her beginning to come to terms with her role as princess of the night, and later to embrace that role in the arc of episodes where she visited each of the CMC in their dreams to help them overcome their fears. We've seen her grow in a way that we haven't with Celestia, and That's why I like her so much.

This moment; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98yTImVDxho Also, this one; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1V7utCUmS8 And pretty much the whole of 'Lesson Zero'.

Rainbow Dash coaching Fluttershy on cheering. "too loud?"

It's been covered in one of the episodes (the first one with Trixie I think) that unicorns generally possess only a small a small amount of magic and spells that is linked directly to their talent. Rarity therefore has a variety of magics at her disposal all connected to her craft of dressmaking. In this example, the pillows you mention are textile items, and therefore the manipulation of them would easily fall into the realms of her ability. Trixie's talent appears to be in showmanship, and although she is able to employ a wide variety of spells to amuse an audience she seems to have trouble applying those spells in a 'real life' situation. Rarity's magic is definitely powerful within her field, and by the very nature of what she does, she is able to apply her magic in practical situations. I think Trixie has greater potential, but she lacks the ability to harness her power as a means to achieve an end, using her magic instead as an end in itself.

I would agree with an earlier comment that your t-shirt may have given people the impression that you are gay (or whatever else) as opposed to being a Brony. Rainbows, or anything similarly coloured seem to attract that kind of assumption. Too many people don't realise that LGBT people do not own the rights to rainbows. As for my own experience, I wear MLP t-shirts quite a lot, some are fairly discreet, some fairly blatant. I've had a couple of people ask if I'm a Brony, but never in a harsh or aggressive way, and I've had a couple of compliments.

I went for Cloudchaser. That mane.

I think it was a bit premature. From what I understand the program was due to be cancelled at the end of the third series. Twilight's transformation would have been a logical conclusion to the entire run. But then a fourth series was given the green light and the writers had to refocus on Twilight coming to terms with her transformation and what it meant to her, and how it affected her role in the world. The exploration of her new role makes for plenty of interesting story opportunities, but I feel it would have better left towards the end of the run. But of course, the writers don't know when the end of the run will be, so they were kind of rushed into doing it.

1. If you don't have any disabled characters in a program people will complain about the lack of diversity. 2. If you have a disabled character that has limitations caused by their condition then people complain that you're mocking the disabled. 3. Apparently all disabled characters on TV have to be courageous, tough, intelligent, go-getters who are not limited by their disability. Which then raises the question of why go out of your way to make a character disabled at all. 4. return to 1. and repeat as necessary.

The scale is pretty gradual, there are lots of increments, take a look at the link below. http://www.tvguidelines.org/ratings.htm

We don't actually have ratings for TV as such, we have what they call a watershed, programs before it have to be suitable for most viewers, although there may be advisory statements made before the program if it contains possibly objectionable content. Programs after the watershed can be more adult oriented.

I live in the UK. Our ratings system is a little different.

I'm not sure how US ratings work, but I'm pretty sure that TV Y means that it's suitable for young viewers.

It can still be aimed at us without being unsuitable for the original target audience.

There's no question that It was, M.A. Larson said as much in an interview.

Surely, given the nature of her particular brand of villainy, a lower key, 'grey man' sort of appearance is more appropriate. She's not a super-villain like Tirek or Sombra, her's is a more subtle, insidious kind of scheming. I'd be happy if she tapped into some other well of power but I wouldn't want her to turn into just another stereotype evildoer.

The show has managed to get this far without focusing at all on romantic relationships straight or otherwise, why should they change that now? Especially by introducing a topic which although gaining increasing acceptance is still rather sore and controversial to many. I don't think suddenly making romantic relationships an issue in the program would benefit the quality of it in any way, but could potentially cause a backlash that may impact on it's longevity. This is just me though, I have no problem with gay marriage, gay relationships or gay people. I just don't want romance (in any combination) in my cartoons about magic horses. There are plenty of other programs on TV that can deal with those issues.