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I burnt out really hard on Friendship is Magic and I'm not looking to go through that again. 

Could they be the duck-sized horses I keep hearing about?!

There’s like 7 or 8 that I really liked the first time through, have yet to watch any of them a second time. 

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I just don't find it entertaining to watch the two constantly expressing disgust at each other's tastes and habits. I wish they had even the slightest bit of common ground, or at least indicated they had some respect for each other's preferences and habits. "Honest Apple," which is what I was complaining about in this status update, was in the seventh season. They have been friends for years, and yet we only ever see them bring the worst out of each other. 

I posted this message three years ago about an MLP episode that I don’t think is very well-liked, but I stand by it. I don’t like how they’re always bickering - it seems like they don’t respect each other. 

@RDDash

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Twilight Sparkle: Well, by the season 9 we tossed a smo'l child into Tartarus and then we petrified her into the garden gnome.

Eh, she was an evil cartoon villain. I don't think she was just gonna agree to be nice. 

@Cwanky

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Making Twilight a Princess just proved Starlight's point: everyone is equal but some people are more equal than others. That's exactly the problem with Equestria that Starlight illustrated with her little town. 

Does it, though? The implication is supposed to be that she earned it, even if that doesn't make sense. Not to mention that Starlight was "more equal" than the others as well. 

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Because they weren't given time to develop them. 

I guess. My problem here is that I don't care about the background ponies so I don't feel I needed their personalities developed. 

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The show supposed to end after the season 3. 

Twilight Sparkle: that's how I became a princess. The end.

Think I would have been even less happy with it if the show had ended there. 

I don't think that was necessary. Background characters don't exactly have personalities. 

Yeah the wings were neat, they were never the problem. Though I liked when the ponies were balanced among the three "tribes." 

@Megas

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It suffers from the fact that the idea of an actual School centered around friendship is a really dumb idea, especially when it was established from the first episode that Friendship is something you can't just learn at school.

That was always the elephant in the room, alongside the fact that the mane six also have other jobs, and it's probably the least creative gimmick they could have come up with. Still, by the end of season 7 they could have thrown in just about anything and I would have thought "hey, at least it's something different." 

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Student Six themselves aren't bad in concept, but they suffer from the school as well. If they really wanted them, they should have just been the mane 6's personal students instead

I like that the school offers natural opportunities for them to meet, and I like that the mane six are just "the teachers" to them. It gives us a fresh perspective on the ponies we know and love - something I wish had been a bigger part of those last two seasons. I do think they overcrowd the main cast, though. 

@Lambdadelta

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The school is one of the reasons i liked about season 8. Season 8 has the most well-round story setting in the show, that why i have so many problems with season 9 because it downplayed whatever season 8 has built. Season 8 is the last season of the show that i consider great.

Season 8 is fresh and benefits from a lot of increased sophistication but at that point I felt the storytelling often just didn't make sense. How do the mane six have time to both teach at the school and do their other jobs? How have Rainbow Dash and Rarity found no common interests in their years of friendship? Why is being bad at one musical instrument enough to send Pinkie Pie into a deep depression?! By that point it seemed like the writers didn't understand this show at all. 

"BFFFF"? 

she's a secret agent's wife

@Kiryu⚡Chan My idea is that she has the wrong idea about what is and isn’t cool, I mean she only just came around to adventure novels of all things. 

If we’re getting into specific shows I’m not qualified to comment, but that seems about right. Maybe Fluttershy finally convinced her to watch something else...

Oh yeah fair enough. Not sure why some people try to make that distinction with Equestria Girls - it's not like you have to watch everything to understand this show or to write good fanfiction. 

What do you mean?

@Sparklefan1234 The monsters...

@Kiryu⚡Chan You're right, the scary plants should probably be in that place. 

Honestly though, I think she's a really funny one-off villain. If the series didn't try to convince me that she has redeeming qualities, I would genuinely put her on par with the Dazzlings. The top three here are the only villains I find interesting at all. 

@Kiryu⚡Chan Failures in proofreading. Fix'd. 

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Sure, but the wild animals at (say) her sanctuary are possible vectors. it is thought that, while originating in bats, the virus must have passed though at least one intermediatory animal as it has adopted genes from other viruses NOT found in bats.

(Pangolins are a strong suspect; those other genes ARE found in pangolin-specific retroviruses, and because trade in pangolins or their meat is illegal, if that WAS a vector, there would obviously be no records of the sale or origin)

For Influenza, pigs and chickens are common intermediatory hosts.

Look if we're getting into pony territory, then a lot of things are different. I don't think Fluttershy is dealing with any exotic animals in the Equestria Girls world, although she would be sad that she can't go to the pet shop or the zoo. 

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Sunset Shimmer is now a "star" of "gamer rage" video compilations.

Thankfully her heated gamer moments just involve weird comments about magical ponies or something. 

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Sunset, a month later

"what Covid-19? I normally live like this"

True but now her Twitch stream just never stops. 

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Wait until Fluttershy finds out she has to stay away from her animals, too....

Surely she has animals at home. I can't imagine Fluttershy wouldn't have a pet. 

@ShadOBabe

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What kind of girl do you take me for?

Clearly not a horse

Also that gif is adorable, I gotta find more gifs of this series

I did find some of them kinda annoying, mostly because they're really noisy. I like the innocent tone but don't really like how all of the ponies act like little kids, and those two qualities basically cancel each other out for me. I'd say they're all fairly predictable but they're also mostly pleasant. I really liked the one where Pinkie did magic.