Casey Pones

Chapter 1 I suppose but only because the show hadn't accumulated all those continuity errors, mangled it's own story ideas or still had the potential to answer all the questions that had been raised.

I am a huge fan of MLP FIM and the New Generation movie gave me a sense of optimism for the new show. But with every chapter I've become more annoyed and dismayed and chapter 6 really ground my gears. It was the worst yet and it has RUINED Make your Mark for me! Dragons have 4 legs now instead of 2?! It's bad enough they thought they could just make that change but they put them in the same show with a 2 legged dragon?! Plus they have cutie marks and all kinds of magic now?! But on the other hand, FIM never explained how Spike could do that thing with scrolls. Speaking of Spike, how is he the dragon lord?! What happened to Ember?! You want to put spike in the new show? Fine, it's already been established they live much longer then ponies. You want to put him in a position of leadership as well? Here's how they could have done it AND remained consistent with FIM. They go to the dragon lands, they are introduced to the dragon lord EMBER, she sees they have pony guests and calls over her HUSBAND Spike. And why not? Spike could say he and Ember became more then friends after he finally accepted he and Rarity would never be more then friends. And Applegeek shipped these dragons as soon as he saw them. Oh and allicorns have their own city now, they're one of the pony kinds?! It is CLEARLY established that NO ONE (except Flurryheart) is born an alicorn. Now it's implied they are! Which is bad enough but AGIAN they put Opaline next to a more traditional alicorn like Sunny! One of the things I loved about FIM is how well it kept track of it's own continuity and always respected it. THIS show disrespects it time and time again! And I haven't even covered the numerous problems and continuity errors from chapters 1-5! Writers, if you wanted to pander to fans why didn't you remain loyal to FIM? If you were concerned with people who'd never seen FIM or wanted to rework all these things why didn't you just reboot the show altogether and spare us FIM fans this drawn-out plane crash? When you adopted this show you did an even worse job then when Disney adopted Star Wars from Lucas. New Star Wars was an abomination to the fanbase and was done with no higher ambition then to make money out of nostalgia. But even Disney knew better then to reinvent the anatomy, physiology and even appearance of it's established species! And there are so many unanswered questions. What happened to Twilight, Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Flurryheart? How was the real history of Equestria lost? What happened to Ponyville, Canterlot and the Tree of Harmony? What is the hope lantern and how did it create the Marestream? Part of me wishes this show had never been made. Another part wants to circle a petition demanding the whole series be re-made. But I fear they'll only cancel it altogether instead. In recent years we've seen our old favourite franchises, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, brought back by people who somehow thought they were pandering to fans when they were really just wrecking it for us! Now they're doing it with more recent ones too! I remember a time when there were no streaming services or any internet to speak of. If you wanted to watch a show, you had to wait a week for it to be broadcast. And only IF it was on one of your TV's five channels. As for home video, it was rare you could have an entire series at your beck and call as, for the most part, studios only released tapes with random episodes and only 4 or 5 per tape. And of course the animation was more time consuming as it was either cell or stop-frame. In this day and age, technology has enabled us to create media easier, faster, cheaper, of greater quality and make it more accessible then any other time in history. But it seems the gift of modern media is misused by those who think they can make as little effort as possible, do whatever they want, pursue nothing but the almighty $ and people will still watch it. And perhaps the worst part is people do watch and somehow enjoy this show. It's like Hollywood makes money out of everything now matter HOW bad it is. And for a more complete and in depth look at how bad the series is, take a look at these reviews...