Night Sky

As so many other ponies have said, her honesty, Tell the truth and your problems will clear up. As so many other ponies have also said, AJ is probably the most correctly balanced of the Mane 6. Overlooking just a hint of periodic stubbornness, Applejack's down to earn mentality and penchant for plain English can clear up much confusion and tactfully address many elephants in the room.

I didn't have to think long about this one. Suri Polomare, from Rarity Takes Manehatten (S4E8) Suri features prominently in a very, very small group of ponies who seem to have absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Suri seems to be a classic negligent psychopath. She uses her superficial charm to reconnect with Rarity briefly, all the while scanning to see if there were any possible advantages she could extract. When the fabrics presented themselves, she stole them without hesitation, used them as her own, and then later on tried to further discredit Rarity and ruin her aspirations of establishing her business in Manehatten. She was also clearly very nasty to Coco Pommel. It doesn't matter that she didn't do anything violent, she seems like an entirely rotten pony. And hey, if they had given her a redemption, I would have been fine with that, but I notice that the show writers didn't.

I dislike Bats! (S4E7) a great deal. Mind you, Flutterbat is one of the most epically epic creatures ever to take flight in the skies over Equestria, but the way she came into the world was just wrong. Tends to be that way with vampires. But the Mane 6 were totally out of character. They were coming at the bats in an unfriendly manner and were being deliberately obtuse with Fluttershy. They knew she didn't want to use the Stare, and they forced it down her throat anyway. They barely seemed to recognize the gravity of their error by episode's end. I just think that if there had to be one botched episode, this would have to be it. I wish they could have found any other way to explain the origin of Flutterbat!

I wasn't aware of this particular leak yet. I hope it's legit. I do not dislike the characters from Gen 5, that's not how it is, they just have a lot to learn. And, as bad as so many remakes, sequels and prequels have been, they probably oughta create some kind of Frankencanon of all MLP's most beloved characters. Maybe Clover can return from the mists of the past as the most clumsy vengeful villainess evar!

U did WHAT with my Toothbrush!?!

When the robot you're ordering smoothies from has a head made out of cardboard, but is still very much a piece of heavy machinery, there may be a price to be paid for overloading it to the point that it runs amok. Problem, Sheriff?

Responding to the OP; I started Gen 5 by watching the ANG Movie. I thought matters were off to a great start, minus killing off Argyle after the introductory sequence. But otherwise I liked it, and figured I'd be defending Gen 5 from its many haters. Then I watched a few episodes of Tell Your Tale, and very quickly realized that I'd better stop and switch to Make Your Mark. I read a few issues of the IDW Gen 5 comics. I am now getting to Chapter 6 of Gen 5, I have stopped reading any of the comics and I avoid Tell Your Tale like the plague, or in this case the migraine and seizure inducing sensory assault that it is. I find myself liking Gen 5 less and less, so now I am actually glad they pulled the plug. I have some Gen 5 merch, my Zipp Storm will always be a centerpiece of my collection, for example. She's easily my favorite Gen 5 pony, and easily the smartest of them all. I don't like the changes in characterization that set in with Make Your Mark. While in the ANG Movie, Sunny is no Twilight Sparkle, she is still curious, eager to learn and quick to stand up for what she believes in. And she does have clearly stated, strong beliefs in the movie. In both MYM and TYT, Sunny never takes the lead on anything, the series both simply happen to her. She's just kind of along for the ride. Yes, it is touching that Hitch Trailblazer is a Dragon Daddy, but it almost entirely prevents him from doing anything else, including his job. Izzy more or less stays true to her own nature throughout Gen 5, I suppose so does Pipp. Really, after the ANG Movie, the whole rest of Gen 5 can be summed up by the three screenshots below; - In the first one, Zipp Storm sees something anomalous that is concerning to her, but all of the other ponies are either telling her to chill out, or are too busy eating to even notice that something is up. - In the second one, they are all scary AF, looking like members of a nomadic California UFO cult. - In the third one, they had been behaving like greedy, sugar addicted pigs, crawling all over each other to get their fix from an unproven piece of technology, and now they're paralyzed with fear by the arrival of unforeseen consequences. Sunny Starscout, applied cyberneticist par exellance! Perhaps it is for the best that we're not gonna have 9 years worth of this.

Interesting. I had heard that Zephyr Heights was either a collapsed Cloudsdale, or was located near to where Canterlot used to be. The Pegasi do seem to be the best off of the three Pony species in Gen 5. The Pegasi Royal Guards seem to have a more or less direct lineage back to the EUP Guards.

Never say never... they haven't stopped making Star Trek and Star Wars yet. I don't think anyone who has ocassion to actually read this post will see the end of MLP in their lifetime. And so long as all the voices are still with us, never say never.

I feel Argyle was too interesting and knowledgable character to kill off after just one sequence. Yeah, the decision to kill him off may have made some vague point about coming of age and loss. But what if there had been some adolescent friction between an aging Argyle and Sunny? What if her idealism had buckled slightly, or his has, as they both aged? There are ways they could have kept him alive and still touched upon the theme of life's inevitiabilities. Gen 5 desparately needed a knowledgable, wise mentor, and it didn't have one. Argyle, Dragon Lord Spike and Opaline Arcana are the only fully adult personalities in the whole of Generation 5. Most of the adult Earth Ponies are childish and xenophobic. The Pegasi of Zephyr Heights have their snouts buried in their cellphones. The unicorns are either stoned, depressed, or stoned because they are depressed. Queen Haven and Alphabittle are kind of underwhelming as leaders. Argyle was a character Gen 5 could ill-afford to squander.