One thing that is bad about the show.

[cmarston1 5,959]

The over reliance on rushed character reformation.

As well as inbalanced character screen time such as season 3 Rarity or season 5 Fluttershy.

[Plonkett 345]

When Shining Armor threw Twilight out of his wedding, he didn't even apologize for it. That to me is a huge blunder for the writing team.

[SteveMorison 404]

Honestly, the fact that it's so safe. MLP has done a great job in writing stories and characters that can be enjoyed by people of all age groups, but at the end of the day it is still a show that is primarily targeted at very young girls and therefore it takes very few risks. Take a look at a show like Gravity Falls which takes many risks, Bill Cipher is probably one of the most terrifying villains in modern cartoon series (by comparison, Discord made cotton candy clouds and chocolate rain), and it is these risks that make Gravity Falls such a great series and risks that MLP lacks imo.

[Metemponychosis 1,258]

I was going to talk about Celestia, but people beat me to it.

 

So, I'm going to to say that the cartoon needs to take better care with the stakes in those "epic" episodes. Or at least make sure that "epic" actually is epic. They ignore the existence of other races, other nations, everything that isn't Equestria. Now that I know that Equestria is just one country I wonder why is it that Tirek didn't mess with the gryphons. Or when Starlight Glimmer was messing with time, everything seems contained within Equestria. It makes these whole messes with Sombra, Tirek, Nightmare Moon look like local conflicts, while they're supposed to make it look like these are world-changing events. The whole time Twilight was talking with Nightmare Moon I was waiting for some gryphons to walk in, smash NM's face with a morning star, grab a pony and tell them to raise the sun. Or else!

Edited February 10, 2016 by Metemponychosis

[Moon Sugar 532]

The fact that they can't really peg Spike's personality down. He's an interesting and supportive character... Until it get's to his specials. Than he's an obnoxious twat.

[Wind Chaser 4,768]

• Avoiding certain morals (not everyone can be your friend, achievements alone don't define people), and having black-and-white morality on certain morals that have valid counterarguments ("Trade Ya", "Green Isn't Your Color").

Trouble addressing certain issues such as death, mainly because of the show's marketing origins.

Not using secondary or tertiary characters enough, and making Equestria helpless without Twilight and the Mane 6. This is especially true in two-parters except for "The Cutie Map". It would help the show's message to have the secondary characters help more out in the solutions to conflicts.

Not capitalizing on story opportunities for underdog characters Spike and Scootaloo. Most of the main characters are overachievers. Spike, a humble servant, has had the worst character development over the past couple of seasons, and Scootaloo, a character with a disability and an unknown family situation, has barely been explored at all in that timeframe.

Rigid formatting that makes story arcs and continuity development relatively rare, keeping most stories confined to single 22-minute episodes.

Trouble with creating compelling villains with complex motivations and/or backstories beyond being absent of friendship. Not being able to create a constant, stable villain or other motivator for the Mane 6 beyond the concept of friendship.

Edited February 10, 2016 by Wind Chaser

[Chara 1,565]

The reason I stopped becoming a Brony is because every season seems to be getting worse and worse, this I may get hate for but MLP is like The Walking Dead of cartoons, it would have it's good parts, then its amazing parts!, but then it bastardizes itself and turns into a mess that is very hard to clean up.

 

1. The general lack of good male characters.
2. The show's generally awful handling of characters with anxiety disorders and mental illnesses.
3. *The decrease of Slice of Life stories.
4. My Little Pony: Racism is Magic The questionable undertones of episodes that feature non-pony characters, excluding Zecora's post-Bridle Gossip appearances and most episodes featuring Spike.
5. The portrayal of Discord post-"redemption".
6. *Color schemes and designs of certain ponies.
7. The unreasonable lack of a single Princess Celestia episode.
8. Starlight Glimmer post-The Cutie Remark.
9. How Derpygate was unprofessionally handled.
10. Spike in general.

* = Minor complaint.

 

Well for a show that is intended to 6 year old girls, I can see why they lack a male audience.

[Buck Testa 5,505]

The one thing bad with this show is that any races besides ponies are shown as 

-Ugly

-Greedy

-needlessly aggressive

-in need of the message of harmony and friendship

 

Even Spike, who was raised with ponies, comes from dragons whom are labled as all these things, and he's better because he lives among ponies. 

 

It may be prudent to show another race that has their act together that AREN'T ponies, juuuuust saying. 

[That Guy with the CMB 5,873]

The fan service. I'm one of those people that rarely likes fandom ideas, so seeing that can get obnoxious. I guess it's okay to appease the fans by using their ideas, but nowadays, it's splattered in pretty much every episode. At least this last season. Let's hope it'll get worse.

[Cleverclover 1,526]

1. Too Much Twilight --- The mane five are collectively not given nearly enough moments to shine in comparison, especially when it comes to two-parters. And things like Twilight having entire two-parters almost all to herself such as in The Cutie Re-mark should definitely not happen at this point. 

 

2. Rushed reformations --- Only a few of them have been done well. Overall, however, reforming villains gives the implication that everyone can change or be turned around, which simply isn't true in real life. 

 

3. Spike abuse --- Stop. Just stop.

 

4. Episodes that are pretty much devoted to Spike abuse --- Looking at you, Princess Spike. 

 

5. The villains --- The whole "ancient evil rising up to conquer Equestria" thing has been done to death at this point and is beyond redundant. 

[PinkieatHeart 208]

Does it count if I say "we need more access to the episodes?" Cuz all I have is YouTube, and so far I haven't been able to find much on there. And I don't have the money for Hulu, or Netflix or anything like that.

[Lil Pip 775]

The more recent spike episode, it didn't bring much to the table for the older audience, it was rather predictable. Arguably sure it referenced bronycon and that might be cool, but well I guess they need little kid eps sometimes right?

[Alphys Hedge 671]

-No celestia episode (We've got a luna one, why not celestia?)

-Starlight's reformation (She pretty much wanted to kill twilight. You can't be friends with someone who tried to murder you)

-The word "everypony" (The words "everyone" or "everybody" are fine, it's not like we go around saying "everyhuman")

Edited April 4, 2016 by Alphys Hedge

[SBaby 660]

Three words:  The theme song.

 

It's not even that it's a bad theme.  It's just that they should've changed it by now.  I mean, Japan's had four opening songs for the show now, and they're going to have a fifth soon.

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Does it count if I say "we need more access to the episodes?" Cuz all I have is YouTube, and so far I haven't been able to find much on there. And I don't have the money for Hulu, or Netflix or anything like that.

www.TV.com has all the episodes on it for free though, If you are having problems finding it. 

 

 

 

 

3. Spike abuse --- Stop. Just stop.

Agreed 1000 times over 

[King Sejong 859]

   For me it's not enough world building, most of the story is in Ponyville or Canterlot, I want to see more locations, and non pony civilizations, for Star Wars, the Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings gave us variety, it's a shame that the writers have not involved more places we have seen already, like the Crystal Empire, I don't even know the name of it's capital city, it would be nice to see other characters like deer, canines or felines. My biggest pet peeve with the show is, there is no prominent male protagonist, although we have Spike, I wish there would be a good stallion character, like Double Diamond or Braeburn, it would give the audience more flavour to choose from, plus it could give children positive balance of the genders, that is is okay to like feminine things despite being male, or to like masculine things despite being female, that both groups can put aside their differences and do things together, to embrace our differences to complement our similarities, a show like MLP should have more variety, to show that male and female ponies can do what's best for them, rather than do something like Pixar's "Brave", to show that a female character can keep up with males, but show that they can be as good, by being as good as the best efforts of the male characters, it will boast male and female confidence, just like Mulan, the best example of what MLP could have been.  

[n00bUltima 58]

Something that really bothers me is that the princesses are being treated like trash in the show. Always depending on Twilight to solve Equestria's problems.

[arftbmrf 40]

Everying is bad about the show.

[Gestum 2,493]

Everying is bad about the show.

Really? There's nothing good about it? Don't get me wrong, I know that it isn't a masterpiece but surely something must be at least decent.

[arftbmrf 40]

Really? There's nothing good about it? Don't get me wrong, I know that it isn't a masterpiece but surely something must be at least decent.

Really, there's nothing good there. It sucks.

Edited February 29, 2016 by arftbmrf

[SteveMorison 404]

Really, there's nothing good there. It sucks.

So why are you on this forum?

[arftbmrf 40]

So why are you on this forum?

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the show and the forum are different things, are they not?

[Rawzy 1,302]

The name of the show itself, very misleading

[SteveMorison 404]

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the show and the forum are different things, are they not?

But it's a forum mainly about the show, just curious.

[Megas 27,556]

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the show and the forum are different things, are they not?

It's a forum for a show you deliberately find offensive for the most unreasonably extreme of reasons, not liking the current direction of the show is understandable, but sometimes you have to wonder why you're wasting your time talking about a show you have an extreme dislike for

Edited March 1, 2016 by Megas