What Would You Change/Rewrite About The Aspect of MLP:FIM?

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On 2024-04-20 at 4:36 PM, Props Valroa said:

I've stated many times what I would change. Main aspect is having no Student 6, No Pillars, no School of Friendship. Also Grogar would be real, remove any instances of the villains calling themselves villains - and have more focus on background characters and world-building. That about covers the vast majority of where my focus would be.

Then how would we get the moments of exploring other species? Like, how would we get to see more interactions between different species without the Student Six?

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On 2024-04-20 at 4:36 PM, Cheerilee said:

I've stated many times what I would change. Main aspect is having no Student 6, No Pillars, no School of Friendship. Also Grogar would be real, remove any instances of the villains calling themselves villains - and have more focus on background characters and world-building. That about covers the vast majority of where my focus would be.

So then what would have been the main plot for seasons 7 and 8 without the Pillars and School of Friendship? Like what would take the place of being the two-parter finale for seasons 7 and 8 and the season 8 premiere two-parter? As well as who the main villains for seasons 7 and 8 would be?

How come you don't like the idea of having more than one group of six friends who have the magic of friendship?

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Newbie Dash gets obliterated from existence. Of all the episodes they had to drop the ball on....

Like, even having RD become a WB offscreen would have been much better than what they decided churn out

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Now that I'm not a fan anymore, I must say that I would've changed a lot of things, so many things that the show would pretty much be completely different, and I don't think that would be necessary as a lot of people like the show the way it is, so I prefer to not say what would've changed now, but I'll say that I still keep the things I said that I would've changed when I was still a fan, whcih are:

1: The Student Six should've more time to develop their characters, the way it was done was too fast, they learned things too fast.

2: Twilight shouldn't have become Ruler of Equestria in the end of the show, for me Celestia and Luna were better because I saw them as deities, Twilight should continue in her csstle in Ponyville.

3: Make more 13 episodes for Season 3

4: This one is the worst for me, for me it was really a bad idea to focus so much in Nostalgia, Fanservice and in rehashing ideas from previous Seasons in Seasons 5-6 and specially Season 9, repeating ideas from old episodes in a less interesting way and bringing back villains we already saw, in Season 5's finale they go back in time and show us a past event we already saw and show us past villains again, Season 6's beginning is King Sombra's attack but without him and Season 6's finale repeats the attack of the Changelings, Season 9 does worse by making us believe that they are going to have a final original villain, Grogar, but they reveal that he's not real, the final villains of the series are 3 villains we already saw before, that was a very bad decision in my opinion, specially because none of them brought anything new, they should've been minions of Grogar in my opinion, with Grogar bejng the final threat. I have the same problem with Dragon Ball Super, but there the returning villains at least bring something new, it was more creative, here in FiM they don't do anything new with the returning villains, it's worse, Season 9 felt more like a celebration of the entire series with its returning villains and characters and repeated ideas than a season that actually tries to tell a story, which maybe makes sense for the final Season of the series, but I still didn't like it very much.

That's pretty much it, I actually don't care much about these things anymore now that I'm no more a fan, but I still think would've made these changes if I had the opportunity 

Edited October 16, 2024 by Rafa Stary Mini

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On 2021-10-17 at 7:51 PM, Lone Traveler said:

My top 3 episodes of MLP I wish were written differently are Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep, The Cutie Re-Mark, and The Ending of the End. All of these episodes could have and should have been amazing, but had 2 fatal flaws each that destroyed them. 

Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep should have been a two parter so the episode could have had more fun with its concept. In the actual episode only a few minutes were actually spent on chasing the Tantabus through different dreams. This is something that easily could have carried a full episode by itself! I really wish it was a two parter where the first 7 minutes largely stays the same, the chasing the Tantabus through dreams could be the next 22 minutes or so of the episode, and the last 14 minutes or so could be a far more epic final fight with far more exploration of Luna's character and actually getting to see her discuss her issues with Celestia in a satisfying way that didn't give her serious unresolved issues. ( I think Luna's role here should have been rewritten as Joshscorcher suggested in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFBXXMTLC48 )

If the episode just had more time to have fun with its creative concepts and handled Luna's development properly it could have been one of the best episodes of the show. Even as is I still enjoy the episode and think it is fun to watch despite its flaws, because I enjoy the dream concept so much and really wish more was done with it. It's a shame the Luna dream plots were dropped after this episode.

The Cutie Re-Mark was a fundamentally broken episode since it kept on switching between so many different timelines without doing anything with any of them. It was a bunch of half baked writing prompts being introduced every 5 minutes, rather than a coherent or fun story. This could have been fixed if they actually stayed in a single timeline (preferably the first one in the episode). It could have made for a really fun and interesting story where we got to explore aspects of a changed world and how the Mane Six act in the different environment. They could have teamed up together to stop the villain in their timeline as well as Starlight. Starlight herself should not have been redeemed here. In the actual episode she was immediately forgiven in like 3 minutes because of a quick sob story. After all the horrible things she had done she really needed like a whole episode or so to actually make a redemption feel believable or earned, which there was not time for on top of all the packed time travel stuff. If the episode sticked to a single timeline and didn't redeem Starlight it could have been one of the best episodes of the entire show. Honestly, if this episode and Do Princess Dream used their concepts to their full potential, that alone would improve Season 5 enough in my eyes so that I would see it as actually part of the golden age of MLP instead of a transitional period between the golden seasons (1-4) and the mediocre seasons (6-9). This episode is where MLP truly jumped the shark in my view.

The Ending of the End had another fantastic concept, but was brought down by major missed potential. Tierk, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow had a fun dynamic and Grogar looked like he would be a very interesting villain in how he understood how to truly use friendship against the ponies. Instead this potential involving Grogar was thrown out the window for no reason, destroying 6 seasons of Discord's character development in the process. This twist was the single worst writing decision of the entire show in my view. Although Tierk, Chyrsalis, and Cozy Glow were still fun, the dynamic would have been so much more interesting if they were still forced to work for Grogar who could basically be the final boss of the show. The other main issue is that the potential of the final fight was also wasted. We should have been able to see the process of how the Student Six and the other side characters teamed up, which could have been exciting and a good way to see so many of these characters on screen one last time. The actual fight should have also involved the side characters far more. Instead the fight in the episode just felt like a weaker version of Twilight's Kingdom. If they went all the way with the Endgame style ensemble fight it could have instead been its own unique thing. On top of the frustration of the wasted potential and the destruction of Discord's character, the episode itself just felt like a more convoluted and less fun version of the Season 9 premiere (an episode I find to actually be really fun and one of the best of the show. As much as I liked the Season 6 and 7 finales, the Season 9 premiere is the only two-parter post Season 4 to truly bring back the magic of the golden age 2 parters imo). If Grogar was actually used as a villain and the side characters got to play a bigger role in the fight, this could of been a truly amazing finale. Instead it is just okay.

 

So when should Starlight's redemption have happened then? There's a lot of episodes in seasons 6-9 that hinge on her being redeemed so when should the redemption have happened.