Unpopular Opinions Regarding the Show

[Megas 27,563]

On 9/12/2019 at 9:53 PM, Sparklefan1234 said:

"The Last Laugh" has the worst use of a guest star in the entire series.

I have no idea what they were thinking giving a Cheese Sandwich return, two of the most energetic characters in the show, to the most boring writers. In fact I don’t know why the Fox Brothers kept getting all the Pinkie episodes 

[Sparklefan1234 169,718]

5 hours ago, Kiryu-Chan said:

In fact I don’t know why the Fox Brothers kept getting all the Pinkie episodes 

 

The best joke the Fox Brothers ever used was Pirate Applejack in "Pony Point Of View".

 

Everypony in the Mane 6 seems to have regressed in season 9 except for Applejack. 

Edited September 14, 2019 by Sparklefan1234

[Megas 27,563]

Here’s a hot take: Giving the writers more creative freedom, especially from S6 onwards actually led to some of the show’s lowest points

[CastletonSnob 3,074]

I’m not a fan of how non-ponies are portrayed in the show. The interactions between ponies and non-ponies always comes off as "White Man’s Burden".

"Oh, I know! Let’s build a school so we can teach the non-ponies about friendship!".

Also, S9 is one of the worst seasons of the show. 

Edited September 18, 2019 by VG_Addict

[Ittoni 538]

- pinkie pie is annoying and i don't like her, she is much better when she's just hyperactive than downright ilogical and insane.

- Applejack deserved more love and appreciation

- i understand Cozy Glow and think she deserved tartarus and everything that came after

- there should have been more changelings, i think they were very underused, specially as allies, but i guess we are playing the long game and soon enough we will replace the entire population of equestria

- MOAR PHARYNX. I wanted more of our tough guy's witty attitude and grounded point of view.

- i don't like equestria girls, and i didn't enjoy the movie too much and i hate that both events are forcefully connected to the cannon in some way or another. but at least we got hippogriffs out of it.

- no matter how much development she got, i still think that Flurry Heart is an abomination that shouldn't have been in the first place

- Spike deserves more love, it got better later though

- Chancellor Nay Say was a good character but he was underexplained, or rather not explained and that's why it came out as unreasonable and plain xenophobic.

- Celestia is kind of terrible and i fell like she was utilizing twilight more than mentoring her for something we don't even know if she wanted to be part of.

- I loved the changes they did to Sombra. I hated him before and now he's my favorite villain at par with tirek.

Edited September 18, 2019 by Ittoni

[Castle Bleck 19,326]

The Student 6 are some of my favorite characters.

[ShootingStar159 2,155]

On 9/1/2019 at 11:19 PM, AlexanderThrond said:

Sunset Shimmer is still an underdeveloped character compared to the protagonists of Friendship is Magic, and is held back by the writers’ hesitance to make her look bad.

This. So much this. You know Starlight’s outburst to Trixie in A Horseshoe-In? That’s what Sunset should have done to Rainbow Dash in Spring Breakdown. A full blown reaming with some uncalled for personal insults thrown in. Instead we got an even handed critique, and instead of “I’m coming because I messed up and drove Rainbow away,” we got “I’m coming because I’m responsible for magic in this world, even though I don’t believe magic is behind what’s going on, but it’s something everyone forgave me for years ago so it won’t harm my popularity.”

 

Sunset had a lot of potential after Rainbow Rocks and Friendship Games, but ever since that potential has been squandered in the name of keeping her popularity intact.

[Latecomer 439]

33 minutes ago, ShootingStar159 said:

 

Sunset had a lot of potential after Rainbow Rocks and Friendship Games, but ever since that potential has been squandered in the name of keeping her popularity intact.

What the heck - let's dive in backwards. 

And I'll start with a partial seconding - the Sunset we have is pretty good, but not letting her get mad about things is a waste.

3 hours ago, Anti-Villain said:

The Student 6 are some of my favorite characters.

Now here's an even bigger case of wasted potential - especially Ocellus.

 

3 hours ago, Ittoni said:

- pinkie pie is annoying and i don't like her, she is much better when she's just hyperactive than downright ilogical and insane.

 What Pinkie is doing always makes sense... to Pinkie.

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- Applejack deserved more love and appreciation

Hmm... any ideas for possible stories with her?

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- i understand Cozy Glow and think she deserved tartarus and everything that came after

I'd be interested in hearing that understanding - perhaps in the spoiler forum.

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- i don't like equestria girls, and i didn't enjoy the movie too much and i hate that both events are forcefully connected to the cannon in some way or another. but at least we got hippogriffs out of it.

I'd love to forget both the movie and hippogriffs, but sadly Silverstream is too cute. Equestria Girls is much better (at least before it devolved into endless shorts).

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- no matter how much development she got, i still think that Flurry Heart is an abomination that shouldn't have been in the first place

I don't know if this opinion is actually unpopular, but it should be.

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- Chancellor Nay Say was a good character but he was underexplained, or rather not explained and that's why it came out as unreasonable and plain xenophobic.

His role should probably have been split between multiple characters.

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- Celestia is kind of terrible and i fell like she was utilizing twilight more than mentoring her for something we don't even know if she wanted to be part of.

There are certainly times when she's written quite questionably. I try to overlook those though and believe that she has both Twilight and Equestria's best interests at heart.

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- I loved the changes they did to Sombra. I hated him before and now he's my favorite villain at par with tirek.

I thought he was too flat at first, but then he grew on me - not sure if I like his new attitude or not.

[Ittoni 538]

6 minutes ago, Latecomer said:

not sure if I like his new attitude or not.

He's so fabulous 

[Hardway Bet 96]

It was time for the show to end, and I look forward to the next generation.

[Ittoni 538]

18 minutes ago, Latecomer said:

Now here's an even bigger case of wasted potential - especially Ocellus.

absolutely 

19 minutes ago, Latecomer said:

Hmm... any ideas for possible stories with her?

not stories but more like what they did to her character in some episodes like the awful applejack's day off. i guess some others had it worse like rainbow or even rarity with ignoring her "generous" trait to become the usual pretty and selfish girl stereotype in some cases. 

21 minutes ago, Latecomer said:

I'd be interested in hearing that understanding - perhaps in the spoiler forum.

i've already written my explanation about it but we can discuss it further if you want

22 minutes ago, Latecomer said:

I thought he was too flat at first, but then he grew on me - not sure if I like his new attitude or not.

new attitude? he didn't had one before, he was just umm.. evil??? just so happens that there was too little of him and too much potential that ppl started to project a personality on his empty carcass of a character that when we got an actual character it didn't add up with the fandom's

[Latecomer 439]

4 minutes ago, Ittoni said:

absolutely 

not stories but more like what they did to her character in some episodes like the awful applejack's day off.

new attitude? he didn't had one before, he was just umm.. evil??? just so happens that there was too little of him and too much potential that ppl started to project a personality on his empty carcass of a character that when we got an actual character it didn't add up with the fandom's

So sometimes no eps is better than bad eps? Well, I suppose that's why I'm glad the show's ending.

And exactly that with Sombra - since there was so little of him, there was nothing to really detract from his potential seriousness. Now, we have that voice and some stereotypical villaning. But hey, even Hitler had that weird moustache, right?

[Thrond 3,263]

1 hour ago, ShootingStar159 said:

This. So much this. You know Starlight’s outburst to Trixie in A Horseshoe-In? That’s what Sunset should have done to Rainbow Dash in Spring Breakdown. A full blown reaming with some uncalled for personal insults thrown in. Instead we got an even handed critique, and instead of “I’m coming because I messed up and drove Rainbow away,” we got “I’m coming because I’m responsible for magic in this world, even though I don’t believe magic is behind what’s going on, but it’s something everyone forgave me for years ago so it won’t harm my popularity.”

  

Sunset had a lot of potential after Rainbow Rocks and Friendship Games, but ever since that potential has been squandered in the name of keeping her popularity intact.

They briefly seemed to be establishing Sunset's temper as one of her core traits, especially with her role in "Rollercoaster of Friendship," but it honestly seems like they've backpedalled a bit this season. I'm genuinely not sure why that is. 

[Ittoni 538]

4 minutes ago, Latecomer said:

Now, we have that voice and some stereotypical villaning. But hey, even Hitler had that weird moustache, right?

you just don't want to admit he's the Trixie of villains 

[Latecomer 439]

In what sense - his overblown opinion of himself?

But I suppose that like Amulet Trixie, he has the power to back it up.

[gingerninja666 487]

The main reason I couldn't fully get into the movie is because it decided to not involve a lot of the show's more recent developments.

 

I understand that it's objectively better not to overwhelm new fans with a bunch of characters and developments that happened over the span of 7 seasons, but I actually like Starlight, and the Changedlings, and the Dragons, and the Pillars, and Flurry, and Discord and all of that. So I kinda wanted to see them get some proper representation in an MLP movie.

[Latecomer 439]

Unfortunately, the movie took several years to write and was full of it's own stuff. It ended up being kind of thematically out of date too...

Regarding Starlight, I wondered if she should maybe have had Derpy's role. 

[Castle Bleck 19,326]

6 hours ago, Ittoni said:

- I loved the changes they did to Sombra. I hated him before and now he's my favorite villain at par with tirek.

Sadly, it's the opposite for me.

The changes flew in the face of everything I'd loved about him.

[Latecomer 439]

21 hours ago, Anti-Villain said:

Sadly, it's the opposite for me.

The changes flew in the face of everything I'd loved about him.

Hmm... would you care to elaborate?

[Latecomer 439]

On 9/13/2019 at 7:04 AM, Bakugou Is My Man ❤ said:

I posted on here years ago but here is my now updated list...

Be warned, however, as a good amount of these are negative.

1. Rainbow Dash is my least favorite out of the main cast. She is too arrogant for my liking.

Hmm... I seem to find I like her less, but I don't think that's why - I mean, I like Trixe. Maybe sports just aren't my thing.

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Flutter Shy’s shyness isn’t cute. It’s an overused trait and it gets annoying with almost everyone thinking she is adorable.

One man's cute is another man's grating. But her being adorable is just a fact.

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Scootaloo is my least favorite Cutie Mark Crusader. Her obsession with Rainbow Dash is vexing.

Well if you don't like the one, it's no surprise if you don't like the other - I just struggle to differentiate her and Apple Bloom.

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Flurry Heart isn’t cute. She should have also been punished or at least further chastised for her actions in A Flurry of Emotions. I know that she is just an infant in that episode but she was taken off of the hook too quickly simply because she became afraid of Twilight Sparkle. 

Why do so many people seem to dislike her?

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Fleet Foot is best Wonderbolt.

Any particular reason why?

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The fight between Twilight Sparkle and Lord Tirek was awesome and I am bummed out that we didn’t get anymore fight scenes like that. I know that not every premiere/finale needs a huge fight but one more wouldn’t have hurt...

It was certainly intense, but I would have saved some of the action for the debut of Rainbow Power, which was overshadowed by this slightly overdone battle.

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Yona is obnoxious and not charming in the slightest.

OK, I'm ignoring a lot of these because entertainment is subjective... but this is just mean.

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Ocellus is forgettable.

 

Hey, it's not her fault that she didn't get a focus episode.

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Newbie Dash was a satisfying episode for me. I loved seeing Rainbow Dash fail and her realizing (albeit again) that she doesn’t need to show off. I am so glad that the Wonderbolts refuse to take her shit.

I think you're seeing this a bit one-sidedly due to your dislike for RD. The Wonderbolts also made mistakes here.

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The EqG series was a silly idea and the movies are just as silly. I don’t mean that in a endearing way. 

Well, you don't have to watch them if you don't want to.

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I don’t like the chemistry between Maud Pie and Mudbriar. Maud’s seriousness is enough for me.

Those two are very hard to read.

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We should have been introduced to Spike’s parents or at least one of them.

Why - what would be the point of it?

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I don’t care for Lyra Heartstrings x Sweetie Drops or Octavia x DJ Pon-3

The latter is obvious enough, but what's wrong with the former?

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DJ Pon-3 should have been given a voice 

Why?

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The movie was just okay. I really liked Tempest Shadow, though. She was badass. 

She was - but I'd still rather forget the whole thing.

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Zecora should have been given a real backstory.

That would have been nice, yeah. (Unless it "Griffonstoned" the zebras.)

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I don’t like Granny Smith.

Any reason, or just not into old people?

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Philomena should have been given more attention/screen time. Nothing major but at least another look as to how she is doing assuming Princess Celestia still owns her.

Agreed. (Pets in general seemed to lose importance over time.)

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Gallus is best student. 

That's why he's the leader (I think).

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I like the reformed changelings designs.

You and me both. (I also love Rainbow Power.)

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An episode with the main cast seeing the male versions of themselves would have been funny.

Could well be - but it would have to be quite carefully written.

[Castle Bleck 19,326]

1 hour ago, Latecomer said:

Hmm... would you care to elaborate?

This guy already summed it up best:

 

[Latecomer 439]

16 minutes ago, Anti-Villain said:

This guy already summed it up best:

 

An interesting take, with several similarities to my own views. I'm especially intrigued by the idea of Tirek or some other character being the one to leave - but then, would including Sombra in the Trio not further damage his image?

[Sparklefan1234 169,718]

Daring Do is basically a glorified thief. 

[Thrond 3,263]

8 hours ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

Daring Do is basically a glorified thief. 

It's canon! 

[Megas 27,563]

8 hours ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

Daring Do is basically a glorified thief. 

 

7 minutes ago, AlexanderThrond said:

It's canon! 

Spoiler

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The episode is still a load of bullshit
"She was the bad guy the whole time!" Fuck off. We already dealt with something similar in Daring Done, and I get not everyone likes it(even I had a lot of issues with it) but the angle of Daring dealing with her collateral damage and feeling like the bad guy was already done, and done much better, and this episode pretty much torpedoes the entire Daring Do plotline all so Fluttershy could be right about everything for the millionth time