Unpopular Opinions Regarding the Show

[TheRedHoodedWraith 52]

• I have no problem at all with Flash Sentry and think he's a decent enough guy to date Twilight Sparkle.

I don't think Lyra and Bon Bon would make a good ship.

All of my ships so far are straight (no clue why).

I still think Princess Celestia should have been Queen.

I wish Hasbro would stop trying to exaggerate the show as being something incredibly girly in their marketing and when in reality, each of the ponies have an awesome side to them that Hasbro seems to keep ignoring (until Guardians of Harmony). 

I wish there were more stallions and other male characters that are given more importance to the story. 

[pnylvr 185]

-Princess Spike was an okay, fairly funny episode.

-Season 3 was the worst season of the show so far.

-King Sombra was the smartest villain seen so far.

-Luna is overrated.

-Celestia is underrated.

-Slice of Life was a confusing, weird mishmash of in-jokes.

-A Friend in Deed is a lousy episode that glorifies stalking.

Edited September 3, 2016 by pnylvr

[SquipyCheetah 449]

-Apple Bloom is best CMC and the most developed

-Starlight's redemption did not feel rushed but instead genuine. Her motive is understandable. 

-I like the CMC more than the Mane Six

-I am not too big on Derpy and I prefer to call her Ditzy Doo

-I call Doctor Whooves, Time Turner

-I never minded Twilicorn and in fact made me love Twilight even more (I also loved Magical Mystery Cure)

-I actually liked the Crystal Empire, the Crystalling, 28 Pranks Later, What About Discord?, etc 

-I really hate the Flim Flam brothers and their stupid songs

-Rainbow Dash, Luna, and Derpy get too much attention (I still love them though)

-Fluttershy is a very complex character 

-I never really liked Silver Spoon

-Limestone is best Pie sister

-I'm not a huge Trixie, Gilda, Lightning Dust, etc, fan

-I ship Pound and Pumpkin Cake

-I love Princess Cadance 

 

etc

[cmarston1 5,959]

EQG Applejack has more room for character growth than FIM Applejack.

[Sparklefan1234 170,840]

 

 

A Friend in Deed is a lousy episode that glorifies stalking.

 

Agreed.

 

Aside form "Smile Song" the episode makes me cringe and wasn't that enjoyable to me after re watching it.

[heavens-champion 1,905]

- Night Guard Rainbow Dash needs more fanart.

- Friendship Games might have benefitted better from more time.

- The Cutie Re-Mark could have fleshed out the timelines more (although since the episodes are only 22 minutes long, this might be a bit too much to ask)

- The show's staff might want to refrain from making episodes where Rainbow Dash's friends teach her a lesson, because they only seem to cause drama.

- Sombra was actually a good villain.

Edited September 7, 2016 by heavens-champion

[JeyWiz 1,097]

Flurry Heart is a great character! Am I the only one who appreciates her? :/

 

Celestia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Luna

 

That's all I can think of for now.

Edited September 7, 2016 by DJ Gumball

[Prospekt 11,018]

- I really liked The Cutie Re-Mark, The Crystal Empire, 28 Pranks Later, and Do Princesses Dream Of Magic Sheep?

- Celestia is underrated and gets unnecessary hate

- King Sombra is overrated and I wouldn't mind never seeing him again

- I am a big Starlight Glimmer fan, even after she was reformed

- I don't want to see Sunset Shimmer outside of Equestria Girls

- I don't think Josh Haber is a terrible writer

- I kind of like Rainbow Falls (though I certainly don't love it)

- Trixie is best pony outside of the Mane 6, CMC, and princesses

- I don't mind Daring Do and A.K. Yearling being the same pony

- Twilicorn has my approval and I'm glad it happened

- I prefer the name Minuette rather than Colgate

 

I might add on to this if I think of more...

Edited September 7, 2016 by Prospekt

[Thrond 3,263]

-I think season 6 is a hell of a lot better than season 5. 

-I don't think "Amending Fences" is all that great. 

-Luna is my least favourite princess. 

-Josh Haber is a great writer. 

-I rather like Starlight Glimmer's reformation. 

-I don't think "Newbie Dash" is that bad. 

-Sassy Saddles is the best new character of season 5. 

-"Friendship Games" has issues but it's still a lot of fun. 

-Flurry Heart is adorable and the season 6 premiere was fantastic. 

[Guest90210 3,568]

• Spike at Your Service & Just For Sidekicks are some of the show's best episodes

I've never liked Trixie, and consider her one of the show's worst characters

I very rarely consider Pinkie Pie "out of character", even in some of her worst episodes (i.e, Filli Vanilli)

Magical Mystery Cure was the best paced episode of FiM

Three's a Crowd & Rarity Investigates are among some of the worst FiM episodes

I prefer AJ's Season 1 voice

I wish EQG 1's electronic theme would replace FiM's theme

Edited September 7, 2016 by Rivendare

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,503]

I've got several opinions, but I will post one that I have been thinking of lately.

 

I find villain redemption's to be a wonderful thing. When done properly of course, but the overall idea is something I fully support. To me, it goes perfectly with the concept of friendship, something that is quite important to this show I think.

[Raritas 6,820]

- Season 3 was the worst 

- Season's 3 + 4 completely ruined Pinkie Pie's character

- Sombra was a wasted villain with so much potential

- Starlight's turn around felt forced

- I hate the theme (although I think a lot of people do )

[cmarston1 5,959]

The Cutie Map was rather dull and Starlight Glimmer(pre Reformation) was not the show's best villain. I would argue that the Dazzlings are better villains than Twilight foil 3 or 4 was.

[Luminance 2,186]

I look at Flurry Heart and she's okay. I don't understand the hatred for her.

 

I like Discord better before he was reformed.

 

Season 6 is alright.

[Guest]

The thing that first comes to mind is that I don't like Sparity. At all. It's not about that they're different species but the age gap instead. Spike seems like primary school-aged to me and Rarity is a working adult. I don't judge people that ship them but at least it's something I myself wouldn't do.

 

This might sound dumb but for some reason it also bugs me when people call background characters their favorites based on their headcanon personalities.

 

 

- I am a big Starlight Glimmer fan, even after she was reformed

- Twilicorn has my approval and I'm glad it happened

- I prefer the name Minuette rather than Colgate

 

I also really agree with these. Especially the thing about Starlight Glimmer, even though my opinion differs a little since I didn't like her that much when she was a villain. But now that she's reformed, I can't help but almost consider her one of my favorite characters. Not to mention that she has a wonderful mane style too.

[Thrond 3,263]

Couple more. 

 

-The cutie map is a transparently lazy plot device which makes the show worse for its inclusion. 

-"The Mane Attraction" and "Gauntlet of Fire" are perfectly charming episodes without a whole lot exceptional about them. 

-I really don't think "Spike At Your Service" or "Rainbow Falls" are as terrible as people make them out to be. 

 

- Season 3 was the worst 

- Season's 3 + 4 completely ruined Pinkie Pie's character

- Sombra was a wasted villain with so much potential

- Starlight's turn around felt forced

- I hate the theme (although I think a lot of people do )

I thought these were all fairly popular opinions. 

[Whirlwind 1,057]

-Newbie Dash is my favorite episode of season 6 so far

-The CMC have not made a great episode since Crusaders of the lost mark

-I like Princess Celestia better than Luna

-I think Starlight Glimmer is a Very Poorly Written character 

[Trinitron Keys 89]

"Party of One" and "Lesson Zero" shouldn't have been made the way they were; they may have been intended for comedic effect but it just gave the GDs and haters more shock-fuel to use. Luckily, full-on animation takes a lot of work, imagine how bad it would've gotten out there if making animation were as easy as writing fanfics...*shudder*

 

Yeah, Hasbro needs to tone down the pink packaging and hyping the girly side of things; an auxiliary male Mane 4 wouldn't be bad, just don't give them buzzcuts, tattoos, stubble, and cigars. The voices and head-shapes distinguish genders enough already.

 

A gender-ambiguous or androgynous character could be fun, at least for one episode.

 

And I think Celestia is awesome. Bring on Prince Cosmos!

 

*shrug, grin* Hey, the title said "unpopular opinions". Just being honest.

[Megas 27,640]

Rarijack is a crap pair and with the exception of Sisterhooves Social most of their episodes together have sucked, even without taking Rarity's insanely high standards into consideration. And I'm so freaking sick of the writers constantly whoring out this pairing, they hang out with other characters, don't they?

[user1342342 143]

Twilight and her clones suck, they have always held the series back.

 

I don't care for shipping.

 

Rainbow Dash is annoying.

 

Maud Pie is boring. 

 

I don't like Discord at all, he should be turned into stone and thrown into the infinite cosmos.

Edited September 7, 2016 by 1CJB

[Thrond 3,263]

Rarijack is a crap pair and with the exception of Sisterhooves Social most of their episodes together have sucked, even without taking Rarity's insanely high standards into consideration. And I'm so freaking sick of the writers constantly whoring out this pairing, they hang out with other characters, don't they?

For real, a lot of their shared episodes make me wonder why they even tolerate each other. Utterly mystifying why the writers seem to like putting them together so much. 

[M'gann M'orzz 745]

For real, a lot of their shared episodes make me wonder why they even tolerate each other. Utterly mystifying why the writers seem to like putting them together so much. 

Because there's a clear arc with Rarijack, like regardless of what you think of the individual episodes you can see how they've gone from having a hard time with each other to being basically best friends, I mean really their last few episodes they hardly even argue anymore. and are generally pretty playful with each other.

 

 

It's one of the most dynamic pair ups on the show, some of their episodes are meh but that's due to their plots and stuff not their dynamic.

 

 

AppleDash though, now that's a freaking boring dynamic, it's been exactly the same for 6 seasons now, it's even more generic than an opposites attract pair. It's just inheirently dull to the damn core.

Now lets do some more I guess

Between Seasons 2 and 6 Fluttershy was a completely lost character, no one had a real idea what to do with her and she was endlessly spinning in circles, getting better now though.

 

 

Twilight's approaching that lost character status, she's felt ether directionless or just invisible since S4 or so.

 

 

 

If Rainbow Dash wasn't so tomboyish she wouldn't be near as popular as she is given her average episode quality and some other aspects of her personality.

Edited September 8, 2016 by M'gann M'orzz

[Flutterstep 47,081]

The Mane6 are really boring. It's hard to watch a show when its always focused on unintresting characters. It sucks because everything eles about the show is very unique and interesting.

[Steve Piranha 29,424]

- No more Twilight foils. Yeah, we like MANE characters foils now and then, but I think we should give a rest to Twi's foils now that there are FOUR of them so far: Trix, Starlight, Moondancer, and Sunny

- So is Rarijack dynamics, there's too many of them 

- I think the show is going through a sloppy time, not a jumped the shark time, but definitely not the standard we are used to. And also, S6 is not bad, just WAY TOO underwhelming, but I feel it's catching up in these last episodes

-You're going to kill me for this: Scootaloo is the cutest of the cuties

[Thrond 3,263]

Because there's a clear arc with Rarijack, like regardless of what you think of the individual episodes you can see how they've gone from having a hard time with each other to being basically best friends, I mean really their last few episodes they hardly even argue anymore. and are generally pretty playful with each other.

 

 

It's one of the most dynamic pair ups on the show, some of their episodes are meh but that's due to their plots and stuff not their dynamic.

 

 

AppleDash though, now that's a freaking boring dynamic, it's been exactly the same for 6 seasons now, it's even more generic than an opposites attract pair. It's just inheirently dull to the damn core.

 

Now lets do some more I guess

Between Seasons 2 and 6 Fluttershy was a completely lost character, no one had a real idea what to do with her and she was endlessly spinning in circles, getting better now though.

 

 

Twilight's approaching that lost character status, she's felt ether directionless or just invisible since S4 or so.

 

 

 

If Rainbow Dash wasn't so tomboyish she wouldn't be near as popular as she is given her average episode quality and some other aspects of her personality.

1. The thing is, up until a certain point, I got more or less the same thing from every Applejack/Rarity episode: AJ likes dirt, Rarity likes sequins, and this causes them to clash. I'm glad that's dissipated as of late, and that does show growth, but I guess I'm still not sold on the potential unless they're given something - anything - in common, which I rarely see in their episodes.

 

2. Applejack/RD doesn't really have anywhere to go, but I find it more fun. That said, it hasn't appeared half as often, whereas RariJack never stops and has only started to get the slight bit of variation. Can we get some less common pairs in the limelight, please?

 

3. I just don't know what they're doing with Twilight. I feel they're starting to give her a little personality back, but still have zero clue what to do with the character. It's awfully frustrating.