Unpopular Opinions Regarding the Show

[Lambdadelta 1,462]

1. Twilight in No Second Prances is one of Twilight i love to see. I'm glad Twilight finally acting like "Twilight" again, Ss4 Princess Twilight is goddamn boring. And now, they just need to give me back my Sci-Twi.

 

2. Some "traditional" episodes in ss6 make me happy, even they are kinda... outdated.

 

3. I already hate the episode "The Fault in Our Cutiemark" when i read the synopsis, especially "Griffin" + "got her cutiemark". If that griffin say F@#K to Cutie Mark in the end of this ep, i will del this shit.

 

4. Mane Attraction is just an OK and boring episode. Without the songs, it could be just mediocre.

 

5. I like 28 Pranks Later. After reading a ton of reviews, rants, whatever, my opinion still stand.

 

6. You guys (~90%) always bring Mare Do Well episode as an example of the worst of mane6, but somehow forgot to mention the actions of Flutter, Dash, Rarity in Mmmmmmystery Express, I never forgive that kind of action, never.

 

7. Mean-spritted, cruelty, jerkish, wierd are never my negative points of any episodes... as long as they make it funny enough. Torture porn in cartoon make me feels good. 

[Trinitron Keys 89]

@Lambdadelta

Yikes. Can't get much more unpopular than that.

 

Let's see...

 

- The opening theme could use some variations and remixes, like they've done with the end theme.

Unpopular with the writers and mixers, at least.

 

- I find Applejack very relatable, but not modern country music or its fanbase.

 

- I kinda miss the Golden Oak Library, it had a nice homey feel. If I walked around in that Crystal Palace I'd feel more out of place than Fred Durst at a Sailor Moon dead circus cosplay convention.

[rcollinz13 428]

- Celestia is useless when disaster strikes

 

- I hate how villains are forgiven with no punishment for their actions

 

- I'm worried that all of the villains are going to be redeemed and there will be nothing left

 

- I have mixed feelings about Starlight Glimmer being redeemed. I kind of wish she had stayed as an on and off villain. 

 

- I wish Twilight had become an Alicorn later in the show

 

- I find the CMC to be annoying 

 

- There needs to be fewer songs. They don't feel special anymore. 

[Concerned Bystander 2,902]

'Make new friends but keep Discord' wasn't that great.

 

'Newbie Dash' wasn't that bad.

 

Starlight Glimmer does not need to appear in every episode, she's a plot device for Twilight's development and only needs to appear in Twilight focused episodes.

 

There does not need to be an EQG cartoon, the films are perfectly sufficient.

 

Although I love the comics, I prefer the cartoon's description of Luna's transformation into Nightmare Moon.  The comic's suggestion of it being the result of an external force weakened the story by suggesting that she was less than fully complicit in her own actions.

 

I don't get butthurt when a character has to learn to same lesson twice (or more).  The whole point of the mane six is that they are meant to clearly represent six different kinds of people.  Having the characters backslide now and then maintains that, rather than them all becoming too similar.

 

I really, really don't want to see the changelings in general, and Chrysalis in particular, being reformed.

Edited September 10, 2016 by Concerned Bystander

[TheName'sDash 56]

Let's see... Unpopular opinions... Well, I suppose I have a few.

 

1. I really like Equestria Girls. Rainbow Rocks is one of my favourite movies ever, and I'd even say it's more enjoyable than movies like "Star Wars". (Although, I wasn't a huge fan of Friendship Games. Could've used a bit more time on the writing.)

 

2. I don't like the Crystal Empire all that much. They could've done more with the place. 

 

3. I thought the end of "Magical Mystery Cure" was amazing. It was the first time I cried because of the show.

 

4. I don't like Spike-episodes. "Princess Spike" is probably my least favourite episode in the show. 

 

5. Aside from a few episodes, I really don't like season 5. Most of the episodes were just filler. 

 

6. I don't like Griffons.

 

7. I'm not a fan of the songs from the season 3 premiere.

 

8. I don't like "Hearts & Hooves Day". 

 

9. I like the fact that Discord was reformed, and how it was done.

 

10. I'm not a huge fan of the episode "Bats". I love the song, and Flutterbat is adorable, but the story didn't make much sense. 

 

11. Speaking of things not making sense; While I enjoyed the season 5 finale, the way they handled time travel really bugged me. 

 

12. I didn't care for "The Mane Attraction". It was kind of boring. (Yes, I know I already mentioned I didn't like most of the episodes in S5, but most people seem to adore that episode.)

 

*Exhales* I think that's it.

Edited September 10, 2016 by TheName'sDash

[cmarston1 5,959]

I don't think that Zephyr Breeze was that bad of a character.

Sure he isn't one of my favorites or anything, but it's not like he was supposed to be entirely likeable to begin with.

Plus, it's much easier for me to feel sympathy for him then it was with Starlight Glimmer's backstory.

[heavens-champion 1,905]

- Rainbow Dash needs more lines in finales.

- I'm not sure if I want to watch Make New Friends But Keep Discord again

- the writers need to come up with more ideas for Twilight

- the show is severely lacking in gorgons, basilisks, wyverns, sphinxes, etc.

- Twilight's friends should have helped out in the Cutie Re-Mark.

[Black Sabbath 2,486]

I don't think Starlight should be punished for what she did in the finale considering the fact that she wasn't aware of the consequences. 

[Luminance 2,186]

I love all the CMCs episodes, even though it's mainly about focusing around them and cutie marks. I always find the trio enjoyable, energetic and I don't find then annoying.

[MAIKUN 262]

-Recoloured Button Mash (due to the C&D between JanAnimations & Hasbro)

-Post Cutie Marked CMC

-Gabby

-Season 6 (except for the good episodes of S6)

[VinylWubs 1,252]

Alright.. Here we go.

 

-I really like Spike. Even from season 1. I loved every part of him :3

-Rarity is really whiny and annoying. That's the same for Rainbow Dash. Both characters aren't great together. I swear if we have a episode of them together, I will hate them even more.

-My Favourite CMC is Scootaloo. Sweetie belle is not really a good CMC.. She's like Rarity's clone but less annoying.

-I love Starlight Glimmer. She's flipping awesome!

-Almost every spike Episode that is out, I tend to love them more than the main 6 episodes

-"Dungeons and Discords" was meh. Wasn't my cup of tea.

-"Spice up your life" is my least favourite episode from s6.

-The episode with Pinkie and Fluttershy (can't remember the title) is one of my Favourite episodes.

[vanillapudding 44]

My super mega ultimate unpopular opinion that seems to go against the grain of most everything I've read is...

 

- I don't mind that they've reformed most of their villains, and I've liked almost all the reforms.

 

Further talk (If you want to read my ramblings):

Having Discord reformed has opened up some really interesting lesson dynamics (for example in the last one, he thinks he's super cool but realizes he's actually lonely and wants more friends, and he opens up to new ideas that he wasn't willing to try before and finds he likes them), one reformed changeling does not mean the whole hive is going to go good and Thorax is so cute, and while I really wish maybe they'd had Starlight be a villain for longer because her plot was just kind of weak she also opens up plenty of interesting new possibilities. Sure she's just Sunset Shimmer for the pony world to the point where I actually typed Sunset Glimmer twice before I noticed it but I've really wanted to see Sunset Shimmer's kind of story play out in the pony world, especially when it hit so hard in Rainbow Rocks (seeing her struggle in the school to turn her image around brought tears to my eyes).

 

Trixie is still on the edge but leaning towards good and that's a good kind of character to have, even if we've only seen her once in the show as this 'reformed' character. And Diamond Tiara, despite her mom being the most contrived thing ever, really made me feel good because she was just an over the top cliche stereotype. Yeah her reform was pretty stereotypical too but she was just getting nasty in some of her later efforts to bully the CMC. Seriously, making fun of a potentially disabled pony? That's just low and really makes my blood boil. And what she did is deplorable, but she's trying to change. Which shows that bullies don't have to be bullies forever, despite what movies show (for some reason this seems to be a theme in comedies - bully in high school? bully for life). 

 

Would it be nice to have a villain that runs through and comes up again and again? Yeah. Yeah it would. But none of the reformed characters have really fit the bill for that in my opinion. Chrysalis is the one I'm rooting for, and with Thorax's appearance maybe we'll get that yet. Probably followed by a reform of most if not all changelings >.> THEN I'll be upset. But until that happens, I'm chill.

[Trixie Heartstrings 434]

• I didn't mind Gilda as much as a lot of fans did in her first episode

I enjoy Dragon Quest

I like pretty much all of season 3, even Spike at your Service

I like Daring Don't

Simple Ways is one of my favorite episodes

I didn't have a problem with the way Pinkie Pie acted in Filli Vanilli

I'm glad that Equestria Games focused on Spike instead of the games

Starlight Glimmer is one of my favorite characters of the show

I think the song Luna's Future is kinda overrated, and prefer Say Goodbye to the Holiday

[Thrond 3,263]

• I enjoy Dragon Quest
• I like Daring Don't
• I'm glad that Equestria Games focused on Spike instead of the games

I agree with these three as well. In fact:

 

- "Dragon Quest" > "Gauntlet of Fire"

- If "Equestria Games" had focused on the games, it'd probably be pretty boring. 

- I also rather like "Equestria Games." 

[bluseymoe 258]

Starlight Glimmer has become the biggest mistake in the series to date. She added nothing to the show and was wasted on several episodes that could've been given to far better characters who have been ignored with their development (*cough*Celestia*cough*Scootaloo) and and the writers preoccupation with trying to make her necessary is probably why a lot of episodes were poorly thought out. Nothing she does will justify her in my eyes.

 

Ember isn't that great. I'm a clopper and I find her disgusting in terms of attractiveness. She looks like an R63 lizard version of Mr. Burns.

 

Rainbow Dash is a phenomenal character who the writers continue to blow the potential of on poorly thought out episodes. She needs more adventure and heroics-based stuff.

 

Spike's reputation in the Crystal Empire is overblown and somewhat undeserved. Lot's of ponies played a part in saving the Crystal Empire and only he gets the credit. Not to mention he nearly f*cked up and screwed them all until the two ponies who did more than anyone to defeat Sombra saved him and carried his ass the rest of the way. Also he didn't save the entire empire in EG. That cloud threatened to crush a few hundred ponies at most, which would've been an awful tragedy for sure, but not the end of the Crystal Empire as we know it. The fact that he's now developed an ego over all this makes me want to punt him into a brick wall. If the mane 6 really do secretly hate him, it's completely understandable.

[Steel Accord 6,660]

-I think all of the Mane Six are straight or at least bi.

 

-Sombra was my favorite villain.

 

-I have no complaints about any seasons or think the show has gotten noticeably worse.

 

-I HATE Flutterbat.

[Sparklefan1234 170,954]

I prefer the episodes where they focus on one specific member of the CMC, instead of all three of them together.

Edited September 13, 2016 by Sparklefan1234

[Sombra369 3]

Rainbow Dash gets too much focus and special treatment compared to the rest of the girls minus twilight, she's a creators pet at this point. And by far the most important of the mares in support, skillset, and overall power. Especially in power where she's basically a anime hero and second only the twilight in being the most capable in battle or solving head on problems with strength, speed and determination when twilight herself can't do it. She and Pinkie are the icons of the show and even this forum displays her as the main draw for casuals to become mlp fans.

 

Really her existence inhibits all the main six even twilight in being as cool or entertaining as her because she's the easiest character to write for fans and appeal to them(Even twilight sometimes can't come close RD's IT factor). She's badass, charsmatic, tough, sarcastic, carefree, and fearless. Flawed and not the ideal role model but she's still a adheres to the themes of the show in her own way. This makes her friends seem too boring and vanilla, because she's the only one who is allowed to be the stand out, be the edgy one who does the rebel stuff, the unconventional star that strays from feminine cliches and brings the new hardcore elements that men and normal down to earth girls like. She also has to learn from her own flaws the most since she is a stand in for the kids who get careless about their actions as well as be treated as a troublemaker who everyone thinks her antics are going too far.

 

While people like Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie play roles in static amounts and just come off as tedious plain main heroines that really bring nothing but idealistic facets of moral imperatives and hardly get reprimanded like Rainbow because she has the anti mare and thusly the most imperfect. Why should RD be the most flawed and prone to bad habits, Pinkies to innocent and goofy to have RD's self interested callousness even though she's as mischievous and prone to seeking excitement, Rarity has a composure and elegant allure of consideration but she's Arrogant, Conceited, and Self Assured as RD, Applejack is a just well adjusted all around and is more mature than all the ponies but she thrives on pride, ego, and greed. She and Rainbow are like two sides of the same coin. Rainbow is wild and non accountable to Aj's cool and responsible but they both have the same beliefs in being the best and pride.

 

I wish the girls had Rainbow Dash's conscious imperfect traits, or at least where all equal to her in being able to take to the action in their own way.

[Odd Ball 231]

Season one is overrated.

[Whirlwind 1,057]

Starlight Glimmer is a poorly written character 

[Luminance 2,186]

I like Starlight Glimmer. Her flaws and motive doesn't bother me but she symbolizes the internal conflict of acceptance and fear. Even when were not thinking straight we do make stupid mistakes that ultimately affects your ability and will to amend those wrong doings. Even relating to me, I still make mistakes and downright horrible choices and I'm not perfect so does Starlight Glimmer. In hand, she's still a confused and innocent pony and her past transgressions are and should be forgiven. I have no hard feelings for her and I wish that she'll deserve that friendship she really needs not for her but also on her behave to show me and others.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,161]

I personally find Starlight a much more interesting character than Discord. That's nothing agains the Lord of Chaos, but to me it seems like he is a bit overplayed and she is underplayed.

[Megas 27,652]

You know what? After how S6 has treated Dash I've actually grown to appreciate Rainbow Falls more.

 

While it's not a good episode I do feel like there was some effort put into it, or at least had good intentions.Conflicting loyalties is a good conflict for RD, but it was executed no where near as well as it should've been. It was a mistake, but one that felt like an honest goof(and I really hope that the nasty backlash didn't scare Corey Powell away from the show or the fandom, as she seemed to really enjoy her time early on. It'd be really heartbreaking)

 

However, episodes like 28 Pranks Later and Newbie Dash on the other hand have absolutely no reason to exist(or at least, exist the way it was in case of Newbie Dash), and feel like they only exist solely to shit on Rainbow Dash. 28 Pranks Later is pretty much the Mysterious Mare Do Well 2 Electric Scootaloo(minus its good parts), so much so that it's baffling that no one in the staff thought and said "hey this sounds a lot like MMDW, that episode everyone hated. Are you sure this is a good idea?". Fuck, it feels like it goes out of it's way to write RD being shitty, just so it can try to justify shoving a rusty pike up Rainbow's sphincter. And of course that didn't matter because "LOL ZOMBEEZZZ!!!11!". Literally the last episode she needed, especially after what came a few episodes before. Not to long before was the episode that went out of it's way to completely destroy a moment that many fans have been waiting for since literally the first damn episode. Newbie Dash we saw Rainbow Dash finally achieve her lifelong goal, the episode should've been an easy classic. Then they announced it was being written by a new writer, and it all goes downhill from there. Instead of the writers giving it their all, Rainbow Dash joins the 'bolts in the most anticlimactic, unsatisfying way possible, and the rest of the episode spends its entire time humiliating her, making her look like a complete dumbass, brings Rainbow to her lowest only to drive her further down instead of letting her climb back up, makes the bolts like a bunch of bullies(when they, once again, needed it the least) and really comes off as them actually trying to say "hazing is cool!", throw away 5 seasons worth of build up and development for the sake of a stupid joke, and more or less destroying her entire character arc in one fell swoop(with no satisfying way to continue). And for those who say "lol Rainbow needed a reality check!" no, fuck you. Rule no.1 of character development, you do not end a character arc that way. How would you feel if the CMC got their cutie marks by telling Pipsqueak to be just as shitty as Diamond Tiara during their school elections because he'll win, or if they got it by telling Diamond Tiara to suck up her mom's abuse "so she knows how it feels". How would you feel if Rarity sucked up Sassy Saddle's shitty business strategies, and sacrifice creativity and inspiration "because it makes her more money"? You wouldn't because that would be stupid and insulting, and that's what these episodes were. These were episodes that they should've though long and hard about, or should've never gotten past brainstorming, but it felt like they did not have a care in the world when writing these.

 

Rainbow Falls may have been a poor episode, but these two debacles were insulting. By comparison, Rainbow Falls is a goddamn masterpiece

 

/end salty as fuck rant

[Dabmanz 2,139]

Magical Mystery cure was a good episode.

I think Twilight and Flash Sentry is a good ship.

[Lambdadelta 1,462]

 

 

episodes like 28 Pranks Later and Newbie Dash on the other hand have absolutely no reason to exist

Actually, they are the popular opinions  I see them in every comment section, so they dont count as "unpopular opinions". 

 

My unpopular opinion (updated) regarding season 6 and new EG:

 

The new EG sucks, and i am really surprise that too many people praise it to be better than Friendship Games and even... Rainbow Rocks???????  . I rather watch Newbie Dash 3x times (and i did) than watch this crap anymore than once. This movie is not the worse compare to the last 3 movie because i complete erase its existence in the scoring chart.

 

Because of Gabby or something, i still cant rewatch "Fault in our cutie mark." (i usually rewatch episodes), it is really wierd, "Fault" is a good episode, why? I usually rewatch the good one 

 

I like RD in "Newbie Dash" and "28 Pranks Later" (even Rainbow Fall is one of the worst, i blame the Wonderbolt and Twilight writing, not RD herself).