
| Anonymous #157322 1 year ago |
and you ppl keep dissing G1 |
| Bags #157323 1 year ago |
I watch it for the plot. |
| Thaluka #157335 1 year ago |
G4 has really awesome plots. |
| AdrianBrony #157336 1 year ago |
We are willing to accept the G1 special as a wirthy predecessor. |
| Anonymous #157338 1 year ago |
I diss G1? |
| Anonymous #157352 1 year ago |
G4 is more awesome, even when there are no real adventures. I would love it, if the next season would be as dark as G1, or G3, or whichever G it was. |
| AdrianBrony #157363 1 year ago |
I think that while the adventures of G1 were more "epic" I wou;d not enjoy it as much ig G4 went that route entirely. G4 is more about good solid character interaction more than setting or plot. It has the occasional "adventure" episode, and those are good, but I would hate for every episode to be one of them. |
| Anonymous #157369 1 year ago |
Ah, 2007, the dark ages of G3. I wonder if that person is happy now that we have FiM. And the plots line is hilarious too (especially that G1 ponies DID have plots, sometimes) |
| Kyouhen #157385 1 year ago |
FiM may not be as actiony as some of that, but I'm pretty sure it's all around just a better done and more fun show. :P |
| Anonymous #157391 1 year ago |
*looks at tags
*hilarious_in_hindsight ....Somepony here is also a Trooper |
| Anonymous #157396 1 year ago |
I LIKE the absence of adventure plots in Friendship is Magic. The show's at its strongest when the story revolves around the characters' personalities and relationships. |
| Thaluka #157401 1 year ago |
I hope Season 2 has some mini-arcs with more adventure plot, while still having fun slice-of-life episodes. They could take out some of the filler type stuff (pure CMC episodes, episodes focused on one-off concepts that don't stay; Pinkie Keen/Owl's Well ect) and toss in a mini arc or two. |
| Skipta #157445 1 year ago |
@Anon391: I'd imagine a lot of people here have their share of times they get totally trapped reading article after article on TVtropes. It's really interesting (and I'm one of the people it improves shows for rather than mess them up. Like after Abed in Community specified what a Bottle Episode is. Now I go "SCREW THIS, WE'RE DOING A BOTTLE EPISODE!" and feel happy when I start to notice it's going that way!). :D
@Anon396: Yeah, I absolutely adore well-executed Slice of Life style series too. Wouldn't mind, as Thaluka said, to have some Mini-arcs with continuity - provided it doesn't take away from the interpersonal focus. I don't consider the CMC episodes filler though, more like A Day In The Limelight (and they give me diabetus). :) |
| Anonymous #157516 1 year ago |
Trust me, MLP is a lot better off as it is now.
Writing doesn't get easier than single-episode action plots in shows for children, and watching such a show can't get more boring--movement becomes its own plot. There are only so many action situations that kids can understand, and even fewer that producers will allow to air. A lot more effort goes into making a show without black-and-white, good-versus-evil situations, and viewers can pick up on that. MLP is now more complex than "we have to go beat up that bad guy OR ELSE!" and I appreciate that. The creators make an effort to give the characters depth rather than move them around all the time. |
| Anonymous #157647 1 year ago |
@Skipta: There's even a trope for whiling away hours on TV Tropes. It's called a Wiki Walk.
Anyway, I think we're all missing a very important point here. G3 had a Christmas episode. That means that somewhere in their history, there's a Pony Jesus who was born in Pony Bethlehem, preached salvation to the Pony Jews, and was crucified by the Pony Romans. I'd kill my own mother to see His story told, for any G of ponies. |
| Anonymous #157824 1 year ago |
hindsight.... plot... hmmm |
| Thaluka #158001 1 year ago |
G3 is heresy, and Celestia had all those abominations destroyed.
There are already plenty of "action" episodes like Dragonshy, Diamond Dogs ect they just aren't linked together. There are also "antagonist" episodes like Griffon and Boast Busters. It's just a matter of combining them and running it over two consecutive episodes, like the pilot. Do that twice a season or so and it'd work. |
| D_Pony #158127 1 year ago |
Anon 391 here (forgot to log-in) nice, althoug i have to admint, i rarerelu visit the forums (and even more rarely post in them) , but i also try to keep in order some of the tropes on my watchlist, and frequently lurk around YKTTW in search of new potential tropes
as for the series, i would like something a la Haruhi Suzumiya, constantly changing the format(slice of life, adventrue, sci-fi. and even chibis!!!!), while still having a greater Myth arch that reveals itself slowly, i mean, while an episodic format can be nice, and helps to the casual viewers to see them in any order, some more dedicated viewers (incluiding me given i lke the anime/cartoon/game/whatever) also would like to see the time passing and the characters evolving, for example, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, great anime, with a quite surreal style of both animation and storytelling, it's episodic, and is really good, but at the same time it misses many opportunities, elements of the personality of the characters that could be explored to a deeper level many times are left as just one-shot punch lines, and the character in the end never go beyond their personal quircks(esscential part of the premise) to more fleshed characters. |
| D_Pony #158137 1 year ago |
also as a kid i watched the g1 cartoons(brony here), sadly... i con't remember them anymore, i can barely remember the spanish version of the song(Mexican).... damn, now i feel old, i'm not sure but i think the g2 and g3 were never translated, i'm hopping to see how the g4 dub will be, i just hope they don't screw it up with their voice actors choice |