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Hallo fegeleins I heard in old times you used to like writing huge textwalls about your waifus so I assume you like detailed reviews.
I got some reviews to read, let's post some and compare.
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37593798
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37537070
https://xaekai.net/xae/ghost.commentary.g5.merged.mp4

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I decided to go back and rewatch Season 7, the last season of MLP: FiM that made it to DVD. I was not pleased with what I found. Episode after episode struck me as flat, uninspired, moralizing, and occasionally embarrassing kiddie fare. I began to think: How could I have fallen in love with this show? How much better the occasional pleasures of the G5 movie are!

And then I hit "Parental Glideance," and found myself chuckling, cheering, and grinning like the proverbial skunk all the way through, from the four-minute mark onward.

How wonderful G4 was at its best! And what a miracle it was that the successive teams of show makers were able to hit that best, at least occasionally, after all those years.

Anybody else have any thoughts on revisiting old episodes?
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>>36833017
Well, like you I didn't hate "Griffon the Brushoff" as much on a rewatch. But I still don't like it. Joke-shop practical jokes are the recourse of morons.

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>>36833040
But try taking a look at Pinkie Pride in comparison. That's what really makes me appreciate GtBO and its characterization of Pinkie.

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GtBO was never good, had aged badly years ago and is still one of the low points of the series. As long as it was just Dash and Pinkie out and about it was okay but as soon as Gilda appeared it all went down the drain.

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I have lifted the attached image from EQD. It's supposed to be Fluttershy, done in G5 style. I think this ought to make clear one of the big differences between 2D and 3D: you have to be more realistic in 3D, and so characters and objects can't be simple and iconic. They have to have depth and texture and spatial location. As a result, they are less -- well, calligraphic: less near the "meaning" pole of Scott McCloud's ternary diagram (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Magnus-Haake/publication/324597044/figure/fig33/AS:631573850382349@1527590348158/An-edited-reproduction-of-the-design-space-of-visual-iconography-The-Big-Triangle.png), and much, much closer to the "Reality" pole. This makes them harder to read at a glance. It takes study to distinguish this G5 reading of Fluttershy from the other G5 pony characters; but the G4 Fluttershy is recognized in a heartbeat. (See next post)
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>>36832994
You're right, but I don't think it makes them any more difficult to 'read at a glance'. Or maybe I'm miss-reading what you mean by that.

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>>36832999
See attached pic of a similarly G-Five-ified Rarity. The mane color is sufficient to distinguish her from the G5 Fluttershy-- but the similarity is otherwise overwhelming, down to the shape of the curls. If you compare the character designs for the 2-D (G4) versions, you will see that a number of small distinctions have been coded into these much simpler, icon-like characters: different mane shape, different contour lines, different eye shape, slightly different eyelashes. Reading the flat characters is like reading a corporate logo or a heraldic emblem. Reading the 3-D characters requires a bit more attention, because their shared realistic textures and features add noise to the recognition process. Or so it seems to me.

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>>36833000
But in G4 the models were all the same too. In the end it was basically just a matter of colors and mane/tail/eye shape that made a difference.

It's no different with G5. The new main cast looks similar but still as unique to each other as the main six did.

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It fills me with joy the once lived in halls of some poor dead or long since left family are given life once more by the melodious ring of a shitty neglected doorbell. That and I leave a bunch of multi-level marketing scam pamphlets in the mail slot for the new owners to find.

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we are horsies. We don't know what any of this means

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Looks like there's lots of new pony on the horizon.

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Look a flying dogIn space

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Hey everypony

I've been gone a very long time. I stopped watching the show at the end of season 3. Tried to watch Equestria Girls but it was just too much for me. Recently that new gen 4.5 movie came out and I'm GUESSING there's been a bit of a resurgence in brony culture?

How have you all been doing? I've seen you. Here and there. Lurking around, being visible. Pony avatars in all the usual places, on Steam profiles... even one of the HackTheBox admins. All I can do is say I commend bronies for being 100% indefatigable and proving to everyone who might have hated or said it was "weird" that this isn't a phase and this community is here to stay.

idk. I'm drunk. Hey everyone! long time no see.
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>>36833010

Well hiya! Thanks for stopping by!

Just like Clarity i also watched the show through to the end and thoroughly enjoyed all of it. The newest movie surpassed my (admittedly low) expectations and has kind of given me hope for the new series.

Since the entire series is on Netflix, it would be an easy way to revisit what caught your interest in the first place. That is of course assuming you have access to a Netflix account.

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Huh, did I know you?

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>>36833010
I started watching in early 2011 and watched through to the end, although the good episodes got fewer and farther apart as the show wore on. Still, there were great episodes every year, down through "A Royal Problem" and "Parental Glideance" in S7 and "Fake It Till You Make It" and "Horse Play" in S8. Season 9? I dunno -- maybe "The Point of No Return?" I haven't watched it in a whle.

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No compromise. No concessions. No toleration. This will not pass.

You can push stuff with hooves. You can bang stuff with hooves. You can kick stuff with hooves. You can scratch your ear with a (hind) hoof. If you're very careful, you can even balance things on hooves.

But you can't pick up a teacup with a hoof, or punch computer keys and cell-phone buttons with a hoof, or play a guitar with hooves. Give up on this, and you give up on horses.
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>>36833054
Instinctively I go with hooves but then change it to hoofs.

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>>36833055
Well, that's two votes right there. I think that's about 5% of the current fandom...

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>>36833062
At least 50 % of the fandom on Ponychan!

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One of the minor pleasures of G4 MLP was all the horsy gags, puns, and references. A currency measured in bits. Twilight putting on a saddle to go out in "Winter Wrap-Up." The CMC playing a checkers-like game with tiny horseshoes. Typewriters with two keys. RD's oath "Horseapples!" in "Fall Weather Friends." And of course, all the geography — Manehattan, Fillydelphia, Las Pegasus, Canterlot, Neighagara Falls, and so on.

Others can probably think of a lot of other G4 examples. But there doesn't seem to be a lot of this in G5. "Maretime Bay" is good, and "Bridlewood" and "Canterlogic" are okay, I guess. But magical sticky hooves have replaced the horsy mouth-handling of objects, and there seems to be a general downplaying of horse stuff. This seems like an aspect of a generally less playful approach to the world and the material. Or am I missing something?

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Maybe there'll be more horse puns coming in the series, when we see the day to day lives of the ponies. I don't think the G5 movie had much opportunity to show any such things - just like the G4 movie didn't.

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when I made the revolution I thought, why not revolution along with the ponies too? and we did that, then I met Veronika, a revolutionary pony that fought the bourgeois and made the revolution together with us, then one day she said, "you can kill two or three roses, but they will never stop the spring. - Veronika

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“Hi, I’d like to order an extra large pizza. Pepperoni, sausage, and mushroom.” - Me.

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I'm busy at the moment

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I want Veronika to rape me.

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This message is dedicated to all fellow PC users on Earth, toward a better tomorrow and a better place to live in. 9LIVES

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Here’s some pork for ya. I baked up a 2 pound massive fucking ham steak.

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Here is my favorite shot!
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>>36833102
Dang, I didn't mean to write that.

What I ment to write was "IDW own the rights to Sonic comics", as in the fact IDW are currently making the comics for Sonic.

IDW also made the comics for MLP:FiM and Transformers so I imagine it wouldn't be that difficult for IDW to pull some strings for a crossover.

It's just I'd much rather have a Transformers crossover than a MLP:FiM crossover.
Would love to see the Deceptions scan some of Dr. Eggmans robots and become the "Badnicons", or Dr. Eggman studying the cybernetics of the Decepticons to make the Badnicons himself.

I also like the idea of Optimus Prime scanning the GUN truck, or Blurr scanning Sonic's Speed Star.
Or Bumblebee scanning a Moto Bug or Starscream scanning a Balkiry

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>>36833105
It'd be more difficult at least for one reason, Transformers and MLP both belong to Hasbro. Sonic doesn't.

Still, I think Sonic in the Transformers world (or vice versa) would be a better crossover than either with ponies.

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>>36833107
All the more reason why a MLP:FiM crossover with Sonic is unlikely.

But IDW does own the rights to all three comics... and there has been stranger Transformers crossovers such as Back to the Future, Star Trek TOS and even Archie.

But yes, I think Sonic would be more fitting for Transformers than MLP:FiM.

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My questions for MLP G5
Since the G5 movie just came out, all theories for the movie are answered. But I have some unanswered questions that might be answered in the special or the series.



The unsolved mysteries of G5 MLP:

What happened to the Crystal Empire?

What happened to Cloudsdale, Ponyville and Canterlot which are home to each ponykind?

What happened to other creatures and where are they now?

Where is the portal to the Human World (I don't really want to the series to show it, just answers from others. I don't really want to see cursed humans since Equestria Girls has perfect human design and since I don't want to see the results of G5 humans, I don't want to see it to happen in G5)

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Here is the shot of MLP in Kapamilya Channel

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Flutterhulk - Power Ponies scene

This is one of the most bizarre moments this show's ever done. Imagine if someone unsuspecting fool who thinks MLP is a baby show stumbles upon the show and sees this.

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I think it was these unexpected things that made the show popular with older fans.

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>>36833118
Not saying these moments are bad, though

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Fluttershy coming out of her shell and turning momentarily into a bull-beast was always good for a laugh, from "Dragonshy" onward. How about her chewing on that squirrel in "Best Night Ever"? How about The Stare? And Flutterhulk? And Flutterbat? And Flutterbasso in "Bridle Gossip" and "Filli Vanilli"? And becoming a monster in "Putting Your Hoof Down"? And somehow the iron core was always unexpected and funny when it peeked through -- at least until the end of the series, by which time the original Fluttershy had been pretty much replaced by a new, self-confident model that had stopped being funny (to me, at any rate).

Yay! Nothing like her in G5.

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Looks like G5 will get an official game, something G4 never did unfortunately.https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/03/my-little-pony-maretime-bay-adventure.html
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>>36833139
True, but it's not what I consider a classic 'game'.

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>>36833132
DJTHED worked on the 3d models rigging and anims too isn't it cool?
https://twitter.com/_DJTHED/status/1501268245365473285

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>>36833142
It sure is.

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In the new comic series, G5 ponies are exploring what appears to be the dusty ruins of Canterlot, prompting someone named Ian to post the following on EQD:

This comic is essentially telling us that G5 is going to stop pretending to care about honoring its predecessor and tell us that Twilight and her friends utterly failed in their quest to create a better Equestria, that everything they and their friends fought so hard for was ultimately for nothing, and that all the characters we know and love probably lived out their days knowing they were losers and failures.

Thanks, G5. Now go buck yourself.

I have a different response. This narrative reminds me of the lyric from the old Lerner and Loewe musical "Camelot"--

Ask ev'ryone if he has heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot.

Fallen glories linger as legends. Even after they fall, they can rise up again in the imagination and inspire the lives of generations not yet born. I find myself singing this anthem in my head:

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>>36833156
You're such a boring shitty person

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>>36833159
begone, rude rando.

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>>36833159
Friendship is magic.

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I'm back
so what'd I miss?

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That's where you fucked up, to assume you missed anything.

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What you missed depends on when you left. When was that?

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Have you seen the new ponies? Maybe you missed that!

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More, and more elaborate, para-pony silliness from Athena, Lustrous, and Shawn Keller. G4 after four margaritas. I love it.
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>>36833651
Keller draws a lot like Chuck Jones.

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>>36833665
You're right, style (and humour) are quite similar.

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>>36833669
Except for the two bronies, who are Beavis and Butthead with better artwork.

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I'm thinking about giving the show a chance. Is it really worth the old hype?
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>>36833257 >>36833258
Hearts and bums, got it

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>>36833258
See attached graphic from 2011.

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>>36833258
The fucking shine is doing things to me...

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I've been going around for days with Don McLean's "American Pie" running through my head. Tonight I said to myself, "I wonder if that song was ever ponified when the MLP thing was at its peak?" I went to YouTube to look. Sure enough, there it was, dated 2014. Then I asked the same question about Billy Joel's "Piano Man" -- and yes, there was a pony version of that, also from 2014. "Old Town Road" by Li'lNasX? Two pony versions, both from 2019. And so on and on.

There are thousands of these pasteups, every one testifying to the amazing surge of love and attention and fellowship and artistry that characterized the pony phenomenon at its peak. There has been nothing like it in other fan communities.

I think maybe the huge sweep of ponified videos left on YouTube, that mark the high tide of MLP like the arc of bottles and shells and seaweed marking the high-tide line at the beach, will be what keeps the MLP fandom alive in the consciousness of future generations.

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I don't know, maybe? No idea how easy these shells and weeds will be stumbled upon.Anyway I'm also excited to see just how long MLP and ponyfication will remain as a meta meme.

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