My Little Pony: It's Over

[Clayton_n]

Alas poor Twilight, we hardly knew ye.

Anyone else going to miss this show?

[Clayton_n]

Whoops... might be a new series...

2020 My Little Pony: Pony Tales Twilight Sparkle Upcoming series [134]

[PictureGuy]

My Little Glue Factory?

[Clayton_n]

How much glue do you eat/sniff?

[PictureGuy]

How much glue do you eat/sniff?

None. I don't like eating horse.

[Clayton_n]

What's wrong with gelatin?

[PictureGuy]

^ Cannibalism!

[Clayton_n]

Yup.

[PictureGuy]

^ Some of your images are just too big. It's a problem to keep scrolling back and forth.

[Clayton_n]

Do you log on via your phone?


So how did you like the ending?

[PictureGuy]

I just have a plain ordinary flip phone for emergencies. I don't feel like I have to be plugged in every second of my life.

[Clayton_n]

I log in at the library.

Anyway the ending of MLP... like it?

[Clayton_n]

These two videos actually got me into the show... before Weird Al was even in it...

[.:neuko:.]

While I'm going to miss the show, I think it's a good thing that it ended when it did, and as it did. A lot of cartoon series after getting so popular, let the commercialism get to their heads, lose sight of why they were created, and then sort of fizzle out with a whimper rather than close with a bang. I'm happy to say this wasn't the case with MLP:FIM, which as far as I'm concerned put out the best ending I've seen for animated show in the last 10 years. Sure, the series has had its fair share of fillers here and paddings there; and sure, it's tried my patience many times by opening up interesting topics and character arcs, only to not expand upon them until several seasons later, or at all. I mean, much as I enjoyed season 9, I could put a lot of that down its emphasis on wrapping up so many character arcs that the entire series had been purposely holding back. Oh, and that Grogar-Was-Really-Discord-All-the-Time finale: that was such a cop-out, it wasn't even funny.

But having said all that, I couldn't have asked for a better ending: That final episode, "The Last Problem" was so good I could forgive the Discord twist in the previous 2 episodes. 10 years ago I'd lost all faith in western cartoons and had gotten tired of the nasty commercialism that would dictate their content and quality. But then MLP:FIM came seemingly out of nowhere and changed all that--not because it wasn't commercial as well, mind--obviously it was; but it was the sort of commercial that was determined by the fanbase rather than a cynical bunch of premeditating board members. And let's not forget, MLP:FIM also had the unenviable task of changing the rightfully negative perception of MLP from G1 through G3, the latter having animation so bad it makes South Park look like a masterpiece.

One day I'll be looking back at all this and telling my little butterflies: "You know, our cartoons were just as awful back in my day as yours are now. But not all of them. Sit down, and I'll show you how special a cartoon series can be when it's fuelled by passionate writers, talented voice actors and creative fans." Then I'd go into the cabinet where I've stashed my old DVDs and take out My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic ~The Complete Series~ boxset.

[Clayton_n]

It's be nice if they released the freaking DVDs for the last two seasons... do you think they didn't because of the openly lesbian characters? I notice She-ra 4&5 aren't out either...

[PictureGuy]

How about the follow up movie to the final episode? My Little Pony Goes to the Glue Factory.

[Clayton_n]

Dude that is so wrong!

Obviously they use them to make the sparkle glue!

[PictureGuy]

^ I stand corrected.

[Clayton_n]

The color match it disturbingly close...