My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Page 446

On February 03 2012 20:43 kastoob wrote:
So I've watched every episode from this show and I have some thoughts on it, put in some youtube clips as examples.
I feel the strongest point of the show is its voice acting. Just a delight to listen to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJpyJkrq5k

The animation is pretty good, I wasn't that impressed until season 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSzNHxHKgxw&feature=related

I generally like the show, but I feel its over hyped. It is just a children's show so it can only be so intellectually interesting, but it's still likeable.
It's a pretty damn good kids show, but its not my favourite kids show. I feel as though spongebob squarepants and adventure time with finn and jake have better humour, and Arthur to have more interesting characters and lessons for children.

That said I still have some problems with the show.
My biggest problem with the show is Pinkie Pie. I just cannot like her. She's inconsiderate, selfish, intrusive, has an unhealthy party obsession, and is straight up obnoxious. Though I found this humouring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MgonZ6J7_I
So I'll back up my reasons for not liking Pinkie, spoilers ahoy!
Episode 1, she throws a party for twilight, without even asking twilight whether she wanted a party or not. Yeah, yeah its supposed to be a surprise party, but it didn't need to be. Its more like Pinkie wanted to throw a party and found an excuse to throw one, she didn't ask whether twilight was new or had any friends, or wanted to make any she just held a party in twilights home. This party addiction behaviour is shown in several episodes later. And twilight was not pleasantly surprised, she told Pinkie that "libraries are supposed to be quiet" but does Pinkie listen? Nope. The idea that twilight would like some peace and quiet is "Boooring".
There's an episode where pinkie straight up flips out because the other ponies aren't going to her party, which she organises directly after another one. Melodramatic much?
In the final episode of season 1, at the gala, Pinkie starts playing loud music at the gala followed by harassing several other ponies. Damn it Pinkie, the gala is not your party, its an exclusive party, which quite frankly you should be grateful for even being invited. You don't just go to a fancy party and expect the other ponies to do what you want.
At the episode where Luna comes to ponyville in an attempt to become friends, Pinkie is fearmongering the children, when all Luna wants is to reconcile. Why? Because Pinkie gets a kick out of being scared. No regard for Luna.
Also the cider episode. If I was rainbow dash I'd be mad too. Ok you buy unnecessary amounts of cider to satisfy your intense gluttony, that's pretty inconsiderate, she then comes back later to gloat about how great it was to someone who consistently misses out on the cider. Like really? I guess she makes up for it at the end of the episode but the earlier disregard for rainbow dash's feelings was just.. ugh.
If Pinkie was a human being I would not want her as my friend.

Another problem I have with the show is it undermines of twilights research. Maybe because I see a bit of myself in twilight. It's like I can agree with all of these ponies actions. She's studying hard. Being social isn't everything in life you know? I know the show's called friendship is magic, but I honestly don't like the idea that hard study while antisocial should be avoided. First episode Celestia doesn't heed twilights warnings and guess what nightmare moon returns. Yea I know friendship was required to fiya tha rainbow lazor, but why couldn't twilight just continue researching and finding it out herself? Nope get your head out of the books Celestia says.
Also another episode with pinkie's twitchy tail. I think the lesson learnt was to 'just believe in things'. As a physics student this lesson just pissed me off. It's a horrible lesson to tell a child in general. We should encourage curiosity and question asking, investigating, research! We can then publish/share our findings and spread the knowledge. Just believing in things we cant explain held back science. The drive to find an explanation for everything, and then using that knowledge puts us at the most powerful species on this planet.

And finally this show which is supposed to be teaching our children lessons deals in black and white, a lack of actually interesting problems in life. Sometimes I wish Trixie was as powerful as she claimed she was. I wonder how the rest of the ponies would just deal with it. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if the cider twins weren't overconfident and were also likeable ponies. I honestly think they would've provided a better service with their machine to ponyville. In a contest to determine who could produce the most quality cider they would've been better. Twilight and friends helping doesn't count because they aren't part of the cider producing team. Will they consistently help out every cider season? Doubt it.
I feel as though the morale teachings in 'Arthur' are better. It dealt with violence amongst siblings, skipping school, behaving selflessly, and tolerance of difference to name a few topics.

So yea I give 'Friendship is Magic' a 7/10. I got problems with it but its still likeable enough to watch. Probably tonnes of people will point out everything this show does right so no need for me to go too much into that.