EPTGive it a try, much better than the K-pop that some players are constantly listening to. (in my opinion ofc)
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Page 17
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HoMM
Estonia635 Posts
Give it a try, much better than the K-pop that some players are constantly listening to. (in my opinion ofc) | ||
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Switzerland812 Posts
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Koshi
Belgium38797 Posts
Not really a fan of this show but it is pretty funny there is a thread about TL about ponies  | ||
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SmoKim
Denmark10301 Posts
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iNfeRnaL
Germany1908 Posts
And what's even more creepy is that I see Kim posting before me in something like that every damn time. Well, have fun to those who enjoy it, I guess? Still in disbelief MALES like this tho... | ||
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SmoKim
Denmark10301 Posts
On August 12 2011 23:42 iNfeRnaL wrote: Seriously this thread just creeped the fucking shit outta me when I read to OP. And what's even more creepy is that I see Kim posting before me in something like that every damn time. Well, have fun to those who enjoy it, I guess? Still in disbelief MALES like this tho... i can smell when you post  therefore i always beat you to the bush noob  | ||
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Lesser
Canada33 Posts
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muse5187
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PandaCore
Germany553 Posts
I even told some friends about it and after reluctantly watching it, they got sucked into it as well. I didn't like the first 2 episodes too much though since they seem somewhat out of place from the rest. For me the real show starts at episode 3. Not to keen about ep7 (since you put it up in the OP as episode to watch first) too. My fav episodes are (not in order): 4, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 20, 23, 25 and 26 I actually like all of the characters, even some background characters like Colgate and Spitfire, though I don't enjoy Rarity's parts that much. | ||
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ReturnStroke
United States801 Posts
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NathanSC
United States620 Posts
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Chibithor
Brazil514 Posts
On August 12 2011 14:30 AirbladeOrange wrote: GMarshal, I never thought a badass die hard mafia guy like yourself would watch a show about magical ponies. Either way I don't care but I do have a question for the guys who like this show. What other TV shows do you like? I never even heard of this Hub station. I don't really watch TV, but shows I like are Monk, Supernatural, Beck and House. Dexter looks interesting too but haven't checked it out. That's funny, now that I think about it they're all pretty similar in that there's a mystery and they go and solve it detective style. :I (Don't know about Dexter though) There's also plenty of anime I like, like Death Note, Code Geass, Elfen Lied and Strike Witches. On August 12 2011 17:50 Colour415 wrote: Why is everyone hating on the first 2 episodes...I thought they were some of the best ones. My guess is it's because they're quite different from the rest, so if they show them to someone who hasn't seen FiM, they don't really see what the show is really about in the end. Personally I think the first two are good and a decent introduction to the series, even if they are different. Plus there's Steven Magnet. | ||
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Perihelion
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On August 13 2011 00:00 muse5187 wrote: Is this some dumb Internet fad that makes you "cool"? I couldnt imagine anyone admitting this in person. On the other hand I feel like I'm being trolled. Nope, it's a legitimately good show. | ||
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HigoSeco
Chile232 Posts
I don't know what's so special about it | ||
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Itachii
Poland12466 Posts
On August 13 2011 00:49 HigoSeco wrote: I thought this was a kids show that anyone can laugh at like spongebob, but i watched the first episode and it's just my little pony, a show for little girls. I don't know what's so special about it this, and mature males watching it | ||
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Azelja
Japan762 Posts
^This. The show is really surprisingly well written and overall just plain good. My - 25 year old - brother was like "Dude, you gotta watch My Little Pony!". At first I thought he was trolling me, so I decided to give it a try and go watch the first episode. And then the second... and the third... Shit, now I can't stop xD | ||
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00Zarathustra
Bolivia419 Posts
On August 13 2011 01:03 Azelja wrote: ^This. The show is really surprisingly well written and overall just plain good. My - 25 year old - brother was like "Dude, you gotta watch My Little Pony!". At first I thought he was trolling me, so I decided to give it a try and go watch the first episode. And then the second... and the third... Shit, now I can't stop xD QFT - I watched the first episode yesterday, and today I run home as soon as I finished my hospital shift to continue watching I'm on ep 4 now. | ||
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viralintruder
Jamaica140 Posts
I consider myself to be a little peculiar in taste and behaviour, but I am an average male youth who enjoys stuff the average male youth is expected to (aside from watching too much Food and Travel Channel programming). My experience with MLP:FiM is typical: three months ago I could never fathom myself watching a show about flamboyantly coloured ponies reciting and enacting morals and principles that build and encourage various qualities such as unity, teamwork, diligence, caring, selflessness, honouring of obligations, equality, tolerance, constructiveness, innovation, and open-mindedness. I could never understand why everywhere I went I always saw some image of a pony with a dubious caption to match the discussion in every forum I browsed or elsewhere on the internet. Was it an elaborate troll? Was it a dedicated movement by weirdos to derail threads and websites across the internet? Was this show one of those cartoons that are for adults but are packaged so innocuously that you'd have to be clued in on it before you watched/understood? Or was it just GOOD? Whatever the case, I steered very far from anything equine related. Cartoons and animations for me always sucked except for a few that were really good, some that were slightly enjoyable and the rest being unbearable to watch. The mere stigmas and prejudices I held about the "My Little Pony" franchise being for 4 year old girls also made me have my reservations about diving into the show. I could not have been more sorely closed-minded about the show, as all I really knew about MLP was the little jingle and that it was a toy line, so I just figured it would be emasculating to watch a show for female toddlers. Ponies as a meme never really made sense to me before I watched the show, and rightly so. Who the hell understands what a blue pony with a multicoloured tail and small wings has to do with being 20% cooler? Spontaneously, one day early in the afternoon, I came to the realization that I felt bored. Bored out of my wits. The type of mundane, restless boredom that could not be ignored. All my favorite streamers were offline. There was no SC2 tournament going on. There were no movies/tv shows I was planning to watch. There was nothing pressing to take care of at home. I was tired of listening to music. It was unbearably dull. As I sat mindlessly browsing youtube, a fan video about MLP came up in the recommendations and I stared at the thumbnail for a few seconds before clearing my mind of what I thought was good sense, ignoring the video, and going straight into searching for "My Little Pony episode 1". I was almost put off by the intro song, it was like a ringing slap to my brain to leave. Leave now. I just listened to it and shook my head, one eye on the screen and one behind me to see if my family was looking at what I was watching. After covertly watching the first and second episodes I thought "Ok... well, that was a waste of 45 minutes. It was predictable, linear and not nearly as decent as people hype it up to be. It's just a show for little girls..." I mean, by no stretch of the imagination were the first two episodes bad; I could clearly see that a lot of work had gone into the production and animation, and whilst the plot was predictable and the setting was cheesy, the story was tied together if only a little bit dryly. I decided to kill some more time by watching the next three episodes, and surprisingly, the subsequent episodes were like a different show. Upon completion of the first 5 episodes, I watched (amid other activities) up to episode 15 in a row that same day before tearing myself away at 3:30am to get some rest for work. Over the next month I watched the rest of the entire season at a more moderate and yet eager pace, even watching a few episodes again to re-familiarize myself with the story. The show is genuinely good and the first two episodes are a bad starting point unless you're going to watch the next 5 or so episodes to understand why the first two were necessary. Here are five reasons why I like MLP:FiM:
2) The characters were identifiable and so very well developed. Were you to watch the entire season, you get a very crisp grasp of each of the ponies personalities and how they'd react to a situation; their personalities are as varied as an assortment of humans can get. You get to see how different personalities with differing methodologies and ideologies go about resolving conflict, but in the end, the "right" path is chosen and a lesson is learned. Tolerance, parity, and teamwork are heavily showcased in MLP. 3) The show pushes a single moral and expounds upon it in each episode. The characters all uniquely (yet in most cases positively) respond to developments in the story and in the end, the protagonists (any one or all of the Mane 6) will prevail with the power of an admirable quality. This is what we need in this time of aggression where children are being bombarded with violence, mercilessness, and independence in all forms of media. I will NOT regret watching this show and I hold the viewpoint that everyone should watch this show, if nothing else, at least for the moral value. 4) The production quality is exceptional, the animation never feels forced or unrealistic (=p maybe a few times, it's a cartoon...), and I have genuinely been entertained and even laughed many times in most episodes. Stories are coherent and usually fluid. Plot advancement is appropriate and characters are never contradictory to themselves in previous episodes, which shows that the entire season was mapped out with care and scrutiny. The show itself is quite vibrantly cute, sickeningly cute, but I love their style. I know that I genuinely feel better and happier when I watch MLP, those 22 minutes never feel like a drag. 5) The brony community is one of the more intriguing phenomenons to hit the internet in years. While I'm not familiar with the specifics, I believe what started off as a mixed disingenuous troll by some and a legitimate interest by others has blossomed into a mostly sincere and well mannered group of males and females the world over who enjoy watching MLP. Love and tolerance along with the other morals on the agenda of the show are the hallmark of the community and I really believe that this is a step forward in mental progression and open-mindedness. Yes, there are trolls, creeps, freaks, and people who like anthropomorphic ponies too much. They are in every community and are the minority. Some time ago there was a thread on Blizzard's SC2 forums that had waaaaay too much focus on the size of the chest of the human/zerg transition Kerrigan on the site, with comments ranging from disdain for her "ugliness" to complete devotion and violence towards dissidents. Kerrigan is a game character, these ponies are animations. Same thing? Those comments had me far more worried about the mental state and impulsions of some of the world's youths rather than comments about ponies spreading love and tolerance. Since my discovery of MLP, I cannot wait for the next season, my only regret is that I didn't try it out it sooner. Approximately 1/5 of my browsing is about ponies, the rest is TL.net and other forums, music/movies/tv shows/youtube/misc, wikipedia/educational activities or talking to people. MLP has become an accepted part of me and I don't really care who doesn't like it or thinks negatively of me for it. I'm not a super crazy dedicated brony, and I don't purchase MLP merchandise (partly because it isn't widely available in my country and quite frankly I don't want to be mobbed for wearing a Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash shirt). I do appreciate the show and it's producers and will try to watch the next season on the Hub, and I hope that it is even better than the current season. TL;DR: In conclusion, now that I have that all out of my system I can wholeheartedly recommend this show to everyone. I have genuinely had my approach to my actions, choices, and the people around me changed by this show. Even though no one I have shared the show with has given it a chance, that neither discourages me nor detracts from how I feel about this show or it's message. The mere fact that I, a random stranger, have so much to say about MLP:FiM is an indication that at least there is something there for some people. If it's not for you, that's fine, but don't be closed-minded. You can find inherent goodness in something that wasn't directed towards you. If you found nothing at all in MLP:FiM, you did not give it a chance. If you really did give it an objective chance and found nothing of value, you may need to reconsider your values. The packaging may be girly, but the message is universal. Also: | ||
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taldarimAltar
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Perihelion
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On August 13 2011 01:38 taldarimAltar wrote: is this thread just one big troll? I cannot for the love of pete begin to fathom why our demographic would even slightly enjoy such a thing You should probably read the post above yours. | ||
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