Unread postby Wittgen » June 5th, 2011, 1:02 am
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is an amazing show, and I feel we need a thread to discuss it here on Viridian Dreams. For this first post, though, I'll be giving the rundown on some of the reasons it's so amazing. People tend to be a little incredulous when you tell them the best new cartoon this year is the new generation of My Little Pony. That's fair. But it really is worth your time. Here's why.
1) Great technical proficiency. First things first, this is a seriously well put together animated show. The animation is well done, with sold direction and lots of variety so it never feels stale or repetitive visuals wise. The voice acting is great. The music is fantastic, both the background stuff and when they break out into song. (Which is not particularly often, but when they do, it is always funny, catchy, or both.)
2) The writing is awesome. While this is a show created to get little girls to buy toys, it is also so, so much more. The characters are all very well developed, and the plots are centered around them. The show isn't afraid to let it's characters mess up, be in conflict with each other, or even snap and go batshit crazy. Basically, the show has characters at the heart of everything it does, and this makes the show eminently enjoyable.
3) Unrelenting joy. As mentioned above, the show does not shy away from having conflict, a mistake often made by "girl" shows in the past. It is, however, singularly lacking in anything resembling cynicism, bitterness, or too cool for school shenanigans. The purity of how it unceasingly strives to entertain gives me the warm fuzzies. It's so rare nowadays.
4) The primary creative control of this show belonged to Lauren Faust. Lauren Faust was an important part of the creative teams behind Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
5) The fandom is pretty insane. I've really only started looking at the fandom in the last couple of days, but there seem to be a lot of cool, passionate people being creative out of their love for ponies. It's nice. Seriously, this is a fandom that responds to haters with image macros saying "I'm going to love and tolerate the shit out of you."
6) Accessibility. All the full episodes are on youtube with very good quality.
Even with these reasons, you might still be super skeptical. I'd urge you to remember that this forum was created to discuss fanfic about entertainment products aimed at children not much older than what My Little Pony is aimed at. Great creative work transcends things like "target demographics," and MLP:FiM really is great. Hope we can have some good times talking about ponies here on Viridian Dreams.
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