by Space Ghost (?) » Sat Apr 05, 2014 1:16 am
You know, I really wonder why I go off on these kind of dumb angry tangents that end up doing nothing and explaining nothing and make me feel like a complete dumbass afterwords. I apologise for my behavior.
I'm gonna try and explain my basic problem with this gag.
Whenever this show does something like this rap video, or Discord's pop culture referances or dumb out of nowhere stuff like Bulk Biceps in Rainbow Falls or does episodes like Daring Don't. It all makes the show feel very empty and insincere, it makes it looks less like the show it established itself to be in seasons 1, 2 and heck even 3, which is something along the lines of a character driven fantasy adventure/sitcom and more like you're run-of-the-mill generic cartoon. It's like HAR HAR we just had Pinkie be a mix between Flava Flav and Run DMC and rap a shitty song in shitty quality with shitty music, ain't that hilarious.
To me it's not, to me it's trying way too hard. It's insincere. It would've been funny if it was what I was originally expecting - a dumb rap song with no self awareness and complete sincerity. But that would've been a great moment of utter stupidity that I would just love. You know, because it's just so dumb you can't help but enjoy it. So bad it's good as they say.
This? With VHS quality, 4:3 screen ration and crappy lyrics? It's something from another show, it lacks the self awareness of THIS show, what this show is about and what kind of gags this show pulls off. It feels like a writer just shoving something in because they just HAVE to do it because it's oh so hilarious. As a gag it doesn't flow. You pull this off as a short video and dump it on hasbro's official chanel, you got no problem from me.
But this doesn't feel like this dumb pony show, it's some other cartoon, it's this dumb thing that's just there and feels like it's from somwhere else, you know? It stops being this pony show and being some show with ponies.
Last edited by Space Ghost on Sat Apr 05, 2014 1:26 am, edited 1 time in total.