Re: In-Season General Show Chat - Season 6 Conversation Stat
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Fizzbuzz
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SlateSlabrock wrote:The larger problem in my mind is that they don't seem to have a strong path forward. I'm happy to watch good slice of life episodes, but since season 4, the only larger story arc has been, "Go to [place] and help [someone you'll never see again] with their problems, which are actually your problems." I want the staff to stretch their wings a little and prove that we're not just running down the clock until the movie.
Fizzbuzz wrote:Do you really think so? I mean, what about Rainbow Dash finally joining the Wonderbolts, or Rarity expanding her business to a national scale, or Twilight Sparkle now having to be a teacher of friendship instead of a student, or the CMC finally getting their cutie marks and now having to figure out what to do with their lives? With those in mind, I feel that the show is making more progress than ever with its characters.
SlateSlabrock wrote:Those are great moments, but they're an endpoint. Rainbow has been joining the Wonderbolts since season 4. The CMC are now done with cutie mark hunting. Rarity has now opened two new stores.
Fizzbuzz wrote:Do you really feel like that's the end, though? Life doesn't end once you've accomplished a personal goal. As you point out, Rarity didn't suddenly vanish from the show as soon as she opened her store in Canterlot. Apple Bloom didn't disappear now that she no longer has toabout not having her cutie mark. Their stories are definitely continuing on, with new experiences and new challenges along the way.
We've been getting new characters with new problems, too. Look at Starlight Glimmer, for example. A former charismatic leader who was shown the error of her ways, she now struggles with learning how to interact in society like normal people do, but is being guided along the path of righteousness by Twilight Sparkle.
When you saw No Second Prances, perhaps you saw a story about Twilight not being an especially good teacher, but I primarily saw a story about Starlight having to learn how to make friends without returning to her old ways of controlling and manipulating others.
And yes, maybe it seems like Twilight is mostly just being a nag, but at this point I think we need to wait and see. I feel that that the show's writers are working with much longer arcs now than they were in the earlier seasons of the show; as such, we should adjust our expectations accordingly.
Soft Snow wrote:The show does story arches in tiny little bunny hops for a reason. In case you cheerfully forgot in your understandable delight of, this show is meant for little kids. A target audience with relatively short attention spans. They need to tell a loosely connected story over the season, rather then a heavy plot driven one that requires you to watch every episode in order to understand what is going on, so any kid can turn on any random episode, know what is happening, get excited and run out to buy the toys. I think the writers are doing a great job working within their restrictions. There is only so much you can demand of a show like this.
Headless Horse wrote:The show caught all our attention at the outset for being more than it needed to be in order to babysit kids and sell plastic horse dolls. The team went way above and beyond the call of duty, for no obvious reason, and I've been here ever since partly as a way of acknowledging that unnecessary effort and saying it's appreciated.
Over time though, even that groundbreaking level of effort comes to be the status quo, and it's amazing what one gets used to in a short amount of time. I feel like we're North Korean defectors who saw our first computer five years ago, and today are writing snarky op-eds about new features demoed at the apple keynote.
It's inevitable; we're humans.