Re: Equestria Girls 2014 Holiday Special!
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Marimo
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kefkafloyd wrote:Only Pinkie Pie could have the same number of friends as a municipality.
The Doctor wrote:Pinkie has 72,000 friends.
Wayoshi wrote:*sigh* Man... wow.
This is pretty bad. And I am not trying to speak out of EqG hate bias here, I tried to give this a honest chance.
-poor man's Ponyville Confidential rehash with much worse reasoning
-nonsensical metaphor between wendigos and cyber bullies to unsuccessfully tie this into a holiday special
-usual mediocre art with at least a weird face a page
The plot overall felt like it was forced into being a holiday special, and that was the biggest problem. There was a decent story to be told with Sunset wanting to establish familial relationships with the Mane 5, but somehow even with a double-issue length, it was quickly "Mane 5 hates Sunset for being Anon-a-Miss 2/3rds through", then "everyone is forgiven in just one page" at the end - just really rough pacing.
Oh well, a couple Fluts expressions were nice and her getting worked up over the video game was cute.
Wayoshi wrote:*sigh* Man... wow.
This is pretty bad. And I am not trying to speak out of EqG hate bias here, I tried to give this a honest chance.
-poor man's Ponyville Confidential rehash with much worse reasoning
-nonsensical metaphor between wendigos and cyber bullies to unsuccessfully tie this into a holiday special
-usual mediocre art with at least a weird face a page
The plot overall felt like it was forced into being a holiday special, and that was the biggest problem. There was a decent story to be told with Sunset wanting to establish familial relationships with the Mane 5, but somehow even with a double-issue length, it was quickly "Mane 5 hates Sunset for being Anon-a-Miss 2/3rds through", then "everyone is forgiven in just one page" at the end - just really rough pacing.
Oh well, a couple Fluts expressions were nice and her getting worked up over the video game was cute.
Finally, I'll say this: The biggest problem I have with the comic is that, for something that is supposed to be about "cyber bullying" (which I assumed Ted would know more about with the recent events).... it's way, WAY off the mark about it.
Yes, the problems are started by "the eeeevil anonymiss".... but that's just the starter. The REAL dynamite here is the jerkiness of the entire school ganging up on her, and her only friends BAILING on her, because everyone stupidly believe the girl crying on the floor is also telling off the entire school. The problem is not cyber bullying, it's REAL bullying. From everyone.
See, a more appropriate way to depict it to me would be to keep everything online and not involve the school at all. That "anonymiss"(or even multiple) would just stalk her mystable page and insult her repeatedly time after time, bemean her, call her names related to her evil past, and basically harass her every moves online, making Sunset sadder and sadder while she wonder why would someone do this to her. (it doesn't have to be the CMC too, it could easily some jealous one shots villains)
And then, instead of having her friends act like OOC d**chebags, show them all trying to help in different ways, in character too: Something like Dash and Fluttershy scouring the school to try to find the culprit, Pinkie trying to cheer Sunset up and to make her forget the insults, Rarity telling her to stop going online, while AJ saying she shouldn't let them win... and yet all of them would be powerless to help her usefully, to their own distress...
Because that's the real "evil" of cyberbullying: that it can make someone life miserable without even resorting to physical means. That it can become a sad obsession in her mind that she can't shake off, even with her friends around and an almost normal "real" life, all caused by a few people with a grudge with her hiding online... And I'm sure it's something MANY girls could relate too (way more than "somebody is going to impersonate me online and everybody will bite it).
But instead you have none of that, just that the entire school is mean, her friends are actually pretty shallow, and the CMC who normally enjoy hanging around eachother because they want to get some time off with their sisters turns to pure evil. And when you have 5 of the 6 protagonist of your comic suddenly act like jerks, that's a real problem!
Heather Breckel wrote:"(which I assumed Ted would know more about with the recent events)"
I believe this was written a while before any of that stuff happened? Obviously it doesn't mean your criticisms don't apply as they're still legit regardless. I just remember when I got the issue to color I was like well this eerie timing haha so it had to have been quite a while before all that stuff so it wouldn't have influenced Ted's writing here.
TedlyAnderson wrote: If the evidence seems to point to the person who once literally turned into a demon, that'd make me question my friendship with them, too.
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