Headless Horse wrote:This here needs a whole bunch of emptyquotin'.
Pony isn't in competition with some other thing in my life. It isn't vying for supremacy with a slate of other shows against which I constantly compare its writing and its drama or whatever. It's a phenomenon I keep up with because it's fun, and because it makes me giddy to see
My Little Pony—the butt of jokes, the archetype of ho-hum 80s kid stuff, the gold standard of "blah" to which contemporary "blah" is habitually compared—suddenly being fun and immersive and well-put-together by people who saw that it could be more than a cheap 80s time-filler if only someone bothered to care.
I don't hold it to the same standard as I hold other shows, and I don't hold other shows to the same standards as Pony. They're completely different things as far as I'm concerned. And while I might lose interest in this or that TV series or other form of media due to a dip in quality or a shift in focus or some completely unrelated personal reason, I'm staying on this crazy train for as long as there's a meta-narrative left for it to tell.
Yeppers, I'm going to empty quote this too. What? ... I can't do that? There's rules here? Gah, fine, I'll type words then.
Both of you are getting a big ol' ball of yes from me on this. If I were ever to describe MLP and how it relates to me, it would get put into my list of hobbies, not the list of shows that I watch. It just feels different to me. I kind of view it as an experience instead of a piece of media to be scrutinized. Though, in my opinion, it also holds up well against that... most of the time. I'm still on this pony train because it's -still- different than anything else that I do. Also, like Headless Horse, I'm on this train ride until the media flow stops.
Homeswirl wrote:Every time FiM has brought on major change, they ended up handling things well afterward, even if there was a time of stumbling around first. The S4 finale was great, but left me a bit down in terms of what they've done and the things they changed to get there. However, as long as the show keeps bringing feelings of

,

, and

, then all will be good.
Also, I like watching some of the Brony Reacts videos because they bring up humor or plot details that I might not have noticed.
Agreed, though I like to view that stumbling around as being kind of realistic in a weird way. In real life, how many times does huge change come around and we handle it like pros?

Also agreed on the finale. Loved it, but the box/keys/rainbow power was a little anticlimactic. Whatever. Even in the best of shows, things don't always make sense. Breaking Bad comes to mind. (Hid this just in case somebody reading this is late to the party like I was)