@Jarkes
I know what your talking about, it is a habit your exaggerating greatly and incorrectly(I’ll explain my own insignificant stance firmly, but I’d rather shoot myself in the eye then assume I’m factually right about something subjective)…but for this? No, i’m not going to strawman on this.
I am having an extremely hard time finding a scenario where a mlp fan doesn’t like ANY of the Mane 6 or Spike, but will watch the movie just for Starlight Glimmer.
Tons of people like Starlight, its an absolute fact, but its also an absolute fact she’s gotten a widely mixed reception. +The odds of a brony or average mlp fan watching up to Season FIVE
while not liking ANY of the Mane Group but suddenly growing attached to Starlight+…is statistically improbable. There’s always going to be a few of course, no denying that. But chances are that most of the Glimmer fans would of watched the movie for the other characters already.(if they were interested in watching the movie in the first place, of course)
I wasn’t denying Starlight has fans, just the odds of a Glimmer fan hating ALLLL of the Mane 6 and Spike, the main characters and main characters of this movie, enough to not watch the movie unless it has Glimmer in it are pretty low.
ANYWAY…
My point is from a business and marketing standpoint, there was no advantage of showing Starlight in the preview. She’s not shown doing anything important, so its not going to trigger the idea “Starlight is going to have a big role in the movie” from too many Starlight fans, but on the other side of the fandom divided on Starlight, it has the chance of triggering thoughts like “No, not Starlight” or “They’re putting Starlight in everything to steal screen time”
Irrational? Partially, but admittedly less irrational after EG Special #3. Something even a ton of hardcore Glimmer fans told me was a jarring cameo on this site.
Plus, my original comment was intended for @ViperBits, not Jarkes. I misread the comments. Sorry about the confusion.
You’re doing that thing again. That thing where you assume everyone agrees with you and write huge walls of text where you explain why your opinion on something is the right one.
I know you don’t do that thing on purpose, but you do that thing a lot. Please stop doing that thing.
@CronoM
Please don’t spout lines like ‘practically no one’. Your argument can stand on it’s own, without an army of invisible people agreeing with you. You have to know Starlight has her megafans, and a fair number of them at that.
@Jarkes
Jarkes, so long as she doesn’t have more then 0 to 2 lines, I don’t think her black hole of stilted dialogue and bad writing will effect the movie.
Instead of listing the numerous reasons people dislike her, instead, I don’t want her to have any focus in the movie for purely aesthetic reasons. Her dialogue is stilted, the writers don’t know what to do with her, and she simply can’t carry a scene.
That being said, if her only dialogue is with Trixie, we should still be in the clear. They have passable chemistry.
But I honestly don’t know why they would put Starlight in the trailer… I mean its not like Hasbro are unaware the mixed reception Starlight has. Seems counter productive. Practically no one watches MLP just for Glim Glam and not any of the main characters.
@Jarkes
Naw, I am here for porn. Good equine explicit and grimdark/gore content is very hard to find since MLP is pretty much the only show about equines right now. I just see an occasional Starlight pic every once in a while and feel like writing my 2 bits. Don’t mind me, really. It is just a way of releasing anger and frustration at the show I once liked being ruined for me.
@Jarkes
A person who hated addition of Starlight and Trixie enough to completely drive them away from MLP back at S5?
Yeah, I hate her with all of my passion. Feel free to enjoy it though, I don’t really care any longer, just felt like stating my opinion so I don’t have to bottle it up inside - gods know I have enough real problems as it is to add fictional nonsense to them.
“Okay, so, here were my options. A. Quickly duck sideways, dodge the ball, then take Tempest out with a self-levitation spinning hoofkick, or B. take the ball in the face, fall on the ground and die.”
