@Background Pony #8AC0  
Why do you say that? Siby’s actually been pretty cool.

She’s mean

@Background Pony #E350  
People still treat the canon completely seriously though, that’s what gets me.
 
This is a world in which space elf ghosts get squirted into giant robots made of bone and do battle with undead space robot necromancers with disintegrator rays and the fate of humanity is controlled by a corpse on a giant machine who psychically protects us all from the evil forces of lulz and just as planned.
 
This is a world where someone invented a gun that melts tanks by somehow making all their atoms vibrate really fast.
 
There is an entire species of sentient green fungi who behave like stereotypical football hooligans and can operate advanced interstellar machinery simply by being too stupid to realize it’s impossible.

@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
The feminist rant already stole mine, the christian one is so ridicoulous I can’t muster a reaction.
 
It’s like WH40k, a world so grim it turns ridicoulous enough you can only find it funny rather than horrifying. I love WH40K, but it has gotten pretty silly.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Holy shit.
 
The first one wasn’t too bad, just another feminist rant, but the second one…fuck…the comments there are driving my faith in humanity into the negatives.

@Beau Skunky Yeah, amusingly I find an equal amount who think FPK is one of the best. Seems whether you freak out over FPK or not is all in perspective. Anyway there’s this crazy thought pattern in the more Tea Partier-esque Christians that FiM’s success is a sign the ‘gay agenda’ is finally winning and onoes the bible will soon be banned, atheists running free in the streets, pandemonium everywhere. It’s kinda horrible if you read their forums (and the sites they’re linked to), there’s a lot of posts of the “If I caught them looking at it I’d beat the faggotry out of them” stripe.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
As a christian myself, I’m always baffled at the religious-nuts who try to paint MLP:FiM as “evil,” or something. (Same goes for the hardcore-Athiests who got offended by “Feeling Pinkie-Keen” thinking it was brainwashing people into relgion, or something.)
 
@Bronitarian  
I think those moments alone gave me hope for E.G. :P

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
I thank you for sharing that.
 
That made my fucking day.

@Itsthinking  
This article is nowhere near as awesome as these two.

I thought the trailer was alright. Had moments that made me laugh. And stuff like scotaloo doing the chicken dance or Vinyl being a dj in the alt world as well were nice to see.

@Beau Skunky  
Nope; I’ve seen a lot of bronies who say the trailer made them more hopeful for the movie.

Am I the only one who wasn’t really bothered by the trailer?

All I can say is that I’m skeptical of judging a movie by its trailer. Of course a good trailer will make the movie more enticing, but I got fooled into watching a mediocre movie by a trailer before.

@Background Pony  
Or, more realistically, represented as opinion backed up by facts.

@Mayojar77  
Everyone came off looking bad in The Mysterious Mare Do Well.

@Bronitarian  
The content being good is a questionable center for that argument, mate.
 
Additionally, she was a jealous younger sister and she did ruin the wedding. It also just happen there were was a massive bug infestation with beings which could transform into them. But people ignore the first because Chrysalis and the others were interesting enough to bedazzle.
 
A lot of fireworks and no substances, is what I’m getting at, and that doesn’t bode well because they keep bringing more fireworks into every event to hide the deficiencies and the fact the stories are rushed or that everyone is acting like an idiot.

How accurate has any of the friendship is magic promotional material been even? I remember the royal wedding episode making it look like twilight was just going to be an uber jealous younger sister and ruin the wedding by making magic clones of herself and her friends. Nothing in the actual promos hinted at the good content that was inside of it.
 
So really, a trailer is only about 2 steps above judging the contents of any show, movie, or game. Should it be like that? No. Is it like that? Yes. That’s just the real, practical world we live in.

@D50 While that is a good point, Hasbro probably wouldn’t let them deviate all that much from the trailer. This is after all, designed to capture a very specific non-MLP audience. An audience that very likely has nothing at all to do with Hasbro’s main girls’ franchises. If they throw too much magic, fantasy, and well…just plain tolerable writing into it, it could drive them away. Any allusions outside of the ponyvillians’ alternate selves to the original series will likely be uber subtle. While the ending might change up a lot, it will be the only part that does, because it needs them to sit through the rest without tuning out. So 48 minutes of mindnumbingly bland standard high school drama stuff with the occasional ‘ops i am not a hoers’ joke, and then the ol’ bait&switch on the primary audience.  
I think what people really fear is that the Monster High demographic will actually enjoy it, and Hasbro will begin making crappy FiM-themed make-up and nails and tattoos and actual clothing lines to accomodate, which’d alienate not only the bronies but the old demographic as well. (or at least their parents)

@Background Pony  
Even then, its extremely obvious Equestria Girls doesn’t really focus on the school anyway. Sunset just wants the freaking crown, who cares if she is prom queen? You think Twilight knows? Probably not. She is going to try to win it fair and square because that is the right thing to do. Twilight is just forced to go to school so she win it back but its not going to matter since Sunset will just steal it in the end.

@supersaiyanmikito  
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I don’t think we are speaking the same terms here.
 
The ACW wasn’t about the wedding and all of it was literary kicked out by the wayside when the actual interesting bits started to show. The shift could only have been bigger if Celestia was actually killed in the fight.
 
What you are describing doesn’t bring about tat change and thus is not a good comparison.

@Mayojar77  
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.”  
“The trailer is the cover we were meant to judge it by.”
 
Dwah? Wait, maybe I’ve got this wrong and the point is…
 
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.”  
“The trailer is supposed to be more in-depth than the cover, so we should be able to more accurately judge it than, say, looking at a movie poster.”
 
Which is still wrong because trailers can be misleading.
 
This trailer for Twelfth Night so clearly appeals to the lowest common denominator of the early 90’s audience. The actual movie is nowhere near as manic as it leads you to believe, actually has a respectable soundtrack, and happens to be one of the best movie adaptations of a Shakespearean work ever.
 
And just for hilarious parallel’s sake, here’s a trailer for She’s The Man, an adaptation of Twelfth Night set in high school. It’s nothing special, and it’s debatable if it’s as bad as it looks. I personally think it’s slightly above mediocre. This trailer might even support your point depending on your tastes.
 
Here’s the real fun thing though: both trailers tell us more about the plots and general feels of their respective movies than the EqG trailer does. I mean, if we didn’t already have summaries, we wouldn’t even know why Twilight is going to the other world in the first place. It seems like Celestia just sent her there randomly.

@Background Pony  
Was the wedding just a sham to get everyone in canterlot? No, it was always intended to happen. The queen just decided to use it to her advantage.
 
Its exactly the same. A story with the typical good versus evil story covered up by some bad sounding story. The very first episode follows this too. Its a story about stopping an evil queen trying to take over the world and plunge it into eternal darkness but is made out to be a simple story how 6 ponies become friends. 6 ponies becoming friends? Sounds stupid doesn’t it?

@supersaiyanmikito  
That’s not quite the same thing, however.
 
For it to be even comparable, the idea that the whole school is a sham created by Sunset to confuse others that come after her?
 
That is an equivalent idea.
 
What you just describe? If something like that doesn’t happen then the whole story is purposeless and it would have gone below the lowest threshold people are currently giving it, which is assuming it is at least trying to be coherent and logical.