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Alongside Regular Show and Adventure Time.
Although its constituent elements are derivative, the quality I feel comes from how those elements come together. The characters, setting, animation, music, and stories all come together to form a glorious whole that makes us care to the point that any deviation from that upsets us…at least in my opinion
Well, yeah. Or try to fuse them together into something that makes sense, but currently it is too schizophrenic to reach any new heights that were acquired with stuff like, say, Samurai Jack.
Either way I think the show needs to decide what it is and stick with it.
You know, I agreed with you until the whole thing about the fantasy elements being better.
A longer-arc slice-of-life is what the show truly needs more off, the fantasy elements are mishandled like eggs on a mixer.
It’s basically a good show in spite of itself. It has all the strengths you mentioned, but has a format horribly ill-suited to capitalize on them.
There’s other things that I really like about the show, but that’s my main reason, too.
I really want to see Lauren’s other question posted here, though; I’m curious as to how others would answer it.
The mane six are in my opinion some of the most genuinely likable characters in recent memory. They are proof that you don’t need a character to be a bastard, lol random or endlessly sarcastic to be interesting.
I would argue that the cartoon itself isn’t the best in terms of writing or plot or even humor, but you genuinely enjoy spending time with the characters.
What really hamstrings it from being a truly great show (and leaves me enjoying the IDW comic and fan content more often then not) is the self contained, slice of life format the majority of the episodes follow. The majority of them are enjoyable, with a small minority of episodes being weak in certain critical aspects but not completely terrible, but they just cannot reach the highs of the fantasy orientated episodes. And for a show that is supposedly about characters learning lessons and becoming better people, the lack of story arcs and consistent characterization is really disappointing.
In short, it’s trying to be a slice of life most of the time and a fantasy a little bit of the time, but the fantasy aspects are far superior to the slice of life aspects, and that format really hinders the show’s interesting ideas from being fully developed.
It certainly holds itself very well against most other animated series.
But, really it was the “Dancing Bear” aspect of “Grown men like this?” that got me to check it out in the first place in summer 2011. Glad I did though.
So yeah. It’s a mixture of sorts.
Which is why you’re here.