@Background Pony
What, so that means what they did doesn’t matter? My problem isn’t just that Twilight was made a pretty princess, it’s that her friends, who contributed just as much as she did, didn’t get shit.
@Background Pony
Wha? No, I said that the show abandoned a Twilight-centric format, and it was for the better.
@Kazapsky
You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.
@Beau Skunky
Heck naw, I hate that episode with a seething passion, and Fluttershy is by far my favorite pony. That episode was a mess in a dozen different ways.
@Kazapsky
Hm, two of my favorite episodes plus Too Many Pinkie Pies. If this is what the future is like, I’ll gladly sacrifice other people being in the fandom for my season of awesome.
@Background Pony
Kinda tough when you have guys like this dude acting like opinions he doesn’t like are illegitimate or invalid. That’s not showing the opposing side respect, it’s just a form of ad hominem.
@Background Pony That was my frickin’ point! ClownDicks was saying that season 2 being more popular than season 1 was evidence Twilight needed to be de-emphasized, and I was showing him what else he would need to accept if he wanted to use popular opinion as evidence.
…Y’know what? Forget it. Most of the people making anti-Twilicorn arguments are just tossing out stuff they don’t like willy-nilly with no regard to whether their facts are correct or their arguments are internally consistent.
@Kazapsky
As if Twilight’s presence means anything. This show has had several episodes that didn’t feature Twilight at all were amazing, like Sisterhooves Social or Sleepless in Ponyville. Hell, the Twilight micro comic is pretty lackluster compared to the likes of the Rarity, Pinkie, and CMC micro comics.
Besides, those episodes you mentioned were hated purely due to bad writing, not because Pretty Princess Sparkle wasn’t hogging the spotlight.
@Background Pony
>[citation needed]
>implying popularity = quality
By that logic, Justin Bieber is one of the most talented musicians ever, and Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey are like modern Shakespeare.
The majority of the episodes that outright flopped came from spotlighting someone other than Twilight: Putting Your Hoof Down, Mysterious Mare-Do-Well, Too Many Pinkie Pies.
Not that it’ll do anything to curb your tall-poppy whine crusade, but I’m putting it out there anyway.
@ClownDicks
Actually, while I’m thinking about it…
3) If you want to drag popular opinion into this, the majority of the fandom likes MMC and Twilicorn.
@ClownDicks
Unlike her friends however, they weren’t students of Celestia, and Twilight worked, and studied for many years under her.
It’s kinda better she earned her crown through hard work, rather then just marrying into it, like other Disney Princesses, and such, as Katie pointed out. >>451952
Though, I kinda wish they had more foreshadowing, and development for it in S3, but of course that would require having the show focus more on Twilight, which you all don’t want anyways.
Besides you’ll all just get mad anyways if they make her friends alicorns to, I’m sure of it. So stop pulling that, “why is Twilight so special, and not her friends?” stuff.
@Background Pony
That’s the point. We’re supposed to enjoy watching a very good cartoon that’s aimed for little girls and being enjoyed by all instead of going into a self-induced rage-battle royale dramafest while pretending that were all gym sock puppets.
What is the main point of this season anyway, Bronies vs. McCarthy?
@Ebalosus
Twilight was the viewpoint character in Season 1. Then they abandoned that, made Season 2 an ensemble thing. Notice how people tend to like Season 2 more than Season 1.
Also, there’s a difference between spelling out the moral at the end of every episode and, well…
