/pone/ - My Little Pony★

The way I see it, if the writers don't give a damn about the world or characters, then neither do I. So no, you're not alone.

Same boat.

I blame the lazy writing, though

>>310243 (OP)

I just think of everything developed after Faust left as a seperate canon, and really, that is exactly what it is. That perspective makes enjoying the newer stuff easier.

>>310281

>muh Faust

>>310286

Damn straight. The story needed its storyteller.

I realized my version of Equestria was superior to the official version a long time ago.

>>310281

Pretty much this, although I think it makes watching the newer stuff more painful rather than enjoyable. The endless mountain of wasted potential.

I like to think anything after season 3 is fan fiction and better stories arose in another dimension

>>310281

I've been thinking that the canon divide is between seasons 5 and 6. By the time season 5 ends, every established main character's story has come to a logical conclusion, and everything after that is just the slow phasing out of those characters in favor the Glim 6 and now the Diverse 6.

>>310299

>the Glim 6

I don't know why they made them a thing if they were not going to give them friendship adventures together.

>>310546

welcome to the death of all that was good, how did we get here i just don't know.

I feel the same way.

The writers flopped and ruined much of the remaining potential for worldbuilding and muh lore.

Fanficiton will always be there to fill that void but it's just not the same. Primarily because most modern fanfics try to base the fics off of canon MLP instead of doing their own thing.

>>310760

>most modern fanfics try to base the fics off of canon MLP instead of doing their own thing.

I am surprised that more writers do not forego current canon in favor of earlier canon. It is a hell of a lot easier to build a story in the old universe. You don't have to come up with a contrivance to nerf Twilight/Starlight/Discord, so that they can't just hand-wave a problem away. You don't have to find some reason for Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Twilight to not be doing more important things than whatever your low-risk story happens to be about (not that the actual show writers even bother to do that). Ponyville is just a sleepy little hamlet full of very strange individuals--no hideous castles or national celebrities. It is not silly for Fluttershy to be afraid of every little thing or for the Cutie Mark Crusaders to be tiny or for the town to have a mayor. Best of all, the Six is not a superhero team. They are just a librarian, a seamstress, a pastry chef, a jock, a planter, and a shut-in. They have regular, relatable lives away from the Elements of Harmony that are easy to tell stories about.

>>310786

Only fanfics worth reading at this point, honestly.

>>310786

The kind of autism it takes to plan out and write a good story tends to lead to writefags to want to get the characters "right." To actually capture the characters' personality, their mannerisms, and make them seem like…well, the actual characters. But by trying to get them "right," they slave their story to the canon…and the terrible developments it's had. If you're trying to set your story in season one, can you really ignore Twilight having a brother, even though it wasn't revealed until later? What about Fluttershy's brother? Can you REALLY write a story where the Crusaders get their cutie marks, when we've seen how that happens, without it feeling autistic as hell?

>>311096

>Besides, how is religiously adhering to every stupid mandate that Hasbro suits shoved down show creators' throats any less autistic?

As I said, the kind of autism it takes to write a my little pony fanfiction tends to be the same kind of autism that adheres to exactly that. I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing, I'm just trying to explain why so many writers keep falling in line with new canon.

I mean, how many fanfictions have you seen that went into something like, Luna's fall or Rainbow's home-life, only be abandoned the second the show touched on those subjects?

I don't mind everything the show makes up, like Twilight's brother being the Captain of the Guard. But her once-foalsitter-now-alicorn princess marrying her brother? Gay. Yes, I understand why it was done. Do you think she's still into MLP?

Speaking of, how did Cadence become an alicorn again? Was that ever touched on? All we know is that she was a pegasus once. And you don't just become an alicorn any day.

>>311101

>Speaking of, how did Cadence become an alicorn again? Was that ever touched on? All we know is that she was a pegasus once.

The show never said she was a pegasus. It was from a book, which also talked about her using some "love crystal" to defeat some evil witch, and that's what caused Celestia to turn her into an alicorn.

>>311099

I remember that happened a lot back during Seasons Three and Four. Some of them do quit when the new show contradicts them, but I have seen a few that kept on with what they were doing. Usually it ends up better than what the show did. Seriously, though, I like Rainbow Dash's parents, and Fluttershy's too for that matter. Applejack's were outstanding. Not making Twilight's parents similarly characterful was a missed opportunity, I'd say. How cool would it have been for Twilight Velvet to be voiced by the G1 actress?

>>311107

>Twilight's parents are literal boomers