Once again, I want to thank you all so much for your support through this G5 journey! It has been 2 years building up to this point, and while I have enjoyed reviewing Make Your Mark, I believe it is time for me to focus on some videos that are actually about something I liked. Speaking of which, anyone here know if the cider in MLP is alcoholic? 👀 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/paePq7F5vbSnpGQ.html

I feel so bad for the people who made the G5 movie. While the final product was flawed, it was clear that the people behind it were trying their best to set up a new generation of mlp. Writers of MYM did not even try to make anything more than a safe kids' cartoon. What a waste of potential and a stain on G4's legacy.

I'm devastated by the fact that Twilight and the others couldn't deal with the opaline, After all, THEY fought against more powerful enemies, such as Lord Tirek edyt: besides, alicorns are really snobbish creatures, instead of locking opaline in a dungeon, they preferred to get rid of the problem by throwing her out of their wonderful land, | Ssso equestria, Nnow it's your problem.

*Sees Spike's design and hear's his voice* "Look at how they massacred my boy!"

Why do the dragons just look like ponies with horns and wings

G5 has got to be nothing more than a fever dream after Twilight ate too many hayburgers. There is no way to piece together the cannon to G4, especially when entire species no longer look as they once did, and things don't even function the same way anymore.

How did Opaline ever become a severe threat if she was this incompetent?! Seriously!!! How did she become a threat if she was that stupid?!

I think G4 was made originally with some genuine love for the property. That's why it was so good. G5 was just made as a cash grab to ride the coattails of G4's success.

To me, it just doesn't make sense that if Opaline was supposedly was around when Celestia and Luna were FILLIES, and Spike has come back to be the new dragon lord, shouldn't Twilight be alive? And also what about Cadence, Flurry Heart and Discord? As well as Celestia and Luna? It was proven in Gen 4 that all of them were immortal. And what about the Windigos? Shouldn't they have come back when every pony rase was fighting and hating on each other? It just doesn't make sense... So many unanswered questions!

Chapter 1: will there be continuity between G5 and G4? Chapter 4: There isn't even continuity between Make Your Mark and Tell Your Tale Chapter 6: There isn't even continuity between two scenes in the same episode.

They’re mocking, twilights intelligence in the show severely It’s so offensive honestly they did twilight and her friends really dirty in this show I definitely feel like twilight would’ve come up with a a much better solution But they need to dump twilight down in order to make this stupid show happen But I promise you twilight would’ve found a way to defeat her or put her away somewhere

G1-cool G2-Toys G3-hmm G4-it was perfect,perfect G5-

At least Spike being a quadruped makes sense as we saw older dragons eventually shift to a quadruped stance.

Funny how G4's shoes were too big for G5 to fill and it would've been easier to judge it less harshly were it set in an isolated universe.

Not only do the dragons have ‘cutie marks’ but Sparky himself was born with wings, even though we saw through Spike that dragons get their wings at a later stage as they moult.

G5 is like an overdrawn G4 fanfic at this point. The show takes wayyy too far ahead in the future for them to be able to add stuff and for it still to be connected to G4.

My biggest gripe is they never answer WHAT HAPPENED to all the other alicorns! Opaline is so incredibly incompetent as a villain; where are Twi, Flurry Heart, and Cadence? Why is Opaline still around and the others have vanished? I thought Spike would fill us in but nope, just more confusing and sloppy world building (if you can call it that).

I will say, G5 has a lot of great potential when the movie dropped, but after watching the entire of Make Your Mark, it’s just sad that all of the great concepts go to waste. There are a few good moments that makes it enjoyable, but everything else is just a mess. Man, what a wild ride.

You wanna know why, despite Opaline getting all the Cutie Marks, I wasn't worried? Not because of the obvious fact the good guys would win... but because nopony had any negative reaction to losing their mark other than fear or sadness. In season 5, it was made quite clear, when Starlight was removing Cutie Marks, it HURT! Twilight and the Mane 6 seemed to be genuinely in either pain or severe discomfort as their Marks were being removed. Yet, in G5, it's not even a problem. They come off as easily and painlessly as a water tattoo. As for the locket part? I thought this show took place in the same universe as G4, not G1! You can't have it both ways, Make Your Mark. Pick an MLP generation you want to bastardize and stick with it! Hay, there's been more coherent references to G1 than G4 throughout all of Make Your Mark, so why didn't they just stick with being in the same universe as G1? I'd actually think that would add way more depth and meaning to the show than being connected to G4 has been. As for Secrets of Starlight, I'm even more underwhelmed than I thought I'd be, and that's saying something. Is it supposed to be the new version of the Crystal Empire? Logically, doubt it. Nothing looks even close aside from being near snow and the crystal ascetic of the horns... not to mention it would make NO SENSE that the future version of the Crystal Empire is in another world that needs a portal to get there! Then again, the Dragon Lands weren't a separate island nor lush with tropical vegetation in G4, so why should I be the least bit surprised if G5 decided to completely alter everything about the Crystal Empire too? Ember's absence and not being the Dragon Lord is a HUGE plot hole as, unless Opaline killed Ember before Twilight sent Spike to go with the dragons, it makes no sense why Spike is the Dragon Lord and was even before Twilight’s somehow Dumber than we originally thought possible plan was put into motion. At least G5 proper isn't making Discord an old fart who CAN use magic, but isn't doing anything with it, like, I dunno, PUNISH Opaline for ruining everything he'd have held dear!

The part of G5 that i dislike the most is the lack of caring for the rest of the mane 6 that aren't twilight, like, it's *THE MANE 6* , not TWILIGHT & her friends, is it that difficult to say "rainbow dash was one of the most legendary flyers to ever exits" or "rarity was the most glamorous unicorn ever" or even "fluttershy was kind"

This show could've worked if it had no connections to FIM whatsoever.

So apparently why dragons have cutie marks according to the wiki “Each dragon has special dragonfire magic with different abilities. Currently we know that Spike has teleportation magic, Sparky has transformation magic, Tumble has wind magic, Luxxe has light magic and Fountain has water magic. What types of dragon magic other dragons have, like Blaize, Leaf, Jade, or Lava is currently unknown.” So like Elemental Dragons….?

I remember being cautiously optimistic at start of g5, then the movie made me really hopeful, the special made me bqck to cautious, and then the series made me slowly lose braincells

There is no way in he'll they made spike looklike a deformed kangaroo that breeder with a alligator and a toad.

Why does the main villain look like someone's first OC? The colors are SO obtrusive and hurt my eyes.

The heart locket is a call back to Gen 1 ponies from the 80s. From a human girl named Megan. She always helping the ponies from danger in the pony world. I recognized it imminently i use to watch it when i was a child. xD

I wish we could've had a break from villains after Opaline's defeat. I was like, "Oh come on! We just lost Opaline!"

WHY DID IT ALL JUST KEPT GETTING WORSE AND WORSE😭😭

This chapter if what finally got me to scream “OKAY THATS IT! IM MAKING A REWRITE OF THIS THING!” Now the process of rewriting this story and character redesigns has started lol

Fun fact: The creators got so lazy that they didn't even translate Opaline's Song from the first Episode of chapter 6 into german😂😒

Fun Fact: the Heart necklace around Sunny’s neck is the Rainbow of Light locket from G1 the OG Element of Harmony what the hell….?❤ (I never watched G1 since I was born in the early 2000s but I just noticed from other reviewers)

The reason the continuity of the G5 is screwed is because Hasbro, in all their infinite wisdom, not only sold the broadcasting rights to seasons 5-9 to Discovery, but also the rights to a ton of elements and characters to G4 and still don't have them back. Which is why all of the G4 connections to G5 don't make a helluva lotta sense.

When I first saw the "dragons" on the MLP subreddit, I thought they were pony/dragon hybrids, not pure dragons. They literally look EXACTLY like some pony/dragon hybrid OCs I have seen.

To sum up: Chapter 6 looks like somebody tried to put out forest fire with a screwdriver

G5 had a LOT of potential and they never reached it a little bit. It's really sad and I don't think I'm the only one who don't think this is canon at all. I still enjoyed the episode a bit and your videos about it. I didn't expected anything from the show after the first chapter and my expectations were made.

Secrets of Starlight. Do you mean they're going to find something left behind by Starlight Glimmer that gives us an insight into what happened? No, of course not.

Nothing will ever be able to match the wonderful story writing and songs from MLP G4.

I'm afraid that what kills the show for me as a Grown adult is the Animations. I have worked on film sets (as a sound engineer). I have worked on animated projects and always found the process cool. But as someone who enjoyed G4 up until Series 5, I quickly understood just how childish and "low budget" a CGI remake can be. The problem here is the demographic, the show isn't trying to pander to us Bronies or even parents. Its a show for young children that has no problem spelling it out at every turn. The animation is the worst part because these creatures all have rapid movements , weightless flying and battles that feel like the characters are trying to not hit each other. Unlike what I just said, this technique can work for TV shows. Take "Thunderbirds Are Go" From 2015. A remke of a beloved 1965 TV show that managed to be somewhat respectful to the source material (I don't like Thunderbirds 2015 but that's just me). Thunderbirds however was boosted not just by the fact that the characters and craft are CGI in a scale model world, but the action is directed in a way that allows the characters to "look" like they have weight. G4 had the privilege of being 2D with characters that were kind and caring, not sounding too weird when they spoke. I for one, found that the characters in G4 spoke like us. They were like us. Not children, not fools and the villains were actually characters that could spout out one liners without any real problems. G4 has its problems too, but nothing as sould crushing as G5 (Shame because I enjoyed the Movie).

IDK. The reason Opaline works for me is that there are so many people like her in real life. She builds herself uo to be important and powerful but she's really not all that and seeing past that illusion is a huge process for a lot of people.

They literally had the young six from g4 who they could’ve used to make a perfectly good sequel series. But nooooooo They had to make *this*

You know it’s bad if the villan literally sings about how bad they are-

I love how TYT spoiled this chapter by cramming 2 whole 20min episodes into 5min. 😂 but then 68 happened. It spoils ch7 and I had no idea what I was looking at for 5 whole minutes. I am only thankful there was no 69 yesterday. Good job HasBros. 🤔

You know whats sad G5 had so much potential but being tied to G4 was always going to hurt it from shining on its own The movie was so good I remember how much that movie sparked new life into the fandom that we hadn't seen since the mid 2010s and when G4 was ending But man as the show went on (Batch releases didn't help) more and more just stop caring, heck TYT no one cares about that show anymore when a new episode releases especially since the new episodes spoiled a ton of Chapter 6 One best way to describe this show is squandered potential that was shadowed over its much more successful generation Its a real shame. Chapter 5 and the latter half of chapter 4 was when the show was finally finding its footing. there was hope that the shows writing was improving but chapter 6 it goes out with a whimper ITs obvious that the next G5 cgi show is going to be called something new and each season is going to be treated like a book with "chapters" (Man I miss weekly releases it built up so much hype in the fandom)

I’m just gonna say that this is probably an alternate universe years in the future instead of JUST thousands of years in the future

I legit thought spikes voice was fake that’s how bad it is. I could NOT believe it 😭

At least spike does NOT have a dragon cutie mark so continuity....? yayish?

there was actually a scene in Secrets of Starlight that shocked me quite a bit, you have to pay attention, but before Allura enters the portal to Equestria, there's a sort of telepathic connection between Allura and possibly another snow leopard, who Allura says is her 'brother'. This 'brother' says to Allura "you fool! you had the star the whole time!" and Allura says back aloud "don't worry, brother. I'll get it back". I think this time round we may be facing two villians instead of one.

I seriously thought when i saw the dragons had hair and cutie marks my firt thought was "Which pony did it with a dragon?!"

Do you want to be a sequel to G4 or have your own continuity? G5: Maybe.

Spike survived? G5 was really written by a fan of Fallout Equestria 😂

This man went completely bonkers thanks to g5 it was nice knowing him🤣

Nah I'm still pissed opaline got beat by an infant who can't control his own urine.

There was potential.Was. Kind of saddening thst FiM's world ended up like this

I think the worst part is that we never learned how or when Opaline found Misty.

Congrats on making this far. Like really. I don’t think most could. So, what are you gonna do after this? I would go back to the old G4 episodes myself. Twilight and Spike were so out of character. Opaline should’ve been defeated chapters ago. I swear the animation looks worse than the previous chapters. Timeline? What that? Etc, etc, etc… Bravo man.

The dragons are just- HUGHHHHHH,they did spike dirty😭

their biggest mistake was making this in the same universe as g4. it just doesnt work

I really thought they were going to say Izzy *was* an auroricorn too in that special because it really seemed to be setting up that way. Like how familiar she kept saying it was and the fact, oh yeah, HER HORN LITERALLY TURNED INTO THE CRYSTAL HORN THEY ALL HAVE AND MISTY’s DIDNT??? Only for this not to happen and not only that, none of the others noticed her horn complete with the little piece ONLY the auroricorns have??? NO ONE?? 😭 I still feel like this has to be some set up for later, especially since Izzy is obsessed with luminescence, the only similar thing is the way the auroricorns talk about their regional magic. It HAS to be intentional but knowing how bad G5 is doing and the writing is… how it is. It would surprise me none if that never gets mentioned again even if the series does continue

Sad that starlight was not in the secret of starlight (though that might of been a blessing). I hope allura will get a very good backstory

If I were to rewrite this show I’d make the first season about the ponies learning how to use their powers and building back trust and friendship between the species of ponies meanwhile after each breakthrough episode we get a peek at Opaline observing and making plans (it really bothered me how they all adapted to their magic so quickly and immediately trusted each other after one episode. Also I think Opaline would have been gathering research and all before attacking because they make it clear that so much has changed ). Then season two we learn more about Opalines past well they start their plan to take over… that’s all I got but that’s how I expected the show to start and wished it’s what we got

what i feel is the worst part is the existence of continuity aka existence of twilight and spike and other alicorns. then the lack of continuity of anyone who doesn't have wings can't walk on the clouds, where is ember, how did dragons get cutie marks, and what is going on.

16:45 Oh, I think I get it. That rainbow heart thing is a call back to G1 where they defeat half of the villains with the same thing.

I enjoy the show for the moment because from the first chapter I already knew all the connections that will be established with FiM will make no sense, so I'm acting like I've never seen FiM series before so it helps and doesn't disturbed the experience to appreciate all the others aspects of the show. We clearly see the struggle the direction of G5 took because they want the continuity to work for the fans without taking the FiM universe seriously and do whatever they like. G5 is a bad show because they don't know what they're doing and can't choose: - If you want to continue in the FiM universe, do it properly or - Create a new show with a completly new universe, that's it Sadly the writing doesn't respect his own show, the major issue is the characters being lost on their actions in so many situations, I feel like it’s getting better overall over the time but it will never fix the show and it’s impossible to go back again

Opalline is basically Fizzlepop Berrytwist just worse at it.

Spikes face actually scares me Im not even joking, this whole “g5” should be made uncannon

Given Make Your Marks unknown future (aka if it will return for more episodes) it's really hilarious how they used the potential final outing to set up a brand new villain only for them to possibly never conclude that storyline. Like sure Allura will still appear in Tell Your Tale but i really doubt they will actually progess the story.

When i first saw the clips of dragons with hair flying around attacking the lighthouse i thought opaline some how got magic to turn ponies into dragons. The fact that they just have hair now is really baffling to me

It’s a big F U to all the previous MLP fans. Which is a shame because they could have done so much more with the character building and storyline. It’s obviously targeted to a younger audience my six year old daughter binge watched the whole series without any complaints and as I was watching it with her it just felt very meh and boring compared to everything else on Netflix.

Fusterclucks like this are why I hate hate HATED the decision to attach G5 to G4, even back when G5 was just one decent film. I was so fascinated by the leaked emails that showed a potential reimagining of ponies with a brand new setting entirely... but instead we got G4: The Revengeance - This Time It's Awful. Such a waste...

Spikes design is horrible 😂

Honestly I think chapter 6 was the best one in the whole series. The plot moved forward and that’s a big accomplishment for this show. Everything was very rushed but it was by far the best we’ve seen from make your mark. Although Spike is still a punching bag and Allurah was an unneeded ( and extremely ugly ) villain

I dropped the series aftter Sparky was "kidnapped" and hidden in the basement of the brighthouse. And the actual, no joke, solution the gang came up with to find him was to sing in the town square and follow his voice when he would sing back to them. And somehow the laws of physics ceases to exist and this absolutely worked! And, yeah, that broke me. Everyting else I've learned via osmosis just went to show that this gen was beyong saving, and the writers absolutely did not care. :T

It's just a cash grab series, just so they can create more ponies to make merchandise out of. If they would have made a proper series it could have been popular with old fans as well and make more cash from selling toys to adults as well 😅. It's hard to stick to lore I guess, and make decent storyline, because they failed miserably.

i have a theory that the dragons from the isle of scaly are a different breed of dragons, maybe the og dragon island is still there, somewhere else. Maybe the isle of scaly was found by equestria post season 9. Maybe spike was sent there to protect the new dragon land because they are more magical. It makes kinda sense seeing how different spike's design is from the rest of the dragons. That could explain a few things.

G5 could have taken such a different approach like the school of magic??? Or even the next generation of ponies??? Twilights heir? The children of the mane six? Rarity’s fashion industry??? Idk there are so many different options that could have been done and honestly this doesn’t even seem like MLP it’s like a knock off that tried to be MLP but copyright infringement. It’s very goofy and not good.

It is truly sad how Make your Mark has gone from somewhat enjoyable to What the ever loving (bleep) are they thinking. It has well and truly lost its way, and like you I have given it up to save what few shreds of sanity are still mine to keep. 0~o

this franchise devolved back to a generic little kids' cartoon that doesn't care about plot or making sense and talks down to the kids watching it. So basically its just like all the bad kids movies like Witchmas, where there are constant inconsistencies and zero re-reads of the script or observation of past events.

Spike’s voice is just not it, and the dragon designs are kinda lame. And even for a kid show they could have cared for it a lot more than this. G5 I’ve found it not worth rewatching. Meanwhile Bluey is a classic.

the designs are genuinely so ugly here. opaline, the dragons, the snow leopard I can't be bothered to remember... all hideous. a lot of it is probably for stupid marketing, too. the fans, new and old, really deserved better than this abomination of a story with more plot holes than swiss cheese.

All the dragons look like they came out of the Barbie movies, those old ones in 3D. Seriously, Spyro made better models than these and I'm not talking about the remake.

Seriously, how is it possible that small groups can make a fan fiction that is better than g5.

Opaline and Starlight may share some similarities by stealing cutie marks but at least their defeats were different and Opaline wasn’t redeemed like 5/10 (Not including Grogar/Discord) of major G4 season premiere/finale and movie villains have been redeemed and hell I’ll even add Garble, Neighsay, Ahuizotl and Cabelleron because their redemptions were so bad….

G5 feels so dumbed down, I couldn't stand watching the first 2 episodes. I loved the movie but the shit continuity and the art/story feeling so pre-k, I just dropped it. I can still enjoy G4 even as an adult now but this one makes me lose brain cells

I would watch gen 4. But gen 5 was the worst. And gen 5 ruined gen 4.

Let's look at the bright side: while being rushed and full of continuity errors that not even the: "But it's made for kiiids! So we can make it shitty even if it's full of kids product that are good!" can save, the plot finally moved forward, the episodes were coherent and tied togheter and Opaline got her conclusion, thou I would have wrote something more... epic let's say. Dislike her or not, Opaline was a major part of this serie and had really good moments, I think she deserved something incredible for her defeat like other major villains... I think I'm gonna write something about her getting a better defeat scene, especially after seeing how the authors treated her and made her especially stupid. I'm just sad they got so lazy (high budget or not, you can still make different models or try to make them look something more then a bunch of twins) that the dragons are literally copy and paste of the same model with no unique trait and to symbolize their "unique magic" they just lazily put cutiemarks on them and copied the ponies instead of doing something original, the world building has always been a big part of MLP after all, with all its creatures and how different they were and now it's terrible. BUT this gives us something to theorize about: if dragons started having cutiemarks, it means their new generations got something from ponies (beside the lazyness in the desings and the lack of interest and care for this project to actually make something good), so, who was the first dragon that started banging a pony and created those? Think about it: they went from different and strange-looking bipedal lizards to quadrupedal dragons with hair-like crests (much like ponies' manes) and they have cutiemarks? We need the fandom to write how the first dragon-pony came to be!😂 And to be honest... I'm interested in Allurah. It's the first time we see a creature like her in MLP and while I honestly lost faith in the writers after they made scaled ponies and called those "dragons", I want to hope that they can still create something new and unique with this winged snow leopard and her powers how she came to be and what kind of villains she'll turn out to be.

how did spike go from a buff dragon that helped twilight rule, to a weird lizard dude

Bro when the part about spike came I almost fell out of my bed cuz what the actual hell happened to spike? Why does he look like that!? Why is he on all fours!? Im not completely sure but shouldn't he be dead or something? Oh my gosh i had hope for these series that just maybe they would stop leaning into g4 lore but they messed up so bad

I hope we get a G6 reboot, with a more PG focus instead of a Youth-7 focus

Yeah. Many 3d shows and reboots nowadays have bad writing. I have experience. (Especially with Morphle Disney adaptation. Morphle before the 3d era was solid! The japanese dub is pretty good)

I have 1 problem: in the roots of all evil part 1, they understand that Opaline got to Maretime Bay through the tree, gather all the ponies around the tree to protect them, then realize that Opaline could arrive again through the tree, but now it's too late Damn! Like you didn't know it

In my opinion, the quality of graphics and designs dropped even further in the MLP era. I remember how people were outraged by the designs of older MLPs.Spike the dragon looked so weird or twilight she had a weird design too I think the people behind the projects simply left them

We NEED to critique G5 so that G6 can be something to look forward to

The locket obviously a call back to the rainbow of light from g1 Idk why they randomly had to add it here but lol

The locket with the rainbow is actually a call back to G1 MLP. It was called the Rainbow of Light. There was also one of Darkness. The rainbow of light was kept in a locket that Meagan (the blonde headed human girl) wore around her neck most of the time.

Mlp really got worse

I am so disappointed with G5. I don't even see it as being connected to G4 in any way due to how stupid it all is.

I have this conspiracy theory that G5 was so bad in an attempt for hasbro to wash its hands of bronies and all the negative connotations attached to that. I fully believe the writers actually wanted to make something decent, but I feel like higher up wanted this. G5 heavily reminds me of other kids cartoons that sucks for adults, but children seem to like it.

I’m sorry what the hell happened to the quality of the show?!

This is Alpha and Omega levels of bad, hurts me to see how mlp has been dragged through the mud..

I hate everything I've seen from this disgrace of a continuation. G4's legacy is so tragically tarnished...