agreed

Also made it less weird looking, pug ponies

Fr. They shouldve done the dame thing like g3 and g4, g2 n g3, g1 and g2

No literally because they overall ruined the ending and meaning of G4😭😭

Been saying this since G4 ended lol. Seriously though, what was the point of connecting it to G4? A new audience of kids aren't gonna give a shit about who Twilight Sparkle is. It feels like they were torn in two directions - simultaneously trying to keep the brony fandom while appealing to a new audience of kids, and it just ended up being confused.

The whole show just has a feeling of being immediately "dated" just by having phones at all. Yes, it's set in "cuReNt day" but current day tech is CONSTANTLY changing. Nature, magic, and fantasy settings with always be enjoyed because they are so timeless, despite technically being extremely outdated. But nowadays, tech is commonplace and tired, and NATURE is the escapism. That's what bugs me about the show having tech tbh

I know like obviously kids have their little iPads and stuff, but not every kid is going to be linked to social media

@@smolexfundie6458 Fair enough but also like... we've had smartphones for two decades now, so I don't think that's really too dated.

I draw my own comics and the characters you phones and technology pretty frequently not to appeal to kids or anything but it makes plots easier to write sometimes. Lets say I want the characters to start a business they can advertise on social media and get a long line quickly and it could be plausible. A character can look up directions and get someplace right away. Its kinda like how in gumball you will sometimes see Gumball and Darwin on Elmore plus.

exactly

That's what it was like in the previous seasons, but they changed it instead of adding on or something 🥲

In G4, when the earth ponies' magic is taken, they become physically weak and faint. I have no idea why they changed it to plant magic/nature magic.

Honastly that would fit so much better especially since it was kinda confirmed ( at least I would say) that earth ponies are way more physically stronger

@mystic_scythe that's fair but the concept of growing plants also wouldn't or doesn't really work for every pony since not every earth pony has a cutie mark or job relating to plants But honestly it's hard to find something to take away from ponies that are kinda like the humans of the universe where people can fly and shoot lasers

@mystic_scythe do you know how hard it is to make candy they the "arm/hoof" strength

We've seen other ponies participate in earth pony traditions when it comes to tending to the world, so there's nothing saying that agriculture is exclusive to Earth Ponies, but we also see unicorns effecting clouds with their magic, implying ghat they could, in theory, effect the weather, too. IIRC, Faust specified that Earth ponies have a "special connection" to the earth, and my interpretation of that is that Earth ponies have a natural perception of what nature needs to remain in tune, just as the Pegasai have for the weather, and the unicorns did have for the heavenly bodies, before the Alicorns took over. G4 presented this really cool world building element that nature was basically broken, and every basic function, from tree leaf dropping, to rain, and the day-night cycle, all had to be handled manually. (except for the bizarre everfree forest) This actually makes Earth Ponies super important, if they're the ones who know what has to be done to keep everything in order, save for the weather- even if the actual act of handling what needs to be done is now mostly automated or accomplished by magic. ....I really wish they explained why this isn't a problem in g5.

@@Bird-wz7nx When you put it like this about the nature being broken it sounds really dystopian

Druid pony

I thought it was just that earth ponies were physically strong enough to work the land. I feel like earth ponies were usually stronger than the other two races.

I always interpret that their magic are more sync with nature, therefore them doing stuff about tree and such is more effective

How realistic the mouths move really throws me off too. Theres are section of animation where the quality drops randomly, just frame by frame where the quality will dip..it hurts

@@OnitaFreeze I really wish studios were given the time and budget to actually polish their work.

they way their legs bend really bothers me. all their walk/run/fly cycles look awkward and their ankles flex like wrists, it's just really unsettling.

The animation is horrendous

So many people see realistic textures/materials in 3d and see good quality. You can recreate this easily if you know what you're doing. The animation, design, and rigging are genuinely terrible.

yeah, even then that is dark Opaline just being trapped in a tree as a possibly immortal pony to just sit there, forever!

Does this mean Opaline is pony Exdeath???

@@Aster_Iris The ice milf?

It’s “Opaline”, which is a word to describe something that is like opal, has the same sort of sheen as opal does, or (what *I* personally think is the reason for her name) a word for a specific kind of glass that looks like opal, but is in truth, just opaque glass with a sheen, similar to opalite & opalescent glass (though, the transparency is different between the three). Sort of an imitation opal, which looks beautiful, rare, & expensive, but still is just a poor imitation of something that’s much more of all those things. This has been dictionary time with your favorite-by-default gemstone enthusiast, me. Rock on.

@@voilet-the-non-violet-vulpix oh my god she’s named after the gemstone equivalent of fools gold, that’s hilarious!

Honestly same here…I thought it’d be like G4 but no, they kneecapped it and made it just for kids 😢

In the same boat :(( when the synopsis came out people were upset by the wording "activist pony" (despite G4 being all for activism LMFAO) I was honestly rooting for G5. I'm disappointed in how it turned out, and I've been disappointed since the movie in all honesty

they did. would have made much more sense here if they stuck with that

Pretty sure that was never confirmed, just something the fans came up with that filled in some gaps

@@amberluppens3292 I always thought they mentioned it in Equestria Girls when they pony up.

@@prettycuresoundz maybe they did in the later stuff? I haven’t really watched a lot of EG stuff from after friendship games

@@amberluppens3292 it's canon, when tirek takes everyone's magic earth ponies lose strength

yeah a bit... It's Opaline :)

She’s like a blend of Starlight Glimmer, Nightmare Moon, and Tirek. Except less interesting.

@@lolli_popples And more weird.

Did you intentionally spell her name wrong to insult her? Because if so, thank you!

@@troin3925 No it was completely accidental. I wasn't sure how to spell her name

Rarity does talk about making a business phone call, so phones did exist in G4, and even an arcade cabinet is shown on screen. I don't think scrolls were the main means of communication for most ponies generally, but we just saw a rather biased perspective because we followed the protege of an ancient being who likes castles and whose formal standard of correspondence is parchment. Celestia even blew Luna off when she got all excited over the concept of a post card. :( But social media is a fact of life now, and these cartoons are made for children. IMO, we have hundreds of episodes and several G4 movies and specials (including EQG) where social media has minimal focus, so its totally reasonable for a new generation to try to cover new ground, modeling positive social media habits to children. And, generally, G5 does that. Pipp uses her social media presence as a part of her business, and she treats it as a commitment and a tool. Moreso in TYT, but when it crosses over from that into an addiction or an unhealthy obligation, her friends call her out on it or help her, respectively. For example, there's one episode where she promised to Livestream her entire day, but Pipp is overdoing it and gets sick. Her friends then continue the Livestream with a wholesome, candid moment between her and Hitch, about how he's become so nurturing through fatherhood, and how she needs to accept help and should rest. That authenticity gets her stream a ton of likes, and Pipp gets the rest she needs. That was absolutely true to the My Little Pony brand, while using smartphones and social media as a major part of the plot, and all within the truncated Tell Your Tale format. I was actually quite impressed. (I had put off TYT for years because the first few episodes were so... phenetic and seemingly shallow) I wish G5 was generally stronger at storytelling overall, but from the perspective of what it is messaging to children, this isn't all that bad or destructive.

1, Can't really argue when they were apart. 2, Those scrolls seem to advance when they just bog magic back. 3, Twilight STAYED as an alicorn.

They really should've just made gen 5 its own thing. They reference a bit of Gen 4 to appeal to fans of the old series, but I don't think they realize that kids will _also_ pick up on all the weird discontinuity and retcons. If they just started from scratch they wouldn't have had to worry about that.

Due to some research I did there are typewriters, and due to the make and model, links similar to the 1920s model from the Royal Typewriter Company and we have also seen pencils and pens in the show, but I can understand people wanting to be more old fashioned and use a traditional quill, especially for something such as professional documents And having telegraph, let alone telephone lines would be costly and make no sense when they have a practical usage of magic to teleport messages via dragon's breath, or a line of Pegasi between between towns But I can understand if they were in larger settlements like Manehattan yet G5 didn't decide to make a magic equivalent of a phone? and anything related to Discord gets a pass

truuuue

Hard agree, this is so bland. I think they shot themselves in the foot by making it a canonical continuation of a 9 years long series. They should’ve just let it be its own thing. The Marketing team and the executives really held this generation back. They tried to make a marketable product rather than a quality product.

i would have been so happy to see gen 5, it's just... why is gen 5 like. this

It feels like they put most of their budget into the movie. Looking at things like the animation problems or the fact that half of the replacement voice actors for the main cast don't have many credits to their name, it's always given me the feeling that G5 was produced with a lot of cut corners.

Zebras too though 🦓 At least in Gen 4

​@@Firestar-TV seems to be any pony/horse like animals thanks to g4 lore.

@@nerdycurls6253 ok, wasn't sure about Donkeys

Don't watch it, but seeing the images to see if the guy was making something out of nothing for this kid show, it seems the dragons were more human anthro with actual hands and not pony hooves? Idk what's going on here​@@nerdycurls6253

@@Firestar-TV Donkey's dont get cutie marks. We've seen at least 2 donkeys and 2 mule's (horse/donkey hybrid) and none of them had CMs

Right, the movie actually made me hopeful for the rest of g5. But then we get this crap..

@@unixornprince people are theorizing that they probably has a story but discovery family wanted to use Hasbro's work for there streaming platform that most of there ideas were taken from them so they had to get creative and that is probably why its so badly written they had to come up with stuff on the dot

I agree, the movie is the only G5 content that is clean, the animation is beautiful and it’s worth it that the rest of Make Your Mark

That could be it.

I honestly think that the G5 fandom is so small that it mostly just consists of one particular Discord server and almost nothing else. Yeah, it's that bad, unfortunately. And even on that Discord server, a lot of people just think G5 is "fine". They keep watching, but they're not like incredibly enthusiastic about it. It's just sad, really. G4 was so great and appealed to people of all ages, but G5 is just incredibly bland and mostly forgettable. Even I mostly just tolerate it at this point, but the passion I had for it during G4 is almost completely gone...

"their intended plotlines had to be shredded due to character licensing issues " I heard that. I do wonder why Hasbro has rights to some charcters but Discovery has the rights to the others......just weird.

Due to the licensing issues I really think they should've just made the show its own continuity. They shouldn't have brought up Gen 4 stuff if they couldn't do it properly. If they _really_ wanted to tie into Gen 4, don't pander and just build it up naturally. If you can't explicitly mention locations and characters, just imply it through context clues and focus more on other aspects of the lore. I do wonder if part of the issue is that they set up Sunny knowing about Twilight in the movie, but then could barely use anything from Gen 4 in the show. So just hinting at stuff would've been odd. I could see an argument that Gen 5 didn't need to accurately follow Gen 4's continuity because it's for kids, but uhh.... I can guarantee that a lot of kids have noticed the issues and are confused by them. Especially in the case of Spike's design.

@@TheRavenir how can they make a show top FIM people just expect it to be the same and people can not except change cause if its not FIM then it don't matter

@@TheRavenir I've gotten a similar impression. Even some of the people who like G5 overall don't seem truly passionate about it. It feels like "My Little Pony" has gone back to being what it used to be; it definitely has a fanbase, but it mostly consists of the core demographic and hardcore legacy fans, and people outside of those groups are aware that the franchise exists, but don't spare it much thought beyond that.

they even found the chest of harmony and are gonna try to find a way to bring twilights castle back or it turns into there own idk

they did it all the way till the recent TYT ep

To be fair, those "seasons" are extremely small, consisting either of a single 44-min special or 3 to 8 22-min episodes.

@@TheRavenir well i know that now, but i commented this before i finished the video

​@@roxcreates there are also 82 tell your tale episode (5min episodes and a 22 min one)

i always thought they had the power to make plants grow faster too??

It's more like there magic effect there bodies more then external things making them better at doing manual tasks like farming

Yea, they'd snow over and die in that trouble

The animation style is very similar. And when Sunny gets alicorn powers it looks like Mia's transformation when entering Centopia

Oh my god you’re right, I see it too now

OMG YES!!!!

Ponies in general kinda seemed to get a bonus second talent if they didn't get much Pegasus Flight or Unicorn Magic. AJ and her Lasso, Pinkie being psychic, Maud being super strong, and even outliers like Fluttershy having weak Pegasus magic, but getting a bonus talent in The Stare. The real Have Nots were the ponies with weak magic, or who can't conform. (no flight, no cutie marks, etc)

Saying "his/her" just to seem inclusive is so sad

@@mrpickles-hb6zx That wasn't trying to "seem inclusive", OP was likely just using interchangeable pronouns because most monarchs aren't really nonbinary

@@mrpickles-hb6zxpretty sure he said this to show it's the same for both

⁠@@mrpickles-hb6zx In cases like this, “Their Majesty” and “Their Highness” are more inclusive and also easier. In my opinion, “His/Her” should just fall in a ditch and never return.

wow this is exactly how I feel lol, the ponies almost feel unnatural in a modern setting like this to me, the phones are especially weird

My little pony like many children shows has the problem called toy sales. They only care about selling toys to little kids, especially considering Hasbro is in charge, a toy company. They don't all suck, most of what my little sister watches is decent and actually entertaining.

G5 is harmless if you like cartoons and want something to watch. I daresay I prefer the target demo watch it over a lot of the stuff out there these days... But if you want something that actually scratches the itch of meaningful, quality cartoon with a fantastical bent and a similar pace, I suggest Hilda.

@@Bird-wz7nx omg I remember watching this show when I was a kid and loving it, thanks for recommending it, It's reminded me to go and watch it.

No wonder I felt that the uprising felt familiar lol😭

And just like LOK that really intersting plot point was dropped really quiqly bc god forbid we have to foucues on the normies of the world

that’s the assumption

i think because they really just don’t care about the lore at this point lol, they just know alicorns will sell toys because ooohh pony with wings and horn let’s make 50 of them so the kids will buy our toys, g4 did this too but atleast their alicorns made sense 😭

It's always stuck in my craw that some of the leaked concepts looked more interesting than what they ended up going with.

I’m sorry what?! I never heard of this original concept. Please do tell ☕️

@@djtundra8011 Yes it was something leaked a few years ago ^^'

the swapped species concept was super interesting too like twilight was an earth pony, fluttershy was a unicorn and pinkie was a pegasus

You're right about Zipp. She solves a lot of the problems (and is literally next for the throne) and has debatible more personality. She's like Parsley from high guardian spice who was debatibly more of a leader.

I think they wanted to make the characters more similar to the toys.

Yeah I'm pretty sure that was the point of making that joke in the first place

@@liljatupsu I do be kinda stupid at times

@@K0nrad_Curze To be fair, I've probably made that same mistake a thousand times too

​@@K0nrad_Curze Seems to be the common trait of this audience

Oh yeah, I like to headcanon that Gen 5 is actually a bad future of Gen 5. Either sometime within Gen 4, or at least before the finale, there was a change. Opaline came and was unable to be defeated, so Twilight had to hide magic. Alicorns eventually died out because they no longer have magic protecting them or something. Something happens regarding the dragons and magic is used to try to separate the dragon lands from Equestria. Spike's body structure develops differently than in Gen 4 because of the unique circumstances, I guess. It's stupid and definitely not true, but I like to think Gen 4 finished when it did, and Gen 5 is just a bad ending.

He dose look a little bit like Nazboo.

I don't remember the exact name rn xd