oh yeah i remember that. that couldn’t have been written by hasbro based on the results….

Is that a joke? I think Blues Clues could be taken more seriously 🤔

I honestly don't remember that. Why would they gear a young children's show toward adults?? If someone said that, it just doesn't make sense to me

​@@evangeloevoxibecause a loooooooot of bronys are adults

​@@evangeloevoxi Exactly, that's not sensible

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G4 cutie marks work better than G5@@TailsFan369no2

Oh my god you are completely right

Replace High Guardian Spice with the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.

The animation wasn’t even all that bad towards the end. It was purely a writing issue.

Not to mention the villain herself...is a joke.

I know I did lol

Yup😢

I didn't. I saw this a mile away. Hasbro has a LOOONG track record of following up treasured shows with entertainment mediocrity. Transformers G1 followed by Transformers "recycled" G2. Sunbow's GiJoe followed by DIC's "discount" GiJoe. (one episode had Cobra Commander as a kindergarten teacher) My Littly Pony 'n Friends followed by My Little Pony Tales (devoid of magic, Earth Ponies Only and daily life bland as fuck) Beast Wars followed by "what is a source material?" Beast Machines. Transformers Prime followed by the forgettable Transformers Robots In Disguise. So naturally my expectation to G5 was set to bottom of the barrel, only for the show to exceed my expectations by going BELOW the bottom of the barrel.

yeah 😭

Yes.

ROFL

As a Warrior Cat fan, I can also agree to this. The series should’ve ended with OotS or something. They made StarClan confusing as hell

I partly agree, but unlike G5, Warriors, in my honest opinion, has a lot more going for it in terms of fan engagement potential, like FiM. MYM AND Warriors’ worldbuilding is shaky, but there’s a much stronger foundation. It reminds me more of Ninjago than G5; G5 (at least MYM) is pretty much a commercial failure because it improved too late in the game, but Ninjago and Warriors’ quality jumps up and down like the stock market. And we fervently follow it though we know there’s a 70% it’s going to retcon something into oblivion (WTH WAS REDTAIL’S DEBT?). I don’t really know why I felt the need to write this comment, but here’s a paragraph. 🤷🏽‍♀

Yess!! For me personally, Warriors kept the same problem going for almost each generation, so I ended up stop reading the books after The Broken Code. Kinda looks like Hasbro is doing the same with this new show😅

Warrior cats was good at the start like fim but I honestly couldn't follow the story at the end of the eighth I think series.

even a starlight alternate timeline wouldn't explain all the continuity errors 🥲

We can always pretend it's an alternative g4 instead of our g4. 😅

It feels like elseworlds on crack

True@@sillyface6950

Even if the series was separate from g4 it would still be horrible.

Not even AI can write something this shirt

never thought about it that way, but yeah, it's reminiscent of some stories chatgpt has written for me (in that they're barely stories at all)

@@TailsFan369no2 If she is involved, I think it's barely. She was one of the top writers of G4, so she SHOULD know the lore.

😂

We don't use those words 'round these parts... It's called "The Fanfic Trilogy" 'round here.

The fact you're putting Korra on the same level as the Sequels and Dragons: The Nine Realms is offensive.

@@captainlastreo5160 it’s a scale Dragons: The Nine Realms is the bottom end while Korra is the higher end

Fr the only WELL WRITTEN CHARACTER in these series is Zipp... They really had many good ideas and potential plot twists but as we can see what it had turned out, I'm really dissapointed

I read the whole thing and I can agree that G5’s situation is similar to what you just said

@@TailsFan369no2 I’m sorry, what?

It was hilarious watching him slowly descent watching each new review

It would indeed help them realize that the crystals wasn’t the issues, toxicity and mishaps happens once in a while. They don’t need the crystals to unite everyone

Heck, they could also abandon the Magic of Friendship and find an even more powerful magic.

Ummm ok? Your replies aren't making sense@@TailsFan369no2

WE'RE LOSING HER! CLEAR!

she already hated g4 after s2 even tho it was peak 😭 this would kill her

Actually she was to me one of the biggest reasons why the show didn’t work at first, and why it got markedly better after she left

@@JRAUSports For the show, or for Hasbro's wallets?!

@@blueblaze7312 both

Lmao

Equestria Daily is not worth anything, if you cannot even criticize MLP content.

> *Sometimes I feel like hasbro just wants to kill the fandom and all the hype* IMO Hasbro would be better off shedding those people who'd want to kill off said fandom, if they exist in the ranks, at least from MLP related anythings, since it was at least partly a fandom thriving and growing that helped G4 last so long/be so successful. Continuing to appeal to a wide audience with well produced, well written shows (and taking the stuff (from a design/production/planning standpoint at least) that helped G4 succeed so well and use it in making a new gen) would allow the momentum to keep going IMO. Which works in Hasbro's interest - not just the fandom's - because it'd mean more $$$$ for them.

@@DanknDerpyGamerthe problem is... I think they actually make the most of their money from the kids that watch the show, becuase why else would they make g5 so stupid? they must want to get rid of the adult fans and just make something low budget with no effort,- like Tell Your Tale, that kids will click on and watch repeatedly over and over. That's what will make them the most money in their eyes, sadly.

@@warriorcatkitty It could also be corporate bullfuckery too - and people being in place who weren't before (in charge of deciding who gets to work on MLP etc) for all we know.

​@@warriorcatkitty So another Justice League case ? That's sad and dumb, adults have their own money while kids need to wait for Christmas or their birthday so their parents would buy them the toys.

@@warriorcatkitty honestly, Hasbro is kinda dumb for that. Like whats more profitable, a kid going to a store, picking a pony toy only for its mom to put it back in the frozen food aisle or a full grown adult buying half of the shelf because they love the show.

everything is not terrible, your comment is terrible

I’m honestly convinced they were forced to write like this for some reason by Hasbro. G5 was originally marketed to be DARKER than g4 (not pg-13, guys. Believe it or not, epic battles between heroes and villains and ‘cults’ aren’t’ dark for TV cartoons. A child’s play often looks a lot more like those scenes than all the tea parties. Also, HAVE YOU SEEN NINJAGO?) Even in the movie, the set-up was there. I personally wanted to see a more in-depth fallout of the princesses, specifically Pipp. Phone addiction? Check. Large audience? Check. Large audience HATING her? Check. There could be some interesting commentary on parasocial relationships. It could also be development hell that didn’t come out as well as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, to be honest. Retconning down the line is usually what happens, but MYM retcons itself in the same season. (Chapters aren’t seasons. They’re parts of a season.) TLDR; Development hell, Ninjago good, g5 not-quite bad but toeing the line.

​@leoto363 the show feels like it wanted to do its own thing but was forced to shoe horn in a bunch of g4 stuff by Hasbro or something

That sounds about right. The best episodes are the ones with the least references, or at least references don’t add a ton to the plot. It does still drag the show down, which is unfortunate. @@smoxthybweh

They hurt so much- but, it is a little funny watching others react to The Nine Realms, but this was mostly only painful, the writing choices and Execs.. we started out with a lot of hope..

Misty, with her splendid character development and gorgeous character design (both of them, ALL of them,) or ugly crusty dragons? I’l take Misty.

Unfortunately that backfired on them due to the fact that their toy sales are extremely low and they had to lay off 1,100 employees. Barely any G5 merchandise in sight around here!

@@atlasthephuckingwolf9419 same. I got Walmarts here in North Texas without even spots on the shelves for ponies. It's very sad.

@@SilverSpoonRiche That is so true. I went to a few toy stores in Southern Texas, and MLP is almost non-existent on the shelves compared to 5 years ago when there was G4 stuff everywhere.

@@prettycuresoundz Wow, so it's likely the whole state then. Thanks for letting me know. Sad, but I guess it's for the best. I don't want anymore pony merch anyway.

@@SilverSpoonRiche Of course! And yeah, it's truly such a shame. Hopefully, G6 (if there will be one) will be so much better.

With uh, morals! It's still a kids show.

Broski MLP, including MLP:FIM is a kids show, doesn't excuse the flaws but its a kids show, not all shows have to teach lessons but saying a kids show should be about WARFAR and POLTICS is CRAAAZY

Seriously, while there are people who are too biased, that doesn't mean "therefore any criticism is automatically biased, and should be dismissed," the people asserting that it IS the case (that it should be considered automatically biased and thus dismised) are being more fanboyish than the people they accuse of being fanboyish have ever acted, ironically and frustratedly.

@@DanknDerpyGamer exactly

They keep saying ohhh give it a chance we tried to give G5 a chance, it worked for the movie yes no one’s denying, but MYM didn’t work out for me

And I think it’s safe to say G5 is in shambles

I can easily count G5 as non-canon due to the high, stupid amounts of continuity errors. This was a mistake making G5 a sequel to the beloved G4 we grew to love. Even fanfiction writers write better sequels than this 😭

So...the original target audience?

@@infinitydragonoid2655 I mean yeah you can say that, and I agree its true, but it just feels like they are sacrificing any real character growth or world building over just having silly colorful ponies on screen do silly and childish things. Yeah it sucks that G4 was the outlier and Hasbro is seemingly going back to its roots. Oh well at least the children will get a show more targeted at what they are interested in.

@@TailsFan369no2 What about G3?

@@Someguy6571 unfortunately they aren’t even getting it.. least not as much as the target demographic for g4. We literally had G4 stuff everywhere! It was also easier to follow due to only having to watch one specific show instead of 2 different ones. The lack of interest shows due to how bad the toys are doing. They’re going to clearance or aren’t even there at all.

@@Someguy6571 I’m saying this as a child who absolutely adored G4 as a kid. They already had it.

I didn’t even think about that. 😬 You speak facts.

No. No, you are not. Believe me. Seriously.

​@tylermccaw8092 If I have Hulk powers from Marvel COMICS I'll smash the writers and Hasbro

@@aidanpurkiss9457 Please, just be our guest.

IDK but we’ll see

That would be amazing!! Unfortunately Hasbro is probably too lazy to do it tho :P

In all honesty, G5 needs a total reboot. Wouldn't mind if the movie got a reboot as well to work some issues out. I got so many different points that I want to change to improve this mess. Most of all, disconnecting it from G4 as that is just utterly obliterating G4.

IMO, if that were the case, I'd say that this person would be doing something financially stupid for Hasbro (my mind instantly is going to the current CEO talking about continually increasing revenue year after year - didn't he come from their Wizards of the Coast subsidiary?) - given just how profitable the franchise was when FiM was out - and everyone could gather around a show that was appealing to a wide audience, and well made.

All G5 characters are dumb

I am with u, brotha... Also hate all this characters

Agreed

Yeah really it had potential but it was kinda lost so I gave up on it. I at least gave it a chance.

@@ShinoriDelfrim same, every time by each chapter, but by each passing chapter I keep struggling more and more and I just have to gave up on it eventually

​@@sleipnirthe8th339 I agree it’s a shame some people hate valid Criticism of a show. Criticism allows for change and improvements, also yes it’s me lol. Hopefully you like my immature dumb username and profile picture lol it’s based on a bad ending in a game I thought people would like XD(some do, also I took your advice bud.😊❤)

> *Defenders blame others criticisms for being g4 purists* While there might be some who are "G4 purists," IMO that there are people who think it is therefore OK to assume that it is only G4 purists that criticize MYM, G5, is beyond baffling, and beyond frustrating (as such a mindset is, IMO, beyond stupid).

I love the show but I'm 100% aware of the parts that suck lol. I don't get mad though because it's a kids show, specifically made for kids. It can make adults mad but it's dumb to be mad about a fictional show for 5-8 year old children. G4 is my favorite but it also had countless flaws that the g4 "purists" refuse to mention. Because it was a kids show and all kids shows have flaws lol it's really not as big of a deal as anyone makes it out to be. But it is fun to watch KZfaqrs and the comments go crazy about this stuff 😂🤣

I actually considered editing the old audio to make it sound clearer for this video, but then I thought; "Nah, I'll let people hear just how awful it sounds so they can get the full experience of watching my channel progress" I'm pretty sure that decision killed the retention rate lol

I agree, after all she's the one who does most of the work

IMO that sounds like blind fanboyism on their end.

And he/she said I was the one who was blind.@@DanknDerpyGamer

Did they forget the majority of G4 was episodic, so continuty errors between episodes didn't matter? In G5 a lot more of it is story based, so continuity issues matter a lot more.

Almost everyone who likes the new generation says the same thing. Either “yes, we understand that we are watching garbage, but we’re ok” or “no, you’re all wrong, everything is logical and good, but you just have duckling syndrome”

@@kneelessnightcat9164 Episodic or not, continuity always matters.

The crystals were never made to be a gun to your head to force you to get along if you actually paid attention to Spike's story. The crystals were made purely to keep magic away from Opaline. Ponies could still use magic, but it couldn't be taken directly from them without going through the crystals first. The crystals simply lost the capacity to keep working when the tribes split up way later.

@@jonnylou09 that's a narrative gunpoint arrangement. I'm not talking about the in-universe reasoning, I'm talking about what the story says, which seems to be fully absent from discourse surrounding G5

Boruto, Legeond of Korra, Teen titans go, star wars sequel trilogy, and more more more. Disgusting sequels, they are so...

@@jusussi Teen Titans Go is not a sequel, it's more like a equivalent of chibi anime spin off/reboot that was mean to be comedic. Out of all terreble sequel goes, Korra is arguably the most tolerable one

@CipherRage-tp5ql oops sorry, there's a typo there, i mean Korra was the most tolerable one. Yeah compared to the OG Avatar, its sucks. But even then, compare to other terrible sequel, i think Korra still has a lot of good stuff in it like the Animation & the World building for example. Boruto & the sequel trilogy however?

Except somehow this bad fanfic is canon

At least even in bad fanfictions, the authors of these fanfictions try to preserve worldbuilding at least a little...

Ancient just means super old/long ago, one day this modern era will be seen as ancient to future generations

Because it’s connected to a previous generation that was really good, so people naturally expected good quality

but...ponies have ears-

@@ambermillerrr well, tell that to their team