"The Most Confused Show I've Ever Seen" really does sum it up. It's frustrating because there is some good stuff here. I really, REALLY do like the characters, but the show bounces around so much in what sorts of stories it wants to tell that it just winds up not doing anything really satisfying one way or another.

I work in animation, and when you mentioned how the first few episodes of shows tend to look better/more well animated, there's a reason for that (at least, in the combined shows both my partner and I have worked on)! For example, a team will usually work on episodes 3-5 first, and then go back to episode 1-2 once they have a hang of the style. That makes the first two episodes look stronger and more cohesive, to hopefully hook the interest of the audience. Then, by the time the season or series finale comes along, the style tends to be at it's peak since the artists have had so much time with the world/characters. :) It doesn't look like they did that for the Make Your Mark series tho lmaoooo 😭😭

Man, I don't know what exactly happened behind the scenes but you can really sense that corporate kneecapped this poor show before it even got started.

Wait, I thought earth ponies had increased strength and stamina, and that was their unique trait. What's with the plant thing?

This will either go in my "videos to watch before sleep" or "videos to watch while eating" playlist

“The answer is fvck you” I was laughing so hard, jesus christ

Gen4 MLP lasted 10 Years, Gen5 MLP lasted not even half that ...

I truly do think so many of the issues many fans (and critics) have is just making G5 divorced from G4 the same way G3 was from G1. The character dynamics between the main cast are already strong, there’s no need to retcon parts of G4 just to have an excuse to market it to old fans, plus it’d allow for more creativity by having it truly be a fresh slate. Hell you could still keep nods to G4 in, FIM did that a whole bunch during its run, but it never felt the need to be “Oh also this canonically takes place centuries after G1 teehee”, it just used similar concepts/reworked existing 1 characters (such as Sonambula, Tirek, Applejack etc) while establishing them as being their own thing in G4s universe

"Opaline could have been interesting if she was a combination of all the best parts of my favorite villains." (Also this is Kazumi Evans slander and I will not stand for it.)

You know in retrospect, I kinda wonder if this show could have benefitted from the stability and guidance that the Friendship Lessons provided... So many episodes totally lacked focus and purpose, it kinda hurt. FiM did wind up getting a lot of mileage out of the letters-turned-journal, though whether that's the merit of the concept or writing competency is a matter of opinion.

HE UPLOADED

u watching mlp at prom night was such a throwback

I don't mind any of the MYM actors except Izzy's. Movie Izzy sounded absolutely ADORABLE, her voice was so smooth and cute. But show Izzy has an older sounding voice and is kinda scratchy. That one ending moral with Sparky that seems to be "let kids do what they want and don't give them a routine" is quite awful too

The main reason I dislike G5 is that even 4 years later there’s still no other reason for me to care than to see how horribly the characters I actually liked failed. The only reason I care about Opaline is because she ruined Twilight and her friend’s hard worked for happy ending, and the only reason I care about the world is because *they* cared. But now it’s 1,000 years later and they, along with everything the stood for and worked towards is long dead. So it’s *extra* hard to get invested, because why should I care if these ponies pull it off when even if they are successful at establishing unity and harmony when the literal chosen one failed.

you and MV both uploading in the same week is more insane then winning a lottery

12:50 It also makes the world feel smaller. It makes it feel like theres no one of importance besides main protagonist, her friends and two villains and thats it.

g5 is just like cool movie meh start to show ok this might be good we are so back it's over (real)

Does the not liking musical episodes extend to the Canterlot Wedding episode, cause This Day Aria was fire

Yeah. "Hit-and-miss" is how I'd describe this series.

That's a pretty fair review of the first two chapters which I mostly agree with. Don't agree with your dislike of FiM's musical episodes AT ALL, though. In my opinion, the amazing songs literally saved Magical Mystery Cure from being a complete trainwreck, Crusaders of the Lost Mark is one of my favorite episodes OF ANYTHING EVER, and A Hearth's Warming Tale is awesome. But yes, I do agree with you that it sucks that the songs are always so short in the actual show. This is unfortunately even more pronounced in Tell Your Tale, since that already has a very short runtime, so the songs tend to play for like 20 seconds at most. I do miss the songs always playing out in full in FiM... Looking forward to your next MYM review video!

The little lullaby they sang for Sparky is what kept me watching this show. It's really one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

If i had a nickel for every time ive seen a 3d kids show that very obviously had copy pasted and poorly done FEILDS O GRASS for backgrounds id be rich, every time they pan out into a background where everything outside a city is just like 3 trees and grass it makes the artist inside me die

Honestly, I agree with the show being very confused. I really think the lack of planned direction screwed the series. I don’t mind it tying into G4, it absolutely can work. The problem is they did it way too early, and right off the bat. So everyone eventually ends up asking “What happened? What about Twilight?” and so on, to the point where any episode (especially in a row) not advancing the overarching plot, gets tedious. I like G5, accept it has some *horrid* flaws, but it still has an avenue of potential. I really hope they don’t just up and abandon it.

Zip should have been the main character. She has that drive that made Twilight so good, but in a different way. I was always more interested seeing her on screen than I was seeing Sunny by the end of the show, Which is really sad because I do like Sunny, I just don't like her as the focal point of the whole plot. She didn't really do much towards the plot until the end compared to Zip, and because of that, the fight with Sunny v Fire Alicorn felt so much less impactful. It felt like Opaline should have been saying all those things to Zip instead of Sunny, because ZIP was a bigger threat than Sunny this whole time if you don't take in account the alicorn powers Sunny has. And it's a shame, because in the movie, Sunny was VERY compelling. She lost the thirst for knowledge that made her compelling though.

13:36 "All and all" Every time I hear that phrase, I can't help but think of "allinol" from the Cars movies. I have to suffer through it, and now do you. :D

It's a shame this didn't get as much time as fim did cuz i actully dig this main group, they aren't just straight up the main 6 and have there own charater even while sharing a few traites with the mane 6.

This is a review I really like! I feel like no one is talking about this show anymore and I have been longing for a long review. This video was perfect and you said my thoughts exactly! I have never seen your channel before but this is a really high quality video so I definitely had to subscribe!! I hope you make more reviews like this in the future! :)

Come for mlp review, stay for cute twilight stills

Pretty much agree with you lol Super hyped with New Gen, MYM had a rocky start that made me doubtful, yet my spirits were up by the time Chapter 2 was out. I was defending G5 so hard by that point until more chapters kept coming out and I just couldn't reason with myself to defend it :') Also huge agree on the music !!! I listened to the soundtrack non-stop when it was released and got super attached to "Special Tune", "Pony Love", "Where'd It Go", and "Portrait Day". I was SO disappointed to find out that the songs were cut down in the episode with some being so irrelevant to the overall episode ("Where'd It Go" and "Pony Love"). My smile dropped so fast the moment "Pony Love" got cut off with hardly any time as I was singing along

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13:39 *"Make Your Mid"* 😂

Since I was a kid, I enjoyed Friendship is Magic because I was interested in the story and the characters. The more I grew the more I appreciated it. It aged really well for me. As soon as I heard G5 would tie to G4 I did not mind at first. Until I realized the way they did it. By pretty much invalidating all of Twilight and her friend’s efforts. That was not cool in my opinion. I’m supposed to believe everything went to shit, and the main six couldn’t fix it, despite everything that they have faced before? Yeah right. Opoline is nothing compared to the villains they’ve faced. And there are so much inconsistencies with how the world of G5 and G4 work, that it makes me think “why didn’t they just make a new fresh start for G5 and leave G4 alone?” I mean, it’s fine if there are people who can enjoy G5. And I’ll admit it does have its moments. But in my opinion if the flaws outweigh the good parts, it is not worth it. And I have given up on waiting for something great to come of G5. This is just me though, maybe I could be wrong and they could surprise me by actually being consistently better in quality with a clear direction. But we will see. Unless they won’t get any more episodes at all?

08:15 The Relic (motorcycle): a) An earth pony made it (in the predecessor company of Canterlogic). b) It run out of fuel. The earth pony was escaping from Briddlewood (just before the unicorns blow up the stone bridge connecting it with Maretime Bay). c) She is an Artificer (she has "The Spark" of the inventors like Tesla or Elon); besides that, she probably "researched" how to make small mechanical machines in her Villa at a smaller scale [toys]. -> She likely could not "drive" at first at all (having to practice with it for a while to figure out how it is done).

The fact is was so short୧⌓̈⃝୨

We all understood that series couldn't be as good as the movie but man, we still hoped for much more than we got :3

I really think sunny being an alicorn was pointless it never really led to anything and the way she become an alicorn wasn’t really that great since people she didn’t have any connection with sunny at this point

I loved ANG, not only the characters’ designs and the wirld-building, but also the voice actors, animation and of course the music. I gave MYM a chance but it wasn’t that great. I heard a few people joke about the concept art for G5 and say it looked like Filly Fantasia … MYM IS FILLY FANTASIA!!!! In ANG, Izzy was by far my favourite character - she was similar in personality to Pinkie Pie, but she was toned down a lot, which actually worked really well, and Kimiko Glenn did a great job voicing her. As soon as they changed the voice actors, Izzy’s voice became realky grating and irritating … now she’s just Pinkie Pie. I love Pinkie Pie, but G5 kind of feels like Izxy is pandering to the older fans. Similarly, in ANG Hitch was voiced buy James Marsden who made Hitch sound mature but still very enjoyable to watch. As soon as his VA changed, Hitch gecame very immature. Now my favourite character was Pipp … until Misty came along, and I adore her! The Monet she was reunited with Alphabittle, I’m not gonna lie, it8s the only MYM moment I actually cried st! 😂 Agreed, Portrait of a Princess was one of the most outstanding episodes by a wide margin. Also, did it seem like earth pony magic making giant fruit was the show staff trying to get kids to eat healthily?! TYT is almost unwatchable, the visuals are appaling, and why does every pony have gigantic mouths?!

MYM is a classic example of the "animation is for kids" mindset and all the pitfalls that come with it.

Honestly, I did not even try to watch this show. I really hated the ties into the previous generation because I'm a stickler for world building and putting both of the shows in the same world is just unfixable. (and some of the design choices are awful imo. Personal preference) Thanks for confirming I didn't miss anything of value :P (Fun fact- in Polish dub, they did not translate the songs, so everytime it's time for a song characters just said "Yay! Let's sing in English!" and used original audio with unmatched voices)

I was just rewatching this with my kids again, perfect timing my dude 😂🤣💚💙💜

Banger of an episode. I agree with everything you've said. Especially when you talk about "A Special Tune" That's my favorite! I was sad it was a little short, so I made my own extended version. Just a little bit.

Man I really like ur singing voice/outro pls a full version🙏

SONIC MENTION AND THE LION GUARD MENTION!?!!?!! Also I thought I was the only one who loved the Make Your Mark songs, The Pippsqueaks singing the "uh oh, where'd it go?" part of the songs scratches my brain. And in the album Zipp responding "Ugh, and I'll forget what's been troubling me," also a great part of the song. I also the loved the intro like IT GOES SO HARD! Amazing video as always great review!

Can’t wait for your next video for the next chapters 😅

The G5 movie is the reason I even started watching MLP, so it will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you for not needlessly ripping into G5 because some of us actually like the characters.

I’m so glad you also like “Where’d it go” because holy crap that song is insanely good!

your take on musicals is insaaaaane. i mean personal opinions and all but still lol and yeah g5 is like... big wasted potential. i love a few of the ideas they bring up, and theres things i wouldnt change, but theyre surrounded by failed execution and strange choices. i especially loved the concept of opaline being a new alicorn, and a malicious one, whos trapped and was somehow related to the reason that ponykind was separated and also twilight had something to do with it, and i liked that she kidnapped misty and was a bad mother to her... but opalines backstory was crap and they only answered what she did _in the comics_ and it was just... she whispered bad things in ponies ears i guess. and also wasnt it that twilight felt the need to _have_ to separate ponykind after that? did they even see the g4 finale? (i dont even like the g4 finale but still) thats another one of my issues is how they made all the different things happen across _multiple shows/mediums_ instead of them being separate things like in g4. you could never read g4s comics (and ive only read like 1-2 of them) and youd not be missing out on anything, and same with equestria girls! but in g5, if you want the whole picture, you _have_ to read the comics and watch both shows. its a clever way to get people to want to see all three i guess, but it feels gross to me.

Bro that prom was crazy

Best MYM review so far. I'll look forward to the next part

I think the algorithm is rewarding longer vids ATM, just by my FYP and what some other yters are saying. I love this video

Before you even get to Chapter 4, I just want to say that Sprout really deserved better. Even putting aside how Sprout is my favorite character in G5, it's still a shame that he was mostly relegated to background fodder, and only got focus in Growing Pains and Top Remodel. I really enjoyed Sprout in those episodes, but so much more could have been done with him. Though that's not to say that Misty isn't a more compelling character and doesn't integrate herself well into the main cast, because she does. A lot more than I would have thought, when I watched Chapter 2. I just wish that we got more time with Sprout, even if he wasn't going to get redeemed.

14:21 Rollerdisco Rumble Jumpscare.

subbed! this is a really good review :)

Watching make your mark really makes me want to watch the other one. I adore it to much even if the animation is not as good quality as the movie I already knew it wouldn't. Not having much hope for something is good because at least it's not as bad as other remakes. I cried so much watching make your mark maybe because i don't care much about who the actors are but the characters themselves and what they might play in the lore

Omg you’re back! :D

Great video!

I watched all of Make your Mark as it came out alongside A New Generation. The characters are what kept me interested as the writing is definitely poor. I still have hope that Make your Mark will make a comeback and that the writing will come close to A New Generation as the series has so much potential but they just never utilized it. This series has, however, inspired me to take the characters and world and create my own take on it.

You were very generous with your criticism throughout the video compared to what I've seen Which says a fuck ton

HES FREAKING BACK?!?!! AS WRITTEN

Hilarious and intriguing review! I do agree, a lot of the songs in G5 are great but the problem is definitely how long some of them end up being in the episodes. I also couldn’t agree more that forcing a character into a plot when they have no other reason to be there weakens it (as much as I love Twilight, this happened A LOT in MLP:FIM Season 1!). I thought Sprout was going to be the sixth ranger as well, but I’m happy with Misty being it, especially to get her away from her abusive adoptive mother and have Izzy gain a unicorn friend.

Am I one of the few who didn't think about the lighting on the animation too much? Cause I didn't really realize the problems with the lighting at first, it kinda seemed normal to me due to that being how the lighting often looked on old MLP 3D animations from fans in the g4 era.

Could not agree less with your opinions on musicals (i am, regrettably, a theater kid) but I respect your opinion and think you had some great points about other things. WHY in the HELL did they not let the songs play for longer????

10:27 Probbably because Twilight said that magic is now more powerfull than It's ever been.

I feel like if it was given enough time make your mark would’ve tied everything together just fine by the end. Sadly between the flaws and the fandom hate that started before we even got a reveal there really isn’t that much hope for make your mark Don’t know anything g about an official cancelation last I heard it was speculation based on some conference

Why does the first episode look like a SFM animation from 2015 😭

i actually hate the way they implemented earth pony magic in g5. earth ponies had their strength and stamina and it also depended on their special talent. not every pegasus was a great flyer and not every unicorn was super skilled at magic. twilight and starlight had powerful magic because it was their specific talent. RD was a great flyer and that was her talent. on the contrary fluttershy was a very weak flyer because it had little to do with her talent, and rarity mostly only used magic related to hers. earth ponies were the same way with their strength and stamina. each pony had the capabilities they needed for their special talent. it feels weird and very limiting for earth pony magic to JUST be growing plants. what if your special talent is painting or singing or sewing? what good does growing plants do for that?

How they ended it was probably the worst way any kids cartoon has EVER been ended. 😭😫

I was surprised to hear so much praise for the songs, which I found forgettable. I chalked it up to a difference in music taste (I prefer the showtune/musical style songs to diagetic ones), but after relistening to some of the songs, I think a lot of it's the length. I knew they were short, but hearing you talk about how some songs went from 2 minutes to 20 seconds really puts it in perspective. The most consistent problem in the show is the pacing. It seeps into the comedy, the story, even the songs. A lot of the potential was ruined because of it.

"As a Sonic fan, I feel right at home." truest words i ever did hear. (praying for good shadow characterization in the 3rd movie)

Flipped out hearing Sollux's pesterquest theme in the back lol, also YOU'RE SO RIGHT PORTAIT FOR A PRINCESS IS SUCH A GREAT EPISODE AND IT'S SONG. I wish G5 had better songs :( Sad that I don't remember much of them due to how generic they sound.

I think most hate comes from a weak start of MYM. If we moved from Movie to 22 minute TYT we would have a better introduction

I thought the whole point of each MLP generation was to act as reboots/overhauls of the same franchise, so why tf did they think a continuation series was a good idea?

Hope next Time is coming Soon!

Finally some good analysis!

It’s confusing because tell your tale exists :/ for those who don’t watch make your mark tell your tale don’t make sense unless you watch make your mark I personally find G5 an mess the new generation movie was sooo good and opened possibilities up for a good story and had potential yet with make your mark and tell your tale being a continuation it messed things up and made the timeline confusing That’s why personally I like to separate tell your tale and make your mark deciding that they take place in different universes/alternate universes and not the same timeline/universe so it’s less confusing Plus make your mark could’ve been so much better and had so much potential and Hasbro shouldn’t of cancelled it just because tell your tale was more popular I personally prefer make your mark over tell your tale The G5 universe is just all over the place and is messy 😫😬

I can understand why many people dropped or considered dropping MYM after the first two-three chapters. I was ready to walk away from MYM too. Good thing I didn't because, man, the second half of the show is such an improvement over the first half! Which makes MYM's cancellation feel more tragic. This show had a rocky start but could more or less pull itself together by the end. It definitely deserved better than this.

Great review of Chapters 1 and 2.

I can hear the audio jump cuts so well after you played the clip after mentioning it It's almost too real.....

O my gah, HE'S BACK!

I tended to think myself above the others as I really like musicals and when they're in shows I watch- seeing someone describe how they just don't prefer it in a pony video defiantly fixed that problem for me, so thank you for that/pos

It sucks that most people don't like Ali Conned, because it resonated with me deeply. Yes the episode plot was a little unbelievable and the towns folk were rock solid stupid. However, having been in a situation like that before when I was younger, the episode captured that feeling of being valued more as a novelty than as a person by people you knew and care about really well. Obviously I wasn't being told that being basically objectified was a good thing by my evil magic mirror self, and instead another person I looked up to and trusted, but I feel like they didn't want to make the episode uncomfortable to watch if they made Opaline gain Sunny's trust beforehand since that could leave many uncomfortable implications. The episode is objectively not the best but I personally think the writers did capture what it's like being valued as a thing by a large group of people. I also am not super mad at the townsfolk being stupid here because they kind of had to be in order to make the message and plot work better. Besides I feel like it was early enough in the show for them to get away with it. If bronies can get attached to background characters with constantly changing voice actors, personalities and morals, I think Make your Mark can get away with letting the townsfolk have stupid mob mentality and collective consciousness in order to make an actual point. I do think it's a shame that this show struggled so bad because you can very clearly tell it's trying so hard and that some kind of outside thing is stopping the writers or animators from making it great. I don't really care about the G4 lore bc me personally if I wanna see or hear about the G4 characters I'm gonna go read or watch G4 stuff. I'm watching G5 for the G5 characters specifically. In the later chapters it really feels like they want to do what G4 did and take elements from past gens and remake them into something new, but the commitment Hasbro made to it being a G4 sequel just chains down the writers so hard. As a mlp fan as a whole, who genuinely enjoys all the generations and collects the toys, some of the episodes in this show feels like a love letter to the franchise. Though also as someone who grew up with G4 specifically, I can see why the lore turns people off completely. The background details referencing past generations makes me extremely happy when I notice them, and it makes me wish that this was rather a sequel series to G1 or its own thing.

return of the king

3:20 wait I also spent my senior prom night watching my little pony 🤯 it was this year tho and I was just rewatching episodes that had starlight from friendship is magic

completely unrealted but the Homestuck music confused tf out of me for a minute. I thought one of my other 15 KZfaq tabs was playing audio or something lol

Make your mark is pretty decent

I love this video! I agree with a lot of your points. Overall MYM had a massive identity crisis and heaps of wasted potential and talent.

Oh! Another MYM Review that's longer than yours! FaolanCortez's chapter 2 Mega-review from awhile back! Can't remember how long, but it was like 2+ hours! 😮

According to someone who worked on the show (on their socials)- they recieved the rigs and models for the ponies directly from Boulder, and because they were originally theaterical quality, they had a LOT more joints and points of motion than Atomic was used to working with. There was some confusion and growing pains involved before they really had an understanding on how to work with the models properly.

I would have liked for Earth Pony magic to be more… subtle, like it’s not obvious that it’s magic. This would have explained why, for thousands of years (meaning including the FIM days), earth ponies were just assumed not to have magic at all. They were assumed to just be more in touch with the land and not need magic. But then you notice that a lot of earth ponies’ jobs include growing plants, like Applejack’s family. And it was just like “huh… these plants seem to be growing really well in their care.” But only now that they’re consciously using this ability as a power is it obviously magical.

It didn’t even finish the story, confused as it may have been

i get mad just looking at that stupid dragon baby

I like how you used frames where Spike is the frame too and his expression makes it look like he's going, "Really, dude? Really?"😂 My Little Pony Make Your Mid😂 that feels so damn freaking fitting🤣

confusing indeed, especially how it gets more _confusing_ when connecting with in between Tell Your Tale episodes

Hes alive!!!!

35:35 SOMECALLMEJOHNNY REFERENCE

Well hey I'm glad you got some enjoyment out of generation 5... really wish I could've enjoyed it too tho

I hate the pink insides of Misty's lips. None of the other characters have yhe inside of their lips coloured pink. I think they either should have done them in blue or given her a pink marking on her muzzle.

Okay I’m still a bit confused why you don’t like musicals? Like if I’m correct you don’t like musicals due to the music being reliant on the context of the story and the story being reliant on the music to progress plot? Do you like Jukebox musicals? Like I feel if that’s your stance you would enjoy them? But I feel music that doesn’t require the context of the show leads to its inclusion to be kinda bland and almost pointless? And I feel like it doesn’t matter if it needs context if the music is just very good, which I felt g5 music was kinda bland at most part. Especially compared to g4, I really can’t find the spark you see? I have only 2 songs I actively enjoy in the whole of MYM?

32:37 Is that a remix of Dave Brubeck's "Take 5" in the background?

Make your mark chapter 1 had more lines but got cut out from time is the time budget