You’re welcome, but about half the episodes are bad. The season openers are the worst. YMMV. I recommend “Look before you sleep”, “Green isn’t your color”, “Sisterhooves Social”, “Hearts and Hooves Day”, “Read it and Weep”, “MMMystery on the Friendship Express”, or “Sweet and Elite”. Avoid “Feeling Pinkie Keen”, “Over a Barrel”, and “Canterlot Wedding”.
I can’t believe I just wrote that.
The show’s writers are often sloppy about consistency—characters, history, apparent time period, etc., change wildly from episode to episode. There’s a lot of fridge horror in things that the writers threw in without thinking through the implications. There are a number of episodes with stupid (as in, possibly harmful) “morals”.
What the show has is a certain attitude that’s generally been lacking in entertainment (niceness, basically), and it’s the only show I can think of at the moment where the characters are grown-ups. In pretty much every other show on TV, there are a bunch of characters who come together for one specific purpose or reason (to run a news show, fight vampires, get off the island, hunt aliens, run a hospital, talk with each other in a bar, whatever). Then they go back to whatever it is they do when they aren’t together, which isn’t important. In MLP, the characters all have their own lives, and there is no one thing they all get together for. The lives they are having offstage aren’t irrelevant; they’re often the ultimate causes of the conflicts that cause them to get together.
Maybe Lost was similar in that way. I didn’t see enough of it to judge.
I still think people should realize their model is broken when a children’s program contains ritual sacrifice to demons.
That’s a good question, but it would take too long to answer.
Since I wrote that, MLP had an actual episode in which they magically produced dozens of clones of Pinkie, and Twilight’s solution was, “I’ll just try to figure out which ones are the clones, and kill them all!” Now ritual sacrifice doesn’t seem very far off.
Thank you for the information. Getting information about exactly which episodes of a show are good is not so simple, and this gives me a good starting base.
You’re welcome, but about half the episodes are bad. The season openers are the worst. YMMV. I recommend “Look before you sleep”, “Green isn’t your color”, “Sisterhooves Social”, “Hearts and Hooves Day”, “Read it and Weep”, “MMMystery on the Friendship Express”, or “Sweet and Elite”. Avoid “Feeling Pinkie Keen”, “Over a Barrel”, and “Canterlot Wedding”.
I can’t believe I just wrote that.
The show’s writers are often sloppy about consistency—characters, history, apparent time period, etc., change wildly from episode to episode. There’s a lot of fridge horror in things that the writers threw in without thinking through the implications. There are a number of episodes with stupid (as in, possibly harmful) “morals”.
What the show has is a certain attitude that’s generally been lacking in entertainment (niceness, basically), and it’s the only show I can think of at the moment where the characters are grown-ups. In pretty much every other show on TV, there are a bunch of characters who come together for one specific purpose or reason (to run a news show, fight vampires, get off the island, hunt aliens, run a hospital, talk with each other in a bar, whatever). Then they go back to whatever it is they do when they aren’t together, which isn’t important. In MLP, the characters all have their own lives, and there is no one thing they all get together for. The lives they are having offstage aren’t irrelevant; they’re often the ultimate causes of the conflicts that cause them to get together.
Maybe Lost was similar in that way. I didn’t see enough of it to judge.
I still think people should realize their model is broken when a children’s program contains ritual sacrifice to demons.
Note that the actual children’s program includes plague and famine, more famine, slavery, mind control, plague again, more mind control, recreational infanticide, and slavery again.
What’s actually your model of children’s programmes? That is, how do you tell whether a programme is for children or not? (Not a rhetorical question.)
That’s a good question, but it would take too long to answer.
Since I wrote that, MLP had an actual episode in which they magically produced dozens of clones of Pinkie, and Twilight’s solution was, “I’ll just try to figure out which ones are the clones, and kill them all!” Now ritual sacrifice doesn’t seem very far off.
Thank you for the information. Getting information about exactly which episodes of a show are good is not so simple, and this gives me a good starting base.