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03 Dec 2012, 7:58 am

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I figure this would be the best place to ask...what is the appeal of My Little Pony. From what I've seen it is a show made for young girls with some decent plot ideas.

The first thing you need to understand is it was never just made for little girls, the creator, Lauren Faust, always had a show in mind that could be enjoyed by both little girls and their parents. You need to understand just who Lauren Faust is. She worked on the Power Puff Girls and her husband was the creator for it, a girl show also known for being popular among a male demographic. Lauren Faust disliked most girl shows for being dumb, so she out to create a girl show that wasn't dumb. As it turns out for many males it really doesn't matter if a show is girly or not, it just has to be good and not dumb.

Now, as for why people like it, there are lots of different reasons. Some people just like the animation and the cute ponies. Some like the characters and the plot. Some like the humor and the sly pop culture references thrown in. It's not exactly the same for every person.

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03 Dec 2012, 7:58 am

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Oooh. Potential rumour involving John De Lancie's role in Season 3.

Tell me more.

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03 Dec 2012, 7:59 am

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Is it sad that I haven't watched any of season 3 yet?

No, but you should. It has some good episodes. It's going to be sad when you haven't watched any of the episodes and the season is already nearly over.

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03 Dec 2012, 8:00 am

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So Flutters may be an Aspie........ oh, great, "You Might be an Aspie jokes" ahoy....

It's not like this theory is new or anything, it's just more possible evidence.

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03 Dec 2012, 10:20 am

Things for my Vinyl Scratch costume that I will get: Blue wig, white t-shirt (which will be where the musical note that serves as her cutie mark will go), a pair of white shoes and maybe white pants? Hmm.....

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03 Dec 2012, 1:23 pm

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CrystalStars wrote:

Oooh. Potential rumour involving John De Lancie's role in Season 3.

Tell me more.

**Potential semi-spoiler below**

Discord was re-sealed in stone by the elements, so there's no foreseeable way that he'll be back this season, lest the producers break the show. Supposedly he'll (De Lancie) be back voicing Starswirl, which would make sense considering the book towards the end of the season premiere had a, y'know, swirl of stars on it, and it's rumoured he'll make some kind of appearance this season.

**End speculation**

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03 Dec 2012, 3:56 pm

Ganondox wrote:

SanityTheorist wrote:

I figure this would be the best place to ask...what is the appeal of My Little Pony. From what I've seen it is a show made for young girls with some decent plot ideas.

I also heard that she wrote the plots to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. I enjoyed both shows quite a bit growing up. The difference is, that was before I developed a set of standards (admittedly, my mentor had to help with that; I am very non-judgmental naturally, to a fault.) Kinda outgrew cartoons, although some of them had a cool art style (Courage the Cowardly Dog anyone?)

As far as shows for girls being dumb, I completely agree. Women should have shows as interesting as what is made for men, not crap like The Care Bears.

The humor in it seems very much like the random humor many teenagers use, along with exagerrated reactions. While this makes sense for younger kids, I don't see how that would appeal to the teenagers/adults that watch the show. Then again, this culture does have Family Guy...

I say through an episode trying to see the appeal and didn't notice any pop culture references, and I am certainly not a hipster.

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04 Dec 2012, 12:23 am

^ Well, the latest episode had a couple of Star Wars references in it.

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04 Dec 2012, 3:44 am

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^ Well, the latest episode had a couple of Star Wars references in it.

The pop cultural references tend to be a lot more subtle than in shows that are based entirely around them.

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04 Dec 2012, 3:58 am

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^ Well, the latest episode had a couple of Star Wars references in it.

The pop cultural references tend to be a lot more subtle than in shows that are based entirely around them.

Indeed. Also, have you noted the more mature turn that this season has taken in comparison to the last two?

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04 Dec 2012, 9:27 am

Link me to an episode with pop culture references please.

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04 Dec 2012, 9:52 am

SanityTheorist wrote:

Link me to an episode with pop culture references please.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wrrN2DLO7M[/youtube]

This has a lot of more obvious ones.

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04 Dec 2012, 3:43 pm

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SanityTheorist wrote:

Link me to an episode with pop culture references please.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wrrN2DLO7M[/youtube]

This has a lot of more obvious ones.

The animation is definitely good.

That's a heavy cake if it takes two flying horses to keep it in line haha.

Is that a griffon? Pretty neat if it is.

Didn't get into it, but I can see the appeal of this...the creator definitely stuck to her strengths used on The Powerpuff Girls. Definitely inspired.

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04 Dec 2012, 7:27 pm

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^ Well, the latest episode had a couple of Star Wars references in it.

Part 2 of the season 2 premier. A very nearly shot for shot recreation of the medal scene from the original Star Wars trilogy.

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05 Dec 2012, 10:25 pm

Babs Seed... she seems OK, but is she really a fool? Hmm.....

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05 Dec 2012, 11:08 pm

Gonna say it again: My OTP is Appledash.

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