@story Yep. The Tenth Doctor once claimed that he hated pears.

I'm reading through the meta examples on the MLP Awesome page. A lot of them are, well, awesome.

*coughwroteabooksworthofreviewscough*

@ginger: Some series are better than others(Although the generally have a ways to go before they catch their stride; Naruto slowly shifts into a strong overarching plot and One Piece has good morals and can be genuinely heart warming, not to mention the action is fantastic and ironically more down-to-earth), but the vast majority of them fall into that same dumb tournament-style of arc repetition. It's one of those genres where you get a few standouts, and the rest is junk.

Ah... yeah, considering I've only watched the first series and you're reading the books, I think our opinions are very naturally going to divide.

edited 1st May '12 1:26:16 PM by kegisak

@kegi I really started hating him in A Clash Of Kings, because he pretty much came off as a Boring Invincible Hero (the same way Daenerys feels like one in Swords) He just did EVERYTHING right and never seemed to mess up.

I've been liking him MUCH better in book 3, now that all of his success has either been destroyed or turned against him, and his dad has taken the reins as the primary schemer of the family again. As I said before, I prefer my protagonists when they're struggling and failing, not when they're on top.

It's an odd problem of mine. (shrug)

edited 1st May '12 1:26:33 PM by gingerninja666

Sturgeon's Law

edited 1st May '12 1:25:54 PM by crowlover

[[quotebock]]@Sereg I thought that was Poorfag. [[/quoteblock]]

In terms of screentime/audience popularity, yes.

Discord was admittedly way too powerful for his defeat to be anything but him being stupid, which wa unfortunate and which is why I hope that he only comes back in flashbacks. He was still entertining though.

But the most ridiculously powerful antogonist I have ever seen is Ajimu from Medaka Box. And yet, we love her for it! She's just so ridiculous, it wraps around to awesome. Plus, she used Defeat Means Friendship on the protagonist, rather than the other way around! I seriously wonder how many fictional characters are more powerful than her. There can't be many short of true omnipotents.

That depends on how you define power. Once you get to characters that can literally break the fourth wall, things are a little bit fuzzy.

I think that how Elements work. When they are fired or just charged up they already lock target and making it unable to do anything.

Discord was a bit too powerful.....

But he was entertaining, so whatever.

We need some chesmaster villians.

Discord at least had the Fatal Flaw thing going for him, so his defeat seemed... somewhat reasonable.

We need villain who appear more than once.

@story Chrysalis counted as one (imo)

can someone tell me the villains in Project Horizons again?

The problem with chessmaster villains is that most villains in the MLP universe are constrained to a 44 minute long reign.

Diamond Tiara might count as that. You have to stretch the definition of "villain" though.

edited 1st May '12 1:34:29 PM by PurpleDalek

@ginger

The writer?

To be honest, I think that Jaime may be the only Lannister that's reasonably competent aside from Tyrion. Cersei's an utter bitch that not only doesn't think ahead in situations but also has far too much of a superiority complex to bother doing things that would make her loved by the people, and we saw what happened to Kevan and that other Lannister guy at Oxcross, and then Joffrey is even more of a Caligula than Caligula himself was...

edited 1st May '12 1:37:32 PM by theLibrarian

I've seen stories where the writer was the de facto antagonist before. I can't remember what is was called though.

... Um... I think I forgot when the next rewatch was supposed to happen.

@ginger I'm not sure. That Sasque (or what his name) is not probably Big Bad, he have boss (he worked for Red Eye for most time), but mane villain is not revealed (at least for 35 chapters).

My vote is for Reaper (ME Reaper :{P )

@story Madoka?

edited 1st May '12 1:37:33 PM by crowlover

Discord's defeat would've been perfectly reasonable if the mane cast had actually made an effort to look like they were still discorded, and that the whole thing was a final act of desperation on Twilight's part

edited 1st May '12 1:38:19 PM by gingerninja666

Discord himself thought that they were still Discorded. Remember how he told Applejack not to lie to him, because he's the reason she does?

Theory: Discord was already bored of winning when the Mane cast brought the elements to bear against him. Chaos can't be chaos if chaos wins. (See warhammer 40k)

Getting turned back into stone was all part of Discord's bigger plan