I think the series is doing well as a slice of life series with mini-adventures mixed in. Some of my favorite episodes are ones where they have to go on some type of quest to do something, but episodes about the ponies day to day lives are cool too.
SCIENCE SLUMBER PARTIES?
^ Not as preposterous as "BFF's before we even met" bit in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, though.
I took a guess and cut a portion out of my heart.
He said, "That's nowhere close enough, but it's a damn good start."
Strictly speaking, it was "linked by fate", but there could be any number of interpretations on that.
I took a guess and cut a portion out of my heart.
He said, "That's nowhere close enough, but it's a damn good start."
It seems like the cast are working towards their respective elements of harmony, as opposed to embodying them.
Character development is always good.
Man I hope the show doesn't become awash with Magical Girl elements in the next season, I feel lost and confused enough already with all the anime comparisons!
Emperor Wu liked cake, but not exploding cake!
@Kuro: Look at the house she lives in. She's always lived in that house. Her parents are probably absolutely loaded, and she's like one of those trust fund kids who just does the dresses not to get by, but because she loves doing it. And besides, there always seems to be some sort of order for her. When you really think about it, evening wear isn't in huge demand for us, either. If nothing else, she can probably sell some of the gems she uses if money get's light.
You know, probably 90% of those ponies have diabetes.
RE generic pilots: Honestly, most of the plo- er, stories of the entire series were pretty generic. They just take the old stock kids' show stories and do them so well that it's entertaining. The best example of this I can think of is the Pinkamena party scene from "Party of One". "Character feels unloved by their friends due to a misunderstanding, so holds parties/conversations with inanimate objects" is among the most ubiquitous and overdone stock cartoon tropes in the book. But the writers and animators just execute it so well that rather than hackneyed and boring, it becomes legitimately sympathy-inducing, hilarious, and slightly terrifying.
The same can be said of a lot of the episodes. "Dragonshy", "Fall-Weather Friends", "Bridle Gossip", etc.
TL;DR: MLP:FIM doesn't really win many points for originality in its episode storylines. They just pull off the old stock tropes so well that it's quite entertaining.
Tropes Are Not Bad, and all that.
"Someone who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person." —Dave Barry
I just got a fabulous new MLP activity/sticker book.
AWWWWWW YEAH!~
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Wow, you're avatar makes that post seem...
well, it makes it hilarious. Let's leave it at that.
I quite enjoyed the pilots, myself, but I think I enjoyed them in a bit of a different way from the others. There was the cutesy-ness that persist throughout the series, but I think it was the novelty that brought me into it. I was so surprised to see these pastel-coloured ponies going up against an ancient evil god...
This is the thing that get's me about debates over whether slice of life or epic is better. I love the slice of life for the characters. I didn't get enough of an epic dish to really give an opinion on it. For all I know, it could simply be the novelty of it, and once that wore off you would simply have a very odd premise with an overall meh execution. Because let's face it, the pilots were pretty generic.
