I enjoyed it. I know it had its flaws (it was rushed, too many songs, Twi got all the credit for learning about friendship when the other 5 helped too, the whole thing was kinda shoehorned in the first place because of Hasbro insisting upon it etc), but eh. I went into it with a positive attitude and the past has taught me that makes all the difference. Nuts to all that, I was just tearfully full of pride for Twily

If you go in negative about it and looking for problems you will find them, I remember that from FFXII.

Quote Originally Posted by MJN SEIFER View Post
it's really dificult to know who to believe unless you know for a fact it's someone from the show.
Indeed. It's like the old "my uncle is a game developer" thing.

Lauren loved MLP since she was a child, and often wrote fanfiction on it (do you still call it fanfiction if it was never posted online?) many episodes of MLP:FIM is based on her old fanfiction.
Oh yes I know that much. I just didn't realise that was too

I'm not surprised that people judged the episode, and once again ignored Lauren's imput (I am not accusing you of this, nor am I accusing you of what so many bronies do...) Lauren seems to get very little respect and acknollegement from bronies where it really counts in my eyes - the following are examples of how our fandom tends to get wrong about her;

1. That she only wrote two episodes (or three if you split episode one).
2. That she had nothing to do with season 2 (or even most of season 1)
3. That she hated the previous gens.
I guess in this case many must have been like me and simply didn't realise there was a "Lauren's input" to ignore since we'd already been well aware of her departure by them. But yeah sadly I'm sure people get many things wrong about her.

The opposite happens too - people were raging to her about the developments in this episode and she was having to fight them off and tell them she's actually got nothing to do with it now. I don't understand how someone can claim to be so much of a fan that they'll rage about a little thing like that, and not realise that Lauren left the show more than a year ago.

Yeah she was well involved in season 2 still as far as I heard.
Sadly not being involved at all now it's lost her input and her guidance in not sending the show OOC, oh well.

Not to be negative but to be realistic I don't think it'll ever be as good as season 1 and 2. That was just magical, and that kind of "magic" requires its creator. Much like what has happened (IMO) with the FF games. I accept that though and continue to enjoy what they make of it - it has its weaknesses, but unless they were to entice Lauren back somehow it will not be in that league. It's okay - it's still one heck of a lot of fun and enjoyment and at least for now I'm in it for the ride still, warts and all.

Like I say, if they had realized they were going to make one of them Twilight's brother they could have at the very least mentioned him every so often, and then at the end it's like "Oh my God, her brothers getting married.". I'm pretty sure that the reaction most bronies had when they saw that scene when Twilight read the letter was "What brother?"
Indeed, that would've worked better. No matter. I didn't see when they revealed the characters beforehand.

What really staggers me, is all the fanon writers saying how it ruins their fanmaterial - couldn't they just make their fanfictions non-canon? That's what I'm doing.
You'd think. I guess people want to expand upon canon without conflicts *shrug*

I personally think that FIM is set on a completly different planet to ours (with one episode confirming that Equestria is just one country supporting this) So I think that the best way to introduce humans (in canon or fanon) is the way you said; if humans go to their world they are made into ponies. It kind of works that way (btw; that fanfiction I mentioned, the pony who goes to our world, she stays as a pony - she gets younger, but she's still a pony...)
Yep yep. I've always considered it a different universe, like the FFs. Though I guess that does leave room for magical portals to our world without complicating things with space travel.

I can't believe I forgot to do this for you last post;

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