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The end of ponies, and I'm having ALL of the emotions (Rant)
6 years ago
Except for the comics, that are continuing. And the planned CGI movie... and god knows what G5 will bring, though I heard it's going to be more focused on adventure arcs, and not on slice of life, which bums me out. AND OH GOD THE PORN.
Fair warning, this is long, and it's going to be gloomy.
Aaaaaaanyway... my mood isn't great. Despite having somewhat lost some interest in the show, with a lot of the wonderful writers that made the early (And even mid) seasons amazing rotating out, aaaaand falling out of reading tons of fanfics, keeping on top of fan content, Deep down I still had... fuck, still have, such a deep emotional connection to the show.
Which I didn't always. In fact, for the first couple of years I was HARD on the contrarian bandwagon. Fucking hated ponies. For absolutely no good reason. I was just a moody Twentysomething who hated people having fun.
But then... https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2012/9/23/104934.jpg I saw this picture. I have no idea what about it did something, but it started applying pressure to that switch that would flip from HATE to LOVE. Sooo maybe I started looking at some more pony porn, well before I'd seen anything of the show, but that lewdness started to open my mind a little.
And then I met
Superglue I don't talk about him much, because I don't like parading relationships about, but we've been together for just shy of six years.
He's a decent bit younger than me, and he was FULL into ponies. And when we were chatting on Skype and stuff he confessed to me that he was into MLP. I rolled my eyes but I'd been having that interest growing in me for some time (In total private) so when he insisted on at least showing me some fan content, I yielded.
Fucking hell, it was so good. I don't remember everything he showed me, but things like Picture Perfect Pony and Epic Wub Time blew my mind.
Sooo then he visited, and he wanted to actually watch the show with me, since I'd yet to actually see any episodes. I complained, but bargained that I'd watch some shows if he watched some horror movies with me (He is a very easily scared boy <3)
So he visited me for the first time, and we cuddled and watched pony. All of it. All the way up to the current mid season 3. I was fucking hooked. I was enchanted by the characters and enthralled by the world. I wanted more. And so I rewatched it over and over. I catapulted myself into the fandom full force. I RP'd ponies, I read ponies, I watched fan stuff, I chatted about it with people who shared my passion.
I'd missed the initial explosion of the fandom (By the time I was in it, the Twilicorn drama was already a thing) and that may be one of the reasons I lingered a lot longer than many other people. Even Superglue lost interest, which devastated me, since I loved chatting pone with him above anybody else.
Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that the show held it's quality until the end. I may be obsessed with ponies, but my passion can turn harshly on things that make me mad. And pone definitely made me mad some times, with some stunningly poor episodes, and even lackluster seasons. I have a lot of contempt for some of the content creators that made a huge dramatic deal about leaving the fandom (Looking at you Bronycurious. You insipid cunt), but hold a special place of hatred in my heart for people who loved the show every bit as much as me, but nowadays try to distance themselves from it, as if they never really cared. I'm not here to tell people to love a fandom forever, but own that you did in the past.
So... eventually I did start getting lax with reading the comics (I'm now years behind) and I'd let half a season of the show slip by without me watching before I rushed to catch up. I stopped staying up for livestreams. Part of me was getting really frustrated with some of the weak story lines the show was trotting out, culminating in the theatrical release of the MLP Movie which was fucking abysmal. It became clear that the show had to end, and part of me is sad it didn't end on a high note.
Because boy, I am not thrilled with this finale.
The whole premise of the season; Twilight taking the throne, just sat so poorly with me.
The best of pony was when Twilight wasn't the main character, but instead one of six (Spike doesn't count. Ever). She was an amazing catalyst to bring us into this amazing world with these wonderful characters. But starting with Season 4, when she was a princess, she became the focal point. Not saying she was there in every episode, but it became really ordinary. Twilight learning to be a princess. Twilight saving the day. It felt so... predictable. Especially when the Remane 5 started to conclude their story arcs and complete the development that began early in the show.
It had been making me feel bitter for a long, long time. As much as I loved the show, world and characters it was very clear that it was taking a direction that I was unhappy with. They got my attention again when they introduced Starlight Glimmer, and made her a really important character, but that didn't last, and she quickly became subordinate to Twilight. Everything must be funneled into Twilight Sparkle: Main Character.
I love Twi, well, loved. She's an incredible character who has grown so much, and so well. But anybody who argues that she became the Main character is talking out of their ass. And so she became a symbol of a growing frustration I had with the show. Even though what happened in the finale was telegraphed for ages (I also believe it was Lauren Faust's original intention as well) I had hoped it would not be the case. It doesn't help that she was mid tier on my list of Best Pones.
I was not ready for fully alicornified Twilight (Or chad Spike, Eww), and it hit me like a punch in the gut. Not because it didn't make sense, but because it was a symbol of everything that had been making me ache for the last couple of years. The chat on the stream seemed to disagree, so I'm glad for them! But for me, I dunno, it hurt. It hurt more seeing older versions of all the characters I loved come on screen. I think that was the worst part of it. Because it made me realize that one of the worst fan tropes was going to come true. Princess Twilight the immortal Alicorn will watch her friends die. (Meghan Mccarthy you fucking promised that wouldn't happen!) It's such a shitty, overused trope that people just wrote fic after fic about, animations and artwork for fucking YEARS. And I always turned my nose up at it. I knew the producers stance on it, and I knew that... what a bad ending for the show that would be. Build this franchise on the shoulders of a group of 6 friends, To have it end this way just feels wrong.
You know that feeling when a Celebrity or Personality you are fond of (But don't personally know) dies? How you get that weird, numbing ache in your chest? Is that just me? I got that way after TotalBiscuit died, someone I had never and would never have met, but who had a huge impact on my life. Well, I got that feeling now. I didn't end up crying, which I really thought I would, but I feel that numb ache. Even with it ending in a way that bothered me greatly, I still wish it wasn't over. One last episode, one last movie (Not counting EQG) to tell me that things will be okay, and that these characters I love will be friends forever.
But that's the silly want of someone who knows better.
The ending was... ultimately fine. It wasn't the ending I wanted, but it gave me these complex feelings of sorrowful happiness and mourning. A bad show with a bad ending wouldn't do that.
So even though I hate seeing Twilight towering over her aging friends, and I hate how she is above the Remane 5, and has been for years, and I hate so, so much... I loved it. for the more than 6 years of me being in this fandom, I loved every minute of it, and I'll keep on loving it through the comics, potential movies, and fuck me, even whatever nightmare Gen5 will probably be.
Aaaaand if you're reading this, and you're a pone, or pone adjacent, or just a curious friend or follower, then I love you for reading this, as a friend.
Because Friendship is Magic <3
Fair warning, this is long, and it's going to be gloomy.
Aaaaaaanyway... my mood isn't great. Despite having somewhat lost some interest in the show, with a lot of the wonderful writers that made the early (And even mid) seasons amazing rotating out, aaaaand falling out of reading tons of fanfics, keeping on top of fan content, Deep down I still had... fuck, still have, such a deep emotional connection to the show.
Which I didn't always. In fact, for the first couple of years I was HARD on the contrarian bandwagon. Fucking hated ponies. For absolutely no good reason. I was just a moody Twentysomething who hated people having fun.
But then... https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2012/9/23/104934.jpg I saw this picture. I have no idea what about it did something, but it started applying pressure to that switch that would flip from HATE to LOVE. Sooo maybe I started looking at some more pony porn, well before I'd seen anything of the show, but that lewdness started to open my mind a little.
And then I met
Superglue I don't talk about him much, because I don't like parading relationships about, but we've been together for just shy of six years. He's a decent bit younger than me, and he was FULL into ponies. And when we were chatting on Skype and stuff he confessed to me that he was into MLP. I rolled my eyes but I'd been having that interest growing in me for some time (In total private) so when he insisted on at least showing me some fan content, I yielded.
Fucking hell, it was so good. I don't remember everything he showed me, but things like Picture Perfect Pony and Epic Wub Time blew my mind.
Sooo then he visited, and he wanted to actually watch the show with me, since I'd yet to actually see any episodes. I complained, but bargained that I'd watch some shows if he watched some horror movies with me (He is a very easily scared boy <3)
So he visited me for the first time, and we cuddled and watched pony. All of it. All the way up to the current mid season 3. I was fucking hooked. I was enchanted by the characters and enthralled by the world. I wanted more. And so I rewatched it over and over. I catapulted myself into the fandom full force. I RP'd ponies, I read ponies, I watched fan stuff, I chatted about it with people who shared my passion.
I'd missed the initial explosion of the fandom (By the time I was in it, the Twilicorn drama was already a thing) and that may be one of the reasons I lingered a lot longer than many other people. Even Superglue lost interest, which devastated me, since I loved chatting pone with him above anybody else.
Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that the show held it's quality until the end. I may be obsessed with ponies, but my passion can turn harshly on things that make me mad. And pone definitely made me mad some times, with some stunningly poor episodes, and even lackluster seasons. I have a lot of contempt for some of the content creators that made a huge dramatic deal about leaving the fandom (Looking at you Bronycurious. You insipid cunt), but hold a special place of hatred in my heart for people who loved the show every bit as much as me, but nowadays try to distance themselves from it, as if they never really cared. I'm not here to tell people to love a fandom forever, but own that you did in the past.
So... eventually I did start getting lax with reading the comics (I'm now years behind) and I'd let half a season of the show slip by without me watching before I rushed to catch up. I stopped staying up for livestreams. Part of me was getting really frustrated with some of the weak story lines the show was trotting out, culminating in the theatrical release of the MLP Movie which was fucking abysmal. It became clear that the show had to end, and part of me is sad it didn't end on a high note.
Because boy, I am not thrilled with this finale.
The whole premise of the season; Twilight taking the throne, just sat so poorly with me.
The best of pony was when Twilight wasn't the main character, but instead one of six (Spike doesn't count. Ever). She was an amazing catalyst to bring us into this amazing world with these wonderful characters. But starting with Season 4, when she was a princess, she became the focal point. Not saying she was there in every episode, but it became really ordinary. Twilight learning to be a princess. Twilight saving the day. It felt so... predictable. Especially when the Remane 5 started to conclude their story arcs and complete the development that began early in the show.
It had been making me feel bitter for a long, long time. As much as I loved the show, world and characters it was very clear that it was taking a direction that I was unhappy with. They got my attention again when they introduced Starlight Glimmer, and made her a really important character, but that didn't last, and she quickly became subordinate to Twilight. Everything must be funneled into Twilight Sparkle: Main Character.
I love Twi, well, loved. She's an incredible character who has grown so much, and so well. But anybody who argues that she became the Main character is talking out of their ass. And so she became a symbol of a growing frustration I had with the show. Even though what happened in the finale was telegraphed for ages (I also believe it was Lauren Faust's original intention as well) I had hoped it would not be the case. It doesn't help that she was mid tier on my list of Best Pones.
I was not ready for fully alicornified Twilight (Or chad Spike, Eww), and it hit me like a punch in the gut. Not because it didn't make sense, but because it was a symbol of everything that had been making me ache for the last couple of years. The chat on the stream seemed to disagree, so I'm glad for them! But for me, I dunno, it hurt. It hurt more seeing older versions of all the characters I loved come on screen. I think that was the worst part of it. Because it made me realize that one of the worst fan tropes was going to come true. Princess Twilight the immortal Alicorn will watch her friends die. (Meghan Mccarthy you fucking promised that wouldn't happen!) It's such a shitty, overused trope that people just wrote fic after fic about, animations and artwork for fucking YEARS. And I always turned my nose up at it. I knew the producers stance on it, and I knew that... what a bad ending for the show that would be. Build this franchise on the shoulders of a group of 6 friends, To have it end this way just feels wrong.
You know that feeling when a Celebrity or Personality you are fond of (But don't personally know) dies? How you get that weird, numbing ache in your chest? Is that just me? I got that way after TotalBiscuit died, someone I had never and would never have met, but who had a huge impact on my life. Well, I got that feeling now. I didn't end up crying, which I really thought I would, but I feel that numb ache. Even with it ending in a way that bothered me greatly, I still wish it wasn't over. One last episode, one last movie (Not counting EQG) to tell me that things will be okay, and that these characters I love will be friends forever.
But that's the silly want of someone who knows better.
The ending was... ultimately fine. It wasn't the ending I wanted, but it gave me these complex feelings of sorrowful happiness and mourning. A bad show with a bad ending wouldn't do that.
So even though I hate seeing Twilight towering over her aging friends, and I hate how she is above the Remane 5, and has been for years, and I hate so, so much... I loved it. for the more than 6 years of me being in this fandom, I loved every minute of it, and I'll keep on loving it through the comics, potential movies, and fuck me, even whatever nightmare Gen5 will probably be.
Aaaaand if you're reading this, and you're a pone, or pone adjacent, or just a curious friend or follower, then I love you for reading this, as a friend.
Because Friendship is Magic <3
Though looking at Primal with anticipation. (mostly since I am kinda a sucker for the pulps (and this seems like Genndy going sort of Conan with this one.)
Game of Thrones was a better show with a far worse ending, and I'm mad about it, but it's not going to have the same impact. I didn't make any friends or forge deeper relationships with GoT.
People have bonded over other things, now if there is a Fandom, 'ell there are plenty with a cute nickname you can also follow.