I've watched a fair bit of MLP. A lot of it isn't for me, and that's fine. It's for little girls.
I was a very angry kid, and there's one episode that really resonates with me, and that's the one where this Rarity pony gets all upset at this rock, and she shouts at it, "Dumb ROCK!" in a way that I would shout at things when I was a little kid. I think it's super-cool that a show like that would show its characters having the same kinds of emotions that little kids get. Sometimes you just feel shy, or angry, or upset. I find that the "jokes for adults" actually hurts the show. We don't need the child molester from the Big Lewbowski snuck in there. Make it a show that tells kids it's okay to be people, to express yourself, to be.
As for the older creators... I'm not here to snub anyone, but there's quite a few who broke out into new markets. I can't think of a better example than multiple-award winner ursulav, but there's more, to be sure. I'm more disappointed at the people who were big fishes in the little pond and then didn't run with it. Eastman and Laird, of TMNT fame, will always be idols of mine because they leveraged their success into uplifting other comics, with such fantastic outreaches as the Xeric Grant, and they constantly kept trying to push more and to help others. We should all be so awesome.
I was a very angry kid, and there's one episode that really resonates with me, and that's the one where this Rarity pony gets all upset at this rock, and she shouts at it, "Dumb ROCK!" in a way that I would shout at things when I was a little kid. I think it's super-cool that a show like that would show its characters having the same kinds of emotions that little kids get. Sometimes you just feel shy, or angry, or upset. I find that the "jokes for adults" actually hurts the show. We don't need the child molester from the Big Lewbowski snuck in there. Make it a show that tells kids it's okay to be people, to express yourself, to be.
As for the older creators... I'm not here to snub anyone, but there's quite a few who broke out into new markets. I can't think of a better example than multiple-award winner ursulav, but there's more, to be sure. I'm more disappointed at the people who were big fishes in the little pond and then didn't run with it. Eastman and Laird, of TMNT fame, will always be idols of mine because they leveraged their success into uplifting other comics, with such fantastic outreaches as the Xeric Grant, and they constantly kept trying to push more and to help others. We should all be so awesome.
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