#i think some people get offended because they think that by saying Korra is stronger we're also saying that lok is better

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People saying Aang can beat Korra are crazy, I can't believe this is even a discussion. Y'all are just drowning in nostalgia, I swear.

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The Rise and Fall of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (7th Anniversary)

Back in early 2010, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was one of most popular cartoon shows that ever came out and surprisingly on par with Adventure Time back in the day. Here are the reasons why this was so great.

1) This Show was Created by Lauren Faust

Lauren Faust is one of the best storyboard artist, animator and creator of cartoon shows. What I like about her is before she made the show, she ask questions to fans first about MLP on DeviantArt before setting up her show and then made the pilot. Animated one of the best movies like Cat Don’t Dance and Iron Giant. She worked on great shows cartoons, mostly everyone childhood shows like...

PowerPuff Girls

Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends

I don’t know why she leave the show but my guess is time, working on other things like Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls, Wander Over Yonder, and DC Super Hero Girls. Overall, she’s pretty great.

2) Plot

The plot is simple, Twilight Sparkle, with Spike the Dragon was given the task is go to Ponyville and learn about friendship. There she meets her friends, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash. Together, they solve problems, go on crazy adventures, and learn the magic of friendship

For story driven episodes, it usually airs on seasons premieres and finales like

Season 2 Premiere: The Return of Harmony

Season 2 Finale: A Canterlot Wedding

But most of the episodes are different, no story what so ever and that’s fine because after all, it is a little girls show. Most of episodes are friendship solving and it’s really adorable to watch.

Mane six go on adventure

Hanging out or an episode about secondary characters

Although most of the episodes aren’t story driven and feel most of the lesson are repeats to each episodes, they’re very enjoyable to watch.

3) Characters

Almost everyone character are great, there’s not one thing I hate about them. The mares (females) of the show are portrayed as competent and strong and none of them as portrayed as be stronger and better. We’ve got Twilight Sparkle the intelligent, Fluttershy the shy one, Rainbow Dash the action, Applejack the hard worker, Rarity the fashionista, and Pinkie Pie the joke of the show, also the one who keeps breaking the 4th wall

They develop greatly in the show like Fluttershy, from season 1 to 4, she was always shy and timid, never able to speak up for herself and letting others to push her

But in recent seasons she now more assertive, speak about her concern

Even the villains are great in the show such as 

Discord who’s play by an actor that play Q in Star Trek. He’s deceiving and manipulative at first but a very fun villain watch with creating chaos. He also hangs with Fluttershy a lot 

4) World Building/Lore

The society the ponies live is quite interesting. There are three types ponies

Unicorns that can do magic 

Pegasus can of course fly, control clouds, and live in them

and Earth ponies are just like humans but horses

There’s is one type that rules them all and there called Alicorns. Alicorns are princesses of Equestira. There are only four alicorns, Celestia Princess of the Sun, Luna Princess of the Moon, Cadance, Princess of Love Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship.

Don’t worry, it’s not just ponies that live in this world, there’s dragons, ox, seapoinies, dog creatures, and many more.

5) Music

For a show that’s for little girls, the songs aren’t good... It’s the greatest sh@t you’ll ever listen to. It’s seriously Disney movie level like oh my god, it give so many emotion such as

The Magic Inside

This Day Aria

We’ll Make Our Mark

Even the mulilanguage openings are great to listen like the Italian one!

I’m sorry Steven Universe, your songs are great but yours can’t compete with this.

6) Fandom

This fandom is probably why most people watch the show. Unlike most fandoms that are mostly toxic, this one is really decent throughout the years. You can ship any character you want and no is going to tell you otherwise (excpet filly with mare/colt), everyone can speak about their opinions, and everyone gets the message of the show by being kind to each other

What I like most about the community is there content. Seriously this fandom makes some great content like music, fan-animation, and fan-art.

For example

Lullaby for a Princess by Ponyphonic

Button Mash Adventure by Jananimation

So great that non-fans of the show listen to a song called “Discord” by Tombstone and people got pissed when they found out when they found it was created by a Brony

The fandom even given names to all the background ponies!

Such as Derpy Hooves, Lyra Heartstrings, Bon Bon, Octiva, Vinyl Scratch, Berry Punch and Doctor Whooves.

Also, there is one time that the fandom got upset about one thing and it actually very reasonable compared to most fandoms of right now. When “The Last Roundup” came, it was Derpy first time that she talk. People got offended for having crossed eyes, reckless and being a poor portrayal of a autism person and demand for that pony to be removed off the show. 

The bronies got upset and start a campaign, #SaveDerpy and to that I say

After that, she stayed on the show. The best reason why the fans get frustrated about that. Not because of a ship, not because of sauce but for a fan favorite character was about to be remove

So now let’s talk how did this show fall

Downfall

So probably many fans,including myself stop watching the show because with other cartoon shows popping with more mature story-driven, and action shows like Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Legend of Korra, Rick and Morty, and Star vs The Forces of Evil, people lost interesting in the show.

Also the show is pretty much over now

The Cutie Crusaders got their cutie mark

Twilight becomes a princess and even has an apprentice

Rainbow Dash becomes a Wonderbolt

Rarity has own fashion buisness

So there’s no point in watching the show anymore, a similar situation to Adventure Time

Conclusion

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the show that used to be so popular back in the early 2010s, good plot, great characters and have great support by fans. With season 7 actually getting interesting, I think this show will get back on their horse

Happy 7th Anniversary! 

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My feelings on The legend of Korra

So I recently watched all 4 seasons of Korra on Netflix. This is my first full viewing of the series. Before I get into the meat of all of my thoughts on it I should first give a few thoughts on how I view things. Firstly if a show is good it doesn’t matter how old you are or when you see it. If it’s going to be good in a 90′s setting then the show can still be good decades later, even if a little dated to its time. Secondly I’ve always felt that a show can be viewed on both its own personal merits as well as be compared to shows that come before it. As long as those shows are both from the same universe. It doesn’t matter if a show is made by the same people or different because in general, they represent the same universe to me. This can be taken into consideration for the most part but that’s why I make sure to look at it on both accounts. This way I can give an actual fair assessment to the show. However, at the sake of sounding like a hypocrite to some degree I should at least state I will be looking at Korra on its own and not comparing the two shows at all. See I enjoy the original avatar series but I don’t want to go in comparing the two because I would feel it’s unfair since as much as I enjoy it, I’m not in fact a “stan” when it comes to the series. I feel that the original show is good, but has a handful of episodes I don’t like. So with that in mind let’s look over my feelings for Korra When I went into Korra I had only seen about 2 episodes of it before I wrote it off stating “I just don’t like the main character” This was when I caught 2 random episodes of it late at night on tv. Also it just didn’t have a gripping enough setting to me. Steam punk has always been a kind of “meh” scenario and old timey just isn’t my thing. When it came to the story I just didn’t feel like it was going to catch me either. So I put it off. Now that it’s on Netflix and I can spend 3 days watching it I figure the fair shake was in order. After having seen it I take back a couple things I had on it. 1: Korra isn’t as bad as I thought she was. -Now I mean this in the fact that I caught Episode 1 and she does in fact change and grow as a person. From this annoying little teenager who is all too self important to a person who eventually does grow to show she is a mature adult. Trying to instead of actually just run in all the time and punch things to death until she wins. Now to say she doesn’t still have a strong sense of personality is wrong. I appreciate strong women in all of my content because there is always room for any and all kinds of women. But Korra in the beginning was kind of annoying to deal with. “I’m the avatar, you gotta deal with it” Made me go “I don’t like her. She’s kind of a dick” Granted she was a child then but still. She hadn’t grown up too much but with a deeper understanding of the fact that she is THE AVATAR and she has only trained in a single place for so long and lastly she also in general is a teenage girl of like 16? it is understandable for her to be this way. Most teens are like this because of all the hormones. With that in mind I can give the personality of Korra a pass. 2: The setting is ok. - It’s just that to me. Yes technology is a part of the series but this is supposed to represent a united world for all the people in it. So as much as I don’t like the technology in the world it is a product of its time. However the world around it is still the world of the avatar and if I liked the original I damn sure should like this. It’s the same world just set in the future. The earth kingdom is still garbage, the fire nation is now a better place (from what we hear, pretty sure we never see it) the air temples are much nicer (now that they’re not filled with skeletons) and the southern water tribe is in a much better position than it once was. Even though the world is kind of different it’s the setting I liked. I’m not against having an all non white cast. Who cares if there are no white people. You know what else is not in Avatars setting? Black people. I don’t mean that in an offensive way either. I mean that it’s an entirely Asian style of cast. To me it has china, tibet, Inuit, and japan as the main places, but that’s because I never saw any of the people in it as white. We don’t need any white people in the cast because the charcters and the setting are going to drive that enough on its own. But back to the main point. The visuals are great and it has a great setting to it because the Asian setting gives it that “mystical” feel to it. That’s one of the reasons I wasn’t a fan of the 20′s feel and so on.  That’s most of the stuff I was wrong about. Now we get into what I disliked about it and I’ll try to sound as fair and nice about it. If you’re here to argue this is not really the place. Sure my dumb ass put out my thoughts onto the internet so fair game, but I’m mostly here to express my feelings in a non argumentative non offensive way. If I offend, forgive me, not my intent. So here goes. 1: Korra is kind of a “mary sue” - Now I’ve read the posts of people saying she isn’t online, and I’ve seen both sides. So let me explain what I mean as best as possible. When people say mary sue they don’t just mean a broad stroke of it all the time. It means many things nowadays because as some people have told me, language is fluid and changes its meanings at points in time. That being said, allow me to explain what I think others mean and what I mean. For me a mary sue is someone who has it “easy” who is strong, in all things, or picks up way too fast on stuff. For others it may mean the same thing. Now I’m sure you read the stuff I wrote earlier about her personality being better and her growing as a person. The main reason I say she is a mary sue is the fact that she picks up on bending and other things extremely fast. She is basically for the most part just given powers. Here is a list of what I mean Knew how to bend 3/4 elements at about the age of 4. Became a pro bender in about 1 match. Learned air bending instantly after having her powers taken away by blood bending even though she still didn’t “get” the spiritual stuff. Was given back her bending in a Deus Ex Machina. Was given the ability to spirit bend because if being the avatar. Which she later kept even though her bonds to earlier lives were severed in season 2. Learned how to tame the spirits in season 2 by seeing Unalok do it like maybe 2 times and actually never being taught how to do it. Defeated countless powerful villains who are seemingly so powerful they are beyond fair mostly on her own but with maybe a little bit of help. (which doesn’t seem like enough help unless you count season 4 because I do and she really needed that help cause how you gonna fight a mech?) Became the new first avatar ever because of her lines being severed from her past lives. Learning how to read the spirit vines like Toph even though was never shown to be taught it. Learned how to metal bend pretty easily. Was able to fight the strongest air bender in what seemed like almost ever while being poisoned in a pretty even display. I believe that is most of it in a pretty fair estimate of why I and most people who say she is a mary sue would say she is. She is just way too strong for an avatar and it feels like most of the fights had to have people be stronger than they needed to be and she just kept getting back up and winning in overwhelmingly strong and powerful odds. Now again this only has to do with Legend of Korra. I’m pretty sure if I watched the first series again like I did this one I would find some things about it that lower that series as well. But I’m talking about this and not comparing it to the first series because I want to tell how I feel about this on its own and not compared to a series I like more. 2: The stakes are too high. Or are they? - The stakes are always “the end of the world” and sure. That was the first series. But here, the series was always a new bad guy coming in and is about the end the world. Now I’m not going to get into the view points of the villains because I don’t need them to be deep or be super well fleshed out all the time. Evil tyrant works fine with me but the problem is the first villain is going to change the world by getting rid of all bending but he didnt succeed on anyone I care about. so the stakes were pretty low. No one was affected. Second season? its a dude who wants to change and destroy the world. But he didn’t succeed in hurting anyone I care about in the show so the stakes were pretty low. Remember season 3 when they killed a character you cared about? Me neither. Even though he was in this bad ass criminal organization and the stakes were high no one got hurt so it didn’t matter. Season 4? well, like NO ONE DIED AGAIN WHO CARES. See nothing bad happens throughout the series because the only people who died are like I don’t know, 4 people tops? Now I’m not saying I need death but there was more of that in the first series and even without the death Aang did kind of lost his ability to enter the avatar state in a more “high stakes scenario” This makes it feel like none of these villains who are all super fucking cool to me even matter much. On that note. 3: I want to get into these villains, but who are they and why should I care? - The villains in this series are actually kind of super cool to me. I do however feel like 1 season per villain just shows that they don’t matter in the long run. Why should I invest in any of them past the moment they do a cool thing? They’re also a villain of the week where it’s based on ideals thrown onto a form of bender or non bender. Now again I can handle the different ideals of each and how they’re bad and don’t really mind how they aren’t anymore than a basic form of idealism, but the problem I have is how they have one season per person compared to a whole 3 seasons of one main villain. By the time you get to them fighting Ozai you are stoked because they spent so much time fighting how many other villains who are all in their own right powerful? Who is the lackey in season 1? Mustache man? That’s not enough to get me into it. That’s not anyone I care about and that’s a problem. Being unable to really really invest in your villain makes half of your people not fucking matter. Now one thing that is cool though is all the villains in the series are “dope ass fighters” and the fight scenes are fantastic in the series. But that’s what the villains boil down to. The woman with no arms? That’s some cool shit dude. Sadly I’ll never know what made her lose her arms and made her join the red lotus. And that’s all that makes me not like the show. Now I’m going to finish off on something about the show that is a little controversial. I’m going to give my thoughts on the ending and the relationship of Korra and Asami. See I’m not against bi-sexual or homo-sexual or any kind of any relationship and I think representation is great when done well. I just didn’t see them really connect onscreen besides a tiny few things. A person coming out of nowhere saying “i was gay/bi/straight/whatever all along” is fine. Life kinda works like that sometimes. Hell sometimes people who thought they were straight their entire lives realize they are into same sex stuff and that’s perfectly natural and fine. The thing that gets to me is I don’t really see what made Korra and Asami show they had any “feelings” like that for each other. There was no build up. There was no point in time where Asami showed she cared more than Mako did. Season one they barely knew each other, season 2 they were friends, season 3 they didn’t interact any differently and season 4 had a 3 year time skip where she wrote one time for “reasons” and then in general after that no much happened besides off screen possible stuff, on screen tea, and a talk at the end of the dance of Varrick and Zhu li getting married. It just feels more tacked on than it should have been and could have been done so much better than what it was. So that’s all and thank you for reading if you made it this far. My apologies again if I offended anyone and it’s ok if you don’t agree with me. Have a good one and enjoy what you want.