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"[@Wiimeiser":](/forums/pony/topics/idw-comic-thread?post_id=5119706#post_5119706
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> MLP IDW seems to be the worst case of seasonal rot ever. Their first was their best, which is something you really don't want to have happen.[/bq]
Preeeeetty much. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who said anything past the first, like, four stories were the best.
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[@Kiryu-Chan":](/forums/pony/topics/idw-comic-thread?post_id=5119711#post_5119711
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I don't think I want to know the answer to "did anyone greenlight the Diamond Dogs and their designs, or did the writers/artists have unlimited control."
I mean, for the recent ones, mind controlling villains,_*again_*? Shining Armor losing to anti-magic, then "[getting brainwashed,":](/images/2675565) _*again?_* A regular collar affecting the likes of Discord in the cats one? We never got a reason they couldn't destroy the walls or door to get to the Tree, that King, in all the time he had control?
We didn't get a reason why explosives wouldn't work.
They rehashed the same plot like three times, and the only one that went kinda different was the one before this, which is probably a case of too little, too late. I can't commit the names of_*any_* of those Diamond Dogs to memory, for instance, no matter how many times I saw them, because they were all so forgettable.
Anyone who thought S10 would fix any perceived failings of S9 were foolishly optimistic.
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> MLP IDW seems to be the worst case of seasonal rot ever. Their first was their best, which is something you really don't want to have happen.
Preeeeetty much. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who said anything past the first, like, four stories were the best.
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[@Kiryu-Chan
I don't think I want to know the answer to "did anyone greenlight the Diamond Dogs and their designs, or did the writers/artists have unlimited control."
I mean, for the recent ones, mind controlling villains,
They rehashed the same plot like three times, and the only one that went kinda different was the one before this, which is probably a case of too little, too late. I can't commit the names of
Anyone who thought S10 would fix any perceived failings of S9 were foolishly optimistic.