CronoM
@Latecomer
Doesn’t make their post any less valid though, if a bit extreme
Actually, it does. There’s not much wisdom to be found in a comment with so very little self awareness.
It almost completely disregards the existence of bad writing, wasted potential, poor character inconsistencies, etc.
The so called whiny complaints masked as criticism far FAR more than not is really just a bunch of inexperienced people finding words that sound intelligent
While there will always be some mindless people, there is absolutely no credence to this notion that most of the complaints have no merit. This isn’t news and politics where there is media bias to twist people into different directions…
….Its a television show where the audience can judge it as is.
If there are an absolutely enormous amount of complaints about the writing, then that says more about the writers then the audience. FACTS.
is really just a bunch of inexperienced people finding words that sound intelligent and like they fit (plot holes, regression, Mary Sue, etc) and tossing them our to make their complaints sound valid.
This sort of sentence seems to suggest that the original person who made this comment thought MLP:FiM was almost completely immune to actual plot holes, actual character regression, and characters that fit some obvious definitions of the Mary Sue archetype.
That is simply not true no matter how many ways you look at it. And MLP:FiM was hardly a perfect show. It had an enormous amount of good elements, but many were wasted or underutilized.
Look at MLP:FiM from a different angle.
For example:
Consider the concept of “The Hero’s Journey”, and how it reflects the main protagonist, Twilight Sparkle, at the start of S4. While big events happen, nothing actually effects the end of her journey in any way. She is made a princess, and quite obviously established to replace Celestia. Does the regular conflicts, doubts and self reflections in A Hero’s Journey happen as Twilight is sped towards the end of Season 9? Nope. Twilight never has a real argument with Celestia, nor does she ever have a serious discussion about her original desires before she was made a princess. The show considers such things ‘not important’.
At the end of the day its just a bunch of people whining because a character they like or didn’t like isn’t being portrayed in the way they like so they throw a bitch fit about it even when episodes are fine.
when episodes are fine
Who decides which episodes are fine?
Obviously in the mind of the original person who posted it, they decide.
And at the end of the day, there will be many people who hate warranted criticism, and umbrella any people who criticize as simply “people whining because a character they like or didn’t like isn’t being portrayed in the way they like”, again, to try to pretend plot holes, actual character regression, and Mary Sue characters cannot exist in MLP:FiM.
Some criticism will be juvenile, but many of the complaints have a large foundation of truth. Its healthy to simply accept this.
Some issues with the show were short lived, some issues with the show lasted MANY seasons. Because of that, on a website that discusses fanart and the show itself, it would be hard not for those topics not to be come up again and again. Its simple common sense and cause and effect, even if complaints against the show frustrate you.
