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DoctorWTF
Non-Fungible Trixie -

There’s no higher authority forcing Hitch’s hoof. He’s just an adult who knows what his responsibilities are.
Plus he didn’t outright dismiss Sunny’s goal of reuniting the tribes - he just pointed out, rightfully, that she would need to offer proof that it was feasible instead of just saying words.

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DerpyFast
Pixel Perfection - Hot Pockets Spotted
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Non-Fungible Trixie -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
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Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.

I rewatched the Just Prance scene. In the first two rounds, the bassline is really simple. But after Pipp says “feel the rhythm take over”, there’s a pickup before the music kicks in, the bassline gets more elaborate, a synth part comes in, and there are little embellishments on what sounds like a saxophone. So you literally feel the rhythm more in round 3.
Seriously, put on some high-quality headphones and give it a listen. It’s such a cool attention to detail.

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hironakamura
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@Phoenixflambe
Yes. He’s obnoxious like Trixie but has determination like season 5 Starlight.
@Cosmas-the-Explorer
Sunny feels more like Applebloom. Mostly because she’s impulsive. More guts than brains and hopes (big emphasis on hopes) when you toss the jigsaw puzzle pieces in the air, they all fall down neatly into place.

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Cosmas-the-Explorer
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Explorer in Training
Do you think Sunny is kind of like a nicer version of Starlight Glimmer? I’m pretty sure if EEA tried to give her that book Sunny would throw it in the water like Starlight would.
Sunny is a bit of a utopian idealist like Starlight.

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DerpyFast
Pixel Perfection - Hot Pockets Spotted
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.

@Myoozik
Less-than-mature characters are fine, but more mature characters might lend themselves better to more mature and serious topics.
@doloresbridge
I don’t think Sunny is more competent, but I would say that she’s a lot more independent than Twilight was.

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doloresbridge
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Peace to all
@Pinto Bean
@Myoozik
All this talk of G5 being more mature then FiM interests me. To me, I would expect G5 to be slightly more light hearten and kid friendly then G5 will be if I am to base it on what I have seen so far with the movie. Keep in mind, FiM was a just outside of mainstream anomaly that grew and evolved organically and had a unusual amount of breathing room for a show. Though Hasbro did even contribute to some of FiM’s stronger moments (they wanted Discord to be scarier, right?) everything else from Hasbro outside of the FiM has been rather tamer and more market driven. Pony Life reeks of focus groups and memes and Rainbow Roadtrip felt much closer to a normal inoffensive kid’s special over even the tone of Season 1. ANG has the feel marketing and executives but it is a careful, more balanced touched this time around and allowing some creative room.
It’s not a bad movie, just underwhelming and uninspired. I’ll watch the series when it comes out to see if it gets better.
I thought the movie was surprisingly average to above average, I am still weighing it. Similar to you I came into with a open mind. Though, I will say the hands of something carefully planned by corporate executives can still be felt.
In fact, all the main characters except Pipp felt a lot more mature than The Mane Six.
Hmmmmmmm. Maybe have a point, at least with Zipp, seems more level headed then Rainbow Dash with the same attitude. Izzy was surprisingly just happy go lucky and bubbly over being LOLRandom and hyperactive, one of the points that impressed me some with the new movie is them avoiding that trap. Though was Sunny any more competent then Twilight Sparkle in the first two parter for example? I don’t think so and I don’t think we have seen enough of them for me to fully agree with that.
@DoctorWTF
I recall that for the leaks. I know now how some of Hasbro’s marketing and the media is framing the series as a unique step forward in progressive storytelling but what I saw was little different from stuff I have already seen in FiM so maybe you saw something in that? Agree with you though on not wanting edgy darkness but I don’t see it as too likely.

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Mr.Myoozik
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@DerpyFast
I was referring mature more towards the handling of serious real world topics than of the characters’ actual maturity and who’s to say that an immature character can’t be good? Pinkie and her predecessor Izzy are characters who have the maturity of 14 year old girls but they’re still beloved for a multitude of good reasons.

Pony Discussion » MLP G5 Discussion and Speculation Thread » Post 8579

DerpyFast
Pixel Perfection - Hot Pockets Spotted
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.

A couple of things I’m glad they didn’t do:
There’s no higher authority forcing Hitch’s hoof. He’s just an adult who knows what his responsibilities are.
They never have the main characters do anything stupid for the sake of creating conflict.
There’s no forced breakup scene.
@Myoozik

It’s funny how the “rebellious princess” ended up feeling so mature. In fact, all the main characters except Pipp felt a lot more mature than The Mane Six.

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Ebalosus
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Build commie blocks!
I don’t think G5 will be that similar to the season 9 of MLP:FiM. One of the major problems in that show was that their stories felt kinda random, out of nowhere and nonsensical, which explains why some people didn’t like season 9.
I think G5 will be more organized and more planned to avoid this issue. The team would plan better their team structure and established project goals so the G5 can be more consistent.
MLP:FiM had a big problem, and is that it was stuck in a scenario that forces itself to attempt things it wasn’t particularly strong at.
Totally agree, and is something I’ve been partial to in one form or another since I started FiM. Originally it was uh, how many friendship lessons could they possibly teach before running out of ideas? Back in August of 2011 after watching season one, I seriously wondered if they could have enough material for another season, let alone eight more that would eventuate. Granted, season two ended up sucking, but not for the reasons I originally presumed; and they got around what I originally thought would be the biggest millstone in Lesson Zero. The show finally got over its severe case of Mass-Effect-2-itis in season four, but it was always an issue even then, just one much less prevalent due to an injection of ontological inertia.
The biggest flaws with g4, as you mentioned, are to do with how the characters and episodes were structured, and how once some of those structures changed (ontological inertia outside the two-parters and the friendship lessons), things became a little flimsy. It led to a situation where because of how the characters were structured within the show, their goals, development, and progression could be all over the place; especially when combined with the slice-of-life format and 26-episode seasons. I can very much understand why Josh Haber would want to retire the mane six and focus on Starlight and her friends (if the rumours from the unpopular opinion time thread is to be believed), even if I disagree with that particular solution.
G5 seems to have taken those lessons onboard, and structured itself towards something quite ontological from the start, and also seems to want the characters to be less pigeonholed and to grow and develop organically, rather than have set Doylist goals for them to achieve down the road.
To be fair to Lauren and the team behind g4, I don’t think any of them thought the show would go the distance it ended up going, and is why its structured the way it is. I’m pretty sure that if had they known they would have over 200 episodes to play with, things would’ve been structured differently. G4 very much succeeded in spite of itself, not because of itself.
If she is, then it doesn’t feel like it, since a character like her makes a hell of a lot of sense given the audience for the show.
Yes, I do “remember the feeling when you first started watching G4 and became engrossed in the show and fandom? That feeling of wonder and curiosity?” Y’know what else I remember fellow Ponibooru expat? How much season two sucked, and how an awful lot of people said that the show was permanently ruined when Faust left! I remember DerpyGate, Merriweather Williams, another alicorn princess, and Twilight’s brother. After that I remember Twilicorn, Equestria Girls, et cetera et cetera et cetera. The idea g4 was this amazing gem of a show is epically laughable to me, since I remember the dramas going all the way back to season two, and if we’re going by that ledger, then MLP hasn’t been good since 2011, 2012 if you accept season two, 2013 if you accept season three, et cetera. I’m not even a purist, and I accept all of g4 (even if I didn’t particularly care for season two), and accept g5, so it’s not like I’m super-welded to the idea that g4 was the bee’s knees.

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Background Pony #BF5C
The more I think about it the more I realize how laid back the movie was, and how much more fun that makes it. Even the ultimate “villain” wasn’t much of a threat and wasn’t even really that bad of a guy.

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DoctorWTF
Non-Fungible Trixie -

@Myoozik
I could’ve sworn I read that one press release mentioned that Hasbro was trying to aim for a slightly older audience this time around. If so, let’s just hope that that will manifest as intelligently tackling serious topics, as opposed to getting darker and edgier for the sake of getting darker and edgier.

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Mr.Myoozik
StarTrix Forever! - Derpi Supporter
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.

Music/Charts Enthusiast
@Wiimeiser
Okay…?
@Pinto Bean
I theorize that G5 is gonna tackle more mature and serious topics since last time I’ve heard, a lot of modern cartoons have been getting a lot more serious and story driven with plots that make a lot of parallels to real life.

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