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@Japanese Teeth  
I can understand that. I imagine it would be kinda tiring to people who don’t watch the show. I don’t really like the “Background Six” but Doctor Whooves is one of my favorites mainly because I’m a massive Doctor Who fan. On the other hand it would be nice seeing a fanon background of him that’s not a DW parody. I’d imagine him being a clock maker or something.

i really hate the lyra and humans thing.
 
shipping is overrated.
 
background ponies such as rainbowshine,shoeshine,and noteworthy are very underused.
 
“suited for success” is my favorite episode.

@Soarin_the_Pegasus
 
Related to this: I’ve never been a fan of Dr. Hooves because like 95% of the fanart and fanfic surrounding him consists of Dr. Who references. I haven’t seen Dr. Who (It’s one of those things that I think I’d enjoy, but I just don’t have the time to binge all of it), and not being familiar with the source of the references, it kind of makes me unable to care much about the character. I like pretty much all the other BG ponies more because they have more original personalities rather than just being “Dr. Who as a pony”.

I like the Doctor Whooves fanon. (That’s not the unpopular opinion.) But I hate how almost all of his Doctor Who related fanart has Derpy as his companion. (That’s the unpopular opinion.) I don’t understand where the assocation of these two characters came from (I’ll assume it’s because they are the fandom’s two most popular BG ponies.) I’d like to see more art of him with other companions. Either other canon characters or ponifications of Doctor Who characters. (Since the whole Whooves thing came from him looking like a ponified David Tennant, why not have more art of him with a ponified Rose, Martha, Donna, etc?) Despite what I just said, I did like the “Doctor Whooves and Assistant” fan animations.
 
Also, I liked his canon name: Time Turner.

I‘m not sure whether or not Iron Will was honest or just stupid.

@Rainbow Dash  
Well I counter by claiming that people who fail to understand that using autism in that manner is an intentional reference to how /mlp/ uses the word are irredeemable and over sensitive.
 
Pick your battles.  
I suppose I can forgive you for not understanding the context though.

@Whatevs  
My unpopular opinion is that people who try to use autism as an insult are pretty goddamn stupid.

/mlp/ is a fine place.
 
But also needs to realize that it is probably more autistic than most of the fandum.

I’m ambivalent about Derpy Hooves becoming canon in TLR. Part of me thinks she should have been kept an Easter egg rather than acknowledged so bluntly, and that would have prevented the Derpygate debacle. Furthermore, I do think the name “Ditzy” may have been used, a possibility Faust suggested based on a character known by name only at the time, if only because some of the audience would object to “Derpy”. (Was I right on that one!) At the same time, that required serious boldness to pull off, and I respect the staff going that far to transcend an in-joke shared among fans and staff into an active part of the show with a real canon personality.
 
As far as Derpygate, I was pro-Derpy because I did not like the retconning of Derpy’s voice and appearance, but I was not as vocal about it as some and do not consider it a show- or episode-trashing issue. But that’s probably too close to typical consensus to be an unpopular opinion.
 
As far as fan pandering, hell, from my understanding, Adventure Time got an entire episode dedicated to an Ask blog character. I don’t consider the show “pandering” in general, although it is clearly influenced by fanon at this point.

Honestly the only thing that I’ve ever felt was pandering was the stuff in The Last Roundup. I like seeing all the nods to the fandom in the background though. They show that the writers are taking the fanbase into consideration, but they’re incidental enough to the main plot that they never come across like we’re being beaten over the head with it. And even that scene honestly wasn’t that bad.
 
Honestly, the people who constantly complain about stuff like the Derpy background cameos bug me far more than the cameos themselves ever would.

I know the giant hair dryer thing was a joke, but it was bought with the gem Rarity gave Spike, and it turned out to be the most valuable of them all.
 
I suppose some people do fear that it could change at any moment.

@Itsthinking  
People’s opinions on the show are being influenced by fear of the show changing drastically due to some outside force, whether it be “pandering” or Hasbro potentially calling the shots, ect.
 
Most probably consider it some sort of divine blessing that this cartoon is even good, and they fear that it could change at any moment due to these outside forces.
 
Personally I am confident in where the show is going, but maybe not where the canon is going, but that’s just me. I don’t like them doing things like that giant hair dryer into some sort of gag, as that makes Equestria’s economy seem silly. For better or worse, I take things more seriously. It may make me enjoy things more on the whole, but it also plagues we with concerns that more carefree casual fans might not have. Pop culture references or things that might be considered “pandering” don’t generally bother me though.

Is there no middle ground? Why do we now suddenly go crazy over the slightest reference? Heck, now even pop culture references are hated.
 
The best is people who want the show to change things that they don’t like about it for no other reason that they don’t like it? Which is hilarious, because that is almost beyond pandering.

@GargantuanBass  

 
@GargantuanBass  

 
Explain how having a background pony whose quirk came from an animation error speak, have her name changed to Derpy, and help set off the events of an episode can’t be accused of pandering.

@Itsthinking  
I’m pretty sure i have always been the 1st setting, I was one of the first people that complained about Derpy’s appearance on the last roundup.

@Klonoahedgehog  

@GargantuanBass  
I chalk it up to the fandom not really knowing what they want. Some people really have two settings: either “WHAT THE HELL PANDERING HASBRO WHY DID YOU DO THIS” and “hasbro doesn’t love us anymore :’(”

I despise the Twiface with the hatred of a thousand suns.

I dislike shitty gifs. Fuck shitty gifs and Derpibooru’s obsession with them.

I hate how everyone calls even the tiniest in-joke or shoutout “pandering”. Double Rainboom was pandering. A shot of Big-Mac pulling a cart of mares is not.
 
I also hate how they treat it like it’s the worst thing to ever happen to them whenever it shows up.

@Gharles  
>PANDERING

Spike being a male in a world largely inhabited by females is the least of his problems, in my opinion.

-Stop being butthurt over Rarity’s attention in S3 and spinning shit she does as being soul crushingly horrible (like giving Spike that gem or where Sweetie Belle pulled that cart).
 
-Pinkie Pie is a joke character whenever she’s not the actual focus of an episode. Accept it and stop bringing up how she’s a random joke character in a S3 episdoe.
 
-If King Sombra was a mare there’d be less complaining about him. You know I’m right.
 
-If Spike was a girl, not as many pony watchers would care that much about him.
 
-McCarthy’s words on Sombra were a saving throw after the backlash against Sombra.
 
-Derpy was fan pandering and I hope whoever was responible learned their lesson after Derpygate.
 
-Celestia doesn’t have more personality than Cadance does. Anybody who says otherwise is treating their headcanon as what is canon.
 
-Fluttershy isn’t that good of a character.

@Whatevs  

 
If it sounds like I’m hating on Rarity, you are incredibly mistaken. Rarity is obviously well-rounded enough to have studied enough martial arts to achieve self-defense. The comparison was there to establish the scale of Octavia’s fight in the context of why it was not OP. As is, I am quite content seeing Rarity doing whatever martial arts she practices. Rarity has at least the style and precision of a good fighter.

oh and I detest episodes that, rather than make a character interesting or well characterized, resort to making them sympathetic and pitiful.