"The Triforce of Wisdom!" September 10, 2011

This is a post about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

NO!

WAIT!

Don't leave me. I love you.

And, this doesn't just have to be for my pegesisters and my bronies.

I suppose I'll start with some history.

Lauren Faust is an amazingly talented person who is really responsible for a lot of Cartoon Network's success in the 90's and 2000's.

She made The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and Codename Kid's Nextdoor.

Am I appealing to the non- MLP people yet?

Anyway, she grew up in the 80's and saw how shit the first three seasons were.
She saw the vapidness and grossness of it all and was like

'Let's right a wrong here.'

And so she did.

She took some older characters, along with some originals and made one of the best shows on TV right now.

I am saying here, that you do not need to be a child, nor do you need to be a girl to love My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

And I'm not saying it's one of those things you like ironically. Or that you watch because it's bad.

This show is seriously awesome.

She took Rainbow Dash, and thought 'Why do we need another Pinkie Pie? Oh, we don't. Let's take her and make her a total bad ass.' 

And it works so well!

Everyone of those characters has actual development, and great traits while still being flawed.

And she takes things that are generally passive, and makes them active.

These ponies aren't just ponies, this isn't a way to sell toys. These characters are actual characters.

Another one of the things I love about this show is that every pony is different.
They're not the same cranked out pony.
 And they don't always get along, or work perfectly together, but that's what makes their friendship dynamic great.

I already talked a little bit about Rainbow Dash, (who is my favorite pony) so I want to talk about Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight is the bookish pony. But that's what brilliant about it. She's the mane (She what I did there?) pony, and she's the really smart one. She's actually a student, and I think that having her in that lead place is something that we don't see very often in kid's shows. Particularly in the older My Little Pony generations.

This is a show I would want my children to watch.

Oh, and Derpy Hooves.

In episode one there is a gray pony in the background who looks...

well derpy.

So anyway, a 4chan user notices her, and they make her up a whole story. She gets her own folklore and everything.

What starts as one of the animators screwing around ended up staying a character.

See, the creators see this world online where people do these kinds of things. They notice us, and they take us into account. 

I love that the animators see these things and keep the silly, seemingly irrelevant stuff around.

Another personal favorite of mine is Doctor Hooves

He's this pony who's just pretty random, who has an hourglass cutie mark (The things on their asses) and hair similar to David Tennant's in Doctor Who.

The creators and fans have the amazing open dialogue that never stops impressing me. You don't see something like that very often, and I think it's brilliant.

This show is genuinely good, and I really think you should give it a chance.

Listening to: Nothing!

Currently reading: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Anglou, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Mostly Played iTunes Song: The Acid Quill- Lauren Fairweather
NaNoWriMo prewriting progress: Moderate