You brought up the Bayformers movies being a factor into FiM's creation, but not but Lauren pitching Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls to many a toy company or the 3 hit combo that were the Aqua Teen bomb scare, the 2007 writers strike and the Great Recession that caused a ton of people (LF included) to leave Cartoon Network? (srry for the wordy comment tho, I do hope this retrospective rejuvenates some interest in FiM)
the ironic thing noted is that Lauren Faust hates the lesbian stereotype of RD just because of her mane color. EDIT: Also including her tomboy attitude as another factor.
I had a reeeeaaallly sucky home life back in the early 2010s. I was in high school, my parents fought constantly....ugh. This show brought me so much sincere joy over the years, it really helped me get through it all. I ain't abandoning it. I think over time it will be regarded as a cartoon classic.
I know your comment is a year old, but it sounds like you and I had a very similar childhood experience, and used this show as a form of blissful escape from the constant fighting and stress... You're not alone out here, and will never be alone with our shared memory of the show and fandom.
I’ve always been a nerdy person like Twilight, but my favorite of the Mane Six was Pinkie Pie. I love the color pink and how much Pinkie spreads her joy to others!
At first, Pink Pie was my least favourite. I found her manic behaviour to be irritating. But she grew on me over time. She's now my third favourite after Fluttershy and Rarity. My favourite thing is when her eyes bulge out! 👀
The Minnestoa Brony Meetup Group had a bit of a membership drop during "Recent World Events", but we're still around. ^_^ On the Internet side of things, I usually stick to FimFiction.
@@Starcat5 Really? Since a Season 10 never happened on TV, at least there are some comic writers willing to let MLP: FiM continue in printed form. I like the new stories they’ve provided with Mane Six characters being placed with others that are not their usual pairings or groupings.
@alecomac Good on you for doing so. All I can say after that is, focus on making the best content you can. Don't strain or rush yourself... take your time with the content that you're making.
Wait, so "Fashionista" counts as a personality, but 'Hard-working Farm-girl' doesn't? I think Rarity and Applejack compliment each other well. One's an upper-class snob who hates to get her hooves dirty and loves jewels, and the other is a down-to-earth working-class gal who considers her family to be her greatest treasure. 💎🍎
13:53 He got a really good one-off in the comic series. "What if Prince Blueblood went to Ponyville and became the main character instead of Twilight"? It's my favorite comic.
Solution for aj: make her the mom of the group, the responsible friend that acts like a mom, I think it would work well with the "she has a family" thingy
I think applejack being the element of honesty would have been better if she said "Trust me, Fluttershy and Raindbow Dash are ready to pick you up when you let go" instead of "lol, just trust me." Sure the scene is trying to bring tension by not making it sure that twilight won't just fall to her death, but when you're the personification of honesty, "just trust me" and nothing else doesn't seem that honest. Also, I've seen a bunch of memes about Applejack being a bad liar and that's somehow proof that she shouldn't be the element of honesty, but isn't her being a terrible liar more proof that she is the element of honesty. I don't really expect honest people to be perfect liars, you know.
the rise, the fall, and the rise again (kind of, I've been seeing Bronies impacting game communities in both good and bad way lately, i also have been seeing many i mean like MANY fellow bronies lately in non pony related video)
Unrelated, but I'm so glad I didn’t have access to the internet when I was into this show, because I was the ✨target demographic✨ and looking back it appears that the fandom was a bit ✨unsafe for minors✨ Edit: I was like, seven when I started watching the show, and that was after a few seasons were already out, which means the fanbase was already established...glad I got to stay pure until I started reading fanfiction at the lovely age of nine!
Yep. I was 13 when the show started airing, and there where a LOT of groomers in the community. And some of the first prawn I’ve ever seen, basically shoved in my face.
I used to watch so many mlp videos when I was young and I was alive at the time when Mlp was super popular at the time and at my church everyone watch mlp even the boys
i was also seven when i started watching the show and unfortunately i did have access to the internet... one day i was on youtube and there was a banned from equestria daily gameplay on my recommended- so i watched it ;-;
I still remember bumping into it on a World of Warcraft fansite of all places. People talking about it with so much excitement and sharing all these clips. I asked "what's so different about this show that it could attract fans of World of Warcraft?!" and quickly found out. They showed me the clip of Rarity being kidnapped by the diamond dogs that ended in her becoming their overlord and I couldn't stop laughing. I knew I had to at least watch to that episode, but that one was practically at the end of the season and by then there was no turning back. My dad gave me such an odd look when I was watching Winter Wrap Up, but given a few months he was more addicted than I was and writing fanfics about it. It really goes to show how much quality can come out of writers for children's entertainment that write something they could watch themselves. I never worried too much over it. After all, adults watch Disney movies all the time.
A very splendid vid as usual Shunks i love it, and while the first 2 seasons of mlp fim have their ups and downs like all seasons do, they are still fun to watch!!!
My first exposure to this show was in summer 2011 with me watching Pinkie Pie's laughter song on a Pokémon Chatango server where I was shocked to see older people get hooked onto a little girl's show. After I watched this clip, they've insulted me because I didn't want to watch a little girl's show. Later on I got into the show and watched illegal uploads of the season one episodes where I saw some darker themes like the Cockatrice freezing ponies, the poison joke plant, a fued between pony settlers and buffalo natives, a walk in the nighttime, bullying at school, and ponies kicking butt.
Season one twilight is my favorite version of the character I like how sassy and snarky she was sometimes it made her super entertaining I feel like hasbro made her too nice in later seasons
Interesting story how I got into the show I was Champing whenever I figured out about the show ln like 2010 the year after l was born so I was practically. Raised by the Show
This was another great video. Now, I'm gonna go watch that "Outer Limits" episode where Cathy Weseluck used the voice she'd later use for Spike on a killer robot.
Very lovely analysis video! I'm sure I've seen a lot of such tributes at one point or another, but, with time passing, it's always nice to get reminded once again of how good this silly little pony show actually was :)
I personally love all 9 seasons but to me MLP FIM only became better and better with each season but that is just my opinion :) Started watching it in 2010 and even caught weekly livestreams for the seasons, it was a ride i never regret getting on and it is because of me and some Pinkie Pie that my boyfriend became a brony :p Edit: Princess Luna is my number 1 favorite and i personally prefer her season 2 onward design and looks but i love both at the end of the day and i still like Nightmare Moon a lot too
Personally IMO I feel like the show itself never really had a fall. There wasn't really a point where I felt the show had a massive drop in quality. I just felt there were some seasons that were better than others. Now when the show's popularity starts going down I think is was around season 6. I tend to see a lot of former fans say they dropped the show around season 6. If I were to rank the seasons it would be Seasons 4,5, and 7 being the best. Seasons 2 and 9 next Seasons 6 and 8 next. Season 3 2nd to last And for the hot take I think season 1 is my least favorite. I don't think it's a bad season. I just think it's the season that stands out the least in the show. It definitely has some really great episodes, but the it also has the most episodes I feel are just kind of meh.
For me really the only geniunely disappointing season was Season 8. Like yes, each season had its strengths and weaknesses but looking back even some of the seasons I initially didn’t love like Season 6 are honestly pretty good, just not quite as impactful over all as the others. But even then, the show never went long without giving us something really special. A lot of people thought the show would suck after Twilight got wings but Season 4 had some of the best episodes in the show and the most hyped up Season Finale of them all. Then people thought Season 5 would be the downfall but Crusaders of the Lost Mark and Amending Fences are my two very favorite episodes and as a whole I’d call S5 the strongest one. Then Season 6 didn’t have as many stand out episodes but I personally really enjoyed the S6 Finale and the subsequent Legend of Everfree movie after it. Season 7 had big episodes like The Perfect Pear and was followed up by the first actual pony movie of G4. And even though I wasn’t that fond of Season 8 I loved The Best Gift Ever holiday special, and Season 9 roared back as the best season since Season 5 IMO. Even when the show was it’s worst it always rebounded and came back strong, came back with something new worth seeing. I can’t think of many shows that went on that long that can say that.
Whilst I dont have opinions on every season, I know season 2 and season 3 are my favorite, with season 7/8 being when I stopped watching for aloooong time.
I "grown up" in the early state of the MLP fandom and when I learn about the development and decision, I prefer early seasons of the series. Feel bad Lauren Faust left the shows on the 2nd second because it isn't the idea she is going with.
Most shows never truly decline. They just have ups and down. Good example is that a few of the most hated (from the fandom) episodes of the show come from these two seasons. I'm just sayin'.
10:47 i just started watching mlp and i love the cutie mark crusaders and i relate a lot to them especially sweetie belle. Trying your best to do something nice for your bigger sister but getting yelled at everytime because you did something wrong made me want to hug her, the same happens to me but my with my mom
i'll never understand what it is about season 1 that made me so obsessed with it when i was like 12 :c and why it's almost impossible to replicate..it has such a different vibe to it
Not really relating to the topic of the video, but I really like this show! It has good characters and interesting stories, in my opinion of course, I relate to these characters, such as Pinkie Pie/Fluttershy/and Rainbow Dash! I love to self project on media I enjoy and I like to headcanon my favorite characters having something I personally have to deal with, like headcanoning a character with ADHD, which is a mental disorder I deal with in everyday life. Sorry for rambling, I’ve just gotten back into mlp like a few days ago!! Great video, btw!!
Also, did anyone notice? Look back at gen 1 and gen 4, and see if you find it! Hint: They use the same rainbow as G1 ponies did to defeat the villains in each season!
There is a theory that the Alicorns represents a types of love; sister love(/sibling love), romantic love, friendship love, love to a parent or their child (those being Cadence and Flurryheart to eachother)
I never watched the show back when it was airing but I was a huge fan of equestria girls , I was like 9-10 at the time and it was weird for boys to watch stuff like this but the style and characters of equestria girls was so different to what ninjago or regular show was doing so it caught my interest and I enjoyed it, idk if that counts as being a brony but it was great
Wait, people hate Spike? I love him! If it weren't for him I never would have started watching the show. I was really into dragons around the time the show first aired and just so happened to turn on The Hub while Spike was on screen so I stayed on that channel because he caught my interest. I ended up loving the show and I owe it all to Spike.
a small review for the show from me: Season 1 - 4 Perfect cartoon. barely any bad episodes, great storytelling. you can very distinctly notice character growth. and the story is about everypony growing together, and how they all individually add to the story. Season 5 & 6 Really good, a slight bit of not so great episodes mixed in with pretty good other ones. Starlight's introduction felt a little unneeded. And the individuallity of the mane 6 kinda dropped since they really started focussing on Twilight. They did before, but it got kinda bad here. All Twilight's friends don't add anything by th eir personalities in the first and last 2 episodes of the coming seasons. Still, there were many good episodes in here and development still happened. Season 7 pretty forgettable. I really don't remember much about this season. I just don't remember if it was good or not. Season 8 & 9 decent highs, quite low lows . Character development doesn't happen anymore to the mane six, and the student 6 feel very forced in. there are highlights, but also very bad episoses. the show finaly is fine, and the villain team up in season 9 is good, but I think the lows quite outweigh the highs.
I think seasons 5 and 6 should get more credit than most believe, there was a lot introduced from that point on, such as the Dazzlings, Starlight Glimmer and the Cutie Map. The only drawbacks to season 6 are filler characters, like Flurry Heart. Whether or not you like the mid seasons, this is when the writers were at their peak, constantly coming up with unique ideas.
"and the student 6 feel very forced in". That's because they were a political statement about racism and diversity and Chancellor Neighsay was supposed to represent Donald Trump. Seasons 8 and 9 really sucked in my opinion. The episode where the Kirins are introduced is the only episode from those two seasons that I really like.
@@millabasset1710 I thought Starlight was better as a villain. The show didn't need a new main character and they made Starlight to similar to Twilight. They also kind of made her an overpowered Mary Sue, with magical power comparable to Twilight's (who was the bearer of the element of magic and an alicorn) and she figuring out the solution to problems on a to frequent basis.
I'm seeing a comeback of everything old I feel like I'm in a time warp but it's in a good way I miss 2010s era internet twas a fun time and less restrictive place
I have been watching Mlp Fim sinces 2016 i love it and my fav is Twilight Sparkle i knew the Moment i saw her on screen she was going to be my fav even after i had met the mane 6 Twilight was fav to the end i loved seeing her story finish after so long it was amazing i love Mlp Fim 💜
My thoughts on this era of mlp, with little rewatching whatsoever. Season 1 was decent and some of the songs are quite catchy, but it didn't have the same memorable flavor that the later seasons had. Season 2, (lip smack) definitely better for its songs, characters, and world building. I have yet to rewatch Canterlot Wedding but Return of Harmony is one of my favorites from the entire series.
I'm just gonna say it in my own personal opinion and being a veteran and watching ALL the Seasons. (Became a Brony back in 2014). 🐴 Season 4, and 5 was the BEST while Season 6, and 8 was the WORST! And here's my unpopular opinion. The ONLY good thing about Season 6 was the introduction of Sunburst, Rainbow Dash FINALLY becoming a Wonderbolt, Trixie coming back and becoming a main background pony due to Starlight, and seeing Fluttershy's parents, and brother!
Just going to say that Rainbow Dash is exactly like I was as a young girl and I have always been straight- kinda sucks that people think that that attitude isn’t “feminine enough” I prefer not fitting in a box.
13:44 Oof in the MLP Season 10 Commics but their so hard for ppl to get access to read! :c I want to be able to read them!! 22:13 Unless you don't count the smile song **BECAUSE** of the outcome of **SMiLe Hd** 23:54 Not to mention the saving Derpy Movement 24:50-24:53 Heh noise reference XD "They just took Nightmare Moon and made her a bug" LMAO I FREAKING DED!!!! 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😆😆
I never got the hype about this day aria. I mean its a good song but in my opinion its by far not the best one. When I was little and started watching the show 3 seasons had already come out and my favorite song was a true true friend.
I absolutely HATED the first two seasons and I especially HATED Discord. And the reason why Cadance came about was due to Hasbro releasing a toy Celestia as a pink pony, so Cadance came about due to Hasbro wanting a pink princess to sell.
@@paisleepunk Sisterhooves Social, Sweet and Elite, Secret of My Excess, Read It and Weep, and Hearts and Hooves Day were the only episodes I genuinely liked. I HATED every other episode.
26:35 personally I'm the biggest hater of Cadence and Shining Armor. they're shallow characters who procreate and give birth to a really annoying baby character. 🤨
You brought up the Bayformers movies being a factor into FiM's creation, but not but Lauren pitching Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls to many a toy company or the 3 hit combo that were the Aqua Teen bomb scare, the 2007 writers strike and the Great Recession that caused a ton of people (LF included) to leave Cartoon Network?
(srry for the wordy comment tho, I do hope this retrospective rejuvenates some interest in FiM)
So you're telling me, that the Aqua Teens were partly responsible for the creation of G4...someone has to do a bit on this concept like yesterday.
Being a brony back in my teen years were some of my happiest moments in my life
Late 20s here, and "Happiest" didn't kick in until finding a local Meetup Group, which introduced me to Conventions, but otherwise same.
I became a brony 5 months ago and have fallen in love with the show. Kinda I whish I found out about it sooner.
Just got into this series im enjoying it so far :)
And happiest moments of my childhood as well
"Rainbow Dash is a lesbian Sonic the Hedgehog" - nailed it.
the ironic thing noted is that Lauren Faust hates the lesbian stereotype of RD just because of her mane color.
EDIT: Also including her tomboy attitude as another factor.
@@pigifi wasn't until I read that comment that I considered how RD's mane fits in with that lmao
@@SpencerBPD not gonna stop me from believing in appledash being a thing
@@SpencerBPD dude okay, but it‘s clear. look at her personality
These thing are what made me hate same sex.
I had a reeeeaaallly sucky home life back in the early 2010s. I was in high school, my parents fought constantly....ugh. This show brought me so much sincere joy over the years, it really helped me get through it all. I ain't abandoning it. I think over time it will be regarded as a cartoon classic.
I know your comment is a year old, but it sounds like you and I had a very similar childhood experience, and used this show as a form of blissful escape from the constant fighting and stress...
You're not alone out here, and will never be alone with our shared memory of the show and fandom.
i think the reason the mane six arent as lovey-dovey in the first season is because they are implied to still be getting to know each other
I really miss Twilight's sass and sarcasm. You can be a friendly person and have both. The later seasons got her a little away from that.
Yeah
You really want her to be sassy?!
@@tyty334351 Why not? That's where her charm originally came from in my opinion
@@leveryawn3949 well she can get quite aggressive when she’s sassy.
Same tbh I feel like they made her too nice in later episodes I liked when she was more snarky it made her more engaging to watch
I’ve always been a nerdy person like Twilight, but my favorite of the Mane Six was Pinkie Pie. I love the color pink and how much Pinkie spreads her joy to others!
At first, Pink Pie was my least favourite. I found her manic behaviour to be irritating. But she grew on me over time. She's now my third favourite after Fluttershy and Rarity. My favourite thing is when her eyes bulge out! 👀
as someone who hates the color pink. i really love pinkie pie, to me she is the best pony
Every single time that train toy showed up in the video I was hit with a wave of nostalgia. Dang, I loved that thing.
There are still MLP: FiM loyalists out there, I just know it. As long as there’s still plenty of them, they help keep the spirit of MLP alive!
Heck yeah
The Minnestoa Brony Meetup Group had a bit of a membership drop during "Recent World Events", but we're still around. ^_^
On the Internet side of things, I usually stick to FimFiction.
Heyyo
@@Starcat5 Really? Since a Season 10 never happened on TV, at least there are some comic writers willing to let MLP: FiM continue in printed form. I like the new stories they’ve provided with Mane Six characters being placed with others that are not their usual pairings or groupings.
@alecomac Good on you for doing so. All I can say after that is, focus on making the best content you can. Don't strain or rush yourself... take your time with the content that you're making.
Wait, so "Fashionista" counts as a personality, but 'Hard-working Farm-girl' doesn't?
I think Rarity and Applejack compliment each other well. One's an upper-class snob who hates to get her hooves dirty and loves jewels, and the other is a down-to-earth working-class gal who considers her family to be her greatest treasure. 💎🍎
that discord notif sound totally made me check my discord, gg
I checked my notifs tab expecting a message to pop up...
The show is one of the best shows I've ever seen, it's been 10 years since the 1st season started, and it still holds up to this day.
13:53 He got a really good one-off in the comic series. "What if Prince Blueblood went to Ponyville and became the main character instead of Twilight"? It's my favorite comic.
That sounds hilarious
Solution for aj: make her the mom of the group, the responsible friend that acts like a mom, I think it would work well with the "she has a family" thingy
Cadence is sus😳. You’re going to bring out peoples PSTD with that one😏
Call an emergency meeting!
PTSD*
@@Sonichronik I know what I wrote😄
Cadance was an IMPOSTOR 😲😲😲
ew?? keep among us out of this
my all time favourite episode is The Best Night ever. I love how simple it is and the bond between mane 6 💖
Thank you for using the intro and crediting me for it! Wish to stay for more streams to come!
awww it was so cute!
I think applejack being the element of honesty would have been better if she said "Trust me, Fluttershy and Raindbow Dash are ready to pick you up when you let go" instead of "lol, just trust me." Sure the scene is trying to bring tension by not making it sure that twilight won't just fall to her death, but when you're the personification of honesty, "just trust me" and nothing else doesn't seem that honest.
Also, I've seen a bunch of memes about Applejack being a bad liar and that's somehow proof that she shouldn't be the element of honesty, but isn't her being a terrible liar more proof that she is the element of honesty. I don't really expect honest people to be perfect liars, you know.
Ngl, me recently finding shunks channel has made me so much happier and i have no idea why
the rise, the fall, and the rise again (kind of, I've been seeing Bronies impacting game communities in both good and bad way lately, i also have been seeing many i mean like MANY fellow bronies lately in non pony related video)
Really?? Show me what vids
@@escapefr0mslender lmao k, ill send a link of videos if i saw a fellow bronies
i don't put videos in a playlist or save them if i met a brony lmao
@Yurie What do you mean?
Unrelated, but I'm so glad I didn’t have access to the internet when I was into this show, because I was the ✨target demographic✨ and looking back it appears that the fandom was a bit ✨unsafe for minors✨
Edit: I was like, seven when I started watching the show, and that was after a few seasons were already out, which means the fanbase was already established...glad I got to stay pure until I started reading fanfiction at the lovely age of nine!
Hell i was in my 30s and the fandom is unsafe for me. A group of people who completely missed the point and appeal of the show.
Yep. I was 13 when the show started airing, and there where a LOT of groomers in the community. And some of the first prawn I’ve ever seen, basically shoved in my face.
@@seasluggy I'm sorry this happened and hopefully they ended up in jail. Or at least didn't run for political office.
I used to watch so many mlp videos when I was young and I was alive at the time when Mlp was super popular at the time and at my church everyone watch mlp even the boys
i was also seven when i started watching the show and unfortunately i did have access to the internet... one day i was on youtube and there was a banned from equestria daily gameplay on my recommended- so i watched it ;-;
I still remember bumping into it on a World of Warcraft fansite of all places. People talking about it with so much excitement and sharing all these clips. I asked "what's so different about this show that it could attract fans of World of Warcraft?!" and quickly found out. They showed me the clip of Rarity being kidnapped by the diamond dogs that ended in her becoming their overlord and I couldn't stop laughing. I knew I had to at least watch to that episode, but that one was practically at the end of the season and by then there was no turning back.
My dad gave me such an odd look when I was watching Winter Wrap Up, but given a few months he was more addicted than I was and writing fanfics about it.
It really goes to show how much quality can come out of writers for children's entertainment that write something they could watch themselves. I never worried too much over it. After all, adults watch Disney movies all the time.
Rainbow Dash: “Boy... Squad...” *gags* “Applejack! Help!”
A very splendid vid as usual Shunks i love it, and while the first 2 seasons of mlp fim have their ups and downs like all seasons do, they are still fun to watch!!!
My first exposure to this show was in summer 2011 with me watching Pinkie Pie's laughter song on a Pokémon Chatango server where I was shocked to see older people get hooked onto a little girl's show. After I watched this clip, they've insulted me because I didn't want to watch a little girl's show. Later on I got into the show and watched illegal uploads of the season one episodes where I saw some darker themes like the Cockatrice freezing ponies, the poison joke plant, a fued between pony settlers and buffalo natives, a walk in the nighttime, bullying at school, and ponies kicking butt.
the pony wedding commercial brought back flashbacks omg,,, also great video!! mlp is a big source of nostalgia for me and I enjoyed watching this
Season one twilight is my favorite version of the character I like how sassy and snarky she was sometimes it made her super entertaining I feel like hasbro made her too nice in later seasons
MLPs golden years were 2010 to 2015
Happy MLP took this route, sad I didn’t join earlier :/
Me too :/
I became a fan in mid-2016 and honestly, I'm glad I didn't join the fandom when it was booming in the early 2010s.
I joined late 2019 and I feel like I missed out on allot
@@thegamre909 yeah, honestly the fandom was a nicer and mainstream thing. Merch sold for bronies in many stores
Interesting story how I got into the show I was Champing whenever I figured out about the show ln like 2010 the year after l was born so I was practically. Raised by the Show
HOLY HELL, NEW SHUNKS INTRO
This was another great video. Now, I'm gonna go watch that "Outer Limits" episode where Cathy Weseluck used the voice she'd later use for Spike on a killer robot.
Me, I'll be rewatching Cybersix.
A really good retrospective Shunks and another good video!
Phenomenal job Shunks!
Very lovely analysis video! I'm sure I've seen a lot of such tributes at one point or another, but, with time passing, it's always nice to get reminded once again of how good this silly little pony show actually was :)
10:40 "snap of her hoof"?
* flashpacks to the scene of Clone Pinkie Pie growing fingers *
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I personally love all 9 seasons but to me MLP FIM only became better and better with each season but that is just my opinion :) Started watching it in 2010 and even caught weekly livestreams for the seasons, it was a ride i never regret getting on and it is because of me and some Pinkie Pie that my boyfriend became a brony :p Edit: Princess Luna is my number 1 favorite and i personally prefer her season 2 onward design and looks but i love both at the end of the day and i still like Nightmare Moon a lot too
5:22 this footage looks and sounds cryptid
Ah, I remember coming home, and seeing this show on a laptop near my sister and being like, what is that? I remember being the target demographic ya.
Personally IMO I feel like the show itself never really had a fall. There wasn't really a point where I felt the show had a massive drop in quality. I just felt there were some seasons that were better than others.
Now when the show's popularity starts going down I think is was around season 6. I tend to see a lot of former fans say they dropped the show around season 6.
If I were to rank the seasons it would be Seasons 4,5, and 7 being the best.
Seasons 2 and 9 next
Seasons 6 and 8 next.
Season 3 2nd to last
And for the hot take I think season 1 is my least favorite. I don't think it's a bad season. I just think it's the season that stands out the least in the show. It definitely has some really great episodes, but the it also has the most episodes I feel are just kind of meh.
For me really the only geniunely disappointing season was Season 8. Like yes, each season had its strengths and weaknesses but looking back even some of the seasons I initially didn’t love like Season 6 are honestly pretty good, just not quite as impactful over all as the others.
But even then, the show never went long without giving us something really special. A lot of people thought the show would suck after Twilight got wings but Season 4 had some of the best episodes in the show and the most hyped up Season Finale of them all. Then people thought Season 5 would be the downfall but Crusaders of the Lost Mark and Amending Fences are my two very favorite episodes and as a whole I’d call S5 the strongest one. Then Season 6 didn’t have as many stand out episodes but I personally really enjoyed the S6 Finale and the subsequent Legend of Everfree movie after it. Season 7 had big episodes like The Perfect Pear and was followed up by the first actual pony movie of G4. And even though I wasn’t that fond of Season 8 I loved The Best Gift Ever holiday special, and Season 9 roared back as the best season since Season 5 IMO. Even when the show was it’s worst it always rebounded and came back strong, came back with something new worth seeing. I can’t think of many shows that went on that long that can say that.
Whilst I dont have opinions on every season, I know season 2 and season 3 are my favorite, with season 7/8 being when I stopped watching for aloooong time.
@@dinofeino1811 I disagree about season 7. One of my personal favorite seasons of the show.
Why do I feel like the making and impact of this show is gonna get a biopic treatment behind it? I’d watch it!
Oh my gosh. I haven't heard "Proud to be a brony" is who knows how long! Great video Shunks!
I "grown up" in the early state of the MLP fandom and when I learn about the development and decision, I prefer early seasons of the series. Feel bad Lauren Faust left the shows on the 2nd second because it isn't the idea she is going with.
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Another banger of a video, as always :D
I love listening to your videos as a podcast : ) your voice is really nice to listen to
Most shows never truly decline. They just have ups and down. Good example is that a few of the most hated (from the fandom) episodes of the show come from these two seasons. I'm just sayin'.
Good video =)
Excited to see the next part.
10:47 i just started watching mlp and i love the cutie mark crusaders and i relate a lot to them especially sweetie belle.
Trying your best to do something nice for your bigger sister but getting yelled at everytime because you did something wrong made me want to hug her, the same happens to me but my with my mom
tbf i just rewatched mlp recently and i think season 3 is my favorite
i'll never understand what it is about season 1 that made me so obsessed with it when i was like 12 :c and why it's almost impossible to replicate..it has such a different vibe to it
17:34 not me looking at my notifications when the discord noise went off
Not really relating to the topic of the video, but I really like this show! It has good characters and interesting stories, in my opinion of course, I relate to these characters, such as Pinkie Pie/Fluttershy/and Rainbow Dash! I love to self project on media I enjoy and I like to headcanon my favorite characters having something I personally have to deal with, like headcanoning a character with ADHD, which is a mental disorder I deal with in everyday life. Sorry for rambling, I’ve just gotten back into mlp like a few days ago!! Great video, btw!!
Also, did anyone notice? Look back at gen 1 and gen 4, and see if you find it! Hint: They use the same rainbow as G1 ponies did to defeat the villains in each season!
There is a theory that the Alicorns represents a types of love; sister love(/sibling love), romantic love, friendship love, love to a parent or their child (those being Cadence and Flurryheart to eachother)
I never watched the show back when it was airing but I was a huge fan of equestria girls , I was like 9-10 at the time and it was weird for boys to watch stuff like this but the style and characters of equestria girls was so different to what ninjago or regular show was doing so it caught my interest and I enjoyed it, idk if that counts as being a brony but it was great
Wait, people hate Spike? I love him! If it weren't for him I never would have started watching the show. I was really into dragons around the time the show first aired and just so happened to turn on The Hub while Spike was on screen so I stayed on that channel because he caught my interest. I ended up loving the show and I owe it all to Spike.
Imagine being defeated by the elements of what makes a good friendship, that sounds more embarrassing than being defeated by an unarmed guy
a small review for the show from me:
Season 1 - 4
Perfect cartoon. barely any bad episodes, great storytelling. you can very distinctly notice character growth. and the story is about everypony growing together, and how they all individually add to the story.
Season 5 & 6
Really good, a slight bit of not so great episodes mixed in with pretty good other ones. Starlight's introduction felt a little unneeded. And the individuallity of the mane 6 kinda dropped since they really started focussing on Twilight. They did before, but it got kinda bad here. All Twilight's friends don't add anything by th
eir personalities in the first and last 2 episodes of the coming seasons. Still, there were many good episodes in here and development still happened.
Season 7
pretty forgettable. I really don't remember much about this season. I just don't remember if it was good or not.
Season 8 & 9
decent highs, quite low lows . Character development doesn't happen anymore to the mane six, and the student 6 feel very forced in. there are highlights, but also very bad episoses. the show finaly is fine, and the villain team up in season 9 is good, but I think the lows quite outweigh the highs.
I think seasons 5 and 6 should get more credit than most believe, there was a lot introduced from that point on, such as the Dazzlings, Starlight Glimmer and the Cutie Map. The only drawbacks to season 6 are filler characters, like Flurry Heart. Whether or not you like the mid seasons, this is when the writers were at their peak, constantly coming up with unique ideas.
"and the student 6 feel very forced in". That's because they were a political statement about racism and diversity and Chancellor Neighsay was supposed to represent Donald Trump. Seasons 8 and 9 really sucked in my opinion. The episode where the Kirins are introduced is the only episode from those two seasons that I really like.
@@millabasset1710 I thought Starlight was better as a villain. The show didn't need a new main character and they made Starlight to similar to Twilight. They also kind of made her an overpowered Mary Sue, with magical power comparable to Twilight's (who was the bearer of the element of magic and an alicorn) and she figuring out the solution to problems on a to frequent basis.
Still crazy, tbh, but I’m not complaining ⭐️
Nooo! I never got the notification for this video!!! I really hope it gets more views so you can make all 5 parts!
Also, waiting for the next part!
I'm seeing a comeback of everything old
I feel like I'm in a time warp but it's in a good way
I miss 2010s era internet twas a fun time and less restrictive place
I have been watching Mlp Fim sinces 2016 i love it and my fav is Twilight Sparkle i knew the Moment i saw her on screen she was going to be my fav even after i had met the mane 6 Twilight was fav to the end i loved seeing her story finish after so long it was amazing i love Mlp Fim 💜
Lovin the new intro
My thoughts on this era of mlp, with little rewatching whatsoever. Season 1 was decent and some of the songs are quite catchy, but it didn't have the same memorable flavor that the later seasons had. Season 2, (lip smack) definitely better for its songs, characters, and world building. I have yet to rewatch Canterlot Wedding but Return of Harmony is one of my favorites from the entire series.
I'm just gonna say it in my own personal opinion and being a veteran and watching ALL the Seasons. (Became a Brony back in 2014). 🐴
Season 4, and 5 was the BEST while Season 6, and 8 was the WORST!
And here's my unpopular opinion. The ONLY good thing about Season 6 was the introduction of Sunburst, Rainbow Dash FINALLY becoming a Wonderbolt, Trixie coming back and becoming a main background pony due to Starlight, and seeing Fluttershy's parents, and brother!
I mean everyone got opinions so you pointing this out means your pointing out problems which is good
Just going to say that Rainbow Dash is exactly like I was as a young girl and I have always been straight- kinda sucks that people think that that attitude isn’t “feminine enough”
I prefer not fitting in a box.
My Little Pony was the only 2010s thing I never got into. But recently, it's been spreading.
YES
17:34 FUCK YOU!!!!!
Great video btw, this honestly makes me wanna rewatch the first two seasons of the show
season 2 of mlp is probably my fav
It's my favorite to. That season has a lot of great episodes.
13:44 Oof in the MLP Season 10 Commics but their so hard for ppl to get access to read! :c I want to be able to read them!!
22:13 Unless you don't count the smile song **BECAUSE** of the outcome of **SMiLe Hd**
23:54 Not to mention the saving Derpy Movement
24:50-24:53 Heh noise reference XD
"They just took Nightmare Moon and made her a bug"
LMAO I FREAKING DED!!!! 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😆😆
Am I the only one who thinks NMM looks like a gecko in her debut? In her AU and dreams in later seasons, she looks fine.
"Snap of her hoove"
_bro.... 🗿_
3:14 MLP-G3 REMAKE 4 TEH WIN
Nice opening
I had a kid in my school who though Rainbow Dash was a boy
10:45 What is Celestia doing there. What have you cropped from that image.
Imposter princess
You acting Kinda Among Us
Among sus
Amogus moment
WHAT WHY DID I NEVER REALIZE WHAT TRIXIE’S NAME SUPPOSED TO MEAN
I'm still holding out for a gritty remake
At least we got one episode on it. Edgy Scarred Rainbow Dash with a metal wing *somehow* was never merchandized.
A year late, but an official dark and gritty remake?
who else thought they got a notification when discord was introduced
Lol the discord notification sound lol
Jenny Waksman literally has a pony head minus the nostrils and ears.
I love your flag ! Happy pride month !
No sea ponies, shame! 😔
Action, movies 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 ✨️ 🎬 🎞 🎥
13:33 oh no
Uh oh
I was watching season 2 while watching this, i was on Dragon Quest
I started watching it after i was around halfway through the yt vid
15:35 Daniel Ingram is amazing
17:35 i was so comfused, i have discord notifs off
bro applejack moje girl moje děva
5:21 XD
Heck yeah
shonks
I never got the hype about this day aria. I mean its a good song but in my opinion its by far not the best one. When I was little and started watching the show 3 seasons had already come out and my favorite song was a true true friend.
I absolutely HATED the first two seasons and I especially HATED Discord. And the reason why Cadance came about was due to Hasbro releasing a toy Celestia as a pink pony, so Cadance came about due to Hasbro wanting a pink princess to sell.
Iwhy do you hate the first two seasons?
@@User-xk3nw Because I felt that they were complete crap. There were very few episodes from the first two seasons that I actually liked.
@@baffledbrandon3132 If you don't mind, would you list them please?
@@paisleepunk Sisterhooves Social, Sweet and Elite, Secret of My Excess, Read It and Weep, and Hearts and Hooves Day were the only episodes I genuinely liked. I HATED every other episode.
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just out of curiousity with the trans flag in the background, are you transmasc. transfem or enby? (transfem here eeee)
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The art was just so bad but the story telling was great until the newer seasons.
26:35 personally I'm the biggest hater of Cadence and Shining Armor. they're shallow characters who procreate and give birth to a really annoying baby character. 🤨
There is no fall
wait a minute hol up, celestia is not a god figure... thats starswirl the bearded
Stawswirl isn't a god figure, either.
@@ReesesBees yeah i know.