Join the Herd!
If you’re not yet looking My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic you’re missing out one of the most entertaining cartoon shows since, well, ever. Here are my two favorite episodes so far: Swarm of the Century and Sonic Rainboom which I found so great that I already watched it twice. They are also among the favorites of many other fans. Both were written by M. A. Larson so I’m sure we’ll hear more of him/her in the future.
Swarm of the Century:
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/BA5NP2cllgo?rel=0
Sonic Rainboom:
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-dY6zThR-2g?rel=0
If you’d like to watch the episodes in HD, you can find download links (and a magnet torrent) in this thread at Ponychan: http://www.ponychan.net/chan/ep/res/754.html
Some fans are a bit extreme ;):
I never really cared at first, but when all the drama went down a few weeks ago with the mods banning everyone. I kinda got curious, and I watched the show.
I thought it was just you guys latching onto it in a kitchy, “yeah this is crappy, but in an amusing way” kind of way.
I was wrong.
I love this. I love the characters, I love the songs, I love everything about it. I’m currently on episode 11, and I’m going to try to watch the rest of the season that’s out tonight. This show… it’s just so… I really don’t know how to describe it. It just fills me with this sort of nostalgic glow that reminds me of when I was a kid and didn’t have to worry about anything, and makes me feel wonderful about myself. I’ve actually got tears in my eyes as I’m writing this, but they’re tears of joy.
I love you guys so much.
Just so you know, you should really be careful about linking to things of a “questionable” legality. A number of sites have had their domains seized (among other things) for doing that. I don’t want to sound like an internet troll by posting this, but I really like the web comic and I’d hate to see it (and possibly you) go down over a silly string of characters.
Maybe I’m just paranoid, but you can never be too paranoid.
Best wishes~
actually you can its called schizophrenia. (for those of you not in the know schizophrenia is a psychological disorder characterized by extreme paranoia and audiovisual hallucinations not multiple personalities which is interestingly enough called multiple personality disorder)
On that note though I agree putting up small clips of the episodes would be much safer but then again I really don’t know of anyone who would come here and cause problems.
@ Anony:
my post below was meant to reply to this I should pay better attention. 😛
I’m still more of a Regular Show fan myself, but I do see MLP catching on all over the internet. I haven’t really watched an entire episode yet, so I can’t really state an opinion yet. 😉
Just watched the first one that you linked and I have to admit it was much better than I thought. The characters all have a distinct personality and the things they get into may not make me lol, but I was definitely smiling while watching it. It’s also not overly girly, so while I may get embarrassed if a friend saw me watching it, I would try and get them to watch it too. I will definitely start watching more. Thank you for getting me into this show!
Iwatched the swarm of the century…
I… really didnt expected it to be that funny ^^
Thank you for spreading the word about the show. I started watching after seeing it mentioned in an earlier post from you and a fan comic on The Dawn Chapel. It’s been tons of fun getting into the show and participating in the community that’s sprung up around it. Thanks for helping lead me into the herd.
I’ll put it this way: My Little Pony is so good it got me to draw again. I haven’t drawn anything in years.
It’s not as bad as I expected it to be.
I wonder, have you ponyfied Powree and your editors? I can imagine a bunch of ponies and colts in a studio making Sandra and Woo…
I saw it after so many people talking about it, it has the charm that is Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and power Puff Girl, then I found out that the one who create MLP:FiM is the Wife of of Craig McCracken who made both of them (she also involved in it).
Than I watch the pilot episodes, then its first tv series (Ticket Master) then the next, the next, and…
Why can’t I stop?
This show is magic. It’s both technically perfect and marvelously cute and creative.
In hindsight, it’s probably better than any cartoon I remember growing up as a kid. Well, except Gargoyles. That was too awesome.
The Sonic Rainboom episode is great, my personal favorite 🙂
Thank you for promoting MLP, if it wasn’t for you – I wouldn’t start watching it.
I check in your forum Novil, and there are no Pony topic, make one so people can discuss it there.
Almost forget, you don’t mention Derpy Hooves?
I started watching it because somebody embedded the pilot episode in a post on a forum. I watched it, and it showed the second episode listed in the related videos at the end….
…and several hours later, when it didn’t show episode 14 in the related vidoes section(same youtube embed…) was only then I snapped out of it and realized I was completely and utterly hooked on it.
@ Psyme:
The good thing is, you’re not hooked, because ponies doesn’t have claws (but Gryphon do) but look at your hands, now watch MLP:FiM, now look back at your hands, now it’s turned into hooves, you’re now a brony, I’m on an Unicorn.
@ AckAckAck:
The post your post could smell like
I had watched one episode before this(Winter Wrapup, I think was the name), and was meh about it. These two were pretty good, especially the Sonic Rainboom. Thanks for recommending them.
@ Mundus:
Actually, it’s more correctly called Dissociative Identity disorder (not multiple personality disorder).
My Little Pony: it’s the new “guilty pleasure” of approximately half of America. 😀
I think I’m hooked now…
I admit, i watched the old MLP a bit when i was young, but because i liked their art, their depiction of ponies and i guess i liked their characterisation altogether. Manes, those marks on their sides, they made them stand-out despite they all are ponies.
I think i’m gonna give it a shot again. Though if there’s an episode that plays the song “Secrets” from the old MLP series, consider me hooked because of nostalgic reasons XD
I believe said fan is trippin’ on SOMETHING.
Awesome fan 3d piece
I watched Swarm of the Century and thought it was cute. I went to YouTube and watched the first episode and thought it was apt to get old fast. I watched the second episode and giggled throughout it. When I hit sixteen, I realized I was completely hooked. I guess this just goes to prove I have the maturity level of an eight year old.
@ Fishsticks:
I don’t believe so really, first of all, the story IS simple, but the message is clear, then it also enjoyable because the characters are actually interesting and not just 1 or 2 dimensional characters, some characters look tough but they also riddled with problems like arrogancy and insecurities, while the other timid and shy character can actually stand up tall on her own.
Also if you aware, there are tons of references from old comedies or even serious movies, like Blazing Saddles, apocalypse Now, Lion King, Night of the Lepus, Benny Hill, Looney Toons and many others!
As far as “Swarm of the Century” goes…
“The Trouble with Tribbles” much?
Actually, that’s perhaps a good thing that the creator was a Trekkie fan. 😀
I’ve got to say, I’m hooked. If MLP:FiM would incorporate the Maretrix from Novil’s earlier post on MLP, it would make my year. Also, in terms of legalities, MLP is officially just enjoying the amazing amount of free publicity and has no intention of requesting episodes being pulled from Youtube (or preventing websites from linking to the Youtube videos). At least, not at this point in time.
More “animated radio.”
Brighter in the sense of a different color palate, but try this, in one or both of the following ways:
1) Watch the show with the SOUND turned down. So you see nothing at all but the visuals. Can you tell what’s going on without the bright, shiny voice actors to read you the story?
or better yet
2) watch the show and pretend that you don’t speak any English
This is a lot harder for Americans to do than average, but bear with me. So much of the dialogue is so bad, that I can’t imagine how they will ever do any sort of trans-lingual dubbing of all the American slang, and keep to the story that was originally done for the episode. Awkward doesn’t begin to describe it . The story telling is weak and the dialogue is worse, and depends far too much on what is said rather than what the Characters DO.
The Term “Animated Radio” comes from Chuck Jones. He coined it for the same reasons I sight above, when asked what he thought about a lot of the “Saturday Morning” animation in the US. This version of MLP might be all bright and shiny, whipped-creamy sweet, but that’s just it. Like whipped cream, you get it in your mouth, and it just melts away. Rater than use technology, or even good old fashioned pencil mileage animation techniques that have been around forever, MLP goes back to the same weaknesses and traps that made “Saturday Morning” stuff look and sound all the same after a few years.
I’ve watched two episodes now, and without the “bible” for the people who do the scripts, I could not tell you anything vivid or lasting about any of the characters. Everyone is a different color so you can tell them apart. This is a terrible insult to the audience, who ought to be able to tell them apart by what they do and how they act, rather than the color of cel paint or shading used on them.
The saddest thing about all this is that no one seems to have learned these very basic ideas that have been around since animation began, even on the small screen. You can talk about time and budget limitations, and production pressures on a “popular” show all you want. Some of it is valid. All I see is what is on the screen, and I think that once again, producers are short-changing an audience eager for a better quality product. All it takes to give it to them is the will to do so. It has been done before.
By people lick Chuck, for example (and Yes, I knew him quite well, thank you.)
Roci wrote:
I think there is a severe misunderstanding here. Your main criticism seems to be that the characters cannot be told apart, based on two episodes you saw. You didn’t tell us which two, but maybe you mean the two Novil linked to, which are probably not the best choices for trying to analyse the characters, giving that in “Swarm” everyone but Pinkie Pie first fell for the Parasprites and then tried to get rid of them, and that “Rainboom” was centered on Rainbow Dash being untypically nervous and on Rarity getting carried away.
Both episodes (and indeed the show’s popularity) are based on the established characters, and they were basically established in the first three episodes, each of them showing the characteristic behaviors of all the six main ponies. Personally, I would find it more insulting if each episode had to spell out the characters’ specialties from scratch, than the series method of establishing the characters early and then have the viewers find out how one character would act in a specific situation or what could make them act in unexpected ways.
The creators knew very well that the audience would watch the characters, and head creator Lauren Faust wrote how as a child she disliked girl shows that have characters who were all alike and just partied, and in her own imagination assigned her ponies different personalities and sent them on adventures.
http://blastr.com/2011/05/watchmen-my-little-pony-e.php
NB: Some videos HAVE been pulled from You Tube. But the methodology and lack of comprehensiveness tends to indicate it was one or more troll impersonating Hasbro/The Hub, rather than Hasbro/The Hub.
im in the herd. *brohoof*
Mlp is really awsome show. My favorite pony is Pinkie Pie. My favorite episode is Party of One. I can’t wait to watch the 3rd season!
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