My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

I am going to say this out of pure honesty but I never understand on why guys are into My Little Pony what is about this show that make men go crazy for it? I just don't get it !
 
I can't believe men my age actually watch this show. That show is intended for little girls. I just shake my head in disgust and shame knowing that there is someone my age that consistently watches this show more than 4 year old girls. It's disturbing and not becoming, sort of like an awkward phase gone wrong. I just can't fathom the so called logic of an adult that would sit, watch, and love a show intended for little girls, what is wrong with some people?
 
ShaolinTiger86 said:
, what is wrong with some people?
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I got through your post and thought pretty much the same thing. You just have so many negative things to say about it and about the audience and yet I'll wager you've never actually watched it. "And why would I?" You'd ask? Well I can't blame you. I used to think the same thing then I actually gave the show half a chance and ended up thinking it was alright. I try to reserve judgement on things I don't understand. Granted, there might be some deviants who watch it, but there are deviants in pretty much any fan base. You don't have to be warped to enjoy the show though, it's written by intelligent adults and there's humor in there kids would never get.

But no matter what the debate is it's just a TV show. I don't care what stigma you want to attach to it, or what you think it says about your masculinity to watch it, but listen up: It. is. just. a. tv. show. It can not hurt you. Granted it might not be for you, if you hear the words "witty" and "cute" and you automatically say "gay" then you can keep on ignoring the show. If you kick puppies and use books as toilet paper then you should definitely avoid this show. If, on the other hand, you've enjoyed other cartoon network shows then you'd probably enjoy this one. If you think cartoons are childish, I would hasten to point out that a lot of people would say that about video games. We are all presumably here because we play those.

I can't fathom the so called logic in hating something on principal. You're like an old man at 26, shaking your head and flailing your cane in a frothing rage at things you don't understand, and dag-nabbit, you don't have to.
 
Also this show isn't intended for little girls, not THIS version. Just like PPG, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Johnny Test, Kick Buttowski, Courage, Johnny Bravo, Dexters Lab and a million other shows. It's basis is aimed at kids and teens but has a million inside jokes, sexual innuendo and references from EVERYTHING FROM POP CULTURE past and present. It literally has straight homages to other things.

It literally doesn't matter what any show is on the surface. Just like how no genre is good or bad by default, no style of food or race of human is good or bad by default. It is and always will be about what they do with the property.

So a reverse question is how can someone just look at something and judge it? Let alone the people who enjoy it.
 
Mr.MeatHook said:
I watched one episodeafter being pestered to no end by everyone on every forum I frequent. Boring as all Hell.
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Ya and accurately judging something after one episode is totally possible.

Not to mention, again, that if lighthearted comedy and tv show references aren't your thing, it's isn't going to appeal.

Also this killed me
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As did this
 
I was going to make a new thread about this, but it turns out it's already been talked about! Sorry for reviving such an old topic, but I do want to add my 2 cents about this show.

Me getting into it was a huge accident. A friend on XBL and I were running some SCV and one of his characters had a unicorn horn. Another person in the room asked if he was a brony and I asked WTF a brony was. He explained it to me and went on to talk about how awesome My Little Pony really is with its video game references and character development. I thought I was being trolled to the max. I even thought that MLP is actually in fact a cute LOOKING show, but vicious and violent like South Park or Happy Tree Friends.

Then I got curious and looked online on articles about why there's such a huge following for MLP. Many mixed opinions were usually about how it's very 90's inspired especially since it has the same producer as 90's classics: Lauren Faust. A name I never heard of, but made aware of and am thankful for because she did pump out some of my favourite toons like Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab. Not to mention of course what my friend said in the above paragraph. Then there were also typical opinions debasing males for their lack of masculinity for liking a show aimed for little girls.

Finally, I decided to stop researching so much because that wasn't going to quell my curiosity as to why it's such a big deal. I watched an episode where the tomboyish athlete character, Rainbow Dash, gets injured and has to stay in the hospital. Her friend lends her a book, and at first Rainbow Dash loathes the idea of reading, but after a few pages she starts to reluctantly get into it. Interestlingly enough, her experience kind of mirrored my experience with the show as my own skepticism about it started to fade. My initial conclusion: it just felt like any other kids cartoon show and was not all that girly as I expected it to be.

BUT HERE'S THE RUB: I didn't watch it again for a while until recently I was babysitting for a friend, and I put on the Treehouse Channel (a 24/7 kids channel here in Canada) and painstakingly watched all these different lame ass shows with her kid. My mind was going to explode from the cheesiness and overly innocent crap factor to them all until MLP came on. What I noticed was that its actually written quite maturely compared to all these other shows on that channel, let alone all the other kids cartoons in existence nowadays.

I feel like todays cartoons are lacking something. I don't know of anything else that has as much heart and emotional depth as MLP where I feel like the characters offer me something everlasting than a mindless 20 minute experience of animated hijinx. Maybe those little moralistic speeches at the end that remind me of South Park's "I learned something today," wrapping up the episode's conflict in a straight forward fashion in case you couldn't get the message on your own. Meh I dunno.

whoa didn't intend for my post to be the length of a novel's page but there you have it!
 
You know...calling something bad after one episode is unfair. I have seen most Adventure time and I think it's a crappy overrated show that doesn't deserve to be popular. There are only two good episodes out of the load I have watched from that show. I feel that is how you properly judge a show. I suggest watch a season or two.
 
Juece said:
You haven't read those post by bronies who want to plow the ponies? It only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch but in this case it's the a lot of apples.
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who cares? Rule 34 extends beyond MLP. There are sick ass perverts out there who enjoy Digimon hentai of let's say...GATOMON not even evolved, and they don't receive as much slander.
 
CrazyYoshimitsu said:
You know...calling something bad after one episode is unfair. I have seen most Adventure time and I think it's a crappy overrated show that doesn't deserve to be popular. There are only two good episodes out of the load I have watched from that show. I feel that is how you properly judge a show. I suggest watch a season or two.
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Exactly. Although a pilot episode IS meant to showcase the overall tone and direction of a show, shows have the potential to get better or worse. Good examples are Lost in which season 1-4 and 6 were great, but they really lost their way in season 5. Then there's Vampire Diaries which started out as a cheesy Twilight knockoff, but has now become a really intense in show with 100x more depth than the shit franchise that sort of paved the way for it. (Yeah I know the Vampire Diaries books came first but I mean onscreen production wise.)
 

Imagine a 1990s version of that advert and that's all I saw in England when I tried to watch my manly cartoons.
 
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