>>2760 That dark feeling I remember from watching it in 2013 and I feel it from even only the proximity of g5

>How differently would FIM have turned out if EQG were never made? >Zecora storyline explored >actual mlp movies made straight to DVD with fim artsyle >Characters aren't butchered >mlp on adult swim >the celestial sisters origins explored >more quality episodes >less random nonsensical garbage >Things the writers couldn't do before are done, M.A. Larson episodes etc.

>>2629 >The fandom after that degraded into pornographic The porn has always been there

>>3392 I said "pornographic fetishism at best". I never said there shouldn't be porn. I just meant that there shouldn't be only porn. And that the porn-only part of the fandom is still less degraded than many other parts.

>>2988 I feel the exact same thing anon It is a very dark power

My opinion is basically almost the same than everyone else here. EQG consumed a lot of good resources from what was a good show in that time resulting in a forgettable spin off imo - seriously, I have watched the movies and barely remember what they were about - and at the same time a mediocre FiM season which started the downfall of the show. Also while the pony show itself attracted several great artists in its own, EQG mostly attracted literal kids from DA who constantly flood the pony sites and imageboards with shit quality art and hundred of edited screencaps that have very low effort or any at all.

>>2988 >>3412 I probably am in minority here, in that I don't hate G5. My feelings toward it are instead intense distrust. Hasbro was handed gold in the form of early FIM, and they turned it into lead through countless betrayals, EQG being by far the largest. After that, even if it were perfect, which it already isn't, there is no way I could get invested in G5 until it is over. (I still agree that it doesn't belong here.)

>>3421 Its just unacceptable for me I feel devastated

>>3421 I literally feel dread when I think of g5 I cant watch the first episode of the show anymore I tried to do it in the rewatch stream when it looped back and it fucked me up, they literally took the first episode of the show away from me what episodes will be taken from me next I didnt even watch g5 and I feel this way What the fuck

>>3419 >>3395 To me the biggest problem is that the fans deteriorated. If you go back and look at old pony art, there are lots of wonderful paintings that people put a lot of love into. Now it's mostly low-quality sketches and porn. It's the kind of thing where the show being as awesome as it was in the beginning was already an oddity and was not hasbro's intention, so you wouldn't expect it to last. In the beginning people saw the love in the show, the real love, not just porn. Now it's just another thing like furfags and those people with anime profiles, it's "ha ha lol porn funny hentai sex" and no class. I still think there is hope for a few though, just because it's dead to most people does not mean we can't enjoy the world and characters the way they were intended and make more stories that expand on it. We should establish a fan-cannon to replace the later seasons and explore stuff like the royal sisters/Zecora ourselves because nobody else is gonna. We have the setting, all the building blocks, letting it go to waste is a crime.