I don't understand what all the fuss is about really. Sure, it's a decent cartoon as modern cartoons go (and considering a lot of the real RUBBISH that they make for kids these days!), but I can't see why people - and especially young men - have become quite so obsessed.
Am I the only one who thinks this is not an entirely good thing? Yes, I'm sure Hasbro are thrilled with how popular their line has become, but there are pros and cons to everything.
I haven't noticed it so much in the UK yet (probably because FiM is not airing here at the moment), but surely if MLP gains popularity, it will be even harder to get good deals at car boot sales/flea markets etc. People will decide that even their "rare valuable fakies" are worth double the ridiculous prices they were charging in the first place as now there are more buyers around.
Also, a lot of it is the wrong kind of interest, I'm afraid to say. Okay, I personally find the, ahem, "adult" artwork and fanfiction distasteful, but to each their own, and that wasn't really what I meant (although I do wonder how the sheer amount of this stuff is going to affect parents' opinions of MLP. There is a lot of downright creepy material being created relating to this franchise now, and I'd hate to see any potential pedophiles use it to their advantage)
But no, that wasn't what I'm talking about at all.
I saw a few of you in this thread mention how the "bronies" (or whatever they call themselves) ignore everything apart from FiM. Unfortunately that's not exactly true. Everywhere I go, I see utter HATRED for the previous generations (especially the cartoons, but sometimes the toys as well). I liked our close community. I could pretty much go anywhere in the MLP community, express my (polite) opinion and nobody would jump down my throat for it. Now there are so many people who aren't
really MLP fans who will screach at you if you like anything other than FiM.
It really makes me sad. To me, MLP is about being kind and polite to people, accepting their differences, making new friends (even the new TV show's title supports that one!) and embracing the innocence of childhood. But all of this seems to have been lost in one fell swoop. :nodno:
I have had people respond to positive comments I wrote on old MLP videos over a year ago, swearing at me and telling me that I deserve to get cancer/be suffocated/die in a house fire because I like something that came before FiM, when "GODDESS LAUREN FAUST SAVED MLP". Why the heck do they care if she "saved MLP" or not, considering they obviously took no bloomin' notice of MLP before anyway?! I've seen these people gathering on EVERY SINGLE MLP VIDEO on Youtube, bringing it to the ground because it's not the wonderful FiM. The funniest ones are where they've quite obviously not even bothered to watch the videos and say something relating to another series. I especially hate when they drag down the "awful" voice actors from G3/G3.5 and compare them to the "fantastic" voice actors in G4 (many of whom are the SAME PEOPLE, guys!) Ugh.
Then, since they're obviously still SO bored between new episodes of FiM and can't find any more MLP episodes to tear apart, they'll gather on other projects that the "awful" voice actors (and probably animators etc. as well - I just don't know so much about them) from previous MLP generations have worked on, and tear them to bits on those as well, wishing horrendous diseases and accidents on them as well... WTH? So they got paid to do a voice in a kids' cartoon 20 years ago. Does that really mean you're justified in saying that they should all just die a horrific death?! That's like me saying, "Ugh, I hate McDonalds. WHAT? You worked at McDonalds one summer when you couldn't get any other job?! DIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE, you evil person!" 00)
Anyway, sorry for the long rant. I do realise that only a small percentage of the new fans are like that, but I'm still pretty upset by all this unwanted attention and bitterness aimed at my favourite generations and the personal comments being thrown at me. I just hope the FiM hype will die down for a while after the final episode of this season is out of the way.