My Little Pony

So I keep hearing all these things about the new My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. I gotta admit it's been a while since I watched My Little Pony. I only remember about about two episodes/movies/whatever. One had to do with weird bee creatures making things overheat and the other had to do with some crazy cat lady who wanted to be young forever. I only ever got to watch these when I was sick and my options were either My Little Pony, Care Bears, or Mr. Nanny. Playing Donkey Kong was also an option, but the boys tended to take over the console and, quiet little thing that I was, I didn't want to take up a game that I was absolutely dreadful at.
In any case, I was more than slightly apprehensive about this new version, seeing as in the old version the males (the "big brother boy ponies"), well, I just remember them as childish, and every coupling wound up with twins and that spawned more ridiculousness. Okay not every couple, but still...

Ow, my ears! And the "adults" aren't any better.

At some point artists started making some more drastically different My Little Pony toys that were generally sold at comic conventions and the like, for fairly obvious reasons:

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The new MLP:FiM is a lot more crazy animated, character wise. Several extreme personalities working together to prove that with the power of friendship, anything is possible. There are also some other morals in there. As with most children's shows, the idea is to teach kids positive lessons and such. There are references to modern day memes (I.E. Derpy Hooves), and it is somehow attractive to the generation who remembers the original MLP. The show has even generated it's own set of fanboys, the Bronies. To each their own, we suppose.
I'll have to actually sit down and attempt to watch it as some point.


I suppose I didn't really have anything to say, I just find the whole thing amusing, in a mostly good way.