THE Pony Thread

It looks OK, but disappointing when you compare it to MLP:FiM episodes. Unless they're into Transformations, Bronies don't want to see their favorite ponies as people, they want to see them as ponies! Also the setting for MLP was versatile enough to do all kinds of plots, and moving to the (probably more limited in plots you can do) typical school setting is not an improvement. I think the producers were trying to make the series into a school series as are popular at the moment (Brats, etc.), much like some record companies trying to reshape their musicians to fit into a predefined category. (Also publishers often do this - one writer was told "You're a Category C writer so you can't have that much description in your book.")

It reminds me of two films in this way, and I think it explains why they made this mistake:

One, the failed Judge Dredd movie. Fans of the series were fans of a hero who is judge and avenger (much in the Wild West Lawman way), but the writers of the movie said, How can we make it Different? We'll have him on the run, not able to be judge etc.! Wowee, we thought of something that's never been done in the series before! It hadn't been done before because that's not what the series was about and not what fans wanted.

Another was a King Arthur's Court movie, but the writers couldn't get comprehend the mellee combat of those days (you know, combat with swords etc of the RPGs). The knight-hero does kung-fu fighting for much of the film, and the writers were mentally stuck in the mindset of 'action sequences are always done with guns' and so the bad guys come in to hold everyone up with handguns single-handed-crossbows (which incidentally are completely unhistorical!) at the end.
Same thing here - the writers probably can't handle the MLP universe, I particularly mean they can't write a plot like any of the MLP episodes, they can only write school serieses.

My Question is... Why? Seems pointless to me...

I gotta ask the same thing though. this just seems like a quick cash in using the popularity of the main show.

Yeah, there IS that, I think that Collage would have been a better choice, or even post-collage? But high school is a little bit of a stretch, but then, that's the demographic, middle school girls who aspire to high school. And, you know, weirdo's. Which is why I SO want to see it.

wait, so the love interest guy is going to be a pony now? or am I interpreting "new guy" wrong?

So its a parallel dimension and twilight dropped into it? Sounds like something you would read in a fanfiction. (which isn't saying anything bad about that. I mean, I write it.)

Oh, THIS sordid little tale. She dragged me along too. The worst part, I didn't look out of place. Dear god there were a lot of 30 yo guys there, the only difference was they didn't have an overexcited midget clawing at their arm. Jade + too much soft drink + Ponies = Rabid Fan Girl. I think she even bit me at some stage. Next time I'm feeding her Ritlin before we go, that way she might even out a little.