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It sort of gets better, but only for moments. The pegasi characters I liked and Misty has (slight) depth, but felt kind of boiler plate. It really does feel like a marketing driven show that was put together by a focus group in how they handle references to pop culture and setting. 

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> it was missing the myth and sense of wonder as the original.

That is a perfect way to describe it.   Without it, some of the characters feel very flat. Pipp, Zip and their mom are the exceptions. 

> diet Fallout Equestria 

I believe some twitterfag called Wintergleam first coined that and really tried to push that idea. Maybe you ought to use nitter or something to look up her threads, bridgefag? Her approach to fandom analysis reminded me uncannily of what you tried to do in /go/. She got burned a bit by the drama of twitter and mostly abandoned the effort