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> To be fair part of it is me not replying in the post Gen 4 thread.
well, the post gen 4 thread was meant more for looking at the show in hindsight without feeling any pressure at catching up with the episodes. By following your blame, I could say that about myself for not reviewing Father Knows Beast.

I mean with the absence of MLP in the discussion, not because of gen 4 but because the current news don´t catch my attention or I feel too lazy/apathetic to even bother. If I were hating and raging about it by screaming to the four winds, I would do that on /mlp/ and would get more fun there.
 
>  I always considered those that say that MLP needs to be pure Medieval tech to be forgetful of all the various tech references in season 1 and too extreme. 
yeah, that gave an inconsistent impression (for example the machine that Twilight used in Feeling Pinkie Keen) and going from the settings of gen 4 to these ones with more advanced tech is going to feel weird.
 
> It'll be weird to see the Mane6 in a world with TV, Airplanes and Cars (if that indeed comes with the implication), but I wouldn't say in itself be a dealbreaker. 
actually, MLP could take a career suicide by diving into a fully technological world and mix a slice of life style with cyberpunk (meaning that despite risking its innocent nature, tech and MLP might not be like combining water and oil). It´s quite risky but the results with the proper approach (and done correctly) in that developed world could work surprisingly well. And you know what? I would applaud the huge risk at experimenting to a whole new level for the franchise even if it failed.  

However...
> My fear though would be Smartphones and memes
we know that this is not cyberpunk at all and that advanced tech won´t contribute to any interesting plot device. They are going to rely on social media and who knows if Hasbro is going to adapt a meta route for criticizing its detractors (like Fame And Misfortune but referencing /mlp/ with a computer). Yeah,  I agree wholeheartedly with those fears.

> This sounds like the kind of plot of an average kids show.
> I'd think be from a lot of the shows from when I dropped most kids TV in... 2008, 2009. 
you are mentioning an era for cartoons that didn´t shine in terms of quality. What you say here is not helping at all.

> Let met guess: RD thinks she the best at everything. Dishwater Slog is her opposite and is better at being the worst. DS challenges RD to prove that she isn't the best at everything. This would be the one with lower expectations.
definitely. Besides, we have seen quite a few episodes of that kind for counter-arguing the ego of Rainbow Dash. Beyond the dialogues and/or interactions between those two, the episode isn´t bringing anything new on paper.