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>>/6250/ > I'm skeptical interesting will be necessarily entertaining. /comfy/ may be attainable but in my mind that would require some slower placed moments and a homey feel that I honestly wouldn't have much hope of them thinking for. I´ve heard a few comments about the pacing or development of the premise they announce...and some people seem to have struggled to follow what was going on. That´s a complaint I have seen from several /mlp/ users. I would take a /comfy/ attitude instead while judging it (in the philosophical sense) > this as a stopgap messure probably wouldn't bug me on it's own but the fact that it, and Rainbow Roadtrip, could signal a very sanitized and marketing driven direction is what makes me feel anything other than seeing this little show in a vacuum of weirdness. Rainbow Roadtrip, despite my complaints in its lack of depth, looks like a classical painting with the ToonBoom artstyle. I mean, sure the artstyle might not be all that expensive to animate but it fits really nicely for a series of this kind. Really pleasant to watch. Whenever one watches FiM, the animation aspect is already taken as a baseline of quality, you already assume that it´s going to look good (like Sonic with the soundtrack of its games. Despite the extremely varied quality of its games, SEGA doesn´t fail in this aspect. The same was applied to FiM in terms of animation for me) The special wasn´t weird by itself at all just that the plot could have used less padding/add a plot twist or more depth to it in order to get more entertainment out of one entire hour. FiM holds a track record of many experiments (constantly evolving) throughout its entire series but Rainbow Roadtrip definitely isn´t one of those. It simply reached a point of blandness that would remind anyone of gen 3. > that doesn't take G4 away but does make me worried if we became pawns in some sort of: "racist male bronies killed the new show" narrative that companies are all too found of adopting as a scapegoat for failure. yeah, I fear about that as well. If you want a prime example of that, see The Last of Us 2 (that game has caused an absolute mess in the industry). Toy commercials these days aren´t allowed to draw on this argument of: "It´s for little girls, you have to understand that you are not the target audience" when FiM has even ruined its own brand for that low quality argument by setting the standards higher and with proper writing in its execution all the way through. If the staff resorts to that justification for that bad writing, most likely they will cause a mess among the community. You cannot even be more commercial when the brand is already a toy commercial and managed to be good for an entire decade while keeping that nature and aimed for little girls at the same time. Besides, Hasbro should know that no other generation has printed more money for them other than the 4th generation. Even if we go by the numbers in terms of income alone (and not by the number of fans), gen 4 still wins the crown in that matter by a landslide. The writers and Hasbro are in no position to defend themselves with this argument. It would turn into a very shameful gesture from them if they had the courage to claim that in public (Twitter in this case). > I think Hasbro is too conflict adverse to do that but it's something that has happened so many times across a variety of organizations that I would never completely discount the possibility. always be prepared for the worst. But they cannot alter gen 4 anymore so at least, the possible drama would aim at somewhere else, hence a fan can afford to take a more philosophical/comical take with this one.