MLP: NEW GENERATION THOUGHTS

So the new my little pony series started out with a movie, which is interesting!!! I think thats neat, and since the movie dropped on netflix it's especially interesting to me. 


Synopsis: The new generation starts out with all types of ponies being separated, and are all against each other, and have seemingly forgotten that they were even once all unified. The earthpony Sunny Starscout grows up with her father Argyle, who believes that all ponies were once all together, which leads Sunny to be the only one in the all earthpony town of Maretime Bay who believes this is so. She gets older, and teams up with different types of ponies to unify everyone again.

So first off, the animation is amazing, I love the new style a lot actually!! The bodies have more room to look different from one another, and there is a surprising amount of variety in the bodies and such, and I love that!! There is a ton of detail and I love how the faces look. The voice acting is good for the most part. My one issue with the voice acting is how they like, relied a bit on the voice actors and actresses for marketing for a minute. 

I had a few little issues with some of the design of the towns and such. Mostly, it just didn't feel very unique. Zephyr Heights kind of feels like a basic big city like new york and such, Bridlewood feels like the basic cookie cutter fantasy woodland setting (though Izzy's house was super cool and interesting, I loved it a lot :)) and Maretime Bay feels a little bland as well, though it is kinda interesting being an ocean town. I hope that in the series we can explore tons of new places (and maybe a ton of old ones too from G4).

Mostly this movie holds up super well!! I like almost all the characters (lookin at you sheriff Sprout) and they're all pretty unique and I love their chemistry!!! No one feels like a ripoff from the old series, but they are reminiscent and I do like that a lot. The fact that these different ponies with similar personalities to the G4 cast all come together to be friends is super cool and cute.

ALSO THE SOUNDTRACK IS SUPER GOOD, I'M SO HAPPY THEY KEPT THE MUSICAL FORMAT WAAAAH.

(vv SPOILERS MAYBE???? vv)

even tho i dont like sprout that much his song kinda slaps like a TON tho,,, the visuals r rlly cool too in it

So one thing that I thought was going on was completely not true, BUT I thought it was super interesting so I'm gonna share it here!! 

So I thought that Phyllis Cloverleaf was a unicorn. She has super tall hair and I kind of suspected it was like that to be a way to hide her horn and such. Her company is also called Canterlogic, which was named after Canterlot, the royal city of the princesses from G4, which fueled this theory. I thought this would be like a Starlight Glimmer type situation for the earth ponies but with added memory erasing. I theorized that like, maybe Phyllis was keeping all the other ponies out with her magic to capitalize off of the earth ponies fear by selling them the products her company makes. Maybe she was also doing it to create an army to fuel her weird unjustified hatred for the other types of ponies?

Sunny Starscout and her friends would still go on a similar journey and find the crystals, Sunny and Hitch find out about Phyllis's plan, and they defeat her with the magic of friendship in a G4 style. 

All in all though, I'm happy how many doors have been opened in this movie and how many prompts for questions there are for the series to continue on. I'm interested in finding out HOW everyone got separated and such.

The movie makes me super excited for the new series!!


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keena

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i also have SO MANY QUESTIONS!! sunny turning into an alicorn?? where are all the other creatures??? by the way the movie was awesome, sprout's song is my fave!!


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