Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony Friendship is Magic (Season 6)

I don’t have much to say on the lowpoints this season, so lets knock this one out right away and move on to what’s working.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony The Movie

For this one, I feel the need to issue a reminder: these are not really reviews and are much more interested in discussing why a work is the way it is (and, on occasion, delving into picking out themes and very very rarely what is probably actual critical analysis, although that’s rare and amateur at best), both in terms of analyzing emotional response and in looking for evidence of production history within the work because we are in fact nerds here and trivia is fun.

See, I don’t know how to feel about this one, and I’m gonna have to discuss in detail a critical plot point of the movie to figure it out.  Sorry folks, I don’t have an easy up/down is this worth watching note this time.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Magical Movie Night

Hasbro had a wonderful problem this year:  they have an actual Friendship is Magic movie coming out this fall, which will probably make all the money (mostly because I can’t imagine it really cost much to make), but they already only do stuff for the alternate continuity once a year, so gotta do something for that to keep the doll line robust.  Thus we have Magical Movie Night, billed as a collection of short day-to-day adventures for our two legged friends.

Yeah that’s not quite what they did.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree

Originally posted at the DL November 2016

I feel utterly out of practice on this.  But hey.  Fuck it.  Music time!

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 5)

Originally posted July 2016

Last season unexpectedly went full DBZ.  This season instead has cultists and full throttle time travel fuckery.  Handled well though; the emphasis is on how terrible of an idea it is.  Similarly while it's noteworthy for being unusual in the context of the show, it's not really a standout episode in other respects.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games

Originally posted at the DL October 2015

What's this... oh yeah.

MUSICAL OF NON-DISNEY ORIGINS.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 2)

Originally posted at the DL September 2015

So this might be my favorite season?  Would not have called that.  Main contributing factors:

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 1)

Originally posted at the DL August 2015

I used to wonder what friendship could be.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 4)

Originally posted at the DL April 2015

Season 4, ie the one that pissed off the fanboys with Princesses.  But fuck those guys.  So instead, Season 4!  ie the one where the show fully shifts into predominantly continuity based storytelling with occasional slice of life rather than the other way around.  While for this show it was either that or start focusing way more on non-main characters at this stage in the game, it is nice to see such transitions.  The other major distinguishing mark of this season is that when it decided to go shonen, it went full on Dragon Ball Z which is honestly pretty amazing, but that's just me.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony Equestria Girls

Originally posted at the DL April 2015

And so we come to My Little Barbie.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks

Originally posted at the DL April 2015

Hello my little barbie.  But we'll save that rant for the original EQ.  Anyway, welcome again to Canterlot High, Equestria's dumping ground for dangerous magical beings who we're totally pretty sure will lose their magic in human land.  But hey, if we had a magic mirror to another realm we'd probably dump nuclear waste into it, so "mostly non magical land that will de-power our magical foes" is relatively responsible.

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Season 3)

Originally posted at the DL April 2015

So short season is short.  I get the sense in this one they were essentially trying to change the format of the show from one-shots that acknowledge continuity to ongoing continuity-driven storytelling, so the shortness of the season was them finding a balance they liked.  Or they had to steal the budget of this season for the first Equestria Girls.  One of the two.