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[Flying Dice]

Time for panic?

"They left after Season 2 was written. It was a little ugly."

I'm a little worried after reading that.  I'm not worried that they're going to cancel the show (although they well might, some companies don't give a crap even if a cartoon is doing well).

I'm worried about the quality of the episodes.  It's funny, reading on Equestria Daily, it seems that most fans think that season 2 is better than season 1.  Most people here disagree.  I'm not sure what to think, since I've seen so little of the first season.

I'll admit that I was worried about the show after I read that Lauren Faust left, if for no reason other than it would surely change.  I hadn't even watched any of it by that point, but I knew I was going to like it when I did.  And I did, and I knew that if it changed from something all of these fans liked it would probably only change for the worse.

At least most fans seem to think season 2 is great.  I still think it's better than most crap on TV these days, even if I can't fairly weigh it against season 1.  But if they change writers again, who knows what might happen.

I feel pretty strange caring this much about the fairly distant future of a cartoon that I've watched all of 8 episodes of.  Curse you ponies...

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My own response:

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FUCK!

On the other hand, I think the fandom has enough inertia and creative talent to keep going by itself even if the show is cancelled/falls into the pit of mediocrity.

[TheBronzePickle]

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone took up the mantle.

I'd personally probably bitch, whine and moan enough at Hasbro to get called a terrorist or something so they could get rid of me. That or start work on the transdimensional portal system so I could go and live in Equestria. Something tells me if I did that, Equestria's human population would grow pretty rapidly, though.

[Necro910]

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone took up the mantle.

I'd personally probably bitch, whine and moan enough at Hasbro to get called a terrorist or something so they could get rid of me. That or start work on the transdimensional portal system so I could go and live in Equestria. Something tells me if I did that, Equestria's human population would grow pretty rapidly, though.

Only let a few Bay12ers in 

Sociopaths in a happy pony utopia: What could go wrong?

[Fniff]

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone took up the mantle.

I'd personally probably bitch, whine and moan enough at Hasbro to get called a terrorist or something so they could get rid of me. That or start work on the transdimensional portal system so I could go and live in Equestria. Something tells me if I did that, Equestria's human population would grow pretty rapidly, though.

The biggest problem would be the natural segregation and extreme racism that would insure. Plus, who is saying Equestria is the only country? There could be another completely psychotic country with lots of highly advanced technology and a real hate for anything standing on two legs. For some reason. And who is saying the transdimensional portal system won't go wrong and you'll end up teleporting a whole platoon of nazis, the majority of Genghis Khan's forces and a group of British soldiers from the Somme into Equestria? That'd lead to one hell of a want for a nail, leading to Equestria mostly being ponies either under the Third Reich, Genghis Khan, England or the scattered forces of Celestia? That wouldn't be a nice place to live. I'll stay right here until it has been proven safe, thank you very much.

[Sean Mirrsen]

If, at any point in time, TBP makes it into Equestria...  well, I don't like to use the word "doomed". Let's just say "it's bound not to end very well" - ..aaand there goes my understatementometer. Damn, I paid good money for that thing.

edit: also, update on one of the sketches:

[Telgin]

On the other hand, I think the fandom has enough inertia and creative talent to keep going by itself even if the show is cancelled/falls into the pit of mediocrity.

While I suspect that you're right here, it's not very comforting. 

As my avatar probably gives away, I'm a big fan of the old Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon (commonly called SatAM).  The community has produced a lot of pretty cool stuff, and continues to do so many, many years after the show's untimely demise.  It's just not the same as new official material, and never could be.  But, since it's pretty apparent at this point that we will never see anything official related to it ever again, it'll have to do I suppose.

Guess I'll have to be content in the thought that Hasbro can take ponies off the TV or drag them through the mud, but they can't take ponies back from the fans.

Ah well, I am getting a bit ahead of myself here.  I'm a pessimist in the best of times, but perhaps this is jumping the gun just a bit.  It's unlikely, but not impossible that by the end of season 2 it will have turned out to be better than season 1.  And season 3 could turn out to be better than both.  We just don't know yet.

[Sean Mirrsen]

It won't go on forever though.

Makes me want to invent a time-axis quantum variability datalink machine, to find a universe where MLP:FiM went on for some fifty seasons, and download everything... but I still haven't even completed the powerplant prototype. *sigh*

[Telgin]

No, it can't go on forever.  And really I suppose even if it gets canned after 65 episodes, that's a heck of a lot better than a lot of cartoons.  Unless I'm mistaken, SatAM got canceled after only 26 episodes (two 13-episode seasons).

I'd have preferred at least a full 4 seasons, but we can't always get what we want.

In the end, if the quality is going to suffer, I'm siding with the camp that it's best to kill it off instead of letting it just drag on.  I used to think that I'd never get tired of Spongebob, but the last few years have really started to make me question that...

I don't want MLP:FiM to turn into shallow mechanical plots.  An even better example than Spongebob would be the Fairly Odd Parents.  In the last few seasons, I could all but literally write out an entire new episode I was going to watch based on what happened in the first 90 seconds.

[Fniff]

Right.

Now I am really motivated to get on the writing team and start running the series into the ground. I SHALL MAKE THE DARKEST EPISODES EVAAAR

Right, first shall be the adaption of Pathologic. Then it's going to be The Suffering. Next, Cryostasis. Then I shall make an episode where we find that Pinkie is actually looking at something completely different then us... It'll totally ruin the series and get it banned everywhere, but goddamn would be an epic finale.

[Necro910]

Right.

Now I am really motivated to get on the writing team and start running the series into the ground. I SHALL MAKE THE DARKEST EPISODES EVAAAR

Right, first shall be the adaption of Pathologic. Then it's going to be The Suffering. Next, Cryostasis. Then I shall make an episode where we find that Pinkie is actually looking at something completely different then us... It'll totally ruin the series and get it banned everywhere, but goddamn would be an epic finale.

Me and the 'bold are way ahead of ya!

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Epic Thread is epic. If this becomes a children's show I will have faith in mankind.

Booyah. All we need is PTC to die, then we'll get our mutilating, satanic perversion of all that is pony 

_{Fucking hate PTC}

[Fniff]

Pssh.

Your ponies are used to having a terrible time of it... However, I shall MAKE THE MANE CAST AS TRUE TO THEIR CHARACTERS AS POOOOOOOOOOOOSIBLE! Every horrible thing, every death, every monstrous being.... THEY SHALL REACT WITH THEIR NORMAL PERSONALITY!

[Zangi]

*snip*And who is saying the transdimensional portal system won't go wrong and you'll end up teleporting a whole platoon of nazis, the majority of Genghis Khan's forces and a group of British soldiers from the Somme into Equestria? That'd lead to one hell of a want for a nail, leading to Equestria mostly being ponies either under the Third Reich, Genghis Khan, England or the scattered forces of Celestia? That wouldn't be a nice place to live. I'll stay right here until it has been proven safe, thank you very much.

The mongols would use ponies as epic mounts, at first, trying to capture and train them like horses, then breeding em with horses they brought from back home to try to get bigger ponies.  Sooner or later, they'll learn that ponies are intelligent, but, having the perceived upper hand, they would be very resistant to changing how things are from the top-down. 
By that time, ponies will be 'tainted' by the fighting and such they had to do to defend themselves from the Mongols and as their mounts... as the Mongols, roam Equestria and beyond, exploring this new world, not knowing what to think of all the 'peaceful' beast people they encounter.
But, seeing as how Genghis Khan united the Mongol horde for a common cause... there may be fractures to the alliance, with no perceived threat other then a relatively new and peaceful land of plenty...

[Necro910]

Pssh.

Your ponies are used to having a terrible time of it... However, I shall MAKE THE MANE CAST AS TRUE TO THEIR CHARACTERS AS POOOOOOOOOOOOSIBLE! Every horrible thing, every death, every monstrous being.... THEY SHALL REACT WITH THEIR NORMAL PERSONALITY!

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IF I CAN'T HAVE FRIENDS, I SHALL MAKE FRIENDS

The biggest problem would be the natural segregation and extreme racism that would insure. Plus, who is saying Equestria is the only country? There could be another completely psychotic country with lots of highly advanced technology and a real hate for anything standing on two legs. For some reason. And who is saying the transdimensional portal system won't go wrong and you'll end up teleporting a whole platoon of nazis, the majority of Genghis Khan's forces and a group of British soldiers from the Somme into Equestria? That'd lead to one hell of a want for a nail, leading to Equestria mostly being ponies either under the Third Reich, Genghis Khan, England or the scattered forces of Celestia? That wouldn't be a nice place to live. I'll stay right here until it has been proven safe, thank you very much.

It's like someone poured the contents of my head onto a dimensional plane.

AMMA RUN AROUND IN MAH JACKBOOTS WITH MEH PONEEEEEZ

[Telgin]

Right.

Now I am really motivated to get on the writing team and start running the series into the ground. I SHALL MAKE THE DARKEST EPISODES EVAAAR

Right, first shall be the adaption of Pathologic. Then it's going to be The Suffering. Next, Cryostasis. Then I shall make an episode where we find that Pinkie is actually looking at something completely different then us... It'll totally ruin the series and get it banned everywhere, but goddamn would be an epic finale.

I could get behind this.    If My Little Pony is going to go down, it at least should go out with style.

After all, I'm on the 8th page of a Warhammer 40K / MLP:FiM crossover comic that's going to have lots of space marines and skitarii shooting ponies.  And ponies returning the favor.  In the grim darkness of the far future, war is magic, and everything is grimdark.  I fully support grimdark ponies.

I have a very strange way of showing my approval of cartoons apparently.  Now if only WH40K and ponies hadn't been crossovered a hundred times already... at least mine is different from ponies in power armor.

Hmm, now what would Dr. Robotnik do with ponies?  Roboticized ponies, anyone?

[kaijyuu]

Expect a thread on ponychan in the projects section in a week from me.

I don't care if the show's gonna go down or not. I don't care if season 2 and 3 end up sucking. Season 1's goddamn awesome enough for me to want to make the fangame circling in my head for the past few months. It's shit right now, but the engine's 95% built. I just need artists and content.

If the show ends up canceled, it's going to end with a bang. I want to be part of that bang.

*cracks knuckles*

Back to programming.