Well, Discord confirmed for S8 and that Season 7 is not

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>>29689055
>Season 8
Should I just hang myself right now?

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cool

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>>29689067
I'll form a suicide pact with you. Consider me in.

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>>29689055
>they already finished writing scripts for S8 and record voice acting next week
>before S7 even started

holy shit
hold me,mr bones,hold me
when is this ride ending my fellow nigger?
i cant even tell if this is just real life or just fantasy

just let me be
I cant last that much,at this rate,I'll know better the background characters. of this show than my background family

>>29689096
that's actually super late

>>29689055
which of these two episode going to be Discord marrying Fluttershy?

>>29689116
Considering that S8 is already being produced, we can only hope that The Movie will bomb hard in October and Hasbro will cancel the initial production of S9 on January 2018.

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>>29689055
Season 8's just going to be more glimmer, why the fuck should I care?

>>29689150
Well Spike is still around.

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>>29689150

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>>29689067
>whatever happen this season doesn't matter because there is still S8 already being produced and McCarthy coming up with ideas for S9

>>29689177
Maybe larson will come back?

Am I the only one who's looking forward to S7, the movie and now S8? I don't care how convoluted or asspulled they make it. I just want my pretty pastel pony fix dammit.

>>29689197
Probably not sice he himself is sick and tired of the new management and newfag writer not watching the show. But it is very likely that S8 will feature Vogel and McCarthy since they were already probably finishing the movie by that time. Jayson Thiessen might return. too.

>>29689067
Do you want to see Princess Starlight teaching her own unicorn while Twilight replaces Celestia in her job of raising the sun? Yes.

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>>29689243
We will probably see Princess Flurry replacing Starlight and marrying Discord and Fluttershy son if this shit won't stop at S10.

>>29689243
>Do you want to see Princess Starlight teaching her own unicorn while Twilight replaces Celestia in her job of raising the sun? Yes.
Fuck off, satan,

>>29689223
I'm hoping, against all hope, that all this starlight stuff is meant to GET HER OFF the show. Her graduation, the portal, all of that...

Starlight gets a massive send off where she "Must go" because some other location needs her (Another country, another dimension, another time, whatever), and this is just them trying to give it some form of closure so it won't seem so blatant.

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>>29689275
Is this now what you asked for: more pony? I'm just giving it to you.

>>29689096
So there's no hopes for any quality improvement anymore.

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>Another season of mutilated Discord in the one type of episode he gets

Yay.

>>29689055
>Couldn't remember he recorded lines for S7
>Readily believe him when he says he's recorded for S8

I take everything he says with a grain of salt. I wouldn't doubt what he thought was S8 might just be late S7 recordings.

>>29689067
I'm joining you.

Yes yes we're all DOOM PAUL-ing to the max, the glimglam show, mane 7 confirmed, sunset shimmer back for good, flurry heart take over, no shekels ded show and so forth and so on.

Now that all that's out of the way, I really, really look forward to seeing what shenanigans happen in the next seasons and movie.

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>>29689323

For season 6, De Lancie voiced the season finale in september 2015. So unless there was a fuckup and there needs to be new voicework, it's likely that it is indeed for season 8.

That being said, it does seem strangely early to be recording seeing as writing takes as long as march according to McCarthy snapchatting script pages in the past. I wonder if season 8 will be less episodes.

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>>29689156
>implying Spike matters in the show

>>29689361
He does.

>>29689123
Neither, Discord will be evil again.

>>29689141
If the movie is hard bomb they will cancel S8.

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>>29689067
>hang self
>go to heaven
>ponies are waiting there to greet you

>>29689235
Not gonna happen, they will be fired if the movie is a bomb.

>>29689235

>McCarthy

Nope, she will put all her effort in Hanazuki. Meghan already have a lot of work with every girl show, she can't focus in MLP anymore

>>29689359

EQG specials are the pilots episode for the EQG TV show. MLP will share their team to EQG to make the first season.

The S8 will only have 13 episode because the future EQG S1 with 26 episodes

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LET ME OFF

>>29689455
I doubt that, MLP is their cash cow, EQG is a side project.

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>>29689055

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> season 8 confirmed before season 7 is even out

THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS

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> All of this hate

>>29689055
>Season 7 is not the finale season
We know that since weeks if not months

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>>29689312
>Another season of mutilated everyone in the one type of episode they get
Trust them to rehash every existing episode and revisit every cliche multiple times.

>>29689573
>Anti-Spiral Discord
Will the Mane 6 get a BIGMCFUCKHEUG mech powered by friendship spirit?

>>29689592
would probably be a better direction to take the show at this rate

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W E W
E
W

L A D
A
D

>Almost all negative talk about the show
>hoping it all ends
>still posting on /mlp/

People wonder why this board is dying.

>>29689623
>People wonder why this board is dying.
>ONE SUBJECT board
Geez, I wonder. I moved to /g/ and /co/. I come here from time to time to shitpost and read some greens.

>>29689055
These are good news. I love more ponies in my life.

>>29689609
Hey, it's you. I remember you.

I wish we could have something positive to talk about like we used to, but I see nothing positive to talk here.

Fuck Big Jim, Josh Haber and Starlight Glimbecile.

>>29689623
>Almost all negative talk about the show

Gee, maybe is because the new staff deditated it's entire existence to keep fucking things up? Starting with their desperate attempts to make everyone love their retarded Poochie?

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>>29689693
There's so little to talk about anymore, that's for sure

Who's ready for a 200th episode if season 9 gets confirmed?

>>29689705
Oh, there's a lot to talk about but almost all of it is negative and seems like IDW and DXH are competing to see who can make the biggest screwup.

I miss 2011.

>>29689721
Deviations comic got a warm reception, but otherwise the normal comics have definitely been lacking for a while now.
The chapter books seem to still be doing well from the reaction they're getting though.

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>>29689623
>Caring about negativity
>Not enjoying the ride as we fall into the abyss thanks to Mr. Bones.

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>>29689693
>>29689705
Oh fuck off, there's loads to talk about.

We could talk about how having an actual graduation episode for Glimmer seems to be the writer's way of apologizing for never having the same thing with Twilight. How Starlight and Glimmer's relationship will be further developed by this season. The future of the changelings and their relations to Equestria. Discord and Fluttershy's relationships. Further CMC mishaps. Will Ember return? The indian pony from Canterlot?

There's loads to discuss, but you fucks are so jaded you choose to ignore all the good in favor of harping on a show you probably should have stopped watching years ago.

This board has grown so pathetic, full of show-haters who are so autistic they refuse to leave and ESL EQGspics bumping multiple barbie doll generals 24/7. I know we're supposed to hate newbs but honestly an influx of fresh blood untainted by oldfag nostalgia would do this place wonders. I'd take a million "Poochie"-loving EQG/redditor at this point, simply because it'd at least be FUN.

>>29689623
There are still Anons that have fun with the show. I'm fairly confident they all just stay quiet since it's not worth the stress of trying to argue with some of the more fervent Anons.
When S7 comes on I think you'll see the same kind of opinion in the stickies as normal.

>>29689759
Make a thread to that effect trying to drum up discussion. I'd love to see how that would turn out.

>>29689738
>Deviations comic got a warm reception
Not in this place, though. Most comments I've seen about it were criticrizing the padding, dumb plot and clumsy narrative.

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>>29689759
It's hard to tell who's shitosting and who legitimately watch the show at this point because it's been going on for so long.

>>29689759
Hasdrone detected.

Dting starlight Glimmer with all the gifts, prizes and stories that were meant for Twilight is something you consider a good thing?
And wasting yet another year to keep developing characters that should have been fully developed during last season is also a good thing for you?

Seriously?

>>29689772
The replies to this post seem to suggest otherwise. I got a good feel from that thread when I looked through it.
http://arch.b4k.co/mlp/thread/29629976/#29630119

>>29689785
Not that Anon, but what would you like to see happen in the show instead?

>>29689785
>Dting starlight Glimmer with all the gifts, prizes and stories that were meant for Twilight is something you consider a good thing?
Yes, because at this point it's too fucking late to do it with Twilight. Twilight's arc has been completed. They botched it. There's no turning it back. I appreciate the fact that they're at least trying to make it right through a new character.

>>29689759
The problem is
I don't care....about ANY of that.
I've not found a fuck to give about any of the directions the show could "go"
Hey, what are the odds that Fluttershy needs to become assertive again?
Hey, what are the odds that Rainbow Dash is a total cunt again?
Hey, what are the odds that they retcon some actually nice piece of lore or ambiguity, by doing something like "AJ's Parents are Alive!"

I cannot muster a fuck to give about Glimglam. They can try and use her as an apology for what happened to Twilight, but she'll never BE Twilight.

The CMC already have their cutie marks. Yes it's nice that they have found a new purpose, but none of it has stakes anymore.

The changelings are friends now, and they'll have to fight Chrysalis again and reform her blah blah rinse and repeat.

Discord and Fluttershy: Will they or won't they?
Gasp!
I doubt you're going to get to see a pony taking a dicking from a chaos god on Daytime television if that's what you're expecting

". I'd take a million "Poochie"-loving EQG/redditor at this point"

Ohhh I see
You're upset that you AREN'T surrounded by shit-eaters

Shuffle off to the corners where the autists live anon, you'll be happier there

fun-fact, /mlp/ has been this jaded since...oh...March of 2012

>>29689816
Same question to you if you don't mind answering >>29689795.

>>29689816
Why don't you just stop watching the show then, if it's so hopeless? Honest question. It seems like nothing the show will do will be able to please you. So why do you keep watching?

Also Fluttershy hasn't re-learned being assertive again for years now. Did you even watch S6 at all?

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Buckle up
Swallow your pride
We're going on Mr. Bones wild Ride...

>>29689838
>The never ride ends

>>29689795
>>29689836
Everything that I could have wanted to see happen in the show has been wrecked over the last few seasons.

For example I would have liked to see the Mane 6 actually finish the repairs on the castle of the 2 sisters and use it as their base, but then we got a crystal seed and destroyed the treehouse.

My only hope for the future is that all of this world-building actually has some kind of stakes at-hand.

The princesses keep talking about diplomacy and making alliances with nations beyond-equestria, so my only hope is that we see a need for that.

Starlight glimmer already made-amends with her slave village, mastered shitloads of magic, made friends and saved the world. So I think she's run her course just as far as Twilight has. I wouldn't even be shocked if they alicorned her ass.

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>>29689816
>You're upset that you AREN'T surrounded by shit-eaters
But anon, the content of this board is far worse than the content of the show. If you're still here while considering liking the show to be shit-eating - you are an even worse shit-eater yourself.

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>>29689759
Nigger make a thread with show discussion and I'll reply to it. I warn you, you can't stop it, as soon as I see it on the front page I'll open it and discuss the fuck out of that little topic of yours. Even if it's about Glimmer. Come on, I dare you.
>having an actual graduation episode for Glimmer seems to be the writer's way of apologizing for never having the same thing with Twilight
There's nothing to apologize for, they think they did the right thing. Larson said that MMC was supposed to be the finale of the series and a 2-parter with a proper graduation but that got deliberetly butchered. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8BmQW1X1g
We also didn't really see any of those lessons Glimmer learned from Twilight, and yet there's nothing the princess of friendship can teach her. I think it's more of a cop-out than anything, meaning Glimmer will be less prominent in S7 (and even less Twilight as a result) or they're making her a the New Big Thing (probably princess).

>>29689795
First of all? I want the focus to return to the main characters and then I want Haber's Poochie being put on a bus.

Second? I want all that modern world bullshit being removed and the series returning to the late 1800's-early 1900's style it used to have back then: ponies living in contact with nature, minimal technology, ponies behaving like ponies and not like disguised humans, etc.

And finally? I want to see all of these fucking loose ends being wrapped up for good. Castor and Pollux, aka Luna's guards? Give them one episode explaining them and get over with it. Saddle Arabia? Spike's origin and his fucked up biology? Twilight using dark magic? Babs Seed? Twist's fate after being dumped by Applebloom Starswirl the Bearded?

Shit like that I expected to see getting a satisfactory resolution before they even TRY to shove a retarded new character down my throat while they expect me to love her as much as I loved the original cast.

Finish what they fucking began before jumping to a different thing. Seriously, isn't even that much to expect from a staff who runs their mouths claiming they are so professional and they are working so hard.

>>29689878
Spike already took care of foreign relations. He made sure that pony sympathisers lead dragons, changelings and so on, and he's basically a hero in most of the factions. He has more political power than Celestia as of now.

>>29689836
> "If you don't ike what I like you must go away!"

Following that same line of tought I could ask you why are you here if you can't withstand other people not liking the exact same things you like, anon.
Now is when you give me a long wall of text explaining why is not stupid when YOU do it, right?

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>>29689055
>pretending it's the final season
>ever

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>>29689932
Sure looks like 1800s to me.

>>29689954
In terms of quality, the final season was 05, anon.
Minus the last segment of ep 26 of course.

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>>29689055

>>29689955
> Season 01
You are right, but now take a look at S06 episodes (for example, Vinyl wearing MP3 player headphones) and you will notice isn't the same anymore.

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>>29690017
They had such equipment even in Suited for Success. But I get what you mean, technology became somewhat more prevalent and out of place as a general use thing. I don't mind something like coal trains being a thing instead of them being pulled by ponies like in Over the Barrel, but something like cart racing being a thing now mildly annoys me.

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There really isn't anything wrong with there being modern tech in Equestria, it just matters how it is designed.

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>>29689963
>season 5
>quality
also
>trying to pretend a post season 5 trend has been set by one season
>one data point
Thank you for proving you are retarded before I even had a chance to call you retarded, retard.

>>29690069
The tech is designed out of laziness, not to make the world interesting or for story purposes.

I don't think tech would be a problem if it was incorporated better, designed more creatively, or given an explanation.

>>29690109
Hey faggot, I hate to death what Jim and Josh did to the series but I still can appreciate the tiny quality nuggets found here and there, like for example Gilda's episode which had all the feels and charm of a season 01 episode.

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>>29690069
Why did nobody freak out over the floats in Babs Seed? If they can have engines there then a cart isn't out of the question at all.

>>29690079
It can be used effectively, something like SSCS6000 for example is ok in my book. It's an exotic custom piece of steam-based tech, it's just wierd and specific enough to work. Same with >>29689955, gives it a Frankenstein vibe with that early electricity theme, giant coil and all that. But imagine if something like TV would suddenly be introduced, it's a commonly used thing that confirms consumer rate electronics and a whole TV industry. It would be a complete game-changer for that would. Basically like >>29690117 said, everything is ok in moderation and if it actually makes sense in the show.

It's a typo you tards. He meant Season 7, which is the last one.

>>29690117
They incorpored telephones, modern cops, modern luminaries, modern music players (Fuck S01 and 02 crank powered victrolas) modern cities and of course the fucking CARS.

Anachronic tech would have worked great if it had been reserved for nothing but Discord gags, especally if the ponies are seen not understanding what the fuck it is.

But just like the overabuse of bipedal poses, modern tech has been used out of pure laziness. I blame Jim Miller, since he has been around since season 01 and he should know better what to approve and what not, but he limits himself to approve eveything without making any quality check.

>>29690069

i somehow don't think they'll revisit cart racing.

>>29690134
But they did, anon. People raged of them, raged over the modern cinema AND raged for that stupid scene of Babs Seed using her hooves to handle a fucking steering whell.

>>29690161
>i don't like it so it's bad!

nobody gives a shit what you think dude. sorry i had to be the one to tell you.

>overabuse of bipedal poses

cartoon characters doing cartoon things in a cartoon, stop the fucking presses. please simply drop dead.

>>29690163
Wonder why it got introduced in the first place, the plot and the lesson of that episode could be done without using cart racing at all.

>>29690175
A hasdrone's opinion doesn't matter.
Now go back to Twitter to keep fellating Jim's flaccid dick.

>>29690198
>hasdrone [...] Twitter [...]Jim

i feel like someone is trying a turing test on me and the tuning is set to 'meme'.

>>29690183

maybe that aspect of it was homage to wacky races. i don't know.
it kinda reminds me of how buckball season felt a little like an homage to an episode of the flintstones (but that's just my headcanon really).

>>29690183
The episode would have worked the same if instead of these retarded cars they had used home made chariots and the older partner had been needed to pull from it while the kids steered it to avoid falling over.

And of course the episode would have needed a better designed circuit track instead of that retarded one that was designed with no other purpose to cause a script needed accident.

>>29690214
> Rarity builds a fancy chariot, but she also rides it while Sweetie Belle is the one who pulls it.

Such a missed opportunity.

>>29690214

when's the last time anyone was in a soapbox derby, honestly?

anyone here ever be in one? i haven't.

>>29690161
I don't see why everything has to be medieval, not even Season 1 was really that.

I just want the tech to be used more creatively.

>>29689253
How do we expect Flurry Heart to grow up when the CMC haven't aged a day since they were introduced?

>>29690275
She's an alicorn, they'll figure something out for her.

WAKE ME UP!

>>29690285
For the sake of toys and potential future episodes, it would make sense that Flurry Heart stays a baby forever.

>>29690243
More proof that the writers are incompetent dumbases with their minds still stuck on 1980's cartoons.

Having said that, RedBull has a yearly soapbox derby race and is awesome.

>>29690265
But anon, medieval was one of the things that originally made the series so charming and interesting.

It wasn't just a world of ponies, it was a world of ponies from the past.

>>29690275

i actually just googled screencaps from stare master and then the fault in our cutie marks just to compare and it does seem they got taller.

their legs are noticeably less stubby.

>>29690302

or someone sticks a time particle up her nose and she's right there in the circle with celestia and cadance and luna an episode later.

>>29690318
> I miss Sweetie Belle's voice cracks

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>season 8

>>29690313
It wasn't implemented properly, and I find MLP working better as a silly fantasy world than a generic fantasy world.

>>29690347
And this is a fact because the Hasdrone said it, right?

NOPE.

>>29690324
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTdueVxwk4
Never ever again.

>>29690313
There were video games, dams, and stereo systems as early as S2. The tech levels were always pretty modern.

>>29690359
Huh, it is an opinion I came up with after many seasons, forcing the tech to be before 1970 would be jarring by this point, it is better to keep the tech interesting over being consistent.

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>>29690318
Just eyeballing it, I don't see any difference between season 1 CMC and season 6 CMC besides the cutie marks. Any other changes just look like animation quality.

>>29690359

you're kinda just lashing out now. deep breaths bud.

>>29690381
> Obedience and acceptance speech

You are not even trying.

>>29690386
Applebloom seemed a bit shorter on Zecora's debut.

>>29690387
Use capital letters and correct formatting, please.
You really shouldn't skip your remedial classes.

>>29690402
Huh? I think it is a bizarre idea to date Equestria so far in the past when so little in the show suggests that.

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>>29689055
IT
NEVER
ENDS

>>29690414
> My headcanon is fact accept it!

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>>29690386

this was my reference screenshot. and i had another one from scare master (sweetie belle vs. fluttershy) where they were on an equally similar plane.

the one thing i want to draw attention to is their shoulderblades, or withers or whatever -- in S1 they come up to the top of fluttershy's knee.
in your screencap AB is up to the bottom of limestone's neck. or maybe i'm just imagining it.

>>29690440
I didn't say that, but a lot of evidence suggests Equestria is not in the 1800-1900s.

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>>29689164

>>29690407

or what?

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ITT: Deciding that something will be shit literal years before it comes out

>>29690461
Or what?

Fixed it for you.

>>29690497

for the love of god please follow me around and fix my posts. i'm slowly getting drunk and i may eventually may a typo.

>>29690497
Hot damn, sure is a good thing you're around. Fucking nerd.

>>29690515
Still more useful than a Hasdrone though.

>>29690568

oh man, pulling out the big guns. calling us hasdrones again. how could we possibly reason with such a cruel beast?

>>29690594
With proper word capitalization.

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>>29690605

>>29690386
>>29690444
Limestone confirmed for marelet

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>>29690492
Here's your answer

>>29689055
wew, time to end my life

>>29690605
Epic for the Win.

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>>29689055
>We were joking about this 5 years ago
>It's coming true
>All of the predictions were simpsons-esque
I mean, I feel the general quality of the show has dropped severely, but it's still watchable. Feels kind of good to know that my crushing cynicism is simultaneously right and wrong. Gives me hope.

>>29689759
>there's loads to talk about
No there isn't, and we discuss the fuck out of what there is to talk about.

The problem is, we have 6 seasons of episodes to draw correlations from; we know what's going to happen in a lot of scenarios because similar things have happened before and their consequences are known to us.

>graduation episode for Glimmer seems to be the writer's way of apologizing for never having the same thing with Twilight
For people who don't like Glimmer, it's simply another way of shoving her special snowflake status in the viewer's face.

>you fucks are so jaded
Hot fucking new? /mlp/ is great because it can simultaneously love the show and criticize the fuck out of it. I actually couldn't deal with /mlp/ when I first got here in 2012 because of how easily it picked apart the show.

>I'd take a million "Poochie"-loving EQG/redditor at this point, simply because it'd at least be FUN
It'd be fun for a bit, until you realized that everyone around you was retarded. At least with the current board culture, you can call retards out on their shit. As you've done, I should mention.

>>29691103
You.
I like you.

>>29689067
You don't get off the ride that easy, fucker.

>>29689359
Maybe Vogel and McCarrthy quickly edited S7 to include mre Discord? But De Lancie clearly said it's for Season 8. So he probably not making it up.

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>>29689759
But people discuss fluttercord all the time. It's just never go beyond cuckoldry posting.

>>29689816
>You're upset that you AREN'T surrounded by shit-eaters
Let's see
40% of the board are cancerous generals with circlejerking and bump festivals
20% the board are fetishfags
20% of the board spic EQGfaggots
10% is just glimmer shitposintg
remaining 10 % is show discussion, porn, spam, "whats the appeal" and flutercuck meme. Yeah, i think Equestria Daily migh became a better place for show discussion than this board.

At least we know it's pretty much guaranteed that we'll never have a ridiculously long 9-12 months hiatus again. Seems a new season every April is the norm now.

>>29689055
Good. My life will be pointless without new pone every year.

>season 8
>I will no longer have watched a majority of the show
thank god, can't come soon enough

Is this place still going to be here in 2 years? Are you all still going to be here?

>>29692702
Are you? What are you still doing here now to begin with?

>>29692725
I heard they were making a movie so i decided to drop in and see if anything's changed

nope. nothing here has changed, except i dont remember practically all the threads being numbered and blatantly about fetishes

I watched the show until season 3, and then season 4 came out and i couldn't force myself to watch it so i gave up. haven't been /mlp/ active since like, early season 3 at the latest.

Tell me, is this board just fanfiction now? i remember that being basically all that happened here but for some reason i remember there being more normal threads and shitposting. Why are people still here?

>>29692741
It's hiatus anon. The board is always crap during hiatus. And the majority will be crap during airing as well, because beside the show there's nothing meaningful to discuss, as the fandom is no longer mainstream and doesn't produce as much (quality) content anymore as the S2-S3 era.

It's gotten to the point that most of the board consists of autists who mostly don't watch the show anymore shitting up the board with fetish generals that are only marginally related to MLP.

Actual discussion of the show only takes up so much of the board that it amounts to the same as /sug/ or /svtfoe/ generals on /co/. Removal of GR15 and /mlp/ and returning to /co/ would actually be feasible at this stage.

>>29689055
Dude they're gonna milk this for all it's worth

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>>29692765

That's good news. It means MLP will stay in relevancy long enough for consistent porn

>>29689759
Yeah, because we clearly saw a return of the Buffalos, Diamond dogs, Iron Will or most of the other new things that were introduced in S1-3 in S4-6. It's ironic that you imply you aren't a newfag when you have just as much lack of awareness as them, but the fact that you're deluded with it if you've been here for a while is even worse.

Go fuck yourself with a cactus.

>>29689055

We've known this for months you ideologue

>>29692798
You have your Trixie development and CMC getting their CM, tho

>implying anyone's still going to care after season 7 completely blows it

The show's been on a downhill slide since last season and everyone feels the same.

>>29692881
>Two out of dozens.
>HURR UR WRONG

>>29689055
If this is really true, then I think I'll finally be free of the show.
Its clear they're trying to force Glimmer as the "New Twilight after S6, and they'll likely alicorn her at the end of s7 or early S8 (with the rest being dedicated to her finding her purpose or some siht) while everyone else keeps being written as fuckups and one-hit-waifus/husbandos come and go to keep the autists attention.

Quite frankly, I wont stand for it. For the first time in a long time, I actually feel tired. Maybe being a fandomfag/contentfag would be better at this point.

>>29692922
I really want to believe that they aren't turning Glimmer into a new Twilight. I don't have hopes anymore, but I really wish they can come up with something better than that. Season 6 was painful but I love the ponies, I want to see them, and I'm watching season 7 to see if things get better. But if they keep on treating everyone but Starlight like shit, I'm done with the show.

>Maybe being a fandomfag/contentfag would be better at this point.
This was a huge fandom once, and it had tons of those "fans of the fandom" who gave zero fucks about the show and just wanted to belong. Those people jumped to the next fandom long ago, but the concept of liking the fandom content still has a strong negative connotation. It's stupid.

Nowadays fanworks are only done by people who genuinely like the characters, there aren't bandwagoners left anymore, the people who only drew ponies because they were popular is drawing Star Vs. the Stephen Universe Shit now. Meanwhile, some people in the current staff don't give a fuck about the show. Except for the few episodes written by people who still care about the characters, at this point fan content deserves more respect than the real show.

>>29692968
>fanworks are only done by people who genuinely like the characters
Or by those who get money for it. You can not even care about the show and still draw commissions involving it. It's just business. I don't believe for a second that people who make paywalled porn (so 90% of the prominent artists) care even a little bit about the show.

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I WILL NEVER BE FREE OF THIS ETERNAL RIDE

Twilight will lose her wings in the S8 finale

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>>29689055
I've never said this. I've never once jumped on the hate bandwagon for the later seasons.

But right now, I just want g4 to fucking end so we can move on to g5 and bring in some fresh ideas. Do they want to give us franchise fatigue? Because this is how you give an audience franchise fatigue. I've resorted to watching anime for some variety in viewing habits for fucks sake.

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>>29693149
Like somebody here actually want to end the ride, jeez.

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>>29693158
I'm in the same boat but nothing I tried to watch fills the void. I need pone back but not in the current state of the show.

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THE MOVIE IS NOT THE END
REJOICE

The ride never ends. It just got faster!

>>29693155
The castle will be destroyed in the one-part S11 premiere

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>>29693129
>people who make paywalled porn
I stand corrected, sometimes I forget that those people exist, and I don't really think that that guy who only does anthro futa sfm shit, or that other guy who traced furry porn, care much about the show.

But I was thinking of the people who produces content actually related to the characters. Years ago many people used to do that to get easy fame "look, I'm drawing Twilight Starshine and Pinkie Dash, am I famous yet??", but now I'd say that the vast majority of the people who still produces that kind of content, only do it because they enjoy doing something for these characters. It's true that some of them draw commissions and/or porn besides their regular art, but I don't think that liking the characters and drawing commissions are mutually exclusive per se.

>>29692968
>the concept of liking the fandom content still has a strong negative connotation

That has never ever been the case.

>>29692446
>ED
Where do you think half of our cancer comes from?

>>29693227
MLP isn't that obscure yet, it's still going strong. Sure some trendhoppers came and went, but it's not like you can't get popular with MLP anymore. I want to believe that most of the artists like or at least watch the show, but I can't help but assume that most of the popular ones aren't really in because they just like it so much. I don't follow the fandom as much nowadays so maybe it's not the case but I still just classify everyone who does that as "that guy who just does it for the money" and ignore their art from that point. I guess I'm just biassed against it since it's not a big deal for anyone.

>>29693227
>that guy who only does anthro futa sfm shit
That guy doesn't even watch the show, all his knowledge about the characters comes from images on DB
>Years ago many people used to do that to get easy fame "look, I'm drawing Twilight Starshine and Pinkie Dash, am I famous yet??"
Most content creators these days still do that. There's also a lot of people who watch the show or used to watch it but have moved on or only watcched a bare minimum to know the characters or become infatuated with a couple of them and yet keep milking the fandom with commissions and crowdfunded webcomics/art-packs. Doxy, JJ, and I'm pretty sure Pia-Sama, turbo-autist vavacung and the whole fall of equestria crowd, just to name a few. Actually, all the sub-fanbases of all "big" projects like FoE, doublecartoonist, etc. probably have stopped caring about the show too.
IDW and newer show writers don't know/care or even watch the show at all before going and making the official content, and these are people who are paid explicitly for that, now imagine how likely are some hacks on the internet, looking for cheap fame or money, to actually do that.

>>29689055
Next thing you know, they will be doing a second movie as well.

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>>29693295
>like or at least watch the show
I disagree with this phrasing. If someone doesn't like the show, but watches it anyway, he's only doing it for the fame or whatever. That's extremely hypocritical. The only honest fanworks are those who come from real enjoyment. I want to believe that most of the artists like the show, even if they don't watch it anymore.

Let me use a different example, The Matrix. The original movie was a huge success, many people loved it. Four years later we got two new movies that were utter shit and butchered all the charm of the first movie. Many people refuse to acknowledge their existence. Does that mean that we can no longer say that we "like" the original Matrix? I don't think that new content can change that. If you were a fan, not a poser, you don't lose that card if you don't like everything.

I mean, I know that it's different for a show, but as I see it, if someone /loved/ the show at some point and wants to produce content to pay homage to that specific thing that he loved, that fan content deserves more respect that any episode written by a writer who has never watched the show, even if the latter is "official" content. That's what I'm trying to say.


>>29693351
>Most content creators these days still do that.
No. Seriously, no. I browse Deviantart and Derpibooru, and there are hundreds of artist drawing stuff from their heart. Many of them don't have many followers, or don't have a Patreon, they just post their art because they think "I liked this scene", or "this is what I imagine that happened after that", or even "I would have liked this more instead of what we got in the episode", and they don't expect to be famous. That people are real fans for me, and they'll still be real fans for me if after this season they say "making Starlight a princess was stupid, I'm done with the show" and keep on drawing the other ponies, ignoring the canon after that.

Oh, shit, this post was too long. Sorry.

I have noticed that there are more people who seem to be genuine fans.

>>29689067
No, stay, there's punch and cookies by the door.

>>29689150
Nah man, she graduated, she'll get the season 7 final to herself and then she'll go on a journey across Equestria with Sunburst

>>29693439
>I browse Deviantart and Derpibooru, and there are hundreds of artist drawing stuff from their heart.
Yep, just like there are hundreds tracing art or bandwagoning, to get fame, of course most of them fail. I don't know much about DA, but in DB this is specially the case, even some artist who appear to do it out of their heart, you see some great fanart "out of their hearts" get famous and immediately, one week after, have completely devolved into drawing cancerous OCs for profit.

>>29693512
Do you think that an artist should refuse to draw commissions of cancerous OCs if he's a real fan?

>>29692881

> Trixie
Used as a satellite character to make Starlight even MORE special.

> The CMC
Faded into obscurity once their purpose was finally fulfilled, their only 2 post buttmark episodes were about a retarded dancing colt and about an unbearable Mary Sue who aced on everything and unlike all other Griffons was friendly, cute, likeable, etc.

Certainly I should be grateful for the 4 shit sandwiches!

>>29693439
I was talking about more popular artists, the ones who have stakes in staying relevant. Otherwise I agree that a lot of people who "just draw" do it because they like the characters. Or trying to become popular, because MLP is still a good place to start getting exposure.
I think being a fan a very slippery topic, Matrix analogy doesn't really work here. Mainly because the fandom isn't that wide, there's not a lot of content being created, and there's also no fan of the fandom mentality. I believe that being "true fan" in case of MLP depends on the person and you can't just cover it with a blanket statement like "everyone who likes S6 isn't a true fan". Even with the Matrix example, can you say that a person isn't a real fan if he liked all 3 films? Or if he liked 2 more than 1? And yet in MLP you have actual hatedoms for some aspects of the show. You have people here denying that anything after S1 is canon. It's bizarre.
When it comes to personal opinions I don't think that until you hear people's reasoning any kind of judgement can be passed at all. With MLP it's even more subjective and varied than with anything else. People like and hate things for various reasons. For example, I hate Twilicorn but I condemn reasons why most people hate it. What does that make me in their eyes? If someone likes Glimmer do we just write him off as a non-fan? I can't agree with both actual hasdrones justifying every corporate move and people who just actively hate everything new.
And I do dislike secondary fans. I'm not saying you shouldn't be allowed to partake in the fandom activities if you're not actively watching the show but if you watched a few episodes and that's it - this is not acceptable by any means.

>>29693512
That, or completely pure artists suddenly start making porn just because it makes money.

>>29693573
>"everyone who likes S6 isn't a true fan"
I probably fucked up really badly, but for what it's worth I never tried to imply anything remotely similar to that. In my analogy, I didn't try to say that only the people who like the first movie are the only real fans, I was saying that people who like the first movie are real fans, whether or not they like the next movies too.

>if you watched a few episodes and that's it - this is not acceptable by any means
I admit that this is complicated. In the original post I was thinking of the people who could stop watching the show during S7, or probably who already stopped during S6. More than 143 episodes are a lot of episodes. But I don't know what to thing about those "nothing after S1 is canon" fags. By my own definition, if they were once fans, they'll be fans as long as they like whatever they liked, even if it was only one season. But being in a fandom pretending that the 85% of the source material doesn't exist is too weird. I don't know.

>>29693722
With that much episodes some people eventually stop watching actively. I didn't watch a few episodes in S6 myself. People burn out but still care about the characters. But that's where the grey area begins, there's no definitive point that devides fans of the show from secondaries. In another fandom where such a term is prominent, the Touhou fandom, it's easy to divide people in these categories.
I remember MMC being a point of no return, but now there's more episodes after it that before it. And everything after S3 can't be dismissed now. But the reasons people dislike newer seasons vary a lot. And with S6 it doesn't help that some of the show's staff itself doesn't really watch the show anymore.
I personally draw the line at completely ignoring what's going on in the show. Like people clinging to their baseless headcanons after they've been demolished. It's not a new thing either and it's a great indication of person's attitude for me.

>>29693543
well, occasionally drawing a cancerous OC for money is one thing, but turning your entire output of content to OCs and only ceating it with canon characters thanks to OCxCanon commisions is another.
There's also the point were artist arent' even commisioned to do so, they just join a super circlejerk of drawing "popular" OC like Nyx and lilith, but mostly "ponysonas" that sometimes are much more popular than the people who created them.
>>29693714
Sometimes an artist starts making porn because they grow more confident on the subject, but yeah, many have been doing this or making more "cutesy" stuff and cheapening their art process, like how Yakovlev-vlad started imitating Hioshiru (a furry antist who's obviously only doing ponies for fame and cash) or people who go the wolfy-nail route (go look up his art from 2009-11 then go to his gallery after 2015 and you'll get what I'm saying).

>>29693246
>Never been the case
"Fan of the fandom" ring a bell?
If someone preferred fan work over the (sorry) state of the show, especially after they stop watching, they'd be called such, and that does have a negative connotation.

>>29689067
Nah. Your soul would not know release until the show ends. As it never ends, those who suicide because of MLP are trapped forever, used to empower the unholy magic that keeps the show going.

Remember, the ride never ends!

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>>29689055

>Season 8

>>29689772
It was an illustrated crackfic. I did enjoy that, shallow as it was.

>>29689623
I want this ride to end, so I can get off this board.

>>29693885
I wonder when being a fan of the fandom will be preferrable to simply liking the show.

>>29694684
When there's no one who watches the show in the show staff itself, meaning those who produce episodes are fans of the fandom themselves.

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>season 7 hasn't even aired yet
>season 8 is already written and the VAs are recording

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>>29689759
>watching barney
>ever

>>29695961
Well it takes roughly a year to make a season I'd say, so It's not exactly ahead of schedule.

>>29689055
http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/56aad95c3d6a4-thisistheendofitlads.php

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>According to rumors season 7 and the movie are all preparations from Hasbro to give MLP the biggest push its EVER gotten.
>If the movie goes over well they will have no problem renewing it for 9 and 10
>10 years of pone
>plus more EQG
>It'll be like 2012 all over again only somehow worse
>the
>ride
>never
>ends

fu ck me twilight and drown me in the marianas trench

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>>29696174
>tfw 80% of people on this board will die sooner than the show

>>29689055
>fluttercucks thought they were safe

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>>29692798
We actually did see the Buffalos again in Pinkie Pride.

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>>29696238
And again on Appleloosa Most Wanted.

>>29695961
They clearly need to do that to avoid accepting any critics for their awful work, anon.

This way they can dismiss any opinion they don't like with the excuse that it's already too late to do any changes.

>>29696380
> accepting critics

The staff has never accepted anything that isn't a super praise.