I know the secrets of the universe

>>30552076
Mind explaining in what way the characters were better handled?

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Too bad season 1 sucked

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Radical.
I, instead, know the secret of OP: he's high as fuck

>>30552076
Is this an in depth enough explanation?
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>>30553593
Yes, a little on the memey side though

The secret of S1 is that is was boring.

>>30552087
FIM was originally meant to be a 10 minute comedy short. So the extra 10 minute per episode gave a lot of free time for the ponies to interact. The dialogue wasn't horrendous like it is now in seasons 2-7.

Because there is no pressure into following a schedule like most action cartoons and even comedy cartoons where the heroes have to solve the plot or talk only about x specific thing related to the episode. The characters had time to fool around together and all 6 of them managed to talk, interact, rub off each other enough, even Fluttershy.

Cutie Mark Chronicles, Mare In The Moon, Ticket Master, Best Night Ever gave all 6 of them individual scenes for themselves.
But even during episodes like Dragonshy they still had equal aura/feel of importance, even if DS was Fluttershy focused.

Maybe only Swarm of the Century was where you get a typical cliche action cartoon where they all act like 1 identity and don't have time for games and jokes. But the rest of the episodes like Over a Barrel had all of them equally contributing to the episode.

Most cartoons devote entire singular episodes to fleshing out an undeveloped character and they only get fleshed out and developed in their personal backstory episode. Everyone else goes backstage, plays as support

While in FIM we have duo character episodes where if they must focus on a few then they focus on at least 2 (+1 Twilight).

Faust knew how to make them charming and make the dialogue feel respectful to an educated child, teenager and even an adult. Some times it was eye rollingly annoying, but nothing horribly cringeworthy like Adventure Time, Chowder and Generation 3.

Yeah sadly I must say. There are some episodes, well a lot of them, which don't follow the individuality and equal importance between the characters like Owl's That Ends Well and Show Stoppers. And Call of the Cutie has at least 3-4 characters playing support for Applebloom.

The rest of the sopamine and oxytocine feels were done by the fandom.

>>30555555

CHOKE AND MENTOS