Am i missing something with the Ponies?

[Spineyguy]

I've watched a few episodes of this thing and, to be honest, I neither love it nor hate it. As far as I can see it's just a kid's programme, admittedly a good quality one, but it's not particularly remarkable for anything other than this weird cult-following it's got.

 

[imnot]

Its a global conspiricy to confuse the Australian Government, so we can steal their beaches and hold them hostage for

 

[imnot]

My Little Pony? Isn't that a girl's show or something?

Yeah man, but cools guys like me watch the show because it's ironic or something.
Seriously, ironic stuff is awesome, but I don't think you'd know about stuff like irony....

Ironically watch something? Man, that's so brilliant! This must be like the first time ever that anyone's done that!

oh there have been other times, but you've probably never heard of them (^.^)

Oh. Okay. Well I guess I'll have to keep an ear out to hear of them.

You may not like mlp, but by god do I enjoy your posts in this thread XD

 

[Brownie101]

The trend has reached AUS. Definitly. Whether or not the show itself has reach remains to be seen, but the trend is certainly here.

Like every other post, I'll say go watch it. It's not as great as it seems to be made out to be, but it's by no means a bad show.

 

[blasmeister]

because it's nice, funny, and happy, and because of the strong characterisation and animation, ridiculously cute at times. Plus it lends itself incredibly well to stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irQ_d78feMA

 

[ThePuzzldPirate]

You know what would be nice, if we could get a pony thread that actually talked about the damn show instead of asking why almost every day.

How hard would that be? With the amount of people here that like it, why doesn't it exist?

 

[StBishop]

Not sure if the series is available in Australia yet though ^~^;.

Problem solved. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJ6-gN0eB4&feature=channel_video_title]

lol, well I knew about Youtube and stuff like that...Though I was more curious if they had a channel in Australia that hosted MLP ^~^.

We do not. At least not in free to air.

 

[-Drifter-]

You know what would be nice, if we could get a pony thread that actually talked about the damn show instead of asking why almost every day.

How hard would that be? With the amount of people here that like it, why doesn't it exist?

Good question. This may be wishful thinking on my part, but perhaps there'd be less bickering if people were actually discussing the show itself rather than it's popularity.

 

[ElNeroDiablo]

Not sure if the series is available in Australia yet though ^~^;.

Problem solved. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJ6-gN0eB4&feature=channel_video_title]

lol, well I knew about Youtube and stuff like that...Though I was more curious if they had a channel in Australia that hosted MLP ^~^.

We do not. At least not in free to air.

Neither FTA nor PayTV (Foxtel/Austar, Optus, TransACT) have MLP:FiM (hell, none of them have The Hub which is where Hasbro airs it, seeing as Hasbro basically OWNS The Hub If we had The Hub, we'd also be getting a LOT more Transformers besides Bayformers).

 

[Leemaster777]

*snip*

So, My Little Pony is a fad now, huh? You know what else was a fad? Pokemon.

And as we all know, that fad died out fairly quickly, and was never heard from again.

 

[CommanderKirov]

It's a show about ponies. Young adults and teenagers enjoy it because of a mix of pop culture and extreme "Cuteness" is involved while magical ponies run around the screen and do stupid stuff.

It works on the same rule of all animu. You always need some comic relief to yell out "UGUUUUUU" and do an overly stupid face that some people see as cute, in order to show that just because people are dismembering each other's limbs it's not all seriousness here.


That being said, I still find MLP and anime boring at best.

 

[kouriichi]

Oh yeah. Bronies of the globe unite!

I find MLP funny. Ive never watched a single episode. But i am willing to take the title of bronie if the discussion comes up to it.

I think its the fact that while other people see something wrong with a grown man enjoying cartoons, i think its perfectly normal. I mean, at least its not some childish show like "The Real World" or "Real house wives". ((the entire show are people yelling at each other, excessively cursing, doing nothing of value for the human race.))

So im willing to enjoy MLP, just for the sake of there being nothing wrong with it.

 

[badpun]

Its not shown here in australia but i watched all the episodes on youtube and they're high quality videos too, so go watch a few and see if you like it or not then you'll know if your missing out on something or not.

 

[imnot]

You know what would be nice, if we could get a pony thread that actually talked about the damn show instead of asking why almost every day.

How hard would that be? With the amount of people here that like it, why doesn't it exist?

Good question. This may be wishful thinking on my part, but perhaps there'd be less bickering if people were actually discussing the show itself rather than it's popularity.

Think we should make a thread
That will get some rage going XD
And some discussion of course :3

 

[-Drifter-]

You know what would be nice, if we could get a pony thread that actually talked about the damn show instead of asking why almost every day.

How hard would that be? With the amount of people here that like it, why doesn't it exist?

Good question. This may be wishful thinking on my part, but perhaps there'd be less bickering if people were actually discussing the show itself rather than it's popularity.

Think we should make a thread
That will get some rage going XD
And some discussion of course :3

Already done. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.301027-MLP-Hopes-for-Season-2]

 

[Aidinthel]

Basement dwelling neckbeards. Seeing as they are all people who don't have any real future to move onto or any friends

Really? I mean, REALLY? That's quite an assertion there. And on a site as pro-pony as this one, too. I've accused people of trolling for less than that. I won't accuse you of it, though, because I learned long (read: about a month) ago that some people just refuse to accept that grown men can enjoy something cute and innocent.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

oh there have been other times, but you've probably never heard of them (^.^)

Oh. Okay. Well I guess I'll have to keep an ear out to hear of them.

You may not like mlp, but by god do I enjoy your posts in this thread XD

Am I entertaining? That's pretty awesome. Maybe I am hip!

 

[imnot]

oh there have been other times, but you've probably never heard of them (^.^)

Oh. Okay. Well I guess I'll have to keep an ear out to hear of them.

You may not like mlp, but by god do I enjoy your posts in this thread XD

Am I entertaining? That's pretty awesome. Maybe I am hip!

Your images, they make me chortle.

*snip*

So, My Little Pony is a fad now, huh? You know what else was a fad? Pokemon.

And as we all know, that fad died out fairly quickly, and was never heard from again.

But Pokemon's kind of a whole other deal, the reason Pokemon can stick around is the fact that we've got all the cards and the games and what not. MLP doesn't have that and I sincerely doubt that it will get one either. The only thing MLP has going for it that might give it hope for staying around long is just exactly what people have ended up as the fanbase.

Basement dwelling neckbeards. Seeing as they are all people who don't have any real future to move onto or any friends (unless the "bronies" count) or whatever that will make them understand just how weird this is. So I suppose so long as they don't get a stroke or some other disease related to obesity MLP might just have a shot at staying around.

Sorry but there are al least 3 coming out soon XD