I'll agree with you on that. Some segments of the episodes are positively painful to sit through, and oftentimes I either stand up and walk away from it, or mute the sound.It is kind of amazing. I did a quick check of the last 10 pages on User Fiction for SV and Creative Writing for SB. 87 out of 300 (29%) of the former fics and 78 out of 300 (26%) are Worm or Worm crosses. I don't think any other fandom fad has lasted as long or persisted as strongly. By comparison, MLP hasn't done so well.
Returning to the topic, binging episodes of a show often gives me insight that I'd miss going episode to episode, and one of the things I noticed over the last binge is that MLP is relying an awful lot on cringe comedy. You know, "character does something socially inappropriate, LAUGH DAMMIT", or "character can't spit out whatever it will take to resolve the plot until the end of the episode", or "characters humor another character's futile obsession". Newbie Dash was a particularly grating example, as it was mostly a full-episode length version of it.
Its one of the things I noticed when comparing the three kid's shows I watch, MLP, Gravity Falls, and Steven Universe. MLP is full of cringe, Gravity Falls tends to shove the moral of the episode in your face a little too hard, and both of them are prone to making their characters go rather OOC or forget what they've learned for the purposes of the story. Steven Universe either doesn't do this, or does it rarely enough for me to not notice it much.I'll agree with you on that. Some segments of the episodes are positively painful to sit through, and oftentimes I either stand up and walk away from it, or mute the sound.
So basically, the writers forgot how to write their own characters and are getting caught up it "Oh we have to show how stressful being a princess is despite the fact she's already dealt with identical scenarios with a breeze".One thing I noted in the MLP thread over at Space battles is that Twilight has basically become a caricature of herself since season one or even season two. I mean compare Winter Wrap-Up and Princess Spike. in the former, she organizes Winter Wrap-Up, and checks on progress, but she leaves the team leaders to follow her plan. In Princess Spike, she micro-manages to the point of exhaustion and no one else was apparently involved in the planning of that summit!
Yup. It's all "CHECKLISTS CHECKLISTS CHECKLISTS!" and "RESHELVE ALL THE BOOKS!" with her nowadays. It's something you'd expect out of an abridged series, except it's in the show itself.So basically, the writers forgot how to write their own characters and are getting caught up it "Oh we have to show how stressful being a princess is despite the fact she's already dealt with identical scenarios with a breeze".
SnrrrktMaybe the writers ought to do an episode from Celestia's POV with the Mane 6 in the background?
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Never going to happen, I'm sorry. Because they can't humanize Celestia, she has to be as perfect as possible for the kids.