Star Strike's Descent Into MADNESS!

I have slowly lost my mind from watching My Little Pony G5. Make Your Mark has done the breaking of my brain and my brain wants to be not broken!
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[@parycartoons6840]

Remember when this series was advertised to be more adult and mature than G4 was? Oh what could have been....

[@Keelmangolorinecase]

oh yeah i remember that. that couldn’t have been written by hasbro based on the results….

[@SilverSpoonRiche]

Is that a joke? I think Blues Clues could be taken more seriously 🤔

[@evangeloevoxi]

I honestly don't remember that. Why would they gear a young children's show toward adults?? If someone said that, it just doesn't make sense to me

[@cloudydiamont8534]

​@@evangeloevoxibecause a loooooooot of bronys are adults

[@anotheryoutubeaccount5259]

​@@evangeloevoxi Exactly, that's not sensible

[@Daryl-2009]

He went from "Positive and Exited for G5" to "Please be good PLEASE" to "... GRWUAAAAAAH!!!!"

[@patarinchanaonketpol6153]

11:55

[@tylermccaw8092]

“How do cutie marks work in this world?” Well Star Strike, it works however the writers want them to work, and not even they know themselves, at this point.

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

G4 cutie marks work better than G5@@TailsFan369no2

[@tratanlightbreaker6029]

G5 is feels like High Guardian Spice, the only difference being that HGS did not have legancy to tarnish. I honestly had more fun watching random G1 episodes, in between chapters, than actually watching the chapters itself.

[@cranberryjuice1589]

Oh my god you are completely right

[@somerandomdude7785]

Replace High Guardian Spice with the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.

[@angel-nv7jk]

I think the biggest issue is the writing. Like the animation could be excuse considering this was made on a netflix budget, but everything is all over the place and inconsitent story wise!

[@finalfroggitapproaches6418]

The animation wasn’t even all that bad towards the end. It was purely a writing issue.

[@0Magicallywild0]

Not to mention the villain herself...is a joke.

[@ClamChowdaEnjoya]

G5's continuity is more chaotic than even Discord himself

[@StarMic-o7]

ROFL

[@stinegregersen6553]

Do you guys remember back when we had genuine hope that this generation would be good

[@rafaelavina4104]

I know I did lol

[@lartcheche78]

Yup😢

[@legiran9564]

I didn't. I saw this a mile away. Hasbro has a LOOONG track record of following up treasured shows with entertainment mediocrity. Transformers G1 followed by Transformers "recycled" G2. Sunbow's GiJoe followed by DIC's "discount" GiJoe. (one episode had Cobra Commander as a kindergarten teacher) My Littly Pony 'n Friends followed by My Little Pony Tales (devoid of magic, Earth Ponies Only and daily life bland as fuck) Beast Wars followed by "what is a source material?" Beast Machines. Transformers Prime followed by the forgettable Transformers Robots In Disguise. So naturally my expectation to G5 was set to bottom of the barrel, only for the show to exceed my expectations by going BELOW the bottom of the barrel.

[@soapyywater]

yeah 😭

[@BrendynRobertson]

Yes.

[@Wolfie37283]

As a warrior cat fan… yeah I saw this coming. Any warrior cat fan can agree that just like the series, keeping something going for too long when there’s clearly no more ideas to work on that is not only somewhat original but also good is a recipe for disaster

[@Catpaw616]

As a Warrior Cat fan, I can also agree to this. The series should’ve ended with OotS or something. They made StarClan confusing as hell

[@leoto363]

I partly agree, but unlike G5, Warriors, in my honest opinion, has a lot more going for it in terms of fan engagement potential, like FiM. MYM AND Warriors’ worldbuilding is shaky, but there’s a much stronger foundation. It reminds me more of Ninjago than G5; G5 (at least MYM) is pretty much a commercial failure because it improved too late in the game, but Ninjago and Warriors’ quality jumps up and down like the stock market. And we fervently follow it though we know there’s a 70% it’s going to retcon something into oblivion (WTH WAS REDTAIL’S DEBT?). I don’t really know why I felt the need to write this comment, but here’s a paragraph. 🤷🏽‍♀

[@MuddyNewts]

Yess!! For me personally, Warriors kept the same problem going for each generation, so I ended up stop reading the books after the newest series came out. Kinda looks like Hasbro is doing the same with this new show😅

[@Tall_Order]

Part of me wonders if ChatGPT was the true writer of G5, with how it forgets its own plot and rushes through it.

[@kwproductions6737]

Not even AI can write something this shirt

[@Anonymous-zp4hb]

never thought about it that way, but yeah, it's reminiscent of some stories chatgpt has written for me (in that they're barely stories at all)

[@Tall_Order]

@@TailsFan369no2 If she is involved, I think it's barely. She was one of the top writers of G4, so she SHOULD know the lore.

[@bronyhub]

Honestly I still wouldn't have had a problem with G5 even after Chapter 6 if it wasn't for the fact that it canonically is in the same universe as G4. Unless they pull a "this is a Starlight Glimmer alternate timeline" at some point then it's really just taking everything we loved about G4 and tearing it down with Twilight carrying an idiot ball the size of the moon. It's sad to see what's become of a franchise that really hit such a high bar with G4.

[@colorbar.s]

even a starlight alternate timeline wouldn't explain all the continuity errors 🥲

[@sillyface6950]

We can always pretend it's an alternative g4 instead of our g4. 😅

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

It feels like elseworlds on crack

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

True@@sillyface6950

[@diegogamer2661]

Even if the series was separate from g4 it would still be horrible.

[@sleipnirthe8th339]

Truly is sad seeing what this series has become. Defenders blame others criticisms for being g4 purists or whatever nonsense, the thing is, a good majority actually liked g5 when it started with the movie and where excited for its potential. But that potential is forever lost after the movie. Which is why so many just lost their hope for it. But hey, they can keep calling us g4 purists lol… The true tragedy of g5 is not for living up the success g4, the true tragedy is that it couldn’t live up to its own potential Ever since chapter 6, I just give up on g5 entirely, I tried being positive but I guess it wasn’t enough to make the show any better

[@ShinoriDelfrim]

Yeah really it had potential but it was kinda lost so I gave up on it. I at least gave it a chance.

[@sleipnirthe8th339]

@@ShinoriDelfrim same, every time by each chapter, but by each passing chapter I keep struggling more and more and I just have to gave up on it eventually

[@SpyrosbuttmakesGreatgolemchow1]

​@@sleipnirthe8th339 I agree it’s a shame some people hate valid Criticism of a show. Criticism allows for change and improvements, also yes it’s me lol. Hopefully you like my immature dumb username and profile picture lol it’s based on a bad ending in a game I thought people would like XD(some do, also I took your advice bud.😊❤)

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

> *Defenders blame others criticisms for being g4 purists* While there might be some who are "G4 purists," IMO that there are people who think it is therefore OK to assume that it is only G4 purists that criticize MYM, G5, is beyond baffling, and beyond frustrating (as such a mindset is, IMO, beyond stupid).

[@evangeloevoxi]

I love the show but I'm 100% aware of the parts that suck lol. I don't get mad though because it's a kids show, specifically made for kids. It can make adults mad but it's dumb to be mad about a fictional show for 5-8 year old children. G4 is my favorite but it also had countless flaws that the g4 "purists" refuse to mention. Because it was a kids show and all kids shows have flaws lol it's really not as big of a deal as anyone makes it out to be. But it is fun to watch KZbinrs and the comments go crazy about this stuff 😂🤣

[@belaaacs]

I loved My Little Pony new generation at the beginning, I was so excited for the series, when it came out I tried hard to like it but I couldn't 😭

[@Study-ht3vo]

Fr the only WELL WRITTEN CHARACTER in these series is Zipp... They really had many good ideas and potential plot twists but as we can see what it had turned out, I'm really dissapointed

[@cloudydiamont8534]

G5s plot got more holes than a cheese factory

[@tylermccaw8092]

Okay, I imagine making G5 is like this (I doubt you’ll read all this though): Imagine a kid trying to build a block tower, but he doesn’t know what to do because he doesn’t have enough blocks so he takes the blocks from another kids tower to make his bigger, and as he takes more blocks away, the other kid’s tower is slowly collapsing, only making it pointless for him to build in the first place.

[@Catpaw616]

I read the whole thing and I can agree that G5’s situation is similar to what you just said

[@tylermccaw8092]

@@TailsFan369no2 I’m sorry, what?

[@XYZ_is_taken]

Ah yes, The descent into madness, This is the stuff I subscribed for!

[@Crimsonbrony4812]

It was hilarious watching him slowly descent watching each new review

[@nightflame389]

On a scale from Dragons: The Nine Realms to The Legend of Korra, Make Your Mark is a solid Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

[@ouchpaw3518]

😂

[@theohvist128]

We don't use those words 'round these parts... It's called "The Fanfic Trilogy" 'round here.

[@captainlastreo5160]

The fact you're putting Korra on the same level as the Sequels and Dragons: The Nine Realms is offensive.

[@nightflame389]

@@captainlastreo5160 it’s a scale Dragons: The Nine Realms is the bottom end while Korra is the higher end

[@Catpaw616]

Remember when everyone was hyped for G5 and genuinely had hope for it to be good? Not as good as G4, but enough to be decent to watch? Yeah, me too.

[@atlasthephuckingwolf9419]

“It’s so popular with the target demographic” Where?? Literally where? If it was popular then why tf is there barely any merchandise or hype around it. I legit see a ton of kids talking about G4 but literally barely any talking about G5. Even kids know it isn’t good and the bad marketing doesn’t help with that 😭

[@EpitecIncognito]

He become so mad that he jumped from pixel to 2D art.

[@ivorythebashful]

So you see, everyone, this… this is why many people are critical in their analysis and critique of media. Most people want shows/books/movies to be good because we can appreciate the effort it takes to make something function, it’s not easy feat. This show, as well as many…. MANY OTHERS are being dunked on by regulars and fans alike for a lot of nonsense that are expected to “aCcEpT tHiS! DoN’t AsK qUeStIoNs! It’S gOoD!” We all want good things and simply accepting what they give us, especially when it’s so poorly written just shows how fair critiquing any work is. Keep up the great work!

[@turbojim6757]

This series was super sad to me. I was really hoping that a beloved franchise such as this would receive more love then it got, but they didn't seem to care that much

[@travs_eleganza]

Imagine Lauren Faust's reaction to G5...

[@blueblaze7312]

WE'RE LOSING HER! CLEAR!

[@colorbar.s]

she already hated g4 after s2 even tho it was peak 😭 this would kill her

[@JRAUSports]

Actually she was to me one of the biggest reasons why the show didn’t work at first, and why it got markedly better after she left

[@blueblaze7312]

@@JRAUSports For the show, or for Hasbro's wallets?!

[@JRAUSports]

@@blueblaze7312 both

[@Crimsonbrony4812]

Hitch destroying the crystals would've been a good thing, I believe it holds them back

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

It would indeed help them realize that the crystals wasn’t the issues, toxicity and mishaps happens once in a while. They don’t need the crystals to unite everyone

[@somerandomdude7785]

Heck, they could also abandon the Magic of Friendship and find an even more powerful magic.

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

Ummm ok? Your replies aren't making sense@@TailsFan369no2

[@blueblaze7312]

"Somewhere, Faust is weeping because of you" "You will not be missed" Please, let's all just go back to G4 Bruh went from "WHOOOOOOO LET'S GOOOOO" To "My hooves shall relish ending you HERE. AND. NOW!"

[@lartcheche78]

The story of how G5 brutaly beated to death the continuity and moral of G4. Like, you know all of that stuff about friendship being magic and solving problems ? Well fuck this none of what Twilight created lasted for more than a hundred years, Spike is alive and had to see everything that he had helped to build being destroyed. And other Species... what's that?

[@Calbeck]

I got banned from Equestria Daily for reacting negatively to the movie and the first trailers for the show. Vindication is bittersweet, ain't it?

[@DragonianSheep]

Lmao

[@hoppa_2184]

Equestria Daily is not worth anything, if you cannot even criticize MLP content.

[@polen_33]

Them in the movie:💯🥶👍 Them in the show:😐🥱😮‍💨

[@frenchthefennecfoxmlp]

To be fair, in 2021 everyone was super hyped for g5 simply because it was better by comparison to the most recent official pony content (at the time), pony life 🤮 Sometimes I feel like hasbro just wants to kill the fandom and all the hype

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

> *Sometimes I feel like hasbro just wants to kill the fandom and all the hype* IMO Hasbro would be better off shedding those people who'd want to kill off said fandom, if they exist in the ranks, at least from MLP related anythings, since it was at least partly a fandom thriving and growing that helped G4 last so long/be so successful. Continuing to appeal to a wide audience with well produced, well written shows (and taking the stuff (from a design/production/planning standpoint at least) that helped G4 succeed so well and use it in making a new gen) would allow the momentum to keep going IMO. Which works in Hasbro's interest - not just the fandom's - because it'd mean more $$$$ for them.

[@warriorcatkitty]

@@DanknDerpyGamerthe problem is... I think they actually make the most of their money from the kids that watch the show, becuase why else would they make g5 so stupid? they must want to get rid of the adult fans and just make something low budget with no effort,- like Tell Your Tale, that kids will click on and watch repeatedly over and over. That's what will make them the most money in their eyes, sadly.

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

@@warriorcatkitty It could also be corporate bullfuckery too - and people being in place who weren't before (in charge of deciding who gets to work on MLP etc) for all we know.

[@jujublue4426]

​@@warriorcatkitty So another Justice League case ? That's sad and dumb, adults have their own money while kids need to wait for Christmas or their birthday so their parents would buy them the toys.

[@frenchthefennecfoxmlp]

@@warriorcatkitty honestly, Hasbro is kinda dumb for that. Like whats more profitable, a kid going to a store, picking a pony toy only for its mom to put it back in the frozen food aisle or a full grown adult buying half of the shelf because they love the show.

[@jusussi]

It seems to me that the writers deliberately tried to make everything as bad as possible, to anger the fans. There is no other way for me to explain why everything is so terrible.

[@samuelkriz2761]

everything is not terrible, your comment is terrible

[@leoto363]

I’m honestly convinced they were forced to write like this for some reason by Hasbro. G5 was originally marketed to be DARKER than g4 (not pg-13, guys. Believe it or not, epic battles between heroes and villains and ‘cults’ aren’t’ dark for TV cartoons. A child’s play often looks a lot more like those scenes than all the tea parties. Also, HAVE YOU SEEN NINJAGO?) Even in the movie, the set-up was there. I personally wanted to see a more in-depth fallout of the princesses, specifically Pipp. Phone addiction? Check. Large audience? Check. Large audience HATING her? Check. There could be some interesting commentary on parasocial relationships. It could also be development hell that didn’t come out as well as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, to be honest. Retconning down the line is usually what happens, but MYM retcons itself in the same season. (Chapters aren’t seasons. They’re parts of a season.) TLDR; Development hell, Ninjago good, g5 not-quite bad but toeing the line.

[@smoxthybweh]

​@leoto363 the show feels like it wanted to do its own thing but was forced to shoe horn in a bunch of g4 stuff by Hasbro or something

[@leoto363]

That sounds about right. The best episodes are the ones with the least references, or at least references don’t add a ton to the plot. It does still drag the show down, which is unfortunate. @@smoxthybweh

[@XxFlamexX14]

I feel like it should've been better if G5 was it's own universe, like how G4 was

[@sanjumitra1]

Guys I have an idea that will improve all of G5 and make all its continuity errors better and it is in our hands : IGNORE IT EVER HAPPENED 😂

[@bonbonpony]

14:00 Well, I said it multiple times, and I'll say it again: No character can ever be smarter than its writer :q

[@someteennamedcharles2035]

Dang, I don't which CGI Sequel-Spinoff Series airing on Netflix ruined the legacy of their predecessors worse. My Little Pony: Make Your Mark? or How To Train Your Dragon: The Nine Realms? Take your poison. 🦄💀🐉

[@unripetheberrby6283]

They hurt so much- but, it is a little funny watching others react to The Nine Realms, but this was mostly only painful, the writing choices and Execs.. we started out with a lot of hope..

[@leoto363]

Misty, with her splendid character development and gorgeous character design (both of them, ALL of them,) or ugly crusty dragons? I’l take Misty.

[@pandanforsberg]

"Lets think happy thoughts and we don't die"😂

[@sweetdreams1028]

It’s sad how G5 fell, let alone how fast it did. I hate how so many fans of G5 are trying to shut fans of G4 up by saying we’re just too biased towards it. No. This was G5’s fault. We weren’t the ones to decide making this a continuation of G4. So, we should expect about the same quality as G4. That alone isn’t a terrible decision, it just depends on the execution, which to most, including myself was terribly done. This was undoubtedly my biggest disappointment ever as G4 is my favorite show of all time. I used to blindly hate it at first, but grew to love it when I gave it a chance. I was nervous about G5, until the movie came out and I was so excited to see the future of this generation, only to be let down over and over again. At this point, G5 isn’t canon in my mind. I know TYT is continuing, but I’ve already given this series enough chances. G5 will be forgotten while G4 will live on forever ❤

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

Seriously, while there are people who are too biased, that doesn't mean "therefore any criticism is automatically biased, and should be dismissed," the people asserting that it IS the case (that it should be considered automatically biased and thus dismised) are being more fanboyish than the people they accuse of being fanboyish have ever acted, ironically and frustratedly.

[@sweetdreams1028]

@@DanknDerpyGamer exactly

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

They keep saying ohhh give it a chance we tried to give G5 a chance, it worked for the movie yes no one’s denying, but MYM didn’t work out for me

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

And I think it’s safe to say G5 is in shambles

[@Catpaw616]

I can easily count G5 as non-canon due to the high, stupid amounts of continuity errors. This was a mistake making G5 a sequel to the beloved G4 we grew to love. Even fanfiction writers write better sequels than this 😭

[@jaywatson8054]

I guess we just love torturing ourselves on what COULD have been and dealing with what G5 ACTUALLY is.

[@charliejones7512]

Does anyone remember when leaked content came out, one of the content was the original idea of using Earth Pony Twilight and her friends looking a little different but just enough so that they weren’t they’re MLP:FIM selves? It was almost like they were thinking of an alternate universe thing. I’d be intrigued to know what the plan was before this mess.

[@Crows_Hoard]

Donuts aren't bread. Often they're more cake-like.

[@vicious3526]

The main problem is the writing, everything else is at least passable. They just need to purge the writing team

[@Pearl.Is.Autistic.SU.900]

Honestly I am in the process of starting a g6 but it will probably take a couple of years, after I finish my remake of MLP book that goes over the entirety of the series with the focus on Twilight, also I am no animator so.

[@somerandomdude7785]

MLP would've been better as a show about warfare and politics than continously teaching about friendship and harmony every single time.

[@abyssy182]

With uh, morals! It's still a kids show.

[@AlicornHana]

I gotta say, i may actually learn some writing tips form this show(still pretty young not old enough for a scriptwriting job, or a cartoon show creator for that matter), idk if i'll update this list or not so here's the first: -Do NOT pull out the IDIOT BALL: this only makes sense if its someting like "character X is drunk, he's the type that turns stupid" or played completely for laughs, even then don't overuse this trope too much. Thanks MYM, i now know what NOT to do :D

[@asavarnon8678]

Brownies in October 2021: Can't wait for more Generation 5 installments Brownies post 2022: Help, I'm dying inside.

[@sillyface6950]

Although there is sooooo many flaws with opaline, if we pretend that she was better made villan and they actually kept her as a serious issue then i actually quite like the misty arc. Its just a shame they made opaline go from Powerful Threat to stupid joke. At least sparky's "do anything sneeze" is somewhat justified later on with different dragonfire magic and his being to change and transform things or whatever nonsense it was the writers came up with. We can pretend this G5 takes place in an alternative universe with a slightly altered G4 to try fix some of holes and to protect our g4 from being destroyed by any issues of g5.

[@shane5326]

We're almost through G5's first Phase/Season, took us long enough. I have high hopes, but every new episode and chapter became pretty hit or miss whether it was the fact I expected to have them delve into world building or character developments when they could've or the fact there was inconsistency. I want to learn about these dragons as characters, or if Opaline will somehow find a way to return, heck let Allura, the Pippsqueak trio, or even Sprout get their own episode, anything!

[@CageBlack1443]

This. This is why I don't watch G5. Watching these videos and discovering all the continuity errors, add on the phones and other technology that get rid of a type of comfort that G4 had... Generation 4 for life. (And yes, I know phones appeared in G4, but in acceptable areas: Discord, and Equestria Girls.)

[@tad7441]

Am I the only one who just tries not to see G5 as canon to the MLP timeline?

[@tylermccaw8092]

No. No, you are not. Believe me. Seriously.

[@aidanpurkiss9457]

​@tylermccaw8092 If I have Hulk powers from Marvel COMICS I'll smash the writers and Hasbro

[@tylermccaw8092]

@@aidanpurkiss9457 Please, just be our guest.

[@Serasugee]

The episode where the moral was to let children (Sparky) do whatever they want was the most aggregious This is a big problem nowadays, why would you try to make it worse

[@leoto363]

I didn’t even think about that. 😬 You speak facts.

[@Someguy6571]

I can sum G5 up in a few words. Baby time adventures. Hasbro just wants a show for little kids.

[@infinitydragonoid2655]

So...the original target audience?

[@Someguy6571]

@@infinitydragonoid2655 I mean yeah you can say that, and I agree its true, but it just feels like they are sacrificing any real character growth or world building over just having silly colorful ponies on screen do silly and childish things. Yeah it sucks that G4 was the outlier and Hasbro is seemingly going back to its roots. Oh well at least the children will get a show more targeted at what they are interested in.

[@Someguy6571]

@@TailsFan369no2 What about G3?

[@atlasthephuckingwolf9419]

@@Someguy6571 unfortunately they aren’t even getting it.. least not as much as the target demographic for g4. We literally had G4 stuff everywhere! It was also easier to follow due to only having to watch one specific show instead of 2 different ones. The lack of interest shows due to how bad the toys are doing. They’re going to clearance or aren’t even there at all.

[@atlasthephuckingwolf9419]

@@Someguy6571 I’m saying this as a child who absolutely adored G4 as a kid. They already had it.

[@SilverSpoonRiche]

I thought they may have intentionally dumbed it down to "look, brightly colored ponies and sparkly magic!" To shake us Bronies off and just appeal to 4yr-olds and their parents' paychecks. But they keep throwing in elements of g4 to draw us back in. So I've come to the conclusion that they want our money but not our viewership or participation in the show and this Fandom. I mean, I'll admit, I've got a few g5 toys. I might be getting rid of some though. 🤔 some kid in Goodwill might love them like I once did. 😔

[@atlasthephuckingwolf9419]

Unfortunately that backfired on them due to the fact that their toy sales are extremely low and they had to lay off 1,100 employees. Barely any G5 merchandise in sight around here!

[@SilverSpoonRiche]

@@atlasthephuckingwolf9419 same. I got Walmarts here in North Texas without even spots on the shelves for ponies. It's very sad.

[@prettycuresoundz]

@@SilverSpoonRiche That is so true. I went to a few toy stores in Southern Texas, and MLP is almost non-existent on the shelves compared to 5 years ago when there was G4 stuff everywhere.

[@SilverSpoonRiche]

@@prettycuresoundz Wow, so it's likely the whole state then. Thanks for letting me know. Sad, but I guess it's for the best. I don't want anymore pony merch anyway.

[@prettycuresoundz]

@@SilverSpoonRiche Of course! And yeah, it's truly such a shame. Hopefully, G6 (if there will be one) will be so much better.

[@ElizabethMiller-pe7qc]

While the MYM show did have massive plot holes and dumb characters and little substance, I did have the best time watching StarStrike go insane. Seriously, I was laughing SO hard as he pointed out all the ways this show makes no sense.

[@nullius_ov]

11:44 Communist ponies. Starlight Glimmer would be proud.

[@makamiusless1954]

For the love of god I hope after a suffering decade G6 could at least half-decent.

[@KingKuwagataOhger18KROOO]

This is was a realy a cool journey

[@LORDOFDORKNESS42]

...Honestly, at this rate I'm kinda wondering if Hasbro is trying to press a big undo button on MLP having so many adult fans from G4... by making the G5 writing insufferable if you're not six.

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

IMO, if that were the case, I'd say that this person would be doing something financially stupid for Hasbro (my mind instantly is going to the current CEO talking about continually increasing revenue year after year - didn't he come from their Wizards of the Coast subsidiary?) - given just how profitable the franchise was when FiM was out - and everyone could gather around a show that was appealing to a wide audience, and well made.

[@fanofluigiandmario6016]

A part of me still hopes that G5 will end with another high budget Netflix movie, as broken as the world building is, I think this is the best way to send off this generation.

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

IDK but we’ll see

[@atlasthephuckingwolf9419]

That would be amazing!! Unfortunately Hasbro is probably too lazy to do it tho :P

[@hoppa_2184]

In all honesty, G5 needs a total reboot. Wouldn't mind if the movie got a reboot as well to work some issues out. I got so many different points that I want to change to improve this mess. Most of all, disconnecting it from G4 as that is just utterly obliterating G4.

[@miadragonheart]

Yea I am very glad I never watched any of the g5 stuff other than the first movie.

[@liviilazii7679]

This is by far one of the funniest videos I've ever watched from you! I do hope there will be another MLP though. Hopefully it won't make us descend into madness Dx Tysm for taking the time to create this video, it's still me giggling!

[@paintlightshine918]

It's starting to come clear that the show is now meant for marketing.....seeing how there's so many split ends between the game the tell your tale to make your mark to the film version of g5 to the still attached to the g4 show- Like- why? You can have your merchandise go through the roof if you ACTUALLY cared about the plot. But they seriously just don't, the don't respect twilight whatsoever either or spike....this is not only shameful to the fandom but to the developers of g4 who NAILED in my opinion mostly EVERY! SINGLE! FREAKING EPISODE! there's always a good wrap in the episodes and the characters are actually good. These characters? Are idiots. I hate Sunny.

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

All G5 characters are dumb

[@jusussi]

I am with u, brotha... Also hate all this characters

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

Agreed

[@maio0077]

I had so many hopes back then

[@MoonlarkSpirits]

Okay first of all, I really really respect you for doing something you hate Also IS THERE ACTUALLY A FLIPPING CHAPTER 7

[@whiteimposter9304]

10:50 bro so done😂

[@Amethyst.dragon_iris]

Ngl zip would be a better leader/alicorn then sunny

[@AlfieTrevor4444]

I agree, after all she's the one who does most of the work

[@ZarinaRoseYT]

I still hate so much that Gen 5 has good ideas sure a little iffy and there with them ideas but COULD BE SO GOOD! But the writing sucks so badly that even with the good ideas it burns them It's just so disappointing....

[@malorika]

that comic panel looks like a friendship is witchcraft fan comic, what on earth

[@Spygirl812]

Welp at least you are free now. You never have to worry about this series again.

[@HavensCorner]

This is why I’m glad I never watched this (I don’t have Netflix). The movie was awesome and they could’ve done so much more with moving the plot forward, maybe focus on the struggles with magic being back which they probably don’t touch on much.

[@shanehanlan336]

The show may be more for infants. No questioning, no rationalization, no train of thought. Mystery solved

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

At least we got to see an evolution of your editing and voice quality

[@Star_Strike]

I actually considered editing the old audio to make it sound clearer for this video, but then I thought; "Nah, I'll let people hear just how awful it sounds so they can get the full experience of watching my channel progress" I'm pretty sure that decision killed the retention rate lol

[@EccentricGentelman]

I too had my expectations surpassed by A New Generation. But over the Make your Mark series I've had my hopes sink as the continuity errors piled up and the big questions either went unanswered or had stupid answers. The complete redesign of the dragons in chapter 6 was the last straw for me. I think the show has been such a disaster the best, if not only way, to fix it is to declare everything after A New Generation non-cannon and start again with a new show set right after the movie. Recently I got into a conversation with another MLP fan and they vehemently defended EVERYTHING in MYM! Saying that everything did make sense if you watched the show and that it was easy to fill in the gaps and infer what happened! Even that, since there were a few continuity errors in G4, that makes it OK to make as many as they want in G5.

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

IMO that sounds like blind fanboyism on their end.

[@EccentricGentelman]

And he/she said I was the one who was blind.@@DanknDerpyGamer

[@kneelessnightcat9164]

Did they forget the majority of G4 was episodic, so continuty errors between episodes didn't matter? In G5 a lot more of it is story based, so continuity issues matter a lot more.

[@jusussi]

Almost everyone who likes the new generation says the same thing. Either “yes, we understand that we are watching garbage, but we’re ok” or “no, you’re all wrong, everything is logical and good, but you just have duckling syndrome”

[@EccentricGentelman]

@@kneelessnightcat9164 Episodic or not, continuity always matters.

[@retroradkat]

I honestly want all my time spent watching this abysmal series BACK. Literally want a refund. Doing literally anything else would have been more worthwhile.

[@MrAWulff]

11:44 "We're crooks" that somehow made me laugh a lot

[@VijayPatel-og7fg]

I just don't understand why the characters behave like 5 year old kids !! You are right they are doomed so childish magic is going crazy in this world 😂 G4 is the best and more mature

[@blitzn00dle50]

3:34 I've been writing off a lot of your criticism thus far, but this is actually a good point. The windies are already a stupid concept, because no one should need a gun to their head to be a good person, but these crystals sound like that times a thousand. It also perpetuates the asinine idea that anyone who raises their voice is automatically wrong, something we saw G4 do occasionally. This is not a fun world; if you bring up that someone is abusing you, you cause armageddon. Absurd. It's very disappointing to see G5 making the same mistakes at greater magnitude 6:20 this is another very good point

[@jonnylou09]

The crystals were never made to be a gun to your head to force you to get along if you actually paid attention to Spike's story. The crystals were made purely to keep magic away from Opaline. Ponies could still use magic, but it couldn't be taken directly from them without going through the crystals first. The crystals simply lost the capacity to keep working when the tribes split up way later.

[@blitzn00dle50]

@@jonnylou09 that's a narrative gunpoint arrangement. I'm not talking about the in-universe reasoning, I'm talking about what the story says, which seems to be fully absent from discourse surrounding G5

[@jlmdragon]

you got out at the right time, just watched episode 2 of season 2 of tell your tale, it had what you hate in abundance, stupitidy and solving all problems with magic.

[@Vistakrov7392]

Im usually iffy when I see things that I knew for a long time change but I would eventually get over it. but when I first saw the teaser for g5 it felt more like as gut feeling that something was bound to go wrong and I hoped that it was just paranoia. of course only to see g5 go through a downward spiral of copouts and wasted potential

[@viruschris3160]

Just found your video after I saw a clip of Spike returning and saying "You lost magic on your own? I'm going back to sleep..." and I was thinking... what? I didn't watch the movie and saw reviews and learning about the plot and world-building I had a feeling in my gut that G5 wasn't going to be good as it undermines G4's lore and story and it looks like I was right given when I've seen from here. Seeing it wasn't THAT long between G4 and G5 with that elderly pony being from when Equestria was Equestria and the changing of how cutie marks worked. Yeah, it did more harm than good to the overall story. G5 should've been it's own continuity at least and own world-building. I believe all the other Generations were separate from each other. I enjoyed MLP: FiM and still love it and though I didn't care or believe G5 would be better than G4 or at least good enough on its own, I feel bad for the people who were looking forward to it and hoping it was good.

[@Thato494]

Why did anyone expect anything good from this show,from g5 ,like we should just stop watching it and wait tell the next generation ,that's what I'm doing

[@sweetdreams1028]

Because it’s connected to a previous generation that was really good, so people naturally expected good quality

[@sugarcubegirl8292]

This is why I decided that this series is an ultimate universe that has no actual connection to G4

[@co7814]

StarStrike: I am with you on literally everything you just said....

[@L0V3000]

This is what happens when you ride the coat tails of a previous generation and change everything about it.

[@DragonianSheep]

Dont worry man MYM is officialy death... I should cry but I don't even feel sorry for it, except for the characters who had the misfortune of belonging to this show.

[@BrendynRobertson]

Friendship is Magic was far better than G5.

[@danielybarra8664]

Yeah if you combine all chapters together of mlp g5 it feels like a bad fanfic or a first draft of someone's English assignment

[@Catpaw616]

Except somehow this bad fanfic is canon

[@jusussi]

At least even in bad fanfictions, the authors of these fanfictions try to preserve worldbuilding at least a little...

[@jetragnarok2075]

The legends say he's still on recovery from his breakdown... 😜

[@jcj268]

It was hilarious watching you go from super hopeful of G5’s story to absolutely hating the incredible stupidity of it. P.S also to anyone reading this watch 14:43 at 2x speed it’s funny

[@hellonokay1925]

You could honestly theorize (at this point) that G5 doesn't even take place after the same G4 and more-so alternate version of said generations imo.

[@ConZedtration]

Jazz's disappearing ears was explained by Blacl Gryph0n, in bronies react bridleswood edition, the executives decided that she looked better without ears, so this isn't a animation mistake, it's actually on purpose!

[@ambermillerrr]

but...ponies have ears-

[@ConZedtration]

@@ambermillerrr well, tell that to their team

[@somerandomdude7785]

Man, Make Your Mark would've been better being written by Marvel and DC writers than Hasbro writers.

[@RebekahSmithChildofGod7]

I couldn't even complete the series because it was so bad. I miss g4

[@bismarsyauqie7885]

Let be honest, G5 is basically the Boruto of Frendship is Magic

[@jusussi]

Boruto, Legeond of Korra, Teen titans go, star wars sequel trilogy, and more more more. Disgusting sequels, they are so...

[@bismarsyauqie7885]

@@jusussi Teen Titans Go is not a sequel, it's more like a equivalent of chibi anime spin off/reboot that was mean to be comedic. Out of all terreble sequel goes, Korra is arguably the most tolerable one

[@bismarsyauqie7885]

@CipherRage-tp5ql oops sorry, there's a typo there, i mean Korra was the most tolerable one. Yeah compared to the OG Avatar, its sucks. But even then, compare to other terrible sequel, i think Korra still has a lot of good stuff in it like the Animation & the World building for example. Boruto & the sequel trilogy however?

[@yumm13986]

Wait off topic but I just realized something, sunny is basically a fake alicorn, does than make her rcta😭 Ok that was a joke here is what I really want to say: bro I'm so disappointed in g5 if I could change 1 thing about the show (other than that ugly stupid fake dragon that doesn't even make sense) I'd choose it to be a separate universe from g4, instead of Twilight doing all of the things, it would be a mysterious alicorn, it would solve most of the problems. I also don't like how its way less dark than g4, even if it's supposed to be "for kids" they were supposed to put the classic nightmare fuels, and also how they got their cutie marks, sunny got it for freaking selling lemonade and Twilight got it from HATCHING A DRAGON EGG. not to even mention that the cutie mark crusaders had to wait FIVE SEASONS to get their cutie marks, g5 cutie marks just work like: "oh I'm being honest *gets cutie mark*" I do NOT view it as canon and never will (unless they do a whole rebrand to g5)

[@TigraWatanabe]

Every single G4 Reference not longer appear in the Show exept Sunnys Bag, some Papers and the Twilight Cutiemark Window once at the End. No Mane 6 Figures, no Spike Plush, no Celestia Flag, no Rainbow Dash Poster, no Starsquirl Painting, Twilight Feather or any other Stuff. Maybe Sunny has store them in boxes like the one with the Cutiemark Post It, maybe most was destroyed. Most of that Stuff would usualy be in a Museum, not in some Ponys Priveta Home, but maybe the G5 Ponys have no interest in the Past. Cadance, Twilight and Flurry should still be arround after just around 300 Years, like Spike and Discord. The Factory was maybe never owned by Sprouts Mom but maybe was rented and later abandoned because no Pony longer wanted their Products. By the way, they have made celestia wrong, Clestia had pink hair as she was young and similar to Lunas and Twilights it has change over Time.

[@carinathegriffin]

Wait...what happened in the video game?? I always wondered why Sprout's plotline got dropped like a hot potato.

[@user-nn7wo9id3g]

I know I might be late to make my theory but I have always wondered about the magic and Twilight Sparkle. For one the reason why the ponies only have half of their magic and one cutie mark is because of the magic leaking into the human world. And two I thought Twilight in the hologram was the tree of magic since this wouldn’t be the first time the tree has done something like this. Also, I don't know if this cannon or not but I’m pretty sure there are three types of alicorns in Equestrian, The first is the alicorn that borrows magic (Sunny Starscout, Sunset Shimmer, etc.) Then there is the alicorn that earned their wings (Twilight, Celestia, Luna, maybe Cadence), and the last one is the alicorn who was born with a horn and wings (Flurry Heart) means that the who was born an alicorn is truly royalty.

[@diesakuma367]

Am I the only one who predicted from the get go that g5 would be worse tham g4 After few episodes I already lost hope I heard movie was amazing so I watched it It was mid for me but decent But after the movie I watched some episodes and I gave up Oh well I hope that g6 or next chapter will be better(but I doubt it)

[@Skystreak113]

Almost halfway through the video and I'm like "There was a video game?! Hah?!"

[@jameswalton5733]

The whole time I'm watching this, im just thinking "Star Strike slowly discovers how corporations work, money first, actual story later"

[@LegoMiester14]

11:43 "Were crooks". 😂

[@letsgoammy7765]

Hearing your exasperated words along with the marestream spinning in a circle was just so funny to me 10:32