jeremygirvan

Everyone questions why grown men like this show. Answer: it's funny.

That's it. Apart from that, it's still a good show. Not perfect. There are a few bad seeds here and there. But it's still enjoyable. The animation is fun, the songs are BEAUTIFUL (except for the main them, which everyone skips) and the lessons they teach are valuable to kids.

But the added bonus is a rich community of insightful and diverse brony reviewers on YouTube, such as the Fiery Joker, Silver Quill, Mysterious Mr Enter and Jerry Perry to name a few. They're smart, funny as heck, and actually make you think about a lot of things - not just about the show, but about yourself and life in general. You can really learn a lot from these guys. I know, weird right? But it's great to hear their differing opinions on their favorite and least favorite aspects of the show. In truth, this is the best message this show can teach us: everyone has different opinions.

I think Jerry Perry said it best in his reflection "Glass of Water: Self Destruction." This episode was great, right up until the end where Luna explains she created the monster of this episode. Let me explain. MLP:FIM has a tendency to teach important lessons to its young audience. This was not one of those episodes. At first, we thought it was an endearing tale that was a metaphor for the effects of depression, represented by the monster infecting Luna's dreams which she requires the Mane 6's help to defeat it. But this beautiful metaphor that would have explained how people (especially young people) with depression should seek help from their friends in combating the illness - because that's what depression is, an illness (like cancer). But this all falls to pieces when she reveals that she created the monster herself to punish her for the crimes she committed as one of the series previous antagonists. The show made it out like this was some sort of endearing trait to make us want to love and cuddle Luna because of how much pain she's putting herself through. Which is a terrible lesson to tell kids. If you know someone is harming themselves, as Jerry Perry stated, you drag them to a hospital - regardless of whether or not they hate you forever. The episode teaches that something like depression and by extension self-harm is an acceptable character trait. And not only that, treats it like it's something that has a quick-fix solution to it. This is NOT OK!

This woman voices an atrocious, obnoxious, whinny, egotistical &*(%# who does nothing but cry, scream and rant about how smart she is and how dumb and useless everyone else is throughout the entire series. And yet, Monica managed to make this character likable and have a strong presence in the series (see episode 2 and tell me her break- down wasn't powerful). Also, so long as you don't watch this with you mum (and can endure the nudity present in episode 6 - a very funny episode, btw), you'll basically develop a tolerance for the obscene amount of fan-service, which will instead turn into more of a gymic than anything. Also, surprisingly, all the obscene characters actually feel genuinely human (at least, the main characters do). You actually believe that these are normal teenagers in a zombie apocalypse when listening to their dialogue and how they interact. Like in one scene where the main character is carrying an unconscious, naked and extremely busty school-nurse on his back, he states "If this were under any other circumstances, this would be so %^&#ing hot." Yes, despite having super-model teenager samurai killing hordes of undead while the police and army are shown to be useless, the main cast feels surprisingly human. When they're dealing with anxiety (parental issues, dead boyfriends, etc.), how the main character copes with these issues is very human while also being logical and understandable - such as telling a girl to shut up about her neglectful parents when she should just be happy she knows they're still alive.