We had a three week gap between Slice of Life and Griffonstone and a two week gap between Apaloosa's Most Wanted and Make New Friends. If the network can't be arsed to care about their schedule, why should we be expected to follow it?
Eh, I don't think betrayed it really the right word for it. It's not like he actually betrayed our trust, more like he didn't bring it up, so people assumed that he didn't smoke (or at least didn't assume he did) and when he said he did smoke, it was jarring. I think I got over it when he said that there have been times where he didn't get a pack for months because he kept forgetting.
Anyways, I should probably get the rest of my brain to sleep sometime before dawn.
I never got the excuse that because there are people with worse lives than you, you shouldn't be talking about your problems. Troubles are troubles, why should it matter if some are worse than others?
Wait, what? When did that become a thing? I don't remember hearing anything like that from anyone who's fought against copyright claims before. In fact, isn't the point of claiming fair use so you don't have to go to court?
I mostly blame it on the shift in tone he had during season 4. At first he was mostly positive about the show, he said when he didn't like something for sure, but he was thoughtful and looked, for lack of a better term, approachable. Nothing too raunchy or off-putting about him, but then he started to get more personal and shared some details about himself people felt uncomfortable with (i.e. that he smokes). I think it made it hard for some people- including me, for a bit- to adjust to that new information (and to be fair, I wouldn't say he handled it gracefully), maybe even feeling, in a way, betrayed by it. Then that mixed with his feelings over the season 4 finale (and I think he decided to not make any more MLP videos in between season, but that may or may not have mattered as much) left a sour taste in people's mouths.
As far as I know, no. I haven't checked through everything he's ever said on the internet, but I think he's said he just doesn't want to talk about MLP when its between seasons, so he's focusing on talking about anime he likes.
speaking of the princesses, it seems almost hilariously easy to fix everything, all you would have to do is show Celestia having doubts about anything, then she instantly changes from super-pretty-uber-god princess who is never wrong to super-pretty-uber-god princess who isn't omniscient, and because you've set the precedent that even though they're alicorns they're not automatically infallible. Better yet, have Twilight call Celestia out on her decision in the S4 finale to give Twilight all of their magical power, then you can have Twilight actually growing as a character (because she would be treating Celestia like an equal, something she said in the S3 finale), you can have a moment of weakness and doubt for Celestia, thus humanizing her a bit, and you can fix part of the S4 finale by saying that, yes, that was a stupid decision, and now we have an episode that has actual development, a real conflict, character drama, and it doesn't keep other, better stories from being told.
I find it kind of ironic, the entire reason the background characters are given any thought now is because the fandom saw something in them and latched on to whatever traits they seemed to have and expand on those to make a character (granted, everyone's interpretations is a little different, but there's a general outline that's usually agreed upon), but now if the show does pay attention to them and brings the character to the forefront, the fan's can't do anything with it, and so both the fandom and the show get more stagnant as a result.
So yeah, the show should keep doing whatever it was doing to make so much fanon and injokes in the first place, maybe trying to stay original will bring out the best in it.
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